The Faith & Religion mega Thread

and windows vista is hell enough.

funny, how its the devil who's always giving us pleasurable things to do, and it's the holy ghost who's always getting pissed and damning people and having vengeance and being jealous and burning people in lakes of fire.

hmmm....which one of those are we meant to like??
oh, yes, the holy ghost. strange how it's also the holy ghost which is telling us who to like.

Originally Posted by leedude hmmm....which one of those are we meant to like?? oh, yes, the holy ghost. strange how it's also the holy ghost which is telling us who to like.

Yes, and if you don't, worms will eat you while you sleep. Don't you love the old testament god: "Kill your kid! -- Naaah! I was just pulling your leg! Hahaha - ain't I a bag of laughs!" My favorites are the ones where he tells people to rape and murder entire tribes - how can you not love such a loving god? How about Noah and the ark: "Oops, that wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be." In Part 2 the god gets right into sado-masochism and has himself tortured and nailed to a wooden post, just to wake up a few days later and say "wow! that was refreshing!" I think I'll go to hell and join all the fun people - heaven looks too wild for me.

Originally Posted by Quakeboy02 Microsoft doesn't make a product that can stay up long enough to give us eternal damnation.

I think that was the whole point: an eternity as a Microsoft sysadmin.

Yes, and if you don't, worms will eat you while you sleep. Don't you love the old testament god: "Kill your kid! -- Naaah! I was just pulling your leg! Hahaha - ain't I a bag of laughs!" My favorites are the ones where he tells people to rape and murder entire tribes - how can you not love such a loving god? How about Noah and the ark: "Oops, that wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be." In Part 2 the god gets right into sado-masochism and has himself tortured and nailed to a wooden post, just to wake up a few days later and say "wow! that was refreshing!"

The Old Testament God did all the right things , really, if you have the faintest idea about the historical context. But he slipped up badly where he naiiled himself to the cross. That was suicide.

Originally Posted by Quakeboy02 Microsoft doesn't make a product that can stay up long enough to give us eternal damnation.

Hmmm...I wonder if we could sell Microsoft some Viagra.

oh dear, i smell a new microsoft product...

MICROSOFT Stiffy(TM)


BSOD!!!!!!!!



ok...this is getting a little explicit for LQ.

Originally Posted by pinniped Yes, and if you don't, worms will eat you while you sleep. Don't you love the old testament god: "Kill your kid! -- Naaah! I was just pulling your leg! Hahaha - ain't I a bag of laughs!" My favorites are the ones where he tells people to rape and murder entire tribes - how can you not love such a loving god? How about Noah and the ark: "Oops, that wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be." In Part 2 the god gets right into sado-masochism and has himself tortured and nailed to a wooden post, just to wake up a few days later and say "wow! that was refreshing!" I think I'll go to hell and join all the fun people - heaven looks too wild for me.

Nope. The best one is where he threatens to kill everyone in the city and then to walk through the city with a lantern to check that everyone is dead. Now how badass is that?

this thread has turned to god-bashing...it's about time.

I seem to remember God telling Lot's daughters, after their mother had been turned to salt, to get their father drunk and have sex with him. How sick can he get?

Originally Posted by BrianL I seem to remember God telling Lot's daughters, after their mother had been turned to salt, to get their father drunk and have sex with him. How sick can he get?

Lets face it. The bible has everything. Homosexuality, incest, conquering and killing other races for not sharing your beliefs (genocide). It strikes me as odd that these Christian types say how wholesome it is, and that everybody should read the bible. "Good reading for the whole family."

Yet these are the same people who are some how 'appalled' at what they see happening around them, yet somehow turn to this work of fiction and say how good it is, and peaceful. Really? Did I miss something here?

And if you look at the cybernetics/RFID related videos, there are loads of people claiming that they are the devices of the devil.
they say it has something to do with the "new world order" whatever that is.

Professor Kevin Warwick gets a lot of stick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94jq7_uXFyY

Does anyone else disagree with the title of that vid?
i don't think any 'encouragement' took place, and i think that the mom has some issues that are having a negative impact on her kids.
anyway, she didn't need any encouragement.

I feel there is a lot of misinformation about RFID tags.
the odd thing is that organizations are being founded on this misinformation.
http://www.spychips.com/faqs.html

Radio Frequency IDentification is an automatic data capture technology that uses tiny tracking chips affixed to products. These tiny chips can be used to track items at a distance--right through someone's purse, backpack, or wallet. Many of the world's largest manufacturing companies would like to replace the bar code with these "spy chips," meaning that virtually every item on the planet--and the people wearing and carrying those items--could be remotely tracked. There is currently NO REGULATION protecting consumers from abuse of this technology.

WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! AARRRGH!!!!!!!!

by their very nature, these chips have about 6 inches(a metre at most) of range.(correct me if im wrong)
EDIT: /*have looked on wikipedia and discovered some tags have a longer range.
it now seems to me theoretically possible that these could be used for tracking, but only if there were transceivers all over the world within about 10m of eachother.
even then, there would be some problems if more than one RFID tag was in range at a time.*/
EDIT2: /*I guess some tracking would be possible if you were to keep the recorded locations of these products in a big database. but you can already do that with credit cards and pretty much anything with a number in it. And it would only work if the numbers were globally unique. kinda scary, i suppose, for somebody who didn't want anyone to know where they were*/



Where in the bible does it say anything about RFID tags and what are they referring to by new world order?

the FAQ is full of these little gems of ignorance:

While microwaving an RFID tag will destroy it (a microwave emits high frequency electromagnetic energy that overloads the antenna, eventually blowing out the chip), there is a good chance the the tag will burst into flames first. The difficulty of destroying a hidden RFID chip is one reason we need legislation making it illegal to hide a chip in an item in the first place.

OMGLOLROFLCOPTER RTFM!! overloads the antenna!

these people really don't know anything, do they?


And another:

There are two types of tags: "passive" (no independent power source) and "active" (containing a battery or attached to one). Depending on a number of factors (antenna size, RF frequency, environmental conditions etc.) a passive tag can have a range of anywhere from 1 inch to 40 feet. Active tags can have a read range of miles or more. Most tags being considered for use in consumer products are passive.

active....MILES? you'd need a rather large battery for that to last longer than a week at absolute most.

Isn't there already a far better method of tracking somebodies location:
the mobile phone system.

Isn't there already a far better method of tracking somebodies location: the mobile phone system.

Yep.
Dont know why these people are getting their panties in a twist about RFID tags when their mobiles can pretty much tell anyone where they are and have been as long as they are within cell tower range...

Also, never mind that GPS transmitters are also pretty compact and easy to conceal...and are able to pinpoint a position anywhere on the planet.

the GPS receivers might be easy to conceal in a pocket, but not in a printed device like an rfid tag.
even if you could, what would you do with the info. send it to someone? I suppose the tag could be like a data logger. and reading it would give a listing of positions. but if the government wants to do that, why try to shrink it into RFID tags, why no just hide the functionality in a piece of commonplace gadgetry that people would always carry around like a phone or PDA or a car. do they do it already. i dont see how they could and haven't been found out.

Where in the bible does it say anything about RFID tags and what are they referring to by new world order?

Revelation 13:16

these people really don't know anything, do they?

John 8:7