The Dudeism Forum

it would seem to me the Swami has won by getting everyone to talk religion. You are letting him manipulate you and the conversations on this board into discussing religious pov's.
what we must keep in mind that if we discuss anything about religion even if it's a argument against religion or if we enter into a debate....it's the same as promoting that religion. It keeps their religion foremost in our minds...and that is what they want. They want us to think about their gods and their beliefs. It works like subliminal messaging. It's a subtle form of hypnosis dudes.
I wrote about this before. The church has an "office of...."...I forget the exact title again....I'll have to look it up again....but their whole purpose is to infiltrate institutions and insert their dogma into them. They are the ones responsible for "In God We Trust" on all our money and for inserting "One Nation; Under God" into USA pledge of allegiance.
If we let them manipulate the board and influence our post and conversations....they win.
Ignore them dudes....take er easy and abide. This to shall pass.

I've already said...ignore the twat! But here for a bit of entertainment is Dave Allen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxo81Ok9Urk

My thoughts right now are that I'm done with it. I'm feeling very undude so I'm backing out. Take er easy, dudes.

Quote from: cckeiser on January 12, 2014, 12:35:13 AM
what we must keep in mind that if we discuss anything about religion even if it's a argument against religion or if we enter into a debate....it's the same as promoting that religion. It keeps their religion foremost in our minds...and that is what they want. They want us to think about their gods and their beliefs. It works like subliminal messaging. It's a subtle form of hypnosis dudes.

I've never heard it put this way before. If this is going to be an enforceable forum rule, I would appreciate if we could clearly define the boundaries. It seems to me that with Dudeism officially being billed as a religion and with the religion-related subforums, some religious discussion is inevitible.

I'm a new guy here, but personally I don't mind these discussions if we can remain dude-like about it. I guess I'll leave it to the admins to come to a decision.

I think you need to read a lot more on the forums before you comment on a thread like this Bizarre dude mate.

This isn't a topic born out of a pub discussion. No disrespect mate but are you a child just walking into a movie? Etc...

Peace.

Quote from: Reverend Bizarre on January 12, 2014, 01:01:40 AM

Quote from: cckeiser on January 12, 2014, 12:35:13 AM
what we must keep in mind that if we discuss anything about religion even if it's a argument against religion or if we enter into a debate....it's the same as promoting that religion. It keeps their religion foremost in our minds...and that is what they want. They want us to think about their gods and their beliefs. It works like subliminal messaging. It's a subtle form of hypnosis dudes.

I've never heard it put this way before. If this is going to be an enforceable forum rule, I would appreciate if we could clearly define the boundaries. It seems to me that with Dudeism officially being billed as a religion and with the religion-related subforums, some religious discussion is inevitible.

I'm a new guy here, but personally I don't mind these discussions if we can remain dude-like about it. I guess I'll leave it to the admins to come to a decision.

Sorry...no, it  is not a forum rule at all, just my paranoia acting up again. I think there are very few forum rules?
I do not mind a dude like discussion either Reverend, I just do not want to be constantly reading nothing but rantings on or about Christians and their frickin' religion.
I'm sure you didn't come here to be reading all this crap...it's a big turn off to anyone who is just finding the forum and is here to enjoy themselves and maybe learn a little more about Dudeism.
I think it would be a big turn off if all they see is posting of bible verses by christian, and rantings from the rest of us about Christians and their religion.

I was just asking everyone to keep it in mind when they post. I do admit I am paranoid after many encounters in the past, so please forgive me if I over react now and again....it's a reflex action anymore.
Yeah, I am an admin here, but I am not the voice of Dudeism here. I am just the janitor. I do try and keep the board clean and running smoothly, and free of spam and spammers. That is my major function, but if I see someone behaving undude and causing a dust up I step in and try to defuse the situation....as you can see I am not very good at that....sorry.

It seems to be the order of the moment I'm afraid CCK. I've not posted for a while....but check in every other day...just to see what the condition is....

Maybe the janitor or the other admins have been a little too laid back in their attitude to the insidious infiltration to our once peaceful beach community....seems to me an ass kicking is a bit overdue....

I can't quite see how any of Iconaclasssttte sss posts have been anything other than inciteful or insidious? Born again xians are easy to spot and shouldn't really be here preaching...even if they ask "How can I help?" All innocent like!

I see through the twat...can't / didn't you? Not too sure about this new poster either with only 3 posts to his name...can you not check IP addresses?

If I'm wrong I'm wrong...sorry!

Peace.

If you guys like I certainly can hang back a few days. Here is a rag for the dust on your shoes and have a Kaucasian on me. I am on here only to get more of my old dude back I lost in my late 20s. I miss that me and really dig the philosophy. I have no intention of making anyone accept any particular religion. Shit, I got some Jehovah Witness so mad he was flipping me the finger... I laughed at him. So, no, I am not here to preach, only relearn my dudeness.

No one is having a pop at you Shaggy old pal! I was speaking directly to Reverand Bizzarre.

The religious stuff is not aimed at such a peaceful dude as your self...it's directed at Icconecclesiastic (whatever) .

You carry on bowling mate...you've done nothing but be peaceful dude.

Peace.

Regarding "The Fourth Kind", I have seen the movie and enjoyed it as a creepy piece of fiction.  I was curious about the claims of "real footage" and being based on a true story, so I researched it.  It is absolutely just a piece of fiction.  The "real life" characters are just that, characters.  They never existed in real life, including the so called "doctor" that is the main character.  It was even revealed the so-called real life doctor's website was a marketing tactic to make the movie seem more real.  Hominid hit the nail on the head stating it's in the same vein as "The Blair Witch Project".  But it's still a fun and creepy movie to watch!  Plus Milla Jovovich is fucking hawt!

Now I do believe in the very strong possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.  The universe is way too big, way too old, and life (even in extreme conditions on this planet) is way too tenacious to not exist (or have existed) elsewhere.  I have also seen a UFO when I was a kid.  A ridiculously huge ball of red that hovered silently over the corner of my house, that was gone by the time I ran inside to get my parents to come look, and ran back out again.  Now that I'm a grown-ass woman, I'm intelligent enough to know that memories fade, twist, and change to the extent that what we remember is not actually faithful to what precisely happened.  I don't know what the hell I saw, or even if I actually saw anything.

I'm also in Neil DeGrasse Tyson's camp that any intelligent life is so extremely far away, that it's highly doubtful they visit us.  Is it possible?  Of course it is.  With our own technology, who thought even 50 years ago that we'd carry powerful computers, small enough to fit in a pocket, around with us?  Imagine what intelligent life vastly older than our own could accomplish.  But I'm also in Stephen Hawking and Michio Kaku's camp that we don't even rate in the intelligence scale enough for them to even bother visiting us.  However extremely unlikely, I am open to the possibility.  As skeptical as I am, I'm also enough of a sci-fi nerd to really appreciate the notion.  I only hope that first contact (which I believe to be an inevitability) doesn't see us wiped out as an irritating ant hill, or simply accidentally stepped on, not even realizing we're here.

Quote from: Rev. Shagbeard on January 12, 2014, 02:00:15 AM
If you guys like I certainly can hang back a few days. Here is a rag for the dust on your shoes and have a Kaucasian on me. I am on here only to get more of my old dude back I lost in my late 20s. I miss that me and really dig the philosophy. I have no intention of making anyone accept any particular religion. Shit, I got some Jehovah Witness so mad he was flipping me the finger... I laughed at him. So, no, I am not here to preach, only relearn my dudeness.

I'll back off too until everyone is done.  C U later.

Atheism means a lack of belief in any God. It does not suggest any other beliefs.

Quote from: Hominid on January 11, 2014, 09:07:11 PM
Well C-dude, depends on what Christian you talk to.  A fair-weather, social one will poo poo you and say all faiths lead to God.  A medium-committed one (say - gone to bible college, may have been a youth pastor) will not clump atheists in with other faiths.. they know the philosophical difference between them.  A fundamentalist whack job will tell you you're all going to hell if you don't believe what he does.

3 shades of grey.

What would the Vatican say? Or the Mormon Church or the Ayatollahs?
Sadly that IS what counts because it has a material manifestation in the actual universe.
As hypocritical and selfish the murmuring of country club Christians and Protestants might be it adds up to nothing compared to the carefully crafted world view of the authority of the church who's gig it is to think about this shit and define the religion in concrete terms.
Christian (and Islamic) apologetics are 1000 times worse than fundamentalist in my opinion.
I have little patience for the mental gymnastics required for educated people to pick their way through 2000 year old beliefs to cherry pick some subset that they can stomach.
But then again mental gymnastics is the hallmark of religion Take for instance the movement that Gallileo was wrong.

Quote
"Heliocentrism becomes 'dangerous' if it is being propped up as the true system when, in fact, it is a false system," said Robert Sungenis, leader of a budding movement to get scientists to reconsider. "False information leads to false ideas, and false ideas lead to illicit and immoral actions ? thus the state of the world today. ? Prior to Galileo, the church was in full command of the world; and governments and academia were subservient to her."

Now that is the logic isn't it?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-04/news/ct-met-galileo-was-wrong-20110704_1_modern-church-universe-splinter-group

Astute observation BD...  well said.