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Mike the Lab Rat

Mike, As anyone who saw that study awhile back knows, or for that matter, anyone with a fuctioning brain knows, smoking lowers overall healthcare costs. A two pack a day asshole that is taken out by lung cancer at 57 is a hell of a lot cheaper than the 94 year old who spends his last year and a hal...

Mike the Lab Rat

Maybe densedale will get THIS analogy: You have the right to listen to music. Any kind you want. As often as you want. Hell, you can even crank it up - provided that your ear-splitting, eardrum-bleeding volume doesn't find its way onto my property and disturb MY right to quiet enjoyment of my premis...

Mike the Lab Rat

Smoking, on the other hand, is an unnecessary personal habit chosen by a minority of folks that produces a waste product that indisputably reeks and clings to hair, clothing, etc. Wow. Of all the people, I'd think you would have been among the last to ever make my "ignore list." But you j...

Mike the Lab Rat

My point is that smokers do not have, nor can they ever legitimately claim, a right to pollute the air of non-smokers. Priceless-btw. Own a car? Lawnmower? Gas furnace? Fireplace? How about a crowbar, to try and remove your foot from your ass? You're an idiot. Trying to compare the exhaust from nec...

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Actually, one of the biggest proponents of national health care on this very board is an admitted smoker. I don't believe for a second that the government has any right to stick their hand in my pocket to pay for the consequences of someone else's self-inflicted idiocy. Yo, Mike... what part of &qu...

Mike the Lab Rat

The next time one of you assholes decided to light up next to me and blow your waste product around me while I'm knocking back a beer, I'm going to piss on your fucking leg. Hold on a second before you whip your dick out and start pissing in my direction, Rat. If you knowingly entered a bar that al...

Mike the Lab Rat

At first I was pissed that my tax dollars were being wasted on this stuff, but then:

mvscal wrote:I'm just glad to see Congress harmlessly occupied.

I hadn't thought about it that way.

I have to agree with mvscal.

Mike the Lab Rat

I agree that the government has gone freaking nuts with the anti-smoking crap. Restaurants, bars, etc. should have the option to be smoke-free or not. If customers don't want to give their patronage to an eatery or bar that allows nicotine addicts to indulge their habit, then they can vote with thei...

Mike the Lab Rat

Do you know why the Bible refers to us (humans in general and Christians in particular) as sheep? Don't google it, just explain as to whether you know it or not and if you're familiar with the reasoning behind it. That is all. 'Cuz we're -how would mvscal say it? clueless fucktards- in need of bein...

Mike the Lab Rat

You claim to be a believer in Jesus Christ and yet you deny Him. You make Him a liar also. I don't believe that JESUS is a liar. I believe, based on the contradictory information given in the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John, that His followers' followers (whoever the actual authors of the G...

Mike the Lab Rat

Paul said that the only way to meet God is through Jesus Christ. Do you not agree? No, I don't. I absolutely refuse to believe that non-Christian individuals who have lived exemplary lives and been genuinely good people would be turned away by an all-good, all-powerful, loving God who created them....

Mike the Lab Rat

Mike, I am still waiting on your insight as to what the real truth of the Bible is..... I'm no evangelist, but this is what works for me: One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which...

Mike the Lab Rat

Mike, the fundamental difference between Paul and those cult-followers you listed is that those people believed what they were dying for. Paul, on the other hand, chose to die for something which he would have known to be false. You understand that you've got a serious problem there. How so? There ...

Mike the Lab Rat

Speaking of that wingnut, Ron Paul: From a Reason Online article (January 16, 2008), entitled; 'Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters?" The answer, apparently, was his old, dear friend, Lew Rockwell, who "ghostwrote". some incredibly inflammatory, racist crap for Paul's newsletter. In the ...

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While you are at it maybe you can explain why Paul "the Con Man" allowed himself to be martyred for a bunch of stuff he made up.... Oh, so a willingness to die for your religious beliefs validates their claims of truth? Jim Jones & his People's Temple cult? Heaven's Gate? Order of the...

Mike the Lab Rat

Outstanding game.

Props to the Giants (who I did predict would win, but not by the score I called: Giants 27, Pats 24).

Mike the Lab Rat

God's eyes to see poeple are different than our eyes. And everything is HIS creation, not ours. So the 'rules' might not seem just to me? You know the golden rule, Mike. Actually, I chalk up the bulk of the inconsistencies attributed to God's behaviors to the imperfect understanding of His nature b...

Mike the Lab Rat

It wasn't (nor does it say anywhere) that it was an apple. It was a fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There's something to be said for 'age of accountability', before which, they are looked at as 'innocents' (for want of a better term). However, babies are inherently selfish an...

Mike the Lab Rat

Let me get this straight: "Sin" is a separation from God, which has been our individually unearned curse, handed down as an almost-eternal legacy, due to the alleged actions of two specific human ancestors in a magical garden. So, every single human infant, despite the fact that their litt...

Mike the Lab Rat

Yes, I'm biased, but I think Reed should get in before Monk.

Mike the Lab Rat

Separation from God is sin. Couldja be a little more vague ? What specifically constitutes "separation from God?" What specific actions on the part of individuals constitutes "sin?" Just saying "any act that separates us from God" is so vague and meaningless as to be u...

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pop- Let's ask a pretty fundemental question: What IS sin? I'd like a specific definition and how we know an action/though is sinful, not just the incredibly and deliberately vague "falling short of God's glory." Paul chided the Jews for their "legalism," but that's precisely wha...

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Everyone is a sinner, yes or no? If you say no, you deny Scripture ...... well, not that that is anything new for you. If you say yes, then tell me, at what point in a person's life do they become sinful? Every sentient human is a sinner. Sin requires intent. Until the individual grasps the concept...

Mike the Lab Rat

Kind of like that Original Sin thing...which you inaccurately claimed (in the other thread) that Jesus taught about. You need to turn that around and realize that Jesus didn't NOT teach original sin, Mike. You have to be absent all rational thought to not recognize original sin. It doesn't work tha...

Mike the Lab Rat

Nacho wrote:For what it was it was good. Maybe not worth the full ticket but at least a matinee.

Soooo....would you say that it was definitely worth renting on DVD?

As opposed to completely skipping it, I mean.

Mike the Lab Rat

You mean Catholic congregations are actually allowed to read a Bible? I thought they were just spoon-fed whatever line it was that the local priest had to say to them. There's a reason mass (btw, find me where it endorses THAT one in the Bible) was always in Latin until relatively recently. The Mas...

Mike the Lab Rat

Mike, it is pretty obvious that you quite willingly place your science before God. All science is, bco, is humans attempting to better understand the physical realm - that you and I both believe that God made. Science has no rightful, logical, legitimate place in trying to explain general morals, e...

Mike the Lab Rat

I'd gladly pay to see Van Morrison.

And probably Steely Dan.

Other than that, I agree that dinosaur acts suck.

Mike the Lab Rat

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. That's the 'separation of church and state' that mouth breathers like yourself seem to goo over. That is GOVERNMENT CREATING AND ENDORSING A RELIGION. It says NOWHERE that religion isn't allowed to play a role in politics. Is this ...

Mike the Lab Rat

Perhaps you need to re-read Poptart's comment and then answer to that. The way God intended, as outlined in the Bible, is not the way man has, for the most part, pursued. You end up with narrow-minded, arrogant, children who desire to re-write the Bible and God to suit their own ends. Sound familia...

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The 'denominations' are a creation of man, not God. So no surprise at all that they fracture, deceive and pervert unity among believers in Jesus Christ. Completely concur. Christ's church is not built on any denomination. His church is built on individual people. Ah, but human nature screws things ...

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So, let's get this straight. According to you, Mike: Genesis is crap It's an allegory. Claiming it is literal truth is crap. The NT, for the most part, is garbage Define "garbage." My position is that serious "retconning" occurred in the accounts, with the intention of legitimiz...

Mike the Lab Rat

Surprisingly, I've never read Heinlein. I made the mistake of reading Asimov in high school and found it so boring that it turned me off to most "serious" science fiction. Fortunately, I had read the "Dune" trilogy and "Ringworld" prior to my being scarred forever by th...

Mike the Lab Rat

You could also use another free utility called Zipeg. Do a google search for it. I've used it on Mac OS 10.4 and currently on 10.5.1 (Leopard) and it works great.

Mike the Lab Rat

What, in your view, happens if a person believes in Jesus Christ? In other words, what is the reason for a person to do so? Is there some 'salvation' involved? If so, from what are people saved? And finally, can a Muslim, Buddhist, Atheist, ... or anyone else, attain the same salvation? Tough quest...

Mike the Lab Rat

Being a huge fan of Anthem, I gave this one a rip, several years back. I figured the premise was sound and that it would be quite rewarding. How wrong I was. I think I made it about 400 pages in. Stopped after the guy set his oil fields on fire. I think what bogged me down was the romance of the tw...

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How in the hell does my not believing in the literal truth of Genesis ...... Forget literal truth. Do you understand the truth of Genesis 1-3 on any level? Happens to set the stage for the entirety of the Bible, and it tells us about the very fundamentals of the condition of mankind. Yeah, you migh...

Mike the Lab Rat

battery chucka' one wrote:2. Never in my life have I either uttered or written the words Gnosticism and/or Gnostic. Perhaps you should pay a little more attention.

You're right. Sorry 'bout that - got my Thumpers mixed up.

Mike the Lab Rat

Again, all your conclusions are from your knowledge, gained from the world that is described by the Lord as being wicked. NOW who sounds like a Gnostic? Manichaean variety, in fact. But then, you don't accept that the Bible has any legitimacy, right? In faith and morals, plenty. In science and hist...

Mike the Lab Rat

Nacho wrote:Gnostic

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means
what you think it means."

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