Bottomless Pit And/Or Lake Of Fire

BARACK OBAMA IS THE ANTI-CHRIST!
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BARACK OBAMA IS THE (ANTI-CHRIST)!

So according to him he's above god.

God is at his command.

God is nothing more than a petty weapon he uses to bash people over the head with in his petty arguments.

or how would have found a 2005 post? He surely wouldn't have read all the back-issues and not commented until he got to that one

Anyway, I had not read that post before and very much enjoyed it.

I would think that would impact the decision somewhat, because tooling around on a lake of fire in a demon powered speedboat (you have heard of speed demons haven't you?) would be like way cool.

If the pit is truly bottomless, you will just keep falling forever. It would be just like flying! I've always wanted to be able to fly! You could practice flipping and spinning, other maneuvers...some hell! I suppose hitting the side would hurt, though. The walls are probably covered in shit or red hot demon semen or some other nastiness, too.

Coincidentally I have also been damned to hell by a person I didn't know; in person and right to my face!
A few years back I was working as a meat cutter. I worked in a natural foods store, similar to Whole Foods or Wild Oats-range raised chicken, preservative free products, etc. Many of the store's customers were vegetarian or vegan for a variety of nutritional, philosophical, or religious reasons, and we occasionally got some dirty looks from people who didn't think a "health food store" should be selling handmade sausages and bacon.

One day I'm behind the counter and a woman starts slowly looking over the products. She only looked to be in her late twenties, but she was dressed like it was 1963. Over the knee brown wool skirt, long argyle socks, thick beige sweater, straight long brown hair and very light, kind of sixties style base makeup. Like a catholic school refugee or something. I asked her if I could help her, and she just froze and stared at me, then walked a little away and started looking at the products again. After a minute or two I looked a little closer and could see some little papers or cards in her hand that she seemed to be reading to the meat! I was hooked, and started furtively observing her actions while I filled the case. I got a closer look and realised she was not holding a nutritional guide or calorie counter or the usual items...she was holding prayer cards and praying over the meat! I thought maybe she was blessing the meat or something, and was just about to ask her about it when she turned and looked at me with half closed eyes as if she was angry, held up her prayer cards like she was warding off a vampire, and with eyes now wide open exclaimed, "You are damned to Hell forever for serving meat!" She then quickly turned and fled from the store.

I laughed for weeks over that. It still makes me giggle thinking about it. I've never been much on breakfast cereal, but sometimes I just loves me some fruit loops.

"I bind you" sounds like you're being cursed to constipation.

I was in a little lake resort town last night for the Thursday-night fireworks, there to take pictures (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/hankfox for the few that came out), but also to visit with a friend who was manning the VFD t-shirt booth. While I was talking to Bud, I noticed a large easel set up down the sidewalk about 20 yards, and I thought "Cool. An artist doing some kind of sketching or something. Gotta see that."

I walked down there and there were these crude watercolor drawings on the easel and the words GOD, JESUS, HELL, etc. in large letters over some sort of fanciful diagram. He was talking in a loud voice about Jesus' sacrifice. I took a couple of pictures, but they sucked in the low light.

Anyway, I kinda smiled to myself as I walked away, but later I was thinking "Should I have said something to that guy, just for a bit of backpressure? What should I have said?"

After that, I thought "Here I am an atheist MAINLY because I value honesty and clear understanding. I can't even lie to myself about some happy fantasy. And here's this guy and all his clan who would think I'm bad, maybe even evil, because I'm like this."

Like all those people who warned about this war and were RIGHT, but were branded traitors and fools, people who value honesty -- the GOOD thing -- are the ones in the wrong. As far as the churchy ones are concerned, anyway.

Saw a kid nearby wearing a t-shirt that had all sorts of goddy stuff on the back, and on the front a message that said "This T-shirt is Illegal in 50 countries." The implication being that Christians are under siege, threatened, even here. When in fact, they're a majority, and the clear aggressors in so many recent assaults on people like me.

More and more each day, I'm seeing what I call the "180-degree twist" in every aspect of religion. They love their lies, and dislike anyone who tries to point that out. They want to impose their beliefs on others, while people like me just want to live lives unimpeded by their beliefs.

And I'm supposedly the bad one. The atheist. The liar. The aggressor.

180-degrees opposite of that, in real life, I'm an inoffensive minority who only wants to be left alone, and would much rather not even have this fight imposed upon me.

Why is it that so many of these morons think that they have magic powers? Even if they believe that their mythical Jee-zuhs could cast out nonexistent demons, how does it follow that they can do so too? It just can't be enough for them to believe in all sorts of garbage about their imaginary sky daddy - they also have to imagine themselves as being able to cast spells. If this doesn't highlight both the human-made nature of religion and the sheer idiocy involved, I'm not sure what does!

I too would choose the bottomless pit. We can chat while we're falling...

It definitely beats burning.

I saw that comment yesterday, looked at the guy's url, and decided that I really did not want to test my firewalls with whatever kind of malware might be lurking there...

And the whole "bottomless pit" thing sounds to me like a physics problem: If you were somehow able to bore a shaft all the way through the earth, and line it with a pipe which could resist the pressures and temperatures involved, what would happen to you if you jumped into it?

Jim Downey

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Congratulations! I am sooo jealous. And you get a choice. How considerate is that?
Actually, I am glad you got cursed, spelled, whatever. I had not seen Darksyde's article on lightning before. I do miss science friday.