Massacre in Las Vegas
October 4th, 2017 at 10:54:54 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
That's all he knows how to do, play word games. There is no reality to a god religion, you make it up as you go along. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 4th, 2017 at 11:16:12 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Holy crap, because we don't have a motive the conspiracy theorists are going berzerk out there. Some are calling it another JFK shooting, more than one shooter and the police are covering it up. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 4th, 2017 at 11:29:45 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
I think you mean that some people have faith that the answer to big questions is just randomness. As I've said before this takes a whole lot more faith than I could ever have. I agree that most people in general are good people who are kind to others. It is either a quirk in the randomness of life or a God given trait that we universally naturally desire and find happiness in being kind to others. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
October 4th, 2017 at 11:33:01 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
Which you need love for.
Why do you disagree with this? Are you fulfilled by anything other than being loved or loving?
Nope, as my faith teaches; "God is love." (1 John 4:8) “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
October 4th, 2017 at 11:35:20 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
I would have stopped him for sure. I wish I knew why God or the angels didn't stop him? What would have gone against his free will if the gun would have jammed or misfired? “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
October 4th, 2017 at 11:45:11 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Yeah, that's what the Jews being tortured in the Inquisitions felt, and the witches burned at the stake. Your churches wonderful hideous love. Your religion makes me sick to my stomach. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 4th, 2017 at 12:19:27 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
Now you are starting to move the goalposts around, and you are also using a circular logic with the claim that because your religious book claims your religion is love therefore your religion is love. you don't need religion to love or be loved, and you don't need love to fulfill or be fulfilling. That is, without equating the terms religion, fulfillment, and love, in which case you are just back to playing connect-the-dots with word games. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
October 4th, 2017 at 12:27:15 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I don't know if it comes naturally or is taught in seminary. But this drives me nuts talking to FrG, he changes his story faster than a teenager caught shoplifting. Sometimes you can box him in and he'll admit to it, but most of the time he's Wiley Coyote, slipperier than an eel, and a master of double speak. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 4th, 2017 at 12:32:58 PM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4169 |
I was fulfilled when I shot a 75 on a real golf course (I'm usually a high 80's player). I think 'fulfilled' is an excellent word to describe how I felt. The love I feel towards friends and family is another source of fulfillment. But certainly not the only one. I think you have to re-think this one, Padre. |
October 4th, 2017 at 12:33:51 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
Okay, let's just leave religion out of it all together. I maintain that as human beings we need love and the only way to stop these types of evil events is to love each other more. This is what I am committing myself to in the wake of this massacre and how I am trying to deal with it. I want to love others more and help them in any way I can to love each other. That and contacting my congressmen and women to ban semi-automatic rifles with magazines. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |