Re: Are the "WOKE" gaslighting our newest generations into self-mutilation?

Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!
On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 13:35:31 -0700, DIDDLER JIM'S GORMAN BALONEY wrote:

> Caution!  Always make ANSI approved giggles when reading drivel by Checkmate! 
> 
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:00:28 +0000, pandora  put forth the notion that: 
> 
>> >> I believe the bible is a book written by men who were trying to
>> >> understand the universe from their limited knowledge.
>> > 
>> > It was written by men over 200 years after Jesus died, so none of them
>> > ever knew him, or knew anybody who had known him.  The men who wrote it
>> > wrote under the names of the apostles to gain credibility.  I suspect
>> > the body of Jesus was "disappeared" and claimed to be a "resurrection". 
>> > A pretty convenient way of covering up any evidence, while also claiming
>> > a miracle.
>> 
>> Sounds plausible.
>> 
>> > When you see all the political tricks and head trips politicians use
>> > today and throughout history, you should realize that power hungry
>> > people have always been clever enough to fool a sufficient number of
>> > people to gain control.  Con man Joseph Smith picked up on how the game
>> > is played in 1820, when he claimed to have been given some magical
>> > golden plates by an angel, which he kept hidden in a hat.  He would
>> > "translate" them to an assistant to create the "Book of Mormon". 
>> > Unfortunately, he later "gave them back to the angel" so they can't be
>> > examined.  A skeptic such as myself has a hard time buying any of it.
>> 
>> Me too.
>>  
>> > On the other hand, the more I learn about the complexities of living
>> > organisms, the harder it is to imagine the number of fortuitous random
>> > events it would take for there not to be something that had a hand in
>> > our creation. I've always said if there's a god, he must be a scientist,
>> > and we're merely lab rats in an experiment that's nearing its end... at
>> > least as far as humans are concerned.
>> 
>> That is also a possibility.  Of course, that raises the question of who 
>> created him/her/it.  Too much for my brain.
> 
> Exactly.  The biggest question of all in my mind is where did all the STUFF 
> come from?  It's frustrating to be smart enough to ask the question, but 
> nowhere near smart enough to answer it.  This bugs me every single day.

Well, this goes a long way toward explaining why you're so jealous of kensi.

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