I don't understand this rules

[MasterSword]

Trying to save people over the intranets doesn't work, Gumby. Moreso if you try to use the "love of God" method.

Thread am offtopic now anyway.

[Rainbow]

Ok I think that the thread has run it's course... and the last post about the "love of God" in itself is pretty much against the rules.

So I'm just gonna lock this (again) and leave it as is.

[waa_waa_wii_waa]

Originally Posted by LadyGumby

Phoenix, I have been reading your post and you constantly try to refute the acts of God. I think, in your heart of hearts you truly wish to have a relationship with God and want to believe. You just keep trying to stop yourself from something that is unstoppable. The Love of God follows you where ever you go, where ever you post. No matter how much you try to refute and convince yourself otherwise, the truth is there! Why else would you constantly try to disprove every one on these boards if you were not in fact looking for the truth that is already in front of you! Open your eyes, your heart and ease your mind!

Tranquility and understanding is the key to nirvana. We all need to realize that debating another's views to encourage our own only builds conflict and hatred, not peace and understanding. His choice of words is his decision, a word is only as powerful as one allows it to be and by taking such offense it is YOU who gives the phrase power, not the one who spoke it. Censorship discourages words but completely ignores ideas, and the idea of a word is where it's power lies, not within the word itself. We need to understand that our own interpretation's are the underlying key that unlock hatred, not what we had heard itself. The kingdom of heaven lies within your own inner peace but when such jovial things disrupt this peace it is hard to know if you're really in touch with heaven or just desperately hoping you are.

Originally Posted by LadyGumby

first of all why are you getting so angry and using "goddamn?" I don't like you using foul language and you shouldn't use thy lord's name in vain anyhow. Secondly, how could I have more than 1 username when those were mistakes that I made while trying to log in? Fourthly, by "uptake" do you mean im not smart or something? If so, then that's rude and maybe I'm not as smart at the internet as you, not everyone has the time like you or rainbow to be online all the time. If it expired, then how come it's still in my user cp, genius? See my point.

now im usually not this aggressive but you're being aggressive back to me

Originally Posted by LadyGumby

Phoenix, I have been reading your post and you constantly try to refute the acts of God. I think, in your heart of hearts you truly wish to have a relationship with God and want to believe. You just keep trying to stop yourself from something that is unstoppable. The Love of God follows you where ever you go, where ever you post. No matter how much you try to refute and convince yourself otherwise, the truth is there! Why else would you constantly try to disprove every one on these boards if you were not in fact looking for the truth that is already in front of you! Open your eyes, your heart and ease your mind!

HMMmmmmMMMmmm Thanks for that...

Now I am going to go kill 5 rabbits and sacrifice them to a deity that may or may not be made up.


screw it... RANT TIME!

BTW... Saying God Damn or goddamn as I did... doesn't mean that it's using his name in vain.. in fact.. I think God does damn infractions.. so therefor they are Goddamn(ed) infractions. Just like I am Goddamned to goto hell when I pass for being a party hard, work my fingers to the bone, smoking, drinking, cussing, blue-collar man. I am damn proud of who I am. When I was a 'Christian' I strove to do all the 'Good Book' said. I practiced humility, humbleness, I tithed my butt off... just to turn around and see preachers raping little boys, food not to be on my table, rent barely being paid, life barely being lived. So GODDAMN IT, I decided to take care of my family, support them, feed them, cloth and house them. So I turned my back on the child raping church and my life has been better for it. I am not a hedonist.. but I will be DAMNED if my family has to suffer for something that most likely and all otherwise points to DOESN'T EXSIST! I do believe in a higher power.. but I DON'T believe he wants us to give all our money to people that don't even follow his way. I have heard preachers decide where they THINK the bible really begins and where the fiction is... So what does that do... I have seen preachers grow fat on the tithe of the parish while the parishiners suffer, I have seen churches get big screen TV's for their youth groups while kids and adults alike freeze in the street. NOW Until YOUR FAITH, can do what it PREACHES, then keep your GODDAMN preaching out of here.

END RANT

To other Christians on the site: I am not attacking you or your religion. I have some faith that a higher power does exist and he/she is watching over us all. But just as I won't go telling you what to say or believe in your life I don't want or need to be told what to say or believe in my life. If you all want Goddamn to be a swearword on here, why not.. we have enough things.. but honestly it has more then one context.. and can in fact mean God has damned something. Who is to say what He does and doesn't damn.. do we actually get feedback from Him? My tirade was at and directed ONLY at LadyGumby, she needs to realize that her 'faith' is just as much tounge in cheek as the next and that she has no place preaching it here. We ask everyone to read the rules BEFORE signing up. She has checked the box that said she understood them.... she went against the rules and in fact seems to have done it only to provoke me. Anyways, like I said... believe what you believe and I believe what I believe.. there is no need to get this whole place in an uproar because of it. Now, turn the other cheek

Love always

Phoenix