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FluttzKrieg [2017-02-06 19:57:37 +0000 UTC]
I must also add that Mein FΓΌhrer also is misunderstood.
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KopaLeo [2015-12-27 12:43:28 +0000 UTC]
did you mean "Santa"
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karkovice1 [2015-10-03 17:22:36 +0000 UTC]
Pinkie Pie's a SATANIST??? O_O
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Sneshneeorfa In reply to karkovice1 [2015-10-03 21:10:29 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, Satan's a nice guy when you get to know him, stahp with all this discrimination.
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karkovice1 In reply to Sneshneeorfa [2015-10-04 12:52:24 +0000 UTC]
As a general rule, I don't; even though I was brought up to hate Satan, and everything he stand for; so it's sometimes hard to do.
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timsplosion In reply to karkovice1 [2015-10-03 20:38:50 +0000 UTC]
Nah, she just doesn't prejudge the people she meets.
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karkovice1 In reply to timsplosion [2015-10-04 12:51:12 +0000 UTC]
As a general rule, I don't, either; but coming from a Catholic background, I was taught to HATE Satan, and everything he represents.
However, I'm sure there are TONS of Satanists out there who could be the nicest people you'll ever meet.
For example, I regularly listen to a radio talk show called Coast To Coast AM(so named because it airs from Midnight to 4:00 AM Eastern Time in North America. I never listen to it live, as I'm usually sleeping during those hours. I just listen to a condensed version from their website later on. Β ). I like that show, because it often deals with the paranormal, and I love hearing about stuff like that.
A few weeks ago, they interviewed a self proclaimed Satanist who founded his own "Church" somewhere in the U.S.(I think it's in Connecticut somewhere, but I'm not sure); and this guy literally sounds like your typical next door neighbour! He was very polite, very articulate, and very nice; not at all like your stereotypical Satanist, if there IS such a thing.
According to him, he andΒ the members of his... shall we say, Congregation... don't practice blood sacrifices, or call upon their "Master" to molest young virgin girls, like you'd expect a Satanist to do. Rather, they try to get more in touch with nature; kind of like the Druids of ancient times, if you're familiar with them. It's just that they believe in a different Higher Power. For me, it was hard to believe that this guy was a Satanist! Even George Noory, the host of the radio talk show, found it hard to believe! In fact, he kept saying "You know, I don't believe you're a Satanist."; but this guy kept insisting that he was. Maybe he really is, I don't know; but he definitely sounded like a guy who would be pleasant to talk to.
If I ever was to come into contact with a Satanist(Lord knows, maybe I've met SEVERAL over the course of my life, and never knew it), they wouldn't just blurt out "I'm a Satanist!" to me; just like I don't blurt out "I'm a Catholic!" when I meet somebody new, at the risk of opening up a can of worms. I learned the hard way that religion can be a TOUCHY subject with a lot of people. BUT, if ever I was to find out that they WERE a Satanist, my reaction would probably be: You're a SATANIST!? WOW! I never would've known, had you not told me. Well, I'm a CATHOLIC; but I'm not here to impose my beliefs upon you, as long as you don't try to impose your beliefs upon me.
Sounds fair enough, right?
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fletchstar [2015-10-03 11:33:17 +0000 UTC]
i like the positive message
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SNESmChalmers [2015-10-02 20:05:39 +0000 UTC]
He gets a bad rep, but he's actually pretty nice.
Pinkie looks great
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Formoy1 [2015-10-02 16:22:46 +0000 UTC]
Nice!
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SuedeHatBatLord In reply to timsplosion [2015-10-02 22:45:29 +0000 UTC]
I was just curious because the set I got came with a "blender" which someone told me was for the shades. I wondered if that was an effective tool to use in being able to bring out the softness of the colour when I get around to experimenting with them.Β
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ironbearroper [2015-10-02 15:00:23 +0000 UTC]
I wish I could colour that well
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Rainbow-Night [2015-10-02 13:34:53 +0000 UTC]
Yes he is pinkie, yes he is
It defiantly is a new look with the markers
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SFaccountant [2015-10-02 12:42:41 +0000 UTC]
Man, he was trying to show humanity where to get some good knowledge. He wasn't trying to start nothing!
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timsplosion In reply to SFaccountant [2015-10-06 13:34:52 +0000 UTC]
Yeh, he just wanted to share the knowledge of good and evil! What could possibly go wrong with that?
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SFaccountant In reply to timsplosion [2015-10-06 14:01:41 +0000 UTC]
Really, when you get right down to it, if the Allmighty didn't want humanity getting into that knowledge, he shouldn't have put the tree right there in the garden. Dick move, God.
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timsplosion In reply to SFaccountant [2015-10-06 14:05:02 +0000 UTC]
Yeh, what even was the point of that tree?
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SFaccountant In reply to timsplosion [2015-10-06 14:41:38 +0000 UTC]
I once read a religious (comedy) blog that claimed the entire Garden of Eden was actually a complex sting operation on the Devil.
God creates Adam and Eve, and then says: "Do whatever you want. Only, you see that tree over there? The one with those succulent, magicΒ fruits that serve no obvious purpose besides being eaten? Don't eat them. Ever. I'm serious."
Why would the Allmighty have created these guys and then set them up with temptation immediately? What does He get out of catching the humans perpetrating Original Sin? Humanity isn't the focus, here. God knew that Satan was up to no good, but needed something concrete to pin on him. Eve was just bait.
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SFaccountant In reply to timsplosion [2015-10-06 15:12:00 +0000 UTC]
Well, I guess Eve technically DID disobey HimΒ and all that.
And later on the Big Guy supposedly sentΒ His kid to help us out, so, you know, I guess He felt bad about it and wanted to wipe the slate clean.
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DeverexDrawer In reply to timsplosion [2015-12-08 13:03:28 +0000 UTC]
Genocide in the old testament or the new testament?
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timsplosion In reply to DeverexDrawer [2015-12-08 16:53:00 +0000 UTC]
Old Testament mostly. Unless there's one in the New that I wasn't aware of.
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DeverexDrawer In reply to timsplosion [2015-12-09 08:08:54 +0000 UTC]
You would say that God is in two seperate forms: one of the old and one of the new; existing as a "Genocidal" (if that is a word) God of the Old Testament and a loving,peaceful,nurturing God of the New Testament?
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timsplosion In reply to DeverexDrawer [2015-12-09 15:25:51 +0000 UTC]
Well, at the very least his character doesn't seem consistent and his character arc throughout the book doesn't really seem to make much sense. The time jump between the old and new must have left out some important character development. Even early on they were a bit mixed up - he tells someone who murdered an Egyptian to tell the Israelites that killing is bad before sending them on a mission to kill everyone in the land promised to them so that they can have it back.
Plus the writers overlook some of his powers in the first part of it - he's all-knowing but can't predict that the snake would tempt the humans? I mean c'mon, that's just lazy writing.
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DeverexDrawer In reply to timsplosion [2015-12-10 06:01:01 +0000 UTC]
God could not have recorded everything from every event in
every place in the world and given it to us in the Bible. So why did God leave
out hundreds of years of documentation from the Bible? For the same reason He
left out thousands of years and trillions of events from the rest of human
history. We need neither more nor less. What is written is what is needed to
know and believe what God is like, what God is doing, and how we are to live
and function in this world.
By the end of Genesis 1, all things had been created, and all things that he had made, God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
This also includes Lucifer, as when he was created, he was perfect in his ways.
Ezekiel 28:15-16
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
By
the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee
with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering
cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
So, backtracking in questions, it comes back down to Lucifer. Why did God make Lucifer? If Lucifer didn't have the conversation with Eve and didn't desire to be like God...if he had not existed at all, the world would not be in the shape that it is in now. Would it not?
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timsplosion In reply to DeverexDrawer [2015-12-10 11:21:34 +0000 UTC]
Well, no it wouldn't (if we assume the Bible is both literal and true). And look what we've done with the place - half the forests are gone, we're on a path to irreversible climate change, religious extremism in the east, rising right-wing rhetoric in the west, with dominoes lining up that - if toppled - Β have the potential to kickstart WW3. And yet the writers of the Bible say that an all-knowing all-powerful God saw none of that coming? And in any case, it's of no concern whether or not the Bible is true or whatever, I'm just saying if people are going to write a collaborative piece, they need to keep the characters consistent and God's character just doesn't seem consistent throughout the Bible.
It'd be like if Spiderman never used his spidey-senses, but the writers tried to keep telling us he still had them - sooner or later we'd just accept that Peter Parker didn't have his spidey-senses anymore, or at least ask if perhaps those senses were nowhere near as good as they'd tried to tell us they were.
And as for the "we only need to know what was written", it's like if we'd gone straight from The Hunger Games into Mockingjay - huge important parts of Katniss's development from girl-on-fire to symbol-of-the-revolution would've been missing and it wouldn't have made any sense. In the same way, God's development from "kill all these people to take the land I've given you" to "turn the other cheek" seems to be missing a midpoint in his character arc, as if God's character is flexible enough to fit whatever story the writer is trying to tell.
You'll notice I'm not attacking it from a theological perspective, just a literary one. The Bible's just shoddy writing.
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DeverexDrawer In reply to timsplosion [2015-12-11 03:54:02 +0000 UTC]
We can assume that the world would have been better without
Lucifer. We can also assume Adam and Eve would have eventually sinned. In this,
there is no certainty. God did not create Lucifer as an evil being but allowed
the potential for sin. While God cannot commit sin, He doesnβt take it away
from those who will choose to do so. Man could have remained sinless and
righteous, even when tempted by the devil, but he did not. Satan could have
remained sinless and obedient, but he did not.
God knows all things, every path and outcome. So for whatever reason, we
require Luciferβs existence for the best path and the best outcome. For
whatever reason, Lucifer is to be dealt with later and not immediately. God
gave him a chance, just like he did everyone else. Since he was given a fair
chance and must exist, he must be dealt with after he has rebelled. However,
God cannot judge him immediately after he has rebelled. For if he did, then
mankind would be judged along with Lucifer, as to be fair and just, God would
have to be rid of all who have sinned, he cannot be a just God by letting a few
bypass the legal system. So what does this mean? God has dedicated the perfect
time, within his perfect plan to judge Lucifer, and save mankind in the
process.
Revelation 12
7 |And there was war in heaven:
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his
angels,
8 |And prevailed not; neither was
their place found any more in heaven.
9 |And the great dragon was cast
out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 |And I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and
the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which
accused them before our God day and night.
11 |And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their
lives unto the death.
12 |Therefore rejoice, ye heavens,
and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!
for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth
that he hath but a short time.
Revelation 20
1 |And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of
the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 |And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand
years,
3 |And cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the
nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he
must be loosed a little season.
7 |And when the thousand years are
expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 |And shall go out to deceive the
nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather
them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 |And they went up on the breadth
of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city:
and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10 |And the devil that deceived
them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the
false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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timsplosion In reply to DeverexDrawer [2015-12-11 12:23:18 +0000 UTC]
So Christians believe in dragons too? How come Sunday School never taught that when I was growing up?
I'd have become atheist a hell of a lot sooner...
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mattwo In reply to SFaccountant [2015-10-02 20:03:50 +0000 UTC]
Not until near the end of the world anyway.
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Sneshneeorfa [2015-10-02 10:40:35 +0000 UTC]
Oh yeaaaah, Satan is lovely.
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