Religous Nuts on boards.ie

the_syco

Hi all,
I'm trying not to LOL very loudly at all the extreme religous nuts. I'm not talking about the God Squads from the Islamic & Christain forums, I'm talking about users who believe earthquakes are caused by people being "bad" (but Vegas is still standing: does God think it's okay?), and pretty much any other event that they can't explain, such as the sun "magically drying your wet clothes", etc.

Are these people taking the piss, or are there nuts like this out there?

joe316

But it is all magic......

Zillah

Examples for lulz please.

Terry

Zillah wrote: »

Examples for lulz please.

Do not link to posts or other forums on this site.

Kold

Almost half the world's population is below average intelligence... and averagely intelligent people are idiots.

My name is URL

MagicMarker wrote: »

Don't mind them, they're retards.

Lest we forget

drunkmonkey

you won't be saying that in 2012 ya heathen.... !!!!

Capt'n Midnight

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Turd Ferguson

Leave them alone. These religious freaks arent hurting anyone....oh wait

ShooterSF

Ah now come on OP. These are the fun ones, the one's when I see them post I think "ah can we keep him Ted?". If we could swap a nut for a plain old believer things would be much more fun.. until they outnumber us :eek:

vibe666

it's all a bunch of tree hugging hippy crap.

god doesn't want people to believe in him anyway, otherwise he wouldn't have given them free will.

and why would he level vegas? it's like a honey pot keeping all the bad people busy whilst his flock prpare for the apocalypse. much better to wreck a town of god fearing folk in Italy.

Dragan

the_syco wrote: »

Hi all,
I'm trying not to LOL very loudly at all the extreme religous nuts. I'm not talking about the God Squads from the Islamic & Christain forums, I'm talking about users who believe earthquakes are caused by people being "bad" (but Vegas is still standing: does God think it's okay?), and pretty much any other event that they can't explain, such as the sun "magically drying your wet clothes", etc.

Are these people taking the piss, or are there nuts like this out there?

Gaia Theory has very little to do with religion.

stovelid

the_syco wrote: »

Hi all,
I'm trying not to LOL very loudly at all the extreme religous nuts. ?

Laughing out loudly very loudly. You must really find it funny?

Dudess

Yeah I don't understand the opening post. People who say earthquakes are caused by people being bad - that's surely something the "god squads" on those other forums would believe, no?
The sun drying clothes - well it does, doesn't it?

Riddle101

When I read the title, I thought of posters who E-Mail bomb innocent posters because they believe god told them too.

Anyway I hate religous nuts. They give moderately religous people like me a bad name

me-skywalker

are you calling all religious people nuts? or just the people who are nuts who happen to be very religious? or does it mean taht being religious makes you nuts? but surely there are nuts out there who believe in things and arnt nuts?


theres nuts in my tracker bar!

Sam Vimes

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

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AnonoBoy

Dudess wrote: »

The sun drying clothes - well it does, doesn't it?

Wait... what?

Why the f*ck did my wife make me go out and buy a flipping tumble dryer then? :mad:

Oh just wait until I get home tonight!!!!

Nodin

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Wait... what?

Why the f*ck did my wife make me go out and buy a flipping tumble dryer then? :mad:

Oh just wait until I get home tonight!!!!

Surely you must know that teh Wimminz is the tools of the devil?

A priest, a paedophile and a homosexual walk into a bar.....

He orders a drink.

Blazer

Terry wrote: »

Do not link to posts or other forums on this site.

damnit Terry...had my link ready and all... :mad:

for instance there was 1 particular thread on how all athiests (who don't have souls by the way) was going to feel particular empty at 3pm on good friday.
Bloody hilarious it was though..shower of numptys.

I replied on it and my post was deleted for some reason.
It was a post set in 2150 which claimed that Ireland never had a recesssion and we had a perfect utopia while FF was in power goverened by His Holiness Bertie Ahern and his disciples Brian, Brian L, Mary, Mary C, Fat Mary, Batty O'Keefe etc. :pac:

ShooterSF

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Wait... what?

Why the f*ck did my wife make me go out and buy a flipping tumble dryer then? :mad:

Oh just wait until I get home tonight!!!!

Careful next she'll want you to get one of those women-replacement-auto-dishwashing devices.

AnonoBoy

ShooterSF wrote: »

Careful next she'll want you to get one of those women-replacement-auto-dishwashing devices.

We call him Jeeves in our house.

And let me tell you he's a good woman-replacement in some ways. Not so good in others though.

As I found out last Saturday night.

Zadkiel

joe316 wrote: »

But it is all magic......

There is no magic

The_Minister

Dudess wrote: »

The sun drying clothes - well it does, doesn't it?

Yes, but contrary to what the crazy Catholic indoctronation that you suffered as child told you, the moon is just as capable of drying your clothes and entering a valid relationship with a star.

Rented Mule

Religous nuts......isn't that redundant ?

Frisbee

I also lol'd at that earthquake thread

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

People have a genuine fear of what they don't understand. They cannot process what has happened, regardless of their IQ. They will blame what happened on a higher supernatural being, it seems logical to them. We are supposed to be the most intelligent beings on this earth, in fact we are not so intelligent. We lack understanding (which isn't the problem) and make up things to put our minds at ease.

We do not know what happens when we die, nobody does, so we make up this beautiful place called heaven, that's where we go when we die... right?

Some story teller (or elder), a long time ago, made up this hell and heaven crap to keep the children or all the villagers in line.

There are some serious whack jobs out there, some really scare me. It's best to just ignore them.

deco05ie

Kold wrote: »

Almost half the world's population is below average intelligence... and averagely intelligent people are idiots.

how did you work that out?

There is a difference between the median and an average

5 people do a test, 4 get 100% and 1 get 0%

the average mark was 80%. This means 80% of people got more then the average

seamus

deco05ie wrote: »

how did you work that out?

There is a difference between the median and an average

5 people do a test, 4 get 100% and 1 get 0%

the average mark was 80%. This means 80% of people got more then the average

Over large population samples, the median and the average tend to converge. Over 6 billion people, you can be fairly sure that they're as close as they can be.

Turd Ferguson

deco05ie wrote: »

how did you work that out?

There is a difference between the median and an average

5 people do a test, 4 get 100% and 1 get 0%

the average mark was 80%. This means 80% of people got more then the average

Looky at all dem numbers there. You a witch, boy?

Capt'n Midnight

Mathew Reilly wrote:

disciples Brian, Brian L, Mary, Mary C, Fat Mary, Batty O'Keefe etc. :pac:

Fat Mary, that explains the three persons in one thing.

thebaldsoprano

Kold wrote: »

Almost half the world's population is below average intelligence... and averagely intelligent people are idiots.

If there's one thing that annoys me more than holier-than-thou religious folk it's smarter-than-thou atheists...

javaboy

seamus wrote: »

Over large population samples, the median and the average tend to converge. Over 6 billion people, you can be fairly sure that they're as close as they can be.

Depending on your definition of intelligence, that may not be the case. If your test allows for "learned" intelligence then the first world countries will have a significant advantage over the more populous 3rd world countries. Maybe even enough to skew the average away from the median.

seamus

javaboy wrote: »

Depending on your definition of intelligence, that may not be the case. If your test allows for "learned" intelligence then the first world countries will have a significant advantage over the more populous 3rd world countries. Maybe even enough to skew the average away from the median.

Indeed, I probably should have qualified that it requires something of an even distribution (which is normal for most non-complex scientific measures). In his example, if 5,000,001 people get 0% and 4,999,999 people get 100%, then the average mark is 49.99999% whereas the median mark is 0%. Which means they're nowhere near converging. But that's not an even distribution.

javaboy

seamus wrote: »

Indeed, I probably should have qualified that it requires something of an even distribution

Indeed. An abnormal bell curve could really screw things up.



Geddit?

Irishcrx

I like to think of extreme christianity as what I call.

"Bury our head in the sand syndrome"

Thats what they do and I don't have to annoy myself thinking of how so many people can believe such a load of crap.On the other hand I understand that it is comforting for alot of people. But still...come on like.

seamus

javaboy wrote: »

Indeed. An abnormal bell curve could really screw things up.



Geddit?

That depends on what you're measuring :pac:

Man, statisticians have such a dull job.

vibe666

Irishcrx wrote: »

I like to think of extreme christianity as what I call.

"Bury our head in the sand syndrome"

Thats what they do and I don't have to annoy myself thinking of how so many people can believe such a load of crap.On the other hand I understand that it is comforting for alot of people. But still...come on like.

people will believe what comes easiest to them, whether it be *insert deity here* or science or just plan old 'nothing'.

a lot of non-religious people who would tend to follow scientific explanations of the world would see themselves are more intelligent than religious types, but thats far from accurate, there's plenty of stupid atheists just as much as there are very intelligent theists, thanks to a little thing they like to call 'faith'.

with faith in a deity you don't need any imperical evidence, any more than a happily married couple would need solid evidence of the fidelity of their partner. faith and love will carry you through.

although, on the other hand, belief in a mystical sky wizard who created the whole universe and everyone in it and gave them 'free will' and then punishes all of them indescriminately for the sins of their furthest ancestors and threatens eternal damnation for anyone who doesn't follow his path seems more than a little bit daft. :eek:

meditraitor

I was totally confused about this thread till 5 minutes ago when I came across that rosary bead nutcase.........

I try to respect other peoples beliefs but it is very disturbing to think people out there believe such utter nonsense.

Darragh29

Breaking news: An earthquake has hit Ireland, The emergency services believe the epicentre of the quake is directly under Seanie Fitzpatrick's House in Greystones...

:D:D

asdasd

Over large population samples, the median and the average tend to converge. Over 6 billion people, you can be fairly sure that they're as close as they can be.

intelligence is a guasiian distribution, so that is correct. Nothing to do with size of sample though. The median and average income of the world doesnt converge.

As for the crazy smart Atheists. Congragulations. Well done on your bravery in 2009 on attacking "religion" ( i.e. Catholicism) in Ireland. Where were ye all in 1951.

My suspicion is that the fear of religion - which is clearly accelerating recently as tradtional western religions decline - is not really a fear of Christianity, Buddism or Hinduism.

javaboy

asdasd wrote: »

As for the crazy smart Atheists. Congragulations. Well done on your bravery in 2009 on attacking "religion" ( i.e. Catholicism) in Ireland. Where were ye all in 1951.

In fairness I imagine a goodly amount of them were still in Holy God's pocket back then (or a twinkle in their father's eye if you're not religious). My dad wasn't even born in 1951.

LaMer

Tbh they can believe what they want as long as it doesn't directly affect me or lead to violence. Might not be what you believe in but there you go.

karen3212

Why the f*ck did my wife make me go out and buy a flipping tumble dryer then? :mad:

Is it because she's not allowed out during the day?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Lol. Seriously though, why are so many people apparently intentionally trying to annoy themselves by lurking around on the christianity board? And then bringing its craziness over to AH to annoy everybody else? As far as I can see, there a few Christian posters here, and a lot of Atheist posters, and most people are perfectly affable, amusing individuals until (and it's more or less daily at this point) somebody posts a Christianity thread here, and everyone goes nucking futs.

Gazza22

I agree there is quite a few religious nuts on boards, just as there is in society in general. I find the nonsense that spews from them hilarious!

Though the same can be said for the Conspiracy Theorys board, you get some real gems in there too.

meditraitor

I think if we could get rid of the religions and atheists/agnostics of the world everything would be tickedy boo

Heisenberg.

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meditraitor

Scien wrote: »

There is a fair share of 'Atheist nuts' on boards.ie too let me assure you.

One only has to visit the 'Could you date a Religious person thread?' in the A&A forum to see some of the most backward, bigoted, irrational and discriminatory posts on boards.

Unfortunately for me, it was one of the first threads i viewed in there which soured my perception of Atheism/Atheists slightly.

Good point, I always thought atheism was a non thing, why go on about it. It means nothing really and being one should mean you dont need to be anything and have nothing to say about anything and talking about nothing doesnt make it anything ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

ShooterSF

Scien wrote: »

There is a fair share of 'Atheist nuts' on boards.ie too let me assure you.

One only has to visit the 'Could you date a Religious person thread?' in the A&A forum to see some of the most backward, bigoted, irrational and discriminatory posts on boards.

Unfortunately for me, it was one of the first threads i viewed in there which soured my perception of Atheism/Atheists slightly.

I'm sure there was some e-penis wagging on it alright but I couldn't date a real religious person, one that follows the rules and beliefs (I don't mean the average lapsed catholic) for the same reason I'd be scared dating someone who kept invisible faries in the locker beside her in bed at night.

I think the issue on boards is that we all label each other very easy as small talk isn't as big as in real life. I have a friend who if I met on boards I would think he's a "religious nut" but get him talking about other things and he's cool. I also have a "snyper-esque" mate who doesn't freak me out anymore