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Big sunday gloomy we're all screwed discussion mega merge

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  • #32
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    pray (prɛ) -verb: to do nothing yet think you are helping. cf. delusion

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #33
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    Protest...


  • #34
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Biggins wrote: »
    LOL

    Cheese and prayer, yep, that will solve everything. *shakes head side to side in dis-belief*

    ...And these fools are ruining a country for fcuks sake! :(

    Fixed that for ya ;)


  • #35
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,433 ✭✭✭cml387


    Brian Cowen is not the messiah...


  • #36
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    ... and of course the self-proclaimed scientific atheism of the USSR worked out so well.


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  • #37
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Manach wrote: »
    ... and of course the self-proclaimed scientific atheism of the USSR worked out so well.

    I propose Goose's Law, a parallel to Godwin's law, whenever an anti-atheist statement works in Stalinism.


  • #38
    High energy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭High energy


    Priest: Should we not just have a bit of an oul pray....

    Ted: aaaaaaaaanyway..


  • #39
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    High energy wrote: »
    Priest: Should we not just have a bit of an oul pray....

    Ted: aaaaaaaaanyway..

    LOl, "is there anything to be said for saying another Mass Ted"!!!


  • #40
    R0ot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    I miss Highland radio.... :(


  • #41
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Manach wrote: »
    ... and of course the self-proclaimed scientific atheism of the USSR worked out so well.

    So you're pro-praying for the economy then?

    Ok, you start and I'll track economic growth for the next 6 months. We'll present the results to the pope, dis/proving the god hypothesis once and for all.


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  • #42
    Elevator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    you're on!!

    ready...

    set...

    PRAY!!!


  • #43
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    We need a control country aswell. I suggest Portugal. Nobody pray for them, ok?


  • #44
    Elevator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    c_man wrote: »
    We need a control country aswell. I suggest Portugal. Nobody pray for them, ok?

    spot on!


  • #45
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,433 ✭✭✭cml387


    c_man wrote: »
    We need a control country aswell. I suggest Portugal. Nobody pray for them, ok?

    Well there goes a big chunk of my nightly prayers:(

    Can I still pray for Ronaldo?


  • #46
    btard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭btard


    kincsem wrote: »
    The IMF will be impressed with our new economic policy.

    If God gives us a bailout will we get better or worse terms than the IMF though ? :cool:


  • #47
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,433 ✭✭✭cml387


    btard wrote: »
    If God gives us a bailout will we get better or worse terms than the IMF though ? :cool:
    He will take the first born of every house in the land.


  • #48
    Elevator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    well goin by the churches teachings we can do what we like and if we just ask for forgivness we'll do ok


  • #49
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    E-mail sent:
    Are you for real?
    Are you really suggesting that talking to an imaginary being is really going to lift this country out of the financial crisis it currently faces?

    As an Atheist I find it extremely insulting that you would suggest that I should pray to your god for help during times of need, and i demand that you apologise, not only to me, but to all of those in this country who do not share your religious beliefs.

    What you are essentially doing here is trying to blame the actions of actual living people on an imaginary entity. I thought it was bad when Charlie Haughey told us to tighten our belts while he was living the high life, but this just takes the biscuit.

    I'm sitting here trying to get my head around why an elected official would even suggest that the current financial crisis can be helped by something invented by people who were trying to figure out natural occurrences, but I just cannot seem to find any justification for it.

    Can you please explain to me how this god you believe in can suddenly make money appear?
    Could you please also explain how this god has the ability to make money appear from nowhere?

    If this god is as benevolent as you seem to think he is, why does he not answer the prayers of those in more dire financial straits than we are?

    I eagerly await your reply.

    Thanking you,
    Terry O'Dowd.

    I'm drunk and just saw my mistake now.
    Meh. I'll still post any reply here.


  • #50
    Elevator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    Terry wrote: »
    E-mail sent:



    I'm drunk and just saw my mistake now.
    Meh. I'll still post any reply here.

    mistake?


  • #51
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,433 ✭✭✭cml387


    Terry wrote: »
    E-mail sent:



    I'm drunk and just saw my mistake now.
    Meh. I'll still post any reply here.


    Well done anyway Terry. (seriously)


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  • #52
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Elevator wrote: »
    mistake?
    Can you please explain to me how this god you believe in can suddenly make money appear?
    Could you please also explain how this god has the ability to make money appear from nowhere?

    I'm fairly certain that I had something else to ask in the second question there.


  • #53
    Elevator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    I would worry about it Terry

    as regards a reply I wouldn't hold your breath haha


  • #54
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,433 ✭✭✭cml387


    "Dear Terry

    Your mother sucks c@cks in hell.

    Yours sincerely
    Éamon Ó Cuív T.D."


  • #55
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Well 'the love of money is the root of all evil' so perhaps God is punishing us for the Celtic tiger, so in reality praying for forgiveness isn't such a bad idea.


  • #56
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    cml387 wrote: »
    "Dear Terry

    Your mother sucks c@cks in hell.

    Yours sincerely
    Éamon Ó Cuív T.D."
    She may well do so, but I find it quite crass that someone would go to the bother of suggesting my late mother may be engaged in fellatio in the underworld, on a public message board, under the guise of a serving member of government.

    Why did you do that?


  • #57
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,433 ✭✭✭cml387


    I intended to imply the likely nature of any reply you might receive would not address your main concern.

    I did this in a way that was over the top (and a quote from the Exorcist btw, film fans).

    If you took offence I'm sorry.

    But it is After Hours.


  • #58
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    cml387 wrote: »
    I intended to imply the likely nature of any reply you might receive would not address your main concern.

    I did this in a way that was over the top (and a quote from the Exorcist btw, film fans).

    If you took offence I'm sorry.

    But it is After Hours.
    I know. I just wanted to make you feel bad for a while.

    If it's any consolation, writing that exact line on the cover of my Irish homework book landed me my first suspension and a week long detention back in 1990.


  • #59
    doleman2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭doleman2010


    Anyone know what plans the security forces in the state have to quell the backlash from the civil and public service union members when their pay and jobs are axed in december?
    Will the garda reserve be taking on more recruits for this purpose?


  • #60
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    http://is.gd/hx9Dt


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  • #61
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Yes. Imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.


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