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An image of Hell. Of sorts...

  • 25-12-2012 9:41pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭


    Came across this and it struck me somehow: the contrast between the significance of light versus what happens when the light goes out. Cold. Bleak.

    Of course it could be twisted to suit an atheist agenda but if you can see the stark contrast (and imagine the environment that would welcome the darkness) then it is there. In a nutshell.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2012/dec/25/best-photographs-2012-in-pictures


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    What's an atheist agenda? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    You're seriously losing it lately dude.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    Of course it could be twisted to suit an atheist agenda but if you can see the stark contrast (and imagine the environment that would welcome the darkness) then it is there. In a nutshell.
    i can see *something* in a nutshell, but i don't think it's an atheist agenda (if there even was one).


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Came across this and it struck me somehow: the contrast between the significance of light versus what happens when the light goes out. Cold. Bleak.

    Of course it could be twisted to suit an atheist agenda but if you can see the stark contrast (and imagine the environment that would welcome the darkness) then it is there. In a nutshell.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I think antiskeptic is trying to say his idea of hell is watching Barack Obama hug his wife. Or possibly seeing Jamaica win things at the Olympics. Or Watching Rebekkah Brookes get into a car. I could be wrong, he's being even vaguer than usual here.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,053 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Floods, blackouts, horsemen riding through fire, Muslims with laser burqas. It's just like Revelations predicted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    What's an atheist agenda? :confused:


    I have noticed that frequently on Boards when anyone says something or gives a belief or opinion that may not fit with someone else's view of life - they are automatically accused of having 'an agenda'

    In this case we have what I am presuming is a monotheist declaring that images showing the human condition somehow has an 'Atheist Agenda'

    Now having looked it up...

    - Agenda (meeting), points to be discussed; sometimes refers to the list of topics itself
    - Political agenda, the set of goals of an ideological group; also used as above, the topics under discussion by a government

    Maybe 'agenda' accusers' should take note for clarification purposes.

    Makes the mind boggle tbh...,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Of course it could be twisted to suit an atheist agenda...
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    What's an atheist agenda? :confused:

    Like a menu, maybe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Came across this and it struck me somehow: the contrast between the significance of light versus what happens when the light goes out. Cold. Bleak.

    Of course it could be twisted to suit an atheist agenda but if you can see the stark contrast (and imagine the environment that would welcome the darkness) then it is there. In a nutshell.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2012/dec/25/best-photographs-2012-in-pictures
    Are you drunk?

    MrP


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I'd love to know antiskpetic what point you're tying to make.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Dades wrote: »
    I'd love to know antiskpetic what point you're tying to make.

    Can I ask him on this thread about his wife meeting the Lord? Or would that be off-topic?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    MrPudding wrote: »
    Are you drunk?

    MrP

    Methinks he may have imbibed too much of Jeebus' blood in church today :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Came across this and it struck me somehow: the contrast between the significance of light versus what happens when the light goes out.
    You're absolutely right, when the electricity goes off, it gets dark, but when electricity doesn't go off, it's light. Well done, bravo!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    the contrast between the significance of light versus what happens when the light goes out. Cold. Bleak.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭Newaglish


    pauldla wrote: »

    Can I ask him on this thread about his wife meeting the Lord? Or would that be off-topic?

    It's hard to say if there is a topic to begin with


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Gordon wrote: »
    You're absolutely right, when the electricity goes off, it gets dark, but when electricity doesn't go off, it's light. Well done, bravo!

    It makes sense to me: there's the warm, calming, welcoming light which is created by man and his sciences, and then there's the dark, which the Christian God caused by destroying the light with a mighty storm, and which brought fear, terror, loss and looters. So..... actually, I have no idea what his point is.... God wants us all plunged into darkness, terrified that we're going to die?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Fear of death is what religions are relying on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Came across this and it struck me somehow: the contrast between the significance of light versus what happens when the light goes out.

    Yes, and it struck photographers and editors long before you, lovely piece you linked there, if it made you feel anything it's because some people are great at their jobs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    kylith wrote: »

    It makes sense to me: there's the warm, calming, welcoming light which is created by man and his sciences, and then there's the dark, which the Christian God caused by destroying the light with a mighty storm, and which brought fear, terror, loss and looters. So..... actually, I have no idea what his point is.... God wants us all plunged into darkness, terrified that we're going to die?

    That's just twisting it to suit the atheist agenda. Well, more twisting it back to its normal shape after antiskeptic twisted it to suit his agenda, but that doesn't count because god.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    The video I posted will hopefully somewhat challenge this perspective on what the concept of darkness means, especially in contradistinction the concept of light & brightness, hopefully leading to a personal revelation in the form of looking into that which, on the surface, seems bleak/dark/negative/black... & looking for what you've unconsciously linked with bright/pure/whiteness (nary I'd say it'd even engender such a sea change in your interpersonal relationships if you were willing to let it be so). But if such depths are too far out of reach we can always analyze the "significance of light" exemplified in the Obama 'hug' picture, for example, & ask how pure such brightness really is & what it says about looking into that which, on the surface, seems bright/pure/whiteness [let alone what it says about that which, on the surface, seems bleak/dark/negative/black]...


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    [...] what happens when the light goes out. Cold. Bleak.
    Have you tried turning on a heater?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    If there's an image of hell there it's the one from Aleppo.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Newaglish wrote: »
    It's hard to say if there is a topic to begin with

    Indeed. In such case, I cannot be accused of dragging the thread off-topic with irrelevancies. Not that I consider an encounter with the Lord himself irrelevant: I think it is central to any further post that antiskepic might make, no matter what the topic, and I hope for clarification from him on the matter. One lives in hope, I suppose.


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