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Not one Ash Wednesday thread in After Hours

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  • #32
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I havent seen anyone with ashes on either today, you'd usually see a few people around


  • #33
    vektarman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭vektarman


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    What goes on in Libertaire & why can't I enter it, I'm intrigued & a little aroused.

    Too much info....


  • #34
    Brendan Flowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭Brendan Flowers


    hames wrote: »
    I have ashes on my forehead but I didn't see the need to start a thread about it. I don't understand the point of the OP.

    I'm sick of all these paranoid references to the shackles of Catholicism. I'm not talking about Magdelene Laundries, or child abuse, or mysogeny. Just Catholicism in its everyday biblical and liturgical practice.

    Most Catholics don't care about this kind of victimhood rhetoric, and most reasonable non believers don't care for it either in my experience.

    Its funny, some of these die-hard atheists are just as bad as some religious nuts for trying to force their beliefs/non-beliefs on to others.

    People like the OP need to just f**k off and let people do what they want with their own lives, whether thats to follow a religion or not, or even, as Dara O'Briain would say "be Catholic in the sense that I hate Rangers!"


  • #35
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    "Brimful of Asha" song now stuck in head.


  • #36
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    danslevent wrote: »
    I always forget it is Ash Wednesday and the first person I see with the ash on their heads makes me initially think they are dirty :P

    This for me, or one Ash Wed when I'd started working in town I thought to myself that I'd seen an inordinate amount of people with facial birthmarks walking around. Serious blonde moment!

    But yeah, this day, like many others, passes me by without causing me any concern.


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  • #37
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I had forgotten it was Ash Wednesday until I saw this thread. Shows how much I care about it.


  • #38
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I thought another 5 bed luxury residence had been torched.


  • #39
    upstairs for coffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭upstairs for coffee


    Brendan Flowers wrote: »
    Its funny, some of these die-hard atheists are just as bad as some religious nuts for trying to force their beliefs/non-beliefs on to others.

    People like the OP need to just f**k off and let people do what they want with their own lives, whether thats to follow a religion or not, or even, as Dara O'Briain would say "be Catholic in the sense that I hate Rangers!"
    Never ever met a die hard atheist.

    So what you are saying is that you want to bury your head in the sand. You want to just look the other way. Sure why not just let the Nazi's "do what they want".

    I despise organised religion and the fact that they have had such a foothold in Irish society sickens me. So no, I won't just look the other way until this corrupt, amoral, purveyors of destruction take their lies and hypocracies and leave my country.


  • #40
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    I refused getting the ashes back in secondary school, and people looked at me funny. That was 2008.


  • #41
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Ah balls, so yesterday was pancake Tuesday :eek: :(

    will have to make up for it on the weekend.


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  • #42
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    1ZRed wrote: »
    Maybe if more people posted them in their respective forums more often there wouldn't be any problems at all

    If people did this will all threads and their respective forums, After Hours wouldn't exist.


  • #43
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    upstairs for coffee wrote: »
    Never ever met a die hard atheist.

    So what you are saying is that you want to bury your head in the sand. You want to just look the other way. Sure why not just let the Nazi's "do what they want".

    I despise organised religion and the fact that they have had such a foothold in Irish society sickens me. So no, I won't just look the other way until this corrupt, amoral, purveyors of destruction take their lies and hypocracies and leave my country.

    That's a bit die hard.:eek:


  • #44
    Deank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    1ZRed wrote: »
    Thanks for reminding me. I'm off to get stamped slammed by the priest!

    FYP


  • #45
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    What a crock of ****.


  • #46
    hames
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭hames


    upstairs for coffee wrote: »
    Never ever met a die hard atheist.

    So what you are saying is that you want to bury your head in the sand. You want to just look the other way. Sure why not just let the Nazi's "do what they want".
    Catholics are not actually inflicting torture and derision on minorities like the Nazis did; just because many Catholic institutions did so in the past does not mean that they did so as part of the legitimate Catholic faith; quite the opposite.

    You can't just call someone a Nazi because you disagree with them. I want to get on with my faith as a private endeavour, in my own time, without harming anyone. What precisely is your problem with that kind of thing, which happens up and down the country and comes down to free personal choice? Isn't that the sort of freedom we should all be encouraging as an open, liberal society?


  • #47
    Deank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    hames wrote: »
    Catholics are not actually inflicting torture and derision on minorities like the Nazis did; just because many Catholic institutions did so in the past does not mean that they did so as part of the legitimate Catholic faith; quite the opposite.

    You can't just call someone a Nazi because you disagree with them. I want to get on with my faith as a private endeavour, in my own time, without harming anyone. What precisely is your problem with that kind of thing, which happens up and down the country and comes down to free personal choice? Isn't that the sort of freedom we should all be encouraging as an open, liberal society?

    I suppose you could say the same about Scientology then :rolleyes:


  • #48
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Deank wrote: »
    I suppose you could say the same about Scientology then :rolleyes:

    I doubt it.


  • #49
    Deank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I doubt it.

    It's all brain washing and conditioning no matter what way you look at it, remove religion and you remove a lot of conflict and wars, we don't need to look to far to see the impact it has had on our own society.


  • #50
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I'm giving up being a liberal for Lent.

    Prisoners need to do hard labour. It's the only language these scrotes understand. Some people are just born vermin and no amount of making excuses about their background and not getting enough hugs as a kid can change that.

    Except for that one guy importing garlic who tried to avoid paying loads of tax.
    He's great.
    Deank wrote: »
    I suppose you could say the same about Scientology then :rolleyes:

    Not really, no. You can't be a private Scientologist as you first have to pay to learn of the church's teachings, then you're involved with the church which employs heavy-handed techniques to indoctrinate and abuse its members, and make it very hard to leave.

    You can freely look up the teachings of most major religions and choose to live by them without any official involvement.


  • #51
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Deank wrote: »
    It's all brain washing and conditioning no matter what way you look at it, remove religion and you remove a lot of conflict and wars, we don't need to look to far to see the impact it has had on our own society.

    Remove anything you like, but you're still left with human nature, unless you start brainwashing and conditioning people.


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  • #52
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    bluewolf wrote: »
    go away

    wow rude!


  • #53
    hames
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭hames


    Deank wrote: »
    I suppose you could say the same about Scientology then :rolleyes:
    why not? it's absolutely none of my business.


  • #54
    Deank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Remove anything you like, but you're still left with human nature, unless you start brainwashing and conditioning people.

    Damn you foiled my master plan :o, back to the chalk board so - How to be King of the World Plan B.:pac::D


  • #55
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Deank wrote: »
    It's all brain washing and conditioning no matter what way you look at it, remove religion and you remove a lot of conflict and wars, we don't need to look to far to see the impact it has had on our own society.

    And if you removed political ideologies, national identities and money you'd remove a hell of a lot more conflicts and wars. Religion is just another reason for going to war, but if you removed all potential reasons for going to war you can be sure that people would come up with other excuses. Lots of people just like fighting. Blame them for starting wars, not their excuses.

    I also never get how people always come out with the old "religions cause wars" argument without acknowledging the many other reasons for wars, as though we'd all live in a pacifist society if it weren't for all those evil religions.


  • #56
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    hames wrote: »
    Catholics are not actually inflicting torture and derision on minorities like the Nazis did; just because many Catholic institutions did so in the past does not mean that they did so as part of the legitimate Catholic faith; quite the opposite.

    You can't just call someone a Nazi because you disagree with them. I want to get on with my faith as a private endeavour, in my own time, without harming anyone. What precisely is your problem with that kind of thing, which happens up and down the country and comes down to free personal choice? Isn't that the sort of freedom we should all be encouraging as an open, liberal society?

    haha I love this, "yes people in the same church are nice catholics did horrible things, but they weren't REAL catholics"

    what horsesh1t.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    God/No God forums

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=526


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