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From: duke <duckgumb...@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:46:15 -0800 (PST), Seth lePod <v.inferna...@gmail.com>
wrote:


>> >On Nov 11, 4:29 pm, duke <duckgumb...@cox.net> wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:34:08 -0800 (PST), Seth lePod <v.inferna...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> >> >On Nov 11, 7:07 am, duke <duckgumb...@cox.net> wrote:
>> >> >> On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:25:27 -0800 (PST), Seth lePod <v.inferna...@gmail.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> >On Nov 10, 6:30 am, duke <duckgumb...@cox.net> wrote:
>> >> >> >> On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:12:21 -0800, linuxgal <linux...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >> >Seth lePod wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> On Nov 9, 8:04 am, linuxgal <linux...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >> >>> duke wrote:
>> >> >> >> >>>>> Nowadays our ground-based telescopes are so good they can see craters on
>> >> >> >> >>>>> asteroids passing 6.5 million miles away, and Hubble has mapped details
>> >> >> >> >>>>> on Pluto. But we haven't found your heaven yet.
>> >> >> >> >> :
>> >> >> >> >>>> You looking for a "place" in a 14.5 billion year old universe?.

>> >> >> >> >>> Heaven has to be fairly nearby, because Paul had a conversation with
>> >> >> >> >>> Jesus, from Heaven, while he was sprawled out on Damascus Road, and
>> >> >> >> >>> there was less time delay in their conversation due to the velocity of
>> >> >> >> >>> light than I experience Skyping the Philippines.
>>
>> >> >> >> >> Now, now, be nice: we've long since demonstrated that
>> >> >> >> >> talking physics to Dook is like asking your cat to
>> >> >> >> >> decipher Linear A.
>> >> >> >> >I guess I keep getting fooled by his claim to have a degree in Engineering.
>>
>> >> >> >> By the time I retired from Engineering, I had already turned back to God.
>> >> >> >Gotta admit, the boy does have a PhD in
>> >> >> >non-sequiturs.
>> >> >> >With considerable post-graduate experience.
>>
>> >> >:
>> >> >> Even non-sequiturs are a challenge to your knowledge, gumball.
>>
>> >> >And there goes our Dook, constitutionally incapable of
>> >> >not getting in the last word, no matter how silly it may
>> >> >be.
>>
>> >> I am called by God to reveal him to losers like you.
>>
>> >> >Don't believe me? Watch as I demonstrate that for
>> >> >you. Or more accurately, watch as Dook proves
>> >> >me right:
>> >> >Seth

>> >Aasaaand exactly as I predicted, Dook was
>> >incapable of refraining from trying to have the
>> >last word, no matter how absurd.  The impulse
>> >control of a four year old.
>>
>> >Dance to my commands, my monkey,
>> >dance to my commands.
>> >Seth

>> Gumball, I've been here for 15-20 years now, outlasting many, many others like
>> you that lacked truth and simply moved on in defeat.  You're be gone soon; I'll
>> still be here.

>> You destiny was established the first day you opened you mouth and put your foot
>> in it.

>Young'un, I was on DARPA net from the mid 80s.
>And under various nyms, I've been on Usenet
>since there was a Usenet. So don't think you can
>teach your granny to suck eggs.

I don't blame you for changing nays.  Gumball is not a winner.  

>All of which is irrelevant, of course.

No kidding.  

>  All that
>really counts is that I have the greater intelligence, a
>wide-ranging curiosity, a superior knowledge
>of theology, religious history, and the Bible, -- and
>let us not forget science; a far more agile wit ...
>while what you have is a nasty disposition,
>an obsessive need to swagger, bluster and
>insult, and a near-sociopathic lack of empathy.
>Don't agree? 

Of course not.  You can run circles around me in monkey chemistry, but that's
where it stops.

> Then let's see you come up
>with one poster, one single one, who will disagree
>with what I just said.
>Just one. Hop to it.

Duke.

>And now, my hapless obedient monkey, you are
>dismissed.
>Seth

You and your monkeys go have fun all trying to screw a football, gumball.  

You're just another loser that posts garbage and calls it knowledge.  You want
to talk religious faith, it's time to start.

The dukester, American - American
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