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Are you close friends with a supernatural being?
Yes. 50%  50%  [ 20 ]
No. 50%  50%  [ 20 ]
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02 Dec 2007, 9:43 pm

God is my personal friend. Meaning, we communicate, care about each other, and He looks out for me. I'd look out for Him, except He doesn't need it.



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02 Dec 2007, 10:01 pm

Ragtime wrote:
God is my personal friend. Meaning, we communicate, care about each other, and He looks out for me. I'd look out for Him, except He doesn't need it.


To which I can only add this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYilgE-oAes[/youtube]


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03 Dec 2007, 12:31 am

Quatermass wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
God is my personal friend. Meaning, we communicate, care about each other, and He looks out for me. I'd look out for Him, except He doesn't need it.


To which I can only add this:



Pity you wasted keystrokes on that.

You enter my thread, you VOTE. This isn't the "Farting Around" area of WrongPlanet, so stick this somewhere else.


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03 Dec 2007, 12:33 am

The Goddess and God listen to me
I bought a Pan flute to better communicate with the Horned One



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03 Dec 2007, 12:37 am

It would be nice to befriend a supernatural being.


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03 Dec 2007, 12:39 am

satan was my friend until i refused to bow down and worship. i think he's mad with me now. he keeps stalking me.

hell hath no fury like a demon scorned.



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03 Dec 2007, 2:22 am

Ragtime wrote:
God is my personal friend. Meaning, we communicate, care about each other, and He looks out for me. I'd look out for Him, except He doesn't need it.


Hearing voices in your head doesn't qualify as communicating with god.... it means you likely have schizoprenia.

BTW, I disagree that god needs looking out for.... Jehova is currently getting his ass handed to him by Allah, in Iraq. :twisted:


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03 Dec 2007, 2:36 am

Pan could kick all of their asses so BFD :)



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03 Dec 2007, 2:38 am

>>>satan was my friend until i refused to bow down and worship. i think he's mad with me now. he keeps stalking me.

>>>hell hath no fury like a demon scorned.

You will have a better relationship with Satan (and with yourself) if you approach him like you would being a parent to a small child or taking care of a pet. As powerful and mean as he seems sometimes, you have to realize he doesn't have the self control.


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03 Dec 2007, 2:40 am

satan is a little bitch-invented to scare people
I don't buy it :roll:



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03 Dec 2007, 3:38 am

You guys are so mean. Let Ragtime continue his thread.



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03 Dec 2007, 9:36 am

jfrmeister wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
God is my personal friend. Meaning, we communicate, care about each other, and He looks out for me. I'd look out for Him, except He doesn't need it.


Hearing voices in your head doesn't qualify as communicating with god.... it means you likely have schizoprenia.


I don't get voices in my head, just trolls on WrongPlanet. :P

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BTW, I disagree that god needs looking out for.... Jehova is currently getting his ass handed to him by Allah, in Iraq. :twisted:


The surge in Iraq has recently proved to be successful. To what, then, are you referring?


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03 Dec 2007, 9:41 am

I believe and God and Jesus. When it comes to Satan, I think he's just a methaphore (spelled right?) for all that is evil, and not a red minotaur that lives under ground.


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03 Dec 2007, 9:49 am

Reodor_Felgen wrote:
I believe and God and Jesus. When it comes to Satan, I think he's just a methaphore (spelled right?) for all that is evil, and not a red minotaur that lives under ground.


Well, I believe he's an evil spirit, not a bodily creature. Therefore, he wouldn't actually have horns, of course.

I do believe he's real, but it is absolutely certain that he has never been drawn accurately. I do understand that Satan being a real creature is quite a scary realization. Maybe that's why some people dismiss his existence? I don't mind admitting his existence, because I have nothing to fear from him; God (my close friend) has complete power over him.


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03 Dec 2007, 12:18 pm

Ragtime wrote:
Pity you wasted keystrokes on that.

You enter my thread, you VOTE. This isn't the "Farting Around" area of WrongPlanet, so stick this somewhere else.


Snippy! I think its one of the laws of the internet that it doesn't matter how threads start, people will reply as they like. But I voted anyway.

The sock-puppet/imaginary friend thing so often is a ruse. If it is the only way that people can communicate with their subconscious, ok. But don't pretend that the results come from God.


Quote:
{Oral Roberts} university has been engulfed in allegations of sinful behaviour by its president, Richard Roberts, who resigned a week ago - but only after being told to do so by God, he said on Thursday.

"Every ounce of my flesh said no" to the idea of resigning, Roberts said after the Thanksgiving Day conversation with God, but he agreed reluctantly because the Almighty told him that, if he stepped down, the university would be blessed "supernaturally".

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In October, a wrongful-termination lawsuit was filed by three former professors who made a series of allegations about financial impropriety.

They accused Richard Roberts of spending university money on himself and his family, including to buy expensive cars, keep a stable of horses on campus for the exclusive use of his children, remodel his home 11 times in 14 years and pay for one of his daughters to holiday in The Bahamas, using the university's private jet.

But the most salacious claims involve his wife, Lindsay Roberts, who is accused of spending large sums of university money on clothes and, according to the lawsuit, sending text messages on university phones, mostly between 1am and 3am, to "underage males".

The suit further claims that a university maintenance worker was fired and replaced by one of these underage male friends and that Lindsay Roberts spent at least nine nights in an ORU guest house with a 16-year-old who later moved into the family's luxurious residence on campus.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 97,00.html



Ragtime wrote:
I do believe he's real, but it is absolutely certain that he has never been drawn accurately. I do understand that Satan being a real creature is quite a scary realization. Maybe that's why some people dismiss his existence? I don't mind admitting his existence, because I have nothing to fear from him; God (my close friend) has complete power over him.


And yet, religious people continue to sin. If they really let God into their hearts, and God has such power over Satan, why aren't people set free from from Satan's temptations?



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03 Dec 2007, 12:28 pm

Ragtime wrote:

The surge in Iraq has recently proved to be successful. To what, then, are you referring?


The surge was intended to give the Iraqi politicians enough breathing room to come to a political settlement - they haven't moved in that direction at all.

Violence has decreased in Iraq recently, partly because of the surge, largely because the ethnic cleansing has been so successful that entire neighborhoods have been purged of the whatever group is the minority. Christian Iraqis, in particular, have fled the country. The US invasion triggered an assault on Christians that is unprecedented in the history of Iraq.