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Gomedome

Thanks, I'm glad to be here...

posted by Antipodean on October 6, 2006 at 5:45 AM | link to this | reply

Xeno-x -- I am to blame, I take full responsibility and/or credit

I haven't commented on any of the posts of those who have come up with this stuff for months, for some of them it may even be years. Nor have I had much interaction at all with any of them but still, I'm to blame. It makes me wonder just what these folks want? ....but I already know the answer to that question. They want inequality with them garnering respect while giving none in return. They want to say anything they please without consideration for anyone but those of like mind and they want everyone who would dare to treat them as they treat others censured. When are these folks ever going to learn? ...I know the answer to that question as well.

posted by gomedome on October 5, 2006 at 4:37 PM | link to this | reply

odd -- who hates disagreement with their views?

somebody has it all turned around here.

posted by Xeno-x on October 5, 2006 at 3:16 PM | link to this | reply

you are to blame

"I was amused just now to visit Gomedome's post where he was complaining about the lack of activity on the religion section from "bible thumpers."  It is rather amusing to me that such a character would bemoan that fact when he's essentially the only one to blame for the dearth of Christians."

so says an unamed religionist

posted by Xeno-x on October 5, 2006 at 3:15 PM | link to this | reply

Parnell - that point is irrefutable but was established a few years back

Someone however has to present some of these religious chuckleheads with an opposing viewpoint. By the way: A belated welcome to Blogit.

posted by gomedome on October 5, 2006 at 8:00 AM | link to this | reply

Gomedome

What your doing is FUTILE. You're trying to have a rational discussion with a bunch of people who don't believe in reason...

posted by Antipodean on October 5, 2006 at 6:46 AM | link to this | reply

Justi - You must have had something in the post in question that broke the

site rules.

If someone "turned you in" as you put it, the only way this site's administrators would respond is if there was a clear infraction of the site user agreement on your part. They get a number of complaints that are nothing more than one blogger not liking what another blogger has written, efforts to which they will send a courtesy reply only to the person who has made the bogus complaint. ..

posted by gomedome on October 5, 2006 at 6:37 AM | link to this | reply

gomedome

I am peddling now. I was slowed to a total stand still. Just wanted you to know I knew it was not you who turned me in.

posted by Justi on October 5, 2006 at 1:05 AM | link to this | reply

Justi - I'm sorry but you have lost me on this one

I'm not sure what you are speaking of but in any event, it does not sound like you are having fun.

posted by gomedome on October 4, 2006 at 6:46 PM | link to this | reply

gomedome

I suppose you are talking to the likes of me! I can't discuss it with you. I called another religion some such as your title and I was turned in. I have ended my religion blog because the powers that hate any disagreement with their point of view have won. I agree it is boring when you have to pass all your words before a tribunal.

From: Bible Thumping Loonie

posted by Justi on October 4, 2006 at 4:22 PM | link to this | reply

Talion - I think that you are a person with a much more even temperament

than myself.

I sometimes enjoy it when one of these knuckleheads takes a poke at me. It gives me the green light to hit them back even harder. No one can refute what you are saying however. It is so simple to just ignore those who annoy us. None of us has the right to express our disagreement with the opinions of another with insults either, mind you, we are all human. I called the racist blogger you refer to "Rainman" one day, I maybe shouldn't have.... but it sure felt good to do so.

posted by gomedome on October 4, 2006 at 2:34 PM | link to this | reply

gomedome

I've mentioned before I often agree with a lot of what you say, though equally often how you say it makes me cringe. I've followed some of your notorious battles in the past with now departed bloggers, the pastor, the guy from Harvard, and one thing I could never understand is why they continued to fight a war they couldn't win. Nothing they said could make you change your mind, so why continue the "discussion"?

There's another blogger, an older man, who, on more than one occasion, wrote (and probably continues to write) racist posts. I read a couple, immediately didn't like them, but instead of leaving comments telling him how wrong he is, I moved on, vowing never to return again. So simple. It isn't easy to swallow, but some things simply aren't worth the trouble. If only everyone realized this.   

posted by Talion on October 4, 2006 at 2:22 PM | link to this | reply

No, I’ve just got some work to get to.

posted by telemachus on October 4, 2006 at 11:42 AM | link to this | reply

Odysseus - I sense the meds kicking in

Now its the mister niceguy act........the same old game.  

posted by gomedome on October 4, 2006 at 11:32 AM | link to this | reply

The only thing I’ve asked you to look at here today is your tendency

to insult and berate people and I’ve adequately made my point on that so let me get on out of here before I wind up getting blocked again or something. I hope that I didn’t upset your morning too much! Have a wonderful afternoon. And please consider visiting my blog sometime. Over and Out! 

posted by telemachus on October 4, 2006 at 11:10 AM | link to this | reply

Odysseus - you of course conveniently missed the part where I have stated

that what I write is a measured response to what I am subjected to by others.

Including yourself. You have this fixation in your mind that anyone who does not believe in a conscious creator being somehow must see the error of their ways. You have stated in the past that you view these people as inferior to those who do believe in this mythical entity. Further, you always retreat to a position where you attempt to villify me and claim that your behaviour is beyond reproach. I can pick just as many insults out of your previous comments that you accuse me of levying towards you. If you can't handle the return volley, get off the court.

posted by gomedome on October 4, 2006 at 10:56 AM | link to this | reply

I know enough about you to see that you cannot converse with people

who disagree with you without issuing forth a profuse barrage of insults………”dribbling moronic goop”…”immature unbridled arrogance”……”an occupation that a monkey could do”…”lame and unoriginal”…….so it is with you…….you hide behind a defense of profane remarks and insults and that is the very reason that lead me to comment here to start with. Are you really proud of the fact that you can come here and upset religious people? Would you get your jollies by overturning pews in a church service? You need to look at what I’m saying…..you can get your point across without poking fun of and insulting people. You are indeed very intelligent, but why use your intelligence to ridicule others? It accomplishes nothing.

posted by telemachus on October 4, 2006 at 10:05 AM | link to this | reply

Odysseus ..."......engage in true introspection?"

This has always been your problem and ultimately why I consider a great number of things that you say as dribbling moronic goop. It is only your perspective that is valid. You assume that because I do not buy what you are selling that I somehow need to change so that I will buy into it. You are just not capable of understanding that I see in you what I once was, something that I have no desire to ever return to. That is a person enamored with their own perspective, someone that has allowed other successful aspects of their life to infiltrate and control their ego.  It is nothing more than an immature unbridled arrogance that allows the inflicted individual to trample on the rights of others while insisting that they have the answers. How incredibly lame and unoriginal. So you are a successful real estate appraiser. Being successful at something that you could train a monkey to do does not make you a spiritual leader. It certainly doesn't give you the right to make assumptions about the spiritual needs of people you haven't taken the time to know.

 

posted by gomedome on October 4, 2006 at 9:45 AM | link to this | reply

Gomedome……..hahaha…..you somehow have time to poke fun at the religious

but you lack the time to engage in true introspection……that makes no sense……but that’s par for the course with you…..you hide behind your spitefulness, leering at others as if they are crazy, instead of truly examining what they have to say to you…..you have insulated yourself in a ridiculous paradigm of hate that prevents you from honestly attempting to understand anything other than your preconceived notions……come out of it…..it’s not too late……you’re not too old…….there’s absolutely nothing wrong with dropping your shield for a bit and entertaining an alternate notion…….no one is going to think any differently of you because of it.

posted by telemachus on October 4, 2006 at 9:21 AM | link to this | reply

Odysseus - sorry buddy but my time is too valuable to play the round and

round game with you again.

I didn't misunderstand anything, your suggestion that I missed the subtlety of your statement is simply just nonsense. The majority of people reading your first comment would take it exactly as I have but here we go again, you denying your actions and intentions. Some day you may grow up and realize that your claims that you can prove God's existence and/or that people who do not believe in God hold an irrational belief is simply your own highly biased perspective.

posted by gomedome on October 4, 2006 at 8:25 AM | link to this | reply

Gomedome………..I’m sorry that you misunderstood.

I did not call you a pathetic coward, I simply said that certain practices were indicative of a pathetic coward, a big difference.

Many people have deleted blogs and reposted them. That is nothing new. As I’ve stated to you before, I will be happy to repost any that you prefer to see again, just let me know which ones they are.

Your response indicates that you have missed the point I was trying to make. Believing in God is not ridiculous or stupid. It is not something to be held up and made fun of. In fact, believing in God is much more logical than not believing in God, as I’ve very well illustrated to you in the past.

Instead of making fun of that which eludes you, why don’t you simply endeavor to understand it? Can’t you see how that would be a much better way to show off your mental prowess, as opposed to standing over in a corner and poking fun of others?

posted by telemachus on October 4, 2006 at 7:46 AM | link to this | reply

Odysseus - you are not an equal challenge - you only think that you are

One more time, you were blocked because of your attrocious behaviour and for no other reason. I will be happy to do it again if you are not mature enough to just not read my blogs, or if you are incapable of acting like an adult when you do. Again I challenge you to show me just one example of where I bullied someone, anyone. The truth is that you will not be able to find one example, this idea exists only in your twisted perception that has those who believe in godly constructs somehow having more rights to voice their opinions than those who do not believe in such things.

Before you go calling people names such as "pathetic coward"...you might want to take a long hard look in the mirror. Cowards come in many forms, one such form is an individual who cannot own up to past transgressions, another form is a person that is incapable of conceding the inconsistencies in their own behaviour. I'm not the one who deleted all of my blogs then claimed that all of the name calling and attrocious behaviour never happened. That was you buckeroo. A real man admits what they have done and takes responsibility for it. I did make an indescreet comment about you long after your departure, which expressed a negative opinion of you. Unlike you, I don't go into the crawfish act when taken to task over things I have said (if I in fact said them). The unfortunate aspect of my comment is in the part that you seemed to have missed. That is what I think of you, nothing you have done since your return has changed my opinion of you. If you dislike me so much, I will do my best to live with such shattering news.

posted by gomedome on October 4, 2006 at 6:54 AM | link to this | reply

Why do you so enjoy tearing the wings off of butterflies?

It seems quite easy to picture you seated in the Roman coliseum, laughing amusedly at the struggles of the faithful, jesting, and enjoying an exhibition of the downtrodden. It is tragic horror that a human could indeed glean such open and sadistic pleasure from holding others up to ridicule. You are like the playground bully that seeks to elevate himself by picking on weaker opponents but retreats in the face of an equal challenge behind a blocked blog. You even become emboldened and rail loudly and carelessly against bloggers that have long departed? Such practices are indicative of a pathetic coward!

posted by telemachus on October 3, 2006 at 11:37 PM | link to this | reply

strat - at one time we had several loonies posting lunacy all at once

...ah, the good old days. There was a bible thumping loony behind every tree, all a person had to do to get a few of them good and wound up was just post something they didn't agree with. It was too easy, we became spoiled by that and thought that somehow the days of easy bible thumping wind ups would last forever.....you don't know what you've got til it's gone.

posted by gomedome on October 3, 2006 at 7:30 PM | link to this | reply

Sooner or later

some gas bag will show up. It's only a matter of time.

As to others basking in their glow of babbling idiocy, well, again, I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

posted by strat on October 3, 2006 at 7:08 PM | link to this | reply

Xeno-x -- I have always wondered what someone gets out of that?

...and there are many who do only field the opinions of those who agree with them. That is not a formula for personal growth, it is an integral part of what made them religious loonies in the first place. Truth arrived at by the consensus of those who are just as spun.....some truth.

posted by gomedome on October 3, 2006 at 2:58 PM | link to this | reply

Schatz -- that's a scary thought isn't it?

That has always been my biggest beef with the religious right. When they are involved in politics and especially if they hold office, we end up with someone in power that is an adherent to a religion with a doomsday scenario.....an end of the world that they just might coax along.

posted by gomedome on October 3, 2006 at 2:53 PM | link to this | reply

well our present supply of loonies

seem content to just post their lunacy and bask in the radiance of all those who agree with them and exclude all those who don't

they don't want to face opposing views.

 

we do need some fresh loony blood for sure.

posted by Xeno-x on October 3, 2006 at 2:14 PM | link to this | reply

LOL I try not to wonder where they are. I'm afraid they're involved in some

political campaign. Ugh. You said it.

posted by Schatz on October 3, 2006 at 2:13 PM | link to this | reply

Sunnybeach7 - this is the first time since I have been on Blogit that:

....there has been such an eclectic mix of fairly rational people, both believer and non believer alike posting regularly in this category. The mix is dynamic however, with one or two loonies added to the equation, things can change in a hurry.

posted by gomedome on October 3, 2006 at 10:49 AM | link to this | reply

gome

I must admit...I've noticed that there's a real shortage of them as of late.
Wonder where they're hiding?

posted by Afzal_Sunny7 on October 3, 2006 at 10:44 AM | link to this | reply

like the eye of the storm

posted by calmcantey75 on October 3, 2006 at 10:28 AM | link to this | reply

cantey_1975 - I have no doubt --- it's just been quiet lately

posted by gomedome on October 3, 2006 at 10:26 AM | link to this | reply

SuccessWarrior - I would suggest that if you do, don't do it online

One of the things that I have mentioned in previous posts is that even though we have had a few memorable religious numbnuts on this site, our loonies have been for the most part; loonies of good quality. The wide open internet without a site user agreement and paid membership to act as a filter, is a very scary place to voice religious opinions.  

posted by gomedome on October 3, 2006 at 10:26 AM | link to this | reply

TVBlogger - thank you - I can say a similar thing as well

Writing this blog has helped to organize my thoughts on these matters. I don't for a minute think that anything that anyone writes in a blog has any great impact on others but it can have some minor degree of subtle influence....I hope the message that I put across is that it is time for mankind to abandone ancient and irrational religious perspectives, in favour of rational, non segregative philosophies...... but of course those who adhere to such things see what I write in an entirely different light. I'm picking on them, their religion and I am doing the work of Satan.

posted by gomedome on October 3, 2006 at 10:20 AM | link to this | reply

"We've been subjected to some religious perspectives that make us all shudder with a concern for the human gene pool"

thats a good one. And dont worry Gome, the next cycle of adversaries will arive soon.

posted by calmcantey75 on October 3, 2006 at 10:18 AM | link to this | reply

One of these days I will take my purpose outside of Blogit

This has been a great place to practice and see the other side.  Our world will be better when people stop following 2000 year old policies that were used to control people 2000 years ago.  Get with the times, people.  We are a long way from zero.

posted by SuccessWarrior on October 3, 2006 at 10:12 AM | link to this | reply

Your blog without loonies

is definitely less entertaining.  It's also less useful to me.  I'll admit I was gaining some very useful skills from your blog.  I was learning how to refute the indoctrination in a logical manner with people who weren't my family.  That has given me the confidence to have these same discussions with people who's opinions actually matter to me.  Now that I've gained some strength here, I don't feel quite the passion for discussion I once did.  But you've been around Blogit long enough to know there will always be new thumpers to wind up and new people like me who find what you're saying useful.  Yup... time to put out the "Loonies Wanted" sign.  I know there are many who can't wait to apply.

posted by TVBlogger on October 3, 2006 at 9:54 AM | link to this | reply