Jokes and Riddles Centre

[narf poit chez BOOM]

napolean and the french revolution were both definitivly athiest.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Nocturnal:
Nah, hitler was a Christian. He was a member of Skull & Bones, the occult group that George W. Bush is a member of.

ROFL!!! Uh, you really need to check your history a bit. First of all, "Skull and Bones" is an organization that you have to have gone to Yale University to join. Basically it's nothing but a fraternity/alumni association/lodge. It's a boys club where they get to dress up and drink and stupid stuff. They also do a little networking. If you're a S&B man you have an inside track on that job you want if the boss is an S&B man too. Somehow it picked up all sorts of nefarious rumors while George W. was president. Unless Hitler found time to go to Yale University at some point he was definetly not a member of S&B.

Hitler was a member of something called the Thule Soceity. Apparently that is where the confusion comes from because some people have tried really hard to make a connection between the Thule Soceity and Skull and Bones. There is none, unless you count the Trilateral Commision of course.

[ September 02, 2003, 13:25: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Wardad]

Microsoft vs. GM
================

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000
miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would
have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.
For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask, "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio
antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Diest, Athiest, six of one or half dozen of the other. i'm just saying that true believers in christ, at least, with no reference to other religion's, try to love other people. hitler's and napoleon's actions cannot be reconciled with love and neither can the french revolution. since Europe had an oficial religeon with very little else in the way of religeon practiced at that time except the new one of science, napoleon and the french revolution where athiest. it's a person's actions that speak the loudest.

granted, there where other religeon's around when hitler was, but megalomaniacs are generally there own religeon. and on a happy coincidence, that goes for napoleon, to.

[ September 02, 2003, 19:01: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Asmala]

Originally posted by Wardad:
Microsoft vs. GM

LOL So true, so true

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Diest, Athiest, six of one or half dozen of the other. i'm just saying that true believers in christ, at least, with no reference to other religion's, try to love other people. hitler's and napoleon's actions cannot be reconciled with love and neither can the french revolution. since Europe had an oficial religeon with very little else in the way of religeon practiced at that time except the new one of science, napoleon and the french revolution where athiest. it's a person's actions that speak the loudest.

granted, there where other religeon's around when hitler was, but megalomaniacs are generally there own religeon. and on a happy coincidence, that goes for napoleon, to.

Did somebody say "the Spanish inquasition"?

If "non-belivers" aren't seen as people, you can be "loving to people" yet commit terrible acts against others.
There are numerous examples of christians commiting terrible acts, some in the name of religion.
Being cristhian doesn't mean you are a "saint".
You are just as human as the rest of humanity.

(Edit, shouldn't this discussion be moved to another thread, or maybe we can just dig up some old thread on the issue and re-use it )

[ September 02, 2003, 21:08: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

the parable of the good samaritan rules out the inquisistion. at least, if you know what a samaritan is.

short Version, for those who don't know what i'm talking about, this parable was told by Jesus. this is a rendition of it.: man lying on the side of the road, robbed and left for dead. man's a jew. jewish priest walks by, goes to the other side of the road. jewish levite walks by, goes to the other side of the road. a samaritan walks by, binds the jews wounds, puts him on his donkey, when he reaches the city at the end of the road, he puts him in an inn and tells the innkeeper to charge the man's stay to his bill when he comes around next time.

the parable is supposed to show who a neighbor is, that is, everyone. the samaritan's where viewed as lower than the gentile's by the jews at the time, from what i know. and the samaritan's didn't like the jews, either. a levite is a member of the jewish tribe of levi and a heriditary priest.

no, christian's aren't any better than anyone else. nobody is better than anybody else except god, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. but a christian is supposed to strive to be a better person.

[ September 02, 2003, 21:29: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Wardad]

EVIL GENIUS TEST

http://www.fuali.com/default.aspx?id=111

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I am 35% Evil Genius
Deleted, because i didn't like the movie.
and 32% computer geek.

Take the Evil Genius Test at fuali.com

[ September 02, 2003, 21:58: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Loser]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
napolean and the french revolution were both definitivly athiest.

I thought he was just irreverent.

Actually, they didn't really have atheists back then, per say. He may have been a ... umm... ah, here it is, a "Deist":

The belief, based solely on reason, in a God who created the universe and then abandoned it, assuming no control over life, exerting no influence on natural phenomena, and giving no supernatural revelation.

Anyway, if this is not the case, documentation?

[ September 02, 2003, 12:51: Message edited by: Loser ]