I really can't stand people who..

[TraderJimmy]

Get those really pretentious tattoos.

"This is the life I have chosen."
TWO of my best mates are getting that...

TWO.

Bahahaha that made my day. Two. Oh the irony.

I can't stand people who think there's such a thing as 'good taste'. There isn't. It's all fucking subjective, get over it, where it = yourself. You CAN still say things are bad, IF judged by certain criteria, but if you enjoy something then by definition you don't give a crap about those criteria.

Also Free-marketeers. Anarchists? Awesome, lovely people. Tend towards the batshit insane end of the spectrum, but in a way that makes them fun to be around. Free-market fanatics are just self-interested, and cynically model their self-interest as an ideology. As though the markets and capitalism itself are anything other than an artificial construct! There is almost nothing about their beliefs that actually hangs together. Ugh.

 

[Korten12]

God made those things, otherwise it would be impossible for us to perform them - they wouldn't exist.

God knows everything, and therefor, before he even made us he knew we would fall from grace. This means when he created AIDS, he knew exactly who would get it and how long it would take to kill them. Same idea with Hell - he made it knowing who would go there.

God isn't my parent. He has the ability to bring us into a perfect world. He didn't.

Your arguments fail.

You didn't deserve a perfect world. Humanity hasn't grown enough, hasn't earned it. What value is a good life if you did nothing to gain it, put forth nothing for it?

If I were in the same position as God, I would reward growth when I see it. Life now is better than ever before, I can only think that we are being granted more as we keep on moving forward. Or, God wanted to see us make lives better for us, which we certainly have.

Parents who make things cushy for their children will just have to deal with parasites until they cut them off, whereupon they'll be unlikely to accomplish much. But, if the parent forces the child to continue to grow stronger until that removal point, then the child will most likely prosper. You don't think the same principle could apply to God?

See that is the problem with some athiests, they believe that god is supposed to be there to do everything for us. They believe he makes us do all of that bad stuff and that people can't do that just for being sick, and if we have a problem that he will just fix it for us.

I agree with your response.

 

[Bitter_one13]

...You four are quick to call a person a troll and get them suspended, but what you don't realize is, you all can be reported for:

A) De-railing a thread

B) Discussing religion in an off-topic thread

C) Trolling ...

I actually didn't report her or call her a troll, and I didn't mean to insinuate she was. I've received nothing from her implying she thought I was trolling her, so I can overall only presume I wasn't.

But I wasn't trying to troll her, only provoke some harder thought on her part. I felt that she made an ignorant statement, so I was trying to figure out her reasoning behind it was for valid reasons that I simply was not aware of, or was due to a lack of different perspectives and reasoning, which I was attempting to share with her.

I do want to say I'm sorry on the point of de-railing the thread though, you are correct on that. I thought that the posts were usually only concerned with her original statement, or the original point being made. I'll make a note of this in the future.

 

[Bluesclues]

Racists.

Homophobes.

Christians.

I find your anti-religious bullshit quite annoying.

Darn it again, I missed one. You get to be part of the exclusive club I have in my previous post. Congratulations!

Whatever. She's trashing an entire group of people, and I'm in the wrong. Sure.

That's my point. It's not about who's right and who's wrong. She only started trashing after people went against what she responded to the thread with. The whole point of the thread is to post or discuss what things you can't stand/hate. She followed the rules, and you people are bashing her because you don't like her answer? Not to mention, she's already been suspended for something in this thread (presumably her trash talk), so why continue beating a dead horse? To see if you can get a negative response out of her? So then, who's really the troll?

So if you really want to abide by a black & white sense right and wrong here, then yes, you are in the wrong, from the Escapist rules standpoint. Like I said before, if you don't like it, deal with it on your own time (i.e, hold a discussion over PMs, or make a thread in the religion section of the website).

Christians.

I hate people who base their hatred off of a few bad examples and choose to target an entire group out of ignorance.

Another person to be added to this ongoing list. At least this one followed the rules, though.

 

[The Austin]

Racists.

Homophobes.

Christians.

I find your anti-religious bullshit quite annoying.

Darn it again, I missed one. You get to be part of the exclusive club I have in my previous post. Congratulations!

Whatever. She's trashing an entire group of people, and I'm in the wrong. Sure.

That's my point. It's not about who's right and who's wrong. She only started trashing after people went against what she responded to the thread with. The whole point of the thread is to post or discuss what things you can't stand/hate. She followed the rules, and you people are bashing her because you don't like her answer? Not to mention, she's already been suspended for something in this thread (presumably her trash talk), so why continue beating a dead horse? To see if you can get a negative response out of her? So then, who's really the troll?

So if you really want to abide by a black & white sense right and wrong here, then yes, you are in the wrong, from the Escapist rules standpoint. Like I said before, if you don't like it, deal with it on your own time (i.e, hold a discussion over PMs, or make a thread in the religion section of the website).

It's still not right.

 

[Bluesclues]

...You four are quick to call a person a troll and get them suspended, but what you don't realize is, you all can be reported for:

A) De-railing a thread

B) Discussing religion in an off-topic thread

C) Trolling ...

I actually didn't report her or call her a troll, and I didn't mean to insinuate she was. I've received nothing from her implying she thought I was trolling her, so I can overall only presume I wasn't.

But I wasn't trying to troll her, only provoke some harder thought on her part. I felt that she made an ignorant statement, so I was trying to figure out her reasoning behind it was for valid reasons that I simply was not aware of, or was due to a lack of different perspectives and reasoning, which I was attempting to share with her.

I do want to say I'm sorry on the point of de-railing the thread though, you are correct on that. I thought that the posts were usually only concerned with her original statement, or the original point being made. I'll make a note of this in the future.

To be honest, the trolling point was more meant for Kyoufuu than anyone else.

I can understand your point and I commend you for it, but with everyone jumping on the Pirate Kitty lynching bandwagon, I can understand why her responses came as they did. And while I may not necessarily agree with her opinion on the subject, however uninformed it may be, I defend to the death her right to say it...especially here, in this particular thread.

 

[Bluesclues]

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It's still not right.

My point still stands. It may not be right, but she's well within her right in this forum to answer the thread with what she pleases as long as it complies with the question or discussion value of the thread (and doesn't break any rules, of course). She may have bashed the group in her follow-up comments, but in her original one, she only states she doesn't like the group. Based on the OP, there's no need for her to give a reason why or to have to answer to someone who disagrees with it (even though she does, quite poorly in some moments I might add).