Lakumi

If a kid goes to school they're gonna learn it, no way around that. Even if they don't associate with anyone who talks like that, they can still hear it around them.

technically not the movie version but Fist of the North Star (specifically the second anime) that's not even in the top 5 of most manly moments from that series

No one assumed I was a member, perhaps it was my looks, I donno lol

I don't ever want any kids, that idea has always frightened me, even more as an adult (since I understand more what I would pass down to them)

"Welcome to Canada, Free Health Care is but a card away... oh and pick a hockey team to route for"

couldn't be any worse then I was (long hair, blue jeans) They told me its less of what you wear and more that you're there

because we know about things like crusades and the inquisition and witch trials- those happened and we know they happened. I don't know where one could get those records, or if they even kept them. but regardless even if I did give you a number it wouldn't mean anything, you'd not believe me. I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Even if I were to come up with a good point and facts, I'd just get ignored. I offer up something "oh you're wrong" because I don't have centuries of exact records to back up all my claims, because I don't have all the answers to evolution. I have plenty of questions for you that I am sure you couldn't answer.

and that's always the thing I struggle to wrap my head around... I donno perhaps I just always assumed God had better races out there, being perfect and omnipotent, Or perhaps he does and they are different and was involved heavily with them and they became worse for it? And he decided to try something different with us? Gotta be a reason he doesn't show himself directly to everyone. (This is all just things I have thought of during my life, I didn't grow up with religion and always questioned it and still often do, like anything I believe in, or just read about).

Well I assume God made other races, who's to day they didn't come here and influence us? I honestly don't think we're the best God can do

I didn't say he was an alien

they don't come to your door:lol: I'd be all like ready with my triple chocolate mocha latte with some vodka and cigarettes on the side, reading 50 Shades of Grey and then bam, Missionaries at the door being like "We have this message that you can be happy forever" and I respond with "go away I am trying to smoke and drink and I just ordered a meat lovers pizza which I will coat in chocolate, deep fry and cover with bacon and serve with beer!" So I think its a combo of coming to your door and saying you should be healthier (and even if people don't partake they don't seemingly like being told they can't-I donno I just tossed in as much insanity as I could and... it seems like an episode of Epic Meal Time). Truth be told Mormons have only come to my door once, and I wasn't home (my parents told me afterwards when I asked about the lack of a watchtower after the mention of them coming in passing, in which I would take to my friends and we'd draw on it and yammer about nothing)

or by aliens (which I do believe things from another world visited earth in the far away past, influencing us) also interesting to note the extreme parallels of religions across the globe past and present

numbers? numbers of what? how many people that have been put to death by the Catholic church? Or in the name of the church? I don't think anyone knows that. Except the Vatican, and unlike the, what one instance of somewhat large scale violence in LDS church history (which, though they don't much like to talk about, they don't hide) no one really knows how many the Catholic Church alone has killed, because they do hide that stuff. I could go on about all religions, past and present (from their beginnings til now) of them killing people in the name of God. Religion can bring good to people, one does not have to go far to see that, but it can bring horrible terror, and one does not need to go far to see that either.

and religion has killed more, but its held as the force of good in our world (though the LDS church has largely been exempt from the burning of people, killings and stoning's religions have done, past and present, so good on them. I remember talking about that to the missionaries). I do give the LDS church some respect for its rather non violent history and the fact its leaders don't live in golden castles and tell people to give more. But I am getting off topic.

actually chimps never evolved into humans because chimps are still here, we broke off from the same root creature but evolved in different ways humans do some pretty terrible things too (worse then chimps) and while evolution isn't as 100% as we'd like (mind you very few sciences really are since humans are constantly coming to understand things better) there is more proof of it then a perfect-divine creator. The USSR did pretty well for many decades until they made some poor economic decisions and they were a religion-free society (more so in its earlier decades then its later ones)

Chimps take Monkey-Horus very seriously! And no atheism isn't a religion, the definition of a religion is a belief in a higher power, atheism is a belief. I don't think humans are alone in the universe, and I certainly don't think we're all that special in the grand scheme of things. And, as I wondered as a child, why would a perfect creator take the form of a weak race like us? I can die by drinking a puddle- I donno, rereading my journal I wrote down so many things and still ponder them to this day.

Oh right... how did I miss that:lol: (I assume its the same in Canada)

in the European/western world, humanity has known an oddly large amount about the cosmos for thousands of years, the Mayans had a better method of telling time then we do, and we aren't exactly sure how they even did it. There's a lot we don't understand about earlier humans and I have my own beliefs of history that are different then what I am told happened.

what to be baptized? Every girl I have been involved with was an atheist

to me, and I was told this as a kid, if I read something that shakes my faith then I never had faith to begin with. I often claim that saying as my own now.

Happy Halloween everyhuman

Chuck-E-Cheese it is!

what is Kolob exactly? is it a planet, does God live there?

slightly off topic, but if a member marries a non member where do they have the ceremony?

no one ever told me that, maybe they didn't want to come off too strong? I donno