Big news, people. They've detected carbon based organic molecules on Comet 67P!

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30097648

[Berni]

[Ben.]

didn't realise Comet were still going.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Snin]

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

Team Carbon Based Lifeforms, Wooo!

[the splendor of antigone]

[Berni]

[Rich]

[the splendor of antigone]

at.

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

we intend to approach religion with our son.

Me and the FiL were adamant that we should tread very carefully when it comes to exposing him to anything that may leave an impression on him that could nudge him towards being a religouser. My girlfriend is less bothered and thinks he should be left to work it all out for himself :rubchin:

[Classic Jorge]

Bible****?

[Berni]

argument against God, tbh. That or he's just f**king lazy.

[Classic Jorge]

The one big issue is that we've had to send her to a CofE school. Luckily CofE is, at best, a diet religion and she's already been in trouble for proselytising atheism to her classmates.

:cloud9:

[Snin]

[Snin]

[Berni]

direction risks being counterproductive

[the splendor of antigone]

wonderful Christian syllogism which shows us that Christianity truly is the religion of freedom (and this, paradoxically, is precisely from an atheist point of view).

I've been accused of too much word****ery in the past, so I will refrain from en exegesis :thumbup:

[Monty91]

Would you, for example, let her go round and participate in a Muslim prayer evening at a friend's house whose family were rumoured to have fundamentalist beliefs?

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

[Monty91]

I assume you mean I should also make it clear that my opinion should not necessarily be his (which I intend to do).

Also, it depends on their age. If at 6 years old believes in God I will likely approach the issue in a very different way to if he was 16.

[Classic Jorge]

I'd be more worried if she was protesting abortion clinics with christian nut jobs tbh

[the splendor of antigone]

[Classic Jorge]

And, conveniently, the go to scripture for todays christian fundamentalist nut job.


Also, God comes off as a bit of a c**t in the Abraham story.

#infanticidebants

[Berni]

If he's intelligent, he'll work it out for himself.

Also, youthful belief in god avoids those awkward early discussions about death, eternity, etc.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

He really does exhibit a fine sense of humour at times.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

What happened, did the bottom fall out of the painting game or has his house sunk?

[Berni]

So what you're saying is that you're anti-Semitic, yes?

[the splendor of antigone]

of the Book of Job. It's a beautiful dialectical movement from our usual perception of God as some kind of higher force, structure, meaning which guarantees that everything serves a purpose, to an impotent God whose divine gift precisely is radical freedom from that conception, i.e. humanity - by what we are freely doing, - decides the faith of a God who has messed up his creation.

[Monty91]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

Nah, I just thought we could do with a big middle east dust up and shin seems to be bubbling under

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

Took my dad 18 months and he lived under 200 miles away

[Monty91]

Are you estranged from your father?

[Classic Jorge]

But he's dead now so, in a very real sense, very much so

[Snin]

[Monty91]

Actually I did pay half - she's currently earning the princely sum of 138 quid a week :-(

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

calling for another 500 million for their next jolly.

Every mission seems to find 'something' that 'suggests' that there is a 'possibilty' that water 'may' have...blah blah!

Load of old *******s J

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]