Giving up Cubing for Lent

[Lance Taylor]

Well, I guess you can believe whatever you want... but if I word it this way: "a protestant is a christian who is not a catholic." you're kinda stuck.

if C is defined as "everything but B",
and A is "not B",
Then A belongs to C.

but whatever, call yourself whatever you want, it's none of my business.

 

[qqwref]

Well, I guess you can believe whatever you want... but if I word it this way: "a protestant is a christian who is not a catholic." you're kinda stuck.

That's not really the definition, though, and you're not going to win an argument by redefining a word (which already has a common and accepted definition) to tautologically prove your claim. It seems that Christianity has three major divisions/groups (Eastern Orthodox, [Roman] Catholic, and Protestant) and a lot of smaller denominations that aren't part of the big three groups such as Latter Day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, etc.

 

[Lance Taylor]

well I'm not trying to redefine anything.. here's the first definition I found when looking in google:

# A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers.

the reformation was when protestant religions started breaking off of catholicism.

As for eastern orthodox, I don't know much about it. But as far as that definition goes, that's pretty much what I said.

 

[Bryan]

I'll spare you what I THINK about religion until I tell you a bit about what I KNOW about religion; and I happen to know quite a lot.

Oh phew....I thought my reading would be wasted.

I am a biology student at the University of Alberta, so I know (relative to most of the people posting here, anyway) a LOT about what the theory of evolution says. It has nothing to do with where life originally comes from, and it has nothing to do with whether or not there is a god.

For knowing alot about the theory of evolution, you say very little about it. What I've bolded could also be used to describe a cookie recipe.

Every christian is either a catholic or a protestant.

So where would Messianic Jews fall under?

anyway, I'm sure some people are gonna be really mad at me for saying I'm not religious

Really, you think too highly of yourself if you think people are going to be mad at you for saying you're not religious.

Almost everyone who is going to say something is NOT a catholic, and therefore has no reason to defend the pope.

Huh? We can't defend the pope if we're not Catholic? Even though I don't agree with him on everything, I think (or perhaps I KNOW!) that I can defend him if I want to.

By the way, I know you're supposed to capitalize catholic, christian, jew, muslim, and every other name of a "group" of people.. I'm just lazy.

Well, the fact that "Catholic" and "catholic" mean different things, it's good to use capitalization.

 

[Lance Taylor]

It would take a lot more than a page of text to explain evolution from basic principles... I'd be happy to try, if you want to read all night. Maybe you can spare me the trouble, and plug it into wikipedia. Or go to a classroom.

And yes, I've already had lots of people unsubscribe because I said I was not religious. A while ago, someone told me that although he loves all my videos that he could not respect me anymore because I'm not a christian. It has nothing to do with me thinking highly of my opinion. My point is that religious people will get offended just because you say "Nah, I don't beleive that.", which is my point. There's no reason to get offended, is what I am saying.

And of course, here you are, offended, picking apart my post for everything you can possibly disagree with.

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

It would take a lot more than a page of text to explain evolution from basic principles... I'd be happy to try, if you want to read all night. Maybe you can spare me the trouble, and plug it into wikipedia. Or go to a classroom.

And yes, I've already had lots of people unsubscribe because I said I was not religious. A while ago, someone told me that although he loves all my videos that he could not respect me anymore because I'm not a christian. It has nothing to do with me thinking highly of my opinion. My point is that religious people will get offended just because you say "Nah, I don't beleive that.", which is my point. There's no reason to get offended, is what I am saying.

What you're NOT A CHRISTIAN?!!!
The world must be ending.:rolleyes:

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

Nothing because I don't know what Lent is.

 

[Lofty]

Its always so disheartening for me when I go away for a day in a thread like this and I miss so much... Like I don't want dig stuff up from ten pages ago or write a novel either.
Personally I think you weren't very offensive Lance. But thats just because I'm not Catholic and so I don't really feel very attached to the Pope at all. I probably dislike the Pope even more than you do.
You don't have to know much about Eastern Orthodoxy to know that its not under the usual Catholic/Protestant Split. I'm pretty sure I learned that in a High School College class.
"Good to dude" doesn't rhyme. The proper name for the theory is the "Goo to you" theory. Goo and You rhyme. Rhyming is very important.
Any Christian who unsubscribed to you just because you aren't a Christian and would send you a message like that is not a very good Christian in my book. Especially since all your videos just appear to be cubing videos.. I could understand if you had cubing videos and videos blatantly insulting religious people. But I like I said I don't really find your post that offensive so I assume that you aren't one of those people who would sit there and and bash religious people.
Not all people who dismiss evolution dismiss it because they don't know anything about it. I'm at the University of Florida and I was a math and physics major for my first 2 years here and I have a friend who is is now at med school that I've talked to a bit about it, both Christian, and we disagree with evolution. I'm pretty sure he knows a bit about biology.
As for theories go, I think the person was just saying that we should more actively try to disprove theories. If we are always just trying to prove them right we may overlook some things that we would find if we are trying to find holes in the theory. But then again with the limited knowledge humans have of such a vast universe I don't know how many of our theories would last if we started trying to disprove them. There are so many things that we don't know.

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

Nothing because I don't know what Lent is.

I only know Lent because of this thread

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Why is there manuscripts of stuff about God existing or not? All I asked was "What are you giving up for Lent, if at all?"
And then all this athiest, God, evolution stuff pops up. That's like if someone asked help for a 3x3 and someone replies with 4x4 Parity.

 

[Ranzha]

Why is there manuscripts of stuff about God existing or not? All I asked was "What are you giving up for Lent, if at all?"
And then all this athiest, God, evolution stuff pops up. That's like if someone asked help for a 3x3 and someone replies with 4x4 Parity.

Amen to that.

Sure, I am a Christian, but is all of this debate completely necessary?

Why don't we all just be cordial and sit down. Have some cake. The cake is a lie.

anyway, keep this off-topic thread on-topic. I, as well as most likely many other members of this forum, am sick of this.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Why is there manuscripts of stuff about God existing or not? All I asked was "What are you giving up for Lent, if at all?"
And then all this athiest, God, evolution stuff pops up. That's like if someone asked help for a 3x3 and someone replies with 4x4 Parity.

Amen to that.

Sure, I am a Christian, but is all of this debate completely necessary?

Why don't we all just be cordial and sit down. Have some cake. The cake is a lie.

anyway, keep this off-topic thread on-topic. I, as well as most likely many other members of this forum, am sick of this.

+GAZILLION
Thank you.
My History teacher caught me with my new 2x2. She was shocked.

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

Aren't you supposed to be giving up cubing?

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Aren't you supposed to be giving up cubing?

Yeah. that's why this week is an exception

 

[Dene]

Why is there manuscripts of stuff about God existing or not? All I asked was "What are you giving up for Lent, if at all?"
And then all this athiest, God, evolution stuff pops up. That's like if someone asked help for a 3x3 and someone replies with 4x4 Parity.

That is an extremely bad analogy. I am not going to go to the effort of explaining why though.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

That's the point. It made no sense. And neither did the argument about evolution.

 

[Lance Taylor]

So in a thread originally about religion... people are debating religions.

:fp What are you surprised? People love to debate religion and politics. Besides, there's tons of other threads about boring stuff if you can't handle it.

 

[Dene]

That's the point. It made no sense. And neither did the argument about evolution.

Your post makes no sense.

 

[Bryan]

It would take a lot more than a page of text to explain evolution from basic principles... I'd be happy to try, if you want to read all night. Maybe you can spare me the trouble, and plug it into wikipedia. Or go to a classroom.

Again, a full-blown explanation isn't needed, but when you post a description of a cookie recipe, that's not enough. As I don't want to trouble you, could you least explain if you were talking about "small changes within a species" evolution or "goo to you" evolution? (Thanks Lofty!)

As for goo to you (G2Y), it does have to deal with whether or not there's a God. God's word teaches creationism (G => C). G2Y evolution teaches that creationism is wrong (G2Y => not C). Therefore, G2Y => not G.

My point is that religious people will get offended just because you say "Nah, I don't beleive that.", which is my point. There's no reason to get offended, is what I am saying.

And of course, here you are, offended, picking apart my post for everything you can possibly disagree with.

Huh? Just because I disagree with you and post why along with reasoning I must be offended? If I disagreed with you and posted a cookie recipe, would that be better? Seriously, you're trying to make yourself look like some martyr when really you're not.

 

[RyanO]

Why is there manuscripts of stuff about God existing or not? All I asked was "What are you giving up for Lent, if at all?"
And then all this athiest, God, evolution stuff pops up. That's like if someone asked help for a 3x3 and someone replies with 4x4 Parity.

This is really all your fault for making this thread. If you didn't expect this outcome your naivety is astonishing.