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I think I'm going to put on a dunce cap and assign myself a corner. My corner will be this thread. I don't think I can competently participate anywhere else on the forum. Such is life.

Life is for the successful and industrious. And considering that our society doesn't believe in punishing the lazy and incompetent. It's the duty of those of us who are lazy and incompetent to punish ourselves.

God is good and mostly punishes people.
The devil is evil and mostly tempts people with nice things.
Jesus only saves you if you're a complete social basket case and you believe in him.

Christianity is society's dumpster.

Islam is the sword of the dispossessed.

Judaism is for those God chooses.

Buddhism is for those of us who give up on life and don't want to come back to it.

Confucianism is for those who want to do well in life.

Hinduism is theological multiculturalism, maybe?

Atheism is for learned people.

Agnosticism is truth.

Heaven is a gated community and hell is the bad part of town.

In hell people tried to build a stairway to heaven so God stationed St. Peter at the gate.

How do you successfully establish a hermitage on a planet with over 8 billion people?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:41 am Life is for the successful and industrious. And considering that our society doesn't believe in punishing the lazy and incompetent. It's the duty of those of us who are lazy and incompetent to punish ourselves.

If 'this' is what you BELIEVE is true, then okay. But, HOW, exactly, are you so-called "lazy and incompetent ones" going to punish "yourselves", and in 'WHAT WAY', exactly?

Firstly, if you are REALLY "lazy and incompetent", then you will NOT BE ABLE TO punish "yourselves".

Secondly, even if you could, then in 'WHAT WAY/S' WILL you punish "yourselves", exactly?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:53 am God is good and mostly punishes people.

In WHAT WAY do you BELIEVE that God, Itself, has punished people?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:53 am The devil is evil and mostly tempts people with nice things.

So, 'nice things', like 'helping others', for example, is a TEMPTATION USED by the 'evil devil', right?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:53 am Jesus only saves you if you're a complete social basket case and you believe in him.

Okay if you say so.

By entering this thread and engaging with me you hereby agree to waive all rights to recompense and relinquish your right to hold me accountable for anything that happens to you.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:02 am Christianity is society's dumpster.

Islam is the sword of the dispossessed.

Judaism is for those God chooses.

Buddhism is for those of us who give up on life and don't want to come back to it.

Confucianism is for those who want to do well in life.

Hinduism is theological multiculturalism, maybe?

Atheism is for learned people.

Agnosticism is truth.

Okay.

Are these the ACTUAL IRREFUTABLE Truths, of Life?

Or, are these just "gary childress's" OWN views and opinions, ONLY, here?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:24 am Heaven is a gated community and hell is the bad part of town.

Do human beings come through 'gates', when coming into this Life?

Could Life, and living, be the 'gated community', which you call 'heaven'?

And, who and/or what created the so-called 'bad part of town'?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:24 am In hell people tried to build a stairway to heaven so God stationed St. Peter at the gate.

And, what do ACTUAL 'saints' DO, EXACTLY?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:32 am How do you successfully establish a hermitage on a planet with over 8 billion people?

Probably in the EXACT SAME WAY that you do on a planet with one person, eight trillion people, and/or any number of people between.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:41 am By entering this thread and engaging with me you hereby agree to waive all rights to recompense and relinquish your right to hold me accountable for anything that happens to you.

Well since 'this' has NEVER EVER HAPPENED NOR OCCURRED, PREVIOUSLY, there is CERTAINLY NO REASON, AT ALL, TO PRESUME that 'it' WOULD ANY TIME, FROM now on.

Wisdom is for people who hold prejudices against fools.

Age wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:44 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:24 am Heaven is a gated community and hell is the bad part of town.

Do human beings come through 'gates', when coming into this Life?

No. They enter through vaginas and leave through gates. But women tend to guard their vaginas and men tend to guard gates. Vaginas work best as output devices. Gates go both ways.

And, what do ACTUAL 'saints' DO, EXACTLY?

I give up. What do they do?