CornishChris

a) According to many Christians and their vtirol, the Christian god does indeed hate gays (www.godhatesfags.com). b) "People" do not hate gays. Individuals who are prejudiced may "hate" them or be afraid of them, possibly due to repressed homosexuality. I quite like gays, they leave more ladies for us non-gays. But to be fair there is no god other than the Flying Spaghetti Monster (may he touch you with His noodley appendage) and He embraces all creeds, colours and flavours. RAmen. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

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Is no one noticing that America has 20 mass shootings a year? 20 for fucks sake! 1 is too many. Banning guns in America, assault or otherwise, is not going to change the culture of a country that thinks that no increase from 20 mass shootings a year is a good thing. Any real change would have to take place over decades and it seems to an outsider like me that the mentality is too far ingrained in your national conscience to ever really change. We don't have as many shootings of any type in the UK, but of course we still have some, but we don't have many guns here either. A saturation of guns and a general relaxed mentality towards guns and being armed has to have something to do with the level of gun violence in a country doesn't it? CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

Welcome to Alabama, where obesity is genetic but homosexuality is a choice. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

Why isn't it? Either there is man made GCC or there isn't. Yes there are shades of grey but the risks posed by doing nothing outweigh the risks posed by doing something. Yes there are countries that will not look at it the same way but we need to start working towards a solution rather than burying our heads in the sand and ignoring it. Think of a simple car analogy. On any journey you are either going to not have an accident or have an accident. You wear your seatbelt because the risk of the results from not wearing it if you have an accident far outweigh the inconvenience of wearing it. Why shouldn't we assume that man made GCC is real and do what we can to minimise the effects rather than spend all our time arguing about whether it is or it isn't? CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

The change Turtle suggested was 'get rid of Obamacare'. Not sure that makes the world a better place. The US does a lot of good in the world. It also does a lot of bad. I'm not sure that 2 changes to the US would improve the whole world, hence my reference to the OPs comment about making the world a better place. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

The world a better place, not just the US a better place... 1. Less wastage on food and materials - we throw away so much in the west and the poorer countries starve 2. Less dependance on fossil fuels. Climate change aside we live in a closed ecosystem and, sooner or later, they will run out and we need to find a way to live without them. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

Was it exactly 30,000 or did you just make up a number? CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

A gay friend of mine posted this on Facebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLnn96n3Lpg A very well spoken (albeit nervous) young man. How can anyone have a problem with his upbringing - I know of many people bought up by straight people that aren't a patch on this guy. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

I'm still shit at everything. Especially landing. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

Can I try and be clear. Adam did not exist. 'He' is an entirely made up construct designed to continue bolster the incoherent teachings of countless prophets. These people have asked the question 'why do I exist', the very question that makes us Sapiens and not being able to come up with an answer they have invented one. There was no Adam. There was no original sin. You are, quite simply, delusional. I pity you. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

What sin did this 5 year old child of devout Christians perform exactly? If he dies, which is a distinct possibility, then what has your god possibly achieved. The word delusion was used earlier and that is exactly what this is. Two guys came to my door the other day wanting to talk to me about religion. My wife was gobsmacked when I stood there and discussed it for 10 minutes. I told them I agreed with many of the religious principals in the bible, not least 'treat your neighbour as you wish to be treated' (paraphrased obviously) and told them I didn't need a 2000 year old book to tell me that it was wrong to kill or steal, it should be fucking obvious! I also spoke to them because to slam the door in their face would just have been downright rude and in no small way I wanted them to see that non religious people can be decent. I truly believe that religion is brainwashing. It may have started with the best of intentions but now it is just pure brainwashing and in some ways I pity some of my wife's relatives - one is currently being ordained as a vicar and as far as I can tell dedicating your life to teaching people about god and Jesus is about as much use to modern day society as dedicating your life to collecting models of Homer Simpson. Having a strong moral compass, being generous, kind, charitable and generally being a good egg doesn't need a mandate from some god, especially one that on the flip side espouses the killing of homosexuals, the cutting off of people who work on the sabbath and all the other crap. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

I have had a slightly odd situation that I can't stop thinking about recently. Background: My wife has a large extended family, through her mothers side, half of whom are very religious and half of whom who are not. This stems from an 'epiphany' that her grandmother had upon the death of her husband 40 years ago. The younger of my mother in laws siblings were swept up in this as they were still at home and are hugely religious and my mother in law and her older sister had left home and remained pretty much heathen, as did their offspring (and me!). The religious side of the family and the non-religious have always got on, generally by avoiding discussion of religion, other than the Grandmother who is continually trying to convert the non-religious side but who is tolerated as she's 98! I have no problem with people being religious although personally I find it increasingly bizarre as I get older - I just don't understand how someone can give their whole, single, life to what i believe to be a fictitious, controlling pursuit. When we see people who are obsessed with, for example (and I saw this recently) Superman and spend every penny collecting memorabilia, pretending to be that person and it taking over their lives we think them odd, but apparently this is ok if it's 'God', for whom there is about the same amount of evidence. Anyway, that aside it is recent events that have made me even more pensive and frustrated. One of my wife's cousins children collapsed at school recently. He is 5 and was rushed to hospital where he had a clot removed from his lung. The clot was cancerous. He has subsequently been diagnosed with a 'mystery' (at this stage) cancer and yesterday underwent a long procedure to remove a major adrenal tumour. This is horrific. I have two kids and one is the same age and I just don't know what I would have done in their situation. Obviously they have the crutch of religion to lean on and it clearly gives them support and I see no bad thing in that per se. Anyway the operation was a success and the tumour was removed - he had been given a 50:50 of merely surviving the operation - although now they have secondaries to deal with and the medium-long term prognosis is still very poor. On Facebook the amount of religious rhetoric surrounding the child's survival of the operation is incredible - lot's of "praise god", "Thank you Jesus", "Our prayers have been answered" etc. I was the first person to mention the hospital staff. Obviously I would not belittle their faith to them in such a public forum as Facebook (and I guarantee they aren't on here), especially in this difficult time but I don't understand how they can believe that any god is good for giving a child cancer, not thank the hospital staff and doctors, just some mystery being. What would have happened if he had died - was that god's plan? Why did this so-called god give a small child of incredibly religious parents this horrific disease, not some non-believer?! What if I had thanked FSM for reaching out and cradling the boy in his noodley appendages and rescuing him - would that be in any way different? I'm not sure what I expect to achieve from this post. I'm not even sure why this makes me so angry but I find the thanking of some imaginary friend for the incredible work done by skilled doctors and nurses after hundreds of years of accumulated medical learning, years of training and amazing technology crass in the extreme. Rant over. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

What do you expect from a town with three whorehouses and no churches... CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

A friend of mine (atheist) had to be baptised into the Greek Orthodox (christian) church before being allowed to marry his girlfriend. He's irish but this was in Syracuse, NY. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

I had a Talon for years and it was great but the tuck tabs did go eventually. I replaced the rig when I just couldn't get one of them to stay shut, even after a rigger had had a look. It was just time for that rig I think. Generally it was awesome but rigs do age and wear and tear takes it's toll. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

This is true dude. Ben uses the word all the time now! CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

I was discussing this with a friend on the way to the DZ this morning with a friend. Apparently (anecdotal) suicide rates are among the highest in farmers in the UK. Having a gun to hand, as many farmers do with shotguns in the UK or handguns in the US, gives both an easy and a quick solution to suicidal tendencies. Think of it this way, your girl leaves you, you get drunk on whisky then think about ending it all. If you have a solution right there it is a lot easier to take an action on one sudden low than to have to plan ahead. This may be a bogus argument but it makes some sense to me. If you wake up then next day then the thoughts may have eased if you didn't have a way to take action straight away. of course some people will still find a way but a gun sure makes it easier. CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

Out of interest you cite 10,000 'deaths' and then 30,000 including suicides. Did the suicides not die? CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

As an Englishman I hate it when people criticise my country. Sure there are things wrong with this place: too many immigrants on welfare, to many non-immigrants on welfare, the weather etc. but there are also lots of positives. America has many many positives. I know people from the UK who have emigrated (thus increasing the average IQ of both countries ) and made great lives for themselves and I really do think, from an outsiders perspective, that the American dream is achievable for hard working people. We also see the US from a different perspective as we are outside. I know we have lots of gun rows on here and that many non-US citizens cannot understand the obsession with guns but I thought the below article had an interesting angle. I don't normally like The Guardian as it is left of my own views but this sums it up quite well for me. I'm in no way trying to be anti-American but giving an outside opinion on what we see happening. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/21/boston-marathon-bombs-us-gun-law CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

I can't see them in finder - only the ones that I have already exported (which I now can't find either). If I search for gopro as the file extension then the only ones that appeat are the ones that I have exported already CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

I am importing photos from GoPro to iPhoto after each jump but I can only see the last jumps photos. If I go to latest import it is just the last one but the old jumps (some of which I have exported) are no where to be found - if I go to photos the latest 'event' is 8th March. WTF? Any ideas? CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

Were you not excited when you finished AFF and wanted to share your experience with people you thought would be of a like mind? CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

How often are you stopped?! CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

It is indeed very sad. My father went to SA a few years ago and was staying in a secure compound. He asked the owner if he had ever had any attempted burglaries and the owner said that last week he had shot and killed an intruder. When my father asked what the police did the owner said they just turned up, took a statement, and took the body away. Nothing more. I wonder what will happen in this case as it seems like a murder charge is a little harsh. Manslaughter maybe but murder? CJP Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people