againsthumanity

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  1. My GF and I moved to our DZ....... I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  2. Z1 and Cookie ROK (camera setup) I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  3. I still find it strange that humans react so oddly when they are almost eaten. Don't humans know they are not off the menu?...... I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  4. wait! If God's so real and powerful.... why do big, fancy worship centers (cause that's exactly what Jesus would have wanted) require money to stay open?...... hmmmmm I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  5. So lack of intelligence equals belief in an invisible being in the sky, which since the time of advanced recording and verification processes has never shown his face and is also anthropomorphic? I know many non-intelligent humans that have freed themselves from addiction and have not used God as an excuse to put aside their own self reliance. There have been COUNTLESS God's, Goddesses, heros, what have you throughout history and every culture has thought that theirs was the right one. The fact is our species as a whole are followers. It's much easier to put blame/ignorance/miracles (aka- mundane coincidences) on something that we cannot see. It allows for something that cannot be proven and equally cannot be unproven to exist without physically feeling/seeing/hearing and that is a VERY DANGEROUS AND SCARY SITUATION I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  6. references and word of mouth may be some kind of evidence but you don't get life in prison because someone talks about you doing something or makes reference to it. hard evidence is the only evidence and as of now there is none. i am welcome to hard evidence and I truly hope they find it because the life of the man is extraordinary, if he existed. I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  7. No blessing that I couldn't attribute to mundane coincidence. Nothing out of the ordinary. Out of the 6 of us, parents and 4 kids, my parents are the only ones who hold onto the faith and they too question it from time to time, even with being the music ministers at their church. Education/experience to world cultures/and questions that could not be answered swayed all of our beliefs, although I was the last one to give it up. Since then I have lived a life of love, peace, forgiveness, and self-reliance and I feel better inside. I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  8. I have experienced the "spirit of God". I was a born again Pentecostal Christian for 16 years. I spoke in tongues, I waked the walk, and i talked the talk. But then around the age of 24 (3 years ago) I began to question things. I became a skeptic. I realized, and a very awesome NYU neurological study has concluded as well, that it was all in my head. I made it such an integral part of my life that in a delusion it was real... to me. The biggest part was, as i mentioned earlier, this..., "Worship me or I'll torture you forever. Love, God". That is obviously man-made. So, that was another thing I struggled with. I then began to think (something no power wants), "If i was born in India I would be Hindu. If I was born in some South American Amazonian hunter/forager group I would most likely subscribe to their beliefs". It's just cultural. It was very hard for me to wrap my head around that following 16 years of a devout walk. Is there a God? Who the hell knows. I can't stand certainty, for and against, since nobody has special powers that I do not. I believe it's a perceptual delusion based on human bias cushioned by 1,700 years of inertia of "do this or die. Either now or over and over for eternity"... that's love. it's hogwash. Why did they make a big deal of one man? Who knows. Maybe to make an example. As mentioned, there is no secular evidence for the dudes existence. There is so much interpretation on this subject, hence Christianity being responsible for more deaths than anything on this planet. One would think that being the Son of the invisible guy in the sky (which there are over 2,800 in cultures around the world) who invented the universe, there wouldn't be so much guess work... I recommend that believers in any faith (the 34,000 in Christianity and all belief systems on Earth) to take a lesson in Anthropology. Question the system that was forced into them from every angle from before they were able to think. They might find many things don't add up, monotheism is VERY, VERY new to us as a species, and all belief systems have had their heros, prophecies, etc that faded with time. Oh, and this is where people pull the "just have faith" card. Faith is the boast of a man who is too lazy to investigate imho. I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  9. i use velcro I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  10. As the Seneca quote goes, “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  11. +1. I can totally see that. A liberal "hippie" who came against Roman imperialistic values and had to be dealt with, but to label him the son of God, 300 years after his death by associating his story with pagan values at the time of pagan uprisings seems a little too "creative" and coincidental I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  12. Before we ask ourselves this question maybe we should ask if he existed in the first place. There is no (zero) secular evidence for the existence of JC. Ancient books and parables written by different authors (who never actually met him), at different times, with different agendas do not count as evidence and should not be taken literally. I say I DO NOT KNOW. His story follows the same story as many birth-death-rebirth deities who too never existed, only in myth. We can then ask, "Why is the story of JC so prominent"? Maybe it's because those who did not believe in this story were tortured, murdered, and forced to believe from 300 years following his death until about, ummmm, today (Hi, it's God. Worship me or I'll torture you forever. Love, God, I mean Jesus, I mean the Holy Spirit.... ummm, just love me alright). Could the man as a teacher existed, sure. Until there is hard evidence for biblical heros, such as JC, Moses and David, I will remain a skeptic to any story that was written by men, altered countless times over many, many centuries, interpreted, re-interpreted, and re-interpreted over and over, and influenced by multiple cultures by men with their own political and financial agenda. As science/history/academia (which too should be approached with skepticism) shows us today, there is a huge difference in what people believe and what happened historically based on EVIDENCE I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  13. Whether or not Osama Bin Laden died years ago or today, the man that had nothing to do with the U.S's invasion of Iraq is dead. Way to go U.S Navy!!!!!! Osama, dude, you should have turned your iPhone 4 off, thats how they tracked you man!!! And a speedy burial at sea is an honorable way to be laid to rest in accordance with Islamic tradition. It's good that we showed respect!!! Wait, speedy? Haven't we been way wrong before? Hmmmm.... I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  14. If life is to be ruled by reason then the possibility of life is destroyed I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
  15. Total bullshit. I mean, as a coach I would love the extra money and free jumps but this is totally about the DZ making more money. Fuck, i never knew what a coach was until I asked about the coach course at 95 jumps..... I love BASE because cliffs don't crash A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves