LOL... yea... ya know he soon will make your entire years salary in the time it took you to type that remark in an internet forum.


Have a good day.

If only we were all genius enough to derive our self-worth and self-esteem from how much money we happen to make, like you. Teach us how to be as egotistical and superficial as you, enlightened one.

I like this VP$IP guy, he's putting the theists in their place.

I guess you think JaMarcus Russell is well-respected in the football world too, because of how rich he is, right?

I think he is channeling Aphrodite's powers of seeing the future and using those powers on Tim Tebow's career. Well done Joey, well done.

That's the words of a person that has not discovered how to maximize their talents.
Don't hate on me because I'm successful. You too...can be successful.

Lose the hate dude.... you seriously have too much anger and hate.

And anyone who doesn't get what I just did.... get in line behind Aro.

He must be on vacation or something.

Thanks for the e-psychoanalysis based on a single comment, Freud.

pointing out that you have a huge ego /= hate

I love you man.... I think you have anger issues but I think you are a great person.

I don't have anger issues and I don't have an ego. I demand that people be intellectually honest and truthful with me and themselves. This is a forum about religion where people regularly lie to themselves, consciously or unconsciously. When people who enjoy lying to themselves and get an emotional pay off from lying to themselves interact with someone who doesn't allow them to do that, they start claiming that person "hates them" or has "anger issues" as a defense mechanism. Reference your entire posting history with me.

If I met you, Stu, Splendour, even Pletho IRL I would buy any of you a beer. I highly doubt they would do the same. Especially not Stu.

That's a well thought-out post. Very good.
I assume you are referring to the 'reporter' here.


And I would most definitely buy you a beer.


Ya see Rize.... you are a pretty smart cookie. But at times...you tend to choose to attack believers rather than presenting your side and choice to not believe.

I'm a Christian...and I can accept that you aren't. You don't seem to be as willing to just accept that fact. As dumb as you think I am for believing.... well... I find non-believers just as... lost.. as you think we are dumb.

Even if you were a Christian.... I would still have the inclination that you are angry because of the way you address people in this forum.

Maybe I'm wrong.... but I remember the majority of your posts being hateful and angry rather than just argumentative.


Just sayin.... still love ya bro.

I WUV U 2 JOEY

LOL.... made me smile

I'm talking about this forum in general.

Sure I will do that at times. But when you have lost causes like Splendour and Pletho floating around here, there's really nothing else to do with them. Any logical or scientific point you make to them is completely lost. I think Stu and Jib will at the very least read your argument and consider most of the time, although they both have their Plethoesque moments where they just refuse to honestly answer things.

I honestly just cannot handle when people's biases and hopes cloud their ability to objectively evaluate things. I have no tolerance for that whatsoever, you're right. And that's probably why there are so many atheists on this forum. Poker demands that you evaluate a situation objectively. If you played poker thinking only things like "Well, I'd really like my opponent to have air here. I call." You get torn apart. A person that thinks "What reasons do I have to think my opponent has air here?" is in a much better position to play well.

Religion is not much different than this for me. Religious people are essentially looking at our situation and before they evaluate anything, they are already thinking "I'd really like there to be a god." And then they attempt to fit any information they find in the world into that hope. An atheist simply asks, with no preconceived notions or hopes "What reason do we have to believe that god exists?" And the answer, by all objective accounts, is very little.

This is a microcosm of why being a good poker player generally also makes that person a non-believer.

Awesome.


I don't know if you intended to...but you helped me understand why so many poker players are atheist. It makes sense.

I played black jack for many years... I'm not going to say I was a professional black jack player because I think that's ******ed to say... but I know how to count cards in to a 2-deck...I can count into a a 6-deck but it's really taxing and not easy so it's not fun. I actually can't NOT count into a 2-deck because I did it so long.
Anyways... it always bugged me when people would make stupid plays and justify it with "I just have a feeling". To me...when I was counting cards... I knew the math of the game. There is no feeling. You can have a "feeling" but that in no way changes the next card or the odds of the next card being what you "feel" it is.
So I understand your frustration with Christians in general. I don't have the answer for why some people believe in God and others don't. I don't think my belief increase the likelihood of a god... I just know that there is a God. At least in my life. Maybe God wasn't meant for everyone.... who knows. Maybe God only told Abraham a part of the story.

Thanks Rize.... seriously.

Now.... will you buy me a beer? None of that cheap **** either... you know how rich I am and I like to flaunt it.

(The part about the rich and flaunt was a joke.... go back to bed Aro)

One other comment that came to me while I was running. When I make the assertion that most theists "want" and "hope" for there to be a god before they even began evaluating if there was one, I want to back that up a little bit, because I know there are theists on here that might dispute that. My support for that assertion is that I have talked to a lot of theists about god, in real life and on the internet, and I have yet to find or even hear of one single person that believes that there is in fact a god, but did not want said god to exist.

WTF? If you are rich, shouldn't you be buying us beers? I drink Arrogant Bastard. I figure I should drink what I am right?

I don't think my belief increases the likelihood that the next card in the shoe is a seven. I just know the next card in the shoe is a seven.