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| Thread ID: 72148 | 2006-09-01 02:53:00 | Why is IT full of Athiests? | Greven (91) | PC World Chat |
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| 481931 | 2006-09-01 09:13:00 | Why can't people just accept that they are alive, and get on with it? What does it matter how we got here? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 481932 | 2006-09-01 09:22:00 | Why can't people just accept that they are alive, and get on with it? What does it matter how we got here? Nice to know where you are from! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 481933 | 2006-09-01 09:32:00 | A saying that I read in a book called "The Water Babies" sums it all up for me. " Do unto others as you would they would do unto you". If that sounds archaic, try, " Treat me right & I will treat you right", or Live & let live. If you leave Race, Colour & Creed out of things, then the above should be easy. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 481934 | 2006-09-01 09:34:00 | Why can't people just accept that they are alive, and get on with it? What does it matter how we got here? Quite correct in my view. Why can't people agree to disagree? OTOH I object to persons turning up here and asking if I have heard about Jesus or God. Yes I have heard. Whether I believe is a different scenario. It just appears to me that we all have different beleifs and we, as people, tend to debate the issues. Debating in my view is good as we can discuss issues but unless you have proof then the argument may fail. That is the IT in some of us. I allow anyone to have their own beliefs so long as they do not try to ram it down my throat. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 481935 | 2006-09-01 09:38:00 | Nice to know where you are from!But the records were long destroyed, and our civilization was too stupid to remember the name of the crafts that we were transported in. And why should our ancestors remember? Would you remember the name of the craft that was going to dump you on some smelly little blue green planet? It's only now several thousand and some start to care.... typical. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 481936 | 2006-09-01 10:01:00 | I have found quite a lot of people in IT up here in Wellington that are Christians. You can't really base your findings on anything down in Invercargill because there's practically no IT there at all. :p Wellington, Christchurch or Auckland is where it's at for IT in NZ. How are things with you anyway Greven? :) Talk on MSN... Just out of interest, do any christians here play Doom 3?? I played the original and the sequel. You get a strong feeling of evil while playing it, but I still enjoyed it and blasting demons away is all good! |
E|im (87) | ||
| 481937 | 2006-09-01 21:51:00 | Does the high proportion of evil athiest geeks scare off good christians that might be interested in the field? First there are plenty of "bad" christians. Religion does not necessarily make you a good or nice person. Catholic priests and children springs to mind.... And why are atheists supposed to be evil? Some of us like to apply the principles of science to thoughts of our origins etc....and religion fails this test miserably. Does that make us evil? Seems to me religion has been and still is one of the biggest causes of war and suffering throughout history. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 481938 | 2006-09-01 22:30:00 | People love to stereotype groups on their beliefs, and as pctec implied, there are plenty of God fearing christians who are not nice people, but there are also plenty of members of cults, social clubs, governments, cultural groups, forum members, building societies, and other groups who are not nice people either . Of course there are also members of all of the above groups who ARE nice people too . The only time the existence of un-nice christians bugs me is when it's people who put themselves on a soapbox preaching a standard that they themselves can not live by . :yuck: Of course that irratation applies to any form of hippy, including environmentalists who insist on heating unused rooms, and social workers whose lives will always be a mess . To return to the original question, and probably offend a whole heap of people in doing so, I suspect that one reason why there are so many athiests in the IT world is because some of those who enter the IT world simply don't have time for anything else . . . . You know? No life and all of that . |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 481939 | 2006-09-01 22:44:00 | First there are plenty of "bad" christians. Religion does not necessarily make you a good or nice person. Catholic priests and children springs to mind.... And why are atheists supposed to be evil? Some of us like to apply the principles of science to thoughts of our origins etc....and religion fails this test miserably. Does that make us evil? Seems to me religion has been and still is one of the biggest causes of war and suffering throughout history.Well duh, of course there's plenty of bad so-called Christians. And there's an abundance of atheists that are equally bad. And there's those of us who believe in a true Christianity, but don't practice it. It's science that fails so miserably to explain how the world and the universe came into existence. Some of us like to see how science explains life. I mean really - the best they've managed to come up with is some inexplicable 'big bang' theory. How ludicrous! I mean, to believe that life and everything around us came about without some highly intelligent super-being as a creator is simply the ostrich syndrome. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 481940 | 2006-09-01 22:47:00 | Seems to me religion has been and still is one of the biggest causes of war and suffering throughout history.It doesn't only take religion to cause war and suffering. For example, the victims of Pol Pot and Stalin would tend to differ. | Greg (193) | ||
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