Re: Try this one for comparison
Posted by Utahraptor on 12 February 1999 at 08:29:25:
In Reply to: Re: Try this one for comparison posted by The Imp on 12 February 1999 at 00:58:40:
: If I were to say, "Utahraptor, I don't want to offend you, but I think that your belief in aliens is just the stupidest thing I've ever heard.", you would probably take offense. You might even ask me who in the hell I think I am to make such a claim....
: Your post disclaims an attempt to give offense, yet that is all that little rant was to Christians...
: Now, just so we are perfectly clear here, I don't think you are a total idiot and I do believe in life on another planet. There's an idea here you keep missing. Basically saying you are not going to do something then turning around and doing what you claim you aren't going to do gets a negative response.
OH, so you think I'm a bit of an idiot then? Anywya, the post was to question beliefs to psoe soem answers. I got some. Soem mroe believable than others. NOW, even though they weren't corretc answers, they were very good atempts. And Is alute the effort.
Besides, I also offended Jews as well, of which I am one. How amny would liek to hear me compalint hat God frreed us form slaveyr, only to amke us schlept across a hot burnign desert for 40 eyars while feeding us off on the sandy ground itself. ON PAssover, we sing a song calle Dianuh (sp?) It means thta woudl have bene enough. That God did more than HE really ahd to to help us. Me? I say He should have done it all and more. I'ma lso against the whole thing, cause in it's truest form,t he Sedar recreates the conditions of suffering ym ancestors went through. To hep su give thanks for our freedom. Me? I don't wnat none fo thta. MAing em suffe ronly make sme want to forget. I'm gald we'r efree, I thank God fro that, and I ahppen to like horseradish ins mall doeses,a nd that's to remid us how bitter slavry was (See my conflict.)
Hell, I even offend God Himself, as He says we msut never take joy in the Egyptians' suffering during the 10 palgues. BUt I take greta joy int heir misiers for plague 1-9. ThAt ANgel Of Death bit went TOO far!
So, before peopel get upset that Iw rote soemhtign against ther ebeliefs, they should rememebr I atatcked soem fo mien as well. ANd believe me, it's easier to compalin about what I did casue they're more wlel known. Do yuo even knwo why 10 palgeus were sent to Egypt? Especially before seeing Prince Of Egypt, if you did?