"What an exciting time to be alive." "We are the greatest generation."
It makes me sick when Pastors and ministers make the above statements. I enjoy JR Church and his ministry, but he made the above statement yesterday. I wanted to ask him, " what time and place to you live?" I've heard it over and over "we are the greatest". I'm not a pessimist or a negative believer, but I believe these are some of the worst times to be alive, sin is rampant, our society is hateful & anti-faith, anti-morals, greedy, Godless, seekers of pleasure, Killers, homosexuals and pedophiles, thieves and drug abusers they do not seek God and they hate those who do, they kill innocent babies daily and seek to kill those born who were supposed to be aborted, We live with the possibility of nuclear anniliation. Next to Sodom and Gomorrah and Noah's day we're the worst in history. I would have rather been born in 1862 instead of 1962. Does anyone else wish they would have been born a 100 years earlier?
"What an exciting time to be alive." "We are the greatest generation."
These statements, they make me want to (puking smiley)
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I'll take my computer over your old-fashioned "morals" any day. But if you want to live like you were born in 1862, go right ahead.
You can start by GTFO the Internet.
I'll take my computer over your old-fashioned "morals" any day. But if you want to live like you were born in 1862, go right ahead.
You can start by GTFO the Internet.
[I'm not a pessimist or a negative believer, but I believe these are some of the worst times to be alive...]
Cognitive dissonance, much?
1862? Right in the middle of a war that killed 600k Americans?
Of course, people were so much more moral back then. /endsarcasm.
This reads like a anarchist literature with jesus sprinkled in.
I'll have the anarchism, hold the christ.
he seems to be proclaiming Irish ancestry:
100 years ago he'd have been in steerage coming to the States, or suffering in the Troubles.
Prat
I've heard it over and over "we are the greatest".
Yeah yeah, every generation thinks it's the greatest generation, and every generation is wrong.
Every generation of you Fundies also seems to think that they're the ones that're going to get Raptured, too.
I was born in 1961 and I've been quite happy during my lifetime so far.
With the exception of nuclear anniliation, human beings have been doing all the things you listed since we decided to stand up and walk on two feet.
Human nature doesn't change.
All that stuff was around 100 years ago too, Johnny-boy, except for the nukes. You just refused to acknowledge it, since most of the bad stuff was happening to people with dark skin or no money.
Hey, why stop at 1862. Howabout you go live in Europe, 1348, and then see if you think we're still the worst in history.
Ignorant bastard.
"It makes me sick when Pastors and ministers make the above statements. "
Technology is getting better, average life span is longer, modern medicine is getting better, and so the criminal investigators.
Why must you guys always look on the downside of things?
" I would have rather been born in 1862 instead of 1962."
Why? So you could have died from an easily cureable illness at 35?
If life is so bad to you then get up and do something about. Don't sit and bitch about it all day.
I sure wish you were born 100 years ago, and had an abscessed molar. Or maybe a brain tumor. Assholes like you that hate the human race, and worship a god that also hates the human race, are not what I want living down my street.
If that's the way you truly feel, then fuck it. Go Amish. I'm dead serious. You wanna live like it's 100 years in the past, move yourself into an Amish community and stay there. Raise your family there and be happy.
... but I believe these are some of the worst times to be alive, sin is rampant, our society is hateful & anti-faith, anti-morals, greedy, Godless, seekers of pleasure, Killers, homosexuals and pedophiles, thieves and drug abusers they do not seek God and they hate those who do, they kill innocent babies daily and seek to kill those born who were supposed to be aborted, We live with the possibility of typhoid annihilation ..."
Whiner, 1862, 1762, 1662, 1562, etc.
Things are not worse than they were. Everything you just denounced has been just denounced by your type, and thus must have existed for them to do so, for millennia. If you'd been born in 1862, you'd be making the same rant pretty much word for word, only it'd be in a letter printed in a newspaper rather than in an internet post, and you'd be wishing to have been born in 1762.
Contrary to your above denial, you subscribe to the ultimate pessimism, which is not merely the belief that everything's awful, but that it's constantly getting worse and always will. I, on the other hand, sometimes wish I'd been born a hundred years later, not earlier, since I actually believe, overall, we're progressing. It's just a pity that progress is often fucking painful.
Let me tell you about the life in the 19th century.
First problem you would encounter is the lack of [most] modern medicines. You would be lucky to see fifth year of your life. And let's not get started on the smallpox...
Second problem would be poverty. You see, you hit the most unstable period of the whole century and the panics of 1873 and 1884 would certainly impoverish your family.
Third problem would be the amount of violence. You think today is bad? You should see the shit that was going down in the 1880's, mick.
Let's end it here, so you won't get a heart attack.
Are if you were really living by the words of that hippie you revere so much, you'd be out there, volunteering to help those people. Instead you bitch on an internet forum.
Nerd-rage is nothing when compared to Fundie-rage much?
There is one, and only one, Greatest Generation. They are those who suffered through the economic misery of the Great Depression, then fought a world war against insane dictators who wanted to take over the world.
I too wish you were born in 1862. You would be dead and I would not have to read your insane diatribe.
<b>I would have rather been born in 1862 instead of 1962. Does anyone else wish they would have been born a 100 years earlier?
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Let's see...<br/>August 19, 1862: Lakota warriors slaughter settlers in New Ulm, Minnesota<br/>January 6, 1862: French forces invade Mexico for no apparent reason. <br/>September 17, 1862: Battle of Antietam; bloodiest day in American history.<br/>December 18: All Jews are expelled from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
<br/> Yup, it was a wonderful time.
On the other hand, and despite countries stuck in poverty, Mankind has never been better. We've never lived longer, healthier, or richer. We've never known more about how our world works. We've never been in a better position to advance human knowledge, and joy, more than today.
Despite wide-ranging conflicts, the World has never been more devoted to peace. The threat of nuclear annihilation has, largely, disappeared.
Now. If we can use our unprecedented knowledge and wealth to preserve our environment? We, the human race, will enjoy a very bright future that may even encompass the stars.
And the only thing preventing this from happening? Ignorant fundies who want a worldwide return to the ignorance of the past. Moronic hicks who want a return to the Dark Ages.
So? I have a message for fundies:
STFU and get out of our way! Return to your darkened hovels and let the human race fulfill its destiny!!!
Yeah, your pastor's not real big on humility. Still, it's fair to claim we're the luckiest generation.
Most of your anxiety about today is based on you minding other people's business. Give up that vice and you'll become happy.
The exception is your fear of nuclear annihilation. You prefer a time of actual war to this time with only the threat of war? I can only presume it's altruistic concern for the impact on the rest of the planet.
But that threat has existed for decades without escalating into war. I agree, the risk is there- but we can infer both that the threat itself has had some stabilising influence, and also there is the remote hope that we might yet 'dissolve the armies in the name of super weapons, and dissolve the super weapons in the name of humanity.'
Health is up, hunger is down, surviving offspring are up, slavery is down. No, I don't wish I were born 100 years ago.
if you hate the modern era so much, go live in the country without electricity, running water, and medical care.
And especially GTFO the Internet.
I was supposed to be aborted back in the 60's. They were really concerned about my mother surviving the birth, but she ummmed and ahhed about it too long.
Is Obama going to hunt me down?
Or better still, maybe it would have been better if you had never been born at all. Matey, if I were you, I'd start seeking pleasure now, while you still can, because when you're dead it's for ever. It must suck to be your relative, and it must be particularly bad to be one of your kids, that is, if you've got any.
You're painting a very nasty picture of America, is it that bad over there? It's pretty good at the moment where I am, and I do believe actual crime figures are down too over here.
You throw up in church when the minister's preaching? You must be a REALLY devout fundie.
@OldKingColeSlaw: I've actually been to Massacre Day in New Ulm, when they commemorate that attack. (Although now they've changed the name to Pioneer Day, which is kinda blah.)
"but I believe these are some of the worst times to be alive"
Then quit bitching and praying, get off your lazy knees, educate your history ignorant brain and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Oh and proselytizing doesn't count, or witnessing (etc). You actually have to physically help the Human race.
Your whining may have been of value had it not been completely baseless.
Now get your Neo-Luddite ass off the internet!
I am delighted to be living in the 21st century. iPhones! Feminism! Flying cars (well, maybe one of these days).
I wish you had been born in 1862 because now you would be dead.
hateful & anti-faith, anti-morals, greedy, Godless, seekers of pleasure, Killers, homosexuals and pedophiles, thieves and drug abusers they do not seek God and they hate those who do, they kill innocent babies daily and seek to kill those born who were supposed to be aborted
So none of these things existed 100 years ago? I think someone needs a history lesson. - rather a reality lesson.
I would have rather been born in 1862 instead of 1962. Does anyone else wish they would have been born a 100 years earlier?
Not really considering the life expectancy was only 40.
The fact that you lump something loving and harmless like homosexuality with harmful things like murder and child rape makes me want to (puking smiley).
Oh, and about the S&G, Noah day thing, in fifty years when nothing happens, people like you will still be saying the same thing. It's basically lost all meaning.
As for me, if I had to pick between earlier or later, I'd rather be born 100 years later. Hopefully by that time, fundie influence on society will, if anything, be the same as today's neo-nazis.
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