Moridinice said:
God wrote the Bible.
if that were true in any shape or form. there would be another documentary book about the event when god came down and wrote it.
I love that one. Picking it apart unilaterally results in a mind-based BSOD. The poor guys don't want to back away or start messing with the metaphysics of their faith in front of me, so the usual saving throw involves "Well, it's metaphorical anyway! God told the Apostles to write it!" or something of the sort.
That's when they're slightly closer to a more credible response. When they reply with "Well, duh, Jesus wrote the Bible!", I tend to just flat-out give up.
My personal favourite is "This game's stupid because it's violent." My father lobs it all the damn time. He paid me a visit while I was working my way through a pirate outpost in FarCry 3, landing that one particular observation almost five minutes in.
I explained the premise of the game to him. "Well, then, it's still stupid because you can't talk the pirates out of shooting you," he replied.
Of course. How could I forget? The next time I see a bunch of coked-up and balls-tripping dudes dressed in red in the middle of a dingy collection of beachfront shacks, I'll have Jason pull out his white undies, stick 'em on a twig and make a little surrender flag out of it. That's sure to end well for me.
Everyday life gives people the impression that impartial mediation is always a possibility. In the context of a game like FarCry 3, I have no trouble at all believing in the setting's rule of "shoot first, ask questions later".
At least, Dad shares my relief at seeing non-brown and non-desaturated shooters creep back in.
D-Class 198482 said:
So he completely ignores the concept that, according to the Theory of Evolution, we evolved from monkeys which by stereotype eat bananas like mad, and thus would've evolved to hold them better?
I'd agree, but be careful. We haven't come *from* monkeys. We're primates, yes, but our closest natural relatives are the Great Apes. We've evolved *alongside* the current variety of primate cultures. Landing the argument that we're *from* these animals never fails to give believers or God-fearing types a window to poke at you for assuming that we're related to a supposedly lesser species.
This might seem like empty semantics to you, but that mistake saw me get stuck into a Darwinist debate with one of my Jehovah's Witnesses friends, back when I was in high school. That's a pretty thorny bush to get out of.
The Tall Nerd said:
HAHAHAHAH
they would just invent new ways to murder , what planet do YOU live on
Read Acton Hank's post over, Tall Nerd. He's saying exactly what you are, just in a more developed fashion. Yes, people would invent new ways to murder. He just said we'd switch to baseball bats, chainsaws and the like. Removing guns would end up proving the "Guns don't kill people" argument, one way or the other.