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Comment on Children, religions, and deception by Alena

Alena — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:43:34 +0000

So… I’m 16… I don’t believe in god, the toothfairy, or Santa Clause, and I don’t believe in pushing people to believe something. Telling a child that you believe in Santa, or the tooth fairy is fine until they’re old enough to make their own decision because you don’t want to ruin their dreams. Belief in god is an entirely different matter.

If a child is old enough to ask wheather or not you believe in a something means that they’re expecting an answer. Sure, they may think you’re silly for not believeing, but for a question like that, they’re probably just going to accept it, and move on. Kids are like that. No one should have religious view pushed upon them. You can offer a person an idea on how to look at the world and how it was created, but you can’t tell them. Choses maked the world an easier place to live in. At least to me. Quoting the bible, and telling me I’m going to hell because I don’t believe in Him, or because I don’t believe in heaven or hell is just going to make me resent your religion even more….

Comment on Pigeons and statues by Jenni van Rooyen

Jenni van Rooyen — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:48:20 +0000

That is not a pigeon - it is a wopping big seagull!

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by Joe

Joe — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:52:19 +0000

I think that the problem with the world today is too many people forcing religion OUT of society. If we were all beleivers in Christianity the world would be at peace. I am not saying to force one religion on everyone but i do feel that by taking religion, more specifically, GOD out of society is causing much of the worlds problems and will soon lead to the end. Now that being said I welcome the end considering i know where i am going when i die, can you say the same?

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by Mike Lopez

Mike Lopez — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:14:06 +0000

I used to be a Christian and encouraged my family, especially my kids, to believe in God. Through the years however, I came to realize that Christianity and God is more of a myth than fact. Recently, my daughters asked me why I don’t go to church anymore. I told them without hesitation that I no longer believe in God. My wife who is still a Christian was disturbed by my answer and talked to me a few nights after but I just told her that I’d rather say the truth than lie. That quite ended the discussion. :)

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by wendy

wendy — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:02:38 +0000

i have told my children that i have never seen santa or the tooth fairy, but i believe and it would be their choice to believe if they want to too. As for god, believe in what you have to that will help you get throught the day and be happy…. there are alot of unanswered question that children might have that i don’t have the answer to either… thats what life is about……….

Comment on Hiroshima, a military base by Bianca

Bianca — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:22:03 +0000

Heroshima did have a military base but, a warning was not given to civilians that the bombing was to occur. That is simply what made our country seem foolish….not warning. At 11:00 three days later on the radio while another bombing is going on is not the time for a warning.

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by GÞB

GÞB — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:21:50 +0000

But Satan (if that is your real name), let me tell you something. Consider the unicorn and dragon, both of which manifestly exist. Ha! Let both of Them have mercy on you through Their divine Love. (And do note the reverence implicit in my capitalization. I'm expecting extra credit for that at the Pearlies.) Can't help you with your prospective feces, much less the FSM ... but on that note, Russell must be slapping his crumbling forehead over the news that people are getting jailed for teapot worship.

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by Satan

Satan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:41:43 +0000

Originally posted by Qbe “Everything that has word for it, exists.”

Ummm. “Unicorn” “Dragon” “The Shit That I Will Take in Two Days.” “Flying Spaghetti Monster.”
Yeah…false premise.

Comment on Hiroshima, a military base by GÞB

GÞB — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:38:57 +0000

Thanks, Angela, for that cogent critique. It really put me in my place.

Comment on Hiroshima, a military base by angela

angela — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:32:17 +0000

Another pathethic fool ! You obviously have a great chip on your shoulder about the greatest nation on earth. Go home and don’t come out until you have copped on.

Comment on SQL Server nastiness by dan s.

dan s. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:43:51 +0000

Thanks very much for the article, and a special thanks to Antonio for the nifty little function.

I was banging my head against the wall in SSIS trying to copy data from SQL2000 to SQL2005, with error messages like these:
Description: “OLE DB provider ‘STREAM’ for linked server ‘(null)’ returned invalid data for column ‘[!BulkInsert].column_name’. “.

Turned out it was due to NaN being inserted by a third party. And SSIS did not like them.

Anyhoo… I modified Antonio’s function to return Nulls instead NaN and used them on the offending columns. Works like a charm. So thanks again everybody

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by GÞB

GÞB — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:00:26 +0000

The bottom right one, the three interlocking crescents, is apparently adopted by Neo-Pagans to represent “the Triple Goddess” (whose existence seems to me about one-third as credible as that of a single goddess), but is originally the emblem of Diana of Poitiers and her lover Henry II of France.

The one to its left, the lotus carrying a flame, is the symbol of Ayyavazhi, a belief system that is either an independent monistic religion or a Hindu sect depending on whom you ask.

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by Frank

Frank — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:05:09 +0000

What are the symbols in the middle, and the far bottom right?
I’ve never seen them before. (The religious symbols) ?

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by Tahira

Tahira — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:29:19 +0000

u kno wt…i agree with u…
considering the fact that i dont agree with u on the fact that there is no God
but i would just as well respect ur belief and principles
but then again im only 15 years old so i hav a long time ahead of me to understand this
c…the funny thing is i started out browsing through google and this came up
it looked very interesting i actually read all of it…even the comments
and honestly i dont think u should listen to some of this BULL from ppl who cant accept differences…
i highly doubt that half of them even kno wt they are, better yet, wt they believe in

Comment on Children, religions, and deception by Missie

Missie — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:57:59 +0000

I have 5 kids. 10, 6, 4, and 1 yo twins.

My children know that many people believe different things. My child is learning about God at school. She asked me today about God. I told her a bit of what I believe and why.

I think it is important to expose children to all the beliefs and not simply what the parents believe. My children also know a little bit about how others choose to believe in God, goddess, etc. It isn’t any different in my mind than letting them know that people with brown skin are the same as us with “tan” skin, and they also know santa isn’t real, the toothfairy is his cousin, the easter bunny is related too, and all to the ominous, all powerful, leader of the world, male god that will smite u down if you say otherwise.