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Fez Hammersticks

Fez Hammersticks

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I just bought this movie (by Bill Maher) and I gotta say it's a breath of fresh air. He brings to light the million contradictions with all the various religions in the world. Has anyone else seen this documentary?

Even as a kid when I first heard about the talking snake in the garden of Eden I didn't believe it. It was something you'd hear in a Dr. Seuss book. The guy living in the large fish for three days, I mean.. come on!
 
Fez said:
I just bought this movie (by Bill Maher) and I gotta say it's a breath of fresh air. He brings to light the million contradictions with all the various religions in the world. Has anyone else seen this documentary?

Even as a kid when I first heard about the talking snake in the garden of Eden I didn't believe it. It was something you'd hear in a Dr. Seuss book. The guy living in the large fish for three days, I mean.. come on!
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What's not to believe? It's a big fish. It's not like it said whale.
 
I saw the movie, I thought it was well-done. It wasn't hateful, but it was certainly skeptical of religion and the endorsements of violence that happen within religion, despite all religions' claims of valuing peace and love.
 
Fez said:
I just bought this movie (by Bill Maher) and I gotta say it's a breath of fresh air. He brings to light the million contradictions with all the various religions in the world. Has anyone else seen this documentary?
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I haven't seen it yet but I am thinking about buying it. They're supposed to be available at Wal-mart but since I live in the Midwest you never know.

Even as a kid when I first heard about the talking snake in the garden of Eden I didn't believe it. It was something you'd hear in a Dr. Seuss book. The guy living in the large fish for three days, I mean.. come on!
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This can and has been debated for centuries but I don't believe the bible is supposed to be taken literally but rather symbolically.
 
Anima said:
This can and has been debated for centuries but I don't believe the bible is supposed to be taken literally but rather symbolically.
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a talking snake or a man living inside a fish are no less believable than that jesus was the son of god, worked miracles, rose from the dead, and flew bodily up to heaven (to paraphrase a Maherism).
 
Fez said:
I just bought this movie (by Bill Maher) and I gotta say it's a breath of fresh air. He brings to light the million contradictions with all the various religions in the world. Has anyone else seen this documentary?

Even as a kid when I first heard about the talking snake in the garden of Eden I didn't believe it. It was something you'd hear in a Dr. Seuss book. The guy living in the large fish for three days, I mean.. come on!
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Does he go after teh jews and muslims or is it an attack on christians mainly?

just wondering.
 
I've seen Mahar around LA out on the town. That guy is a total scrub, everytime I've seen him, just seemed depressed and low energy compared to his TV persona.
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
I've seen Mahar around LA out on the town. That guy is a total scrub, everytime I've seen him, just seemed depressed and low energy compared to his TV persona.
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I've always got that feeling about him. Every time I've heard him try to promote his movie all I could think was

"Man he really needs to find god" :lol:
 
yeah. he's in that whole playboy mansion/hollywood scene. i'm not denying that he probably gets some hot ass or parties it up, but whenever I've seen him around in person, he just looks kind of depressed.

the thing is he's like 50 years old, out on the scene in hollywood with wannabe actors/actresses. I see the same thing in Hugh Hefner now too. all the women around him now are more than show than anything. hard to explain but bachelorhood for life is kind of sad once they're all older and trying to be all cool in hollywood. hollywood and all that life kind of drains your soul. when you're young, its all cool and shit because you're just fucking around...but when you get later on in life i would imagine its quite sad.
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
yeah. he's in that whole playboy mansion/hollywood scene. i'm not denying that he probably gets some hot ass or parties it up, but whenever I've seen him around in person, he just looks kind of depressed.

the thing is he's like 50 years old, out on the scene in hollywood with wannabe actors/actresses. I see the same thing in Hugh Hefner now too. all the women around him now are more than show than anything. hard to explain but bachelorhood for life is kind of sad once they're all older and trying to be all cool in hollywood. hollywood and all that life kind of drains your soul. when you're young, its all cool and shit because you're just fucking around...but when you get later on in life i would imagine its quite sad.
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You'd be wrong.

barfo
 
He's low energy because he smokes so much pot.

I thought the movie was funny but his smug smart ass routine wears a bit.

For the record I think his show on HBO is good when there is a good panel, but almost unwatchable when he has to carry the show himself (like last week).
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
yeah. he's in that whole playboy mansion/hollywood scene. i'm not denying that he probably gets some hot ass or parties it up, but whenever I've seen him around in person, he just looks kind of depressed.

the thing is he's like 50 years old, out on the scene in hollywood with wannabe actors/actresses. I see the same thing in Hugh Hefner now too. all the women around him now are more than show than anything. hard to explain but bachelorhood for life is kind of sad once they're all older and trying to be all cool in hollywood. hollywood and all that life kind of drains your soul. when you're young, its all cool and shit because you're just fucking around...but when you get later on in life i would imagine its quite sad.
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Do you like his show on HBO? I think it is decent and kind of funny but I enjoy Red Eye more.
 
Just watched it last week, very well done.
 
I personally find his smugness a huge turn off to any good points he makes about anything. He's repeated the same colloquialisms, jokes and snipes so often that I doubt anyone could have a serious conversation with him. It's not enlightening, it's just annoying. I find my self with the same point of view on nearly every topic, but I just can't stand the way he carries himself and talks to anyone who thinks differently.
 
huevonkiller said:
Do you like his show on HBO? I think it is decent and kind of funny but I enjoy Red Eye more.
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Small Wonder iz fun-e-or thyn Red Eye.

Tha least funnee show eye've evR zeen. (Jay Leno is a close 2nd)
 
huevonkiller said:
Do you like his show on HBO? I think it is decent and kind of funny but I enjoy Red Eye more.
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Okay, once again, I don't get you. Maher attacks Christianity like it's a foul, pestilent disease, and yet you enjoy his show, even though you have images of Christ all over your post. My head is spinning . . .
 
You can talk about his smug attitude all you want but he brings up a ton of legitimate information in this documentary. The date of the birth of Christ wasn't determined until 349 AD. A lot of the bible was written by man, human beings. If Sylvia Brown was alive in that era would she be anointed a prophet? Edgar Cayce?
 
Man contributed to the content of the bible. Moses went on top of a mountain and talked to god and came down with the 10 commandments. These are all just stories. I'm not an atheist but he brought up a lot of great points. Logic speaks much louder to me than what some man/person from that era wrote down.
 
Fez said:
Man contributed to the content of the bible. Moses went on top of a mountain and talked to god and came down with the 10 commandments. These are all just stories. I'm not an atheist but he brought up a lot of great points. Logic speaks much louder to me than what some man/person from that era wrote down.
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i don't know how many people take it all so literally. in 1000 years we'll probably have that Geroge Bush went into hand to hand combat and killed Saddam hussein or something.
 
So the talking snake must have been?

Parting the red sea, which goes against all laws of physics, must have been?

I can only imagine what prophet Edgar Cayce would have written in the bible if he were alive in that era.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. You can't discard logic and even science.
 
what's there to discuss. its just been diluted or made up over the years...kind of like fables or whatever. look at greek mythology...people believe that shit too. or that there were dragons or whatever.

people like mahr like to bait christians into these discussions because he enjoys trollling them, pissing them off. he doesn't really give a shit about it all i imagine....its just an easy target.
 
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