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#949448
draco_nite
You're absolutely correct. You are in the Matrix right now, and all the nonbelievers are Mr. Smith.
5/1/2009 9:52:46 AM
#949455
ND
There's dumb
Then there's dumber
Then there's dumberer
Then there is this guy.
5/1/2009 9:56:33 AM
#949456
Zeus Almighty
Hmmmm, I've heard this somewhere before? Where, oh where?
Oh, yeah, "The Matrix." Which was make-believe just like your religion.
5/1/2009 9:57:24 AM
#949457
Canadia
I don't know, I seem pretty real to myself, but hey, if your crazy keeps you occupied...
5/1/2009 9:57:38 AM
#949462
Somewhere, there's a fundie fapping to this.
5/1/2009 10:00:46 AM
#949465
Doctor Whom
Nothing in scripture supports this,
Then repent of the sin of adding to Scripture.
but this is how I took the verses about the potter creating vessels for ignoble purposes and some for noble purposes.
As is so often the case in your religion, you creatively reinterpreted a Bible passage because the plain meaning (in this case, that your magic sky pixie creates people to damn them and thus to cheer up the elect) is too offensive for even you to accept.
5/1/2009 10:02:29 AM
#949467
Headache
They seem real to us, but in the end they turn out not to be.
How do you know that you are not one of the simulators and that the devil is misleading you to think you are saved when in fact you are heading straight for the furnaces of hell?
5/1/2009 10:02:51 AM
#949473
El Zorro
What a disturbed way of looking at the world. People who doens't share my religious views are not real.
5/1/2009 10:05:23 AM
#949479
Ken
Then why do you try to "save" us?
Freaking arrogant. You're the only real people. Yeah right.
5/1/2009 10:09:53 AM
#949481
BobsOldSocks
"Nothing in scripture supports this..."
Blasphemer! Heretic! Repent!
5/1/2009 10:13:56 AM
#949482
Brain_In_A_Jar
Your premise is unworkable. Unless it were impossible for the elect to fail to be saved, which would make the entire simulation pointless, at least some of the unsaved must be real and damned to hell, and you should feel bad about that; I assume you've constructed this crude fantasy so as not to have to feel bad about being saved by someone who also condemns people to eternal torment.
5/1/2009 10:14:00 AM
#949484
Mister Spak
I imagine a scenario where Satan creates fake religions so people can be turned into hateful fundies and sent to hell when they die. Nothing in reality supports this, but this is how I took the blitherings of fundies.
5/1/2009 10:18:03 AM
#949487
Peas n' Carrots
I can see this being some stupid "christian" kid show.
"Satan's Home for Imaginary Athiests". Coming this summer to TBN!
5/1/2009 10:20:09 AM
#949498
Selkie
Stop plagiarizing "The Matrix".
5/1/2009 10:29:01 AM
#949504
Papabear
"I imagine a scenario where we learn that those who weren't saved weren't 'real'."
That sounds good, so, with no evidence whatsoever, I'm going to imagine a scenario in which all you Rapture Retards aren't real.
"What I mean is that I view the world as a kind of tester/simulator."
Aren't you folks supposedly big on a literal reading of the Bible? Nothing about the earth being a "tester/simulator" in the Bible, twinkie.
"The elect are put into the simulator to develop and test their souls."
By an omniscient deity who already knows the heart of every man?
"Those around us that are not saved are part of the simulation."
What of those elect who do not develop properly or who do not pass there "soul" tests?
"They seem real to us, but in the end they turn out not to be."
I am not one of those deluded into thinking that I am one of the "elect," however, I seem very real. No, really, all my friends agree that I AM real.
"Nothing in scripture supports this,"
That much is certain.
"but this is how I took the verses about the potter creating vessels for ignoble purposes and some for noble purposes."
Yes, but you haven't taken into consideration that you are a deluded bonehead.
5/1/2009 10:31:46 AM
#949507
Dakota Bob
There is no spoon.
5/1/2009 10:32:59 AM
#949510
jl
The most scary part about this is the implicit dehumanisation. Anyone who is not among the saved in this guy's eyes is possibly not human, and therefore okay to victimise.
I just hope if it does come to that, that victimise means "Be an arsehole to' and not 'Take a shotgun to'.
Also the 'Testing' bit is silly because no 'real' people can fail, but the 'develop' bit is at least self consistent.
5/1/2009 10:34:46 AM
#949516
stupidroro
The Matrix for Jeebus!
5/1/2009 10:41:48 AM
#949521
shykid
This is why fundies should not be allowed to watch The Matrix.
5/1/2009 10:51:59 AM
#949523
Amanda
"imagine" being the operative word here.
5/1/2009 10:54:26 AM
#949525
messy
I refute your hypothesis thus!
*kicks stone*
(with apologies to Dr Johnson)
5/1/2009 10:58:26 AM
#949526
GigaGuess
@El Zorro
It horrifies me because if the wrong kind of person latches onto this mentality, suddenly, there's a body count, rationalized by "They were unbelievers. They aren't real."
5/1/2009 10:58:40 AM
#949528
EvoPagan
Attention ClarionCall:
Your license to use the Interwebs has been revoked, effectively immediately. Stop posting. Now.
5/1/2009 10:59:26 AM
#949529
Zeus Almighty
jl said: "The most scary part about this is the implicit dehumanisation. Anyone who is not among the saved in this guy's eyes is possibly not human, and therefore okay to victimise."
Yeah, there was a character in a Vonnegut book who thought it was OK to abuse and kill anyone he wanted because he thought he was the only "real" person and everyone else was just robots put there by god as some sort of game.
5/1/2009 11:00:20 AM
#949531
LDM
If I'm not real, does that mean I get to stop paying my bills?
5/1/2009 11:02:21 AM
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