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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by samuraix123 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:19 pm

I believe in God and the bible? does that make me a religious freak? I've never shoved my belief in anyone's faith not even once! I can already see this topic being locked soon
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by dbboxkaifan » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:03 pm

samuraix123 wrote:I believe in God and the bible? does that make me a religious freak? I've never shoved my belief in anyone's faith not even once! I can already see this topic being locked soon
No, not all religious people are "RFs".

Just imagine converting a console fanboy into a religious fanboy, and then the outcome.

Example of a stoopid console war:
Fanboy 1) Xbox 360 is better than PS3 and here's why...

Fanboy 2) NO U FAG PS3 IS BETTER THEN YOURS, KNOW WHY, DICKHEAD? I'LL TELL YA...

Fanboy 3) Nintendo's Wii is better because gameplay matter and graphics don't, and... (It's what about every Nintendo fanboy says)
Religious freaks can be more irritating than fanboys and more dangerous, because console fanbous just talk crap and not do something stupid in real life (unless they're mentally ill).

These Nintendo fanboys that keep saying "gameplay matters and graphics don't" they should tell me why on earth would they need a 3DS if an N64 or SNES would be perfectly fine (no 3D feature).
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by samuraix123 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:09 pm

Ah I thought you was maybe was meaning ''hey if you believe in religion then you're a freak'' Glad that's not the case. but I gotta admit snes is pretty bad ass :P
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Michelle91 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:30 pm

Gokuism? Do people really look into Dragon Ball that deep? Dragon Ball is fiction and is a anime for kids at the age of 6-17. I hate when people look into stuff way too deeply and think that there was some deep message.

I personally don't care for religion. If you believe in God that is fine but I think there is any proof that God exist or if God is anything that he is told in religion. To me, he is no different then believing in someone like Zerus or Santa Claus.
Fox666 wrote: But at least there aren't as many conflicts because of atheism.
Joseph Stalin was a atheist from what I can remember? And look at all of the conflicts that he caused :wink:
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by sangofe » Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:41 am

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sangofe wrote:I think you're just trolling, Rocketman :P
"I have no defense, so I'll just throw out the troll card". Nice.
To me it was an obvious troll. I am not trying to "defend" anything. I've just stated what I've noted on countless occasions; religion messes up people. Not only religion though, but the fact that you follow every kind of shit rule without thinking about it does. I've got many religious friends that are not fucked up in their heads, but their parents used to be when they followed lots of "rules". Luckily they changed. It's when people get brainwashed and follow rules blindly without thinking then it messes up the world.
Hellspawn28 wrote:Gokuism? Do people really look into Dragon Ball that deep? Dragon Ball is fiction and is a anime for kids at the age of 6-17. I hate when people look into stuff way too deeply and think that there was some deep message.

I personally don't care for religion. If you believe in God that is fine but I think there is any proof that God exist or if God is anything that he is told in religion. To me, he is no different then believing in someone like Zerus or Santa Claus.
Fox666 wrote: But at least there aren't as many conflicts because of atheism.
Joseph Stalin was a atheist from what I can remember? And look at all of the conflicts that he caused :wink:
Look at all the conflicts all kind of extremists cause...(not even religious people) The only religion I haven't heard about causing conflicts is buddism and hinduism.

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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Fox666 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:49 am

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Fox666 wrote: But at least there aren't as many conflicts because of atheism.
Joseph Stalin was a atheist from what I can remember? And look at all of the conflicts that he caused :wink:
More-or-less he was, however that was not a conflict caused by atheism. Hitler was a devout Catholic, does that mean the conflicts of World War II are caused by christianity?

You can say that the communism tried to ban the Church as an institution, but then it comes a political question that is beyond the pure disbelief in God.

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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Gonstead » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:33 am

I think we've strayed off topic too much.

Going back to the topic at hand...

If this isn't trolling, someone really needs to get their head checked.
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Rocketman » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:39 am

Fox666 wrote:Hitler was a devout Catholic
Not really, no. Hitler would've said he was a Christian, but in his Christianity Jesus was an Aryan ubermensch whose message had been corrupted and omitted by his Jewish disciples. If Hitler had succeeded in overcoming the Allies and finishing the Holocaust, the Catholic Church and all the other branches of Christianity would've been destroyed too, because they were rival power structures to the Nazi regime.

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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Fox666 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:58 am

Rocketman wrote:Not really, no. Hitler would've said he was a Christian
He was. In his personal life he was an exemplary religious man, no matter what you could say about his political views.

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Rocketman wrote:but in his Christianity Jesus was an Aryan ubermensch whose message had been corrupted and omitted by his Jewish disciples.
That's a fallacy. If we are going to point who are not "true Christians" based on what he does or belief, I am pettry sure no one would be safe in modern days. Especially considering there are many different views of the same religions.
Rocketman wrote:If Hitler had succeeded in overcoming the Allies and finishing the Holocaust, the Catholic Church and all the other branches of Christianity would've been destroyed too, because they were rival power structures to the Nazi regime.
I am not quite sure how many historians would agree with that prediction. Besides there were many agreements beetween the Nazi party and the Catholic Church.

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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Perfect » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:01 am

dbboxkaifan wrote:
samuraix123 wrote:I believe in God and the bible? does that make me a religious freak? I've never shoved my belief in anyone's faith not even once! I can already see this topic being locked soon
No, not all religious people are "RFs".

Just imagine converting a console fanboy into a religious fanboy, and then the outcome.

Example of a stoopid console war:
Fanboy 1) Xbox 360 is better than PS3 and here's why...

Fanboy 2) NO U FAG PS3 IS BETTER THEN YOURS, KNOW WHY, DICKHEAD? I'LL TELL YA...

Fanboy 3) Nintendo's Wii is better because gameplay matter and graphics don't, and... (It's what about every Nintendo fanboy says)
Religious freaks can be more irritating than fanboys and more dangerous, because console fanbous just talk crap and not do something stupid in real life (unless they're mentally ill).

These Nintendo fanboys that keep saying "gameplay matters and graphics don't" they should tell me why on earth would they need a 3DS if an N64 or SNES would be perfectly fine (no 3D feature).
You do realize atheists push their views all the same as "religious freaks"? I've run into a lot where they're just as bad if not worse; there's no differences, stay on topic.
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Fox666 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:07 am

Perfect wrote:stay on topic.
Too late, LOL.

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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by MCDaveG » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:17 am

I'm against religions and -isms (Only acceptable religion for me is Budhism) in general......
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:52 pm

"I believe in God and Jesus Christ, two people I have no proof they ever existed, but I'm gonna rag on Gokuism because it's so stupid believing in a fictional character!"

Funny how people are claiming that having a religion based on a fictional character is ridiculous (or believing in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy because "only kids believe in them and then they grow out of it"), yet they think other "real" or "official" religions (e.g. Christianity, Judaism, Islam) are perfectly reasonable to believe in and no-one ever questions the existence of their prophets and their actions for fear of offense. What double-standard bullshit. :lol:

But yeah, could a moderator just lock this thread? This is just pointless and is going to start a religious flame war, and we all know that we don't know. People can be really irrational about this kind of shit.
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Fox666 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:30 pm

Well, there is a good analogy. Dragon Ball is a manga, and the Bible is a book. Both main characters are based on well know legends (Son Goku and Sun Wukong, Jesus Christ and Krishna). Etc.

But I think I prefer the guy who has been beating demons and aliens. :lol:

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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Michelle91 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:35 pm

sangofe wrote:The only religion I haven't heard about causing conflicts is buddism and hinduism.
True that you have a point but I think both religious fanatics and atheist fanactics are just as equally bad. Someone who thinks everyone must believe in the Bible and think anyone that does not should die is just as bad as someone who thinks anyone who believes in God should die.

Sad that religion cause so much trouble across the world since a lot of people died because of religion (For example Vlad the Impaler
was btrayed by christianity which cause him to kill over thousands of people from what I've read). I like religion for all of the art and media that it spawns but I think the world could be better without it. Some people believe that religion will be long gone by the 23rd century seeing that we will likely be on other Planets by then and we will know much more about our universe then we do now.
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Fox666 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:49 pm

Well, all knowledge we have today doesn't appears to have religion disappear.

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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by caejones » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:05 pm

Sonuva...

Well, considering how fragmented Christianity is, I think we should start taking bets on how long before Gokuism has its schisms.
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by Eire » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:10 pm

Hellspawn28 wrote: (For example Vlad the Impaler
was btrayed by christianity which cause him to kill over thousands of people from what I've read).
I promised to not get involved, but I couldn't bear it. Go and read about his personal life, standards of his time, politic and warfare, fall of Constantinople, monarchy crisis in Ottoman Empire and Hungary, state of Western and Eastern Churches, Hunyady family and Wallachia's position and then go and make assumption. Thank you in advance.

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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by caejones » Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:09 pm

There's been a split in Jediism? Eeks, as easily as humans turn on each other, it's a wonder that the tower of Babel could have gotten far enough to require divine intervention. ;)
Unless confusing their languages is a fancy way of saying they all got in a big disagreement and just flipped off Nimrod.
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Re: How do you feel about Gokuism?

Post by MCDaveG » Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:18 pm

Piccolo Daimao wrote:"I believe in God and Jesus Christ, two people I have no proof they ever existed, but I'm gonna rag on Gokuism because it's so stupid believing in a fictional character!"

Funny how people are claiming that having a religion based on a fictional character is ridiculous (or believing in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy because "only kids believe in them and then they grow out of it"), yet they think other "real" or "official" religions (e.g. Christianity, Judaism, Islam) are perfectly reasonable to believe in and no-one ever questions the existence of their prophets and their actions for fear of offense. What double-standard bullshit. :lol:

But yeah, could a moderator just lock this thread? This is just pointless and is going to start a religious flame war, and we all know that we don't know. People can be really irrational about this kind of shit.
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