MMO Christian Ministy (was forum=10) (was forum=28)Follow

Christian Ministy eh?

I am biting my tongue so hard right now.

(Can't be evangelicals, they think D&Ds and MMOs and the like are Satan's training camps last I heard.)

Well, welcome I guess. I think we've had a few groups try to start up before, with various degrees of success. Problem is, FFXI is based in Japan, where they think that Christmas is the anniversary of the day Santa Claus beat the giant overlord robot Kris Kringle in a death grudge match of doom.

Edited, Sep 18th 2008 11:00pm by catwho

Yeah I do not know what to say.

I really do not think anyone gets on this game to find religion. No offense to you, I am fine with a group that is Christian and all, but I would warn you now that you will not be accepted all that well if you try to convert people in the game.

Wow, all the guy did was extend an inventation to anyone here who might be interested. He never even began to preach or lecture people about anything. Quit being such jackasses to the guy.

People on the internet are always talking about how they hate religious folks to come in and start preaching about things, but leave it to those very same people to start shouting about how they don't believe in this or that and begin mocking others.

Edited, Sep 18th 2008 11:25pm by DarkKnightZero

Well, y'see...



I think this here is the problem.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster will surely smite them from the interwebs with His Noodley Appendage before long anyway.

Nobody likes being told they're going to hell. At UGA, we have the Tate Center Preachers who come and tell us just that. It's a bit of a circus show, really. They're so busy saying homosexuals are going to burn and all the liberals are evil that they forget that Jesus was a socialist.

(I don't mind it if I can ignore it. I've made my peace with my religion and it's frankly nobody else's business what I believe. The Bible said to pray in a closet, so I do. I'm happy, and everybody else is happy since they don't hear me.)

Not saying the OP intended anything like this at all, but for most of us, our experiences with being proselytized to have not gone over well. So we tend to be suspicious of anyone that wants to witness to us.

In other words; don't call us, we'll call you.

/thread

ima kinda against most forms of organized religion. I hate listening to a minister about how i should interpret the bible. (I was baptized christian, though i stopped going to church the instant my parents stopped forcing me to go). the few pluses i can see to organizing religion is if they do do something nice for a community there is more power in numbers, and religions do do their fair share of community service.

but the instant a minister starts telling me what the bibles means is the instant i stop listening. The bible (as well as all matters of information) lose their true meaning the instant they are put down on paper. why you ask? because you cant fully put your real ideas down on paper. it is impossible, reguardless of your mastery of whatever language you can write with, to truely express how you feel about something. words just can never describe it. this goes for word of mouth as well. From Ghost in the Shell SAC 2nd Gig Kuze once said "It is fundamentally impossible for one human being to understand one another" or something along those lines. i believe this to almost all extents.

this being established, if you read a source your getting as close to what the writer intended you to read as you possibly can. the instant someone, a priest, interprets that for you, it loses the true meaning it originally had. instead its thoughts and ideas have been, for lack of a better word, "tainted". that is to say the person who is now "preaching" the book is telling you what it says from how he understands it. which is an inaccurate point of view, to how you may have understood it had you not heard his ideas. The best way to understand what the writers are trying to convey is to read the book yourself.

in closing. i don't like people telling me what something means, if i'm actually interested in what they are talking about i will pick up the book and just read it and form my own opinions. this in my opinion is how you keep information from losing its true value.

Does this make sense to anyone? i always have a hard time conveying this point?

Every Forest Hare I've ever slain has been a sacrifice to my Infernal Lord Satan.

Just thought you'd like to know...

Except, he didn't actually begin to preach ANYTHING. He simply said what his online community is about, he didn't even begin to try to force his beliefs on ANY of you.

So far all I see are a bunch of people ganging up on him and spewing the same old "ARRRGH DON'T FORCE YOUR BELIEFS ON ME!!" crap, yet at the same time will type a ******* essay about why they don't practice any sort of religion and why the whole thing is "stupid" to begin with and be absolutely oblivious to the hypocrisy and irony of it all.

"Wrong Forum!" x 8 isn't all too original.

Edited, Sep 18th 2008 11:04pm by KirbsterofRamuh

My point is we're not all saying "Take your religion elsewhere"

If you'd actually read the posts, they each vary.

Religion and internet don't mix. Anyone who wants to see the message will see it so I think it's time to lock the thread before some of the more abrasive trolls wake up.