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Title: Satan is Real
Post by: elpizo Jehoshua on February 26, 2013, 01:18:30 AM
What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: pato15 on February 26, 2013, 01:21:36 AM
You're right, and I actually found a photo of him:


(//http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rupert_Murdoch_3576.jpg)
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: BlackL1ght on February 26, 2013, 01:28:04 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........................................
[youtube:3vvkfjxk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kPUFxXYLs[/youtube:3vvkfjxk]
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: the_antithesis on February 26, 2013, 01:36:56 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.
Not nearly as evil as christians
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Hydra009 on February 26, 2013, 01:37:58 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.
DESPAIR!  FOR I AM THE END OF DAYS.
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Post by: SvZurich on February 26, 2013, 01:41:07 AM
He's honest.  Read your damn book and see that he never lied, unlike his father Yahweh.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: pato15 on February 26, 2013, 02:00:19 AM
I was having a bit of fun with the Rupert Murdoch thing, but Satan definitely is kinder and more compassionate than God in the OT.
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Post by: Plu on February 26, 2013, 02:17:36 AM
And I guess your god's greatest failure is failing to prove he exists, as well.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: NitzWalsh on February 26, 2013, 02:26:43 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.

Would you tell us how evil he is? What does he do?
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Fidel_Castronaut on February 26, 2013, 02:29:45 AM
You are a liar and a fraud, and you deceive yourself
With your childish fairy tales.
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Post by: The Skeletal Atheist on February 26, 2013, 02:47:52 AM
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Post by: Surrogate on February 26, 2013, 03:15:28 AM
I love it when he's referred to as the devil.  It sounds very childish, like you're talking about the boogieman.

Man's greatest deception?:  Religion.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: elpizo Jehoshua on February 26, 2013, 03:30:52 AM
Hilarious. The smug supposed superior intelligence of the duped.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: elpizo Jehoshua on February 26, 2013, 03:32:28 AM
You know, all this is gonna end. Your life is a breath. A fleeting blink.

Is it the weed that makes you stupid?
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Post by: Plu on February 26, 2013, 03:35:26 AM
Hm. Don't think there'll be any amusement from this one. Second post and already resorting to insults. What a waste of time.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: elpizo Jehoshua on February 26, 2013, 03:44:21 AM
Oh yes, I'm not a troll.

Let me ask you a question: How do you know? What if we're right?

Think about Pascals Wager without a foolish arrogant dismissal.
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Post by: Plu on February 26, 2013, 03:47:24 AM
QuoteLet me ask you a question: How do you know? What if we're right?

What if the muslims are right? What if the Romans were right? What if the Greeks were right? What if the Egyptians were right? What if the Mayas were right? What if the Incans were right? What if the Aztecs were right? What if the Buddhists are right? What if the Norse were right? What if the Germanic tribes were right? What if the Chinese are right? What if the Japanese are right? What if the Wiccans are right? What if the Pastafarians are right?

Maybe we should believe all of them to be correct? After all, think about Pascal's Wager...
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: elpizo Jehoshua on February 26, 2013, 04:08:02 AM
You're lying to yourself and you know it. Why?

You know Jesus is God.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Bibliofagus on February 26, 2013, 04:10:28 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist.

[s:36uu7pca]The devil thinks he doesn't exist?[/s:36uu7pca]

Edit: Wait wtf.

The devil doesn't exist but he has been duped into thinking so?
How does that work?
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Post by: Plu on February 26, 2013, 04:10:41 AM
And look, argument destroyed. That was easy.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: elpizo Jehoshua on February 26, 2013, 04:24:18 AM
Why do you people lie to yourselves? Every last one of you know Jesus is God. He is the Savior.

This knowledge, that you deny, is going to condemn you in the end. You're going to have to answer for it.

Today is the day of salvation.
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Post by: Plu on February 26, 2013, 04:32:34 AM
I'll gladly answer for my deeds in the afterlife. If your god is just and loving (as you say), he'll understand my reasons and reward me for living a good life without the threat of eternal damnation. If he's a vindictive asshole (as he's pictured in the bible) then kissing his ass all day will be just as much a hell as being on fire.

I've nothing to lose.

Of course, it's more likely that there won't be an afterlife, and you'll have wasted your life. It's a good thing you won't be aware that you've wasted it, or you'd feel really dumb.
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Post by: Nihil-ist on February 26, 2013, 04:56:43 AM
Put on your reading glasses Mr. (//http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120120025836/elderscrolls/images/thumb/7/7c/Troll-Skyrim.jpg/240px-Troll-Skyrim.jpg)
(//http://i.imgur.com/aVSVQ.png)
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Post by: Plu on February 26, 2013, 05:01:43 AM
Cool graph. Should remember that.
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Post by: DunkleSeele on February 26, 2013, 05:32:16 AM
How did this dumbfuck open a new thread with less than 10 posts? Mods, you may want to look into it.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Atheon on February 26, 2013, 05:38:50 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"Think about Pascals Wager without a foolish arrogant dismissal.
Yup. Troll.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Fidel_Castronaut on February 26, 2013, 05:50:24 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"Hilarious. The smug supposed superior intelligence of the duped.

I know, right?

You just look like more of a fool everytime you post.  :popcorn:

Be gone, devil worshipper! Be gone!  :Hangman:
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Johan on February 26, 2013, 07:34:26 AM
Trolls make me sad. It always seems like they really believe their own bullshit. So sad.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Youssuf Ramadan on February 26, 2013, 07:35:15 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"Why do you people lie to yourselves? Every last one of you know Jesus is God. He is the Savior.

Why has nobody seen the fucker for 2000 years then?


Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"This knowledge, that you deny, is going to condemn you in the end. You're going to have to answer for it.

Today is the day of salvation.

Bring it on.  I can't fucking wait.   8-)
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Post by: Icarus on February 26, 2013, 07:50:15 AM
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Post by: wolf39us on February 26, 2013, 07:51:41 AM
8-)
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Post by: Jedster on February 26, 2013, 07:53:31 AM
Quote from: "The Skeletal Atheist"[ Image (//http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m214/dred-pirate-rob/god-v-satan.png) ]
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Indeed so.
Even those 10 he murdered with God's agreement.
It is unfair that Satan has been getting all the bad PR.
It just shows how the media can distort things!
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: LoneQuietus on February 26, 2013, 08:00:51 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"Every last one of you know Jesus is God. He is the Savior.

Why? Because we're atheists or is it just that everyone on Earth 'knows' Jesus is God and Savior? Does this knowledge just blossom in your brain one day?

Seriously, have you ever considered that we know what you have to say and that it's been found inadequate?? Do you have the intellectual curiosity and courage to examine your beliefs to look into [blink:phbi88lp]WHY[/blink:phbi88lp] we find your beliefs lacking? Surely, if you're right you have nothing to lose.

There is some serious arrogance or ignorance in stating that you "Know" what a group of people know.

There really is no difference between you and billboard-wearing, bell-ringing crazies who walk down the street screaming, "REPENT! THE END IS NIGH!"

One thing is sure: you love the sound of your own voice just like Mr. Billboard. Your posts will never take a back-and-forth, conversational format, because YOU are the person in this topic who is arrogant and smug about what they think.  You waltz in telling us what we think and that you know we know you're right, and then tell us we're conceited for not agreeing with you! Still wondering why you haven't been offered a cup of tea? If you are, you're stupid.
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Post by: Youssuf Ramadan on February 26, 2013, 08:01:40 AM
I still don't understand why Satan would punish me for being bad.  If I'm that much of a cunt he'll treat me like I'm one of his boys, right?  I'd have the keys to the city.....

Silly Christians....  :roll:
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: leo on February 26, 2013, 08:35:05 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.
Another funny troll ? I like funny trolls . I'm a fan of Ali g . The ultimate troll . By the way you have to check the Ali g interview about religion . VERY FUNNY .
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Jason78 on February 26, 2013, 08:39:26 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"You know Jesus is God.

He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: BarkAtTheMoon on February 26, 2013, 09:27:20 AM
I call Poe on this one. There better be some funny coming out of this thread soon to make it worth keeping around, cause so far it's boring.

[moderator:1cm20o4b]elpizo Jehoshua, come up with something interesting, or you'll find your stay here ending very soon.[/moderator:1cm20o4b]
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: The Skeletal Atheist on February 26, 2013, 09:34:03 AM
Quote from: "BarkAtTheMoon"I call Poe on this one. There better be some funny coming out of this thread soon to make it worth keeping around, cause so far it's boring.

[moderator:1ucoums5]elpizo Jehoshua, come up with something interesting, or you'll find your stay here ending very soon.[/moderator:1ucoums5]
I have no qualms about him getting kicked to the curb right now, if that opinion's worth anything. Doubtful anything good will come out of him. I mean, maybe you can use the shit he spews the fertilize a garden, but if you keep him around you're just going to deal with a whole lotta shit.
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Post by: leo on February 26, 2013, 09:36:01 AM
Quote from: "Nihil-ist"Put on your reading glasses Mr. [ Image (//http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120120025836/elderscrolls/images/thumb/7/7c/Troll-Skyrim.jpg/240px-Troll-Skyrim.jpg) ]
[ Image (//http://i.imgur.com/aVSVQ.png) ]
Awesome chart !
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Post by: kilodelta on February 26, 2013, 10:03:01 AM
Is it too much to expect originality from a troll?

What's next? The Bible is the true word of god because that's what the Bible says? Look into your heart? A rainbow?!
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: stromboli on February 26, 2013, 10:13:23 AM
(Checks into forum on a Tuesday morning. Sees forum members playing with their food. Sighs dejectedly and leaves.)
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on February 26, 2013, 10:59:06 AM
THE OP LIES! The Tooth Fairy rules our lives and made a nickel down payment under my pillow..:shock:
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Aroura33 on February 26, 2013, 11:03:30 AM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"Hilarious. The smug supposed superior intelligence of the duped.
Looking in a mirror?
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on February 26, 2013, 11:12:03 AM
Wasnt Satan a dog in some movie? We KNOW Hollywood is always truthful and honest.

Be that as it may her dental deity has the power to cause abscesses in teeth and brothers and sisters I promise you they're real hell. :P
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: BlackL1ght on February 26, 2013, 11:46:52 AM
Quote from: "stromboli"(Checks into forum on a Tuesday morning. Sees forum members playing with their food. Sighs dejectedly and leaves.)
Om nom nom nom nom nom nom.....
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Aroura33 on February 26, 2013, 12:43:47 PM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.
I also was just thinking, that must be a pretty poor deception, since like 90% of Christians believe that Satan is real, and it's a damn populous religion, so he's doing a pretty piss poor job of tricking people into thinking he doesn't exist.  So your entire argument is just stupid from your OWN perspective, since you "know" that most of your xtian fellows are also not tricked.  That makes you a LIAR (or stupid, or both).

Anyway, I know I'm feeding the troll, I guess I'm just a tad bored this morning. :D
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Gerard on February 26, 2013, 12:59:35 PM
[moderator:dj46drsi]People who threaten us with hell fire, are granted the privilege to be dispensed to cyber heaven a.s.a.p.[/moderator:dj46drsi]

(//http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g97/Popperite/Banhammer-3.jpg)
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Post by: Savior2006 on February 26, 2013, 02:47:54 PM
A fucking six-post life span. That HAS to be a record.

Edit: Gerard, work on your idiot-response time. It's my dream to see one idiot banned in two vomit posts maximum.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Warhorse on February 26, 2013, 02:55:19 PM
Quote from: "Hydra009"
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.
DESPAIR!  FOR I AM THE END OF DAYS.

Praise Jebus! Halleburry!
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Warhorse on February 26, 2013, 03:13:27 PM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"You're lying to yourself and you know it. Why?

You know Jesus is God.

Elpizo, there is only one way to deal with idiots like you, which is simply to ignore you. You're obviously either brainwashed or just really, really stupid. If you truly believe in God, then you're crazy. Jesus was never a man, and even if he was, he was most certainly not the son of God (since God doesn't exist.) Even if we were to believe Jesus actually walked the earth, then we must logically assume that Mary got jiggy with some other MAN while Joseph was away, and then panicked when Joseph came home and found her preggers. "It's the seed of God!" Mary said. But in reality it was actually the seed of Malachi from down the block. Seriously, Elpizo, pull your head out of your backside. I think oxygen deprivation has caused you to suffer brain damage.
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Post by: Gerard on February 26, 2013, 03:39:40 PM
Quote from: "Savior2006"A fucking six-post life span. That HAS to be a record.

Edit: Gerard, work on your idiot-response time. It's my dream to see one idiot banned in two vomit posts maximum.

My response time is lacking. I'm afraid it will remain that way for all eternity.... Which I will spend in a Hellfire specially created for my purposes.

(//http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g97/Popperite/struisvogelsatan.jpg)

Nobody is perfect. Not even Satan!

Gerard
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Aroura33 on February 26, 2013, 03:59:11 PM
Gerard, I love that ostrich with his new little additions.  He's so cute!!!!
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: St Giordano Bruno on February 26, 2013, 04:41:07 PM
Just found the source of that ridiculous quote:  

"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist."

? Charles Baudelaire
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Thumpalumpacus on February 26, 2013, 04:42:17 PM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"You know, all this is gonna end. Your life is a breath. A fleeting blink.

And yours is as well.  The pity is, you will have squandered what few years you have in chatteldom.

Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"Is it the weed that makes you stupid?

Well, that's very Christian of you.  Thanks for playing.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: The Dude on February 26, 2013, 04:45:37 PM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"You're lying to yourself and you know it. Why?

You know Jesus is God.

"I'm the Holy Trinity. I'm half Jesus, I'm half God! I'm my own son."

[youtube:z780dr4z]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ26RApuQJo[/youtube:z780dr4z]
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Gerard on February 26, 2013, 05:39:50 PM
Quote from: "Aroura33"Gerard, I love that ostrich with his new little additions.  He's so cute!!!!

Thank you! I once considered to put he diabolic version of Marvin (that's what I call my ostrich) up as an avatar. But I like to keep him pure and innocent as he is....

Gerard
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Youssuf Ramadan on February 26, 2013, 05:52:51 PM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"You know, all this is gonna end. Your life is a breath. A fleeting blink.

I heartily agree.  And this is why I intend to spend my time profitably engaged in stimulating activities rather than jacking off over a mythical 2000 year old carpenter's son who is his own father and wants me to accept him as the big burrito so he can forgive me for the sins he caused me to commit.  You need a better hobby, fr00t.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Bobby_Ouroborus on February 26, 2013, 06:31:21 PM
Quote from: "St Giordano Bruno"Just found the source of that ridiculous quote:  

"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist."

? Charles Baudelaire

Actually Baudelaire is great and you're a fucking idiot. I bet you never ever even read Baudelaire.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: The Skeletal Atheist on February 26, 2013, 06:37:46 PM
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"
Quote from: "St Giordano Bruno"Just found the source of that ridiculous quote:  

"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist."

? Charles Baudelaire

Actually Baudelaire is great and you're a fucking idiot. I bet you never ever even read Baudelaire.
What a civil, well reasoned response.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: WitchSabrina on February 26, 2013, 06:38:15 PM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.

Look who doesn't exist now? That'd be you.
*snark*

So...........you guys had a chew toy and didn't tell me?  Oh, Ok.  I see how it is.
Fine.
See who loves ya when you get old.
 :rollin:
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Icarus on February 26, 2013, 06:41:54 PM
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"Actually Baudelaire is great and you're a fucking idiot. I bet you never ever even read Baudelaire.

I just read some of Les Fleurs du mal and didn't like it, does that make me a fucking idiot  :-k
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Johan on February 26, 2013, 07:04:45 PM
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.
Actually the greatest deception wasn't the devil. The greatest deception was the guy who convinced a bunch of people that both god and the devil existed and then further convinced them to do what he said so as to insure they end up meeting one and not the other. Greatest deception ever. That guy was a fuckin' genius.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on February 26, 2013, 07:10:20 PM
To the OP.. Since you no longer exist here, if ever congratulations! You're right up there with BOTH Satan and god. You don't exist! :D
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Thumpalumpacus on February 26, 2013, 07:11:28 PM
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"Actually Baudelaire is great and you're a fucking idiot. I bet you never ever even read Baudelaire.

Yeah, clearly he's influenced you to be thoughtful and rational.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Bobby_Ouroborus on February 26, 2013, 07:20:39 PM
Quote from: "Icarus"
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"Actually Baudelaire is great and you're a fucking idiot. I bet you never ever even read Baudelaire.

I just read some of Les Fleurs du mal and didn't like it, does that make me a fucking idiot  :-k

If you didn't read it in the original Klingon then yes it does.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Bobby_Ouroborus on February 26, 2013, 07:25:42 PM
Quote from: "The Skeletal Atheist"
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"
Quote from: "St Giordano Bruno"Just found the source of that ridiculous quote:  

"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist."

? Charles Baudelaire

Actually Baudelaire is great and you're a fucking idiot. I bet you never ever even read Baudelaire.
What a civil, well reasoned response.

He fucking called Baudelaire ridiculous...when he probably never read Baudelaire...so who is being fucking unreasonable?

The thoughtful and reasoned response when it comes to talking about poets you don't know shit about is to keep your fucking mouth quiet.

Capiche or no?
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Thumpalumpacus on February 26, 2013, 07:32:17 PM
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"He fucking called Baudelaire ridiculous...when he probably never read Baudelaire...so who is being fucking unreasonable?

The thoughtful and reasoned response when it comes to talking about poets you don't know shit about is to keep your fucking mouth quiet.

Capiche or no?

No.  Just because Baudelaire wrote it doesn't make it gospel.   He didn't say anything about Baudelaire anyway, as you will see if you reread his post.  He called the quote ridiculous.  

Don't look now, but you're engaged in worship.

To answer your question, you're being ridiculous, and very publicly so, too.  Carry on.  :)
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: The Skeletal Atheist on February 26, 2013, 07:35:04 PM
Quote from: "Thumpalumpacus"
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"He fucking called Baudelaire ridiculous...when he probably never read Baudelaire...so who is being fucking unreasonable?

The thoughtful and reasoned response when it comes to talking about poets you don't know shit about is to keep your fucking mouth quiet.

Capiche or no?

No.  Just because Baudelaire wrote it doesn't make it gospel.   He didn't say anything about Baudelaire anyway, as you will see if you reread his post.  He called the quote ridiculous.  

Don't look now, but you're engaged in worship.

To answer your question, you're being ridiculous, and very publicly so, too.  Carry on.  :)
This.
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Post by: Davka on February 26, 2013, 08:08:24 PM
Baudelaire is the Devil? I'm very confused.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Icarus on February 26, 2013, 08:19:28 PM
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"
Quote from: "Icarus"
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"Actually Baudelaire is great and you're a fucking idiot. I bet you never ever even read Baudelaire.

I just read some of Les Fleurs du mal and didn't like it, does that make me a fucking idiot  :-k

If you didn't read it in the original Klingon then yes it does.

Interesting, instead of judging someones intelligence based on say scientific understanding (or something silly like that :P) you decide to base it off of the acceptance of a single poet. Something completely subjective to personal preferences on the subject of poetry. When poetry comes up with a method of allowing us to live for 400 years and in space I will agree that poetry preference is paramount above all other ways to judge intelligence.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Hydra009 on February 26, 2013, 08:32:48 PM
Quote from: "Bobby_Ouroborus"Actually Baudelaire is great and you're a fucking idiot. I bet you never ever even read Baudelaire.
But you forgot about Vickers.   [-X

Anyways, for anyone curious - and with a surfeit of patience - here's the quote in something approximating a context in its original [s:mi7l47h7]klingon[/s:mi7l47h7] langue-baguette (//http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Joueur_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9reux):

 (formatted from a dubious translation from a bygone age before wordw
rap or typo correction that I tried mightily to clean up.  /le sigh)
[spoil:mi7l47h7][youtube:mi7l47h7]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbdNVMVh0Fw[/youtube:mi7l47h7]

[center:mi7l47h7]The generous gambler[/center:mi7l47h7]

Yesterday, in the crowd of the boulevard, I felt myself grazed by a mysterious Being whom I have always wished to know, and whom I recognized at once, though I had never seen him. He doubtless had a similar wish to make my acquaintance, for he gave me a significant wink in passing which I hastened to obey. I followed him attentively, and soon I descended behind him into a resplendent subterranean abode, where sparkled a luxury that none of the better homes in Paris can nearly approach. It seemed odd to me that I could have passed by this enchanting den so often without divining the entrance. There reigned an exquisite, though heady atmosphere, which made one forget almost at once all the fastidious horrors of life; there one breathed a somber blessedness, similar to that which the lotus-eaters experienced when, disembarking on an enchanted isle, bright with the glimmerings of eternal afternoon, they felt growing within them, to the drowsy sound of melodious cascades, the desire never to see again their hearthstones, their wives, their children, and never to remount the high surges of the sea.

Strange visages of men and women were there, marked with a fatal beauty, which it seemed to me I had already seen in epochs and in lands I could not precisely recall, and which inspired me rather with a fraternal sympathy than with that fear which is usually born at sight of the unknown. If I wished to try to define in any way the singular expression of these visages, I should say that I had never seen eyes burning more feverishly with dread of ennui and with the immortal desire of feeling themselves alive.

My host and I were already, when we sat down, old and perfect friends. We ate, we drank beyond measure of all sorts of extraordinary wines, and — what was no less extraordinary — it seemed to me, after several hours, that I was no more drunken than he. Play, that superhuman pleasure, had meanwhile irregularly interrupted our frequent libations, and I must say that I staked and lost my soul, at the rubber, with heroic heedlessness and lightness. The soul is so impalpable a thing, so often useless and sometimes so annoying, that I experienced, at its loss, a little less emotion than if, on a walk, I had misplaced my visiting card. For a long time we smoked some cigars the incomparable savor and perfume of which gave the soul nostalgia for unknown lands and joys, and, intoxicated with all these delights, I dared, in an access of familiarity which seemed not to displease him, to cry, while mastering a cup full to the brim: "To your immortal health, old Buck!"

We talked, also, of the universe, of its creation and of its future destruction; of the great idea of the century, namely, progress and perfectibility; and, in general, of all forms of human infatuation. On this subject, His Highness never exhausted his fund of light and irrefutable pleasantries, and he expressed himself with an easy flow of speech and a quietness in his drollery that I have found in none of the most celebrated speakers of humanity. He explained to me the absurdity of the different philosophies which have hitherto taken possession of the human brain, and deigned even to confide to me certain fundamental principles, the property and the benefits of which it does not suit me to share with the casual comer. He did not in any way bemoan the bad reputation which he enjoys in all parts of the world, assured me that he himself was the person most interested in the destruction of superstition, and confessed that he had never feared for his own power save once, on the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, cry from the pulpit: "My dear brethren, never forget, when you hear the progress of wisdom vaunted, that the cleverest ruse of the Devil is to persuade you he does not exist!"

The memory of this celebrated orator led us naturally to the subject of the academies, and my strange companion stated that he did not disdain, in many cases, to inspire the pen, the word, and the conscience of pedagogs, and that he was almost always present, though invisible, at the academic sessions. Encouraged by so many kindnesses, I asked him for news of God, and whether he had recently seen Him. He answered, with a carelessness shaded with a certain sadness: ''We greet one another when we meet, but as two old gentlemen, in whom an innate politeness cannot extinguish the memory of ancient bitterness."

It is doubtful that His Highness had ever granted so long an audience to a plain mortal, and I was afraid of abusing it. Finally, as the shivering dawn whitened the panes, this famous personage, sung by so many poets and served by so many philosophers who have worked unknowingly for his glory, said to me: "I want to leave you with a pleasant memory of me, and to prove that I, of whom so much ill is said, I can sometimes be a good devil, to make use of one of your common phrases. In order to compensate for the irremediable loss of your soul, I shall give you the stakes you would have won had fate been with you, namely, the possibility of relieving and of conquering, all through your life, that odd affection of ennui which is the source of all your maladies and of all your wretched progress. Never shall a desire be framed by you which I will not aid you to realize; you shall reign over your vulgar fellow-men; you shall be stocked with flattery, even with adoration; silver, gold, diamonds, fairylike palaces, shall come seeking you and shall pray you to accept them, without your having made an effort to attain them; you shall change father- land and country as often as your fancy may dictate; you shall riot in pleasures, unwearying, in charming countries where it is always warm and where the women are fragrant as the flowers — et cetera, et cetera . . ." he added, rising and taking leave of me with a pleasant smile.

If I had not been afraid of humiliating myself before so vast an assemblage, I should gladly have fallen at the feet of this generous player to thank him for his unheard of munificence. But little by little, after I had left him, incurable distrust reentered my breast; I dared no longer believe in such prodigious good fortune, and, on going to bed, still saying my prayers through silly force of habit, I repeated in semi-slumber: "My God! Lord, my God! Let it be that the Devil keep his word!"[/spoil:mi7l47h7]

A poet quoting a fictional character quoting another fictional character.  It doesn't get more indirect than that.  And in an indecipherable dead language, too.  :'(
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Bibliofagus on February 27, 2013, 03:35:42 AM
It's in The usual suspects as well.

[youtube:2it3pvi4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN_sRhaehw4[/youtube:2it3pvi4]
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Post by: BarkAtTheMoon on February 27, 2013, 09:53:09 AM
Quote from: "Davka"Baudelaire is the Devil? I'm very confused.

Keyser Soze is the Devil.
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Post by: ApostateLois on February 27, 2013, 10:00:05 AM
I am really disappointed with the quality of trolls lately. At least some of them would make an effort to quote various telepreachers and creationist websites. All this guy could do was spout off random Christian one-liners that most of us grew up hearing. "Jesus is God! You know Jesus is your savior!" Boooorrrrinnng.
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: Savior2006 on March 02, 2013, 11:42:30 PM
Quote from: "WitchSabrina"
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.

Look who doesn't exist now? That'd be you.
*snark*

You almost made me spit up all over the monitor you bastard. :rollin:
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: DigitalBot on March 05, 2013, 03:53:50 AM
Satan definitely exists:
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Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: WitchSabrina on March 05, 2013, 06:47:13 AM
Quote from: "Savior2006"
Quote from: "WitchSabrina"
Quote from: "elpizo Jehoshua"What is the Devils greatest deception?: He doesn't exist. You guessed it.

You have no idea how evil he is.

Look who doesn't exist now? That'd be you.
*snark*

You almost made me spit up all over the monitor you bastard. :rollin:

I used to say "gotcha" and then.............there was a Sarah Palin barfed upon the world and that phrase no longer held the same fun for me.

LOL Savior.  I would have thought the OP would have **loved** Your name.   :rollin:
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on March 05, 2013, 08:45:35 AM
I think someone needs a hug.. Good thing I don't hug people, but I'm sure someone here will hug a Satan follower..
On a side note Satan does indeed exist in the form of an MES (Men's Emergency Shelter) monitor (security guard). :|
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: FrankDK on March 05, 2013, 10:15:33 AM
> You know, all this is gonna end. Your life is a breath. A fleeting blink.

Have you sold all your possessions and given the money to the poor?  Does everything you ask for in prayer come true?  If not, then you don't  believe, either.

Frank
Title: Re: Satan is Real
Post by: FrankDK on March 05, 2013, 10:21:28 AM
> Why has nobody seen the fucker for 2000 years then?

Video cameras.

Frank
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Post by: Farroc on March 05, 2013, 10:52:37 AM
Why'd you have to ban him before I could have any fun? Was it because I impersonated wolf39us in the chatbox?
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Post by: Davka on March 05, 2013, 06:02:22 PM
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