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  1. Lazy Old Devil

    Omnipresent?

    I'm not a Christian, so perhaps it's not for me to say - but my interpretation of this idea is that God's 'wrath' is what's 'present' in Hell. So, Hell would be a separation from God in the sense of being separated from God's 'love'.
  2. Lazy Old Devil

    How to avoid offending people

    As @RayofLight said, no matter what you do, you'll offend someone. But there are different levels of offense, I think. Paying someone a compliment is probably done with the best of intentions, and if they're offended by that, I wouldn't consider that anything to worry about. But deliberately...
  3. Lazy Old Devil

    What do you think of the practice of magic and psychic stuff in religion?

    Well, the Abrahamic religions also have their share of con artists that are out to manipulate people - and believing in god isn't really any more rational than the beliefs in the supernatural that you're dismissing as fanciful. On a different note, the act of prayer could be interpreted as...
  4. Lazy Old Devil

    I exist

    I quite like the quote, it's thought provoking. But what's the frog got to do with it?! Bit random! :frogface:
  5. Lazy Old Devil

    There should be no atheists!

    Well, that's me converted, then! Hail Spidey! :praying:
  6. Lazy Old Devil

    There should be no atheists!

    The rest of eternity in heaven with @Spiderman?! Suddenly that 'lake of fire' option doesn't seem so bad after all! :wink:
  7. Lazy Old Devil

    Son!

    'Son' is used down South as a term of endearment too. Perhaps it's not used so much nowadays, but it was fairly commonplace in London in the 70s and 80s at least: "nice one, my son!" etc., and who could forget that naff old football song "nice one Cyril, nice one son, nice one Cyril, let's 'ave...
  8. Lazy Old Devil

    Suicide by Gun

    Yes, although I would imagine that if someone of that mindset has easy access to a gun, then it'll make it more likely that they'll act on impulse, particularly if as @Guitar's Cry said, they're drunk at the time. But gun owners don't want to give up their guns. It makes "...from my cold, dead...
  9. Lazy Old Devil

    Do you have a favorite Antichrist?

    Great scene from a great film. Damien: Omen 2 was actually one of the rare times when a sequel was better than the original IMO, it adds some depth to the character as we see Damien 'coming of age' and initially struggling to accept his identity. Being the son of Satan is a bigger deal than...
  10. Lazy Old Devil

    Baha'i and Messengers

    If it's on the Internet, it must be true! :wink:
  11. Lazy Old Devil

    Taking back my analog lifestyle 2022 version

    I liked the Stephen King book Cell, in which everyone using a cell phone suddenly became a mindless zombie - quite a blatant metaphor there! At the time he wrote the book, King didn't own a cellphone himself, though I don't know if that's still the case now. To an extent, of course I use some...
  12. Lazy Old Devil

    I will never be a part of the Metaverse.

    I don't know if it's connected to the metaverse, but a similar thing I recently read is that Selfridges in London are to sell dresses by Paco Rabanne, from £2,000 to £100,000, which are "in digital form only" - where for your money you receive "a digital certificate of ownership for each outfit"...
  13. Lazy Old Devil

    Have You Met A...

    I'm not really a 'people person', but over the years I've met these from the list: Buddhist, Baha'i (although I didn't even know what that was until a few years ago, then it turns out there are quite a few in my part of the country, including an old schoolteacher who taught me 40 years ago or...
  14. Lazy Old Devil

    “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts.

    Did J.K. Rowling get to participate much in this? I thought that some of the main cast had distanced themselves from her due to the trans comments controversy, or are they back on friendly terms?
  15. Lazy Old Devil

    Is satan a type of animal?

    @questfortruth Why did you edit your opening post to include the posts you made later on in the thread? It makes it rather confusing for people clicking on the thread for the first time - when they see the subject title "Is Satan a type of animal?" but then the first 6 paragraphs of the opening...
  16. Lazy Old Devil

    Beard Styles

    I have an Imperial style, although I didn't know it was called that until I saw this thread. I imagined it'd make me resemble a devilishly suave musketeer, but in reality @Viker 's 'Colonel Sanders' description is probably more accurate! :laughing: I've tried a few different styles over the...
  17. Lazy Old Devil

    Collection of free short stories by famous and not so famous authors!

    Good find! Particularly useful is Arthur Machen's The House of Souls, as I'm not familiar with that one, but really liked some of the other stories of his I've read in the past, such as The Red Hand, The White People, The Great God Pan etc. Unfortunately a couple of the other links on that site...
  18. Lazy Old Devil

    ‘Free will’ is not an excuse for God allowing atrocities.

    No, I wasn't suggesting reality is all evil. Not sure why you got that impression...
  19. Lazy Old Devil

    If you have any questions about Islam, just ask. But please, no bashing, not ridiculing.

    Do you believe it should be compulsory for women to wear a head covering, and if so, which type? (i.e. hijab, burqa etc.)
  20. Lazy Old Devil

    ‘Free will’ is not an excuse for God allowing atrocities.

    But even if every single person followed the "teachings and laws" of your god, that wouldn't stop all the misery in the world which isn't caused by human actions, such as children dying from painful terminal illnesses. Why the Hell would your god even allow that sort of thing to be a possibility...
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