Shows me how weak their beliefs are if they need to use threats to convince you. So I don't feel much of anything.
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how do you feel when threatened with Hell?
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Shows me how weak their beliefs are if they need to use threats to convince you. So I don't feel much of anything.
York's lovely there is so much to do, the railway museum, the minster, the great big museum, I enjoyed that
Found the Viking Centre a bit disappointing though indeed I think the ride it takes you on is a bit rubbish, it failed to bring history alive for me as it promised to
I went to the Jorvik center the day it opened, they hadn't quite got the smells right, some sweaty vikings were overpowering. But you're right, it's just a bunch of tableaux without feeling.
Altfish
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It is a bit like threatening me with the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot. I feel nothing because it isn't a threat.
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
Sometimes I can tune it out and ignore it. As a former Christian, street preacher, and evangelism team leader, I know why the threat of hell is normally used, and that is to instill fear in a nonbeliever. Other times, it annoys me because the threats of hell turn out to be the go-to fearmongering tactic of a disgruntled evangelical Christian who is losing a debate with either me or other nonbelievers. It's even more annoying to me when they relish the thought.
I want to pat them on their little head.
Oh wow! Was it opened by some famous person like The Queen?
I think the ride sounds like a good idea, it's a shame that it sounding like a good idea didn't carry over into reality
When I was a Christian I once got invited to do some street preaching
Didn't want to though as it would have been in a quite rough town and there's no telling how people might of reacted
Did you hand out leaflets and stuff?
King, or now he's the king. Been and gone before we got there
I saw him once, he came to my town when I was about ten
Some very rude people shouted out at him "you monkey eared twit" but it didn't seem to bother him, probably heard it all before
Well, it was something a little ruder than that......
Naturally I was outraged
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
I preached while others on my team handed out gospel tracks and interacted with people who were interested in what we had to say. They also helped me interact with any hecklers. We never minded the hecklers when they showed up because, unbeknownst to them and to our amusement, they actually drew a larger crowd. We always had a plan, with me addressing the heckler first and then the others on my team playing off of that. Neither I nor anyone else on my team were ever disrespectful towards hecklers, but if they started to get out of hand, then the local authorities were called and brought in to deal with them. I could usually turn it around and either cause the heckler to finally give up or they stopped heckling and started to listen to my message.
I'd never want to do that
I don't mind standing up for myself but I tend to avoid scenarios that may lead to confrontation
I don't like confrontation
Not my style
Outraged??? At age 10 you probably had a courser vocabulary than even the little rider shout
I was a good boy and never swore
If you don't believe in Hell...
how can you feel bothered by someone who threatens you with Hell?
It's totally illogical and irrational.
I don't believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Parmesan be upon him)
If someone told me that the Flying Spaghetti Monster will abduct me and kill me, I laugh, I don't care.
how can you feel bothered by someone who threatens you with Hell?
It's totally illogical and irrational.
I don't believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Parmesan be upon him)
If someone told me that the Flying Spaghetti Monster will abduct me and kill me, I laugh, I don't care.
It's not so much that if bothers me, I just think it's rather daft and not really much of a threat considering it's obviously fictitious
Trailblazer
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That just reminded me of what my late husband told me that his mother said. She was a fallen-away Christian.
She said:
"I don't know if there is a heaven but I know there is a hell because I have been it my whole life"
Ditto on that, and I am supposed to believe in heaven?
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Trailblazer
Veteran Member
It is like water off a duck's back for me because I know there is no such place.
There might be something that is akin to hell, but it is not a geographical location that people are sent to.
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Bought my wife a jet ring from the jet jewellers in the Shambles. Only took about 30 years to find one she liked.
Secret Chief
Very strong language
The Jorvik? I got the impression it's more aimed at kids (not been in though). But yeah, love York (and Bath).York's lovely there is so much to do, the railway museum, the minster, the great big museum, I enjoyed that
Found the Viking Centre a bit disappointing though indeed I think the ride it takes you on is a bit rubbish, it failed to bring history alive for me as it promised to