Sebastian, definetly: if you want people dead, you just ask him to kill them! Plus, if you make the goal he is helping you resolve (the one which, when he completes it, he can devour your soul) unreachable, then he'd be your butler for life.
Not that I'd do this for real, of course: my cupboard can't feasibly fit any more minions in it.
Dodger is a pickpocket in Oliver Twist who befriends the boy and introduces him to Fagin, his Jewish employer. It's a book by Charles Dickens written about (and during) Victorian England - I doubt you would want to read it (I have, but then I can read long-winded classic novels) but the films are good.
'A harmless, enjoyable substance is illegal' says believeyoume
Really? Harmless? These are the effects Cannabis can have on the body:
-Paranoia
-Linked with people developping mental illnesses such as schizophrenia
-The user can't concentrate
-Lack of motivation
-Makes asthma worse and can lead to lung cancer
-Increases heart rate and effects blood pressure, so harmful for people with heart problems
-Effects on fertility (decreases sperm and ovulation)
-If user is pregnant, the baby could be stunted in growth
Harmless? Really?
1 person lighting up weed does not cause pollution to the same extent as a fire. But there is not 1 person smoking weed at any one moment.
There are probably more people smoking weed at this moment than there are fires. Probably 100 people to 1 fire.
Oh and, by the way, warming up your house has nothing to do with pollution: if you have a boiler and radiators, you are pretty much fine on the pollution front. They do not emit carbon dioxide or methane or any greenhouse gases. Only medieval house-warming systems are pollutive and, as I said before, cause minimal damage.
Also, if you breathe in weed... not just if you're smoking it, also from the fumes of others... it does much worse things to your body.
Stop advertising on my debate, ok? It's not relevant, it takes a long time to read, it isn't interesting at all and we've had enough of advertising everywhere else, ok? I'm sorry if I come across as insensitive, but this just appears to me like you're taking the liberty.
And it's not like you haven't posted it before.
-From the creator of this debate.
If you take life seriously, you don't have to worry about skipping off a cliff. Or standing in the middle of the road to proove to your friend that you can be as stupid as they can. And I'd rather not talk to another person who has a message for me and won't get to the point because they like seeing me irritated.
So, yes. I suppose I feel sorry for those who take life seriously - the ones who don't don't have to put up with themselves. Wow! I changed my own mind, there!
I prefer Great Britain to America mainly because, yes I am patriotic... but not blindly so. I prefer our small little tea-drinking, damp, rainy nation because it is so remarkably British. Where else can you stand under a leaky bus shelter in the pouring rain eating fish and chips out of newspaper and complaining about 'Good old British weather' to whoever bothers to listen?
Alright, so tea is not grown in Britain - it is grown in India. But we made it our own. What about fish and chips? Fish and chip shops are a predominantly British thing. London buses? Red post boxes?
Whereas America, forgive me, is such a mishmash of cultures and viewpoints and is such a new nation that it barely has any tradition at all. It is an immigrant nation. I like my roots.
When did the Bible say the world was flat?
There was a flood as they found out from a set of non-christian stone tablets from ages ago. It was a huge flood covering quite a lot of places in the middle-east. Perhaps the world was not flooded, but a large space of land was and the people living there at the time could not travel long distances or get in touch with the rest of the world - they probably did think the whole world was flooded.
The Bible says we came from the first humans in the Garden of Eden. This is a story which most people believe is not true, merely something with truths in it to analyse - for example, the Garden of Eden is supposed to represent Heaven and the Snake is supposed to represent Satan (they were both chucked out of Heaven or the place symbolising Heaven). Therefore it is not a story to believe, it is one to look at and dissect.
When did the Bible mention dinosaurs?
Saying that miracles are impossible is an oxymoron. The definition of a miracle is when something happens that is unexplained by science. Therefore they could've happened and not been able to be explained. This is mostly why a lot of people believe: Christianity is full of things that cannot be explained unless one believes in God.
I believe that the Bible, although some bits are opinions and therefore not wholly believable, some bits are stories that were made up at one point and gradually led to be seen as truth, some bits are laws of the people and therefore faulty and some bits are unexplained. However...
even if I found out the Bible was not true and God did not exist and Jesus was a mad man, I would not consider my Christian life wasted. I believe God tells us to love one another and help those in need, the weak, the homeless, the cruel, the confused, the people who cannot help themselves and everyone around us otherwise. Every Christian who reads the Bible has read things saying that God wants us to love each other and forgive sins.
Wouldn't the world be a great place if everyone did that? This is why I believe a word the Bible says. I also believe that Satan is all God is not: selfish, unkind, cruel, one who uses people, one who hurts people, who wants nothing better than to have us all as his slaves.
And I think that, even if I discovered that this was not what is true and right, I would still work towards what God told us to do.
I disagree - I think that, on the whole, religion is good for society. Mainly because, in the Bible and other holy books, it says things like 'love your neighbour as yourself' and 'turn the other cheek' etc etc, and the whole overall message is 'be good and God will reward you'.
Therefore, even if it is 'an absurd belief' it is not 'a harmful absurd belief' that is just the way some idiots seem to interpret it.
Oh and... um... sorry about the misquote up on my previous argument (now edited out)... I said that scientists said that you can't disprove, only prove. The actual quote was 'can't prove, only disprove'. I'm sorry for misquoting...
Although, some scientists are religious. They believe that religion is not controversial to scientific studies and can happily work alongside it. I, myself, agree.
Things like the Big Bang and the Creation story also do not clash as quite a few Christians believe that the Creation story is not a statement of fact - rather a story with meaning to look into and analyse.
Things like miracles are also stated, in the Bible, to be miracles. And the definition of miracle is:
'1.A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine.
2.A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment.'
(Quote from Google)
Dispute if you disagree.
Personally I believe most of the New Testament as it is mostly quite believable (although quite a lot is opinions and eyewitness accounts meaning you have to dispute it a bit) even though some of it was written decades after Christ's ascension.
The Old Testament, however, is rather dubious as most of it is laws of the time - laws made mostly not by God himself, but by the men believing they were doing the right thing.
Therefore the 'stone to death the raped mother' is not out of the question.
Overall I think that the Bible is to be taken with a pinch of salt. I'd believe about 70% (including historical documentation such as stories about the life of King David).
I agree. After all, the Bible (the CHRISTIAN HOLY BOOK) has in it the Old Testament and the New Testament, therefore the Christians who put it together must've been under the impression that it was a Christian Book.
Before that, in the Bible, Jesus quotes from the scriptures, some of which are the books in the Old Testament.
Christians believe Jesus is God. Christians also believe that you cannot go against God. Therefore, any Christians following this debate would have to agree wholeheartedly.
I'm a Christian and I believe in the facts of the old Testament... the thing is, some of it is opinions of the bigshots of the time and therefore 'has to be taken with a pinch of salt' as my mum says (that means that you shouldn't believe everything because some things in there are not true). Most of it is historical documentation and therefore is perfectly believable... the other half is rather dubious.
I am a schoolgirl in England who likes to articulate. If I say something offensive, please tell me and I will either apologise or politely explain.
I try not to get on people's bad sides.
Especially not on the internet.
For all I know, they might be standing right behind me...
I disagree. If there was a train to get to Hell, no-one would even sit on the platform let alone board.
Secondly, sometimes a lie is a good thing. If your Great Aunt Marjory asks you if think that she looks pretty in the dress she is wearing, it is best to say yes so that you still get birthday pre- I mean, so that she doesn't get offended.
If it looks really bad, you could always tell her that you think another dress looks prettier.
