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I foresee some sleepless nights ahead.

And I turned off 'Mona' to watch that video....dammit.

Ah, now it all makes sense.  See you next year.

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1871

Oh My God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I should have known...

Time to LAYETH THA BANHAMMERETH DOWN!

I would have enjoyed that a lot more had I taken a tab of acid beforehand.

I figured as much (I really did!). Personally I enjoy the guy's posts - they're certainly charismatic.  Perhaps next time he returns we could create a designated drugs topic and he can muse about brian's intake to his heart's content.

Is this guy mentally ill or something? I mean seriously, what the f***? Complete and utter fool, striketh him down with thou's mighty banhammer!

So long Mr. Nobody! May your lifelong dream to witness a mentally challenged  68 year old man drop acid and perform a live rendition of a record only 50 or so people like never reign true.

He hath been striketh down with mine mighty banhammer!

PS - Paulos, I love you, man.

Ugh, Why so harsh? lol

Why does the singer of "Androo Gee Doh" sound like Marc Bolan?

I'm glad I wasn't the only one getting sick of his/her immature posts about doing drugs and also non-contributions to threads. Good thing it's resolved now!

Until he pops up again under another name, that is. Keep your eyes peeled everyone. His likes include drugs, talking about drugs, "Love You", drugs, howling at the moon, staying in his bedroom and drugs.  Dislikes include "Sgt.Pepper", anti drug conformist squares, Jeff Foskett, well reasoned intelligible posts and AGD....

Shouldn't be too hard to spot..........

Well, I also like Love You and, for the most part, dislike Sgt. Pepper's... but I swear I'm not that same poster!

I like Love You, Sgt. Pepper and Andrew G. Doe. As a matter of fact this is by far the best message board I have ever been on (maybe alongside the BZ forum). I always learn something new and everybody is for the most part friendly. Even "nobody" hasn't scared me away because you're always going to find somebody like that in every group. I must admit that it was quite amazing that the number of posts he/she made was 97 in just a few days!

Sorry about my "It burns!!!" posts. I just thought that it looked so funny. Or course it was irrelevant. I'll tone it down a bit from now on.  ;)

And my four-paragraph treatise on the possible effects of various legal and illegal drugs on Brian's psyche? I hope that doesn't get me banned.. oh wait, I love conformist squares and Sgt Peppers. I think I'm safe.

You mean...dead ?  :o

You forgot the drugs.

I seriously wonder if 'Mr. Nobody' was actually Brian Wilson playing a trick on all of us...........naaaahhhhh  ::)

I don't think Brian could even turn the CPU on  :lol

I *knew* it...not surprised in the least.

One less thing I have to do when I get off work now :lol

:lol this guy is a riot

Now you're making me blush....

I like Nobody's weird posts.  They add a strange layer of...  weirdness I guess.  I wish he'd stay.

Moron's about as funny as a dose of leprosy. Good riddance.

Eh, I thought his posts were funny, but to a point. After awhile it came off as more annoying than entertaining....I mean, heck, he racked up 90-some posts in a two/three day period and nearly 100% of those posts were sarcastic in nature.

But dang, that 'Love You' thread made my week lol.

I must admit that rereading some threads today, I noticed when he wasn't blathering on about drugs 99.9% of the time he did make the odd good contribution to several discussions.

Why did he leave?

Nobody's boring. Bring me Bobby California or Mike's the Greatest, please.

Why'd he leave?

The Whispering Winds summoned him back to his Perfumed Garden of Cosmic Nirvana where he may watch down on us all upon a silvery cloud on high as we trudge ever nearer towards the end of our buttoned down conformist existence.... or something.  

God this shite is hard to come up with when you are not a) high or b) bonkers!  ;D

And where did he come from? Who was that guy?  I think I missed something. :D

 :lol Sorry, Andrew, that does have ME laughing! He has some sort of fixation with you, does he not? What a nut job!

:lol :lol :lol

He he-Get that spotlight back on me ! C'mon bloke-a bit o' competition and he's got his panties in a bunch mind you. :p

That's kind of what all the topics were about, wasn't it?  Mental Illness, or drug addict.  Maybe he was projecting onto Brian what he was going through himself.  Hope he gets some help.

If it was really Brian, at least 1 thing the guy did would have been cool.  Brian can't help but be cool.  This guy wasn't cool. 

He's British too, to judge from the times of posting. I hang my head in shame for my nation.

No need to, AGD. You still got Alan Hansen and Gary Lineker, as well as Baroness Thatcher and Sir Baron Marquis Archduke Pope Peter Mandelson.

You're hardly helping us out here, Don  :lol

If anyone doesn't know, Nobody popped up last year and proceeded to irritate everyone with pseudo-psycho-drug balls. Although I do agree he was kind of normal when he got off that subject..... Dude was much worse this time, though. That comment about sitting in his room tripping and being a recluse, and hey, where's my grammy actually made me feel quite sad for him. Everything in moderation, kids.

I think Nobody's low moment was when he posted something in The Sandbox about his dog's merda, and posted a picture of it. Or something like that. And started calling people atheist's.

Is that supposed to be an insult from him? The implication is that it is.   I am an atheist and proud of it.  The truth is most of us are atheists when it comes to Thor, Zeus, Apollo or the other thousands of gods that have ended up on the scrapheap of history.  Surely no one here gets up in the morning concerned/worrying about Baal, Isis etc... (insert god here).  Atheists just go one god further: in my case, the Judeo/Christian god of the tradition which I accidently happened to be born into.  It could have been anything else. Totally random.   Just saying. "Atheist" should not be a dirty word. 

Oh boy, and off we go the sandbox.  God only knows....

Calm down sparky.  You're free to worship Athiesm if you want to. 

Nobody isn't the only Brit who is forehead-slappingly stupid - Tony Blair, Amy Winehouse, Margaret Thatcher...?

Before this thread is banished to the sandbox along with Nobodys pictures of dog turds can I just ask you all something that has bugged me for years - if the gods from other religions all over the world each have their own name, why is the god of Christianity just called God?

Prince Charles is who first jumped to my mind.  He's literally a PRINCE, and telling us commoners to take short showers.  O.K. buddy, hypocritical much?  

He screwed around on Princess Diana, probably one of the most beautiful women in the world.  Idiotic.

Every two or three days you see him say something simply imbecelic about the environment.  He recently insinuated he was born into the royal family to save the world.  

While most of the british I've met seem like level headed intelligent people, he seems like a moron.  

Probably to say he's 'the 1 true God'... also, he does have a name.  Jews believed that it was a sin to say his name, and I believe the name was supposedly unpronounceable, only able to be written.  I could be wayyyyyyy off base here.  One of the 10 commandments also is not to use the lord's name in vain... which technically was interpreted as meaning don't mention God when you're talking about yourself, or the things we toil with on earth, just to make yourself look better.

So it's like a car saleman who calls himself "The Lords Carlot" and adertises to everybody he's a christian.  That's using the lord for vanity, or 'taking the lords name in vain" .

And thus this thread will be banished to the sandbox:

Do atheists not believe in a designer of the universe? Or is it solely unbelief in an overseer/holy-diety of the universe?

er anyone who believes in a God isn't an atheist.  Just cause somebody calls Zeus a cartoon character doesn't make them an atheist cause they still believe in one.  now you believe that no God exist so you are an atheist.

The supposedly "unpronounceable" name of Jesus is YHWH, as translated from the Hebrew Bible. This is better known as the tetragrammaton, or "name of four letters". Of course, we know it as Yahweh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton

That would by now indeed be the right place.... banish is a big word btw, the sandbox is a worthy part of this board. Let's call it an upgrade.

I always thought it would be a fun idea to have Purgatory and Hell subforums on here...as opposed to banning members outright, they get sent to Purgatory until they wise up, and to Hell if they really f*** up.

Both, in my case. Life is a big coincedence. Which is a wonderful way to think about things, rather than being some all-powerful deities plaything.Scientific explanations for the universe and all that is in it make much more sense to me than 'God did it'.

I hereby proclaim it is now a mortal sin to utter my name! Any BB fan heard speaking aloud the name mike's beard will be subjected to an unholy plague of Chicken Dances,Silly Lawsuits and the never ending torture of Country Love played at high decibels. Do not incur thy Wrath.

With honking sax solos and long, nasal "wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen"s?

There are several different words used for god in the Hebrew of the Bible, including YHWH and Elohim. Some of the various names appear to be derived from other local gods' names. The change over time is typically considered evidence of assorted religions and a polytheistic people becoming what is now considered monotheistic Judaism, which then edited assorted stories into a purportedly cohesive scripture. But also, the question isn't really an accurate one, in that other religions also name their gods "God." Allah means god, for example. (It also is etymologically related to Elohim, according to a book I recently read.)

YHWH was considered the unpronounceable name, wasn't it? Of course our use of English dictates that the lack of vowels makes YHWH unpronounceable, but...yeah. I wrote lots of Hebrew as a kid when I doodled in my notebooks in school.

For now I cannot limit my thinking to "there is no god" or even "there is a god" - for I haven't seen any evidence for either. I suppose that makes me agnostic....

EDIT: I didn't mean to imply you have a limited capacity for thought lol....just that MY knowledge as of now forces me not to make a decision.

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm a set in stone atheist but am fascinated by religion nonetheless.

I have read that, but I have also read that it was basically a shorthand for writing the words of god's answer about his name to Moses, "I am who I am" or some such thing. And that that was the point of the "unpronounceable" thing: not that you couldn't say it (although it was written sans vowels, you could easily say it, just like wtf can be said by any modern reader), but that you SHOULDN'T say his name, because of the old idea that knowing a name of someone gave you the power to invoke him in curses and the like. So in that story, the meaning of the word/abbreviation was basically a "never mind. You can't pronounce my name because I'm not telling you my name." I don't know exactly what the truth is in the etymology of that word, though.

From what I have read you are spot on. Many Hebrews do not even write out "god" - rather they write "gd"....same with YHWH - it is too holy to say out loud or write down...hence the abbreviation.

Well, I guess I should have been more clear; he was calling somebody an atheist with no proof-it sort of came out of thin air, and I think he meant it as an insult. Why else would he make a post that read 'Luther is an atheist' besides just to try and offend people. It didn't really work. Personally, I could care less what religion, race, etc. you are. I was just showing an example of him saying things to try and get responses out of people.

Although if he called me one, he'd be correct. Which might have made such an "insult" the first and only time I agreed with something he wrote!  ;)

This chart might be useful (re: some messages in page 3 of this thread)

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I've never understood athiests, because to me it seems like they just practice a different religion, they believe (with all their heart) in science and athiesm... making them exactly like a Christian/Hindu/etc. 

Now AGnostics, I understand that. 

I think the chart's a little simplified, but I guess it has to be.

I'm firmly a Gnostic Theist, I believe god exists and I claim to know God exists, but I don't go so far as to think that everybody else should come to the same conclusion.  I don't feel people are ignorant, for instance, if they don't think God exists.  I just think that they see it differently than I do.  I don't think you need to know god or whatever to go to Heaven, either.  On the chart, I can understand Agnostic Athiesm, but I can't understand Gnostic Athiesm. 

As for the unpronounceable name thing, an interesting story from the bible is the one of Jacob.  I haven't read it in years, but as I remember it

Jacob is walking through the woods one day, and starts wrestling with this huge strong man that comes out of nowhere.  The guy breaks Jacob's hip, then Jacob refuses to let go of him,k and wrestles him for like 24 hours demanding the guy repair his hip.  Finally the guy fixes his broken hip, and they stop fighting and jacob lets go of him.  Jacob asks the guy his name, and the guy doesn't reply.  The guy asks Jacob his name, and he tells him it's Jacob... the guy says something like "From now on you'll be known as Israel, because you've wrestled with God" and then dissapears.

So the story kind of hints at God's name being unpronounceable, or whatever as well.  I guess Israel technically is translated as "Wrestles with God" ?  I always thought it was an interesting story. 

So how long until thomasogg shows up again?!

I missed this before, btw, but I disagree with you (for most cases--frankly, any lumping together ends up a little tricky, as people often self-identify with a lot more nuance than a catch-all term allows). Generally, atheists do not blindly believe there to be no god, but instead believe that there is no reason to believe in any god. It isn't a "religion of godlessness," it's a rejection of worshipping deities of whom there is no proof, only belief. Instead, they typically believe that evidence should be studied (often through scientific method) and conclusions should come from that. Many atheists whom I've read or seen say, "hey, if there's a god, fine ... I look forward to seeing any evidence of the fact." But diverse ancient beliefs with diverging explanations for purportedly factual histories of the world and changing moral/ethical/legal regulations over time just don't fit that category. They're not saying science has proved there is no god; they're saying nobody has ever given reliable evidence there is a god, and you don't start from the point of belief in the supernatural until it is disproved.

Hopefully never...

It's all about *wanting* god to exist!

Theists *want* him to exist, so they just parrot their favorite fortune cookie from their holy book and parade that as "truth" and "proof".

Agnostics also *want* him to exist, but they know the holy books are a load of sh*t, so they make up more esoteric justifications to make themselves sound more intelligent than those silly "believers".

Just sayin...

I think it's more about centuries-old (and even longer) traditions, more than anything. It isn't easy to reject--no matter how much logic or science suggests you should--what you, your parents, your grandparents, your people were raised on.

He was well before my time but from what I can gather wasn't he the guy with a servere case of Dennis Wilson DNA on his breath?

Yep, that's the guy.

I miss that guy... :lol :lol

What the heck was this video that nobody/nobody is a chode/ghost made?

It was incredible. If I remember right it had this really funky backing track to 'Heroes and Villains' with a picture of AGD's face being manipulated by some low-grade Microsoft Movie Maker swirl effect.

Sounds totally like something ghost would make. Man that guy is so out there. :lol

It was amazing