How to stay safe in the world today

**jesus4u** · Jun 20th, 2003, 01:49 PM

1. Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents.

2. Do not stay home because 17% of all accidents occur in the home.

3. Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians.

4. Avoid traveling by air, rail or water because 16% of all accidents involve these forms of transportation.

5. Of the remaining 33%, 32% of all deaths occur in Hospitals. Above all else, avoid hospitals.

You will be pleased to learn that only .001% of all deaths occur in worship services in church, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders. Therefore, logic tells us that the safest place for you to be at any given point in time is at church!

Bible study is safe too. The percentage of deaths during Bible study is even less.

FOR SAFETY'S SAKE - Attend church and read your Bible - IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE

**evexa** · Jun 20th, 2003, 04:48 PM

I still havent figured out if you are serious or not.

**mendhak** · Jun 20th, 2003, 10:16 PM

I hate forwarded emails. I especially hate forwarded emails posted on forums.

**crptcblade** · Jun 20th, 2003, 10:23 PM

I hate forwarded emails posted on forums that are about religious bull crap.

**Zaei** · Jun 21st, 2003, 01:16 AM

1. Shoot yourself in the head. Then you dont have to worry about anything else =)

Z.

**jesus4u** · Jun 21st, 2003, 06:26 AM

Originally posted by Zaei
1. Shoot yourself in the head. Then you dont have to worry about anything else =)

Z.

Yeah? You would live to regret that decision for eternity.

**evexa** · Jun 21st, 2003, 06:30 AM

Hey now be nice!
He didnt force any of you to post in this thread! Its ok to be religious.

**mendhak** · Jun 21st, 2003, 06:39 AM

Originally posted by evexa
Hey now be nice!
He didnt force any of you to post in this thread! Its ok to be religious.

Yeah, but it's not OK to post forwarded emails about religious bull****. It's just blasphemy!

**evexa** · Jun 21st, 2003, 07:18 AM

Originally posted by mendhak
Yeah, but it's not OK to post forwarded emails about religious bull****. It's just blasphemy!

We post forwarded emails about all sorts of things. If he wants to give his opinion he can! We dont have to read it.

**mendhak** · Jun 21st, 2003, 10:25 AM

I think I need to work a bit more on my sarcasm delivery mechanism.

**evexa** · Jun 21st, 2003, 11:25 AM

Originally posted by mendhak
I think I need to work a bit more on my sarcasm delivery mechanism.

i detected it but wasnt sure so i put a winky face at the end to account for both cases

**siyan** · Jun 22nd, 2003, 07:41 PM

On a more serious note, religious study has caused a rather large number of deaths. The holocaust, the crusades, the burning of Christians in Rome, crazy people who light themselves on fire, the sacrifices in Indonesia (I think thats the place), and of course the whole issue of that ongoing Arab vs. Israeli war....

So yeah, go to church guys.

**evexa** · Jun 22nd, 2003, 07:44 PM

Originally posted by siyan
On a more serious note, religious study has caused a rather large number of deaths. The holocaust, the crusades, the burning of Christians in Rome, crazy people who light themselves on fire, the sacrifices in Indonesia (I think thats the place), and of course the whole issue of that ongoing Arab vs. Israeli war....

So yeah, go to church guys.

You have to differentiate between extremist and religious.

We all have our own personal 'religion' and its ok to share what you feel. But yeah - organized religions can get out of hand.

**siyan** · Jun 22nd, 2003, 07:47 PM

Originally posted by evexa
You have to differentiate between extremist and religious.

We all have our own personal 'religion' and its ok to share what you feel. But yeah - organized religions can get out of hand.

True. I haven't thought about it enough but I don't think very many members of the Isreali Army or the Arab armies or whatnot consider themselves extremist. Heck the leaders of the countries probably dont' consider themseleves too hardcore. Neither did all those European kings during the crusades. And so on and so forth.

But yeah, you have a point. Lots of stuff is caused by the extremists....

**evexa** · Jun 22nd, 2003, 07:49 PM

Originally posted by siyan
True. I haven't thought about it enough but I don't think very many members of the Isreali Army or the Arab armies or whatnot consider themselves extremist. Heck the leaders of the countries probably dont' consider themseleves too hardcore. Neither did all those European kings during the crusades. And so on and so forth.

But yeah, you have a point. Lots of stuff is caused by the extremists....

I dont want to get into this conversation lol

**siyan** · Jun 22nd, 2003, 07:50 PM

Originally posted by evexa
I dont want to get into this conversation lol

And neither do I.

**JPicasso** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 07:39 AM

disorganized religions are pretty bad too!

J4U, where did you get those numbers?

I think they are a little suspect. And the conclusion is just, well, silly.

**jesus4u** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 07:49 AM

Originally posted by JPicasso
And the conclusion is just, well, silly.

You know the Bible says that anything that relates to spiritual things, like what I posted above, is silliness to those who are perishing.

From 1 Corinthians 1:18:

"I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God."

I have been trying to be more subtle and humerous these days regarding spiritual things...

**chenko** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 08:26 AM

Jesus is my love child, Mary was not a virgin

jesus4u,
Go on, convert me, prove "god" ...

**run_GMoney** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 08:28 AM

"I know how foolish religion looks to normal people. These people are right."

- an exerpt from 1 Gary-inthians 4:15

And so it was written...

**jesus4u** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 08:28 AM

Originally posted by chenko2
Jesus is my love child, Mary was not a virgin

jesus4u,
Go on, convert me, prove "god" ...

I don't need to. Either you will choose to believe or not.

**mendhak** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 09:08 AM

Originally posted by chenko2

mendhak,
Go on, convert me, prove "god" ...

You know how when you take your clothes out of a dryer, and there's that one sock missing? Where does it go?

**SteveCRM** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 09:13 AM

"and these are usually related to previous physical disorders."

shouldn't we say that about the hospital? or are hospitals just massive death camps

"Yeah? You would live to regret that decision for eternity."

I don't think he'd live to regret anything

**JPicasso** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 10:33 AM

Originally posted by jesus4u

I have been trying to be more subtle and humerous these days regarding spiritual things...

Fair 'nuff.

**jesus4u** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 10:34 AM

Thank you sir!

**siyan** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 11:14 AM

Originally posted by mendhak
You know how when you take your clothes out of a dryer, and there's that one sock missing? Where does it go?

*coughs*

*waves*

**kleinma** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 11:56 AM

according to George Carlin.. more people have died in the name of god than for anything else...

so how safe is it again???

**SteveCRM** · Jun 23rd, 2003, 01:26 PM

yeah the jews have had pretty bad luck with that stuff

**Paul Warren** · Jun 24th, 2003, 07:34 AM

jesus4u, couple of questions for you -

1. What if I believe in God but not in an organised religion like Christianity? Am I still damned to go to hell, even though I believe in God?

2. Why do I have to believe in Jesus to believe in God?

??

**jesus4u** · Jun 24th, 2003, 07:45 AM

Originally posted by Paul Warren
jesus4u, couple of questions for you -

1. What if I believe in God but not in an organised religion like Christianity? Am I still damned to go to hell, even though I believe in God?

2. Why do I have to believe in Jesus to believe in God?

??

In a quick few sentences:

1. Ask yourself which God? There are many Gods but only that is real. But it was Jesus who said that HE is the way, the truth, and the life and that He is the only way to God. Why? Jesus is the only one that actually took your place in Hell by dying on the Roman cross for your offences against God so that you could live.

2. Answered also in #1.

**Paul Warren** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:01 AM

and why isn't faith in God enough? Why do I have to follow a set of rules to qualify for membership?

**JPicasso** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:03 AM

Hey dude,

Members only. The hottest new fashion.

**jesus4u** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:04 AM

Originally posted by Paul Warren
and why isn't faith in God enough? Why do I have to follow a set of rules to qualify for membership?

Again which God? And it is not a set of rules. Think of it this way: God has given you a gift and all He asks is that you receive it. Are you going to receive it or turn it away?

**Paul Warren** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:06 AM

But surely there's only one God? That's what the bible says therefore I must believe in the one true god.

So tell me again why I have to believe in Jesus?

**jesus4u** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:09 AM

Originally posted by Paul Warren
But surely there's only one God? That's what the bible says therefore I must believe in the one true god.

So tell me again why I have to believe in Jesus?

Jesus IS God

He said that He was. And He proved it through many miracles and especially rising from the dead after His crucifixion.

**Paul Warren** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:13 AM

What I'm saying is that I'll accept God whether he's Christian, Muslim, or whatever. I just believe there's a God. According to you though he won't accept me because I don't believe in Jesus.

...and there's your problem. I have faith in God not the church.

**jesus4u** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:16 AM

Originally posted by Paul Warren
What I'm saying is that I'll accept God whether he's Christian, Muslim, or whatever. I just believe there's a God. According to you though he won't accept me because I don't believe in Jesus.

...and there's your problem. I have faith in God not the church.

With all due respect this is where most people get confused. I am NOT telling you to believe in a church but rather that you follow the Jesus of the Bible. It is really that simple but it is man that makes it very difficult. Jesus said himself that to follow Him is not difficult and it is not a burden. But you have to realize His sacrifice for you which is the GIFT I mentioned earlier.

**techyspecy** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:21 AM

Well - How about GODs of other religion's, are they not GODs according to your definition of GOD ?

**jesus4u** · Jun 24th, 2003, 08:25 AM

Originally posted by techyspecy
Well - How about GODs of other religion's, are they not GODs according to your definition of GOD ?

Sorry but no

**techyspecy** · Jun 24th, 2003, 09:07 AM

Originally posted by jesus4u
Sorry but no

you need a life

BTW - mind telling me why not ?

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