HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS GUY?!

[ChrisCo]

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I have one response to those with doubts as to the existance of God & his only son Jesus Christ...

Out of all of the world's major religion's you can go and visit the grave/tomb/burial site of the religion's founder. Muhammad, founder of Islam, is a good example. Budda is another.

If anybody knows where Jesus Christ's burial tomb is, I really like to go visit it.

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WTF does this prove? Are you kidding me.

One persons tomb doesn't exist after 1000's of years and this is supposed to be conclusive evidence that god exists? You are doing more to hurt your cause then help by expressing your opinion.

[playallday]

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If God doesn't exist, you take everything and lose nothing.

If God does exist, you give something but gain everything.

Sort of just a personal choice, odds are better banking on existense.

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Yeah, there's a lot of problems with this, and always have been.

But let's start with the glaring false assumption in your first line:

"...you lose nothing."

People skip right on by this, but it's completely untrue. Just off the top of my head, being this religious costs you:

Sunday morning football
Prositutes
Premarital sex
Masterbation
Blow jobs
In most sects, PLAYING POKER
Porn... PORN, people!
ANY AMOUNT OF WEALTH (most conveniently ignore this one)

And many, many more.

Don't kid yourself, if you ignore these, you can call yourself whatever you want, but you're not a Christian.

And if Yang didn't give away all his winnings, he's pretty much flipping off the bible, too.

I know, sucks that it is so hard to be a good Christian, but the red letter words are pretty clear... and I refuse to listen to one word of moralizing from people who claim to be Christians but ignore any of the "rules" they find cramp their style.

[Cat]

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The Lord floppeth, and the Lord taketh away.

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Man I am in tears laughing at this [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

PS For a bunch of degens, 2+2ers really love to harp on about religion. Yawn. The point of the OP was Yang's heart being in the right place about his 'happiest day ever', fer chrissakes.

[CaseS87]

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I have one response to those with doubts as to the existance of God & his only son Jesus Christ...

Out of all of the world's major religion's you can go and visit the grave/tomb/burial site of the religion's founder. Muhammad, founder of Islam, is a good example. Budda is another.

If anybody knows where Jesus Christ's burial tomb is, I really like to go visit it.

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L
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[shmergle]

Of course it was this "great nation" of ours that made it necessary for people to escape Laos. But that's the way God wanted it.

[kleath]

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If God doesn't exist, you take everything and lose nothing.

If God does exist, you give something but gain everything.

Sort of just a personal choice, odds are better banking on existense.

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Yeah, there's a lot of problems with this, and always have been.

But let's start with the glaring false assumption in your first line:

"...you lose nothing."

People skip right on by this, but it's completely untrue. Just off the top of my head, being this religious costs you:

Sunday morning football
Prositutes
Premarital sex
Masterbation
Blow jobs
In most sects, PLAYING POKER
Porn... PORN, people!
ANY AMOUNT OF WEALTH (most conveniently ignore this one)

And many, many more.

Don't kid yourself, if you ignore these, you can call yourself whatever you want, but you're not a Christian.

And if Yang didn't give away all his winnings, he's pretty much flipping off the bible, too.

I know, sucks that it is so hard to be a good Christian, but the red letter words are pretty clear... and I refuse to listen to one word of moralizing from people who claim to be Christians but ignore any of the "rules" they find cramp their style.

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If you truly believe this you are worse than Brad1970, you really shouldn't speak on things you arent aware of. All your points are severely flawed and I almost surely have more experience than you do.

[playallday]

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If God doesn't exist, you take everything and lose nothing.

If God does exist, you give something but gain everything.

Sort of just a personal choice, odds are better banking on existense.

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Yeah, there's a lot of problems with this, and always have been.

But let's start with the glaring false assumption in your first line:

"...you lose nothing."

People skip right on by this, but it's completely untrue. Just off the top of my head, being this religious costs you:

Sunday morning football
Prositutes
Premarital sex
Masterbation
Blow jobs
In most sects, PLAYING POKER
Porn... PORN, people!
ANY AMOUNT OF WEALTH (most conveniently ignore this one)

And many, many more.

Don't kid yourself, if you ignore these, you can call yourself whatever you want, but you're not a Christian.

And if Yang didn't give away all his winnings, he's pretty much flipping off the bible, too.

I know, sucks that it is so hard to be a good Christian, but the red letter words are pretty clear... and I refuse to listen to one word of moralizing from people who claim to be Christians but ignore any of the "rules" they find cramp their style.

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If you truly believe this you are worse than Brad1970, you really shouldn't speak on things you arent aware of. All your points are severely flawed and I almost surely have more experience than you do.

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I'm pretty sure you do not, first of all.

Second... it is pretty silly to claim my points are flawed and not share with all of us why.

Obviously, you and I both know that my points are NOT flawed, and in fact fully supported by scripture.

Assuming, of course, that you use a real bible and not Uncle Jerry's Bible of I Can Do What I Want And Still Call Myself a Christian.

[john voight]

amazing how ppl who do not believe in faith come up with the most bewildering arguments just to drag it through the dirt.

Guys, if you want to argue about the issue fine. But making these foolish arguments like "God gave him a set but bunch of ppl died from a tsunami" or "lunatic would pray in the middle of a hand" is dumb IMO. I will try to explain:

How God intervenes in life is a mystery to everyone. No one on earth (I think) can prove or disprove this. If you believe in god that is faith. If you don't, that is faith. The only question is how you interpret the religious entity.

Saying "God gave him a set but bunch of ppl died from a tsunami" maybe correct. Maybe he did. But neither of us know why. Or, maybe he didn't; maybe the 4 was coming no matter what. Questioning this though, as if it is wrong, or stupid only demonstrates our inability to understand it. If we are open to the fact that the presence of God may exist, it is very difficult to understand how it functions. So i would say asking "Why" would be smarter than saying "LOL thats stupid". (The latter is how your tone comes off as).

Secondly, "prayer btwn hands is dumb". I didn't see this, but I think it is not dumb. It, actually exhibits the power of this mans character. He put everything aside; the magnitude of the extraordinary circumstances almost vanishes. He channels all his energy toward an entity that hat values most greatly. This takes a lot of courage IMO for the commoner. But for him I guess, he has a different perception of life, and maybe different standards. To him, faith is very important, and he does not sacrifice it at the expense of whatever the circumstances were.

It is difficult for me to explain. Faith is a very abstract concept, that is felt in many different ways. Many ppl just don't think in a way that accommodates faith. I'm not saying thats bad or wrong, I'm just saying, maybe due to your value system, and your foundation of knowledge/beliefs, you have trouble having any "faith" in relation to unprovable things. This lack of understanding, or "connection" or curiosity is what fuels the confusion many ppl experience in relation to faith, or observations of it.

So, while I am not trying to pick a fight, (maybe just trying to show why I the guy who won the WSOP maybe isn't bat sheet crazy?), I am trying to stimulate understanding. Not acceptance, just maybe an interest to "see" why and how ppl/things are. A perception is only that; it is never a truth, or a rigid thing. And IMO everything in existence consists and relates to our perception.

Hallelujah my Brothers!!

[satelliter]

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Of course it was this "great nation" of ours that made it necessary for people to escape Laos. But that's the way God wanted it.

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Careful, too much truth for a poker forum.

[Hexadecimal]

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Of course it was this "great nation" of ours that made it necessary for people to escape Laos. But that's the way God wanted it.

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Um, no. The Laotians didn't flee Laos because of anything we did to them. They fled from the totalitarian Communists that butchered anyone who dared challenge (or even disagree) them. We were in Vietnam (the lynchpin of this struggle) trying to stop that from happening in Southeast Asia, at least until we lost the political will to fight and win.

The Democrats say that Iraq is another Vietnam. I say, it'll become one if they have their way.

I'm no war-monger, but sometimes the price of not fighting is too high.