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EvilGrey wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:No, I just went to college... and was given that class as a manditory requirement for graduation, as it was for everyone that was taking any Science or Liberal Arts based courses.

Now, have you taken your SATs yet, or do you still have to complete the 5th grade?
Are you genius because you went to college?
Are you this narrow-minded and unintelligent that you have not?
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LadyTevar wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
EvilGrey wrote: Good Lord where do you come up this stuff?! Are you on crack? :shock:
Tevar...that assumes too much.

He has to ENTER college first :D
I did say when... However, he's the type that won't have the brains to get into a good college so he'll go to seminary.
Seminary? Is that the kind of college where horny gay men spend all day finding the best means to release the seminal fluid they are so eager to expel? :?
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EvilGrey wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:No, I just went to college... and was given that class as a manditory requirement for graduation, as it was for everyone that was taking any Science or Liberal Arts based courses.
Are you genius because you went to college?
Well, let me put it this way: if your intelligience is assumed to be average, Lady Tevar's mind must rival God himself.
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LadyTevar wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:No, I just went to college... and was given that class as a manditory requirement for graduation, as it was for everyone that was taking any Science or Liberal Arts based courses.

Now, have you taken your SATs yet, or do you still have to complete the 5th grade?
Are you genius because you went to college?
Are you this narrow-minded and unintelligent that you have not?
Please rephrase using correct English grammar, O Self-Proclaimed Genius. :roll:
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EvilGrey wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote: Tevar...that assumes too much.

He has to ENTER college first :D
I did say when... However, he's the type that won't have the brains to get into a good college so he'll go to seminary.
Seminary? Is that the kind of college where horny gay men spend all day finding the best means to release the seminal fluid they are so eager to expel? :?
............. okay, lock the thread if he's that damn stupid and doesn't even know where preachers go to learn how to preach.
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Seminary? Is that the kind of college where horny gay men spend all day finding the best means to release the seminal fluid they are so eager to expel? :?
And think how well you'll fit in :D .

And I say that's a little too much for you.
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EvilGrey wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:
EvilGrey wrote: Are you genius because you went to college?
Are you this narrow-minded and unintelligent that you have not?
Please rephrase using correct English grammar, O Self-Proclaimed Genius. :roll:
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Kuroneko wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:No, I just went to college... and was given that class as a manditory requirement for graduation, as it was for everyone that was taking any Science or Liberal Arts based courses.
Are you genius because you went to college?
Well, let me put it this way: if your intelligience is assumed to be average, Lady Tevar's mind must rival God himself.
Really, 'cos I got the impression that she's the dumbest person posting in this thread. Yes, even dumber than SirNitram. :D
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EvilGrey wrote:
Kuroneko wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:Are you genius because you went to college?
Well, let me put it this way: if your intelligience is assumed to be average, Lady Tevar's mind must rival God himself.
Really, 'cos I got the impression that she's the dumbest person posting in this thread. Yes, even dumber than SirNitram. :D
Awww, the poor fundie got flamed too hard, now he's crying!
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SirNitram wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
LadyTevar wrote: Are you this narrow-minded and unintelligent that you have not?
Please rephrase using correct English grammar, O Self-Proclaimed Genius. :roll:
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A minor mistake. At least my comment is intelligible. :D
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EvilGrey wrote:
Kuroneko wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:Are you genius because you went to college?
Well, let me put it this way: if your intelligience is assumed to be average, Lady Tevar's mind must rival God himself.
Really, 'cos I got the impression that she's the dumbest person posting in this thread. Yes, even dumber than SirNitram. :D
Do you have the barest inkling of how to insult :?

Okay who turned on some 'bot to annoy the SLAM forum?
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Ghost Rider wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
Seminary? Is that the kind of college where horny gay men spend all day finding the best means to release the seminal fluid they are so eager to expel? :?
And think how well you'll fit in :D .

And I say that's a little too much for you.
I can't wait to sign up!
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EvilGrey wrote:
SirNitram wrote:
EvilGrey wrote: Please rephrase using correct English grammar, O Self-Proclaimed Genius. :roll:
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A minor mistake. At least my comment is intelligible. :D
So is her's.. If one is at least past the 5th grade. I realize that's a big request for you. :lol:
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Ban this fucker.
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Ghost Rider wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
Kuroneko wrote: Well, let me put it this way: if your intelligience is assumed to be average, Lady Tevar's mind must rival God himself.
Really, 'cos I got the impression that she's the dumbest person posting in this thread. Yes, even dumber than SirNitram. :D
Do you have the barest inkling of how to insult :?

Okay who turned on some 'bot to annoy the SLAM forum?
I wrote this 'bot myself. Beautiful C++ code running on a blazing-fast Star Wars 4.55MHz computer that I stole from a parallel dimension where the Star Wars universe is real! :shock:
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EvilGrey wrote:I am not the kind of person who refuses to alter my views as new evidence/arguments are presented. Thus far I have encountered no sound refutation of the first cause argument, so how can I change my stance? :?
1. It is flawed because I say it is.
2. My word is truth because I am god
3. I am god because I say I am.
4. God (that's me) says go fuck your sock
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EvilGrey wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
Seminary? Is that the kind of college where horny gay men spend all day finding the best means to release the seminal fluid they are so eager to expel? :?
And think how well you'll fit in :D .

And I say that's a little too much for you.
I can't wait to sign up!
You really have no clue how stupid you are :D .

Seriously there have been some dumb fuckers who have passed through, but no one quite as ignorant.
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SeebianWurm wrote:Ban this fucker.
NO! Fuck this fucker instead! :x :twisted:
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aerius wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:I am not the kind of person who refuses to alter my views as new evidence/arguments are presented. Thus far I have encountered no sound refutation of the first cause argument, so how can I change my stance? :?
1. It is flawed because I say it is.
2. My word is truth because I am god
3. I am god because I say I am.
4. God (that's me) says go fuck your sock
Go away blasphemer. The real God never uses such lowbrow language! :evil:
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EvilGrey wrote:
Kuroneko wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:Are you genius because you went to college?
Well, let me put it this way: if your intelligience is assumed to be average, Lady Tevar's mind must rival God himself.
Really, 'cos I got the impression that she's the dumbest person posting in this thread. Yes, even dumber than SirNitram. :D
My my my.. an' here Ah though Ah was the Hillbilly in this here thread. Whoooeee... what *do* they teach ya in them big city schools, that a hick lik' me from up th' holler can outwit you and prove Ah know more 'bout Faith an' th' Bible than you've ever shown ya know.
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Ghost Rider wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote: And think how well you'll fit in :D .

And I say that's a little too much for you.
I can't wait to sign up!
You really have no clue how stupid you are :D .

Seriously there have been some dumb fuckers who have passed through, but no one quite as ignorant.
You mistakenly perceive my vastly superior intellect as inferior! :D
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EvilGrey wrote:
aerius wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:I am not the kind of person who refuses to alter my views as new evidence/arguments are presented. Thus far I have encountered no sound refutation of the first cause argument, so how can I change my stance? :?
1. It is flawed because I say it is.
2. My word is truth because I am god
3. I am god because I say I am.
4. God (that's me) says go fuck your sock
Go away blasphemer. The real God never uses such lowbrow language! :evil:
Wow...and he's had contact with God :shock: !

Huh, goes to show how low God's standards for talking buds are.
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I'm sorry.. But when a blonde, Baptist, up-th'-holla' Hillbilly with Authentic RedNeck(tm) thinks circles around you... *hugs Tevar* you are a MORON!

Sorry, EvilGrey, you're just too stupid to post here.
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LadyTevar wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
Kuroneko wrote: Well, let me put it this way: if your intelligience is assumed to be average, Lady Tevar's mind must rival God himself.
Really, 'cos I got the impression that she's the dumbest person posting in this thread. Yes, even dumber than SirNitram. :D
My my my.. an' here Ah though Ah was the Hillbilly in this here thread. Whoooeee... what *do* they teach ya in them big city schools, that a hick lik' me from up th' holler can outwit you and prove Ah know more 'bout Faith an' th' Bible than you've ever shown ya know.
Sorry, I don't speak that inferior negroid language of ebonics. :?
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Ghost Rider wrote:
EvilGrey wrote:
aerius wrote: 1. It is flawed because I say it is.
2. My word is truth because I am god
3. I am god because I say I am.
4. God (that's me) says go fuck your sock
Go away blasphemer. The real God never uses such lowbrow language! :evil:
Wow...and he's had contact with God :shock: !

Huh, goes to show how low God's standards for talking buds are.
You're jealous! :o
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