I've tried to explain how
ridiculous the idea of God's mysterious secret master plan is, and I always encounter the same response.
I mocked your idiotic analogy about the dictionary, AND mocked your silly beliefs about the cosmos being made by a magic spell and
the ridiculous idea of us having invisible and undetectable body parts (souls) with invisible and undetectable diseases in them (sin).
No to
the ridiculous idea of Brendan Rodgers too.
There will likely be little talk at the coal summit of just how
ridiculous the idea of commercially deployed CCS is becoming.
Not exact matches
As Marcus Sheridan, the Sales Lion mega-influencer and author
of «They Ask You Answer» notes, «The
idea that sales is still the mother ship and marketing is just some little pod that's part
of that mother ship is
ridiculous.»
As a lifelong resident
of Las Vegas, Green thinks that the
idea of walking down the block for a latte in 120 - degree heat is slightly
ridiculous; but he also knows that in Las Vegas,
ridiculous things can happen.
Two years ago Oakshire Mushroom's Gary Schroeder and three managers started playing with a seemingly
ridiculous idea — selling a product to competitors — while trying to address how to stem the loss
of the company's 40 % market share in shiitake mushrooms.
Ideas of truly successful entrepreneurs are often at first considered
ridiculous by the majority
of the public, Isenberg says in his new book Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).
«The
idea of 8 % or 10 % or 12 % growth is
ridiculous,» he says.
The
idea that by quantifying risk using a tool like VaR [Value at Risk] that you can therefore control it is one
of the slightly more
ridiculous things to have come along in years.»
While we already addressed in one
of our previous articles that why it is a
ridiculous idea to ask Mark Zuckerberg to step down, his answer to the same question in today's press conference was equally unequivocal «yes».
The president
of the United States is a well - known conspiracy theorist, which raises the prospect that
ridiculous ideas lurking in the darkest recesses
of the internet could actually influence national policy.
The only only
idea being expressed that is
ridiculous is your
idea of «heaven» being
ridiculous.
You have no
idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion
of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a
ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.
The atheists are fighting a campaign against Fundamentalist Christians who are trying to run for President
of the United States and change our laws to suit their
ridiculous biblical
ideas.
When you turn the light
of reason on the basic
of idea of god needing a sacrifice
of his own son to allow himself to forgive, it becomes just as
ridiculous as condemning homosexuality.
The whole
idea of divine calling
of pastors is
ridiculous, since every believer is called to minister with their gifts.
Here's what I keep coming back to: The setup
of Westworld — throw humans into a theme park where they can do anything, and they almost invariably do evil — is really compelling, but instead
of diving into those
ideas, we're following this
ridiculous «robots are people too!»
-- throw humans into a theme park where they can do anything, and they almost invariably do evil — is really compelling, but instead
of diving into those
ideas, we're following this
ridiculous «robots are people too!»
I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one
of the biggest causes
of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise
of various cults has been people running away with
ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.
RB Turning natural human urges into to some stupid
idea of «sin» is probably one
of the most
ridiculous things that the Christian religion has done.
There's also
ridiculous threats from God in there that reflect on the knowledge and intelligence
of anyone at the time who would accept the
idea of unicorns, dragons, or angels that killed tens
of thousands
of people.
Yes, the false understanding that we are completely blind about God is spiritually just as pernicious as the false understanding that we can know all about God, or that the whole
idea of God is
ridiculous.
The
idea that you will have difficulty forming a bond with your eventual life partner because you are actively addicted to a number
of previous partners at the same time is utterly
ridiculous.
This is a
ridiculous story... they must be running out
of ideas.
The
idea that one
of the followers was IN the room when he asked that is beyond
ridiculous.
The whole
idea of appeasing gods through sacrifice or scapegoating ones sins, even in the case
of Jesus, is pretty
ridiculous isn't it?
Get a bunch
of ridiculous ideas together.
For Darwin,
of course, the
idea of History is a
ridiculous inflation
of the importance
of one particular species.
The
idea of god, you know the omnipotent guy who you say lives in the sky, having an enemy is
ridiculous.
I know most
of you who hold to the
idea of a heteronormative, monogamous sexual morality being instilled from the beginning
of creation think I'm being
ridiculous.
Those
ideas don't sound
ridiculous to the proselytizers, and once you get past the initial shock
of them and enter the mental world
of the believers they don't seem
ridiculous to you either.
Once again we have a parallel in our dream experiences, where the subconscious mental processes are freed from the monitoring influence
of an informed sophisticated consciousness, ever ready to bring a halt to any
idea too outlandish by saying, «Don't be
ridiculous.
The
idea that Nuns
of any religion, can act outside
of the body politic
of that religion is
ridiculous and shows a total lack
of understanding on the part
of the reporter.
Of course the
idea that an omnipotent being couldn't expand his own domain to what ever size he chose is a little
ridiculous.
Or the pair
of evangelical professors who wrote an article in The New York Times, criticizing evangelical leaders for their «rejection
of knowledge» and for embracing «discredited,
ridiculous and even dangerous
ideas» — such as believing that homosexual behavior is sinful and that Darwin was wrong.
This delusional
idea that the world was to end yesterday reminds exactly
of the stupidity that I see everyday when I step out
of my house and have to deal with the hypocrisy
of America and that silly white man who thinks he's above everyone else just like Harold Camping believed in this
ridiculous idea that the world would end and only the good would go to heaven, trust me, all white people think the same way this guy did!
I mean really, when you think
of the psychological damage involved in the
ridiculous original sin
idea, laughter is one
of the best routes for healing and moving out
of that mind - trap.
He's dropping hints at the truth, which to me is that the
idea of being gay being a sin is
ridiculous, and that prayer is not effective for solving problems - something we all already know in the back
of our mind.
To everyone that feels that the
idea of God is
ridiculous or for some reason you dislike God even though you may beleive in God (or a god) keep a place in your mind open as you go.
You don't have to buy - in to the «truth» behind what the Bible puports to be divine revelation... but the
idea that archeology has not unearthed historically supportive evidence
of biblical accounts, is
ridiculous... thousands and thousands
of finds support an historically accurate account portrayed in the Bible...
I anticipate another accusation
of stridency here, but I'm sorry, I feel that any intellectually honest person has an obligation to call out any and all bullshit as such, and religious beliefs are at least as unsupported,
ridiculous and unintelligent as beliefs in homeopathy, astrology, the
ideas of David Icke, or the belief that thunder comes from mighty Thor riding across the sky.
Of course, I think it is laughable to try and portray a Meditteranean Jew as a white European but I guess people have often embraced
ridiculous ideas to further their goals.
Most
of you have no
idea how
ridiculous the whole situation looks from the outside.
This
ridiculous idea put forth by the right that Islam is only a political tool belittles a religion that has been around for thousands
of years.
I brought a lifetime
of bad
ideas and bloated expectations to this enigmatic relationship, and the deeper we got into marriage, the more
ridiculous some
of my most basic assumptions about it proved to be.
Science however, doesnot support that some omnipotent being infused life on earth.The
idea of god creating woman from man's rib is simply
ridiculous!
The
idea that one piece
of technology will do away with the «Church» is
ridiculous.
Once again, an
idea of stuffing something
ridiculous into my already superb cookie dough worked.
But when I allow myself some time to try one
of my more
ridiculous recipe
ideas, sometimes I strike gold.