A waste of lifetime

[BigD]

Originally Posted by AmigaWorld

Agreed. I would rather be at home playing on my Amiga. Then sitting in church being board to death. And the preacher can dry as dust!

There's no need to be bored if you attend a church that is busy exposing the truths of the Good News of Jesus Christ, rather than just going through the motions of 'religion' i.e. "The smells and bells of people trying to work their way to God!" Bible believing Christians prioritise exploring the free grace and forgiveness of sins in Jesus name, which then results in 'good works' motivated by the desire to be more like Jesus AFTER a new convert receives an assurance of salvation and a turning from selfish living. I agree faithless religion is pointless, but learning about Jesus and reading the Bible is never without benefit.

[VladR]

Originally Posted by AmigaWorld

Agreed. I would rather be at home playing on my Amiga. Then sitting in church being board to death. And the preacher can dry as dust!

That exact sentiment was mine for most of my life. But now that I live n U.S., I very recently had an opportunity to visit a Lutheran church and it's an experience like I never had in my life!

It's almost like a rock concert - seriously! Production values (the band, the singers, lights, FX, projection screens) are astonishing (though they do have a budget of about ~$3M/year). I had no idea a church experience can be like that having grown up in a strict Roman-Catholic environment (fire&brimstone and all that).



You don't have to believe in whatever they're peddling. Just soak in the experience and free-float. Goosebumps guaranteed

P.S. Sorry Grandma if you're turning in your grave because I visit the service of those "Lutheran heretics and pagans"...

[PeterK]

Originally Posted by TCD

That's why it is a banned topic here on EAB: https://eab.abime.net/faq.php?faq=ea...faq_eab_banned

I'm sorry for getting offtopic in parts of my statement. I've removed that remark now.

[S0ulA55a551n]

Originally Posted by BigD

There's no need to be bored if you attend a church that is busy exposing the truths of the Good News of Jesus Christ, rather than just going through the motions of 'religion' i.e. "The smells and bells of people trying to work their way to God!" Bible believing Christians prioritise exploring the free grace and forgiveness of sins in Jesus name, which then results in 'good works' motivated by the desire to be more like Jesus AFTER a new convert receives an assurance of salvation and a turning from selfish living. I agree faithless religion is pointless, but learning about Jesus and reading the Bible is never without benefit.

You may as well spend your time reading any good work of fiction. Don't think the bible is even that good, pretty hard to read as a book of fictional stories

[VladR]

Originally Posted by S0ulA55a551n

You may as well spend your time reading any good work of fiction. Don't think the bible is even that good, pretty hard to read as a book of fictional stories

That's an incorrect approach to reading Bible. Think of New Testament as a blueprint for life.

There's a reason why Bible was chosen as a base for the 12-Step programs (like Alcoholics Anonymous) - it's not about the Bible Stories - it's about your own behavior and living life without resentments that serve as a root for all pain.

Also, certain amount of suspension of disbelief is required if you are even remotely scientific. But, the point remains - unlike any political ideology (lived through communism/socialism now capitalism) - the way to be happy is indeed described in Bible, even if it's brutally hard to achieve (if it was easy, everybody would live happy...)

[Daedalus]

Don't forget religion is also a banned topic in the EAB rules.

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

Don't forget religion is also a banned topic in the EAB rules.

I wonder... would EAB rules consider as religious group, a cult of man, that strongly believe that some day Amiga will resurrect, and they go through forum, spreading gospel.

[Zak]

All you guys should watch all the videos about stoicism on YouTube. It's the art of giving a f*ck about life's circumstances.

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by BigD

There's no need to be bored if you attend a church that is busy exposing the truths of the Good News of Jesus Christ, rather th[...snip! zealotry]

welp this thread took a turn for the worst...

[wanderer]

I will say this: no regrets.

As far as the Amiga goes, it was/is nothing but a positive influence and driving force. Lots of enjoyable gaming, yes, but much more than that.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Amiga1992

welp this thread took a turn for the worst...

There's worse on page five.

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by Amiga1992

welp this thread took a turn for the worst...

As all threads longer than 3 pages do

[Signman]

Show this thread as a cautionary tale for young people. Scary how some of you defend the nothingness of your lives. Let’s do pot and alcohol next. ‘Well, it makes me happy”

[Marcuz]

Originally Posted by Signman

Scary how some of you defend the nothingness of your lives.

That's a curious take on the conversation.

I thought that if you believe it's nothing, you don't have to defend it, while if you don't defend it somehow, you can't live.
I don't get why it's scary, unless you believe that unhappiness is (only) a choice.
In the end, who cares, you do what you can.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Signman

Scary how some of you defend the nothingness of your lives.

Some of us? You're a member of the same forum

[paul1981]

@PeterK
Your icon library has made many Amiga users happier than they would have been with their Workbench. Thank you for all the hard work you put in to it, and all the time you give up in making it.

What certainly is a waste of time is us Amiga-nuts waiting ages for icons to load.

[VladR]

Originally Posted by Signman

Show this thread as a cautionary tale for young people. Scary how some of you defend the nothingness of your lives. Let’s do pot and alcohol next. ‘Well, it makes me happy”

Each of us is doing the best we can with what we have.

No point showing it to yong'uns. Life Exp does not transfer that way

[VladR]

Originally Posted by Zak

All you guys should watch all the videos about stoicism on YouTube. It's the art of giving a f*ck about life's circumstances.

Thanks, but I rather choose to feel all emotions - whether it's rage, grief, anger, pain.


Or love. Or passion.

Or coding Amiga

[dreadnought]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

I wonder... would EAB rules consider as religious group, a cult of man, that strongly believe that some day Amiga will resurrect, and they go through forum, spreading gospel.

That's kinda happening already, mostly in the what-if and other megathreads

[grelbfarlk]

It is a surprise to no one, that many people who talk about Amigas seriously are in fact looneys in this year of 2024 in the third phase of the Amiga interregnum.

That being said, I am surprised that some of you here that have made great contribution(s) to the Amiga, on the order of doing the whole job of somebody, better than they did at Commodore, feel unfulfilled in some way.

Like yeah, some dudes played too much Syndicate or Cannon Fodder and went on to sell tractor parts and remember their best days were playing some copied floppy.

But many others just spent 10 years Amiga'ing and went on to have goodish lives because they spent those years on an Amiga.