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hindy111

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The more I do ladder predictor the more I feel we are a good chance of missing finals.
But we have the players to also win all games if get going.
I have us rnd 25 needing to beat the Storm for us to finish 8th. Unfortunately I have them needing the win to get 2nd spot rather then 4th.
With a poor for and against I don't think 28 points gets us in. We need 30. And even that may not be enough. We'd probably have to worse for and against of Roosters,Souths,Canberra who all will float rnd that mark.
Manly who I expect to lose tonight are done imo.
 

Poupou Escobar

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It is demonstrable that the world didn’t end because God was going to annihilate all evil in the world and there is still evil in the world. Also the Kingdom of God was going to be in Israel and everyone was going to become resurrected (with no more death in the world). This obviously isn’t the case.
Perhaps your interpretation is too literal?
A lot of evangelical Christians actually don’t accept what they’re taught by secular universities when it comes to religious studies.
Right, but secular people probably accept it without question.
The Jesus of Sunday school and the Jesus of history are two very different people.
No doubt. And different again from the Jesus they claim to know personally.
 

Poupou Escobar

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To die for us. Another sacrifice God decided to make on our behalf supposedly. Funny how everyone else needs to tow the line for Him and make sacrifices while He sits there and judges us for all our imperfections and sins that he himself and nobody else created in the first place.
Well he's God ffs. The whole point is that judgement is a one way relationship. If you're too proud to get on board with that maybe God isn't for you.
Cool dude this God. Makes man flawed, then give him freedom of choice to exercise those flaws, while knowing to well that most if not all will fail and then He can sit there and judge us on our mistakes.

Top bloke. Me wants to follow this guy and I love him and respect him oh so much. He has my back all the time. How could I not love him. Really people are that desperate and need to believe in something that bad that they will follow a dictator type of spiritual overlord that sticks his nose into all our business, even our sex life or what foods we can eat or haircuts we have. Really?

I get spirituality and the feeling of something bigger then ourselves, but these Gods we humans have come up with are just over the top and silly in my opinion. Sure believe if you have to and I would never stop anyone from believing in whatever or whoever they want to, unless what they believe in is harmful or detrimental to others. You leave me alone and I leave you alone.

As for rainbow jerseys in football it's a bad idea because there are to many people that choose to be bigots and judge people negatively because their chosen religion allows them to. These sorts of things should not be in sports. But here we are. So now we can all get to pick a side and go Hell for leather. So I'm with the gays and I can't stand the hypocritical bigots selectively picking out peoples sex lives as such a negative thing that they would rather stand down from their paid profession then say you know what I love all people and if I can fornicate, gamble, eat food or drink what I'm not supposed to or divorce, get tattoos or whatever other bazillion things that the Good Book says I shouldn't do, then I can ignore what type of consensual sex other people might be into too.

Why is gay sex the only thing that these supposed devout religious people seem to have an issue with? I mean, Why are they playing in the NRL at all since the NRL is saturated in gambling adds and sponsors for example? If you are so religious isn't that a very offensive and concerning issue that your religious sensibilities should be tweaking big time over? I mean look at all the hardship and families and lives that gambling is ruining. Where's the stand against that? You know something that is actually destructive and hurting thousands every day? No not one player stands down over that.

So from that we can see how twisted they are and their sense of what is right and what is wrong in my opinion is upside down. People lose houses due to gambling, sweet no worries. People sleeping with the same sex, how terrible and I can't condone such sinful behaviour. I must show my objection and make a public stand and in all good consciousness I can't be part of such a unthinkable act.

Like I said, hiding behind religion to object to peoples sex lives is just cowardly, unless you stand against all the other stuff that you could easily say no to too that your religion condemns also. But they don't do that or else they wouldn't have a job. But gay sex is the big one, because if you aren't gay then you can get on your high horse and be a strong hypocrite against it in the name of your religion because it ain't you.
I mostly agree with the rest of this. As for why gay sex is the hot button issue (snigger) you obviously don't have a disgust response to it but many do. Drinking and gambling just don't invoke the same reaction.
 

Joshuatheeel

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The more I do ladder predictor the more I feel we are a good chance of missing finals.
But we have the players to also win all games if get going.
I have us rnd 25 needing to beat the Storm for us to finish 8th. Unfortunately I have them needing the win to get 2nd spot rather then 4th.
With a poor for and against I don't think 28 points gets us in. We need 30. And even that may not be enough. We'd probably have to worse for and against of Roosters,Souths,Canberra who all will float rnd that mark.
Manly who I expect to lose tonight are done imo.
This comes up every year in here…..generally history shows winning 50% of your games gets you a top 8 spot (however there have been years when it hasn’t).

Us on 28 points means we have won over 50% of our games, no side has missed the finals winning over 50% of their games since 1999. And that year there was 17 teams. So pretty much history indicates 28 almost certainly gets us a top 8 spot. Gee 30 points probably gets us fairly close but not close enough to the top 4……

Additionally I assume using the predictor you are taking the most logical option, history indicates there are always upsets. And there will be a few in the last 6 weeks, throwing those predictions out.

What happens if Titans beat raiders this week? Warriors defeat Storm? We beat broncos in Brisbane? Dragons upset Broncos? Knights defeat Raiders? Etc etc

Almost all are possible outcome, and only 1 or 2 throws out your ladder…thus why 2 wins gets us a top 8 spot
 
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IFR33K

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I’ve changed my stance merkin, at the time I did want blood and wanted that comp given to us. But now I don’t want us to break the drought that way.

Digging up 12 years posts Gronky what an exciting life you lead 🥸


He’s the robocop of these forums.
 

TheRam

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Well he's God ffs. The whole point is that judgement is a one way relationship. If you're too proud to get on board with that maybe God isn't for you.
I mostly agree with the rest of this. As for why gay sex is the hot button issue (snigger) you obviously don't have a disgust response to it but many do. Drinking and gambling just don't invoke the same reaction.

Whether he is or isn't God himself is interpretation. Yes maybe, but it isn't defined and open to debate as it has been for millennia.

As for sex, drinking and gambling and every other damnable activity in the Holy book, is like I said, selective bigotry because they aren't gay so they choose to be oh so righteous. Defending these bigots is doing no one any good and only serves to keep these hurtful, destructive and sometimes life taking ideas and thoughts relevant.

I'm not saying we should persecute these religious homophobes but we should call their actions out for what they are and show the hypocrisy of their actions more clearly. Not give them cover and simply say that they have a right to make their choice and that we acknowledged their strong beliefs.

Sure they have a right to be bigots and I will also defend their right to be bigots, but I will call them out on that as I too have a right to do so. This softly, softly lets not offend people that are offending others and actually damaging their outlook on life and the way they see themselves overall by their negative actions in public no less, that has gone around the freakin world is just weak political correctness malaki.

We should not stand for any sort of bigotry no matter what faith or tradition it wants to hide behind, just like we don't tolerate any form of domestic abuse or bullying. Why? Because as we well know if you do tolerate it even a little, it will just go on forever and in many cases just get worse.

There is no room for bigotry no matter what holier then thou excuse anyone wants to give it.
 
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Poupou Escobar

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This comes up every year in here…..generally history shows winning 50% of your games gets you a top 8 spot (however there have been years when it hasn’t).

Us on 28 points means we have won over 50% of our games, no side has missed the finals winning over 50% of their games since 1999. And that year there was 17 teams. So pretty much history indicates 28 almost certainly gets us a top 8 spot. Gee 30 points probably gets us fairly close but not close enough to the top 4……

Additionally I assume using the predictor you are taking the most logical option, history indicates there are always upsets. And there will be a few in the last 6 weeks, throwing those predictions out.

What happens if Titans beat raiders this week? Warriors defeat Storm? We beat broncos in Brisbane? Dragons upset Broncos? Knights defeat Raiders? Etc etc

Almost all are possible outcome, and only 1 or 2 throws out your ladder…thus why 2 wins gets us a top 8 spot
We are only paying $1.25 to make the top eight. Manly and Canberra are the only realistic outsiders:

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Poupou Escobar

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Whether he is or isn't God himself is interpretation. Yes maybe, but it isn't defined and open to debate as it has been for millennia.

As for sex, drinking and gambling and every other damnable activity in the Holy book, is like I said, selective bigotry because they aren't gay so they choose to be oh so righteous. Defending these bigots is doing no one any good and only serves to keep these hurtful, destructive and sometimes life taking ideas and thoughts relevant.

I'm not saying we should persecute these religious homophobes but we should call their actions out for what they are and show the hypocrisy of their actions more clearly. Not give them cover and simply say that they have a right to make their choice and that we acknowledged their strong beliefs.

Sure they have a right to be bigots and I will also defend their right to be bigots, but I will call them out on that as I too have a right to do so. This softly, softly lets not offend people that are offending others and actually damaging their outlook on life and the way they see themselves overall by their negative actions in public no less, that has gone around the freakin world is just weak political correctness malaki.

We should not stand for any sort of bigotry no matter what faith or tradition it wants to hide behind, just like we don't tolerate any form of domestic abuse or bullying. Why? Because as we well know if you do tolerate it even a little, it will just go on forever and in many cases just get worse.

There is no room for bigotry no matter what holier then thou excuse anyone wants to give it.
This focus on bigotry will lead to persecution of Christians and Muslims. If you're worried about causing harm you need to check your need to have everybody think the same.
 

TheRam

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This focus on bigotry will lead to persecution of Christians and Muslims. If you're worried about causing harm you need to check your need to have everybody think the same.

That's like saying the focus on bullies would then lead to the persecution of bullies. We in the West don't persecute any group of people now a days. Political correctness has seen to that. But we can and should point out bigotry no matter where it comes from and make it totally clear that it is not condoned and we don't won't stand for it.

As for my need for everyone to think the same. What? I don't like bigotry and yes I want everyone to not like bigotry, but that doesn't mean I want everyone to think on every other topic or issue in the world the same way. That is just you again Pou throwing out your hyperbole as fact to score points.

A bigot is a bigot, is a bigot no matter how they try to disguise it.

No excuse.
 

Poupou Escobar

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That's like saying the focus on bullies would then lead to the persecution of bullies.
No it's like saying that calling everyone who disagrees with you a bully is itself bullying. Refusing to support something isn't persecution. But going after those people who don't support the things you want them to support is 100% bullying behaviour. Justifying it by pretending you give a shit about one group's feelings doesn't stop you being a bully. There are laws against discrimination based on sexual orientation, and the people you want to harass aren't breaking those laws. If they do the law will handle them, not the f**king mob. Get back in your box you impotent, angry little merkin. People don't have to like the things you like. They certainly shouldn't have to pretend to like it just to make you feel better.
 

Snoochies

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Isn't there a religion forum all this chat can be moved to?
The Pride thread, can carry on there if people wish.

 

hineyrulz

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And you don't???
Nope, I just remembered when you chucked your bum in the corner and went to Can-Brrrrrraaaaa. How could anyone forget, Gronky actually had to sift through old posts of mine from 12 years ago just for a gotcha moment. He must be a hoot at parties.
 

Gronk

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Nope, I just remembered when you chucked your bum in the corner and went to Can-Brrrrrraaaaa. How could anyone forget, Gronky actually had to sift through old posts of mine from 12 years ago just for a gotcha moment. He must be a hoot at parties.
Calm down Charlie Brown. Just jokes. 🤓
 

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The more I do ladder predictor the more I feel we are a good chance of missing finals.
But we have the players to also win all games if get going.
I have us rnd 25 needing to beat the Storm for us to finish 8th. Unfortunately I have them needing the win to get 2nd spot rather then 4th.
With a poor for and against I don't think 28 points gets us in. We need 30. And even that may not be enough. We'd probably have to worse for and against of Roosters,Souths,Canberra who all will float rnd that mark.
Manly who I expect to lose tonight are done imo.
Then stop doing it
 

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