OIC - and agreed -
Actually, my life has been like a roller-coaster, I’m not going to tell you about the bad times. But take my word for it, as much as I dislike some of you, I hope that none of you go through the pain I’ve gone through in my life.
My life reads like an interesting novel. But when your actually living my life, it’s a d__n scary roller-coaster.
LOL, if you knew who you were talking to (which you never will of course) you’d realize just how comical that sounds. But hey, at least you finally responded to one of my posts. Allow me to return the courtesy by responding in your own patented style, with a non sequitur. How about those Golden Bears?
So, Carl Douglas was a classmate, eh?
The one who became a member of the California Bar in 1981? Do you understand the concept of public records?
You claimed you wasted your first year in law school playing Missile Command (mid 1980) and Pac-Man (late 1980), which would have you, at best, overlapping one year. Worse, one year you didn’t spend busily studying, instead wasting on video games while Mr Douglas was busy in his final year.
That’s not “classmates” in even the most generous sense of the term. Even less so in law school, where 3rd year students will have limited interaction with 1st year law student video game fanatics who eventually take a year off.
The most generous interpretation is you made a bald-faced lie about being classmates with an alum from a few classes ahead.
The least generous interpretation is you made a bald-faced lie about being a lawyer.
Either way, you’re a liar.
As much as I like you…I don’t care what you think, I don’t have to convince anybody I’m an attorney. I’m billing my clients 400/hr. and I don’t fudge on my bill to clients. When I’m online and on this website, I reduce my bill accordingly. Even though it’s probable that my clients would never find out, I really do try to do the right thing.
Oh, come on, people. He’s not even bothering to pretend that he’s not just trolling the shit out of this place any more. He couldn’t be more obvious if he changed his location to “under the bridge”.
Could you give us a list of things that we should forget you ever mentioned?
If you don’t care about your credibility on this board, if you don’t have enough respect for us to put any degree of thought or care or effort into your posts, if it doesn’t matter to you what the quality of responses are to your comments, then how is it worth your time and effort to post here at all? Surely a lawyer who bills $400 an hour can find another way to spend his time that gets him something, anything at all, in return.
And that’s the biggest problem with you. You have no respect for the fact that there’s a group of people here willing to pit in the time, effort, and thought into reading your comment and responding to you.
Even if you aren’t intentionally trolling, that makes you an asshole. And what would Jesus say about that?
20+ years as a lawyer and you’re billing only $400/hour? Your career has been sad.
No kidding. My lawyer friend is around the $400 range, but he’s only been in practice for 5 years. I’m only a geophysicist, but my company still bills more than $400 for my work. And in Texas that’s real money.
Well, if a thousand monkeys striking keys on a thousand typewriters can occassionaly type something intelligible, then surely there’s a chance that one…
That says more about the customer than the purported provider. He may bill $400 an hour and may even get $400 an hour. Is the product actually worth $400 to the discerning client, though?
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That is now my favorite Freudian Slip on these Boards! If it had been anyone else to whom you directed that comment, it wouldn’t’ve been the gold that it is.
This ought to be good. pchaos hasn’t demonstrated all that much understanding of Christianity or its founding tome.
You smoked LSD, but didn’t inhale? You’re the biggest moron there is.
Dear Christ almighty, would you shut your steaming idiot hole?
If it weren’t for science, you’d run screaming into the nearest cave, performing some bloody penance while wondering exactly which sin you committed that warrants God’s extreme fury the next time a fucking comet whooshes by.
Science is supposed to come up with a worldview? Silly me; I thought it was a method of obeservation.
Logic is supposed to come up iwth a worldview? Silly me; I thought it was a method of thinking.
Seriously, pchaos. You really should shut your piehole as the poster above pleaded (that’s a lawyer word you should know if you are, in fact, a lawyer). You have demonstrated nothing so far to indicate that you have any practical knowledge of anything whatsoever in anything you’ve said on this boards thus far.
At this point, my money (so to speak) is on the lone monkey in front of a keyboard theory.
Why insult the monkey?
Well that’s your problem right there…
I’m pretty damned sure that I exist. I’ve never seen any objective argument that a “god” exists.
Again, how did this “god” individual come to be?
At some point in the far distant past existence itself was created. It seems to me that this must have happened in one of two ways*:
1/ Existence, and hence the universe, just suddenly popped into being
That sounds unbelievably improbable, but to me it’s still far more likely than the alternative:
2/ An omnipotent being just suddenly popped into being, and that omnipotent being miraculously had the power to then create an entire universe from scratch.
He knows when you’ve been sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake. If you don’t worship “Him” he’ll cast you into a lake of fire for all eternity. He’ll do this because he “loves” you, not because he’s a creepy control-freak stalker with a severe case of narcissistic personality disorder.
*There may be an infinite number of other scenarios beyond our ability to comprehend. There may be an infinite number of universes. But I see no reason to believe that some all-powerful deity created any of this reality we all experience, because any deity-centered explanation of reality does not answer the inevitable follow-up question: “How was god created?”
Atheism to me is just the simple and rational process of cutting out a wholly unnecessary and rather unlikely middleman when trying to explain the existence of reality itself.
You misspelled “shitty webcomic.”
Too many big words for him. You have to keep it simple for this fool. Try this:
Well, DUH! It’s the Pit. The point of this thread is to point out your foolishness, and call you a fool for it.
I appreciate your comment because it’s thoughtful and recognizes that my return to Christianity has really just been a fairly recent development. I’m learning and I’m praying. I realize I have a long ways to go.
Actually, a lot depends on your area of practice and the city you practice in. If your in a big city like SF or if you do patent law in Palo Alto, you would bill a lot more of course. But I’m happy with my little practice.
Sometimes I do, that’s why I want to go into a new business and a second career. I suppose I could retire instead and enjoy the rest of my days, but that would be booooring. I want to see if I can make it in a completely different business. And whether you guys want to know about it or not. In the near future, you will be one of the first to know.