
Zombieneighbours |

CourtFool wrote:Ceiling Cat is watching you all.But Ceiling Cat no eated dem.
Teh intertubez can haz winning!!!

Kruelaid |

Kruelaid wrote:Personal insults based on an individuals Disabilities. Classy.Zombieneighbours wrote:I did not say "You have assumed..."
I said "That assumes..."
The 'that' mentioned is the idea that dismissing an idea is the same as attacking a person.
But hey hoe.
Circularity much? Grammar? Try it.
Anyway, you got salad tween your ears. I shoulda known better.
Yah, I remember you claiming you are dyslexic. Way back.
Dude, one of my best friends (and a long time gaming amigo) is seriously dyslexic, to the point that he dropped out without finishing high school.
Yet today it doesn't prevent him from being reasonable, nor does it interfere with his logical faculties nor his apprehension of the statements, contentions, and reasoning of others. It does not prevent him from considering the perspectives and feelings of others, although he can be a jerk sometimes as we all can.
Most importantly, he does not hide behind his disability.
It just takes him longer to read stuff, and he needs a spell checker.
The dearest person in my life, my grandmother, was physically disabled. She was an amazing woman and never once tried to capitalize on it. I miss her dearly.
If you think I'm at you for disability you are seriously out of order. Disability is not an issue here.

Zombieneighbours |

Zombieneighbours wrote:And in return I dismiss the notion that Murray is anything more than a second rate player who will never win Wimbledon..much like Henman in fact
I am sorry to feel that way. From now on we the english shall have to boo Andy Murray
I don't know that I entirely agree. I haven't paid much attention for two years, but before that my memory is that only two players consistently gave him trouble. He's ranked at world number two before now. It is possible he's gotten worse since last I watched, but yeah...

CourtFool |

That says it all, really.
Somewhere I had seen the Cliff Cliff Notes of the Old Testament.
God creates man and everything man does pisses god off.
I think that kind of says it all.
Matthew 24
But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. (36)
Now how does that work when the Father and Son are supposed to be the same person?

Samnell |

ProfessorCirno wrote:Now how does that work when the Father and Son are supposed to be the same person?Matthew 24
But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. (36)
The author of Matthew does not appear to have thought that. Similarly, the author of Mark seems to believe that Jesus was a more or less ordinary person who was adopted by Yahweh. It's not until John that the guy is conclusively depicted as having existed forever.
But of course accepting the aforementioned gospels as authoritative and not others is in itself an ideological decision, really just one step removed from insisting that the ecumenical councils constitute an authoritative source of doctrine.

Samnell |

Samnell wrote:
I got your number on the wall
I got it (I got it), I got it
For a good time call
Jenny don't change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I've got your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)So, I need to ask...
What's the context for this biblical passage?
Truly I say unto you, the Son of Man has our number on the wall. He has it. He has it. For a good time He will call.
To the Son of Man, we are all Jenny. For He so loved us that He gave his only begotten son that whosoever does not change their number will have a good time when He calls. But only that number, for no other number does he know. Only for that number will the veil be rent and only knocking to that tune shall open the door to a good time.
My fundie grandmother taught me that, using a giant velvet picture of Jesus as a visual aid.

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Sebastian wrote:Samnell wrote:
I got your number on the wall
I got it (I got it), I got it
For a good time call
Jenny don't change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I've got your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)So, I need to ask...
What's the context for this biblical passage?
Truly I say unto you, the Son of Man has our number on the wall. He has it. He has it. For a good time He will call.
To the Son of Man, we are all Jenny. For He so loved us that He gave his only begotten son that whosoever does not change their number will have a good time when He calls. But only that number, for no other number does he know. Only for that number will the veil be rent and only knocking to that tune shall open the door to a good time.
My fundie grandmother taught me that, using a giant velvet picture of Jesus as a visual aid.
** spoiler omitted **
This explains more than I ever wanted to know.

Samnell |

This explains more than I ever wanted to know.
Strip out the song references and the woman really did tell me that. She also gave me a children's book of Bible stories that mostly had the violent ones. My parents kept it from me for the better part of a decade. It made pretty horrifying reading for an eight year old.

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Crimson Jester wrote:Strip out the song references and the woman really did tell me that. She also gave me a children's book of Bible stories that mostly had the violent ones. My parents kept it from me for the better part of a decade. It made pretty horrifying reading for an eight year old.
This explains more than I ever wanted to know.
Sorry man, I was going to ask for a copy of the Bible that you seem to have been reading but if that was how you were approached, I think I have read that one before.

Samnell |

Sorry man, I was going to ask for a copy of the Bible that you seem to have been reading but if that was how you were approached, I think I have read that one before.
My mother twigged that I was a bit sensitive to all the slaughter, so she tried to help me out by telling me about the crown of thorns. That actually made me cry. I pictured someone literally hammering nail-like thorns into a guy's head. She told me it was nothing to cry about, which made absolutely no sense to me. I'm my father's son on this. We watched Amistad once many years ago and he had to leave the room right at the beginning when the slavers were tossing their prisoners overboard.
Of course the years and DMing leave me far more jaded now. :)
That aside I've been through fair portions of the regular old Bible too. I don't base my opinions about the book on the kiddie version. The Jesus at the door business is a fairly standard metaphor from my mother's family's strain of Lutheranism. (I even heard it at the old lady's funeral, among the other eager depictions of hellfire that the preacher always has on hand to help grow his business.)
My father's family, Polish Catholics, instead had pictures and even a big plastic bust of Jesus prying his chest open to display his innards. They were much less religiously pushy, though. The most I ever got out of them was my grandmother explaining who the white plastic statue of a lady was meant to depict and her particular reasons for arranging the Christmastime nativity scene as she did. I'm reasonably sure that "when the tree spirits come" isn't the preferred phrasing for the arrival of the Magi but I think there was probably a language issue involved. She never called Mary by that name either. Neither her nor my grandfather grew up speaking English at home and she had much less education than he did.