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New Degree Offered By Landover Baptist University
Topic Started: Aug 3 2006, 11:02 PM (2,274 Views)
JBryan
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Huh?
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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M&M's
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Guess I'm redundant and confusing today. Sorry.
My child shows GOOD CHARACTERIZATION in an ongoing game of D&D
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JBryan
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Could you speak up? I didn't catch that.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Think she said something about steering columns? :confused:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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The 89th Key
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I thought it was just my stomach grumbling.
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M&M's
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JBryan
Aug 4 2006, 12:46 PM
Could you speak up? I didn't catch that.

:wacko: I said you are wrong and I'm right. That is all you need to understand!!!
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
"Sure, honey, I'll have another beer".
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Dewey
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"For those of you who are oh so concerned that someone's feelings might be hurt by blunt, biting social satire aimed at large groups, perhaps you should consider the type of personal and nasty comments that are made here on a daily basis -- often many times a day -- attacking individual posters by name. These are neither satire nor meant to be funny. They are simply nasty, mean-spirited and vicious, but almost never denounced."

Nasty personal attacks are wrong wherever they occur. If I happen to see it, I'll likely comment on it. But if I see some train wreck of a thread spiraling into nastiness, the odds are pretty good that I'm not even opening the thread any more. I suspect that a lot of what you think is my tacit approval of some people's nastiness is much more the case that I've never seen it. I don't go hunting for nastiness, there's plenty enough around without having to look for more. But surely you're not justifying being nasty to someone because "So-and-So was being nasty to someone else, so that makes it OK." Even though whe'll still occasionally try using it, even my ten year old knows that justification isn't going to fly.

Of course even then, there's a difference, Rick. At the very least, if two people here are arguing, and getting nasty with each other, it's over an issue that they've both chosen to participate in, and in which they can both defend themselves in. They've both stepped into the ring. That isn't the case with the original post. It simply started out insulting a particular group of people. Further, if two people are arguing here, they've slid into the argument while actually discussing something. They didn't just start a thread titled, "Dewey is a Worthless Piece of Crap!"


"As long as the type of vitriol we read here every day aimed at individual posters is not denounced by the people who have denounced this satire in this thread each and every time the vitriol is posted, forgive me if I do not take their protestations seriously."

Is that really the level that you want to set your standards to? Are you really going to determine your actions based on the lowest common denominator? As long as someone else is doing something wrong, that you have no need to act any better?

You have displayed a disdain for, as you put it, "those damned evangelicals," in the past. This is just another chapter ofintolerance directed against them.

"Hell, get a grip people! This is satire!"

No, it isn't. It's destructive bigotry. It was wrong. And you're rationalizing it.

"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

"Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous

"Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011

I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14
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Dewey
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Rick, I know that you think I have it out for you. I really don't. But I know that, as believers, we are commanded to treat other believers tolerantly, in love, trying to support each other (and yes, actually saying when we think another is wrong). That doesn't mean that we're all going to think, or act, or express our faith, or our politics, in the same way. But it does mean that we are instructed to not arbitrarily try to tear each other down, and that's exactly what I think the original post does to a wide swath of very good and very devout fellow believers. I really don't want to argue with you. All I want you to do is just consider the destructive nature of those kind of words. Is it really worth the insult and gross stereotyping just to get a few snickers? I just don't think it is.
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

"Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous

"Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011

I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14
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AlbertaCrude
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Aug 4 2006, 04:29 AM
John D'Oh
Aug 4 2006, 08:19 AM
Well, I thought it was very funny, Rick, even if others didn't.


Me too, John.

I'm an equal opportunity offender.


Sign me there also. Any particular interest group that brings religion, politics and wealth together en mass is fair game for the scrutiny of satire.
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Rick Zimmer
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AlbertaCrude
Aug 4 2006, 02:15 PM
dolmansaxlil
Aug 4 2006, 04:29 AM
John D'Oh
Aug 4 2006, 08:19 AM
Well, I thought it was very funny, Rick, even if others didn't.


Me too, John.

I'm an equal opportunity offender.


Sign me there also. Any particular interest group that brings religion, politics and wealth together en mass is fair game for the scrutiny of satire.

Exactly.
[size=4]Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul -- Benedict XVI[/size]
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Let me get this straight, now you are saying there are levels of "worthiness" when it comes to others insulting them?

Cracking gay jokes is wrong, but there's nothing wrong with insulting Christians? We must wait until the gays are represented in politics (since they already have the money-aspect covered), and then they are vulnerable?

The hypocrisy is deafening.
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AlbertaCrude
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Yes. And the day is close when as equals they can be shat upon with impunity like the rest of us.
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What do you mean "us"?

Which group do you belong to that is shat upon?
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John D'Oh
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When a group is actively discriminated against there is a difference. It's the reason that Limey jokes are more acceptable than N-jokes. I haven't noticed a whole lot of anti-Christian discrimination in the US, despite what I've heard.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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AlbertaCrude
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Aug 4 2006, 01:26 PM
What do you mean "us"?

Which group do you belong to that is shat upon?


Pickup truck drivers and other consumers of copius amounts of hydrocrabon fuel who live igloos
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TomK
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Listen:

It was just a joke--everybody around here is getting WAY to PC. Or maybe this is just a chance to take a cheap shot at Rick. Either way, everybody's making too much of a tasteless bit of satire.

OK?
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Nobody's Sock
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"slapping the love of Jesus onto an infant" :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:


Methinks Dewey wouldn't have been so taken aback if this article was posted by someone other than Rick??????


"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
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John D'Oh
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TomK
Aug 4 2006, 06:18 PM
Listen:

It was just a joke--everybody around here is getting WAY to PC. Or maybe this is just a chance to take a cheap shot at Rick. Either way, everybody's making too much of a tasteless bit of satire.

OK?

It was either this thread, or join in with 'The bible, in context, on homosexuals'. Do you think I'm nuts?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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kenny
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Dewey what if I had posted the same thing?
Would you have reacted the same way, and posted the same response?

I realize this is hypothetical, and I'm not trying to be a turd. (I don't HAVE to try. :P )

But if, say, Jodi and Gryphon posted the same borderline thing I'm pretty sure I'd react to it differently.
I'm not sure this is wrong.
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AlbertaCrude
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John D'Oh
Aug 4 2006, 02:28 PM
It was either this thread, or join in with 'The bible, in context, on homosexuals'. Do you think I'm nuts?


No the comedy and satire here clearly places you amongst the party animals here. Cheers
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TomK
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John D'Oh
Aug 4 2006, 06:28 PM
TomK
Aug 4 2006, 06:18 PM
Listen:

It was just a joke--everybody around here is getting WAY to PC.  Or maybe this is just a chance to take a cheap shot at Rick.  Either way, everybody's making too much of a tasteless bit of satire.

OK?

It was either this thread, or join in with 'The bible, in context, on homosexuals'. Do you think I'm nuts?

The problem with the "Bible and Homosexuals" thread is that they keep doing all that parsing of quotes so that each sentence has an individual answer. Pretty fancy stuff. But it's way too time consuming to figure all of that out.

You're much better off here.

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John D'Oh
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In addition, there's posts in that other thread that contain more syllables than letters. There's also a much better chance of a knob-joke in this thread.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Nobody's Sock
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You want a knob joke? I'll give you a knob joke:

A woman in her forties went to a plastic surgeon for a face-lift The surgeon told her about a new procedure called "The Knob," where a small knob is placed on the back of a woman's head and can be turned to tighten up her skin to produce the effect of a brand new face lift. Of course, the woman wanted "The Knob." Over the course of the years, the woman tightened the knob and the effects were wonderful. The woman remained young looking and vibrant. After fifteen years, the woman returned to the surgeon with two problems. "All of these years, everything has been working just fine. I've had to turn the knob many times and I've always loved the results. But now I've developed two annoying problems: "First, I have these terrible bags under my eyes and the knob won't get rid of them." The doctor looked at her closely and said, "Those aren't bags, those are your breasts." She sighed and said, "Well, I guess there's no point in asking about the goatee...." :hair:
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
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TomK
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John D'Oh
Aug 4 2006, 07:10 PM
In addition, there's posts in that other thread that contain more syllables than letters. There's also a much better chance of a knob-joke in this thread.

And you have to be quite sober to read those posts--I can't imagine what you have to be to write them.

Such displays of verbosity are best left to college sophmores who write such things for a living. Though here seems to be a helpful formula that I found over there:
"an object falls to the ground accelerating at the rate of 9.8 ms^-2"

I have no idea if it's true or not but it seem quite profound.


All in all though, knob jokes are better. :)
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