― pissed off (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)
remember, you can't spell fundamentalist without the "mentalist" or the "fund". crazy people with money can't get you down, yo.
― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)
No. Why?
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)
yeah strongo, poor beleaguered religion, can't it find a friend anywhere?
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)
two things adolescents have always been right about: 1) the whole point is to have plenty of sex and 2) religion is bullshit
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Sybil is about a girl with multiple personalities. The doctor tells me Jenny and Marsha like it but I think they are only trying to gain control of my body Arrghrhrhrhrh.
― Sarah no Jenny no Marsha arrgh (starry), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Hahaha....wow.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)
Enrique if you take down Christianity capitalism will follow, they're essentially the same thing, Catholic Worker anomalies & most Church-clinging lefties notwithstanding.
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― my monks own this land, either convert or get orf moi land (starry), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm warming to TT cos the religion i don't like is the protestant 'and the rise of capitalism' religion.
― R H Tawney (Enrique), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)
you called me john before I stopped calling you strongo, so, um, "nyah" or some comparably mature riposte
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)
Even assuming you are correct, how do you proposed getting rid of Christianity? I don't know why I'm asking, because the above statement proves you are evidently devoid of insight and pretty damn ignorant with it.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)
but the implicitness of capitalist protestantism became so implicit and unsaid that it faded away, disappeared from public life, and now christianity is fighting back against capitalism, trying to regain its crown?
― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)
but stevem the short version is, of course the text is mutable, all texts are infinitely mutable, so you gotta judge the religion on its track record (not on your or my or anybody else's reading of 'what the Bible really means: there is no 'what it really means'). "The actual worthwhile books" = according to whom? Christianity's historical record makes all the other religions look like harmless infants.
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)
OTM OTM OTM DELETE ILE NOW
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Friday, 6 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)
this is the error - a religion is not tangible in that sense - you can only judge the accuracy of the practitioners of the religion in doing just that.
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)
This is v interesting, but I disagree quite strongly -- I still think the ol' Xtian values of graft, monogamy, and ooh, everything else that're up in my grill at this moment in time, are going strong.
― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)
xpost. Stevem, the religion is its adherents - even according to the religion itself ("we are the body of Christ" both in the Catholic mass & in protestant doctrine, "by their fruits shall ye know them," etc). In this way religion is great, because most philosophies don't have workshops where you can see whether their ideas play out or not. Christianity does: the Western world!
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― $$, Friday, 6 February 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― pissed off (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― $$, Friday, 6 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)
Meanwhile, the 'You want me to take MUH hat off?' dude is a worse stereotype than anything discussed in that freakin' Simpsons thread, I think.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― $$, Friday, 6 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― $$, Friday, 6 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― $$, Friday, 6 February 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― savedandhappy (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― savedandhappy (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― $$, Friday, 6 February 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― righteous man (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― $$, Friday, 6 February 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― panda (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 February 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― savedandhappy (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)
ha ha... this thread no longer sucks.
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)
Believe me, I don't mind eating bags of dicks if I have to.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)
-latebloomer
Yes. Yes we do.
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)
pick either. delete the other.
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)
I enjoy reading about religion because I find it interesting the different ways people devote their lives to a alledged higher power.
I also believe heaven/the afterlife is something humans invented to deal with the hopelessness of death, but thats another story.
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)
So you're an athiest now? -- Aja
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)
Now comes in "Spicy Barbeque", "Saucy Ranch" and new "Honey Poontang" flavors!Betcha can't eat just one.
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 7 February 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 7 February 2004 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― sfsdfasd, Saturday, 7 February 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh, and that "Jesus is a cunt" line was a phrase on the back of a Cradle of Filth t-shirt I remember seeing somewhere.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 7 February 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)
http://i36.tinypic.com/2lm6vtd.jpg
― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:50 (seventeen years ago)