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It’s alright, CG. Even if we have a fight, we’ll trip over and break our own noses.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Comment #146300
Uh-oh. Pisces.
(Brutally honest – Sagittarian trait – check).
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Comment #146299
Rocking Sagittarius chicks FTW, Rose!
I didn’t know I was surrounded by ’sisters’. Someone once said something about me that scared me a little bit, but then I realized it was true, she said something like: “You don’t wanna pick a fight with her, she’s a Sagittarius, she’s half ‘animal’ and half human… And the human part is armed!”
My B-day is December 13th, Glo.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Comment #146298
Oh, it’s world sodium awareness day, isn’t it Mark? Is that why you were posting about sodium? A teaspoon of salt a day. Can you imagine how boring all food would taste?
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Comment #146297
Happy Birthday (((oi)))!
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Comment #146296
oi, CG I have no problem with that. We can do it this way.
Rose, do me, please!
Pisces I mean, in the horoscopical sense.
Big hi to all my other CIFters. Work is really busy at the moment so I dont get to pan as much as I would like too.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Comment #146295
I put something about clumsiness in my last post, ‘glo (check, saggie trait).
I blamed the tree, of course (check, saggie trait).
A bit of a lump, but I kind of had a pimple forming there too (TMI? – check, saggie trait).
So I’m not sure if the slight ache is from that or the noggin bash. I’ll be okay for swimming.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Comment #146294
Many Sags here, CG–me, rose, pony girl, Saysh, RB. When’s your birthday?
*doesn’t really believe but lets rose tell her things*
How’s your head now, rose? Did you get a goose egg?
(((Wade)))
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Comment #146293
I love you Mama (I just thought I’d throw that out there).
I believe in whatever that Don MacLean song was… or we could get back to Clapton… but I say, go further back. I believe in the Eggman. I believe in the Walrus. I believe in fish. I am an animist, obviously.
Hi, everyone. I’m back from the post office. I should get to work. And I should get the dishes done.
CG, you know this place is riddled with Sagittarius, don’t you? I heard a very good summing up of male Sagittarius the other day. I’ve got four legs. I can shit in the street if I want to! That’s about right, even though I have had some lovely male centaurs in my life. As for the females, we rock and we rock hard! (oh, we also lack tact, are clumsy, and have strong opinions).
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Comment #146292
Hey (((Wade))), how was your day?
Wanna go wih us on a roadtrip? JJ won’t mind, I’m sure.
Hey (((Rose))). I’ll check out that site.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Comment #146291
I don’t know what’s going on with Aquarius, oi, but you are very free thinkers who will come up with new ideas to address problems. The only trouble is that you often run out of steam to actually implement them. You have 500,000 friends, but maybe only 4 close ones. Much to the chagrin of your very close friends, you seem to treat your not so close friends better. This seems to be because you seem to think that your close friends will always be there, but not your not so close friends. You like unusual things, trying new things. You are very friendly, though maybe difficult to get to know. You don’t let things bother you too much. The male Aquarius has a tendency, to, to have brilliant ideas, but to not follow through. Let the peons do that.
A lot of it depends upon other aspects of your chart, oi. Where is your moon, your rising and so on. And yes, we’re ultimately all human. An okay site is http://www.cainer.com, another site that isn’t bad is this one. You can find out your rising and so on from that as long as you know your time of birth. You need to explore the site a bit, and I haven’t been there for a while, but it used to be excellent.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Comment #146290
YEAH! Let’s hijack JJ’s roadtrip! That’ll be fun! You’re okay with that, right, Jet?
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Comment #146289
i’m back
hi (((all who are still around, have just left, and are soon arriving)))
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Comment #146288
oh hell yeah! let’s take a road trip! or better yet let’s hijack jet’s road trip!
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Comment #146287
It basically says the same thing about Sagitarius (me). Maybe we should drop everything and take a roadtrip! o/
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Comment #146286
hmm story of my life basically I have to be proactive about both things right?
Well work is not that hard but life…
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Comment #146285
I know it has nothing to do with anything, but Mark mentioned volcanos and it remind me of this commercial.
Cupcakes FTW! Yes!
oi, I heard someone say that this year Aquarius will feel the need to find constancy in the work area, and at the same time will need more freedom to create, to travel. So those to aspects will be colliding, but it’s a great year for growth.
Hey (((CIFs)))!
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Comment #146284
yeah cup cakes ftw.
oooh hey rose I thought of something have you got fortune telling for me? you are always like moon is in that and Venus is in this.
Tell something about aquarius What’s going on with aquarius?
ma dad knows bit o horoscope but he says he won’t find out anything about family members. that would be tainted by the bias.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Comment #146283
Yes, fakeness is galling, oi.
But cupcakes are for the win!
Feb 1, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Comment #146282
oi! Rose! *now I sound jewish*
Feb 1, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Comment #146281
Yay! Long, beautiful hair!
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Comment #146280
L-O-Fuckin’-L, ((Mama))!
No, I do not believe that DC-3’s dropped a bunch of H-bombs on volcanos full of alien slaves. Or whatever it is they believe.
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Comment #146279
Mark, Are you a scientologost? I was just wondering because you know so much sciency stuff.
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Comment #146278
Claude believes in you, mama.
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Comment #146277
I am good glo.
I had a cupcake from my workers. They were nice and I was nice back. all in all good. was it fun you ask, I say let red sores fly away.only remember that was genuine love there from some of them. yeah but dunno i hate fake show of love. You hate me and I will embrace it but please please don’t put on a show.
*snaps back into surroundings and finds herself in the middle of big, way bigger than her stupid ego problems, talk*
ohh! that’s me and me talking in my head.
oh my! big talk. sorry guys.
Please resume.
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Comment #146276
I don’t actually believe in atheists.
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Comment #146275
Shooting through and not paying attention again – I sometimes think the conversion question carries more weight for people who have a monotheistic weight, because it becomes an all or nothing thing for them.
Of course, there is conversion between denominations, and conversion to a separate religion. A strict Muslim man can marry another Muslim, a Christian or a Jewish person, a Muslim woman is only allowed to marry another Muslim. If you are male and fall in love with a traditional Muslim, I guess conversion is probably on the cards, same as if you were not Christian or Jewish. I know Christianity had/has similar tenets.
Anyway, I’m sure this discussion is dead and buried. A couple I know here, she is Lutheran (convert), he is Buddhist, has no interest in being a Christian, but you know, he feels he has kind of hedged his bets just in case she’s right
I like that sense of humour. If there is a god, I hope he/she/it has one. Probably, as me getting hit be a tree yesterday, and wade’s work woes will attest. It’s not an issue for the husband because Buddhism is polytheistic. Seems a more tolerant way to view religion to me, though of course polytheistic religions have their fair share of superstition, ritual and mores which can restrict people’s lives.
Gotta get to the post office.
Love!
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Comment #146274
Sodium is pretty fun stuff. Potassium even more so. If “fun” can be defined as being showered with caustic soda (or caustic potash as the case may be). Youtube has several videos of people throwing big chunks of alkali metals into ponds and such. Fun!
Ooooh, it’s suddenly bright in here!
Kinda… 
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Comment #146273
Bye, Wade. Thanks for thinking I’m pretty. *tries to turn on the high beams, then realizes, one headlight’s missing*
High, Mark? You sure is smart!
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Comment #146272
Hi (((Mark)))
How are things going?
But what is the Truth of God to you, mama, MUST be the deeds of man to an atheist, mama. If there is no God, then He must be fabricated by men. It’s a valid viewpoint, even if one doesn’t believe it.
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Comment #146271
oh, and GW notwithstanding, someone dropping elemental sodium into water will only do it once.
bring a sponge.
hey and bye [[[Mark]]]
but which is the administrative capital and which is the legislative?
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Comment #146270
Sucre, and also La Paz.
(((GloMama)))
See ya, [[Wade]]
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Comment #146269
Trivia, huh? OK- what’s the capital of Bolivia?
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Comment #146268
ho ho ho
it’s good to be the santa
k, i’m outta here for a while
bye (((glomama)))
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Comment #146267
I said the truth of God, not the acts of God although that makes me think of the ax of god and wasn’t that Thor? No… Thor had a hammer. If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning. What was the question? Oh, yes! Regaining perspective. I’m all for it, Wade. God doesn’t want any of us to be promiscuous. He frowns upon that sort of thing because it causes us harm emotionally, physically. I remember when I separated from my first husband. I thought I was gonna go ho it up for a while and then I started hearing about HIV and I thought, that’s why God doesn’t want us to be hos. He doesn’t want us to get sick. The moral of the story? Don’t be a ho! *did I forget my meds today*
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Comment #146266
You know, sometimes we go on and on in here, day after day with trivial small talk. That is comforting and homey and it’s nice to feel there’s people here who will give you a virtual hug because you got a flat tire or something.
But I also feel the bonds we make in here are strengthened when we take on big topics and talk them out. The great diversity of viewpoints and backgrounds we have here can only enrich our lives if we take the time to listen to each other.
So thanks for busting in here with your frustration and concern, mama. It’s good to be reminded that for every stereotype there’s a real live person out there who thinks you’re talking about her.
♥
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Comment #146265
“bust in”
“head first”
any time, mama. any time.
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Comment #146264
And, lol, mama. If you’re arguing with an atheist, of course they’re going to confuse the acts of God with acts of man!
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Comment #146263
i read once about a seminary student who took an old bible and cut out all the references to homosexuality out of it. the book was pretty much intact.
then he cut out all references to god’s concern for the poor and oppressed. the book was a tattered mess.
sometimes it’s just a matter of regaining perspective.
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Comment #146262
Gosh, I’m away for ever and I just bust in head first. No sweet talk, no foreplay, no nothin’. I could’ve at least hollered, “Brace youselves! mama’s home! “
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Comment #146261
Well, as regards to the MT, mama, we do all have our sore spots and they do occasionally get trod upon, don’t they? Most of the humor on here does rely on the convenient shortcut of stereotypes and it can suddenly be not so funny when it’s your sore spot they’re stereotyping, right? It can be so hard not to see it as a personal attack.
I wonder if the particular intensity of scorn could be due to the position of Christians as basically the ruling class?
For what it’s worth, some of my dearest friends and finest people I know are Christian.
Also, swear to god, some of my best friends are gay!
*drifts off into pleasant daydreams of candid shots of mama*
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Comment #146260
There are a lot of Christians out there who want to challenge your belief system, listen to your arguments and crush them with their spiritual logic because they want to save you.
WWJD?
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Comment #146259
sadly, mama, i have met them irl. lots of them.
but i will say everyone is complicated, and painting with a broad stroke may be fun in a flame war on the internets, but is seldom useful irl.
awww, thanks mama
private photos, you say?
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Comment #146258
Wade, you sure are good at putting together groups of them word-thingies. You hit the nail right on the head. I loves me some Wade.
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Comment #146257
give it time, glo
that mesquite is pernicious.
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Comment #146256
No, glo. I’ve never felt attacked by any of the regulars, here. I was just expressing my 2 cents concerning a prior conversation and I was a day late. I just get really frustrated by the judgemental statements concerning Christians. I’ve never met a Christian that is anything like the stereotypes mentioned on the MT and here. I also think that it is so unfortunate that people confuse the truth of God when looking at the deeds of men. God gets a lot of blame for the decisions of man. That makes me sad.
As for the weight… I don’t know how to respond, but to say, I’m sorry. I don’t think badly about you. All of my hate is turned inward… at myself… me-hating-me. I notice your pretty hair and eyes and then I can’t help but look at your lovely bosom, I mean, smile.
Perhaps I’ll send you some candid photos of myself that you can examine, at your leisure, in the privacy of your bedro…
Wade, I agree wholeheartedly that one who claims to be Christian had better behave like one!
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Comment #146255
Mesquite charcoal for a vodka?
They ain’t getting that mesquite anywheres around here.
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Comment #146254
Thank you, Wade, that is sweet of you to say.
We (meaning America) also live in a culture where the default religion is more or less Christian. There were a whole lot of commenters on the grandma thread saying, “just let your grandma think you’re a Christian”. Because if you don’t believe in a religion, the attitude seems to be, then it can’t really matter to you and you should just go along with the Christians to make peace. But if you turned around and asked those Christians to just pretend not to believe, the outrage would flow.
For some reason, there’s an awful lot of Christians out there who think I haven’t thought about my spiritual beliefs and I’m just, I don’t know, being contrary?
And just to be clear, I haven’t felt that way here, and I know there are many Christians who respect those of other or no beliefs and I also fully acknowledge that there’s a lot of prickish atheists out there who seem to love to shit all over other people’s faith. I’m just talking generally about our generally Christian country.
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Comment #146253
looks like wisconsin ain’t just beer, brats and cheese.
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Comment #146252
hi (((glo)))
we have a messed up culture that whacks everyone over the head about body image, but especially women. advertising is designed to a) make you feel less than adequate then b) sell you something to fix the problem they have convinced you that you have. it is within the realm of possibility that mama still sees herself carrying weight from her pregnancy, because she remembers what she looked like prior to that.
for the record, you are both gorgeous.
♥
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Comment #146251
Wade, loved the news broadcast. They did it perfectly!
Timo, have you tried Tylenol PM? I use it on occasion, but only if I don’t have to be too chipper in the morning. Now that I think about it, what’s the point, really, because what’s the difference between being groggy drugged or groggy sleepless.
How’s the birthday girl doing?
Feb 1, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Comment #146250
Hi ((((mama))))
I love you too.
Now I’m going to discuss what you said.
First off, you’re not fat, and we know this, because we have seen pictures and you have in fact admitted to playing a fat girl on the internet while not really being one. I don’t know if you were ever fat, but let me tell you, as a genuine fat person, it is truly upsetting to hear a normal-sized person call herself fat. If you consider yourself fat, I think, what must you think of me? It feels like a bit of a slap in the face, to tell you the truth. Actually, it hurts more than straight-out fat jokes. ETA: I know this is a result of my own fucked-up thinking but that doesn’t make it less true.
But who has been attacking you for your beliefs, mama? You don’t feel attacked here in the hq, do you? I would be very distressed to think you feel attacked in here.
Feb 1, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Comment #146249
hey (((mama))) just got home
it would be easier, if more christians acted like they say they believe.
of course, the media is drawn to the more flamboyant, loud mouthed and hateful ones, because that sells soap. especially the ones that want to use to might of the state to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
the danger of any belief system is projecting one’s own will on god. nothing breeds arrogance and pride quicker.
Feb 1, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Comment #146248
Mama,
H1N1 anxiety still prevalent up there ?
Sneezing or saying Benadryl could put the table on “Tilt”.
Mo,
What Mama said…Benadryl’s a potent pharming tool.
Feb 1, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Comment #146247
Feb 1, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Comment #146246
Benadryl works for me. Knocks me right out.
Feb 1, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Comment #146245
*huge sigh of relief* Thanks, Timo! ♥
Feb 1, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Comment #146244
Thank you thank you.
(((((((#timo#)))))) here i’ll kiss and make it better.
((wademama))
Feb 1, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Comment #146243
Mo,
My doctor friend will cut something off me if she finds out about this, but I used to get some snooze-enhancement from a homeopathic concoction called “Calms Forte”. Same anecdotal experience from my best bud back up in Seattle, who’s as hard science as the come.
Remember our sample group is N=2.
On the other hand we aren’t predisposed to believing in that product…more like skeptical.
Your mileage may vary, but for a few bucks at a health food type store, why not give it a try ?
Remember, though, the plural of anecdote is not “data”.
Had to give the doc her equal time…
ty
P.S. There’s Nyquil too, of course or any cough supressant with DXM (dextromethorphan, or artificial codeine).
Feb 1, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Comment #146242
Jesus loves you Mama and so do I! ♥
Feb 1, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Comment #146241
Happy Birthday oi!
mmmm… floppy haddock!
Just my 2 cents…I find it frustrating that, as a Christian, if I express that fact, even in response to an anti-God tirade, I’m told that I’m shoving my religion down someones throat and that my intelligence must be lacking to believe in God. Talk about people being unwilling to even listen to an opposing view. Liberal nay-sayers are the first to judge all Christians with negative stereotypes and to condemn us. I think it’s really *funny* that I can spew the most vile shit and it gets a laugh and virtual pats on the back but let me just try to express my heart about the Lord and salvation and watch the sparks fly and name calling begin. Fat people and Christians are fair game. *I’m both* And Jesus never taught that we are all gods.
Feb 1, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Comment #146240
Happy Birthday (((((oi)))))!!!!
I am busy Wade! Three peoples worth of work and only little ol wine drinker me. Plus all the other personal irl crapola I am taking care of right now. UGH. Anyone have any suggestions on something to help me sleep that isn’t dangerous or addicting? I am dead tired a lot right now but once I lay down I just flop around like a haddock.
Feb 1, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Comment #146239
should have backread!!
happy birthday, oi!!!!
you should get the day off!
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Comment #146238
maybe i can get a job as a newscaster
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Comment #146237
I know! Shouldn’t be I given off today? they should know it’s a big deal today right?
Instead I am buried up to my nose in work.
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Comment #146236
hi (((oi)))
looks like everyone is busy today
i am really tired myself
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Comment #146235
I am here kinda.
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Comment #146234
oh, and as to the prior discussion (for what it’s worth), i think that any system dealing with belief that is not open to questions is not based on faith, but rather on dogma.
and not the fun alan rickman kind of dogma.
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Comment #146233
hehe
any time i can work it in
hey tiMo!
how are you guys doing?
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Comment #146232
[[[Imo]]]
How are you doing?
Great stuff on the MT, lots of nice Lebowski bits.
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Comment #146231
I ran out of interest on the MT.
Any cifs still about?
Feb 1, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Comment #146230
Hullo (((((((((GloRoseoiWadeMark]]]]]]]]]]
Feb 1, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Comment #146229
hey Mark
judging from the reaction, i guess i will make up some cards.
maybe looking like this.
Feb 1, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Comment #146228
Good show, el duderino!
(((CIFs)))
Feb 1, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Comment #146227
i hope Mark appreciates me dude-ing up the MT.
Feb 1, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Comment #146226
oof.
just carried 1/4 ton of food up a flight of stairs that was delivered for the food pantry on the second floor.
i guess my lesson for today is humility.
oh! i just realized i didn’t eat dinner last night. or breakfast this morning. and didn’t bring a lunch. good thing i have these goldfish cheese crackers.
Feb 1, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Comment #146225
aw Thanks you guys! My coworkers are bringing me cake (egg less and with egg) I am kinda happy because it’s more like a make up for what they did to me on Friday. I only accepted that because one of them is genuine and it’s not apology cake for her. I guess I can fake a smile for others because I don’t won’t to hurt her feelings. Nobody has apologized or even acknowledged that they were being mean. and all of a sudden we will bring you a cake plan. that’s not a culture of our office.
Anyway moving on to happy things. thank you again (((CGrosseglo)))
oh wade that’s not good.
I guess I never answered the original question, would I convert to other religion for other than real faith in them? No. I don’t think I can let go my identity as a Hindu. for me it’s not just a religion it’s a lifestyle, convictions roots. also that would be lying to them to convert only on outside. However It would not be in my way that my life-partner follows a different belief system as long as our outlook on life is same.
Feb 1, 2010 at 11:43 am
Comment #146224
hey ty. lol
no no glo. but i fill out the requisitions and have to listen to the moaning of the budgeteers.
Feb 1, 2010 at 11:36 am
Comment #146223
Hi y’all,
Recovery/therapy proceeds acceptably apace, though not amain.
In a Rod Serling-ish voice, if you have that audio memory module:
Submitted for you inspection:
http://unhappyhipsters.com/
Feb 1, 2010 at 11:07 am
Comment #146222
Surely you’re not also in charge of budgeting over there, too, Wade?
Feb 1, 2010 at 10:25 am
Comment #146221
lol, (((glo)))
oh. and i got the price to replace the failed part that caused the friday problem. ouch.
Feb 1, 2010 at 10:05 am
Comment #146220
*starting to think Wade actually works at YOQI*
Feb 1, 2010 at 9:55 am
Comment #146219
there is a god for whom i am a constant source of amusement
so i’m driving in and i get a call on my cell. seems that over the weekend a pipe burst in the boilerroom. maint guy turned it off, but didn’t know if he had cut off the whole heating system, or maybe all the water to the building (which houses among other things a day school and an at-risk high school). now i am making multiple calls to assess the situation as i maneuver the beltway. everyone seems to have water and heat, so the mystery deepens.
i get there, and find that the heating coil in a supplemental air handler to a non-critical area had failed. the good news is that the rest of the system is intact. the bad news is that it is original equipment and is no longer manufactured. the better news is that if the other heating problem hadn’t occurred friday, the maint guy would have had no reason to go into the boiler room and discover the leak that might have drained and wreaked havoc on the whole system.
and it’s not even 11 o’clock yet.
Feb 1, 2010 at 9:51 am
Comment #146218
Hello, sorry, I was in a skype phone call to a friend in Australia, and my computer is acting up. I better go to bed, anyway. I haven’t made it by the way. I have my ineptitude, and I am obviously revelling in it! Good night, friends. oi, have a great day.
Feb 1, 2010 at 9:30 am
Comment #146217
I DON’T BELIEVE IN THOSE WHO SHOUT!
Oh, wait…
I don’t know if I believe in God, I believe in a lot of things the most important of them all is that you gotta be true to yourself and be honest with others (not naive or a push-over, but honest), and I do believe in Karma, although I haven’t completely figured out how it works (okay, I haven’t figured it out at all). And I think I found a new belief these days, something that is stuck in my head for a while now, it’s something like: “Just because I treat you kindly, doesn’t mean that I’m weak.”
I like the symbolism of some religions and I incorporate a lot of them in my life.
Feb 1, 2010 at 9:08 am
Comment #146216
Along with those who shout THERE IS NO GOD!
I prefer to talk to the non-shouters.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:43 am
Comment #146215
Agreed, ‘Glo. Those who shout GOD IS GREAT whenever faced with a debate on the matter are the scariest people on earth.
The very idea that to hear, let alone listen to, a dissenting argument is the same as accepting it in their tiny minds is discouraging indeed.
Almost as if they’re brain-washed.
When we realize that we are all Gods, have the ability to affect the lives of others for good or ill, we treat each other like Gods and have a more civil existence on this little rock we call Earth. That’s what Jesus taught. No reason to deify the messenger to accept his message.
Well, time to make the donuts!
See ya later (((CIFs)))
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:17 am
Comment #146214
You echo a lot of my thoughts on the matter, as well, CB.
The interconnectedness of us all acting as the mechanism of fate or God’s will that you put forth last night was really thought-provoking. I had not come across that before.
I do think that some people of faith have probably done a lot of questioning. Their answers are just different than the answers I came up with.
I also think there are a lot of depressingly unquestioning believers out there. Those are the ones who tend to shout down the questioners, I think.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:11 am
Comment #146213
Just back-read a bit. don’t have much time.
I used to be an atheist, but after a while realized that was a bit arrogant of me.
I don’t believe in a supreme being,but who am I to say there isn’t one? Who can know such a thing?
So I backed up a step, consider myself a Humanist and gave some really deep thought to afterlife/life force after my wife passed.
When she died, everyone was pushing me to embrace their faith to ease my pain, but to me that was just their way of getting out of doing the hard thinking on the matter. Let go and let God, if you will.
So much easier if you don’t want to figure things out for yourself to pick a well established, ready-made doctrine, but that’s just not me because I’m built for questions. That, and the fact that I was trying really hard to figure out a way to communicate with her. She found me, so the point is moot I guess. I’ll know how when I get there.
Faith isn’t a question-friendly proposition, and conformity has never been a strong point of mine.
I do believe in “To each his own” though, so I try not to judge because, though I am comfortable in m position on the matter, I could be wrong.
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:06 am
Comment #146212
Luckily, in this day and age, not marrying someone is always an option.
For me, I can’t imagine any benefit to marrying someone outweighing the detriment of living a lie.
Maybe that’s why I’m still so depressingly single.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:46 am
Comment #146211
Paul’s head is shaped funny.
I like his voice best, though.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:37 am
Comment #146210
And I’m sorry I was snarky, Wade.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:33 am
Comment #146209
You know I’m going to get mansplaining and manscaping mixed up very soon.
Paul had those puppy dog eyes, and arched eyebrows, though. But George looked more carefree.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:28 am
Comment #146208
Thank you for apologizing, Wade. I knew (well, maybe after the first 15 or 20 read-throughs) that you really didn’t intend to shut me up, but I felt shut up nonetheless.
And I really didn’t have anything to add to the Grammy conversation.
It wasn’t mansplaining. But it had the same effect.
♥
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:24 am
Comment #146207
Well, I’m glad that something’s keeping her busy.
Wade, I think that someone way back in my Nan’s era or before got married in the foyer of the church, I guess, because one didn’t convert. I know that others did. I don’t think the Wood-Robinson’s were originally Catholic (might have been). My great aunt never married the one great love of her life because he was Protestant (the family protested mightily – my family, I don’t know about his). I would not do it, but I think, particularly in the past, maybe you had to do it if you want a slice of happiness or society. At best, accommodation, as you say. It depends upon how into the religion the family you are marrying into is.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:22 am
Comment #146206
George was definitely the nicest looking.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:14 am
Comment #146205
damn it! was i mansplaining without realizing it?
i’m so sorry, glo. i was attempting to take a light tone in approaching the entire conversation. phail.
*hangs head*
ok, i’m slip sliding off to work. likely to be busy.
btw – i think conversion to please someone else is not conversion at all. it’s at best accommodation, and at worst appeasement.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:14 am
Comment #146204
Amy seems to be busy, but fine. She’s got something *coughsomeonecough* that’s been keeping her busy.
I slept a whole 5 hours.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:13 am
Comment #146203
Connected to nothing.
I used to spend hours looking at that album cover and trying to figure out which one was nicest looking. I think that George won over Paul.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:11 am
Comment #146202
Ah, well, that’s a shame. I was enjoying swinging… or maybe I was talking about fish. Are you up early to wish happy birthday, or unfortunately working (see, I remembered), or couldn’t sleep?
Page turn again… well, I was just thinking about sex on legs – amy – again. How is she, glo? I miss her.
Feb 1, 2010 at 7:00 am
Comment #146201
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