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hairy_hen said:
keeping the old assholiciousness in cheek
Fixed. ;)
There's a multi-level joke about tongues and asses in there somewhere, but I just can't quite make it out.
darth_ender said:
I love Easter.
Well here's something we can agree on--I too love the pagan festival of Oestre, the goddess of fertility. (Look it up.)
I mean, Christ, don't Christians (and yes, Mormons, too, ender) even wonder where the name came from for what is supposedly their central holy day?
It's a shtick.
Well done, general. (But don't let the fact that you're made stop you. I'm liking the bit.)
Well I never! This rampant anti-troll bigotry gives me half a mind to have a little moment of chastisement of my own for all you trollists!
generalfrevious said:
If you follow the news on climate change they are predicting global temperature rises much higher than expected: just 5-6 years ago they expected a 2 degree Celsius increase, and today it's more like a 10 degree increase by century's end. By 2020 it could be 15,20, or even 30 degree increase in the same period.
For those of you wondering who "they" are, please see the guy in the coattails below:
I"m Harry the Hat.
TV's Frink said:
Darth Id said:
Wart
You're very unlikeable.
Yeah, guess I'm doing a bad job keeping the old assholiciousness in check.
I love how we can discuss racism, but no matter the context, the N-word is such a no-no that a member of our forum practically gets yelled off the stage.
I don't "love" that, but I do acknowledge it's sort of understandable.
I love how an American can get called a racist for criticizing Islam,
I don't. I disapprove of the conflation of religion with race.
...how Westerners are blamed for Islamic extremism, all here in Off Topic.
Actually, Western military interventionist meddling is also quite rationally blamed for fomenting blowback in circles beyond the originaltrilogy.com Off-Topic sub-forum--often by reputable experts in geopolitics and history.
I love how Christians are bigots
I don't love that. I wish they'd stop.
...who believe that perhaps it is against God's will that homosexuality is an acceptable practice in his eyes, though they still defend the rights of homosexuals.
Ummm, you sorta lost me there.
I love how if someone states that they are proud they waited till marriage to have sex, they are labeled as condescending and their words offending.
I don't love that. Granted, I'm unfamiliar with this particular phenomenon, but I can confidently say I have no love for it, to the extent it exists. So we'll have to disagree on that one.
I love how if anyone defends the PT or states they prefer the SE of the OT, they got slammed by the majority of this site.
Me too! Thank Baby Jeebus!
And yet....
Many of those same members who are so sensitive about homosexuals, Muslims, African-Americans, chastity till marriage, and the OOT
[Sings] One of these things is not like the o-thers!
There have been some real jerks here in Off Topic of late. I have probably never been so disappointed in so many patrons here, and I've never seen the bigotry of the likes of Darth Id and imperialscum so readily accepted.
Wait--you mean you actually believe that stuff? I thought it was a shtick!
Woops...
I'm...sorry?
...
Okay, wait, don't tell me you actually liked Speaker for the Dead too!!!! At least that was a joke, right? Right?
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
So let's say that Warner Bros., this year, produced a really lame prequel to Casablanca - one that starred Justin Bieber as the young Rick Blaine, and Natalie Portman as the young Ilsa Lund. They have a lot of memorable dialog about how Rick doesn't like all the sand in Morocco, and there's some kewl-fx war scenes. The movie totally sucks.
Whoa whoa whoa, not so fast! I'm liking what I hear so far! Go on!
--PT Fan
Yes.
darth_ender said:
I'm hoping this thread was made with sarcasm, or else my disappointment with Neglify cannot be overstated.
I think you're missing that Neglify's intent is to make this actually a means of protecting and defending Wart. His attitude is conveyed by his use of the word "clutter" in the OP. Re-read. This time with feeling.
Seek the subtle truth, my son, and your disappointment will be dispelled.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Or perhaps God -- being an infinitely non-human entity far beyond our comprehension -- has concepts of good and evil, pleasure and pain that are completely alien to ours.
In other words, if God doesn't fit into a stereotypical caricature, you don't want to talk about Them. God either has to be a bloodthirsty tyrant or a hippie pacifist; any other concepts of God -- especially concepts of God that paint human mores as finite/trivial -- aren't worth discussing.
No the point is that if everyone has his own unique, idiosyncratic "concept" of "God", then nobody actually believes in the same thing. Everyone just fabricates his own cosmic ghost-blankie and calls it "God". It's like if you said "I love chocolate ice cream," and I said "I also love chocolate ice cream!" but actually what nobody knows is that at night, in my basement, I secretly call a squashed cockroach "chocolate ice cream" and pray to it. We ain't talking about the same thing, and it's utterly meaningless for us to start a "Chocolate Ice Cream Lovers' Club."
If "God" is a "non-human entity far beyond our comprehension" with "concepts of good and evil alien to ours" then how in Baal's name can anyone feel righteous about praising, worshipping and perseverating on it? Whatever "beliefs" they have about it are just trivial inanities that are entirely incorrect and distorted by a puny lack of perspective. In that case, you've preserved "God" as a hypothesis, but entirely divested it of anything that makes it meaningful to the insignificant Earth-creatures that subscribe to it. Religious weirdos don't want a god at all if it isn't "good" in the same way they conceive of it, and if it doesn't intercede in the material world to work its strange designs, and if it doesn't love and care about them, its unworthy creations.
darth_ender said:
Darth Id said:
So your god doesn't get off on it, he just doesn't give a crap.
Awfully god-damned presumptuous to state so simplistic [sic] what Baal does or doesn't "bust a fat-ass nut" on. However, it's sure as shit that you get off on shittin' all over other people's comforting delusions behind the anonymity of your "Back to Mono" pin. You are a cunt-smacking bitch-licker, and filthy cur too!
Gotcha. Whatevs. Bored as heck now.
FUUUUUUUUCK!
Hey, I appreciate your censoring my inadvertent lapses into "gutter French," but maybe you should think of cleaning up your own sticky little typing fingers?
Possessed said:
RicOlie_2 said:
May I ask what you have against Warbler? I find many of your posts in the General Star Wars forum funny, but you've come across as an absolute jerk in your recent posts in Off Topic.
Here here. I used to like you, but your recent posts here in off-topic have been full of assholery and tomdicknaciousness. And coming from a perfect gentlemen like me you know it's something.
For what it's worth, I agree with some of what you say, but it's how you say it and your attitude towards the people that disagree with it. I'm not a christian either, but I don't see people that are Christians as inferior, less intelligent, or ignorant just because they see the world differently. They may be right and I may be wrong, who knows? It's your attitude.
Ric: Wart just triggers my troll response somethin' vicious. It's all in fun. (For me.)
Possessed: I never said Christians are "inferior" or "less intelligent" or "ignorant". It is only their "beliefs" that are indefensible. You, however, I do award seventy internet points for your exemplary employment of the terms, "assholery" and (a new one to me) "tomdicknaciousness." I will hereby labor to keep my tomdicknacity under some level of restraint.
So your god doesn't get off on it, he just doesn't give a shit. Gotcha. Whatevs. Bored as fuck now.
It’s kind of crappy I wasted all the time and money on the novels just to say none of that is real, just a legend in your own head…
Uuuuuuuh. I don't even know where to begin with this one.
Guess I'll just say what I always say: Star Wars folks cray-cray!!!!!!!!!!!
DuracellEnergizer said:
Darth Id said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
Here's a news flash -- prehistoric animals were no more violent and savage than animals living today.
That is to say, extremely, very, incredibly violent and savage.
Which has no bearing on whether God or gods exist or not.
Why not? If "God" is such a sick fuck that he gets off on designing mutually antagonistic creatures and pitting his playthings against each other, isn't It really a malevolent force anyway, and therefore better described as a devil than a "god"?
Ryan McAvoy said:
God cannot be proved, he/she just has to be literally "Taken on faith", so I think some non-believers see that as a foolish thing. But they are forgetting that God can't be disproved either. So it's not about intelligence, it's about belief.
No it isn't. It's about evidence and proof. Or lack thereof, in the extraordinary case of the question-begging non-hypothesis that the entire, unfathomably grand, complex Universe was created by an even more unfathomably grand, complex magic spirit.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Here's a news flash -- prehistoric animals were no more violent and savage than animals living today.
That is to say, extremely, very, incredibly violent and savage.
darth_ender said:
SilverWook said:
The site's up again/down again crap is getting old. The server needs a slight adjustment with a sledgehammer...
I am so pissed off at this site after yesterday and today that I'm about ready to rip out my arm hair! Arggggg!!!!
That's why they call it "Forum Outrage".
^ Object as non-responsive.
Post Praetorian said:
1) God created the dinosaurs with their vicious teeth and claws and was content to watch them maim and gore one another for millions of years before finally getting around to bringing about Adam & Eve.
This was my favorite part of your overall very entertaining dissection of that hack CS Lewis' apologia.
I ruminate on this frequently--not with respect to a "god's" unlikely role, but just about the dinosaurs. How absolutely absurd is it that so many millions of years passed with nothing on Earth but witless giant monsters savaging each other? It trips me out to no end.
RicOlie_2 said:
Darth Id said:
darth_ender said:
Why does Warbler need to defend a position. He just wants to celebrate his religion. Why is there any need to try to belittle him?
Because he's "celebrating" his "religion" on an unmoderated chat board, by posting a bunch of anodyne, stilted iconographic pseudo-art according to some obsessive "schedule" he cooked up for himself (probably while self-flagellating in the throes of a late-night chat-board dust-up).
If that ain't asking for a-teasin', I just don't know what is.
If you call millennia-old Christian tradition something he "cooked up for himself," then sure, I guess that's what it is. I don't know why so many people have a problem with this.
He cooked up the compulsive "schedule" himself, not the goofy "religion". That was cooked up by some deranged goat-herders like two thousand years ago.
Anyways, imperialscum, it's counterproductive to criticize Warb's silly plea to refrain from all debate and discussion. It's clear that his entire intent was to bait attacks, because he gets off on playing the martyr. It's like his fetish. Some people like feet. Warb likes to envision himself as a bloodied saint, nobly bearing the burden of his weirdo "beliefs" as he is scourged by the heathenous rabble of the interwebz.
darth_ender said:
Why does Warbler need to defend a position. He just wants to celebrate his religion. Why is there any need to try to belittle him?
Because he's "celebrating" his "religion" on an unmoderated chat board, by posting a bunch of anodyne, stilted iconographic pseudo-art according to some obsessive "schedule" he cooked up for himself (probably while self-flagellating in the throes of a late-night chat-board dust-up).
If that ain't asking for a-teasin', I just don't know what is.
Would never consider it?!?!?
I pride myself on it!!!!