RicOlie_2

thejediknighthusezni said:

RicOlie_2 said:

It makes me sad and angry when I see how so many people, especially Protestants, have no idea what Catholics really believe. I was looking at an apologetics forum called "raptureforums" and pretty much nobody there has the slightest clue what Catholics or Mormons believe. They have such bizarre ideas about us it made me cringe. I tried to sign up to make some counter arguments, but I was unable to post, or even view my profile, for some reason. The posters there also refer to Catholicism as a "cult" (even though more than 50% of Christians are Catholic!) and distinguish Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnessism (or whatever you call them), etc. from "Christianity."

Yet Protestants and Catholics aren't all that different in their core beliefs, though many millions of Protestants think we believe the strangest things...

    Is it directed towards the rank and file or the hierarchy?

Catholicism as a whole.

    I make a tremendous distinction between the laity and the Jesuit educated clerics. It's like the lower degrees of Masonry, on the whole good folks who don't have a clear idea what's really goin' on. Only a very small handful at the top are given the BIG picture.

And just what is the "BIG picture"? I don't have time for bizarre conspiracy theories which have no basis. The Catholic Church is there to help people get to heaven, not to prevent the faithful from knowing the truth.

    Personally, I don't care about vestments or bread and wine. There are lines in the NT that could justify wearing special clothes (as much as I am sure that the disciples wore standard clothing) and there is no question that One who could create the fabulous complexity of life could somehow transmute food and drink into something more significant (as much as I am certain that it was meant simply as an act of remembrance.) It's only when INSANE SNAKES start using these differences as cause to destroy other persons and societies that I start to care.

 What "INSANE SNAKES"? Also, special clothing isn't required in order for a priest to say Mass. Religious habits are also no longer required as of the Second Vatican Council, just encouraged.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I've noticed that some of the more rapid Protestants like to label anything that isn't Protestantism -- be it non-Protestant Christianity or even seperate religions -- as a cult.

What does speed have to do with their tendency to label non-Protestants as cults? ;)

It makes me sad and angry when I see how so many people, especially Protestants, have no idea what Catholics really believe. I was looking at an apologetics forum called "raptureforums" and pretty much nobody there has the slightest clue what Catholics or Mormons believe. They have such bizarre ideas about us it made me cringe. I tried to sign up to make some counter arguments, but I was unable to post, or even view my profile, for some reason. The posters there also refer to Catholicism as a "cult" (even though more than 50% of Christians are Catholic!) and distinguish Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnessism (or whatever you call them), etc. from "Christianity."

Yet Protestants and Catholics aren't all that different in their core beliefs, though many millions of Protestants think we believe the strangest things...

Tyrphanax said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Isaac Asimov is far from obscure. :)

 That's the joke.

 Your post was hard to interpret over the internet. It didn't seem very joking...

Isaac Asimov is far from obscure. :)

^That's about what I think of it. I got sidetracked reading another article and almost completely forgot I had even read this one because it made no impression on me at all.

No, I meant what I wrote, but I had forgotten the HD's diagonal move. :P

I don't think there's anything I can do that gets me out of this. There's nothing I can do to save my forequeen, and once I lose that, things will start going downhill quickly no matter what I do. As I'm pretty sure this is a lost cause, I resign and suggest we start over again, using the same armies/colours.

TF-6e

How would you exchange my knight and rook for the half-duck? After you take the bishight, I take the half-duck and none of my pieces aside from that one pawn are in immediate danger. You'd probably then move your chancellor to d5, and I'd be in big trouble then.

I think you're right though, and since I don't stand a chance without taking back my Pxf4 move, so I'm replacing it with B-e6

That has to be a joke...but if it isn't, that's very, very sad.

This, however, is interesting. If the chances of being gay do in fact increase by a third with each older brother, and I understood what is meant by "a third" correctly, my youngest brother is 133% more likely to be gay than I was.

TF-5f

I'll stick with it. It's my fault for not paying close attention to the moves.

Pxg3

I thought it was finally over, but the site just went down again. :(

VW-5b

I guess I should have taken a closer look at that piece's move. I thought it could only go up to two squares forward.

N-d7

Yes, that's what I meant. I only wrote it that way this time because I'm switching between chess and shogi and wasn't paying close attention to the notation differences.

SP-5e

Pxf4

Tobar said:

Wait what, Asajj Ventress? That's....what? That's one of those things that sounds so crazy it might be true.

I sure hope not.

 My thoughts exactly. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ASAJJ VENTRESS IN THE NEW MOVIE!!! The main villain not being a Sith Lord is good news though.

g5

5d

The more I've learned about this series, the less excited I've become. The more I've learned about the ST, the more excited I've become. At least it isn't the other way around.

FC-9b

h6

^THAT.

We get lousy winters though...it's below 0 degrees from November (or late October, usually) to March (or often early April). 20 degrees below is the norm, with the temperature often dropping to 30 below, and sometimes 40 below.