He didn’t say it bothered him when politicians pray.
With all due respect to people’s religions, it irks me when politicians tell me that I need to pray.
He said it irks him when politicians tell him to pray, not when politicians themseleves pray.
was just about to post this.
With a version like King James, you have to read the passage and then stop now and then to say “in other words, it means [this]”. As opposed to the Bible straight up speaking for itself as to what it means and not having to retranslate archaic words.
Christianese is a real problem, and bible translations like the KJV only make it worse. related: how do you pronounce “beloved”
Why do people act like its either do one or the other? One can pray AND legislate.
Complain about them not legislating. Whether they are praying or not, has nothing to do about it.
they can do both! but it pisses me off when they only do ONE OF THEM. They should lead with doing the thing they were elected to do. and if they want to also pray, go for it.
oh man, i really want to click expand, but i am not caught up yet… 😦
With all due respect to people’s religions, it irks me when politicians tell me that I need to pray. I’m not religious, and we are supposedly in a country that values separation of church and state. Yet every time some catastrophe happens, the first thing politicians tell us is that we need to pray. Not “pray if you’re religious”, but “we need to pray”. While I don’t mind if people want to pray, I don’t appreciate politicians telling me that I need to become religious.
It’s not a big deal, it just irks me. I realize I’m probably in an extreme minority.
It irks me too, and I am religious!
It is a simple placating response that doesn’t mean anything, yet religious people eat it up and keep voting. Nevermind that these same politicians might be voting in ways that very well could have contributed to the thing they ate promising to pray for.
That is what pisses me off when I hear politicians respond with “I am praying for them”. Snakes the lot of them. Leave the praying for the people and their families, friends, priests, and pastors. You are a legislator, Legislate!
I had a thought the other day when messing around with images in posts.
There is nothing more annoying than seeing a huge image quoted by someone, but it is also very unclear sometimes what image they are referring to if they don’t quote it.
I had the thought that if everyone would post their images one quote level deep, it would have the benefit of being collapsed on subsequent replies. however this requires the original poster to know what they are doing, so although it is neat, it isn’t a solution.
Two things that i think could provide similar levels of “neat”
- assign a new style to any images within a quote block. this style can behave similar to the double quote block, where it collapses the image
- assign a new style to any images within a quote block. this style can scale the image to thumbnail size (HTML 5?)
- some variation on the above
Is it necessary to make all images thumbnail size? I understand why you wouldn’t want them huge, but about medium size or a little smaller?
They would only be resized in the quote, the original post would have full-size images.
Yeah the Liberal snapback from Trump’s stupid reign is probably going to end up in a Democrat supermajority that ends up slapping us with a bunch of stupid California-esque gun control laws.
Imagine how many people will die as a result… Oh
I went ahead and ordered three pizza and specified it to be ready in a few hours when I’m off.
My fate is sealed. I did this to myself.
three pizza?
larp like you mean it
I don’t.
Please tell me that’s not an actual thing.
One thing i would never do is use a lightsaber while naked.
also, why does the Millennium Falcon have legs?
oh man, tonight is a child-free date night, so i am going to eat something fancy and expensive.
maybe pizza with tiny dead fish eggs on it.
Plus wasn’t the line in the book which is probably ALMOST as old as Frink?
whats a book
I use them to beat home invaders and neglify
i once had a book that i used to beat space invaders
The Invisible Thread is the only good part about the forum these days.
i think i completely fail to come to an agreement with you.
Take it to the Invisible Disagreement Thread.
nah
oops, wrong thread
The Invisible Thread is the only good part about the forum these days.
i think i completely fail to come to an agreement with you.
Take it to the Invisible Disagreement Thread.
nah
NRSV or go home.
The Invisible Thread is the only good part about the forum these days.
i think i completely fail to come to an agreement with you.
Plus wasn’t the line in the book which is probably ALMOST as old as Frink?
whats a book
Did you notice that each major character got the death they deserved?
This is to all the people who say R1 is just nostalgia-exploitation and “ayteeaytees”.
You mean they deserved to die? I don’t follow you. Characters that actually feel alive and then die in emotional and truly dramatic ways would have been better. To me they were stock archetypes who weren’t developed and then just got killed off to avoid sequel inconsistencies.
did you read the post you are disagreeing with? clearly they didn’t deserve to die. they got the death that suited them is probably a better way to put it.
your argument is invalid.
welcome to 1 year ago.
More than that!
i don’t do math
I had a thought the other day when messing around with images in posts.
There is nothing more annoying than seeing a huge image quoted by someone, but it is also very unclear sometimes what image they are referring to if they don’t quote it.
I had the thought that if everyone would post their images one quote level deep, it would have the benefit of being collapsed on subsequent replies. however this requires the original poster to know what they are doing, so although it is neat, it isn’t a solution.
Two things that i think could provide similar levels of “neat”
I understand the hesitancy on adding people to a private topic (i think it is a bad idea as well), but it should be possible for someone to leave an already established private topic.
It should be an option for a participant in a private topic, to leave the private topic.
It would also be nice if the creator of the private topic could remove members, but i don’t think that is important.
Is this still coming? I find myself constantly manually editing the links to add /page/<pageNbr>#<PostID> style format. seems like it should be so simple to address this.
your argument is invalid.
welcome to 1 year ago.
(its a joke man)
PO TAY TOES.
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.
Oh hey welcome to 15 years ago.
still a good movie
Emperor Palpatine 9.
The 9th in the series of Emperor Palpatine clones.
hm… i like this
