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tomato · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject:

Hello, flakfizer!

Maybe I was claiming a little bit too much of a poetic license.
Maybe none of you pounce on dangling participles, but some of you pounce on any vulnerable spot you can find to pounce on.

When we attack and you feel hurt, the fault is on our side for being so brutal.
When you attack and we feel hurt, the fault is on our side for being so sensitive.
If there is anything I like, it is consistency.

Hello, Julius!

You say Christians are taught not to retaliate?
I remember being taught that in Sunday School, but I don't see that teaching exemplified very much here.
I admit that prettyinscarlet has been slow to retaliate.

flakfizer · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:58 pm Post subject:

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

I agree with Flakfizer. The abuse is (I would guess) about 70-30 in favour of the atheists.

The atheist's abuse seems mostly intended to give other atheists a chuckle, but some of it is deliberately malicious for sure. I'm not including genuine arguments against the existence of god. Surely nobody here takes that as abuse.

The religious abuse is mostly of the 'I'm holier than thou, you are a crooked stick sent to test me' variety. Not bottle-upside-the-head abuse, per say, but smarmy and rude and solipsist nonetheless.

Personally I think if there was a God or goddess interested in us, he-she-it would tell us more jokes and stop being so solemn all the time.
I mean, come on, why so glum?
I'd be more into Christ if he really did tell Peter the old "I can see your house from here" joke, but that's apocryphal.

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Is there humour in the bible?

Alyallen · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:06 pm Post subject:

I'm reformed indifferent.

I used to slightly slightly care but now I know that religion has no impact on my brief, painful, angst ridden time on Earth.

ChimpumCallao · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: your mom

ChimpumCallao · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: your mom

tomato · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:51 am Post subject:

Hello, ED209!

The closest thing I know to humor in the Bible is Jesus' pun on Peter's name:
"On this rock I build my church."

Hello, flakfizer!

I get it now: if the sentence is literally interpreted, it will imply that the dangling participles read through these threads.

I have a little trouble telling dangling participles from misplaced modifiers.
I think this Groucho Marx witticism is a misplaced modifier:

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got in my pajamas I'll never know."

By the way, did you know that Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while travelling on the back of an envelope?

Hello, Julius!

I plead guilty to repeating material.
I do that for newcomers.
On another thread, Franz1973 asked a question, and I wanted to be sure he didn't miss out on my words of wisdom.

I plead not guilty to your charge that I "keep starting religious threads."
This is the only one I started.
It probably seems that way if you regard all of us as a corporate individual.
I can understand that.
Probably all group members are prone to regard out-group members as Bokanovsky twins.

Now why don't you stop pushing all that Hare Krishna stuff on us--oh, I'm sorry, that's not you!

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Christian
38%
38% [ 27 ]
other religion (please specify)
5%
5% [ 4 ]
theist (There is a God), but not committed to a particular religion
2%
2% [ 2 ]
agnostic (There may or may not be a God.)
15%
15% [ 11 ]
atheist (There is no God.)
37%
37% [ 26 ]

Well looks like the theists have taken over the asylum.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

DOG created MAN

On the first day of creation, God (Dog) created the dog.

On the second day of creation, God created man to serve the dog.

On the third day, God created all the animals of the earth

(especially the horse) to serve as potential food for the dog.

On the fourth day, God created honest toil

so that man could labor for the good of the dog.

On the fifth day, God created the tennis ball

so that the dog might or might not retrieve it.

On the sixth day, God created veterinary science

to keep the dog healthy and the man broke.

On the seventh day, God tried to rest......

but He had to walk the dog.

When God had made the earth and sky, the flowers and the trees,

He then made all the animals, the fish, the birds, and bees.

And when at last He'd finished, not one was quite the same.

He said, "I'll walk this world of mine and give each one a name."

And so He traveled far and wide, and everywhere He went,

a little creature followed Him until its strength was spent.

When all were named upon the earth

and in the sky and sea, the little creature said,

"Dear Lord, there's no name left for me".

Kindly the Father said to him,

"I've left you to the end. I've turned my own name back to front

and called you DOG, my friend".

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Superfly- proof?