I wish we could silence our nutbars...and not only because I'm catnip to them.
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Jan 05, 2006 1:00:31 pm PST #8009 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
billytea - Jan 05, 2006 1:00:46 pm PST #8010 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
No, I'm a fairly secular nutbar, unless you count the Church of St. John The Munchkin.
We shall call it 'secubar'. Secubar, try it today - don't just take it on faith.
Nutty - Jan 05, 2006 1:01:14 pm PST #8011 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
"God considers this land to be his," Robertson said on his TV program "The 700 Club." "You read the Bible and he says `This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, `No, this is mine.'"
He must have a macro for "That's not what I meant; I was misinterpreted." You watch. People will get all het up and he'll totally back down, in the meantime having gained a smidge of notoriety among his set of crazies. He's like what Howard Stern would be, if Howard Stern became a fundamentalist (without giving up his grandstanding abilities).
What would televised crazies do if they couldn't make outrageous statements to the media? I mean, it's not like they can do a Girls Gone Wild episode of the 700 Club for sweeps.
Although, if they did, I would laff and laff and laff.
billytea - Jan 05, 2006 1:01:17 pm PST #8012 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I wish we could silence our nutbars...and not only because I'm catnip to them.
So they keep trying to roll around in you? That could get inconvenient.
Hayden - Jan 05, 2006 1:01:50 pm PST #8013 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
there's more free enterprise in American religion
That's like saying there's more chocolate in Hershey's kisses.
erikaj - Jan 05, 2006 1:03:57 pm PST #8014 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah. Well, we're all a little weird, but the closest I get to prosletizing is recommending "The Wire" a lot.(And I can't even spell prosletize correctly.)ETA: You're not as far off as all that, bt. For all that you're joking...I've been followed, touched without my consent and sprinkled with stuff. Yikes. One guy a few years ago bothered me for long enough I threatened to get a cop. Man's Law 1 God's Law(maybe) 0.
Spidra Webster - Jan 05, 2006 1:05:15 pm PST #8015 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Even though I'm not a fan of organized religions, there are plenty of religious people that I respect and admire. So no, relgious != nutbar to me.
amych - Jan 05, 2006 1:06:32 pm PST #8016 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is it just me, or does Robertson's version of God sound a lot like a three-year-old? I mean, this is the universe governed in a spirit of "Gimme! I don't wanna share! You can't make me!"
Emily - Jan 05, 2006 1:10:27 pm PST #8017 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Even ignoring the sheer offensiveness of it, I'm puzzling over the logic. So, if Israel hangs on to everything, that's the same as it being God's? And if it doesn't, then it's not? The government of Israel is God? That's... well... yeah. If so, then it can't really do wrong, can it? Q.E.D. (or, per Nilly, M.Sh.L.) I'm off to prove black is white, then.
Spidra Webster - Jan 05, 2006 1:10:32 pm PST #8018 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Most hard-line Christians seem more into the Old Testament than the New. The Old Testament God bore a lot more in common with Zeus and other petulant pagan gods than Jesus.