Allergies are arguments against a benevolent deity and intelligent design.
So are sinuses and lower backs.
I mean, let's say you did kill us. Or didn't. There could be torture. Whatever. But somehow you found the goods. What would your cut be?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - May 12, 2015 1:51:40 pm PDT #26254 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Ginger - May 12, 2015 1:55:27 pm PDT #26255 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." ― James Thurber
Jesse - May 12, 2015 1:58:34 pm PDT #26256 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, am looking down on preparations for filming for a movie starring some people who, if I happen to see them in person, will make me lose my shit with excitement!
Ooh, that is a good cast!
I am sorry for all of you allergy sufferers.
lisah - May 12, 2015 2:02:13 pm PDT #26257 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
So are sinuses and lower backs.
And knees!
shrift - May 12, 2015 2:02:15 pm PDT #26258 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Not if you take the D
I giggled. I don't know why I find dick jokes endlessly funny. I spend a lot of time going "HA!" at hockey announcers, too.
Hil R. - May 12, 2015 2:02:36 pm PDT #26259 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So are sinuses and lower backs.
And knees.
lisah - May 12, 2015 2:03:56 pm PDT #26260 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Don't Double Up on the D! heh
Matt the Bruins fan - May 12, 2015 2:44:45 pm PDT #26261 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Was your church a Cumberland Presbyterian Church? Rejection of predestination was one of the factors behind its formation. I should note that one of the things Presbyterians are best at is schisming.
Not that I'm aware of, though I suppose it could have been among the ones that rejoined PCUSA back at the turn of the 20th century. Note that I don't ever recall hearing anything about specifically rejecting predestination either, but I first encountered the concept when learning about Scottish history in college.
Dana - May 12, 2015 2:58:41 pm PDT #26262 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Juliebird - May 12, 2015 3:04:22 pm PDT #26263 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I grew up in a family that went to church (southern Baptist) and I remember on a trip talking with my youth group leader about how I just wasn't feeling it, that faith thing. She said she was worried for me, and that was that. I had decided then that you can't fake faith to yourself, so what was the point, and then later on logic kicked in and I was "if you're real, you are such a jerk".
Growing up in a church of car salesman didn't help. I'm pretty sure they got commissions on how many people they baptised. I kept refusing because I didn't mean it, and wasn't a baptism more about declaring publicly that you believed, beyond that other stuff? I refused to be a lying liar because my dad's friend was pressuring me.
Kind of like how later, in the army, I refused to get married to a fellow soldier for the benefits because it offended my idea of the institution of marriage, that it should be real, with love, and to mean "until death do us part" and not "I want extra cash for off-base housing".