"Yes, not everyone thanks a deity for their survival and nobody should thank their god for a vicious tornado that wiped out so much of what people owned and even took lives, especially the lives of innocent children.
Brandi Amari Williams"
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Comment by Steph S. on January 14, 2013 at 5:48am -
Good morning all.Today it's sleeting and hailing outside this morning.
Stay warm everyone.
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Comment by The Flying Atheist on January 13, 2013 at 11:46pm -
Good night, sk8eycat. Stay warm. It's 15-degrees here in Chicago but I have my flannel sheets on the bed. :)
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Comment by sk8eycat on January 13, 2013 at 9:54pm -
OH! I love Atheist Cat! That's so true!
g'nite. (I think. It's bloody cold out, and our house isn't well-insulated.)
Thanks everyone...
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Comment by Steph S. on January 13, 2013 at 8:20pm
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Ian and bookkover those are great lols!
Thanks for all the laughs.
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Comment by Steph S. on January 13, 2013 at 8:19pm
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Comment by sk8eycat on January 13, 2013 at 4:43pm
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Well, to get semi-serious for a bit, he IS supposed to have told his disciples to eat his body and drink his blood. Erkle!
And...his only purpose was to be a human sacrifice to appease his father/self. I have long thought that the figure in the manger should be a minature realistic, bloody crucufix. Maybe that would make some people wonder about what they are really celebrating. (The only other realistic figure in the manger should be a model of the sun. Almost all of xian mythology was taken from various sun-god religions...12 disciples=12 signs of the Zodiac, etc.)
"Oh, shut up, Felane! Get down off your hobby-horse."
PS: If anyone wants to see where our legal system and many xian rites and beliefs originated, I highly recommend Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series of novels. They are fiction as far as the dialog and feelings of the characters are concerned, but she researched the history of the Roman Republic for 13 years (!!!) beforeshe began to write. They are also very thick books, but once you begin reading, you can't put them down. (The books that come after the assassination of Julius Caesar didn't interest me as much as the first 5...or 6. I've forgotten. Heh!) I re-read them about once a year because I always come across something I missed in earlier readings.
PPS: I hated The Thorn Birds!
Who helped kill the Republic? The hyper-conservatives...people who insisted that things should be done the way they always had been, even though Rome was no longer a small city-state. I grind my teeth when I read certain parts of the books because I see the parallels to our time and predicaments.
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Comment by booklover on January 13, 2013 at 3:59pm -
Ha Ha Felaine! I never thought about the eating baby jesus being communion! The dog looks fine. lol
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Comment by sk8eycat on January 13, 2013 at 3:36pm
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That's strange; the video played perfectly for me...on this old DELL that keeps hanging when I want to go to another web site, or Paste something in here myself.
Anyway, I love it! The spooky-sounding voice and sick drawings. Heh!
I also love the dog who "Ate Baby Jesus." Well, that's what communion IS, isn't it? (I hope it wasn't plastic, or something else that had to be removed surgically.)
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Comment by booklover on January 13, 2013 at 3:13pm
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Yeah Carl, it's just all in black.
Cute picture Ian! lol
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sk8eycat commented on Ruth Anthony-Gardner's group Hang With Friends"Tony, I love that clip! "Wolf Gets Blitzed"...tee-hee.
Did anyone read the comments below the You Tube version? they were almost all like, "Yeah, thank the lard for sending a ghastly tornado to kill more than 50…"
The Flying Atheist commented on Ruth Anthony-Gardner's group Hang With Friends"Great clip, Tony. People need to realize that not everybody superfluously and automatically thanks god in a time of crisis. Maybe he's learned a lesson and become a smarter man. "
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Wolf Blitzer. Open mouth, insert foot. LOL!!!"
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