jlay wrote:I'm giving up meaningless religious poppycock.
How is this meaningless and how is it religious?
Might as well forget about any Christian holiday, for fear of it becoming "religious poppycock", or we could just forget about Christ altogether.
I think there is a religious adherence to being anti-religious these days, and the irony seems to escape them.
Dan
Actually, I was making a joke as much as anything.
But here is my actual position on the matter.
If an individual feels that setting aside a time to give something up brings them closer to Christ, then I say, Amen! Let him be convinced in his own mind.
However, when religious systems implement these traditions as having any value in their corporate adherance, then I say religious poppycock.
-“The Bible treated allegorically becomes putty in the hands of the exegete.” John Walvoord
"I'm not saying scientists don't overstate their results. They do. And it's understandable, too...If you spend years working toward a certain goal and make no progress, of course you are going to spin your results in a positive light." Ivellious
John 5:24 24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
It would be a blessing if they missed the cairns and got lost on the way back. Or if
the Thing on the ice got them tonight.
I could only turn and stare in horror at the chief surgeon.
Death by starvation is a terrible thing, Goodsir, continued Stanley.
And with that we went below to the flame-flickering Darkness of the lower deck
and to a cold almost the equal of the Dante-esque Ninth Circle Arctic Night
without.
neo-x wrote:is that ahem...a male member of our species?
Of course Neo. He got his start on America's Got Talent. Google "Prince Poppycock America's Got Talent".
You might have to sneak a YouTube video to see him though.
John 5:24 24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
jlay wrote:I'm giving up meaningless religious poppycock.
How is this meaningless and how is it religious?
Might as well forget about any Christian holiday, for fear of it becoming "religious poppycock", or we could just forget about Christ altogether.
I think there is a religious adherence to being anti-religious these days, and the irony seems to escape them.
Dan
Actually, I was making a joke as much as anything.
But here is my actual position on the matter.
If an individual feels that setting aside a time to give something up brings them closer to Christ, then I say, Amen! Let him be convinced in his own mind.
However, when religious systems implement these traditions as having any value in their corporate adherance, then I say religious poppycock.
I see now, I agree with your position.
Guess I was feeling a little sensitive, no hard feelings.
Dan
1Tim1:15-17
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.Amen.
RickD wrote:Of course Neo. He got his start on America's Got Talent
America's Got Freaks. What do you think that model of masculinity does during Lent?
FL
Actually FL, he's a really good performer. When he performed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, one of the judges said he out-Mercury'd Freddie Mercury.
John 5:24 24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
RickD wrote:Actually FL, he's a really good performer. When he performed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, one of the judges said he out-Mercury'd Freddie Mercury.
He's talented therefore he's OK? You almost sound like Ivellious!
I don't doubt that he's got talent; what I don't like is the image projected. Drag Queens are not wholesome entertainment, and their popularity on mainstream TV is another indication that society is on its way down.
Hey! why not produce a Bazi boy in the USA?! You know, intercultural exchange...open-mindedness...and he could be on stage with a 38DD stripper! and your Poppycock clown!
FL
Hold everything lightly. If you don't, it will hurt when God pries your fingers loose as He takes it from you. -Corrie Ten Boom
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
RickD wrote:Actually FL, he's a really good performer. When he performed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, one of the judges said he out-Mercury'd Freddie Mercury.
He's talented therefore he's OK? You almost sound like Ivellious!
I don't doubt that he's got talent; what I don't like is the image projected. Drag Queens are not wholesome entertainment, and their popularity on mainstream TV is another indication that society is on its way down.
Hey! why not produce a Bazi boy in the USA?! You know, intercultural exchange...open-mindedness...and he could be on stage with a 38DD stripper! and your Poppycock clown!
FL
FL, you don't think it's wholesome entertainment because you're a conservative old coot! You need to get into the 21st century! This is THE future. You need to adapt to this changing world.
Get with the times, or be left behind. Polygamy is the new monogamy.
John 5:24 24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
RickD wrote:Actually FL, he's a really good performer. When he performed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, one of the judges said he out-Mercury'd Freddie Mercury.
He's talented therefore he's OK? You almost sound like Ivellious!
I don't doubt that he's got talent; what I don't like is the image projected. Drag Queens are not wholesome entertainment, and their popularity on mainstream TV is another indication that society is on its way down.
Hey! why not produce a Bazi boy in the USA?! You know, intercultural exchange...open-mindedness...and he could be on stage with a 38DD stripper! and your Poppycock clown!
FL
FL, you don't think it's wholesome entertainment because you're a conservative old coot! You need to get into the 21st century! This is THE future. You need to adapt to this changing world.
Get with the times, or be left behind. Polygamy is the new monogamy.
Strange things must be a brew'n in that Far Land of the North - Canada...
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Science is man's invention - creation is God's
(by B. W. Melvin)
Old Polish Proverb:
Not my Circus....not my monkeys
B. W. wrote:Strange things must be a brew'n in that Far Land of the North - Canada...
Yes! Canada is more perverted - excuse me, I mean more evolved - than your backward, socially-conservative and retrograde nation! Ivellious should move here!
FL
Hold everything lightly. If you don't, it will hurt when God pries your fingers loose as He takes it from you. -Corrie Ten Boom
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
B. W. wrote:Strange things must be a brew'n in that Far Land of the North - Canada...
Yes! Canada is more perverted - excuse me, I mean more evolved - than your backward, socially-conservative and retrograde nation! Ivellious should move here!
FL
Hallelujah!!!
So an evolved nation, hmmm, the 2nd law of thermodynamic's oddly comes to mind...
Looks like this backward, socially-conservative and retrograde nation is fundamentally being transformed by the savior of da world - barrark hussein obumer ta be more like da lwand of de Nurth...
abhout time - yah think?
Science is man's invention - creation is God's
(by B. W. Melvin)
Old Polish Proverb:
Not my Circus....not my monkeys
B. W. wrote:Looks like this backward, socially-conservative and retrograde nation is fundamentally being transformed by the savior of da world - barrark hussein obumer ta be more like da lwand of de Nurth...
abhout time - yah think?
While I'm certainly no fan of the current occupant of the White House, I don't think he can change the USA into a Norway or a Canada, two countries where Socialism* seems to work well. It just isn't in the American mindset. But don't read me wrong! you guys are going perverted in your own inimitable way!
FL
*the word ''Socialism'' when used by Americans, is actually social democracy, a form of government which considers that the rights of society will trickle down to the benefit of the individual. In the USA, the rights of the individual - first and foremost - are seen to benefit society at large.
Hold everything lightly. If you don't, it will hurt when God pries your fingers loose as He takes it from you. -Corrie Ten Boom
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
