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Did God, or did he not command (or at least, allow) the bears to rend the little children? Context will not change that.
Try as you might, there is no way that you can square this kind of behaviour with the notion of a loving god. So face it: there are large portions of the bible which are fictitious, irrelevant and self-contradictory.
P.S. Personally, I think the little bastards got what they deserved;)
The difference between the violence in the Bible and the extreme violence you see in *some* of today's video games, is that in the former, it's painfully (no pun intended) obvious that the violence is wrong and there are concequences, often very serious.
From The Bible, 2 Kings 2:23-24:
"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them"
Yup, I would say that being torn apart by she bears because you told old baldy to 'go up' was fairly serious.
Quite foolish? You're the one who believes in a fairy tale desert cult, after all.
ROTFLMAO.
You, on the other hand, fail to see that the church is interested in furthering it's own needs before those of anyone else: While the core ideas that it propounds are basically good (though at times naive), the organisation itself is an irrelevant construct which parasitically feeds on the memetically successful ideas of a simple carpenter.
So yes, I can see why the printer would be good for your church, but that doesn't mean it is good for you or that it is morally correct according to the teachings of your religion.
It is telling that you use a commerce based analogy.
Perhaps you should pay more attention to the spiritual side of what you believe in and less time shoring up the flanks of the stinking corpse of the church.
I believe you are saying that it should be your choice what kind of printer you choose to donate to your church.
In fact when I said someone might donate a B&W printer, I had in mind a used one. I gather from your post that you bought one for your church specially.
What I was suggesting is that perhaps people like you should donate the money to a truly worthy cause e.g. feeding the hungry instead of a less worthy one e.g. having colour photos in the parish magazine.
Should be able to get off quite a few ppm of your new kids comic, "Why Dinosaurs Never Existed" with one of those bad boys!
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I have just come back from spending a weekend in Cork where I noticed that the locals (and visitors) have a propensity for drinking Guinness, Murphys and Beamish. It seemed only the right thing to sample this cultural phenomenon and so I and my companions embarked on a couple of 'sessions' during each of which we consumed something over 20 pints (full 568ml pints, mark you) of said fluids.
I can therefore state with impunity that at least the first ten pints of the stout that I drank were *much* cooler than room temperature.
In the first of the Jack Ryan books, Patriot Games, Ryan saves the life of the Prince and Princess of Wales when they are attacked outside Buckingham Palace by the (thinly disguised) IRA. He is then visited in hospital by Charles himself, who apologises for not kicking more butt in the fire fight. Ryan gives Charles a good ticking off. Then the Queen comes in and tells him he will henceforth be known as "Sir Jack Ryan".
Meanwhile, Ryan's wife and daughter are being entertained personally in Buckingham Palace by the Queen.
Later on, the Prince and Princess visit the USA and drop in for a barbeque at Jack's place. While they are chewing the fat, the IRA attack again and the assembled party have to escape down a rope ladder to sea. Next thing is that they're in a torpedo boat and Charles is showing off his naval skills by piloting the thing.
See what I mean? Pure fantasy. Mind you, it's not a bad book if you ignore all the bits about the royals and London.
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NO!! He *HURTS* US!
Sheez. Did you know that this comment has been modded troll like 3 times?
Big butts AND no sense of humour!
experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans
Because of their amazingly huge butts, no doubt.
I think it was Hercules and he just had to lift the cow up once a day.
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of those
Tartan paint!
Oh I don't know - I volunteer to play the beast master at Rome's colliseum when the Christians are in opposition.
"Aha, a tiger for this one, I think"
Agreed on the eMPS. The tps, however r0xx0rs.
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Trust me: being English, Harry Potter has probably never heard of Michael Jordan.
Kids stuff.
My first example is posted above.
Did God, or did he not command (or at least, allow) the bears to rend the little children? Context will not change that.
;)
Try as you might, there is no way that you can square this kind of behaviour with the notion of a loving god.
So face it: there are large portions of the bible which are fictitious, irrelevant and self-contradictory.
P.S. Personally, I think the little bastards got what they deserved
The difference between the violence in the Bible and the extreme violence you see in *some* of today's video games, is that in the former, it's painfully (no pun intended) obvious that the violence is wrong and there are concequences, often very serious.
From The Bible, 2 Kings 2:23-24:
"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them"
Yup, I would say that being torn apart by she bears because you told old baldy to 'go up' was fairly serious.
If he wasn't dead set on dicking around with monitors he could probably afford to find out.
How much she gets paid depends entirely on the company's prophets.
Quite foolish? You're the one who believes in a fairy tale desert cult, after all.
ROTFLMAO.
You, on the other hand, fail to see that the church is interested in furthering it's own needs before those of anyone else: While the core ideas that it propounds are basically good (though at times naive), the organisation itself is an irrelevant construct which parasitically feeds on the memetically successful ideas of a simple carpenter.
So yes, I can see why the printer would be good for your church, but that doesn't mean it is good for you or that it is morally correct according to the teachings of your religion.
Or strip clubs, for that matter.
It is telling that you use a commerce based analogy.
Perhaps you should pay more attention to the spiritual side of what you believe in and less time shoring up the flanks of the stinking corpse of the church.
I believe you are saying that it should be your choice what kind of printer you choose to donate to your church.
In fact when I said someone might donate a B&W printer, I had in mind a used one. I gather from your post that you bought one for your church specially.
What I was suggesting is that perhaps people like you should donate the money to a truly worthy cause
e.g. feeding the hungry
instead of a less worthy one
e.g. having colour photos in the parish magazine.
And I bet you are happy with it for the same reason.
In fact, I am unhappy with it because it is so full of shit. As, indeed, are you.
Why the *FUCK* should *YOU* get a colour laser printer?
You should donate the money to a third world country, shouldn't you?
You can make do perfectly well with a B&W laser - you can probably even get one or two donated to you by your congregation.
Should be able to get off quite a few ppm of your new kids comic, "Why Dinosaurs Never Existed" with one of those bad boys!
I have just come back from spending a weekend in Cork where I noticed that the locals (and visitors) have a propensity for drinking Guinness, Murphys and Beamish. It seemed only the right thing to sample this cultural phenomenon and so I and my companions embarked on a couple of 'sessions' during each of which we consumed something over 20 pints (full 568ml pints, mark you) of said fluids.
I can therefore state with impunity that at least the first ten pints of the stout that I drank were *much* cooler than room temperature.
Clancy is pure comedy:
In the first of the Jack Ryan books, Patriot Games, Ryan saves the life of the Prince and Princess of Wales when they are attacked outside Buckingham Palace by the (thinly disguised) IRA.
He is then visited in hospital by Charles himself, who apologises for not kicking more butt in the fire fight. Ryan gives Charles a good ticking off. Then the Queen comes in and tells him he will henceforth be known as "Sir Jack Ryan".
Meanwhile, Ryan's wife and daughter are being entertained personally in Buckingham Palace by the Queen.
Later on, the Prince and Princess visit the USA and drop in for a barbeque at Jack's place. While they are chewing the fat, the IRA attack again and the assembled party have to escape down a rope ladder to sea. Next thing is that they're in a torpedo boat and Charles is showing off his naval skills by piloting the thing.
See what I mean? Pure fantasy. Mind you, it's not a bad book if you ignore all the bits about the royals and London.