SteveInCO

One would think the moron would give up eventually. Yeesh.

Umar,

T|A had 10.000 or so members… but very few of them were still active. (I know most of my Friends list is full of people who haven’t been around in years.) You won’t get all ten thousand.

I realize you probably weren’t thinking that, but I thought it ought to be stated explicitly.

How many still active people from the old site…[Read more]

For what it’s worth, I’ve never been angry at god, not even as a fictional character (I’ve read other fiction where I’ve been furious with one of the characters; methinks the author did a better job there), and I do live in an area where god-bothering is quite prevalent.

I’ve been pissed off as hell at some of “his” followers though. So maybe I…[Read more]

Well part of the issue is software developers of late have been fond of creating buttons that don’t actually look like buttons…a word or a doodle (that may or may not convey useful information about what it’s for) without a border drawn around it.

Whatever it is, I am sure the cracker will end up with plenty of transfats.

I was raised atheist myself, but what I was exposed to was a crude stereotype of Christianity. Not that some Christians don’t talk exactly like the stereotype, but others do not, and they can sound quite reasonable.

My brother got sucked in for various reasons, and it took him thirty years to find his way back out again, after suffering enormous…[Read more]

The truly appalling thing is that every comment on the YouTube page is written on the assumption that it’s a fake.

Stutz wrote:I also try to be gentle about it because it implies that if I’m right, they won’t see their own parents again, ever, and I know that’s a great comfort to them to believe that. So, so sad and childish, but a great comfort nonetheless.

Well, that’s one load I don’t have to deal with. Whether or not the Christians are right, I won’t…[Read more]

Christianity Has a Major Boundary Problem

An excellent read… unfortunately, it won’t solve your problem.

Unless it helps to know your situation is appallingly common.

Strega wrote:
Honestly Simon, if you took one set of tarot cards and did hideous disrespectful things to them

I couldn’t help but be reminded of the time PZ Meyers desecrated a communion wafer (the person who obtained it had already received threats from outraged Catholics). Interestingly, half of the outraged comments regarding the descration…[Read more]

If there is one thing that is absolutely certain, it is that Christianity has changed, and so has its conception of Jesus. Also true of Judaism, whose conception of Yahweh has changed considerably.

Unseen wrote: Also, law can define things differently from biology.

I would say law must operate with different concepts from those biology uses; its purpose is very different. That leaves one with two options: come up with separate words for the different concepts, or use the same word for concepts that are similar.

Actually, biology uses…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
As simon pointed out…this really does border on the magic (like holy water or prayers beamed up from your mind to God).

By “Simon” here I assume you mean Mr. Matthews!

Who’da thunk we’d have two people with an uncommon name like Simon in the same place at the same time?

And yes, I’d like to see Simon (Paynton’s) answer to your q…[Read more]

Even turning it into a frigging saltine would be an improvement. Dare I hope for a triscuit?

Ones one of the moderators sees this, they’ll change it.

Unseen wrote:

SteveInCO wrote:
Why don’t you just ask her, like maybe in sign language? Or bring her something by mouth, in return.

Uhh… no I didn’t. Try the guy in the Vatican. 🙂

I used to own cats that I would play with by picking a stalk of prairie grass and moving the head back and forth on the ground, giving them an animate “mouse” to pounce on. One time I was with them and one of them kept leaping on the grass stalks, then looking at me. Seemed like a pretty clear request. Of course, it was a feline, therefore it…[Read more]