SteveInCO

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

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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 (define that as people who had done something within the previous month of the changeover) never made the transition?

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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 just don’t mis-direct my anger as some do.

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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.

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

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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 damage from it.

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Strega wrote:

@SteveInCo you have no idea how much my autocorrect loathes the proper English spelling of things. I had to backspace with gusto to get it to accept those ‘extra’ letters. As for the z that keeps getting shoved in when I use the extension ‘ised’ so that I end up with ‘ized’, frankly I’ve given up.

Don’t be complaining about a zed being shoved in when you know bloody well it’s a zee.

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I guess I’ve been thinking “remakes” (by a different band) rather than “remixes”, but my comment still applies.

@Strega, be careful of your back. That stack of “programmes” is unnecessarily heavy, what with the extra two letters in each of them. 😛 And who knows how many superfluous “U”s there are in the text.

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I’ve found that whatever version I hear first and get used to is better.

Though I am rarely fond, even then, of “live” recordings.

Performing it just a tad slower than I am used to is a good way to assassinate any piece of classical I like.

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

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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 see my mother in heaven. She was an atheist too. If the Christians were right, there’d be a chance I’d see her in hell, though that would involve satan giving us adjacent torture racks. If they aren’t, I’m not going to see her at all. Either way, it won’t be in heaven.

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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/excommunications/2015/05/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.

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If there’s one conclusion I can come to after fifty years of watching other hominids, it is that there is someone, somewhere, who thinks fly porn is hot.

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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 were actually accusations of *fraud* because they didn’t imagine someone could do such a thing and not be struck dead. PZ still breathed, therefore he couldn’t have hurt the cracker and must have been lying about doing so. It’s interesting how one’s worldview can affect the chain of inference.

(A satiric site once got it right…someone who didn’t realize the site was a satire tried to cite orbiting astronauts seeing the earth was round as evidence that it wasn’t flat, and the (fake) flat earther’s response was perfect; he claimed the astronauts couldn’t possibly have actually gone up or they’d have seen he was right.)

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I’m glad I made both of my names the same then.

If one gets mentioned a lot AND manages to read almost everything new anyway, the e-mails are pointless and can be shut off by clicking on your name in the upper right and going to settings->email. (However, I don’t get any of the other emails I left enabled, either.)

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