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jmcginn
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 04/18/2003 : 09:49:00
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How about nailing ourselves to a stick and flagellating ourselves ala the flagellates of the 1340's when the Black Plague struck Europe!!
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap04-18-091215.asp?reg=pacrim&vts=41820030919
Now for the apologetics 
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American missionary Cecil Sullivan of Illinois said the practice was against Christian principles and ''is a proof that you can be very sincere but be sincerely wrong.''
The Rev. Victor Nicdao said he sympathizes with the devotees, who mostly come from very poor families and may have created their own rituals because they felt alienated from the church.
''This group is not what would be called church people. The very church building is alienating, the way it is constructed. Even the liturgy is something they don't relate to,'' he said.
Ah but Jesus himself condones acts of self-mutilation
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/mt/5.html#29
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http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/mt/18.html#8
Not to mention he supposidly set the utltimate example by allowing himself to undergo such torments. WWJD? Let himself be mutilated!
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 04/18/2003 : 14:03:00 [Permalink]
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Whew, talk about S&M lifestyles. Hey, if that's there idea of fun...
Personally, I'm going to enjoy my three day weekend, if all I do is work around the house.
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jmcginn
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 04/18/2003 : 15:55:36 [Permalink]
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| Nah I was thinking of chaining myself to a mountain and cutting my stomach open and letting a giant Eagle eat my liver over and over. After all what would prometheus do? |
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Franc28
New Member
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Posted - 04/18/2003 : 17:04:11 [Permalink]
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Have you seen the movie The Seventh Seal ?
Not only is it a great existentialist movie (as well as on my top 5 of best movies), but that scene with the flagellates convoy during the Black Plague is just great. How could I not think about it while reading your post !
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Deborah
Skeptic Friend
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - 04/18/2003 : 17:53:10 [Permalink]
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| Like this weekend is any different than any other! |
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 04/18/2003 : 18:15:56 [Permalink]
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Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!
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-- Donnie B.
Brian: "No, no! You have to think for yourselves!" Crowd: "Yes! We have to think for ourselves!" |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 04/18/2003 : 20:35:54 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Deborah
Like this weekend is any different than any other!
When Dennis got home today I mentioned I hadn't had time to check the stock market yet for the day. He said, it wasn't open. I said WHAT?!!!
He said 'Good Friday'. I said, yeah I'd heard of it but since when did they close the market for that?
So I'm going to spend the weekend being pissed that I didn't get to make any trades today.
As a side note, he didn't like the fact that a religious day should have anything to do with the market or the government and added that they should have a Buddhist day too if they are going to have everything else!
Ok, see ya.....got to go color some eggs. |
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 04/19/2003 : 02:48:30 [Permalink]
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We have a child, so the Easter Bunny is great fun! I don't know why, but the kids seem to love the big furry lug, and all of the cool candy, of course!
If her Daddy decides to go to early mass before we pick the little darling up, well, that's okay, too.
What WE aren't going to do is hit ourelves with floggers. Or, go listen to a lunatic scream at us about how we're all going to hell. Or, kneel down reciting prepared call and response prayers 'till the boredom drives us nuts...It all kinda reminds me of the old days; The days of pickin' cotton, bossman, lashings, and field hollers.
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"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country." Dubya in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 9/6/2004
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/19/2003 : 04:49:39 [Permalink]
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Mmmm. Easter bunny. With onion and oyster stuffing, and baked potato. Also acorn squash, and followed with a shot of any whiskey but the cheap stuff I normally drink. That's so good it'll hurt ya!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Deborah
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 04/19/2003 : 09:20:23 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
Mmmm. Easter bunny. With onion and oyster stuffing, and baked potato. Also acorn squash, and followed with a shot of any whiskey but the cheap stuff I normally drink. That's so good it'll hurt ya!
Hahahaha. If I ate little bunnies that is how I would celebrate Filthy! |
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Deborah
Skeptic Friend
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2003 : 09:37:33 [Permalink]
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| I used to make Easter baskets....it was really quite profitable. It cost me $6 to make and people would buy it for $15...some people even paid as much as $20. I think around November of this year I am going to start making them again. Let's see...1200 baskets will get me $10,800 above what they cost me to make. Not bad! Of course, I could never make those many baskets now because I don't have time, but I could make half of that without too much effort. That could pay for my Easter holiday! Yeah, that is what I'll be doing next year....laying on a beach in Spain or Portugal couresty of the Easter bunny! Should I sign all of you hard skeptics up for buying a basket from me next year? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2003 : 10:36:01 [Permalink]
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Oh hell yes. Sign me up and enjoy the sun 'n the beach.
I pulled the Easter bunny for dinner gag on an ex-girlfriend years ago. I knew someone who raised meat rabbits and got two from him. He even dressed them for me.
It was delicious. The girlfriend and her daughter thought it was perfectly awful that I could cook and devour cute, little bunnys, especally on Easter, but they shared in the feast, anyway. Go figger.
Alas, I have no rabbit this year, so I can't have the traditional celebration (sadness). But a fine basket to carry the bunny home in, for next year, would be nice.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 04/19/2003 : 19:54:40 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Deborah
Should I sign all of you hard skeptics up for buying a basket from me next year?
Sorry Poe, I have to save as much money as I can now and I already have a collection of baskets*.
BUT, when I open my art gallery you are welcome to display them. Maybe you'll make some sales there too. Can I have 10% commission?
*although, ya never know, there's always room for one more! |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 04/19/2003 : 19:59:27 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I pulled the Easter bunny for dinner gag on an ex-girlfriend years ago. I knew someone who raised meat rabbits and got two from him.
Filthy, Filthy, Filthy.....no, no, no. This is where we part company.
How could you? Sorry, I'm with your ex AND I wouldn't have eaten them. Yuk!
But I'm sure you are a nice guy otherwise. |
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Dave W.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2003 : 23:57:45 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
Okay, Snake, why is eating a bunny so "yuk"?
(Somebody had to ask...)
Keeping in mind that in other posts I've mentioned I'm a hypocrite.
But that doesn't take away from the idea that I find cutting into flesh and blood disgusting.
Further, Man IMO is primitive when he still eats meat. I don't see the need for it. I love other animals and would rather not kill them for that purpous.
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