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HalfMooner
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Posted - 02/01/2011 :  05:04:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
From a personal communication:
Being a modest man, when I checked into my motel, I asked the lady at the desk: "I hope the porn channel in my room is disabled."

"No," she said, "it's regular porn, you sick bastard."

Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2011 :  15:21:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Deepak Chopra pwned.

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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13477 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2011 :  18:35:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Deepak Chopra pwned.
Ha!

I don't know who the woman is, but she looks pissed, doesn't she?

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Dave W.
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USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2011 :  19:17:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Kil

I don't know who the woman is, but she looks pissed, doesn't she?
Yeah. And Deepak looked like he didn't get the joke. The clergyman next to him definitely got it, but he was the only one on-stage who was laughing.

A commenter on YouTube says,
This was a total ambush. A red herring of worst order. Mr Chopra was remarking on 'religious belief' and this clown made it an issue of ALL belief.#65279;
Is there a big difference, or just one of semantics?

Ah, this clip is taken from ABC's Nightline Face-Off. Unfortunately, linking directly to any of the clips seems impossible, so you'll need to scroll down that page to the episode where the question was "Does Satan Exist?" They do have a big write-up on it, though. The show originally aired in March, 2009, so it's a little old.

The woman is Annie Lobert, founder of "Hookers for Jesus." She was on the "Yes" side (that Satan exists) along with pastor Mark Driscoll. Deepak's partner on the "No" side (the laughing clergyman) was Bishop Carlton Pearson.

After reading ABC's article about the debate, it seems the joke is on me. Chopra, it turns out, said this:
"All I have to say is belief is a cover-up for insecurity," Chopra said. "If something is real, you don't have to believe in it. You should be able to experience it. And the most fervent believers in the world are the cause of all the problems in the world right now, OK?"

"Unfortunately there are religious institutions that have actually idealized guilt and shame and made it into a virtue," Chopra went on. "They have created institutions around guilt and sin and shame and disgust with our own self. And when we obsess over these things and we collectively create this obsession then we project it out there as this mythical figure that we call Satan."
I nearly agree with him. And so the guy asking the question was clearly rejecting this fairly reasonable (for Chopra) position.

I keep saying that context is important. And so is getting all this egg off my face.

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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13477 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2011 :  19:55:40   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

[quote]Originally posted by Kil
I keep saying that context is important. And so is getting all this egg off my face.
Meh... It was a clever thing to do. Even if the guy was on the wrong side of the argument.

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gawdbless8888
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Posted - 02/07/2011 :  17:00:21   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit gawdbless8888's Homepage Send gawdbless8888 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Watch this trailer for Gawd Bless America. Really funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuersBn6jYc
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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 02/13/2011 :  14:16:59   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
For the baseball and Ferris Bueller fans out there: Wezen-Ball: Ferris Bueller's Day Off at Wrigley Field.

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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
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Posted - 02/13/2011 :  14:48:59   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

For the baseball and Ferris Bueller fans out there: Wezen-Ball: Ferris Bueller's Day Off at Wrigley Field.
Whoa!!! What a coincidence! I was at that game with Zachary!!!


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Dave W.
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USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 02/13/2011 :  15:20:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Kil

Whoa!!! What a coincidence! I was at that game with Zachary!!!
Chicago's got some messed-up weather if it was snowing in June.

Edited to add that Matthew Broderick must have been freezing. And Zachary's got to be in his mid-40s now?

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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13477 Posts

Posted - 02/13/2011 :  15:25:03   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Originally posted by Kil

Whoa!!! What a coincidence! I was at that game with Zachary!!!
Chicago's got some messed-up weather if it was snowing in June.

Edited to add that Matthew Broderick must have been freezing. And Zachary's got to be in his mid-40s now?
Yes. It all seems so unlikely, doesn't it?

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Dave W.
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USA
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Posted - 02/13/2011 :  16:01:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Kil

Yes. It all seems so unlikely, doesn't it?
I... I'm having trouble remaining agnostic about it.

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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
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Posted - 02/19/2011 :  12:46:27   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Find someone who has never seen the movie Alien before, and get her to re-enact the chestburster scene.

Honest reactions are a laugh riot.

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Dave W.
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USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 03/11/2011 :  08:18:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
From Dispatches from the Culture Wars:
A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the tea partier and says, "Watch out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie!"

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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 03/13/2011 :  19:33:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Jesus has developed a bit of a paunch.

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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13477 Posts

Posted - 03/13/2011 :  20:07:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Jesus has developed a bit of a paunch.
Ha! And hey. Have you ever seen a photo or even a painting of Jesus from any contemporary of his?

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