Re: Wtf
 

cable has become national, grandpa. I suppose coverage had stopped by the time the bombs went off. Coltrane would have finished by then even.

Re: A Picasso or a Garfunkel?
 

no offense, but a mass produced shirt, by definition, cannot be punk. Icky was wearing shit he doctored, let me assure you.

although he doesn't seem up to creating a new idea, so maybe not?
 

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/...-to-poison-him if adder didn't have a law degree.

Re: Got big lanes, got big lanes
 

potw

Re: although he doesn't seem up to creating a new idea, so maybe not?
 

Boehner is perpetually a shade near cherry red. Search the toupee for horns?

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

2. And I'm still wondering why they scriptwriters asked us to believe Joseph and Mary never sealed the deal. The guy's getting married, wife gives him the Heisman, somehow nevertheless gets knocked up, and he's just along for the ride? (I assume that last bit. Joseph basically disappears for the rest of the story, apparently dejected God cuckolded him.)

While we're on disposable characters, the Holy Ghost? Who is that? God, but not exactly God? But not Jesus, either? Was God so bored he needed to create a friend who had all of the same powers he did? A capable chess buddy? And the ghost, exactly, of whom? Is this character fleshed out anywhere close to fully anywhere? If you think I'm bullshitting, ask a Catholic... any Catholic. Go up to one you know is devout and say the following:

"Hey, tell me everything you know about the Holy Ghost. What it's done, where it's been, where it came from. And spare no detail. I've got all day, I'm a writer, I'm doing an authorized biography, and I need a man on the street perspective."

Tumbleweeds. You could ask a Priest and the poor bastard couldn't give you answer save to note it was a "mystery of faith." A mystery. Like every other abandoned plot point.

And yet the Catholic Church enjoys tax free status! Tax. Free.

Try telling an auditor the disappearance of all of your receipts supporting lavish deductions is a mystery. "I think the Holy Ghost took them... Sneaky bastard, banging everyone's wife... He gets around."

Re: although he doesn't seem up to creating a new idea, so maybe not?
 

Je Sous Boehner!

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

It's probably a mistake to reply to a middle of the night rant on religion.

This is part of why I enjoy reading the early Christians. Back in Nicene times, I think the Holy Spirit was actually the easy-to-understand one of the three. Look, there was all this talk about a God off in a heaven, no longer the dude who hung out and chatted with Abraham and his kin but some far off omniscient being. Then there's this guy who died a couple centuries before born with weird stars and angels around and a Mom who was probably not just a virgin but veiled and secluded. Both are pretty distant concepts.

On the other hand, they were telling every good Greek in Constantinople that there was a third part of the divine that was that bit of divine spirit in each person. The Greeks had a concept of the breath being what gave us life, and that bit of breath or spirit in us was the divine, what separated the living from the dead. So the Holy Spirit was the part of the divine that we all knew - a parent can see the spirit in their children, a lover in their spouse.

All this was set in the First Council of Nicaea in the context of the debate against Arianism, which saw God as far off and distant, and Christ as just another guy with nothing particularly divine about him.

But telling every petty soldier and citizen out there that they had a bit of the divine in them might have worked for Constantine, who was busy reaching beyond the old Roman Senate for support from more common people, but it sure as hell wasn't going to work for a bunch of Popes, Patriarchs, and Emperors trying to attract the widest group of aristocrats and petty warlords to their banners in the middle ages. So they obfuscated, and the Holy Spirit became some disembodied abstract concept that the common folk weren't supposed to grasp.

I think calling it an "abandoned plot point" is right on target, but in its original concept I actually think it was a pretty cool, buddhist-democratic kind of idea.

Re: Wtf
 

She also said he didn't go to Yemen, so someone is saying something that isn't true.

Re: Wtf
 

And were heard yelling "Allahu akhbar" because they thought "ne vive pas la France" sounded silly?

And chose to take hostages in a Jewish deli because...um...they served croissants, which are very French?

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0KL15N20150112

I wish i had this when my kids were little. I could have avoided some of those cold outside days.

Re: Wtf
 

Little know fact, but the deli owners drove white cars.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Or in tl;dr everything that does not make sense about dogma is likely the result of (1) attempts to bolster Jesus's resume as the Jewish messiah (i.e., the virgin thing), and/or (2) attempts to appealing/assimilate with various pagans/cultures, etc.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Wow, I guess you didn't read. tl;sli.*

Try just (1) thing, not (1) and (2): it's all about power.

and that will work for Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Shinto as well as Christianity.







*too long, semi-literates involved.

Re: Wtf
 

There always seems to be someone around to say a murderer was a nice kid, a quiet neighbor, what have you.

But have you been to Jewish delis in Paris? What they call dark rye there is lighter than the whole wheat you get in a NY deli. Stick to the Middle Eastern places.