stonicus: o he lives the bible literally, except he doesn't... got it...

And.... you're one of the dickweeds I was talking about. Got it.

Tatsuma: When reform sprung up in Germany,

Yeah, but I thought you didn't like the Holocaust? And that was kind of a harsh reform, don't you think? I mean, sure, we could have started clean had Hitler been able to finish the job, but I think there's probably a better way to get rid of the influence of the crazy Jews than cook them all.

jst3p: How is it possible that the human race, in general, is getting more intelligent and knowledgeable but some religious people are getting even crazier?

I reject your initial premise, sir. We're going hard Pakled, and soon will have no time between prayerfests to make civilization "go".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&v=4lxIL1WlxSQ

arethereanybeernamesleft: stonicus: o he lives the bible literally, except he doesn't... got it...

And.... you're one of the dickweeds I was talking about. Got it.

except I doesn't... got it.

I does not got it.

It I does not got

Mein Gott!


In all seriousness though, I don't make a habit out of respecting books. If anything I respect the people who write them- assuming they convey ideas that are worthy of respect. The matter of whether God himself wrote it, or a committee of guys who just enjoy jerking you around did is really a minor detail here.

Both are quite dead these days.

So... looking at women is bad, but being a fundamentalist xenophobic bigot is good?

hmmm... does not compute.

The problem of sin goes away when you stop believing in fairy tales.

I can see why. I looked at Natalie Portman then committed a sin. Now I have to clean it up.

SkunkWerks:

CFT. Thanks.

SkunkWerks: The matter of whether God himself wrote it, or a committee of guys who just enjoy jerking you around did is really a minor detail here.

It's cute that you want to respond to everything I type, even in non-Texas threads, but perhaps you should read a little closer. I wasn't talking about the author of the Bible.

Tatsuma: The One True TheDavid:

Given that Islam is a spin-off from Judaism they probably got that from them too.

Except we don't do that.

As I said, most of you don't NOW: I doubt wanting to be seen as "civilized White people" mattered very much eastern Poland in 5272, or for that matter in Hebron in 3772.

Have some historical perspective, man. The whole point of the Haskalah and "Reform" was to prove y'all are Just Folks just like us goyim, that you're White people of the Mosaic faith and/or Hebrew lineage. Why else would the offspring of Ashkenaz have to try so hard to push back the paradigm pendulum? You and I both know that, notwithstanding my quip concerning Comrade Djugashvili, the haredim of today's Brooklyn are more Orthodox than their grandparents -- and that their grandparents were ordinary immigrant slumdwellers like the (Catholic) Irish, "Negroes" and Sicilians.

What a pity that overcoming the evil of assimilation has to be more extreme in those shtetls they've constructed on stolen Arab land than they do in their self-chosen ghettos in New York City. It's no doubt due to Mass Society of any given subtype: I myself still have to take pains to differentiate my articulation of communism from that of the Leninists, but then the social milieux around me care less about that than any given Jew would about the difference between NK and the Bobovers. (What gets me is the masses' assumption that not watching TV or even owning one means there's something very wrong with me: you'd think I'd said Romney is a Farrakhanist or something.) In Brooklyn it's enough to flaunt payot and tzitzit; in Mea Shearim they've got to try harder to show everybody they're "real Jews."

By the way, why don't you just go ahead and Ignore me? I like to read your stuff whether I agree with it or not, but then I'm not nearly as sensitive as you are and balance off the occasional faux pas with the genuine relief of knowing I'm not the only intelligentsius around here. Which is good for me because there're so many "uncoventional" things about me that it wouldn't be hard to feel all insulted 4/5 of the time, either online or off: you get the benefit of living in a neighborhood where lots of people share your basic assumptions, while I have to live in a poor neighborhood in Lexington, KY. (E.g., people around here don't seem to realize that the University of Kentucky is a governmental, taxpayer-funded institution so its Wildcats men's basketball team is an example of "socialism.") So you have less to lose by Ignoring me than vice versa, lucky you.

arethereanybeernamesleft: SkunkWerks: The matter of whether God himself wrote it, or a committee of guys who just enjoy jerking you around did is really a minor detail here.

It's cute that you want to respond to everything I type, even in non-Texas threads, but perhaps you should read a little closer. I wasn't talking about the author of the Bible.

We're in a non-Texas thread? I'd heard everything was bigger in Texas. I feel lied to.

And I can't read a little closer, doctor says it's bad for my eyes. Possibly my hips.


But yeah, I wasn't talking about the author(s) of the bible either- more the content within, and most importantly respect for that content. My advice? Don't, generally speaking.

Which isn't saying by the way that there's not some bits worth respecting. Read it, see for yourself. That is, after all what a book is for. Living a book.... not so much good for understanding it. I'd avoid digesting a TV as well, no matter what the magazines say about it.

SkunkWerks: Living a book.... not so much good for understanding it.

And yet sometimes, it's the only way you can. I've read both of them, and can see what the guy's point is.

arethereanybeernamesleft: SkunkWerks: Living a book.... not so much good for understanding it.

And yet sometimes, it's the only way you can. I've read both of them, and can see what the guy's point is.

If you're looking for a thesis structure of some sort in the bible, you're probably going about it in the wrong way.

Kinda like looking for sanity in a Kronenburg flick.

Or a concerted effort in Congress.

Tatsuma:

When reform sprung up in Germany, it was about a rejection of the core beliefs, not that they had opinions that were acceptable within the system.

Funny, I thought Reform still meant believing in the Tetragrammaton from Mt. Sinai, that the Hebrew of the Bible was the Holy Tongue, etc. Even back in the dark ages of 19th-century Germany. I had no idea the Reform movement always was all about becoming commie atheist hippie homos. (That's for Quakers these days.)

liam76: on yo

Problem is this still isnt on them, the culture they foster in their communities makes it very difficult for women in them to get out, makes reporting of violence and sexual crimes far lower, etc.

/is jewish, these people are batshiat crazy
//it would help if israel made them serve in the military like their other citizens, get them out of their walls and into a world with other ideas
///slashies!

Tatsuma: The people who do this (the self-appointed modesty squad) are merely a bunch of thugs, without any supervision whatsoever, who terrorize their own population in Chareidi neighborhoods.


Right on, they should be acting like good little Stormtroopers and terrorizing goyim in the West Bank.

Tatsuma: The One True TheDavid:


I'm not saying I'd go very far towards creating death camps for non-atheists, but I doubt I'd protest them very hard.

.... if you people are serious, a lot of people here are unfit to be part of society and should be on meds.

I am serious. There is only one TheDavid^TM, really; nobody else speaks for me (why I don't vote). My society decided by 1972 when I was 9 that I was unfit to be part of it. And I've been on meds several times, pretty much continuously since March 1992. "So thanks for the bigotry," to quote you.

D00d, at least one of us should be a Mensch. Why shouldn't it be you?

For fark's sake.

SkunkWerks: If you're looking for a thesis structure of some sort in the bible,

Not at all. But it is historically and culturally significant. Explaining some of the real-life implications of the Bible's commandments (there are way more than ten) is interesting, to me at least, even if only anecdotally.

RaceDTruck:

Harrison Bergeron unavailable for comment.

/too obscure?

No. And I'm right here, commenting.

Religion is a mind virus. Religious people are literally brain sick. The saddest part is that the virus allows them to convince themselves that they're not.

/kill yourself to make a better world for your children. God wants you to.

seek3r: liam76: on yo

Problem is this still isnt on them, the culture they foster in their communities makes it very difficult for women in them to get out, makes reporting of violence and sexual crimes far lower, etc.

But in this case they are taking the burden on themselves.
Doesn't make them angels but it i a step int he right direction.

arethereanybeernamesleft: SkunkWerks: If you're looking for a thesis structure of some sort in the bible,

Not at all. But it is historically and culturally significant. Explaining some of the real-life implications of the Bible's commandments (there are way more than ten) is interesting, to me at least, even if only anecdotally.

That can be true, I suppose.

I was responding to the notion that you couldn't find a point in it.

Fissile: I've seen their women

It's the Dwarves that go swimmin'...

indylaw: The One True TheDavid:

So form anti-fundy militias and police your own ranks. You know, "Jesus says 'LOVE THE SINNER!'" thud thud thud

Those who can't control themselves invite others to control them. I'm not saying I'd go very far towards creating death camps for non-atheists, but I doubt I'd protest them very hard

You might fancy yourself to be like George Carlin, but the difference is that he was clever.

And funny. And cute. And figured out a way to get paid for his shtick. (They pay me to stay the fark out of the workforce, off by myself in my tiny apartment.) But I don't fancy myself to be him, no; for role models I prefer his, Lenny Bruce.

I particularly like Thank You, Mask Man, to pick a mild, accessible, family-friendly example.

SkunkWerks: I was responding to the notion that you couldn't find a point in it.

Which is not something I ever said.

arethereanybeernamesleft: SkunkWerks: I was responding to the notion that you couldn't find a point in it.

Which is not something I ever said.

arethereanybeernamesleft: I've read both of them, and can see what the guy's point is.

O_o

SkunkWerks: arethereanybeernamesleft: SkunkWerks: I was responding to the notion that you couldn't find a point in it.

Which is not something I ever said.

arethereanybeernamesleft: I've read both of them, and can see what the guy's point is.

O_o

"The guy" is not God (or the jackwagons that wrote the Bible), it's the guy who wrote the other book. I can see his point. Not the point or structure in the Bible.

Although I know what that's about, too.

arethereanybeernamesleft: "The guy" is not God

God wants to be The Guy too.



By "both of them" I thought you'd meant a tongue in cheek reference to old and new testaments.

Ah well.


arethereanybeernamesleft: Although I know what that's about, too.

Butts.

NightOwl2255: theorellior: JackieRabbit: Silly Jesus: Is there anything that can make you more retarded than religion?

A. Orthodox religion

Ultra-Orthodox religion.

Double secret Ultra-Orthodox religion.

Gluten-free Double secret Ultra-Orthodox religion.

Silly Jesus: Is there anything that can make you more retarded than religion?

Got bad news for you. Check out the fark politics tab.

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Sees an opportunity to improve the species

Have they considered GROWING THE fark UP, maybe?

But what about guys who find blurry women erotic?

RanDomino: Hebron settlers besieging a Palestinian family

That is pretty messed up.

In case you ever need some furry lawn mower wheels, you can always ask an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish guy where he got his.

RanDomino: Hebron settlers besieging a Palestinian family

Care to elaborate on how that is relevant?

Some Jewish fundamentalists decide instead of trying to enforce their BS standards they are going to take the burden of their faith on themselves, and you think showing jewish extremists harassing arabs fits?

Do those glasses work for sheep, too? If so Texas A&M tution and fees just went up $6.

I understand that if you throw rocks at women in Israel they generally chamber a round into their Uzi's and fire a warning shot through your sorry head.

RaceDTruck: Harrison Bergeron unavailable for comment.

/too obscure?

Nope. You just beat me to it.

Orange Guy: In case you ever need some furry lawn mower wheels, you can always ask an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish guy where he got his.
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Hey, say what you will about these peoples' taste in eyewear, but you have to admit that's a damn cool hat.

Because Orthodox Jews don't look ridiculous enough...

$6 for blurry goggles? I'll spork out their eyes for $3.