Ok, so it's Friday the 13th today and people talk about it. And every time you get one or two Christians who say they can't believe people believe in superstitions (hint: most people don't, it's just something to talk about) and refer to their Christianity in some way (e.g. "Christianity came to Poland 1000 years ago but people still believe in stuff like that").
What the hell? I mean, I would understand if you were an uber-rationalist/materialist and making fun of black cats, broken mirrors and Fridays the thirteenth, but with your idiot belief in water-walking zombie Jews on sticks you really have no room to criticise others (at least people who "believe" in Friday the 13th usually don't organize their lives around it).
Funny as balls.
I laugh at uber-rationalist/materialists for their silly belief that they can understand everything that happens in the universe. :P
You know, I could have written up a whole thing, here but what's the point? It just goes in one ear and out some other hole.
I laugh at Poles.
I laugh at Poles.
We all laugh at Poles.
well yeah you see. The Bible is different.
It is true. I know this, because the people who want me to let them tell me how to live because the Bible allows them so, told me that.
Quote from: Martinus on July 13, 2012, 02:53:27 AM
in water-walking zombie Jews on sticks
That's the second time you've used that. Find another one that's less boring, kiddie cockslurper.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 13, 2012, 07:18:10 AM
Quote from: Martinus on July 13, 2012, 02:53:27 AM
in water-walking zombie Jews on sticks
That's the second time you've used that. Find another one that's less boring, kiddie cockslurper.
its funny that he is not using the manfeet-washer one
But he IS right you know. Polacks are crazy catholics. They are like the Catholic version of the various American sects. So they can STFU about superstitions.
Because superstitions are unchristian shit.
Their Zombie god > Pagan god
Quote from: Tamas on July 13, 2012, 07:25:09 AM
But he IS right you know. Polacks are crazy catholics. They are like the Catholic version of the various American sects. So they can STFU about superstitions.
Nobody gives a rat fuck what sort of intolerance he suffers over there in Old Europe. That's not Languish's problem.
He doesn't like Poland, he can suck strangers' toes in public restrooms elsewhere. We don't need to hear his bitching here.
I was born on a Friday the 13th, so it's like a mini-birthday for me. :cool:
Quote from: Tamas on July 13, 2012, 07:25:09 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 13, 2012, 07:18:10 AM
Quote from: Martinus on July 13, 2012, 02:53:27 AM
in water-walking zombie Jews on sticks
That's the second time you've used that. Find another one that's less boring, kiddie cockslurper.
its funny that he is not using the manfeet-washer one
But he IS right you know. Polacks are crazy catholics. They are like the Catholic version of the various American sects. So they can STFU about superstitions.
He only really care about how his sexual predilections are received. Considering how people like him are treated in other parts of Eastern Europe where it's not strongly Catholic (or even religious), I'd say religion is not the root cause.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 13, 2012, 07:29:08 AM
Quote from: Tamas on July 13, 2012, 07:25:09 AM
But he IS right you know. Polacks are crazy catholics. They are like the Catholic version of the various American sects. So they can STFU about superstitions.
Nobody gives a rat fuck what sort of intolerance he suffers over there in Old Europe. That's not Languish's problem.
He doesn't like Poland, he can suck strangers' toes in public restrooms elsewhere. We don't need to hear his bitching here.
+1
Christians vs. superstitions may be funny, but Martinus vs. strawmen is an old chestnut.
s.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/friday-13th-searches-reveal-folks-not-worried-day-160509963.html
QuoteSupposedly America's most common superstition, fear of Friday the 13th has been good movie material (12 times), but this summer we're kind of—indifferent.
Maybe it's because we have better things to worry about. Searches on Yahoo! and Google for this day have been mild. Nonetheless, today's as good a day as any to check in on our fear factors.
These terms rank in the latter part of the top buzzing searches on Yahoo!
Friday the 13th superstitions
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th status updates—#fridaythe13th mildly moving as a hashtag on Twitter as folks post about not walking under ladders, having computer problems or stubbing their toe.
Passing on paranoia to the next generation: In the past 30 days, 38 percent of searches for "Friday the 13th" came from kids under 13. In general, youth 17 and under made up 43 percent of look-ups of that fateful day, although curiosity about that starts to taper off in your 50s—when you appreciate any Friday, even one wrought with doom.
Also, here's something intriguing about a gender divide: 71 percent of "Friday the 13th" searches come from males. Females have other things to worry about—maybe males who plot things on Friday the 13th.
For those who suffer from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13, next year will be tough. But the year ending in 13 will have only have two months with a Friday that falls on the dreaded number, September and December.
I remember reading a museum catelogue (I have to assume writen by a religious believer of some sort) that made me raise an eyebrow.
The catelogue was describing some religious artifacts belonging to a precolumbian Mayan city, and it said something to the effect that they were covered in symbols describing the Mayans' "imaginary gods". I was thinking that was a very odd qualifier - aren't they all? I mean, it isn't as if other people's gods are *not* "imaginary", right?
Quote from: Malthus on July 13, 2012, 05:07:10 PM
I remember reading a museum catelogue (I have to assume writen by a religious believer of some sort) that made me raise an eyebrow.
The catelogue was describing some religious artifacts belonging to a precolumbian Mayan city, and it said something to the effect that they were covered in symbols describing the Mayans' "imaginary gods". I was thinking that was a very odd qualifier - aren't they all? I mean, it isn't as if other people's gods are *not* "imaginary", right?
So are you saying those who believe in God should pretend they think their own God is imaginary?
Catalog sounds pretty condescending.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 13, 2012, 02:32:39 PM
Christians vs. superstitions may be funny, but Martinus vs. strawmen is an old chestnut.
I remember when we kept having to explain to him that the Koran, Torah, and Bible were not written in the Bronze or Stone ages. I think that finally broke through, since he hasn't said it in a while.
QuoteI remember reading a museum catelogue (I have to assume writen by a religious believer of some sort) that made me raise an eyebrow.
The catelogue was describing some religious artifacts belonging to a precolumbian Mayan city, and it said something to the effect that they were covered in symbols describing the Mayans' "imaginary gods". I was thinking that was a very odd qualifier - aren't they all? I mean, it isn't as if other people's gods are *not* "imaginary", right?
Ouch. Particularly painful considering the whole you shall have no other gods before me thing. No need to call them imaginary.
Quote from: Razgovory on July 13, 2012, 10:55:04 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 13, 2012, 02:32:39 PM
Christians vs. superstitions may be funny, but Martinus vs. strawmen is an old chestnut.
I remember when we kept having to explain to him that the Koran, Torah, and Bible were not written in the Bronze or Stone ages. I think that finally broke through, since he hasn't said it in a while.
I was unsure upon reading that so checked up. It seems borderline. Just going off wikipedia here of course so completely unauthorative but it says Moses and the torah was 1300BCish and the near eastern bronze age ended 1200BCish.
Wait, you actually believe that Moses personally wrote the Torah?