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Title: 12 of the last 25 posts done by resident Deacon of 4um!
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Published: Feb 2, 2009
Author: Elliott Jackalope
Post Date: 2009-02-02 17:25:03 by Elliott Jackalope
Keywords: Christian, Pushy, Obnoxious, Annoying
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Comments: 67
I just did a quick count: Out of the last 25 posts (before I put this one up), 12 were posted by Richard9151 pushing his JW beliefs on everyone else here on the forum. I guess if you can't persuade others by virtue of the content of your words, then just beat everyone into submission with the sheer volume of your long-winded postings, eh? Seriously though, isn't taking up nearly 50% of the total postings on this forum just a bit.. pushy? Greedy? Proud? Vain? Selfish? Gosh, and here I was thinking that supposedly believing in Christianity was supposed to convince people to not behave that way. Silly me.
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#21. To: Rotara (#17)
Turtle can twist your testicles into a knot with just one of his Thoughts...assuming you're a guy.
Turtle's Law: When the gap between the rich and everyone else becomes great, things happen.
Who cares. Can you play Bridge.?
Turtle cannot play Bridge, only War and Go Fish. When he was little, his relatives used to play a bizarre game called "peaknuckle." Turtle still has no idea what it is.
Turtle's Law: When the gap between the rich and everyone else becomes great, things happen.
A game of Hand, Foot and Boot sounds swell.
4um Traitor Turtle's Brain has all the answers, unfortunately he has problems accessing it.
Turtle's Law: When the gap between the rich and everyone else becomes great, things happen.
Why is foot pronounced foot and boot pronounced boot ? Why not pronounce foot like boot and boot like foot or better yet pronounce them the same ? Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway ?
4um Traitor Why do you put cargo in a ship and shipment in a car? Turtle wonders.
Turtle's Law: When the gap between the rich and everyone else becomes great, things happen.
Isn't Hand and Foot actually Bridge? I've played Hand and Foot but it was a long time ago. PS. Turtle it's Pinoccle not peaknuckle..
Turtle wonders. Turtle must hold court then.
4um Traitor I've played Hand and Foot but it was a long time ago. PS. Turtle it's Pinoccle not peaknuckle.. PS. LOL ! HF&B must have been created by my family and played pretty much ONLY by my family. ;-)
4um Traitor Turtle does listen to his subjects, when he can stop laughing at the image of Cynicom, James Deffenbach and tom007 dressed up as Buckwheat as a bellcap.
Turtle's Law: When the gap between the rich and everyone else becomes great, things happen.
Turtle says it's peaknuckle.
Turtle's Law: When the gap between the rich and everyone else becomes great, things happen.
I was invited years ago to play Hand and Foot in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Your family is not the only one that knows about it..
"Pea-brain"
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
Your family is not the only one that knows about it.. I was talking about Hand, Foot and Boot. ;-)
4um Traitor Heathen bastard!
Hey! My parents were married a whole two months before I was born. So there!
#22. To: Turtle (#21)
Turtle can twist your testicles into a knot with just one of his Thoughts
#23. To: Lady X (#22)
#24. To: Lady X (#22)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#25. To: PSUSA (#2)
#26. To: All (#24)
(Edited)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#27. To: Rotara (#26)
#28. To: Rotara, Turtle (#24)
#29. To: Turtle (#27)
Why do you put cargo in a ship and shipment in a car?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#30. To: Lady X (#28)
Isn't Hand and Foot actually Bridge?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#31. To: Rotara, Cynicom, James Deffenbach, tom007 (#29)
#32. To: Lady X (#28)
#33. To: Rotara (#30)
#34. To: Lady X (#28)
PS. Turtle it's Pinoccle not peaknuckle..
#35. To: Lady X (#33)
I was invited years ago to play Hand and Foot in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#36. To: Elliott Jackalope (#0)
#37. To: Jethro Tull (#36)
 | Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise. |
#38. To: Elliott Jackalope (#37)
If I had a religious bone in my body, I'd have it surgically removed after today's JW assault :)
#39. To: Lady X, Turtle (#28)
I always wanted to try playing Texas Holdem with a Pinochle deck.
PS. Turtle it's Pinochle not peaknuckle..
Make awkward sexual advances, not war.
Restaurants Schenectady, NY
#40. To: Rotara (#26)
Huh?
Why do we park on a driveway and park on a driveway ?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#41. To: farmfriend, Rotara (#40)
Screw this, I'm gonna go drive on a parkway! Point the way!
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#42. To: Dakmar (#41)
#43. To: Jethro Tull (#42)
Is that Spanky?
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#44. To: Jethro Tull (#38)
If I had a longer attention span I'd join you in ridiculing dogmatic freaks.
If I had a religious bone in my body, I'd have it surgically removed after today's JW assault :)
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#45. To: farmfriend, Dakmar (#41)
I hate it when that happens.
4um Traitor
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#46. To: Jethro Tull (#42)
FOFLOL !!
4um Traitor
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#47. To: Rotara, Dakmar (#45)
Sorry, just had to mess with you over it. Course I never make mistrakes.
I hate it when that happens.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#48. To: Rotara, sugar (#46)
Hilarious pic, isn't it :P
#49. To: farmfriend, Rotara (#47)
This seem like a good time time to bring up my tagline, because it's important to me, right now. One comma, and it bugs the piss out of me. Shouldn't be there.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#50. To: Jethro Tull (#42)
Saaaaay, isn't that President Pantload's Kenyan brutha Onyangyo Ungawa Oboingo Osama Hussein Obama III? RACIST!
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#51. To: Jethro Tull, christine (#48)
is this border getting smudgier?
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#52. To: Esso, Dakmar, banned in Boston (#50)
Now THIS is racist!
#53. To: farmfriend (#47)
LOL
Sorry, just had to mess with you over it. Course I never make mistrakes.
4um Traitor
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#54. To: Dakmar (#49)
I know, there's been a rash of rogue comas and semi-colons running on the loose in 4um.
One comma, and it bugs the piss out of me. Shouldn't be there.
4um Traitor
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#55. To: Rotara (#54)
That's the only reason I come here.
I know, there's been a rash of rogue comas and semi-colons running on the loose in 4um.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#56. To: Jethro Tull (#52)
Hodehodehodehodehodehodeho (Hodehodehodehodehodehodeho) diddleyheyho
She had a dream about the king of Sweden
He gave her things that she was needin'
He gave her a home built of gold and steel
A diamond car with platinum wheels
A hidehidehidehidehidehidehi (Hidehidehidehidehidehidehi)
Squidelie Voo Squidelie Voo Squidelie Voodeley Voodeley Voo
Sid did did did didely but did didely skid did didely but din zoy
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#57. To: Dakmar (#55)
I come here for the babe-a-licious 4um gurls. All the rest is a diversion.
That's the only reason I come here.
4um Traitor
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#58. To: Rotara (#57)
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
#59. To: Dakmar (#58)
The puppets' words mean nothing. Their language is totally corrupt. They speak with forked tongue.
4um Traitor
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#60. To: Jethro Tull, Elliott Jackalope (#38)
While some of the real religeous oriented folks can hose out the info, my main concern with that approach persisted with is that it often accomplishes the opposite of its intent. Another believer I'd talked with a lot wrote a good missive on the fact that Christianity is NOT to be spread through fear and coersion, but as Paul [?] stated, by reason. Additionally, people will generally come to you first wanting to know why your so content or happy most, if not all, of the time. Pascal's wager (the details, not the mere one sentence synopsis that makes it seem like a cop out) sums it up pretty well also. From Wikipedia... However, Pascal did not treat acceptance of the wager to be in itself sufficient for salvation. In the same note where the wager is found, Pascal goes on to explain that understanding his conclusion is just the impetus for faith, not faith itself: “ Endeavour then to convince yourself, not by increase of proofs of God, but by the abatement of your passions. You would like to attain faith, and do not know the way; you would like to cure yourself of unbelief, and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you—will quiet your proudly critical intellect... Now, what harm will befall you in taking this side? You will be faithful, honest, humble, grateful, generous, a sincere friend, truthful. Certainly you will not have those poisonous pleasures, glory and luxury; but will you not have others? I will tell you that you will thereby gain in this life, and that, at each step you take on this road, you will see so great certainty of gain, so much nothingness in what you risk, that you will at last recognize that you have wagered for something certain and infinite, for which you have given nothing.[9]" One thing I point out to some of the many hard secularists I've discussed it with is that, regardless of whether you're secular or Christian, the Bible has a lot of wisdom that works both ways, i.e. either God said he didn't want you doing something because he considered it unclean or a sin, or some really smart old timers realized that doing stuff like porking people in the ass, having sex with animals, 500 women a year, your neighbors wife or your kids, killing people, stealing, etc... wasn't very conducive to a functional society. And don't think for a minute that I'm anywhere near the ideal Christian. Nooo siree bob, I've got a bale or two of weed, plenty of gallons of liquor and much reckless abandon under this belt from early days, and still some of the latter two occasionally to this day. I believe though, that at the judgement, the primary principles one will be judged upon are "Did you renounce/denounce the Lord and his Son during the material life", "Did you strive to live as best you could by his tenets" and "Did you shirk responsibility to others or cower in the face of tribulation"??? Now, I may have parts of that wrong or left out, and I sure as hell don't know as much minutae as some of the others here, but as I breath I can still get better at it and explore and learn from the instruction manual!
Ye resident non-theists...
Pascal then asks the reader to analyze their position. If reason is truly corrupt and cannot be relied upon to decide the matter of God's existence, only a coin toss remains. In Pascal's assessment, placing a wager is unavoidable, and anyone who is incapable of trusting any evidence either for or against God's existence, must at least face the prospect that infinite happiness is at risk. The "infinite" expected value of believing is always greater than the expected value of not believing.
Bring on the Depression. Bring it the F*** ON! If digging ditches and eating beans for a few years is what it takes for me to see some worthless sacks of crap bankers and politicians living in sack cloth and being spat upon by my fellow Americans well... where's my shovel?!?!
#61. To: Axenolith (#60)
What you've said is quite sensible. It's nice to see a well developed a sense of humor. You've definitely got the 'spirit!'
One thing I point out to some of the many hard secularists I've discussed it with is that, regardless of whether you're secular or Christian, the Bible has a lot of wisdom that works both ways, i.e. either God said he didn't want you doing something because he considered it unclean or a sin, or some really smart old timers realized that doing stuff like porking people in the ass, having sex with animals, 500 women a year, your neighbors wife or your kids, killing people, stealing, etc... wasn't very conducive to a functional society.
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