The Cincinnati Beacon notices a relationship between global warming and pirates.
General consciousness about global warming seems to have reached a new critical mass, perhaps thanks to Al Gore’s movie and the growing awareness of green technologies.
But has anyone noticed, while more people become aware of global warming and take steps to combat it, that our culture has become filled with even more pirates? Pirates, in many ways, are experiencing a renaissance in America right now.
Read it here.
Hi Red Dutch
“Now that guy is truly unbelieveble!”
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You said it! I don’t for a minute believe any of it is in any way unintentional either! :((
He comes across as a practiced snake oil salesman to me!
wench octarine
You’re welcome :)
After all BLR is part CoFSM folklore :) I think she really had a thing for Bobby going there. She had him a bit worried at one stage!
Hehehehehehehehehe……
Sorry Prophet Bobby :p
“Do you watch State of Origin Jingles?”
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Can’t say that I do, sorry. Basically, if either the Bomber’s (WOOOOOOO!) or the Australian cricket team are in it, I’m there, otherwise, meh. Why do you ask?
Weeeell……
Out of all sport ,I pretty much only watch the annual Origin games these days.
3 games series…score so far QLD:2 to NSW:0 :))) *Go the Mighty Maroons!*
Anyway next Wednesday night is last game and neither team has anything to lose…”should” be a great game. Thing is these days there is so much money in the weekly comp season that the coaches and players probably be too worried about injuries! Also for the international games! Still am hoping for some old “Origin magic”
Will be a whitewash to QLD anyway I think. Home ground to :))
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*Sigh* I’ll leave you to your “aerial ping pong” :p
Just remember to barrack for the right team if you do ever watch it….QLD of course! :))
I don’t watch/follow AFL, but I thought (I heard) the Brisbane Bears were the top team there?
*Nikkiee now hiding under desk* :))
Was really just special “wabbit” bait Jingles :))
Wench Nikkiee
Jun 25th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Hi Red Dutch
“Now that guy is truly unbelieveble!”
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You said it! I don’t for a minute believe any of it is in any way unintentional either! :((
He comes across as a practiced snake oil salesman to me!
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Agreed, he very good at it too, just waiting for everyone to give up on him so he’ll have the last word. I do admire the way he keeps playing the victim though: “why do you never send me any of this or that evidence?” After being given tons of it. “why are you being so nasty to me, at leat i stick to the facts” Hahahahahaha, facts, pfllrt….
Mmm, yes, haven’t seen the wabbit for some time now. Oehoe, wabbit, I won’t huwt you, pwomise! (maybe that’ll help Nikkiee :))
Hi to all of you who have commented. I want to say that I am not looking down on you and trying to prove my faith, as Mike Meiers said. I only want to share that I have found something which makes my life complete. You are free not to agree, and I see that many of you do not, I am not trying to fight you as I said before. I knew when I came to this site that there would be much opposition, as my friend who does the online ministry told me, but that will not stop my willingness to share with you and hopefully show some of you that there might be another way of thinking in this world, other than atheist and false gods.
I will prove something to you so that you will not think of me as someone just mouthing off thoughtlessly about Christ the Lord. This Sunday I will ask my preacher about some of the questions you have mentioned; for instance, global warming being part of God’s plan (or not), proof that the Bible is God’s true word, and instances of the Bible condemning gays, women, etc. in certain verses. I will ask him these things. If I do so, will you give me a chance as someone who is serious in his faith and wants to share it with those who might be searching or unsure of their own beliefs?
In Christ,
Shawn
Sorry, who is BLR? I must have joined the group too late!
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Has anyone seen Thumper lately, by the way?
Yeah!
The guys over there really have soooo much patience (incl. you DPG :) The blogs over xmas (McIntosh & TSLOT) were enough for me!! I don’t really have the patience to get back on his roundabout. Maybe…. :))
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“Oehoe, wabbit, I won’t huwt you, pwomise!
Maybe if you hide that pot you have behind your back a bit better? Even put it back in the cupboard for a little while? Erm…hide those prepared vegies as well? ..especially those large peeled carrots…..
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Hi Wench Beth
“who is BLR? I must have joined the group too late!”
Check out the links above and you’ll quickly get the idea :)
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“Has anyone seen Thumper lately, by the way?”
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Not recently! Not even anything that vaguely sounds like him :(
“If I do so, will you give me a chance as someone who is serious in his faith and wants to share it with those who might be searching or unsure of their own beliefs?
In Christ, Shawn”
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Not sure if you’ll find too many like that here Shawn. Many polite posters looking for conversions have been to CoFSM before you, to no avail, but mostly in the past, polite xtian posters have been read by some. Wouldn’t hold my breath on converting anyone though.
Aerial ping pong indeed! It’s so much more. It’s got violence too (admittedly not as much as the rugby codes, but some of the hawthon/essendon/collingwood/carlton matches are pretty damn close).
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As for the old Brisbane Lions, well bout 3 years ago they were reigning premiers for 4 consecutive grand finals, but they’ve kinda died in the arse since then. After them it was sydney, and then west coast which the bombers both beat a couple of weeks back :D.
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As for thumps, didn’t he post his email addy on here some time?
Shawn, just to echo what the wise wench has said, conversion doesn’t really work on this site, unless beer (& stippers, maybe some rum) is involved.
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The reason being, most of us are ex-christian, have been exposed to christianity for a long time, or at the least approached this belief system through a rational process (I say most; the aforementioned beer etc draws a lot of potential pirates like large drunken flies to honey).
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So, by all means present your argument for the bible, I just don’t think you will have much luck in a demographic that has heard it all before.
Shawn
“This Sunday I will ask my preacher about some of the questions you have mentioned; for instance, global warming being part of God’s plan (or not), proof that the Bible is God’s true word, and instances of the Bible condemning gays, women, etc. in certain verses.”
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Now here’s where one of my problems lies with those who come preaching and looking for conversions.
The parroting of someone else’s interpretation of an old text which has been continually edited for the past 1800 years or so! No critical thinking required? Is it any wonder that the xtian God worshippers are referred to as “sheep” or “the flock”?
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Shawn I’m also wondering if you may have some idea how much of a hearing, those at your congregation, (or even better… an online access point for your particular brand of faith?), would give to any Pastafarians if they were to visit and argue the validity of “The Gospel of the FSM” Any thoughts on what the reception might be like?
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Jingles Jun 26th, 2007 at 12:23 am
“Aerial ping pong indeed! It’s so much more.”
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I played the game a few times when I lived in Melbourne!! Gurrh! Had absolutely no idea of what was going on the whole time! This was after months of trying to see some rhyme or reason to games I had watched prior! (was forced to as no one would let me change channel or the subject. :((
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Didn’t see Thumper’s posted addy. His visits are rather sporadic these days. Think it’s that getting married thing…under the thumb now :p))
Could be school holidays have started here as well. (I think anyway….not sure)
Jingles
Aww thanks :))
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“I just don’t think you will have much luck in a demographic that has heard it all before.”
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RAmen
@realmenlovechrist
“but that will not stop my willingness to share with you and hopefully show some of you that there might be another way of thinking in this world, other than atheist and false gods.”
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And what exactly makes your god any less false than ours or those of Hindus, Shintoists? Before you answer like ‘I’ve read it in the Bible, so it must be true.’ please remember that such logic can be turned against you with equal validity. Believer of religion X or Y could say he/she read in their scripture that it is they who are right and that it also explains to them how believers of other religions can be conned into false faiths, like your christianity. Believers of all faiths think they’re the only ones who’ve got it right. So what makes you think that in your case it is actually so?
And more genrally, without looking at your specific flavour of fairy tale to live by, would you agree that with the enormous variety in irreconcileable differences between religions that at the very least most of them must at utter bunk?
Shawn, go for it. Let us know what he/she says and if you do/do not accept the answers given and why.
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The Bible is much more complicated than the casual reader will ever know. I’m convinced that a novice cannot understand it because it requires knowing the context and local customs and tradiiions in effect in Biblical times. You do need to consult experts, but rarely are preachers qualified to do much more than deliver the message the head office has prepared. I had a friend who went off to study to become a Methodist minister but left after a few months because he wasn’t being taught anything, just being indoctrinated.
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I’m glad you found a religion that “works” for you, but that’s very different from finding a religion that is true. I have a friend who is a happy tree druid. She knows it is not true, its just a trip she is on for now, mostly just to acquire a different point of view on things. She’ll be back soon. I have a 6 year old nephew whose best friend is his stuffed animal Felix and who also looks forward to Christmas because if he is good Santa will bring him presents. He’ll grow up soon enough. Get my point?
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Comforting stories and moral guidance from a made up invisible guy are OK for kids, but grown ups tend to look squarely at the world and deal with it as it really is. For instance, the six day creation story, great for kids and primitive societies, but obviously silly if you bother to just look out the window of an airliner and taking the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, the glaciers of Greenland, the Mississippi delta, etc. Or look at an ordinary globe and notice how the continents can be fit together.
@Mike Meier
“I’m glad you found a religion that “works” for you, but that’s very different from finding a religion that is true.”
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How very true. George Bernard Shaw said it well: ‘The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one’