Wedding photos you can't show your babushka

Quote: Wizard

In the end, god did the choosing.

In the end, god supposedly does the
choosing from all who were invited
into the religion. He picks those that
were zealous and kissed his butt, and
rejects the rest.

I would have to be a masochist to want
anything to do with a religion like that.
I would take Buddhism any day, there
is no god to constantly judge you,
nobody cares what you do. It's a self
improvement religion, you do the work,
you get the benefits. Or you die and
come back and try all over again.

Quote: Evenbob

In the end, god supposedly does the
choosing from all who were invited
into the religion. He picks those that
were zealous and kissed his butt, and
rejects the rest.

I would have to be a masochist to want
anything to do with a religion like that.
I would take Buddhism any day, there
is no god to constantly judge you,
nobody cares what you do. It's a self
improvement religion, you do the work,
you get the benefits. Or you die and
come back and try all over again.

Yeah, come back as a house fly.

Quote: pew

Yeah, come back as a house fly.

I think he would make out better than that. Perhaps a cat?

It's funny because America has changed and softened the pan and panentheistic religions to suit our culture. No westerner wants to come back as a house fly so it's been changed to an ever upward growth of the soul. Sort of mixed with the idea of Darwinian evolution, spiritual evolution is always moving forward. Check out the meeting of world religions in Chicago circa 1899. It created a sea change in religious attitudes and was the beginning of the Theosophy movement of the early twentieth century and the New age movement of the later twentieth century.

Quote: Evenbob

You know why I don't like you and
almost loathe you after 3.5 years
of conversation? You're constant
deriding and belittling, here and
in PM's. It's why I blocked you, so
I can't get PM's from you anymore.

You can't just disagree, you always
have to make it personal. You always
have to throw in some dig at my
intelligence or my personality. I was
wondering the other day why, after
all our conversations, we aren't
friends. That's the reason, you just
can't help being superior, it's who
you are what they taught you.

Now you'll turn it back on me
somehow, that's what you do. You
really can't stop yourself, you have
no control over it.

I literally lol-ed at the hypocrisy.

I knew this thread was too damn long to be about weddings!

My favorite description of Hell (yes I have one, doesn't everyone?) is from a protestant minister.

At first everyone in Heaven can see their loved ones in Hell and vice versa in Heaven. There is a black void between the two. No one is suffering in Hell, in the sort of way one might expect. They are just there. Eventually, in the end times God begins to widen the void between the two. The people who are Heaven are crying bitterly for their loved ones in Hell, as they are permanently lost. The people in Hell begin to suffer as they become separated from God's presence. It's like depression, sorrow, pain and intense loneliness all rolled into an infinite hole of nothingness.

The people in Heaven continue to wail for their loved ones in Hell and are actually suffering themselves. Then as the void becomes impenetrable blackness, neither side can see the other. The people in Heaven cry out for the people suffering in Hell, and that is when God "wipes away their tears" and they forget all the people in Hell forever and achieve Heaven's bliss and God's blinding loving light. And the people in Hell suffer forever.


The End.

Quote: pew

Yeah, come back as a house fly.

True story. I would go into the same Mcdonalds for coffee (cheap price) quite a bit before I started pretty much going exclusively to Starbucks. There were always some flies at this McDonalds. I found out the plastic stirrers they make are perfect for bending back, getting near the fly on the table and smacking them like a baseball across the restaurant.

Of course, if people were around I didn't do it.

Quote: rxwine

True story. I would go into the same Mcdonalds for coffee (cheap price) quite a bit before I started pretty much going exclusively to Starbucks. There were always some flies at this McDonalds. I found out the plastic stirrers they make are perfect for bending back, getting near the fly on the table and smacking them like a baseball across the restaurant.

Of course, if people were around I didn't do it.

Be careful you might be swatting your great great babushka.

Quote: rxwine

True story. I would go into the same Mcdonalds for coffee (cheap price) quite a bit before I started pretty much going exclusively to Starbucks. There were always some flies at this McDonalds. I found out the plastic stirrers they make are perfect for bending back, getting near the fly on the table and smacking them like a baseball across the restaurant.

I get a perverse pleasure out of bug zappers. The bugs are meant to get electrocuted and fall into a tray below the zapper. However, sometimes they get stuck and you can see the electricity burn them to a crisp as the sweet smell of burning bug flesh fills the air. Nothing like it.

Here in Vegas, there isn't much call for them as we have so few flying insects.

I shouldn't have been so mean to pew. We needs more of a diversity of opinions around here.

What is my penance, Padre?