The Swamp

Well if that doesn't call for "RUB IT OUT FOR JESUS" shirts, I don't know what does.

Jerloma wrote:Oh my God. Don't these people have people?

Sure, but their people are clueless church-obsessed Fundies too.

ugh..

In one of the strangest cases of purported religious beliefs intersecting with athletic performance, a Kentucky junior cross country runner voluntarily walked away from a chance to qualify for the state meet to avoid running with the bib number "666", which she said conflicted with her Christian beliefs.

It seems to me that if you believed so fervently in the devil and hell that you'd drop out of a fucking athletic competition because you refused to wear some arbitrarily chosen number, you shouldn't be running cross country in the first place. There are souls out there that need saving. You should be running around frantically trying to stop all of this needless torture if you're so morally awesome that you can't wear a fucking number.

(I'm aware that she's 16 and has probably been raised in a culture of fear but this is what happens when we promote ignorance)

I really wanted to argue that the race officials should have just given the girl a new number, but this quote really bugged me:

I didn't want to risk my relationship with God and try to take that number

Why do the people who believe in Him most think He's such a massive prick?

You would have been wrong anyway. Society has absolutely no obligation whatsoever to accommodate people's absurd beliefs. Every time this happens we take a step backwards.

rass wrote:Why do the people who believe in Him most think He's such a massive prick?

They've read the Old Testament?

Jerloma wrote:You would have been wrong anyway. Society has absolutely no obligation whatsoever to accommodate people's absurd beliefs. Every time this happens we take a step backwards.

I completely understand what you're talking about big picture and why you want to take a hard line against these sort of accommodations in general, but had one of the officials allowed this switch with no one but the official, coach and perhaps the runner ever knowing about it, it would not have in any way affected society.

Just to tie a big dumb bow on this, the race officials are now trying to save face by claiming they would have let her swap had they known that the person objecting to bib # 666 was doing so on religious grounds.

howard wrote:

rass wrote:Why do the people who believe in Him most think He's such a massive prick?

They've read the Old Testament?

And stopped there?

Actually, the New Testament is the one where the deity can't stop talking about what he's going to do to you after you die. Yahweh would just kill you for really weird insecure reasons and then be done with you.

rass wrote:Just to tie a big dumb bow on this, the race officials are now trying to save face by claiming they would have let her swap had they known that the person objecting to bib # 666 was doing so on religious grounds.

Remember that born-again that got a 666 licence plate a few years ago and couldn't get rid of it? I can't find the news item but it is similar to this story. The DMV wouldn't let him change.

In BC, the licence plates are structured with three numbers and three letters. In that order. But none of the number combinations are restricted; you see 666 from time to time. Some of the letter combinations are restricted, mind you, like ASS, FAG, TIT, SEX, and so on. Yet you still see some interesting ones. My neighbor has GWM. He doesn't seem to mind.

howard wrote:

rass wrote:Why do the people who believe in Him most think He's such a massive prick?

They've read the Old Testament?

This cracked me up.

I think the race officials should have just taken a pen and drawn a "1" in between 2 of the 6s. However ridiculous her superstitions may seem, there is no reason to be so rigid and make a HS kid miss such an important race. The flip side of J-Lo's argument, society just gave the Oppressed Christians some ammo in their war to freely admit to their membership in the 80% majority of the population of a free society. Then again, caving to her superstition, would the officials then have to change bibs for a kid who is superstitious about the number 13 or 428?

The Sybian wrote:Then again, caving to her superstition, would the officials then have to change bibs for a kid who is superstitious about the number 13 or 428?

Or a series of 4's to an Asian kid? Or 420 to an anti-weed type? And 1, of course, because 1 is the loneliest number.

Why haven't any of these weirdos ever flipped out over the fact that our numbering system is Arabic to begin with? 666 is like a double whammy!

Sorry, but bending to anyone's ridiculous superstitions helps to breed an environment that places no value on critical thinking when in fact critical thinking has been the fuel of all progress. There's nothing innocuous about not having 13th floors in buildings and or invoking deities to cast a magic spell on specific sporting events. It's fine to hold those types of beliefs but when society caters to them, we all lose. Cling all you want to this archaic bullshit that was dreamed up hundreds of years before science came along to test your silly conclusions but for fuck's sake, it's the year 2013 and a lot of us would like to move the fuck on.

Jerloma wrote: . . . it's the year 2013 and a lot of us would like to move the fuck on.

According to the Christian calendar, yeah. Shoulda skipped 2013 and went straight to 2014.

I saw an interview with the cross country runner last weekend and the judge said she never mentioned religion and her coach came off as a complete loon. The judge that denied the number change said she didn't mention religion and made the request as he was trying to start another race. He told her if she had any more questions to come back to him after that race and neither she or the coach approached him again. Just another case where a Christian claims persecution for nothing

Why are there numbers for track athletes?

Anyone remember what number Usain Bolt wore in 2008 or 2012? He was running too fast anyways!

degenerasian wrote:Anyone remember what number Usain Bolt wore in 2008 or 2012? He was running too fast anyways!

Yes, his number was 1000.

Scottie wrote:

degenerasian wrote:Anyone remember what number Usain Bolt wore in 2008 or 2012? He was running too fast anyways!

Yes, his number was 1000.

Wilt Chamberlain's number was 20,000

NY Magazine got a hold of the audiobook for Sarah Palin's new War on Christmas book and made this clever soundboard on a Christmas tree.



Go ahead. I defy you to get through that whole thing without choking a kitten.

I hate you for making me remember that she exists. I do love this gem, though:


"Many on the left see faith and family as oppressive, but the right sees them as indispensable." Yeah, the right see it as indispensable because if they didn't manipulate sheep to vote against their own interests they would cease to exist.

A Texas High School for some reason hired a Christian motivational speaker to give a presentation at the school on how to become "dateable."

Here's some of his advice...

Girls:

“You are soft, you are gentle, you are a woman. Don’t try to be a guy. Guys like you because you are different from them. So let your girly-ness soar.”

“Dateable girls know how to shut up. They don’t monopolize the conversation.”

“God made guys as leaders. Dateable girls get that and let him do guy things, get a door, open a ketchup bottle. They relax and let guys be guys. Which means they don’t ask him out!!!“

Guys:

“Dateable guys know they aren’t as sensitive as girls and that’s okay… Dateable guys are real men who aren’t afraid to be guys.”

“Dateable guys aren’t tamed. They don’t live by the rules of the opposite sex.”

“Dateable guys know that porn is bad for the spirit and the mind. They keep women covered up.”

Jerloma wrote:“Dateable guys know that porn is bad for the spirit and the mind. They keep women covered up.”

Ah! The Taliban had it right!

Nice photo. Surely it accompanies the definition of "douchenozzle" in modern pictionaries?

ETA: Is there anything more pathetic than a 40 or 50 year old trying to look like a hip teenager? No. Lookadoo has taken pains to hide his age. It's not available in any bio I just checked; a minimal effort, that is. Best I found was that he has been a motivational speaker for at least 24 years. Even if he started that at the tender age of 20, he's still at least mid-40s. AND on top of that "Justin was a Juvenile Probation Officer. He spent nearly six years as a Crime Prevention Specialist."

God didn't make that hair.


I saw this earlier in the week. Somewhat relevant.

It is Christ who empowers every act of goodwill toward men in our otherwise fallen hearts.

Sadly, there are no Chick-fil-A restaurants in Alaska.

Amen Sarah, Amen.

Scottie wrote:

Jerloma wrote:“Dateable guys know that porn is bad for the spirit and the mind. They keep women covered up.”

Ah! The Taliban had it right!

Nice photo. Surely it accompanies the definition of "douchenozzle" in modern pictionaries?

ETA: Is there anything more pathetic than a 40 or 50 year old trying to look like a hip teenager? No. Lookadoo has taken pains to hide his age. It's not available in any bio I just checked; a minimal effort, that is. Best I found was that he has been a motivational speaker for at least 24 years. Even if he started that at the tender age of 20, he's still at least mid-40s. AND on top of that "Justin was a Juvenile Probation Officer. He spent nearly six years as a Crime Prevention Specialist."

Exactly. Imagine if a Muslim was in a Texas public school saying that women need to cover up because it is Allah's will. Gunplay would surely be involved. Love the tweets the article posted, all with the hashtag Lookadouche. Perfect. And the guy looks like a mix between Guy Fieri and Pinhead from Hellraiser. Two men women find infinitely dateable.

The Sybian wrote:Exactly. Imagine if a Muslim was in a Texas public school saying that women need to cover up because it is Allah's will. Gunplay would surely be involved. Love the tweets the article posted, all with the hashtag Lookadouche. Perfect. And the guy looks like a mix between Guy Fieri and Pinhead from Hellraiser. Two men women find infinitely dateable.

Pin Diesel

rass wrote:

The Sybian wrote:Exactly. Imagine if a Muslim was in a Texas public school saying that women need to cover up because it is Allah's will. Gunplay would surely be involved. Love the tweets the article posted, all with the hashtag Lookadouche. Perfect. And the guy looks like a mix between Guy Fieri and Pinhead from Hellraiser. Two men women find infinitely dateable.

Pin Diesel

I thought he was Donnie Wahlberg wearing a Guy Fieri hairpiece.

If it wasn't already a hashtag, which one of us was taking the low-hanging fruit on "more like Lookadouche"? Probably Rass.

Dateable guys know not to compensate for male pattern baldness by sticking cigarette butts to their scalp.

DSafetyGuy wrote: I thought he was Donnie Wahlberg wearing a Guy Fieri hairpiece.

Or maybe Jamie Oliver's older Down's Syndrome brother.

The Sybian wrote:Or maybe Jamie Oliver's older Down's Syndrome brother.

Winner. That's the one. Oliver Fieri. Except retardeder. Bingo. Well struck.

On the question of what constitutes "dateable", the subject itself audaciously vulgar enough for a burnout adult to be explaining to young adults in his own irrational way with a little help from his fairytale buddy "Say Hey Zeus" Luke Skydude II (admin@NOSPAM.heaven.org), if you had a daughter of dating age and she brought that particularly creepy freakshow home then you would put the run on him straight away, right?

Speaking of misogyny, here's a terrifyingly strange video produced by people who have apparently never taken a Philosophy course in their lives. Atheist professor walks in class and starts bagging on Christians whereupon all of the females, but only the females have to walk out of the class and then leave the guys to defend the creator of everything. The rest is filled with compelling arguments such as this...

You all do realize that it actually takes more faith to not believe in God than it does to believe in God?

How so?

Well, who created the stars?

[Shrug]

Now, you see, wouldn’t it just be easier to say ‘God’?

Jerloma wrote:Speaking of misogyny, here's a terrifyingly strange video produced by people who have apparently never taken a Philosophy course in their lives. Atheist professor walks in class and starts bagging on Christians whereupon all of the females, but only the females have to walk out of the class and then leave the guys to defend the creator of everything. The rest is filled with compelling arguments such as this...

You all do realize that it actually takes more faith to not believe in God than it does to believe in God?

How so?

Well, who created the stars?

[Shrug]

Now, you see, wouldn’t it just be easier to say ‘God’?

Sweet jeebus that was some bad acting in what portion of that I could get through.

BSF21 wrote:Sweet jeebus that was some bad acting in what portion of that I could get through.

It is right on par with the camera work! (And every other aspect)

I made it to 4:07.