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I can almost imagine a Kafkaesque story in which someone like Arowhena wakes up one morning feeling a little strange. They totter into the bathroom, take care of business, and start brushing their teeth. Still emerging from slumberland they haven’t yet thought of God or Jesus or Mary Then they glance in the mirror. A horrible shock! What do they see?
Ideas:
1. A nun?
2. A priest?
3. Jesus?
4. A pig?
5. Judas?
6. A demon with sharp teeth?
7. Nothing? (move, wink, wave - still nothing)
8. Winnie the Pooh?
9. Mother Teresa?
10. Father X, recently pardoned by the Pope for you know what
11.
Help me with this. I feel that if I got started on the right footing the muse would take over. King Kong and a box of chocolates are out. Keep it within scale.
I can almost imagine a Kafkaesque story in which someone like Arowhena wakes up one morning feeling a little strange. They totter into the bathroom, take care of business, and start brushing their teeth. Still emerging from slumberland they haven’t yet thought of God or Jesus or Mary Then they glance in the mirror. A horrible shock! What do they see?
11. A tedious, lonely fuckwit screaming for attention.
I can almost imagine a Kafkaesque story in which someone like Arowhena wakes up one morning feeling a little strange. They totter into the bathroom, take care of business, and start brushing their teeth. Still emerging from slumberland they haven’t yet thought of God or Jesus or Mary Then they glance in the mirror. A horrible shock! What do they see?
11. A tedious, lonely fuckwit screaming for attention.
OK. I can feel the plot stirring. Whoever is in the mirror is going to have a series of adventures bringing them, in each case, into direct contact with God’s love. You know, along the order of Jesus’ experience. I mean, the closer you are to God’s love the more hair-raising the demonstration of love. Like, if there’s a cute piggy in the mirror, she puts ribbons on her ears and steps out into the morning sunshine to greet the world in this new four-footed persona. There’s a ramp on her front doorstep, and trotting down this ramp she finds herself in a lorry crammed with oinking, squealing comrades. After a grueling, interminable ride in the sweltering, suffocating truck, with everyone defacating on everyone else, her ribbons and ears in tatters, she peeks through a crack and sees that they are passing a big sign: HORMEL INC.
Phew! Just as the hammer falls on the comrade in front of her, and an electric prod jolts her forward, she wakes up. It’s already the next morning. This day she grazes peacefully on the front lawn. When the day heats up she turns on the garden hose and makes a delicious mud wallow in the gladiola patch. While rolling in the cool mud, who should come along but Jesus and a lunatic. Piggy comes out of the wallow to greet Jesus, oinking happily. He looks at her distastefully and suddenly commands the demon to come out of the lunatic. The demon comes out and jumps into Piggy. In a panic she races out into the street, right into the path of an oncoming schoolbus. As the brakes howl, Piggy wakes up and it is already the next morning.
I’m in favor of a free for all. Let natural selection take the wheel on the forum (within reason): as the authors of those types of comments first see their arguments ripped apart by logic, they will then begin to see the futility in reproducing the same arguments elsewhere. And, if the authors do continue to post here, others will begin to recognize them for their ‘preaching’ and ignore them. Eventually, their activity here will die out.
Frankly, I like to see a little antagonism on here. Keeps us on our toes.
You Sir, are absolutely correct! Excellent post!
I’ve been looking for that debate but have not yet found it. Logic is my weapon of choice too. But, so far the best I’ve had from Aaron and his BFF’s is a “he said – she said” contest.
Where are the brains of this operation? Where is the debate? As you can tell, Aaron’s idea of debate is to shuffle me off into a corner somewhere where no one can see me. Does he not realize that people enjoy these web-forums much more when opposing ideas clash? People love train-wrecks! Where is my doppelganger? Let’s get this train on the tracks and get it moving!.
My ulterior motive, of course, is that my logic will trump your logic, and the atheist robots who champion a Godless universe will flock to the nearest Church for a good ol’ fashioned “baptizing.”
Are you my doppelganger?
If you were worth debating, you’d have found it.
For reference, refer to the point you are quoting.
I love it when you go narrativey, but with this Kafkaey flavor, it’s bound to be delicious.
My suggestion for your Kafkaesque plot is <drum roll please>:
# 12. The Eucharist, or the unleavened disk-shaped wafer (from pre-priest-blessing to blessing to transubstantiation)
The muse should be able to run WiLd with this one…
... according to catholic doctrine, the “Eucharist the Body and Blood of the God-man are truly, really, and substantially present for the nourishment of our souls, by reason of the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ”
Imagine the protagonist’s fear and delight at being transformed into the corpus de Christo and then melting, oh so slowly, in a 96.8 degree, moist, mass participant’s mouth. AHHhhhhhhhhh
There are lots of places to socialize with other atheists. There are lots of places where theists and atheists can debate. There are lots of places to talk about the relative merits of the new Mini Cooper. But this place is not any of those places. This forum should be limited entirely to people who wish to achieve the stated goals of the Reason Project and who convene here to facilitate so doing.
Stop portending that you bring anything to the table other then your fucked up opinion.
This is exactly the place for Atheists to talk about anything they want and to debate anyone they want. If you don’t like it go find another chat room to take over the world from.
I know what this is going to get me, but applying the methods of inquiry and reason let me ask you some questions
Davedave - 06 October 2009 10:34 AM
You’re no different than arowhena.
except GAD is an atheist
You have hijacked this forum and are currently siphoning resources from the Reason Project for your own purposes.
and what purposes are those?
I’m sorry you don’t have any friends to socialize with in real life, but your loneliness doesn’t justify you stealing from the Reason Project.
What is your evidence that GAD does not have any friends; How do you know he is lonely? and what exactly is he stealing from the reason project.
You are a parasite and the fact that the Reason Project has not decided to squash you does not alter the nature of what you are doing.
In what way is he a parasite. Why would a web site that is promoting reason do something as dramatic as “squash somebody… what do you mean by squash? and What is the nature of what you think he is doing?
That you CAN use this forum to make up for what your life lacks does not mean you SHOULD
.
What do you think his life lacks?
Davedave you are one angry person. I would not want to mess with you on a face to face basis…. but now that I meekly surfaced on this thread, I await the barrage of “expletive deleteds” that are about to come my way.
... the members of this forum are so relentlessly dedicated to the right to flood the boards with drivel ...
You’re a member so that includes you ... and when it comes to drivel, you have everyone including arowhena and any other theist or non that have ever hit these boards beat by a mile.
I’ve been here just a couple of weeks and I’m already sick of you self-important, pseudo-intellectual douchebags (You know who you are).
Okay… who are you talking about?
Jeff
Since Cyclopath knows who the self-important, psuedo-intellectual douchebags are,
and since Cyclopath knows that the self-important, psuedo-intellectual douchebags know who they are
and since JDRND doesn’t know who they are
then JDRND cannot be one of them.
I’ve been here just a couple of weeks and I’m already sick of you self-important, pseudo-intellectual douchebags (You know who you are).
Okay… who are you talking about?
Jeff
Since Cyclopath knows who the self-important, psuedo-intellectual douchebags are,
and since Cyclopath knows that the self-important, psuedo-intellectual douchebags know who they are
and since JDRND doesn’t know who they are
then JDRND cannot be one of them.
I’m mainly referring to DaveDave, but the fact that this thread even exists, and that it’s 3 pages long, is annoying. We’re all adults here. What does it matter that there is a theist on here? Atheists are certainly the majority. Are we so antagonized by a theist that we have to ban them? If that’s the case, this may as well be a Born Again forum.
If you don’t like a theist’s post, or if you do not find it worthy of argument… ignore it. Simple. Move on.
Perhaps JDRND suspects that he may be a douchebag and merely wants confirmation from the expert… ?
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