07-07-2008, 11:59 AM
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#391
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Still Kate's Bitch...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bristol, UK
Posts: 2,722
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psychodiva wrote
there are Wombles in Milton Keynes? I thought they only lived in Wimbledon?
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Milton Keynes has concrete cows, not wombles.
One man's strawman is another man's asshole.
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07-07-2008, 01:34 PM
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#392
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Obsessed Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Mongrel Nation
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Waddlie wrote
Milton Keynes has concrete cows, not wombles.
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Not a footie fan then Waddlie? ref: MK Dons.
thank goodness he's on our side
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07-07-2008, 01:44 PM
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#393
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Still Kate's Bitch...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bristol, UK
Posts: 2,722
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Gah, good point...
One man's strawman is another man's asshole.
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07-10-2008, 08:24 AM
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#394
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Riddler wrote
Correction, too late to edit:
Penultimate paragraph should be:
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As I was saying, we were talking about humans as the only beings created in God's image. Many animals who reproduce sexually are not monogamous. Some organisms are asexual, some lay eggs, some become larvae, etc.
The entire concept of marriage, sexual fidelity, and procreation among mankind is intended to illustrate God's relational and creative attributes in human relationship as well as God's relationship with mankind.
The animal kingdom illustrates God's power and glory in creation of the diversity of life.
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07-10-2008, 08:33 AM
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#395
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Barney wrote
Perhaps your right. In order to truely comprehand the bible properly and make sense of things like
1"Kill the abomination"
2"Slaughter the firstborn"
3"Leave not a stone upon a stone"
4"Take their women as wives"
5"Made the earth in 6 days"
first I need to smash myself around the head with a large plank, drink 4 liters of Frosty Jack Battery acid cider, inject neat LSD into my arteries and sit in a snoozlum room for 15 weeks listening to Barney and Freinds on a loop.
Then I might understand the Scripture to mean:
1"Those who dont heed gods word are distant from him and he is sad about it"
2"Gods love is equal to his mercy and the firstborn who died are examples of what happens when satan enters the heart"
3"The ones who resisted Gods people had rejected his word and so the gentle dismanteling of their citys stones was a only symbolic of the end of their heresy and their acceptance of Yahwes love"
4"The women of the time had terrible rights until Gods law gave them protection, "Taking a slave as a wife was rescuing her from poverty"
5 "six Days simply means six phases which science has since labled, yet this was written long before science discovered it! Miraculous eh?"
Yeah, the worrying thing is I know enough about your mindset to come out with this shit without drugs.
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Yes, you've brilliantly demonstrated what a lack of comprehension looks like in the wild. You've also illustrated the importance to misstate, rewrite, and rip from context while applying a liberal coating of critical sarcastic contempt....it plays well to your peer group.
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07-10-2008, 08:54 AM
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#396
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I Live Here
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 9,613
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Missionary wrote
As I was saying, we were talking about humans as the only beings created in God's image. Many animals who reproduce sexually are not monogamous. Some organisms are asexual, some lay eggs, some become larvae, etc.
The entire concept of marriage, sexual fidelity, and procreation among mankind is intended to illustrate God's relational and creative attributes in human relationship as well as God's relationship with mankind.
The animal kingdom illustrates God's power and glory in creation of the diversity of life.
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I don't think I look like this god? was I really created in its image?
“'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." Fry
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07-10-2008, 08:54 AM
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#397
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I Live Here
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 9,613
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Missionary wrote
Yes, you've brilliantly demonstrated what a lack of comprehension looks like in the wild. You've also illustrated the importance to misstate, rewrite, and rip from context while applying a liberal coating of critical sarcastic contempt....it plays well to your peer group.
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finest kind
“'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." Fry
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07-10-2008, 01:33 PM
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#398
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: This Jewel sat in a silver sea; England, my England
Posts: 715
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Missionary wrote
Yes, you've brilliantly demonstrated what a lack of comprehension looks like in the wild. You've also illustrated the importance to misstate, rewrite, and rip from context while applying a liberal coating of critical sarcastic contempt....it plays well to your peer group.
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Of course. I would need salivation in my <3 to fully open my mind to the true meaning of gods inspired word. And I havnt got that. To recreate it I would need alcohol, drugs and brain damage.
I'm not willing to tamper with the last two, and so I wont be able to read the holy words as they are meant to be read.
They simply read to me,as everyone has read them for millenia,I.E Kill people, slaughter animals , treat women as scum and be the biggest bigot you can be.
You may interprete the bloodspraying and daubing of the sacrifices Jesus demanded as "only written for the jews" and "No gain comes without sacrifice" or whatever impossible hoops you like to leap through to put a gloss on a cankerous rotting corpse, but the true belivers of yesteryear, and indeed those thousands of preists this week who jumped ship in the face of homophillia or the girl who won her court case today allowing her to be a bigot and keep her job because she was a christian? They all know what Gods word is too.
Because they take slightly different spiritual drugs.
"If you can wait 2000 years for Mr Christ, I can wait 19 years for John Frum" High Preist :- Church of John Frum 1952
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07-10-2008, 01:34 PM
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#399
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The North Coast
Posts: 15,428
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Barney wrote
Of course. I would need salivation in my <3 to fully open my mind to the true meaning of gods inspired word. And I havnt got that.
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Here ya go!
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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07-10-2008, 10:54 PM
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Guest
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Missionary wrote
As I was saying, we were talking about humans as the only beings created in God's image. Many animals who reproduce sexually are not monogamous. Some organisms are asexual, some lay eggs, some become larvae, etc.
The entire concept of marriage, sexual fidelity, and procreation among mankind is intended to illustrate God's relational and creative attributes in human relationship as well as God's relationship with mankind.
The animal kingdom illustrates God's power and glory in creation of the diversity of life.
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During biblical times the man bought the wife from the woman's family.
Marriage was most likely first performed by the Egyptians. The royalty wanted to keep blue blood blue so fathers married daughters and brothers married sisters.
That is the traditional biblical marriage.
And then the Jesus myth complete with God screwing a married woman. Oh yes, fidelity at its finest.
The reality is that man is not monogamous, though most (including me) choose to be monogamous. Our ancestors used to mate, and then the father would provide for the woman and the baby until the baby could stand, and then the father took a hike looking to spread his seed.
In fact, most of the time, the woman fooled around on the man even during courting, as she went after the fittest looking males, while hooking up with the best providers.
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07-10-2008, 11:17 PM
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07-11-2008, 04:29 AM
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#402
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I Live Here
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 9,613
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lol- can't see anyone wanting to reproduce with that one
“'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." Fry
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07-12-2008, 08:59 AM
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#403
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A caricature
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: England
Posts: 693
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Missionary wrote
As I was saying, we were talking about humans as the only beings created in God's image. Many animals who reproduce sexually are not monogamous. Some organisms are asexual, some lay eggs, some become larvae, etc.
The entire concept of marriage, sexual fidelity, and procreation among mankind is intended to illustrate God's relational and creative attributes in human relationship as well as God's relationship with mankind.
The animal kingdom illustrates God's power and glory in creation of the diversity of life.
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I'm reading The Ancestor's Tale at the moment, and The Seal's Tale* reminded me of this thread. Specifically it discusses the extreme sexual dimorphism in Elephant Seals and how it relates to the species polygyny. It seems that sexual dimorphism is a good indicator of the breeding system a species uses, for a further example it describes the much greater sexual dimorphism of gorillas (much larger male and polygynous) to gibbons (sexes are approximately equal in size and monogamous).
Human beings are slightly dimorphic, obviously. Not as much as gorillas but more than gibbons. Which suggests that the natural breeding system of early humans (before civilisation and culture became the important factors) was probably a somewhere between the polygyny of gorillas and the monogamy of gibbons.
That doesn't seem to fit with your belief highlighted above. If God wanted us to be monogamous, why are humans sexually dimorphic?
*(p171-177 of The Ancestor's Tale (hardback) by Richard Dawkins if anyone is interested)
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day" - Douglas Adams
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07-12-2008, 09:41 AM
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#404
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baconeatingatheistjew wrote
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grrrr don't you hate timestretching audio ?
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07-12-2008, 06:34 PM
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#405
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Obsessed Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: inside a hill
Posts: 2,910
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Quote:
Single Serving Jack wrote
I'm reading The Ancestor's Tale at the moment, and The Seal's Tale* reminded me of this thread. Specifically it discusses the extreme sexual dimorphism in Elephant Seals and how it relates to the species polygyny. It seems that sexual dimorphism is a good indicator of the breeding system a species uses, for a further example it describes the much greater sexual dimorphism of gorillas (much larger male and polygynous) to gibbons (sexes are approximately equal in size and monogamous).
Human beings are slightly dimorphic, obviously. Not as much as gorillas but more than gibbons. Which suggests that the natural breeding system of early humans (before civilisation and culture became the important factors) was probably a somewhere between the polygyny of gorillas and the monogamy of gibbons.
That doesn't seem to fit with your belief highlighted above. If God wanted us to be monogamous, why are humans sexually dimorphic?
*(p171-177 of The Ancestor's Tale (hardback) by Richard Dawkins if anyone is interested)
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Unfortunately, you're bringing up science. And if there is one thing Mish hates, it's actualy science.
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