Posts that don't deserve threads, Volume I.

[Kate]

Ha haaaaaa!

[Kinich Ahau]

Hilarious! Needs a caption.

[Smellyoldgit]

Looks 'armless enough to me!

[dogpet]

[Michael]

Irreligious wrote

I never understood how anyone could see this as a logical progression since dogs cannot consent to marry.

I know we're being facetious here, but I'm just saying.

But children can! Are you condoning paedophilia, sir?

I am outraged!!



But not really. Children can't do shit. Though I imagine this is the argument someone would make.

[Sternwallow]

Given the prevalence of arranged marriages, I doubt there is very much "consent" from either the bride or groom in the scenarios we have been discussing. My dog would have made a lovely bride. though excavated for the wrong size to have been practical.

[merkin]

I was visited by a faith healer yesterday. He was from Guatemala and most of his prayers and other exaltations were in Spanish. I haven't spoken much Spanish in a while but I gathered he was asking his god to ignore my atheism, certain that I would see the light and the scales would fall from my eyes. The last must be metaphorical. I see fine. It is my nervous system that is screwed up.

[merkin]

I am a project for a number of my neighbors who walk with me (I in my wheelchair) and my dog when the weather is nice. Otherwise I have relative little human contact, so I very much appreciate them.

They all belong to one of the large mega churches here in Atlanta. You know, a church that broadcasts its services. One of them is a beautiful woman from Mexico. Like all of them she is stunned that I am an atheist and that I have this terrible disease. More precisely, she is stunned that I have this disease and haven't found Jesus as a result.

She has decided to have as many people as possible pray for me to get well. When she read that this faith healer was in town she arranged to met him. When she told him about me he invited himself over to save me.

He is a medical doctor and a board certified neurologist. He better than anyone understands what I am facing. I was more than a little disappointed that a man of such intelligence would be so heavily into the hoccum about Jesus etc. I had always found doctors to be to a person atheistic. My son who is a MD pretty much confirmed the same.

Worse, this guy is an active recruiter for Jesus, and spreads the bs that Jesus saves. We are doomed.

[merkin]

I will report back if I am suddenly able to walk and talk and breath on my own again. I am not holding my breath. </sarcasm gimp joke>

[Smellyoldgit]

Wow, you poor sod. Looks like you've found a rogue MD that crawled under the razor wire - can you get up enough speed to escape the idiot?

[merkin]

Smellyoldgit wrote

Wow, you poor sod. Looks like you've found a rogue MD that crawled under the razor wire - can you get up enough speed to escape the idiot?

I wasn't in my wheelchair, in which case I am immobile. Besides it is a narrow line I walk with these women, I want them to keep me company, I just want them to buzz off on Jesus with me.

[merkin]

God help me* if they learn that I have never been religious. Then they are certain that the problem is just that I haven't heard the word. That I am the product of bad parenting.

* only a figure of speech.

[Irreligious]

I suspect this is why so many people just play along with them. Patronize them and they just might stop trying to make your life a living a hell.

I'm not advising that you do this, mind you, but it's an option some people choose in the face of these people being, otherwise, incapable of seeing how aggressive and annoying they are.

[Eva]

well, it sucks and all but, makes me wonder. well, ok, it does not. because the only logical thing this freaks can conclude is that god is punishing you for your disbelief. that you somehow had it coming (no matter that christians get this disease too, and worse ones also).
because, i bet you have told them, god gave you this so who are they to ask him to cure you of it?

[merkin]

I really love my Mexican friend, she has done so much for me, she takes me to the pool at the YMCA, the only place I can walk. For this I cut her a lot of slack. She is trying to help in anyway she can. I can't complain about that.

This is a terrible disease, people react differently to the news that I have it. It is no surprise that Christians fail back on their faith to handle it.

I brought this up more because of the doctor than anything else. Although now that I think about it prayer is just about as effective as anything a doctor can do. Although there is a glimmer of hope.