February 2009
12 posts
cymbals of faith
i like your christ. i do not like your christians, they are so unlike your christ. ~ghandi those who follow the ways of christ, are to be marked by a joyful, peaceful faith. yet, often the christians who continually profess the loudest to have faith in christ, are often the ones marked by anxiety that manifests in religious rants and fear. we are told that perfect love drives out fear- yet many...
Models have to be under 5’7” for America's Next... →
ernie:
Mark my words, ANTM 15 will be the all-tranny season. You heard it here first.
make me an instrument of your peace...
during mass with my family this sunday, the prayer of st. francis was sung after the priest spoke on meditation and lent. the words “to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.”, spoke right at my heart and burned there. god is not impressed with my sacrifice, but only ask that i love him, and in doing so, love others. christ compels me by his love for me and his mercy...
ron and amy discuss bringing the cat to board at...
amy: can you bring the cat for me?
ron: idk… maybe.
amy: let me know by lunch if you can.
ron: i may be able to pull the cat off.
{pause}
ron: wait, let me rephase that.
a note from me, to ronson's friend justin.
justin, i respectfully ask you to refrain from posting such controversial videos to my husbands myspace page. it is a well-known fact that his 12 year battle with dog porn is far from over. in his name, ames
the real me.
take this for what its worth…
(foreword: lately i’ve been dealing with different people in my life finding fault or offence with things i’ve said or done. this is my way of dealing with that. be forewarned, i do not intend to live my life apologetically, nor do i intend to be accommodating to those i don’t feel the need… both online, and not.)
there are nearly 7...
xaviar's school for prehistoric creatures (aka,...
kelly: titanium dinosaurs would be a huge mistake.
me: but a pterodactyl with platinum propellers would be the shiz.
kelly: but how would you kill them? dinosaurs should always be made of meat. just in case.
me: oh the propellers would be a total add-on. something like wolverine-ish. after market upgrades for dinosaurs.
kelly: xaviar's school for prehistoric creatures.
me: i'm just interested in meeting the needs of your average dinosaur.
me: yo, i heard you like platinum propellers on your pterodactyl so we put platinum propellers up in yo pterodactyl with a popcorn maker. cause who don't like cracker jack, yo? :-/ i don't think i'm really good at this.
me: dinosaurs should always be made of meat. that's the defining statement of our times.
kelly: it is.
me: i can't believe it even needed to be said. should be a given.
kelly: yep. it's just that the idea of cyborg dinosaurs sound so cool at first. but when you think about it, it's disastrous.
me: well if the aptness of human cyborgs to die so friggin' easily is any indication... dinosaur cyborgs should be pretty much...hmmm good point. i don't think we should be equipping dinosaurs with anything aftermarket. the implications are astounding, but it just never ends well.
kelly: i think that's the point: "it never ends well"
me: i'm glad we've had this talk.
kelly: it's one of the most important robotic bioethics conversations humans can ponder. assuming our abilities ever catch up. Never arm the dinosaurs! it's like the fourth rule of robots.
me: it reads like the jurassic park that never got made.
kelly: i was watching jurassic park this afternoon. that's what prompted the brain wave. i just started thinking about how awful it would be, if they can't even kill the stupid meat t-rex. i mean, that's what you keep rocket launchers around for. what would happen if even rocket launchers weren't effective?
me: or course- propellers aren't really weapons, so perphaps XZIBIT i still have a chance.
and really now- i think advancements in dinosaur technology should really be explored in helping those disadvantaged first.
kelly: but pterodactyls already have awesome bat wings! they could storm cities if they had propellers. that would be bad!
me: what on earth would they use to 'storm' cities? phleghm? (did i spell that right? idk.)
kelly: their monstrous beaks! their terrible claws! and yes, their poisonous phleghm!
me: well now you're just talking crazy.
kelly: didn't you know? they're like flying gila monsters!
me: so what you're saying is that i spelled 'phleghm' right?
kelly: yes. *sigh* i feel like the professor guy from jurassic park.
me: the hot one?
kelly: yeah. when the armed dinosaurs start rampaging, don't say i didn't warn you.
me: you do know that i think that jeff goldblum is the hot one? if we can't agree on this i don't think this conversation can go anywhere else.
kelly: yeah.
me: dammit. only one 'h' in phlegm.
kelly: whatever. it's scarier with two.
amy: also- for the record- pterodactyls could storm cities w/out propellers. if god gave them poisonous phelgm, who are we to stand in the way.
kelly: well, exactly. i mean, t-rex's can rampage without titanium skin. i think they have enough natural advantages.
me: actually NOT standing in the way would be a good idea.
pat robertson vs. thomas jefferson
pat robertson:
“Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
“Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together”
“I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare...
good thing we reinterpreted things...
Frederick Douglass: “The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…. For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to...