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It was a snide "Gee, Odie ..." remark from Garfield here.
Don't worry ---- you're only going to hell if you got here by jumping a medical patient.
posted by
Jenasis
on October 19, 2006 at 8:16 AM
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SoloWriter - I hate to profess ignorance but I didn't understand your
comment.
....care to elaborate? ....or if it was topical humour that sailed over my head, I apologize for ruining the joke.
posted by
gomedome
on October 19, 2006 at 6:43 AM
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Oh, but indeed! According my very own British bitch, O.D. lives on 'avanew C, right here in the axis of the burning bushes. As they now say, "O Sama bin la den."
posted by
Jenasis
on October 19, 2006 at 6:34 AM
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precisely...they will come!
posted by
FranklyMydear1
on October 18, 2006 at 3:02 PM
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FranklyMydear1 - in your new invention there is a sad truth
It isn't that far fetched for some folks. After the milk drinking Hindu statues
HERE and the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich on eBay last year, there seems no end of folks that will line up for this stuff ..... and what better place to line up?
posted by
gomedome
on October 18, 2006 at 2:50 PM
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SuccessWarrior - and if you ask anyone who believes this stuff about it
What you get is just more doubletalk.
posted by
gomedome
on October 18, 2006 at 2:36 PM
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I think you should pipe down ...
posted by
FranklyMydear1
on October 18, 2006 at 2:33 PM
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I think you should
...down over there as you're not doing anything for my latest business venture: patent on a wind/moisture device that will be mounted on the north outside wall of all Tim Horton coffee shops. The testing has been complete and the device is guaranteed to produce water splash images of the Virgin Mary doing the watuis with the Devil. I have sold tickets to people from around the world (mainly Catholics) Doors open in March. So again, pipe down.
posted by
FranklyMydear1
on October 18, 2006 at 2:32 PM
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You mean, "I'm going to kill my son to appease myself,"
doesn't make sense to you?
Maybe instead of a cross, god could have used his bathtub to kill his children. No wait, that's crazy. I guess it has to be a cross.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on October 18, 2006 at 2:27 PM
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SuccessWarrior - The most ludicrous part of this fable is the underlying
question concerning to whom this sacrifice was made.
As the story is related; "God the father" sacrificed his only son; "God the son" incarnate as man, for the sins of mankind, but to whom was this sacrifice made? If ultimately God is the only one capable of forgiving our sins, then effectively this sacrifice was made to God himself. So "God the father" sacrificed his only son; "God the son" to himself for repayment of this debt? ...... it isn't even circular logic, it is insanity.
posted by
gomedome
on October 18, 2006 at 2:04 PM
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You know, if I was all powerful and all knowing,
I'll bet I could come up with a better plan than having my son killed. In fact, not being all powerful and all knowing, I think I could come up with a better plan if I put my mind to it. Maybe god's not as smart as people give him credit for.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on October 18, 2006 at 1:48 PM
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TVBlogger - I have the same problem with this and some of the other fables
that are the basis of Christian religions.
The sacrificing of God's only son incarnate as man is one such story I find incredibly ludicrous. Even ignoring the fact that this story predates Christ by centuries and is present in the folklore of numerous ancient cultures, you would think that an all powerful and all knowing being could have figured out a better way. Not to mention that by all measures, this sacrifice was a dismal failure. I could go on .....
posted by
gomedome
on October 18, 2006 at 10:42 AM
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SuccessWarrior - that is the point my hapless antagonist was actually
arguing.
Once I brought that up, he went into his best Homer Simpson impersonation. DOH!
posted by
gomedome
on October 18, 2006 at 10:29 AM
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strat - even funnier is where the conversation went from there
Apparently a list of my deficiencies is also proof of God's existence.
posted by
gomedome
on October 18, 2006 at 10:28 AM
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Yes, you have hit on
the main problem I have with Christian cosmology. Either God created Satan and thus evil originates with God making him not so worship worthy; or Satan is the balance to God and thus his equal, making God... well, not God but just a really powerful being.
BTW, there's a book out there you might want to read. I saw the author on Steven Colbert last night. The book is "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. He had some very interesting views on the slow processes of evolution vs. instant creationism. Fascinating.
posted by
TVBlogger
on October 18, 2006 at 10:06 AM
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If there is indeed a balance to everything...
then Satan must be as powerful as god.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on October 18, 2006 at 10:04 AM
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Orwell said it best:
"Four legs good; two legs bad; baaaaa baaaaaa...."
Pretty funny how the guy's own argument essentially gutted his contention.
posted by
strat
on October 18, 2006 at 9:59 AM
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