In Which Poly's Religious Contingent Gives Lori a Big Fat :rolleyes:

[Lorizael]

I doubt very much I or the video I posted upset Elok. My guess is he largely ignored it because he hasn't really done atheist vs. theist debates on Poly in years.

[Sava]

tim minchin was on an episode of @midnight that i just saw

he was okay

though, i don't judge his performance too harshly because he's new/was a guest and it's a weird format

[Sava]

aka... porn.

it was actually don cherry's rock em sock em 8

some guy uploaded them all to youtube

i'm binging it

[Sava]

no for porn i usually set up all five monitors
i'm all business
there's no time for poly then

i can't wait until 4k becomes the norm

[DaShi]

I doubt very much I or the video I posted upset Elok. My guess is he largely ignored it because he hasn't really done atheist vs. theist debates on Poly in years.

Whatever. I'm an ass.

[Lorizael]

How's this for offensive? (seriously NSFW)

**** the mother****er
**** the mother****er
**** the mother****er
He's a ****ing mother****er

**** the mother****er
**** the mother****er
**** the mother****er
He's a total mother****er

**** the mother****er
**** the mother****er
**** the mother****er
**** him **** the mother****er

**** the mother****er
**** the mother****ing
Pope

**** the mother****er
And **** you mother****er
If you think that mother****er is sacred
If you cover for another mother****er who's a kiddy****er
**** you, you're no better than the mother****ing rapist

And if you don't like the swearing
This mother****er forced from me
And reckon it shows moral
Or intellectual paucity
Then **** you mother****er
This is language one employs
When one is ****ing pissed at mother****ers ****ing boys

And I don't give a **** if calling the pope a mother****er
Means you unthinkingly brand me an unthinking apostate
This is naught to do with other ****ing godly mother****ers
I'm not interested right now in theological debate
There are other ****ing songs
And there are other ****ing ways
I'll be a religious apologist on other ****ing days
But the fact remains if you protect a single kiddy****er
Then pope or prince or plumber
You're a ****ing mother****er

And I don't give a **** what any other mother****er
Believes about Jesus and his mother****ing mother
I've no problem with the spiritual beliefs of other ****ers
While those beliefs don't impact on the happiness of others
But if you build a church on claims of ****ing moral authority
And with threats of hell impose it on others in society
Then you, you mother****er, can expect some ****ing wrath
When it turns out you've been ****ing us in our mother****ing asses

So **** the mother****er
And **** you mother****er
If you're still a mother****ing papist
If he covered for a single mother****er who's a kiddy****er
**** him he's as evil as the mother****ing rapist

And if you look into your mother****ing heart and tell me true
If this mother****ing stupid ****ing song offended you
With its filthy ****ing lyrics and its ****ing disrespect
If it made you feel angry go ahead and write a letter
But if you find me more offensive than the possibility
The pope protected priests when they were getting ****ing fiddly
Then listen to me mother****er this here is a fact:
You are just as morally misguided as that mother****ing power-hungry self-aggrandized bigot in the stupid ****ing hat.

[Thoth]

[Bereta_Eder]

Here's a question I've meant to ask and it seems this is the appropriate thread:
being in a distinct distance from anything ressambling protestantism, I have also heard the repulsive idea of "work ethic" (repulsive because it insinuates you actually have to work of course, never mind the rest. And one has to be true to his country's ancient traditions and never work but let others work but that's another matter).

Anyway, and I was thinking, does this work ethic thingy steems from yet another protestant maladaptation of reality which says that only a select few will enter the heavens and those would be the ones that would manage to "rise" to the top and make lots of money and sh!t and that's why they work their poor asses to the bone?

Or is this totally unrelated?

In buddha orthodoxy I don't think you need to work hard. Just have your mojo on and be a good person. You can basically get to heaven simple by stratching your balls all day long assuming you live correctly.

The origin of this thought steems from a rather amuzing quarel I once witnessed between a devout catholic and a protestant dude about this very subject.
It was funny because the arguments and counter arguments went all the way from the capella sistina painting to the moon landing expedition.

[Sava]

[Lorizael]

Tim Minchin doesn't have a song about this subject so I have no opinion on the matter.

[Bereta_Eder]

On a side note, I recently noticed that the fighter pilot academy in Greece is called "Icarus School" and the patron saint is Archangel Michael.
It's these small touches of symbolism that make watching the whole edifice crumble to dust a bit more bareable.
That and discovering ancient macedonian tombs seems to be the oeuvre du jour for forgetting how ****ed up the current leadership is.

[rah]

I recently noticed that the fighter pilot academy in Greece is called "Icarus School"