RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
You see? It IS possible for people of different faiths to sit and enjoy each other’s company.
(The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu)
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Nice! F1 is one my favorite motorsports.. that and World Rally.
F1s fill my dreams. I watch Top Gear all the time and Veyrons roar through my dreams. Want!
Top Gear is great!
He who messes with the pink black pope shall be punished: Back to the house of pain!
Um…I don’t get it.
Me either.. what does that have to do with Top Gear? Besides, Michael Schumacher isn’t black and wears red.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the Anglican Archbishop of South Africa. The Pope is Catholic. *sigh*
Pull mah finger !
Win.
Are you the Dalai Lama’s llama? How did you learn to type?
So a one-L lama is a Tibetan priest.
A two-L llama is a South American beast of burden.
What’s a three-L lllama?
A: A helluva big fire.
A conflagration!
How illuminating!
Ogden Nash said it better:
A one l lama, he’s a priest;
A two-l llama, he’s a beast;
But I’ll bet my silk pyjama
There isn’t any three-l lllama.
*faceplalm*
-curls up with charro and snuggles looking sleepy-
*cuddles her bitter troll into slumber*
*reaches for eye bleach*
Sits in the corner and glares, sipping his vodka.
Should be “a helluva big fiyah.”
are you gonna fart? my religion approve this
Now just do something about the religious intolerance of the atheists….
Tolerance meaning leaving the atheists to themselves, or meaning atheists should quit trying to be as big of jerks in their proselytizing as the fundamentalists (Christian AND Muslim) are in theirs? I think I could support either one.
Down with whitey!
But Whitey Herzog led the Cardinals to three World Series appearances and one champion ship in the 80’s! He’s awesome!
Not that whitey.
pork? the other white meat?
People! The other white meat.
bitter troll through soylent green was green..and…and..ITS PEOPLE!!!!
That’s just because the Soylent Biscuit company coloured it.
so its the other white meat dyed green CAUSE ITS PEOPLE!!!
PEOPLE!!!!!!!
Mmmmm… People *Homer drool*
is good with hot sauce
Meh, never liked the taste of peoples. It’s kinda like ultra-salty chicken. BTW, I didn’t taste it on purpose… weirdos…
the salty i don’t mind, but i’ve have to watch my cholesteral and some of those other white meats are awfully high in fat content
It ain’t easy being green.
Please. We prefer to call it “Long Pig”.
yum, long pork
I’m glad to see you admit that there are atheists that are just as intolerant as those proselytes. (Which is wrong, and addressed in the Bible. Those that do are not servants of God.)
Of course I do. I’ve got no use for someone who tells others their religious beliefs are wrong. As far as I’m concerned, that should be private between an individual and whatever gods and goddesses they need to be happy.
I draw the line, however, at behavior that isn’t conducive to building a neighborly society. Like, burning kids on an altar, or waking me up early on Saturday morning to tell me the good news. Those are both equally bad
Whoever thought that the best way to spread the gospel was to go around and wake people up early on the weekends had a few screws loose anyways…
I agree with you there. I don’t find “thou shalt knockest in before the cock crows thrice” anywhere.
Good news always sleeps till noon
i agree with that, my roommate/handyman rarely gets up before noon, and my demon possessed puppy is always up at the crack of dawn
People like them are why I keep a two foot steel bar next to the door at all times. Solves a lot of problems…
I prefer a three-foot broadsword.
i find a pentagram on the front door works very well, except in october…
Hey, it beats beating your door down to tell you you’re going to hell. HELL I TELL YOU! BLAAARGH!
Incidentally, I’m thinking of going trick-or-treating as a missionary.
In July.
Just to screw with people.
Have you heard about Jesus?
Dude, what happened to Jesus? Tell me more!
Well, he turned my water into wine last night, and things got cruh-zee! That Jesus can sure party!
He walked across the swimming pool just to show off.
… lit by a burning bush.
Dude, I heard he’s DEAD! That must really suck! (sarcastic tone implied)
weekend at jesus’s
sounds like good movie
“Dude, is the dead guy walking around? Did he just fix himself a cup of coffee?”
I know! Made me fall into the pool convincing me *I* could do it! I was SOOOO wasted.
Crap. This was supposed to go to your response to me. Curse my Jesus hangover!
Moses was PISSED, though! He parted the swimming pool right where Jesus was standing. It was actually kinda funny. Jesus got a good laugh out of it.
I live near the ocean and every morning on my way to work I drive down the coast. Stand up paddle boarding has really taken off around here, when you look out at the water there are all these dudes just standing there, paddling. I call them the Jesuses.
Jesuses…hmmm…Jesi?
The Jesi knights.
I just pictured Jesus with a lightsaber. That’s awesome.
You don’t have to picture that, we’ve got a good-resolution photo of it a few LOLs back!
Hush, you. That’s supposed to be a secret until the 2012 election.
Oops! That’s a great wildcard in order to be reelected though. (as long as he doesn’t go door prostatisizing)
What, going door to door giving free prostate exams? (I think you meant to type “proselytizing”!)
hmm, diss, put that irony/humour/funpun/-switch on!
Did you really think that I accidentily misspelled the word “prosecutizing”?
Clearly it is too early in the morning for me…
Have a cup of coffee then, and start door to door prosodomizing, that’ll help!
Night of the living dead jesus…
after 3 days, the dead shall walk the earth….
rated R
Hotttttt….
I’d see it!
“Well, just one guy actually. But he has holes in his hands. Real creepy.”
Yes.
Have you heard about Manannan mac Lir?
Yes.
Have they heard of Fionn mac Cumhaill? Or Cú Chulainn?
STORY TIME!
So what about a nickname saying “ReligionIsDumb”?
Every group has morons in it sadly…
Or better yet, maybe we should do something about religions that define themselves by what they are not. If a religion has a clearly defined group of people who are “other” or excluded, like “gentiles” or “infidels,” it will never lead to peace. “Humanity” is the largest category there is and that excludes no one.
Sure it does. It excludes animals. Why are you such a speciesist?
Hel-LO! What about inanimate objects?? So suddenly you’re all anti-rocks Rando? (By the way, saw your show at Energy Park the other week. Amazing!)
bitter troll smells total BS…-sniff sniff-
sides them showing up at your door was not the same as you showing up to mass and interupting the service.
if you showed up to the priests house to chat with him that would of been the same thing.
but then again, bitter troll smells total BS
Nah, that’s his real name. It explains a lot of the hostility if you ask me.
but he has great business cards for his hair removeing serivces
I’ve seen a lot of shop work in my time. You can clearly see the lines where the pixels don’t meet up cleanly. Plus, the letters and the punctuation aren’t even in the same font!
You could have asked the girls to leave and they would have. The fact that you chose to listen to them did not give you the right to interupt church for the entire congregation. Why did you just go over to those girls house?
true but time and place, had he gone door to door to the people that worshiped at that temple and asked them if they wanted to hear about the existance of nothing, then they refused him it would then he would have reason to bitch. its like going to a hospital and telling people they dont need health care…time and place man
I agree, it’s not a very good example, but I’m just trying to communicate the intended message.
Standing up in the middle of a church service and trying to teach people about atheism is nothing short of real-life trolling. Frankly, I don’t care if everything the guy said was exactly true, I’d still throw the guy out on his ass and let him know that Christ thinks he’s a tool. It doesn’t matter. This guy’s story is fake anyway.
My ex and I used to attend his mother’s church twice a year. We were CEOs – Christmas and Easter Only. Even though I don’t like church, I went because it made his mother happy.
One year, right after he and I had split up, the pastor called on him to get up onstage and receive the blessings of the congregation, to look out at all of the people and know that he was surrounded by friends.
My ex is a very private person, and an agnostic. Being put on display like that in front of a room full of people he didn’t really know, during a painful personal period in his life was, to be kind, not what he needed.
Busting into a sermon to preach atheism is an a$$hole maneuver, but that story goes both ways. Like Andy Dick.
That’s completely forking crazy.
What the hell is wrong with some people? Seriously.
Sadly, it’s not uncommon at all. My wife got more visits at the hospital for the gall bladder surgery than after my daughter was born. As it turns out, family in general have been about the least supportive through this ordeal. There are exceptions, but not many.
I sure hope the story isn’t true. The thought of interrupting a Catholic mass this way makes me shudder and gives me a horrible feeling in my gut. I mean, if you understand the value and significance the Catholics place on their mass, and you had half a shred of decency in your whole body, you probably wouldn’t dream of doing something like that.
But the fact that he said the Catholics were doing door-to-door evangelism kind of gives away the fakeness of the story. I have had Jehovah’s Witnesses do this to me, and definitely Mormons, and on rare occasions fundamentalist Protestants, but NEVER have I ever heard of Catholics doing this. It’s just not the way the Catholic Church operates. Perhaps there are exceptions, but very uncommon/unlikely.
In my experience, the Catholic church is more exclusive and more personally-centered. That is, if you’re going to join the Catholic church, you’re going to do it because you were either raised in it or you chose to join all on your own.
They really don’t solicite for members who will just come whenever and don’t actually believe what they’re saying. Which is nice really. I’ve never had a Catholic go out of their way to preach at me. If I’ve been preached at, it was because I went up to them and asked for info which they were happy to give.
I also agree that anti-preaching in a church is just Trollish. He felt wronged by either the girls or the preacher, but that wouldn’t give him the right to come in and disturb the service that I and my family was attending if this had happened at my church.
Now if the WHOLE CONGREGATION had been holding loud angry sermons on his lawn…
This story sounds pretty fishy. I’ve been a Catholic my entire life and I’ve never known any Catholic to go door to door proselytizing, nor have I ever had a Catholic come to my door doing that. Not ever.
Yeah I always thought it was just the Jehova’s Witnesses and Mormons.
And some random fringe groups.
Way back when I had a Moonie come to my door. She didn’t want to tell me about their ‘church’, she wanted me to buy something to support the church.
If it were LSD, I’d buy it.
Sadly, it wasn’t.. it was some kind of knitted scarf.
Weak.
But….was it an OWSLEY scarf??
That could be a good conversion tool, if you think about it.
I might start going to church.
If they gave away weed, I’d totally go.
Pot brownies, even.
I think that’s how the Pastafarians recruit.
Could you imagine pot brownies using a recipe from the little old blue haired ladies in church?
OMG, you might just die and go to heaven with the first bite…
Pot brownies? The hell! Those are called spacecakes ’s far as mankind knows.
I’ve heard they call them spacecakes in Amsterdam…
Ah…the Jehovah’s Witless and the Stormin’ Mormons…wish they’d show up at the same time so we could fire up the bbq, toast weenies and marshmallows and sing Kumbayah…
Speaking of that, I used to live next door to some Mormons. When the Jehovah’s Witnesses would come knocking I would tell them not interested, but the people next door might be. I would then watch from the window as the fun ensued.
When I told my in-laws, who are JW’s, about this they actually thought it was quite funny.
Awww, and you didn’t let the Seventh Day Adventists, Scientologists, and Pastafarians know? Dude, next time, think America’s Funniest Home Videos — you could be *rich*!
Unfortunately, those groups never came around.. It could have been TV gold though!
You beat me to it! Catholics don’t give a flying monkey if you’re Catholic too. Unless said Catholic is your grandmother and she’s telling you that the reason you finally got a job was because she’s been praying for you (followed by a list of the saints she’s asked to intercede on your behalf and what they are the patron saint of and how it pertains to your particular situation) and now that you know prayer works shouldn’t you be going to church next Sunday?
Jane, I did pray for your life to work out.
I prayed for a dozen donuts earlier today, and wtf? No donuts. What a joke.
I’ll pray for you Rando.
Prayer is a waste of time. *shrug*
*prays fro Rando*
-secretly is eating a dozen dounuts stolen from rando’s desk- mmmmm sprinkles
Ooooh, I want a creme filled one.
bitter troll will give charro some cream filling- offers a dounut- you can taste blessing in each
Dear lord, please smite the heathens who stole my holy, God-given, muthafukkin donuts. Amen.
god here, “sorry to inform you but i am currently unable to smite the heathens since they don’t believe in this manifestation of divinity. so you’re doughnuts are on their own.”
Lucifer here, Rando. Since the lord is a slacker I’ll do the smitting for you. There is a small price, however. No biggie. You’re don’t happen to be using your, are you?
“You’re don’t happen to be using your, are you?”
Wow. Major sentence fail. I swear I checked it. What I meant was…
You don’t happen to be using your soul, are you?
No way, Satan. I’m not wasting my soul on smiting BT & charro. I’m saving that for when I need help becoming a politician. BTW, come back when I reach the age where I can run for Senate.
As for you “god,” I f’ing knew praying was useless. You’ve got worse customer service than Charter.
oh gawds this dounut is bostom cream!-noms- its like troll heaven with out the strippers
“rando, god here, customer service is in the eye of the beholder you know. besides you were given a brain to think with and free will, so do your own smiting, don’t pawn it off on me, don’t you know i’m too busy up here with lilith? besides i’ve got a little wager going on with old scratch himself over some of you golems”
Hey, god (or should I call you “dad”?), it’s me, your once favorite child, Satan. Yeah, I AM SOOOO WINNING so far!
@hel
“satan, this is your mother speaking, how many times do i have to tell you, put your glasses on before you run into a cloud and put out your flames. btw, you’re not winning, your perspective is skewed, take those blinders off and get them #$%^& glasses back on!”
Ok, totally wanting to know what god and Lilith are up to. Will there be photos? Video?
ok, but i don’t know how interesting pics of me and lilith spinning and weaving the threads of fate would be.
(yes i know i totally mixed pantheons and fables, but i’m working with a zombie brain here)
Jane, that’s not exactly ture.
My father’s family were (and still are) very Irish Catholic. My mother’s family – although more agnostic than anything – were technically Protestant. They could only marry if the children (ie ME) were brought up Catholic.
After (at the age of 3) I screamed at the sight of a nun or priest and my mother withdrew me from the church, my father’s family snubbed us.
Until she died, my grandmother considered my mother to be not quite married to my father. As non-Catholics, we have been looked down on and ostracised from the rest of the family. I mean, I’m not particularly worried by that, but it did serve as a nice lesson in religious intolerance early on in my life.
So much for flying monkeys… so far as my family are concerned anyway.
Your grandfather isn’t Peter Griffin’s dad by chance is it?
the angry irish one or the drunk one from ireand?
I HAVE had Catholics leave fliers on my door about special events–concerts, special guest lectures, rummage sales, etc.–at their church, but never general proselitizing tracts. There is a difference.
Ref your (2), catholics (note small ‘c’) may or may not go door to door; I’ve never known the Roman Catholic Church (note capitalisation of proper name) do so.
That’s not exactly what I meant. I meant that some of the churches that make up the catholic communion may do door to door evangelism; the RCs definitely don’t that I know of (and I’ve pretty much always lived in places with RC congregations in them).
Please stop saying RC, I’m a Catholic and I don’t like the word “roman” associated to my religion. Thank you!
I honestly don’t understand your point.
I’m saying that there are a number of Churches in the World that use catholic church structures and laws. One of them is called the Roman Catholic Church. This is a fact. Complaining that you don’t like people who wish to specify that they are referring to that Church and no other use its proper name if you wish to be dissociated from them seems perverse.
It’s not a fact, ask the pope. It’s only a fact in a number of english-speaking countries.
Btw, i’m no Catholic after all.
bitter troll can tell the same story, but will change it just a tad, he will make them amish instead of chatholics, and they wont throw bitter troll out but instead fight him with kung fu strikes
Oh great. We’re a troll’s social experiment.
I think most of us agree that it’s wrong to go door to door shoving religion down people’s throats. It would also be dead wrong to walk into a church and preach about atheism. Either way, it sucks.
Yup. This cracked me up, though.
Note to the general public: I also do not want you knocking on my door to: 1) Tell me about your totallysuperawesome political candidate; 2) Ask me if I want to sell my car (Dude? It would have a SIGN or something!); 3) Sell me Avon or your overpriced school fundraiser crap.
What if they came bearing Taco Bell coupons?
Well, I guess that would be ok. I’ll even politely listen to their religious spiel if I get Taco Bell coupons.
No no, you take the coupons, sucker punch them, and close & lock the door.
^highly discourteous.
Someone once told me that if you come to the door completely naked, they’ll leave you alone…
^highly … freakin’ creepy.
those poor little mormon boys — would corrupt them for sure, or in my case, give them nightmares and they’d become hermits so they’d never have to see another female body again, lol
I’ve had people knock on my door asking whether I’m selling my car too! It happened about 4 times in about 2 years. Doesn’t sound like much, but there was absolutely nothing to suggest I was selling it…
(I did end up selling it, and because of a passing guy who asked me whether it was for sale, but only because some douche threw a brick through the window and I couldn’t afford to fix it)
So this is a common phenomenon, is it?
Well if someone really wants your car and if the money’s right, you will sell it, that’s why they ask.
I had it happen recently; I thought it was odd, because aside from the whole “no indication that it’s for sale” thing, it was a 10 year old Camry with nothing terribly notable about it. I mean, if it was a 67 Camaro or something, I can understand asking just on the offchance that the person might want to sell, but there’s probably 20 10 year old Camrys, minimum, in local cars for sale listings….
My aforementioned vehicle (poor Myldred
) was a Nissan Pulsar that’s older than I am (1984), that belonged to my grandmother. The passenger seat back tilting handle was gone, the petrol guage didn’t work, the inside lights were broken, it was generally crappy and, of course, the entire back windscreen had been smashed by a brick.
Based on our sample of 2, I don’t think it’s newer cars that’re generally inquired about.
That’s peculiar. Do you consider the Dalai Lama a theist, then? Most Buddhists are atheist, you know.
i was under the impression that the Dalai is a deist?
Don’t you know that everybody that doesn’t believe in a Judeo-Christian god is a durty, durty, hippie, pinko-commie atheist!!
“Most Buddhists are atheist”
They’re either Buddhists or they’re atheists. How can they be both?
Buddhists follow the teaching of Buddha (who was a person, not a deity). They do not ‘worship’ him, he is but a teacher.
There ARE variations / off-shoots of Buddhism that worship a god, or gods, but a student of Buddha (i.e., a Buddhist) can certainly be an atheist – it is not contradictory.
Yes, Tibetan Buddhism theology includes various deities and the “one God”. I should have said that Point taken. What I should have said is that “Min, you’re wrong!! Most Buddhists are NOT atheist. The numerous practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism would disagree with you. Your argument is invalid.”
Cr*p!!! What the heck is going on with my posts today?? They’re all screwed up. ARRRGGG!!! >:-(
Welcome to Hell.. you can hang your clothes over there.
Now, do I get a choice in terms of eternal torture & damnation or is it decided for me? If there are any available, I’d like a room with a view of the fiery pits, please.
We do take requests and your’s has been complied with. Unfortunately, your room comes with no bed, no toilet, the TV only plays reruns of the Brady Bunch, and the door is guarded by a balrog. Otherwise, enjoy your stay!
Good! Cause I’m tired of keeping them in a suitcase.
OH, thank the Gods; we’ve been taught a lesson from the computer-pulpit-thingie — and I didn’t even have to put on shoes or underwear.
Atheists tolerate religion just fine, they just don’t tolerate religious people pushing their faith-based agenda on everyone else.
F.T.R. I am not an atheist, I’m quite comfortable with religion, its activist-religious people that I have a problem with.
SOME atheists tolerate religion just fine. Trust me, there are some real zealous atheists out there.
Agree, but they are currently outnumbered by the religious zealots that have dominated the “mind your neighbor’s business but don’t apply the rules to yourself” mentality that dominates any discussion now-a-days.
Exactly how much of that do you have to withstand, and what group is it that are “the atheists” in your experience?
Never happened. Nice story. Are you sure you aren’t studying creative writing.
You troll. How can you assume that “Captain Obvious” wasn’t an atheist? So you take your own story as an excuse to bash religious people by saying that “No atheists commented. I guess that’s because we’re better empirical thinkers than you dumb-ass church going sheep.”
How dare you use us as some warped little experiment. “Let’s play mind-games with the Christians and see if I can’t start a flame war!”
You’re worse than a troll.
You’re a n00b.
Everyone look and learn.
Alternate caption:
“No. YOU da man!”
Or, “YOU LIE!!1!”
Or, “Pull my Finger !”
But I think Dalai joke is Tutu funny.
*groans*
I’m willing Tibet you snorked just a little.
After the groaning died down. I love a good pun, but that one was painful.
Listen here Buddha, you’ve got some Nirvana.
I do come across and ballsy sometimes but what can hindu?
Come across as ballsy*
Aha! I caught you using a teleprompter!!
Like anyone would believe you could go Sanskri(p)t.
Well I could have, but I wouldn’t want to buddha you with it.
Aha! And what zen??
Zen he cries, “Taoism me!” For he couldn’t dharma a fly.
Karma over here and we’ll discuss it.
You know I chant do that and the fact that you asked me leaves me in chakra.
Just sit on the Sofi and be quiet! (sorry)
Come on. pitty…I’ll make dinner. My speciality…Kundalini. So good with Chi(li) peppers!
Hmm, I’ve only had it with ginger
.
Well that doesn’t sound to gnucchi; I better get my asana in gear and head over.
Mmmmm….food and cosmic awareness. A yummy combination. You want egg roll with that?
*nom(a)s(te) eggroll with wanton abandon*
Damn! I forgot to go to mass again today.
It looks more like they’re making fun of eachothers clothing.
Well one does look like he’s wearing a snuggie, and the other looks like Abercrombie and Fitch, the Vatican Edition, all Desmond needs it a popped collar.
It’s really a poped collar.
Given my current drugged up state this early in the morning… I’m surprised I didn’t make that joke as a typo…
Oh and by the way
*gropes Jane* Morning love
*giggles and purrs* It’s afternoon for me now, but any time of the day is right for a slap and tickle.
But Desmond Tutu is Anglican, isn’t he?
Yeah, no.
Actually, Desmond Tutu *IS* Anglican.
True dhat.
Well, there’s plenty to make fun of in that respect…
I don’t think pointing and laughing at the other guy is a great example of “tolerance”.
The dalai lama is always pointing and making funny faces. I have no idea why but every picture of him is like that.
the magic lama man is just goofy
Maybe the guy is just an @sshole and nobody realized it. People certainly think I’m a bitch when I point and make funny faces at them, especially archbishops.
well magic pink jebus man seems to be enjoying it -shrugs-
LOL, you made a silly!
It would probably help if said archbishops were laughing like a school girl like Desmond is in the pic.
the magic lama didnt just walk up randomly to pink preist and point and laugh. they sitting togther, jokeing, lama man points and laughs as they joke.
The Dalai Lama: Making pointing and laughing chic since 1950.
points and laughs at max- hahahhahahah oh …-wipes a tear- hah
I dunno, by the way Desmond is sitting there in a giggly little schoolgirl pose, it looks like someone just told a blonde joke. Which might I add… are HILARIOUS when the Dalai Lama tells them.
Sense of humor fail? Or irony ftw?
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. I may be old-fashoined, but a man in pink with Tutu for a last name amuses me greatly.
Win
I must agree. I thought the exact same thing when I read his name!
Yoooouuuuuu!!
I dont think the Dalai Llama hates anyone. I think thats a required for the position
“One of these days Desmond… BANG! ZOOM! Right to da moon!
“A rabbi, a priest and a minister walk into a bar…stop me if you’ve heard this one Des….”
Everyone is all smiles…on camera. Roosevelt and Stalin are seen all smiles during WWII footage, but little did the Allies know Stalin infiltrated the Manhattan Project with spies and started his own nuclear bomb program with espionage. That’s what tolerance can look like.
You’re comparing two leaders in the world of religion to two politicians?
That’s a bit of a reach man.
ya see the pink one is going to start a nuc’leer alter boy program based off of what he steals from the llama guy
Those damn nuclear Llamas!
thats how Llamazilla got started!
ORLY!?
YES RLLY!!!!
Where’s Super Mario when you need him?
Eddie for President!!!!!!
This pic looks like the event in Seattle a while ago, where he came to spread the word on compassion. I wanted to go, but the tickets were all sucked up before I had even heard about the event. D: At least I didn’t have to be downtown during the high traffic days, though.
“…the high traffic days…”
Yeah, or even the High HOLY traffic days; those *really* suck.
‘It was YOU that ordered the last pink Snuggie! I had to settle for maroon’
Wow, no actual flames so far… I guess both conservatives and liberals like that pic.
Has someone checked whether hell has frozen over yet?
I tried
We appreciate your effort, Sqwirk, we really do.
Maybe the greenhouse gases controversy down below will livin things up, it looks promising…
I’m surprised I didn’t get inflammatory comments from either side. I’m kinda shocked, if I said that anywhere near where I live people would razz the hell out of me. Then again where I live is full of crazy people of all backgrounds. I guess I’m just not a very good troll…
If it makes you feel better, No1, you’ve seriously pissed me off a couple of time so far. Just keep trying. LOL
Nope, I haven’t frozen over…some people say I’m hot, even! *worst pun ever*
GAH! Too much harmony, not enough chaos in this thread! New topic sure to cause flaming:
Global warming is real and it’s gonna kill us all if we don’t change our ways!
I’d like Proof on my desk by monday. Now, skedadle!!!
-throws a polar bear on his desk-
How does that prove anyth- *Gets mauled* I BELIEVE!! STOP HURTING ME!!
How do you throw a polar bear!?
bitter troll is pretty f’ing strong. Be careful.
He sure is… *giggle*
Can you ask him to take the arms off the polar bear for me? I have 2nd amendment rights.
Veeeeeeeeeeeery carefully…
They have an awful lot of pointy bits, I’m not sure being careful would be enough! I did see a bear-proof suit on the internet once though… maybe that’s how that works.
BEARS ARE GODLESS KILLING MACHINES!
“Greenhouse gasses” have been undeniably shown to reflect infrared radiation. Infrared radiation expresses its self as heat when it is absorbed by matter, causing an increase in internal systemic energy AKA temperature. Modern manufacturing and refining techniques release tons of greenhouse gasses (mostly CO2) into the atmosphere. The atmosphere surrounds the earth and is fairly homogenous at consistent altitudes. Therefore the greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere are spread relatively evenly over the earth. As sunlight enters the Earth’s atmosphere it heats up the Earth’s surface. This absorbed heat is later emitted as infrared radiation perpendicular to the surface it is radiating from. Greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere then cause some of this radiation to reflect, causing a “greenhouse” effect. As more greenhouse gasses are released into the atmosphere the effect becomes more severe. Polar ice core surveys have shown that the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere has increased almost exponentially over the past two centuries. The Earth’s average global temperature has been increasing steadily ever since accurate measurement methods have been
Then come join our religion, the worship of the all powerful Obama, blessed be his name! Give up your worldly belongings ( you call it a tax, but we prefer the word “gift”) to the Sacred Church of the Chosen One ! Join our daily self flogging as we chant ” Hope! Change!” repeatedly as we watch his Holiness walk on water, bring peace to all and torture those unbelievers by calling them childish names.
May his blessings flow upon you as you rejoice in his Golden Shower, may he live forever! Give unto him all your monies and rejoice in “spreading the wealth around”! For he is the ALmighty Teleprompter Jeebus and we praise him for his silvery tongue and pray to cure his wife of poor fashion sense! Amen.
Please start to make sense soon.
If you’re gonna troll, can you please troll on topic? Obama has nothing to do with the religious tolerance above or the global warming below. Nobody gives a fvck how butthurt you are over Obama. And you seem to think you’re clever, but we’ve seen all of your whiny talking points before, and you’re just boring. If you’re gonna troll, at least make it worth reading. Please, Mr. Hannity, stop. posting. here.
I’m not sure if “TheOne” is trolling or if he/she/it is just insane. Either way it’s fairly amusing.
hmmmm the golden shower bit tips bitter troll to the trolling…and its icky
Whatever, “TheOne” fails at being an inflammatory troll, but wins at being an amusing troll.
Eh, the golden shower was about the only original insult it had, and that was pretty disgusting. I give it a D+.
notice how only people who compair jebus to obama are republicans?
you have?
oh…well anyways.
why not start compairing him to OTHER gods for a change?
try saying snide things like” why if your dear god Obama McOdin is willing to pluck out an eye to be able to see all, why cant he get everything fixed in the next ten minutes?”
Careful lest the Almighty one shat upon you a mighty Acorn and take your young women away to become underage harlots with federal financing!
Wouldn’t you rather be a Floydist? We have great music and other ’stuff’.
Be careful of some of the stuff, though. Too much of the stuff made the Great Prophet Sid go a little bonkers.
I’m sure where ever he is, he’s shining though..
Sid, you crazy diamond….
Just be careful of that axe, Eugene.
“…pray to cure his wife of poor fashion sense…”
Um…what? We finally get a First Lady that actually looks good in pretty much every single thing she’s tried on, after 8 years of “Marion the Librarian” and you’re accusing her of ‘poor fashion sense’?!?
This is a public service announcement: Please do not feed the trolls, thank you for listening.
…but…but…where else will we get fodder for our sarcasms? Now I’m bummed.
And the temperture changes on Mars? Are they caused by greenhouse gases too? By the way, the new term is global climate change, since the earth has entered a different climate cycle. Do you suppose the earth was warmer when dinosaurs roamed the U.S. ? Maybe them dinosaurs weren’t aware of their carbon footprint – its probably why they went extinct.
Temperature changes are natural for any planet, but they generally follow a relatively consistent pattern under most conditions. Earth’s temperature has done nothing but go up for far too long now for it to be a fluke. As for past temperature patterns, these can be linked to extraordinarily large amounts of plant-life, which would alter atmospheric composition, and major geological events like the eruption of super-volcanoes and huge meteor impacts. Thanks to data gathered from ice cores drilled from the polar regions, it has been determined that there has never been as much CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere as there is today. As previously stated, rises in atmospheric CO2 (along with some other greenhouse gasses) follow trends identical to increases in average planetary temperature.
Here’s what I don’t get. Why not try to do better for the environment? Even if global warming is wrong, at least the earth will be in better shape overall. I mean, what’s the argument against looking out for the environment? “We don’t think global warming is happening, so let’s pollute the crap out of everything, it’s okay!” No, it’s not okay.
Because most people would rather pave over the whole planet than try to protect any part of nature. Humans are born with a need to control our environment, it’s how we have prospered as a species. However, our ability to alter our surroundings has progressed faster than our evolution, so our old impulses are now an outdated compulsion that manifests as a near-psychotic need in most people.
and the entire world can be one big basketball court!
SCREW FOOD
I’m not overly fond of basketball, maybe a giant golf course? That would at least have some interesting topography and even have the occasional gator in the water traps. OH, then we could also all go everywhere in little golf carts, those are silly!
but then not everything would be paved over silly!
Astroturf, duh…
You can pave all you like, but still, deep down, below the paving and sub-base, there’s still nasty, dirty dirt. Why does nobody ever think of that?
Ew. Tito, hand me a tissue.
We’re a virus.
Mr Anderson…
Naw, we just need a sense of perspective. The first time nature really takes an honest to goodness swing at us, we’ll probably start to take action.
No, we’re still a virus. bitter got it.
my name is – dramatic pause that somehow drains out the drama, face expression refuses to change, cant tell if im happy, angry, determined, horny, or hungry- ……neo…
…………………………………………….whoa.
Guess what? If nature decides to take a swing at us in either direction, we can’t do a damn thing about it. We can’t change it because we’re too small in the scheme of things.
THere is nothing wrong with being responsible, but thinking that we actually have that much of an impact either way is just hubris.
We can stop screwing up our environment. That would probably change some things. Do you really think the several million tons of CO2 we’ve released into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution hasn’t changed our world? Trust me, things like erratic whether patterns and droughts/floods are only the beginning, if things don’t change in the next few decades we’ll witness truly costly natural disasters.
Considering the fact that volcanic eruptions tend to put out more CO2 than we can, and is absorbed by the environment and corrected (and have been for millions of years before we got here), I guess you’ll have to forgive me for not being convinced that we’re a huge drain on the planet.
I have no problem being responsible, the problem I have is being forced to be a certain level of responsible by people who don’t know any better than I do.
By the way, throwing weather patterns into the mix isn’t a good argument, considering that we’ve had weather patterns for millions of years and have only really been able to track them for the last 100 (at best)
Volcanic eruptions are uncommon today and put out variable amounts of CO2. Humanity’s output is constant and has been growing exponentially for nearly 150 years. Also, we’ve cut down somewhere around 50% of all the Earth’s forests, and plants are greatest utilizers of CO2 on the planet: especially trees. The only other organisms that consume CO2 constantly are microscopic and most of those absorb CO2 dissolved in the water they live in; and water can only hold a relatively small amount of CO2. Also, weather patterns have changed slowly historically, but over the past 30-40 years there have been drastic and unprecedented changes. These changes vary from region to region, but if you look at charts detailing rainfall for a region by year, you’ll notice severe changes in the past few decades. In addition to erratic weather patterns, some of the undersea water-flows have recently begun to change, slowing and shortening, causing numerous problems for all life forms, particularly in Europe. Geological evidence in the form of sea-bed erosion tell us that these flows have hardly changed at all since the end of the Carboniferous period (if memory serves, I may be mistaken as to the time period, but the erosion evidence is real). In addition to all these early warning signs, the average global temperature has increased almost about 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century, and the water-table has been rising at a startling rate ever since the industrial revolution, especially recently. All the indicators are there, doesn’t it make sense to err on the side of caution?
Like I said, I have no problem being responsible, but not at the whim of people who don’t really know any better than I do.
You said earlier that if nature decides to take a swing at us, we’ll take action. I’d like to expound on that by saying that if nature decides to take a swing at us, there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it. Nature has an amazing ability to self-regulate for its own survival. Species become extinct every day, and are replaced in one way or another. Evolution is used to make sure that those things best suited to the environment at hand live on.
Now, as far as the actual science of the CO2 emissions and where they come from, I can’t get into a debate with you because that’s not my area of expertise. But based on the things I’ve heard and read, the science behind global apocalypse if we DON’T DO SOMETHING NOW is sketchy at best, simply because of the time periods we’re dealing with. We are speculating about things like geological evidence because we really don’t know. It’s all our best guess based on what we see and can infer. I love watching dinosaur “histories” on the Discovery Channel because they go into such detail about how this particular dinosaur died locked in a winnerless battle to the death with this other dinosaur that was found next to it. That’s speculation, and we can’t know.
Considering that the earth has been trucking along for so many millennia without our help or hurt, I’d say that erring on the side of caution is fine, but let’s not overdo it. Living in grass huts and walking everywhere isn’t the way to go about saving the planet. Going around preaching that the earth is going to implode, and might get hotter and melt the ice caps, but by god it’s the coldest summer in memory and for some reason the temperatures have been stagnant for a while now (the last ten years or so), so we really can’t explain that, but TRUST US, THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!!! I believe Ted Danson made a total ass of himself back in the 80’s by claiming that if we didn’t do something RIGHT THEN that the world would be completely different and probably wouldn’t exist anymore by the year 2000.
Doomsday predictions are silly at best, and harmful at worst. We really just don’t know, and there is enough competing information out there as to the actual effect of humans on the environment that we should take pause before we write laws about things like cap and trade. Considering how damaging it will be to normal people (in the form of price increases), I think that sketchy science isn’t the best hook to hang your hat on.
*Note: I say sketchy not in the way that people haven’t done all their research, I mean that there are a lot of scientific studies out there, and not all of them support the same things. In fact, didn’t the EPA get in trouble recently when one of their own studies was suppressed because it didn’t toe the line as far as climate change is concerned?
I see what you’re getting at, I may have misunderstood your intent at first. By no means am I advocating anything radical, I’m simply saying that things aren’t perfect and they aren’t improving. We’ve dug ourselves a pretty big hole, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not like the world is going to end anytime soon if we still decide to ignore the problem. My point is people need to start looking beyond their own immediate interests and start changing the ways they do things accordingly. That’s all I’m getting at.
Forcing cap and trade and other “green” measures down our throat under the auspices that it will somehow magically save the planet isn’t the way to go about it. The science just isn’t to that point yet. Things change every day.
I think the ways that we’ve changed in the last 100 years speak volumes about humanity as a whole. The timber industry is self-sustaining, in that for every tree they cut down they try to replant two (speaking from personal experience here). The industrial revolution changed a lot about this world, but we’ve managed to ramp back on the pollution and waste (and work hours) since we got started. I don’t hear about acid rain anymore, do you? CAFE standards for cars have done wonders for reducing emissions from cars.
The problem is that if the US is the only one doing this stuff, it isn’t going to do any good anyway. India and China beat us in polluting, IIRC. Us living in grass huts isn’t going to do anything but put our country back 200 years, which is silly.
I think if we just keep going at our steady pace of gradual improvement that we know works as opposed to smacking people around a little and MAKING them drive Segways with lids on them to “save the planet”, we’ll do just fine. And it’ll be a better example to the rest of the world, who doesn’t seem willing to set themselves back 200 years along with us.
I agree, there are plenty of people taking things too far without thinking it through. I’m afraid this “cap-and-trade” thing will only cause problems. However, the U.S. is sadly behind in terms of environmental policy. Our national vehicle emissions standards are behind even China’s, and our agriculture is causing permanent environmental damage from the overuse of pesticides and soil-tilling without any legal repercussions. The biggest problem we face is that the corporations have so much money the fines they are charged for violating emissions standards are insignificant and are frequently ignored. Sure we’ve come a long way, but it isn’t enough yet.
See, I just thought it was about money. LOL
Greed doesn’t help any…
Nope…Most people dont want to pay 3 times as much for their electric bill and gas for their evil car or their corn flakes..the list goes on.
Would you rather pay a bit less for power or let all the costal cities in the world be flooded?
Giving the government money doesn’t fix anything. Ever.
Rando, stop making sense. People don’t like that.
They’re coming for me, aren’t they?
To take you away, ha ha.
besides, when jubilee or ecstasy or the rapture or whatever the bs is called in this century comes, they’re all going to be suckered up to heaven with reincarnated bodies so why would anyone care about the planet or the non-believers left behind – we’re all going to be in league with satan anyway.
or the other excuse is that man was given dominion over everything so men get to destroy the planet cause their book said so.
someday i hope to bleach the garbage my fundie sister rants out of my brain – why can i remember this sh!t and not my own cell number?
I love ecstasy
never tried it, too old, it came along long after my drug induced hazy years. yet, when i go on hrt again, wouldn’t mind giving it a try or two as long as i had a young buck who could keep up
True, the Bible says that humans have dominion over everything, but it also says that humans have to be “stewards of the earth” (Genesis 1:26-31) – meaning that humans have responsibility to care for the earth and its creatures. Even the Bible promotes environmental consciousness and care.
but that’s not part of the selective reading because it doesn’t allow selfish, short-sighted profiteering at the expense of everyone else
It depends who you ask. There’s dozens of interpretations for that single line.
Jojo doesn’t just want proof. Jojo wants Proof. That’s even proofier proof.
Proofiness.
Proofinescense.
190-proof Everclear.
Nah. We’ll just grow oranges in Alaska.
I’m not certain about all that stuff going on with the ozone layer, that’s a lot more complicated. I can’t say for sure. All I know is that there was a hole in it at some point or another and aerosol is bad for it.
There’s still a hole in the ozone layer. It’s in the southern hemisphere and “they” say it’s one of the main reasons why there are higher incidents of skin cancer in Australia.
This is true.. The scientists that said the ozone layer are from New Zealand and the ozone layer is over Antartica. The link to the article is {http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mending-ozone-good-for-global-warming}
Wanna know why there’s a hole in the ozone layer? *non-scientific opinion here*
The sun creates ozone. The southern regions of the globe don’t get as much sun during certain parts of the year due to the tilt of the earth. Therefore, less ozone over Antarctica. The hole grows and shrinks as we get more and less sun.
Also, Al Gore needs to be dumped into the ocean. If you’re going to preach it, live it. Which is why I respect the hell out of Ed Bagley Jr.
Sun radiation creates highly charged oxygen ions that are then capable of forming Ozone (O3). O3 is normally unstable, but the sun’s radiation maintains it much of the year; so it does have a sort of “thick and thin” cycle. However, the ozone layer never develops holes on its own due to consistent exposure to the sun’s rays everyday, but certain chemicals released into the atmosphere interact with the relatively unstable O3 and denature it, slowly but surely depleting the ozone layer. This problem is simpler ti deal with than global warming because O3 eventually reforms, and there’s a lot more ozone than there are chemicals that destroy it in the atmosphere. All we need to do is reduce our output of these chemicals to a safe level (one that does tolerable damage to the ozone layer), and eventually the hole(s) will go away on their own.
P.S. I agree with you on Al Gore, he’s a total douche willing to lie to push his policies.
Would you Gore haters feel any differently if Gore offset his energy use by purchasing carbon credits, thereby maintaining a carbon neutral footprint?
Carbon credits? … What do those accomplish? It’s like the catholics selling indulgences: inane.
What do they accomplish? From associatedcontent.com:
“Money has always been the motivator for deforestation, but a new study suggests that introducing a carbon credit market into these developing nations, forests could be saved. When comparing the amount of carbon released by slash-and-burn deforestation to the amount of carbon credits that will be available in the next few years from industrialized nations researchers believe that the incentive for deforestation could be eliminated.”
so, the ‘developing nations’ will forgo their development so they can have some ‘carbon credits’? That doesn’t make sense…
The idea is, the developing nations are paid NOT to cut down their forests/rainforests/etc.
No, because that would just end up putting more cash in the a$$hole’s pocket.
People just think it’s global warming. Actually, they landed in hell and just haven’t realized it yet
This might be the best theory I’ve heard.
Better than gravity? ‘Cuz that’s a hell of a theory — well-grounded, you might say.
…best theory on global warming. Gravity. Eh. I’m not sure I buy that one yet.
Lul, the law of gravity is wrong. Turns out it has something to do with the bending of space-time by matter. (not insulting you, just saying…)
I’ve got a theory. It could be bunnies.
The bunnies, they fart. The resulting methane makes the temperature go up. Oh, and it also pisses off the Peeps sitting behind the bunny in the basket.
Well of course, as long as it isn’t Christianity and Islam, they’ll get along just fine.
When do Catholics blow up atheists?
NO ONE EXECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Well, not lately anway!!
See? That’s how they getcha… you always gotta be ready for them.
You don’t harm atheists, but you bash them every chance you get and insult us constantly. You’re far from innocent.
Was that whining? There’s no whining on message boards.
You must be new here.
Yes.
Yes, I *am* new. And fresh from the depths of the Sar Chasm.
Actually, technically speaking, anything but the one true God is wrong. In my personal beliefs, despite being Christian, I’m not that strict. I don’t get why God would only reveal himself to a relatively small percentage of the world’s 6+ billion.
You seem to have it in for Catholics. Not that I’m a fan of Catholicism (I’m really not a fan at all), but I wonder why that is.
It’s only wrong if you’re a monotheist.
That’s what we talking about. Monotheists, specifically Christians.
(sigh)
And I was so enjoying the silly posts and the sarcasms and the tongues-in-cheek…
You’re too new for me to get your sarcasm yet. You need time.
No, I don’t need time; I already get my sarcasm.
*You* need time.
I was here first. Neener neener.
…On their wedding nights?
When they leave them in the microwave too long.
http://listverse.com/2009/07/10/top-10-misconceptions-about-islam
Islam is VERY tolerant against other religions. The quaran even states that they must be. As for the murder part, the minority are the ones who support non-muslim murder, not the other way around.
I think trying to draw conclusions of an entire religion based off personal experience or a few people you’ve seen is a bad idea. Again, you keep talking about extremists. By the way, people were probably “displaying their religion” after a terrorist attack because they wanted to show that despite some extremists’ actions, they are not ashamed of their religion.
It’s not just him drawing conclusions from personal experience, it’s a lot of other people too. Plus the fact that there has been not much in the way of condeming those who do attack in the name of Allah, even at the National Muslim day of prayer her in the US. It would have been a perfect time to denounce, but it never happens.
Please tell me you people aren’t serious? You actually think the Muslim religion condones this? I guess I’d better keep an eye on the Muslims who work at my store. :eyeroll:
The majority is not always right. Besides, what message does that send if we use a day of prayer to condemn others? How can condemn what you yourself do not fully understand? You don’t need to change your own views, but you seriously need to learn to accept the ideas of others’. The more I read your posts, the more convinced I become that you’re not really an ignorant or stupid individual; you’re just not familiar with the perspectives of others. My suggestion to you is to look into others’ viewpoints, whether you agree with them or not. I don’t think you’re a bad person, you’re just lacking perspective.
What I have come across after acts of terrorism by muslims, is an outcry from the society for every other muslim to show their colour – to go out there, be a muslim all the way – be extra religious, essentially, but be against the acts of terrorism. So I think that muslims showing their religion extra much after a muslim terrorist attack can be interpreted as a show of defiance within the faith – against the terrorists -rather than the other way around.
I guess I just ain’t paranoid enough. Sorry. :p
(donning hipboots)
“Warning! Extreme Steaming Shovel-ful of Semi-solid Nitrogenous Bovine Waste Alert!
“Show us on the doll where the Priest touched you as a child”
“Right here”, crap, this doesn’t work through the interwebs!
Well, I don’t honestly consider Mel Gibson and people like him “good” Catholics. I guess every religion has its extremists.
I have had the pleasure of dining with the Dalai Lama and I find him to be one of the kindest, holiest men that I have ever met.
Mel Gibson is not a Catholic anymore. He is with some breakaway sect.
The “good” people of any sort of religion, politic, sports team, or whatever, always have definitions to say they with whom they don’t agree are not the “good” sort. :p
You are such a retard I can’t even believe you actually exist. You must be some sort of computer glitch that somehow resulted in some random words put together into sentences. You’ve let the actions of a few fringe terrorists dictate your belief of all Muslims. My boss is Muslim (not even from the Middle East, GASP!), and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t plan to kill any non-Muslims. Except maybe his boss, but that’s not religiously motivated. You suck, dude. Srsly.
not a lil scared on day your boss with run in with a bomb strapped to his chest going LALALALLALALALLALALALA FOR COBRAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
We have to beware of muslims, they’re out to get us. They already got France, it’s just a matter of time until they come to the US! Be warned and have your firearms ready!
Actually, I think maybe we gave them France. Who else would want it?
and England too… Some neighborhoods you can’t even walk around outside without a burqua. Keep your cars inside!
If you live in Great Britain (which I assume is what you mean by England), you should park your car inside anyways. Being relatively small landmass, the air is rather humid from onshore breezes which bring corrosive salt-water with them. It’s not very good for the paint.
…um, you forgot the part about the sky falling, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, run around and panic…
I thought I had that part covered already.
Forgot to add: I was born in France. It actually doesn’t belong to the US, so *we* can’t give it to anybody else. Seeing as how the healthcare in France is rated number one in the world, I have no problem being given the parts you don’t want, though!
I don’t remember wearing a burka — though I think my mother may have bought me a little beret. Not raspberry.
This is a very bigoted POV you’ve got there HMYC (your name sucks, btw).
“there are some good Muslims who don’t support murder of non-Muslims, but they are just a minority sadly”
Really?? Where are you getting this “information”?
off the interweb of course!
same place sarah palin learned man and dino’s once lived togther in peace and harmony
Thich Nhat Hanh is all about LGBT rights.
Is that so?
I think that causes pinkeye.
what causes brown eye then?
Brownie batter.
Not wiping thoroughly.
No, its definitely a religion, especially Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lama is believed to be a reincarnation of a bodhisattva and has a holy right to rule Tibet, and in the future we will all be saved by the Buddha who is not yet born, Maitreya. This “Buddhism isn’t a religion” BS is just denying Buddhism’s superstitions, mythology and metaphysical beliefs, which we have plenty of, to try and appeal to people who don’t like organized religion.
I read somewhere that Buddhists also believe that if someone believes in an Abrahamic God (especially the Christian “God the Father – creator of all things” ) then that person is eternally doomed to the samsara cycle and cannot achieve nirvana. This is supposedly because such a god is a “delusion of the human mind” and such delusions (read “fairy tales”) block enlightenment. Is this true? It would be very sad if so because it would make Buddhism just as self-righteous and intolerant as fundamentalist Christianity.
I’ve never heard of that, but it doesn’t sound like a very buddhist idea to me. Keep in mind, there are crazies in all sectors for society.
everyone is doomed to that cycle, only from the people i’ve talked to they don’t refer to it as “doomed” but rather speak of it more like a journey. what you’re sayin is close enough, i suppose, though it sounds like it’s been skewed to sound worse than it is. my guess is it’s someone trying to put a negative slant on buddhism, probably in favor of their own religion or whatever. just a guess, mind you.
p.s. and it’s everyone, buddhists as well, that go through that cycle. except for some reason, i keep thinking it was a hindu belief not buddhist… i get those two religions mixed up (it’s been a while since i’ve studied either, sorry)
Thanks for the replies. I read it on some Buddhist web site but it might have been a fundamentalist extremist site (I’m sure Buddhists have these as do all religions/philosophies). That ’s why I was asking to see if it was mainstream thought or just some fanatics.
BTW both Buddhism and Hinduism believe in samsara – the doctrine that a person undergoes an infinite loop of birth/death/rebirth cycles until they break out via enlightenment and reach nirvana. Jainism – a little known religion in India also believes this. Together they are known as the Dharmic religions.
thanks for the info coyoteman
it’s peculiar seeing someone so polite on here… nice to have ya
It depends who you ask. I’ve known christians who are also buddhist. But Tibetan Buddhism definitely qualifies as a religion unto its self.
“faith in your god instead of the mystical beliefs of Buddhism”
Buddhist beliefs include a “one God”. And I’m betting that you’re making it up about the Tibetan Buddhist woman because it’s Tibetan Buddhism that has deities that represent the many incarnations of the one God.
There’s not much basis for that in text, I’ve heard a few teachers say that but its not something all Buddhists believe or something Buddhism as a whole encourages, maybe in her particular sect. Its like saying “Christianity encourages polygamy” because of Mormons.
The Dalai Lama is a feminist.
That’s why he needs to be punished: Back to the house of pain!
He advocates human equality if that’s what you mean…
the to old to stand.
The TOO stupid for grammar.
ah, yes–that paramount sign of religious tolerance: smiling and pointing at someone. Now that is something I’ve NEVER seen any Christian do. Christians are incapable of smiling and pointing and joking with people they don’t agree with.
But HERE, in this picture, we have solidarity and authenticity and admirable tolerance. Oh, would that Christians could one day point and smile and joke with anyone but another Christian! Will it ever be so in our lifetimes? *sob*
Christians really do love everybody. Except you. We don’t like you.
On Thursdays we do… But every other day? No.
Rando, this reminds me of the tshirt that says “Jesus loves you; everyone else thinks you’re an asshole.”
I love that one.
i luv u =D
are you sure you have met every single christain n the world? bitter troll knows there are those douchebags, but also some very very nice ones who practice what they preach ( within a reasonable human level…we are all just human anyways) bitter troll has met very nice ones, and eaten a few.
“bitter troll has met very nice ones, and eaten a few”
Do they taste like communion wafers?
Yes.
But only the whole wheat with bacon bits-flavored ones.
no…they taste like that nummy soylent green stuff.
FAIL: This LOL has nothing at all to do with Christianity specifically.
Ehm… you do realise that mister Giggly on the right in the picture is quite Christian, right?
oh rearry?
there’s like over a billion Christians and you think not one can point and laugh? a little close minded, no?
my thought here is awesome
Mohattma Ghandi:
“I do love your christ, I do not love your chrisitians they are so unlike your christ.”
Ghandi was a Hindu not a buddhist but the qoute works here pretty well.
Long live His Holiness HHDL XIV!
Good to see a couple of people who don’t take it that seriously, though.
Pic was crying out for a potatochop
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=2685700352
LOL!! Well done!
photoshop win!!!
“You the man!”
“No, YOU the man!”
It may seem like religious tolerance, but it’s actually a ferocious debate of each others’ divinity and Godhood.
oh rearry?