Nah, I am not out of my mind...yur the one that posted you had no sleep for days...next time post it the way you mean it. Don't bother replying either..I know what you wrote and I am not going to argue with you.
peapod said:Ya, you gots some great caring and sharing...especially for muslims... :roll: :roll: :roll: Phoney
Dexter Sinister said:Shutup about it Gordon. Being a moderator is a difficult and thankless job, and if you don't like the way they run this board or interpret your posts, you don't have to post here. This is not a democracy. I've seen too many message boards degenerate into mindless vituperation; the only ones that don't are the ones with ruthless, hard-nosed moderators and administrators. So knock it off or go somewhere else.
Gordon J Torture said:Look at me look at me I am the autocrat!
Twis time to grace ye anew with thy presence, for thou art thy quintessence of benevolence.. Thou shall show pitty for ye of nefarious ways, as thou shall grant ye a bestowal of verbalization with thee. As thou art thy veritable autocrat, twis thy divine manifestation thou give to ye. Hath now fully thine, hence ye must read forth in docility, thy exquisite doctrine.
Yossarian: "And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways. There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about- a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?"
Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife: "Pain? Pain is a useful symptom. Pain is a warning to us of bodily dangers."
Yossarian: "And who created dangers? Oh, He was really being charitable to us when He gave us pain! Why couldn't He have used a doorbell instead to notify us, or one of his celestial choirs? Or a system of blue-and-red neon tubes right in the middle of each person's forehead. Any jukebox manufacturer worth his salt could have done that. Why couldn't He?"
Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife: "People would certainly look silly walking around with red neon tubes in the middle of their foreheads."
Yossarian: "They certainly look beautiful now writhing in agony or stupefied with morphine, don't they? What a colossal, immortal blunderer! When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering. It's obvious He never met a payroll. Why, no self-respecting businessman would hire a bungler like Him as even a shipping clerk!"
Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife: "You'd better not talk that way about Him, honey. He might punish you."
Yossarian: "Isn't He punishing me enough? You know, we mustn't let Him get away with it. Oh, no, we certainly mustn't let Him get away scot free for all the sorrow He's caused us. Someday I'm going to make Him pay. I know when. On the Judgement Day. Yes, that's the day I'll be close enough to reach out and grab that little yokel by His neck and ... "
Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife: "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!"
Yossarian: "What the hell are you getting so upset about? I thought you didn't believe in God."
Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife: "I don't. But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be."
Cosmo said:Too funny! I have not read Catch 22 ... but I assume that is where this is from?
Gordon, you are a silly man...I can almost see you having a hissy fit....for you to use your family that way in your post and finish it off with I am jealous of your post hello men in white jackets. That is crazy.
What the f@ck is this shit? could you redo that in Canadian English? as it sound like bull shit in the present form.
Hard-Luck Henry said:By Salman Rushdie
"Intelligent design, an idea designed backward so as to force the antique idea of a Creator upon the beauty of creation, is so thoroughly rooted in pseudoscience, so full of false logic, so easy to attack that a little rudeness seems called for.
If religion were a private matter, one could more easily respect its believers' right to seek its comforts and nourishments.
But religion today is big public business, using efficient political organization and cutting-edge information technology to advance its ends. Religions play bare-knuckle rough all the time, while demanding kid-glove treatment in return.
As Evans and Ruse would do well to recognize, atheists such as Dawkins, Miller and Wilson are neither immature nor culpable for taking on such religionists.
They are doing a vital and necessary thing.