Jesus Loves You.

[GenesisNemesis]

I want you to know, go fuck yourself.

[Rainprooffredturnip]

I'm so glad that he loves me. I wish that he could cure my piles though.

[airportkid]

I wish that he could cure my piles though.

He probably does.  Jesus is famous for extra long turnaround times, though.  It's been more than 2 centuries of waiting for him to simply show up.  In the matter of curing piles, the turnaround from him appears to be something beyond 130 years.  There are no instances of active piles found on human bodies beyond that many years after onset.

So be patient.

[Rainprooffredturnip]

I wish that he could cure my piles though.

He probably does.  Jesus is famous for extra long turnaround times, though.  It's been more than 2 centuries of waiting for him to simply show up.  In the matter of curing piles, the turnaround from him appears to be something beyond 130 years.  There are no instances of active piles found on human bodies beyond that many years after onset.

So be patient.

It's quite difficult to be patient when my arse resembles that of a Baboon.

Every time I see a bunch of grapes I flinch.

[Bucky Ball]

Jebus said that there were those standing with him who would not taste death until the end-times came.

I assure you they are ALL long ago dead.

It's all simply crap.

[adey67]

He probably does.  Jesus is famous for extra long turnaround times, though.  It's been more than 2 centuries of waiting for him to simply show up.  In the matter of curing piles, the turnaround from him appears to be something beyond 130 years.  There are no instances of active piles found on human bodies beyond that many years after onset.

So be patient.

It's quite difficult to be patient when my arse resembles that of a Baboon.

Every time I see a bunch of grapes I flinch.

I know how you feel .
Go see your doctor he can inject them with oily phenol to shrink them or strangle them with special rubber bands

[Minimalist]

I'm so glad that he loves me. I wish that he could cure my piles though.

Only if they are caused by demons..... and you happen to have a shitload of pigs around.

[Dancefortwo]

I'm so glad that he loves me. I wish that he could cure my piles though.

LOL.  I wish Jebus could fix my cronic sinus problems.  I have a long standing invitation to meet Mr. God at the local wing of  childrens hospital where children are dying of cancer.  I would meet him there and he could cure all the children with cancer and let them all live.  I'd even buy him a cup of coffee and a donut.  So far he's been a no-show.

[Minimalist]

The fucker's busy.....

[pattylt]

I'm so glad that he loves me. I wish that he could cure my piles though.

Perhaps you need to use the biblical term “emerods”?  I’m sure that’s the ticket!

[Rainprooffredturnip]

I'm so glad that he loves me. I wish that he could cure my piles though.

Perhaps you need to use the biblical term “emerods”?  I’m sure that’s the ticket!

And promise that I'm not interested in the contents of the ark I suppose.

[Dancefortwo]

Perhaps you need to use the biblical term “emerods”?  I’m sure that’s the ticket!

And promise that I'm not interested in the contents of the ark I suppose.

Fear not, the Biblical god allows the burning of human dung to cook bread so when you poo just keep this in mind.  

Ezekiel 4:12-17 ERV
"You must make your bread each day. You must get dry human dung and burn it. Then you must cook the bread over this burning dung. You must eat this bread in front of the people.” 

Yummy for the tummy.  

[brewerb]

A drive by troll gets 5 pages.

That's just sad.

[Dancefortwo]

A drive by troll gets 5 pages.

That's just sad.

Yeah, but we've turned it into a comedy thread.  Lots of sillyness and nonsense going on here.    

[pythagorean]

A drive by troll gets 5 pages.

That's just sad.

Yeah, but we've turned it into a comedy thread.  Lots of sillyness and nonsense going on here.    

It's called "welcoming the stranger", and it is a very important part of our atheist moralities.

[pythagorean]

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[pythagorean]

The fucker's busy.....

So somebody who's likely never been hungry made a meme ridiculing Black children?

I wish I could say that I'm surprised, but I'm not.

How does the meme-maker know that this Black child is hungry? (Omniscience, perhaps?)

The child's parents may be quite wealthy.

And by the way, what's this Black child's religion?

Does the meme-maker know? 

Or is this just another assumption, in order to ridicule this Black child's presumed culture and religion, from a position of presumed cultural and religious superiority?

Felix Unger Assume

[WICharlie]

So that's Jebus of the Serengeti? Did he walk among the lions and tame the beasts? Did he ride into town on a camel whelst the people laid down palm fronds? Oh wait! What kind of leaves would be in the Serengeti?

[Minimalist]

The fucker's busy.....

So somebody who's likely never been hungry made a meme ridiculing Black children?

I wish I could say that I'm surprised, but I'm not.

How does the meme-maker know that this Black child is hungry? (Omniscience, perhaps?)

The child's parents may be quite wealthy.

And by the way, what's this Black child's religion?

Does the meme-maker know? 

Or is this just another assumption, in order to ridicule this Black child's presumed culture and religion, from a position of presumed cultural and religious superiority?

Felix Unger Assume

So, now we know that satire is lost on you?  You are losing points by the moment, fella.

[Dancefortwo]

Yeah, but we've turned it into a comedy thread.  Lots of sillyness and nonsense going on here.    

It's called "welcoming the stranger", and it is a very important part of our atheist moralities.

A little bit of humor and comedy - the best way to welcome someone.  

[Inkubus]

So, now we know that satire is lost on you?  You are losing points by the moment, fella.

Thingymebob is losing his mind by the second. He registered (under his present guise) eighteen days ago and he's been logged in just short of five of those days. 

His heads gone.

[pythagorean]

It's called "welcoming the stranger", and it is a very important part of our atheist moralities.

A little bit of humor and comedy - the best way to welcome someone.  

Anita Briant came here to Iowa, once. So we welcomed her with a fruit pie.

Anita Bryant Pie in the Face

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Gay rights activists throw a pie in Anita Bryant's face.




An atheist and a priest go golfing. The atheist misses the hole and shouts, "God damn it! I missed that one!" 

The priest, says to the atheist, "My son, please don't use the Lord's name in vain."

Later, the atheist misses again and shouts, "God damn it! I missed that one!".

As storm clouds gather on the horizon, the priest again cautions the atheist about using the Lord's name in vain.

The storm clouds get closer, and once again, the atheist misses and shouts, "God damn it! I missed that one!", and again gets cautioned by the priest, who is becoming increasingly concerned, who points to the gathering storm clouds, and says, "My son, my son! Please don't use the Lord's name in vain. This could be dangerous!"

As the storm clouds gather above them, the atheist misses again, and shouts, "God damn it! I missed that one!"

Suddenly a lightning bolt flashes from the storm clouds above and strikes the priest dead.

The atheist, now visibly rattled, looks up at the storm clouds, and hears a booming voice coming from above that shouts, "God damn it! I missed that one!"

[pythagorean]

So, now we know that satire is lost on you?  You are losing points by the moment, fella.

Losing points? Who's giving out points? And why does having a sense of humor result in lost points, anyway?

Just because your (ir)religion doesn't have a sense of humor, doesn't mean that other (ir)religions can't.

Here's a passage from the PhD dissertation by a professional Anthropologist, specializing in Musicology, with a focus on the Black Violin. 

Por eso en el Valle del Patía el violín y el diablo cohabitan transvalorados creativamente. Porque viven con ellos, en relaciones de uno y otro con los que interactúan. Elaboran e interpretan el violín, hacen música en una relación íntima espiritual, cósmica, con el alma de todos, en relación con la naturaleza, los seres no humanos, con el diablo, con los sonidos del agua, con los otros, en una relación musical colectiva, en la laboriosidad de su trabajo de ser agricultores. Soy agricultor ante todo, primero fui bailarín y luego pasé a ser músico y ahí me quedé componiendo canciones, dice Virgilio Llanos (2010), compositor de la agrupación Son del Tuno.

De ahí que, para algunos el diablo a veces es malo y a veces es bueno. "El diablo me da risa", nos comentó Lola Grueso, la maestra de la escuela Dos Ríos de Galíndez, Patía (2013), pero a medida que avanza en la conversación va modificando los conceptos:

l diablo es un espíritu tentador, hombre malo, se dedicó a enamorar a los hombres, pues ese enamoramiento de ofrecerles el poder porque el poder se usa en diferentes direcciones, hay el poder para servir y el poder para hacer el bien y el mal. En el poder del diablo es para hacer el mal. Se habló mucho del poder que tenía el diablo y en ese defecto, muchos hombres hicieron pacto con él, para hacer plata, fortuna, tener todo lo que quisieran a su alrededor. Por eso la historia del Patía está marcada y está como adornada de esa magia, de esos hombres como de esa época encantada diríamoslo así, en que en sitios especiales, ellos hicieron ese acuerdo con el diablo, en que el diablo les diera el poder de enamorar y conseguir las mujeres fueran soltera, casada o lo que fuera, de tener plata para hacer y deshacer, de tener fortuna, el de tener ganado, pues en la mayoría de casos estaba caracterizado por tener ganado, porque lo que les ha dado estatus al patiano ha sido el ganado, la vida del patiano ha estado enmarcada por eso.

Y no duda en aclarar que el diablo es malo pues es el que llegó de Occidente, pero en la conversación con la maestra Lola se ilumina su rostro y su expresividad corporal se transforma como si se ‘desdoblara’ en emoción, cuando empieza a narrarnos sobre ese embrujo, el empautamiento, que le da la identidad al Patía y más aún, lo que para el Estado y para la sociedad en general es malo, es delito, históricamente a los patianos los han relacionado con el abigeato o robo de ganado, ella lo reivindica como un hecho bueno, el de tener ganado, una donación del diablo que les da identidad, afirma Lola Grueso.

Precisamente en esa transvaloración, el ganado en el Valle del Patía ha tenido un gran significado, porque tener ganado, ha dado estatus al patiano, por eso el descarne, el robo de ganado, el abigeato en la concepción jurídica del Estado es un delito, a diferencia del negro patiano: el tener ganado, comer carne, ha tenido y tiene grandes connotaciones y significaciones como actividad para el desarrollo económico, social y cultural, como actividad defensiva de la vida de la población patiana. El ‘descarne’, ‘comer ganado’, como actividad destinada a la consecución de carne por parte de aquellos que, frente a la ruptura del anterior sistema de relaciones adaptativas del proceso colonial, vieron en el descarne o en otras de las expresiones del llamado abigeato una salida viable por medio de la cual dar respuesta a sus necesidades. (Ussa, 1987)

(pages 155 - 156)

Las almas de los violines 'negros'

Dr. Paloma Muñoz

http://repositorio.unicauca.edu.co:8080/...456789/134

(Via DeepL):

That is why in the Patía Valley the violin and the devil cohabit creatively transvalued. Because they live with them, in relations of one and the other with those they interact with. They elaborate and interpret the violin, they make music in an intimate spiritual, cosmic relation, with the soul of all, in relation with nature, the non-human beings, with the devil, with the sounds of the water, with the others, in a collective musical relation, in the laboriousness of their work of being farmers. I am a farmer first and foremost, first I was a dancer and then I became a musician and there I stayed composing songs, says Virgilio Llanos (2010), composer of the group Son del Tuno.

Hence, for some, the devil is sometimes bad and sometimes good. "The devil makes me laugh," said Lola Grueso, the teacher of the Dos Ríos de Galíndez school in Patía (2013), but as the conversation progresses, she modifies the concepts:

The devil is a tempting spirit, bad man, he dedicated himself to enamoring men, well that enamoring of offering them power because power is used in different directions, there is power to serve and power to do good and evil. In the devil's power is to do evil. Much was said about the power that the devil had and in that defect, many men made a pact with him, to make money, fortune, to have everything they wanted around them. That is why the history of the Patía is marked and is like adorned with that magic, of those men as of that enchanted time we would say it this way, in which in special places, they made that agreement with the devil, in which the devil gave them the power to fall in love and to get the women to be single, married or whatever, to have money to do and undo, to have fortune, to have cattle, because in the majority of cases it was characterized by having cattle, because what has given status to the patiano has been the cattle, the life of the patiano has been framed by that.

And she does not hesitate to clarify that the devil is bad because he is the one who came from the West, but in the conversation with the teacher Lola her face lights up and her corporal expressiveness transforms as if it 'unfolded' in emotion, when she begins to narrate us about that spell, the empautamiento, What for the State and for society in general is bad, it is a crime, historically the Patianos have been related to cattle rustling or cattle theft, she claims it as a good thing, to have cattle, a gift from the devil that gives them identity, says Lola Grueso.

Precisely in that transvaluation, cattle in the Patía Valley has had a great significance, because having cattle has given status to the Patiano people, that is why cattle rustling, cattle theft, cattle rustling in the legal conception of the State is a crime, unlike the black Patiano people: having cattle, eating meat, has had and has great connotations and meanings as an activity for the economic, social and cultural development, as a defensive activity for the life of the Patiano people. The 'fleshing out', 'eating cattle', as an activity aimed at obtaining meat by those who, faced with the rupture of the previous system of adaptive relations of the colonial process, saw in the fleshing out or in other expressions of the so-called "abigeato" a viable way out through which to respond to their needs. (Ussa, 1987)

[pythagorean]

So, now we know that satire is lost on you?  You are losing points by the moment, fella.

Thingymebob is losing his mind by the second. 

No sense of humor for you either, huh?

Without a sense of humor, how can us atheists even begin to understand the theoretical theological limits to Omniscience in Catholicism?

Se dice que los que se iban a empautar del municipio del Patía, subían al cerro de Manzanillo para el empaute los jueves y viernes santos, ahí la montaña se abría y entraban al interior de una cueva, en donde se encontraba el diablo esperándolos para hacer el pacto de intercambio del alma a cambio de los favores solicitados. El cerro de Manzanillo, es el lugar mítico y geográfico que los patianos definen como el lugar en donde se pacta, se negocia, se intercambia saberes en la cueva como una especie de protección de la vida para conectarse con sus antepasados. 
 
En todo el Valle del Patía, en su mayoría habitado por afrodescendientes, ha existido esta creencia de que para ser buenos violinistas hay que hacer el pacto con el diablo, igual para adquirir poderes de bien de fortuna, ser guapetones (luchadores), esgrimistas o grimistas y enamorar a las mujeres. Al preguntarles por qué el jueves y viernes santos y no otro día hacían el pacto con el diablo, si era acaso por una manifestación en contra de la iglesia católica, respondieron:
 

No, no, no ¡cómo se le ocurre! Lo que pasa es que en esos días Cristo está muerto y no nos ve, no ve los tratos que hacemos con el diablo.

(pages 137-138) 

Las Almas de los Violines Negros  

Dr. Paloma Muñoz

Las almas de los violines negros (unicauca.edu.co)

It is said that those who were going to empaute of the municipality of Patía, climbed the hill of Manzanillo for the empaute on Holy Thursdays and Fridays, there the mountain opened and they entered the interior of a cave, where the devil was waiting for them to make the pact of exchange of the soul in exchange for the requested favors. The hill of Manzanillo, is the mythical and geographical place that the patianos define as the place where they make a pact, negotiate, exchange knowledge in the cave as a kind of protection of life to connect with their ancestors. 
 
Throughout the Patía Valley, mostly inhabited by Afro-descendants, there has been this belief that to be good violinists one has to make a pact with the devil, the same to acquire good fortune powers, to be handsome (wrestlers), fencers or grimists and to fall in love with women. When asked why on Holy Thursday and Good Friday and not on any other day they made the pact with the devil, if it was perhaps because of a demonstration against the Catholic Church, they answered:

No, no, no, no, how could you think of that! What happens is that on those days Christ is dead and does not see us, does not see the deals we make with the devil.

[adey67]

The fucker's busy.....

So somebody who's likely never been hungry made a meme ridiculing Black children?

I wish I could say that I'm surprised, but I'm not.

How does the meme-maker know that this Black child is hungry? (Omniscience, perhaps?)

The child's parents may be quite wealthy.

And by the way, what's this Black child's religion?

Does the meme-maker know? 

Or is this just another assumption, in order to ridicule this Black child's presumed culture and religion, from a position of presumed cultural and religious superiority?

Felix Unger Assume

Fuck me mate. Maybe try and lighten up a bit, I'm beginning to see why some folks have issues with you, the cock womble who started this thread was a drive by troll he's earned his ridicule twice over.