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Thread: Cringeless religious affiliation
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Qoheleth.
Semi-Sagacious One
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From the blurb for a forthcoming management conference for w*rk (UK corporate culture):
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One of the objectives with any conference is to network with your colleagues. With around 300 attendees there will probably be someone that you don't know.
To help break the ice why not add a short comment on your interests, or a little known fact about yourself via this link that will help someone who doesn't know you to start the conversation
How might Shipmates respond, given that a certain professional etiquette is expected and that a fictitious response is likely to be rapidly discovered? God ought to come into it as my "interest"; how about 'I spent Sunday morning wearing a tablecloth propitiating a malevolent sky fairy'?
WWJD?
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jacobsen
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I spent Sunday morning wearing the calluses off my knees.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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jacobsen
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Originally posted by Qoheleth.:
WWJD?
Whatever Jesus would do, he would do it on a Saturday.
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Sipech
Shipmate
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If it's religious-themed then I can honestly say that I used to live a gay rabbi and that I named a dog that used to live in Lambeth palace. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
I used to live a gay rabbi
You've been reincarnated. Cool.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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I spent an hour sitting in silence on Sunday.
When I drive to work, I listen to hard rock.
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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On a hassock in my cassock.
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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molopata
The Ship's jack
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Well a real-life example is a mischievous friend of ours who explained at once such conference that she was sleeping with one of the lecturers at her Bible college.
It was only once she had reaped the full crop of scandalised incredulity that she explained that he was also her husband.
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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That's always fun. You (well, I, once upon a time) could vary it by telling people you're pregnant with the pastor's child, or simply kiss the pastor (in dog collar) on the steps of a Catholic university. That was fun.
But for my entry: I was excommunicated from church and am now working mainly with agnostics. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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Terry Pratchett ( ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) ) is my favorite theologian.
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Ricardus
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by molopata:
Well a real-life example is a mischievous friend of ours who explained at once such conference that she was sleeping with one of the lecturers at her Bible college.
It was only once she had reaped the full crop of scandalised incredulity that she explained that he was also her husband.
There's an old story about a preacher who proudly declared in his sermon 'I spent the best years of my life in the arms of another man's wife ...' Scandalised reaction! ' ...in the arms of my mother.'
The story continues that another preacher, sitting in the congregation, was dead impressed at this and decided to try it out at his own church on Sunday.
'I spent the best years of my life in the arms of another man's wife ...' Scandalised reaction; in fact the reaction is so scandalised that the preacher loses his train of thought completely and eventually stutters: 'But I can't remember whose!'
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Then the dog ran before, and coming as if he had brought the news, shewed his joy by his fawning and wagging his tail. -- Tobit 11:9 (Douai-Rheims)
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
Shipmate
# 76
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Terry Pratchett ( ) is my favorite theologian.
Him and Ian Anderson , pretty much.
[ 20. April 2016, 20:14: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
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Might as well ask the bloody cat.
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Evangeline
Shipmate
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There's always the old, most weekends I drink blood and eat flesh.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Terry Pratchett ( ) is my favorite theologian.
Him and Ian Anderson , pretty much.
IMO, the best introduction to ecclesiology is Life of Brian
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jacobsen
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There's nothing like keeping it in the family. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Pure Sunshine
Shipmate
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This reminds me of the blurb on the back of one of G. P. Taylor's fantasy novels:
"He lives in a graveyard and lectures on the supernatural."
Translation: he is a vicar ...
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