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Actually we have these conversations in our house on how you get to be a Dark Lord. Do you start as a Dim Lord and work down?

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What's a mainline Christian doctrine again?

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Life is too short to berate every passing arsehole.

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If you really use lines like "Some keeps e-mailing my predecessor at my job are causing me to blanked out" in business e-mail then all I can say is every reads will be having trouble them are losing employers some credible.

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Actually we have these conversations in our house on how you get to be a Dark Lord. Do you start as a Dim Lord and work down?

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yet another example of why I want to go live with Firenze and be her daughter.

they think like me.

and she cooks good.


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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin

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Eliab, the voice of pragmatism:

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I think to become a Dim Lord you have to study with Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light.

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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.

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I think to become a Dim Lord you have to study with Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light.

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If I were a Cockney...

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ACK! Now there's Astley in my head, and I'm going to have to use a spork to get it out.

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"...and then he fell down and broke his leg." ~(German humor from a recent thread- reputed to get them every time!)

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I really try not to go to my 'better than' place but a lot of the time it's just darn difficult not to, despite all the “we're all God's children” pep talks I try to give myself. Some of God’s children are bottom-feeders. They just are.

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and Sine: That's a very kind way to look at it, Brother Gort. I wish I were that spiritually advanced.

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Didn't I give you enough blood to run your brain and your cock at the same time? Don't try that on me!

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I am pre-programmed to crap myself from sheer panic the day Christ returns. When that happens, I'll be sure to pass on the news.

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God can redeem our human nature. Political theory can't.

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If God could work through Balaam's Ass he can work through the clergy!

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God bless us, everyone! it's like christmas, easter, and an orgasm all in one!

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I really can't understand the sheer anality of a lot of those people who write papers to argue that Abba = Father and not Daddy. It's quite clearly got a semantic range that covers both (and then some).

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... most people get commemorative tattoos with their churchlady friends at the Shrimp & Petroleum Festival.

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The trouble is I have so many problems with: "..we need key laity in such jobs."

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Is my Oxford Study Bible in the Revised English version okay?

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So, is this a euphemism? I've led a sheltered life.

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Now, the thing that is idiotic about this so-called argument is not that it can't happen, but that it assumes that my current level of stupidity is the right and true level for all people at all times.

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You know it's a bad day at the virtual office when you're attacked by flying penises.

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By the way, while I was investigating Second Life, I read this great article by a guy who attended a seminar by Java introducing some new developments. The gathering place was in Second Life. He was computer savvy, but he'd never been to Second Life. He found himself/his sulky-looking avatar holding a flaming torch in the virtual auditorium for the entire presentation. He couldn't get rid of it. I'd link the article but it seems to have just been restricted to registered users.

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Have you not heard of the Holy Trilogy?

Volume 1: The Father.
A huge bestseller, so popular He led to the much awaited follow-up sequel: The Son (now appearing in flesh, and paperback).
And Volume 3: The Holy Spirit -- viewed by many critics as a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, but by some diehard fans as a disappointing follow-up. Never became as popular as Volumes 1 and 2 of the series, perhaps because He was seen as less accessible.

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If you really care about this planet, just think about how an army of grouchy sleep-deprived grizzlies with AK 47s might disrupt it's delicate balance. Just think for once!

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"How come no one in the Bible ever stays home?"

That one gave me pause. It's true: every major character is always on the move, from somewhere to somewhere else. Church folks tend to worry about their buildings -- hammering and nailing everything down, including liturgy and theology. Perhaps we'd do better to remember that no one in the Bible ever stays at home.

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Originally posted by Spiffy:
...there are people on this board who would stand in front of the neon blinking sign pointing to the duck while holding Harper's Compleat Duck Identifier of the World (and how to tell them from drakes and goslings) open to the illustrated plates and still wouldn't know the duck even after it beaned them in the head with an egg.

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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Yeah, the pc brigade has run amok in the US, too. Most of TV this summer and autumn was devoted to this political series where -get this- the protagonists were this middle-aged white woman; a very old, disabled, war veteran; and a nerdy, elite black guy.

The drama went back and forth for months. Everyone recalled how during a previous season, the woman's husband had disgraced his high office with hanky-panky, but that his wife had nobly risen above it. The pc crowd was torn: noble, white woman/elite, black man? Elite, black man/noble, white woman? But it seemed that the elite nerd quietly overtook her. Then he chose to run with a middle-aged, white male politician (the choice shouldn't be too out there, ya know).

Then, sensing that the series would become too boringly white bread if he was paired with another old, white guy, the war veteran brought in an ex-beauty queen in a heels and a pencil skirt. Who belonged to the NRA. Who had been mayor of a town of 6,000. Who'd been a governor for a few months. It was an interesting idea, but since everyone knew that white, war vets had risen to the top a number of times before, the female pistol from Alaska not withstanding, it was agreed it was time for a Change.

So the nerdy, black guy with the cute wife and kids won the day and the season ended in his triumph. And pc was satisfied even though a triumph for one deserving pc candidate necessarily excluded other deserving pc possibilities like the disabled vet, the noble woman, the Hispanic governor, or the Mormon. (You don't think Mormons have been oppressed?)

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That is so...so...so...offensive I am speechless. Thus I voice my outrage in interpretive dance:

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Leo I suggest you PM Hiccup.

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A long one, but worth it from an historical perspective.

Lyda Rose comments on recent US television offerings

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I am Erin's little lamb,
Scared to be a snack I am,
For my gator gently gnaws me,
Nibbles, disembowels and claws me,
Slathers mint sauce on my frame--
And so justifies my name!

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Feh: The fighting is much more sporadic, but there is still way to much hissing and swatting and growling for me. I suppose they are adapting, which is all I can ask. I just wish Cobie and his girlfriend would love each other!

Lamb Chopped: Feh, you're sounding like Jesus contemplating the church

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I'm one of the ill-humored cranks fighting against the modernist tide, striving to keep the adventish stuff inside Advent, the Christmasish stuff inside Christmastide, the Epiphany things clustered close to Epiphany, and the Santa Clausish stuff banished to Walmart and 6 December. I'm really pretty harmless.

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