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2. QFT

Quoted For Truth. Generaly used on internet forum after quoting someone to make sure they cannot go back and change what they've already posted. Sometimes used to express you agree with the opinion. "QFT, brutha." is different from "QFT you fucking bitch!"

Brian wrote: I love cock first thing in the morning.

QFT, you dumb fuck so you can't say later that you didn't say that.

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Originally posted by Anselmina:
Maybe for cold church aumbreys we should make little holy anoraks for the frozen Body of our Lord?!

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I'm sure the three persons can huddle together for warmth.

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Originally posted by ken:
UrbanDictionary is where lonely nerdish high school students who just got pissed on cheap vodka go to post when they have been barred from Wikipedia and they don't have the balls to post on 4chan.

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Then again, my God-given vocation is to be a pain in the collective asses of self-righteous nincompoops.

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Does anyone know what name Christian Arabs use for God?

Moo

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I had to read that again. I thought you had answered your own question until I noticed your avatar.

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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
(As an aside, it's an interesting exercise to ask people to estimate what percentage of their ancestors died in infancy.)

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I love being an Anglican - it involves such a lot of good food ...

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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
I can't see being embarrassed by Jesus. Him being embarrassed by me, certainly.

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An awesome rejoinder from Qlib (can't imagine seeing a quip like this anywhere 'cept the Ship )

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Originally posted by Yorick:
To put it simply, God is weird because He makes no sense- and that's the big grey thing with the trunk, sitting right there and eating peanuts.

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And with an E embroidered on its pyjamas.

For El.

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I realised that people faffing about doesn't necessarily equate to Things Having Been Done...

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Really - do you police every bit of your language for doctrinal clarity?

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Yes! Absolutely. It's on my daily to-do list:

Feed the hungry.

Welcome the stranger.

Clothe the naked.

Visit the sick.

Go to the prisoner.

Police every bit of language for doctrinal clarity.

It's what makes a Christian a Christian.

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I experienced the love of God today in being able to support a homeless person for a few hours and in gathering with a bunch of fellow broken creatures, for a couple of hours this evening, accepting, including them as I am accepted, included. Without judgement. At the point of need. Seeing them revive a little in the gutter when given a nubbin of unconditional welcome. There was nowhere else in a city of a third of a million people where that could have happened. Giving tottering, helpless, terminal alcoholics respect is so worth it. Having dangerous, violent men hold your hand. Awesome.

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The bit about public speaking in tongues is what convinces me that the structure of 1 Corinthians is a series of quotations from the letter that they sent him followed by his reply (“Now concerning the things about which you wrote…”) So rather than it all being the apostle’s instructions some of it is made up of things that they said to him to which he replies “No you’re completely wrong you berks (in Christian love)”.

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Once with some time to kill while waiting at an airport, I went into a bookstore and saw a big volume titled How to say 'no' to your children.

I always had fantasies of what would be the content of that book: "Pass your tong along your upper palate behind your on the inside of your teeth. Feel that ridge over there? Very good, that's your alveolar ridge. Now, just leave your tongue there for a while. Feels comfortable, doesn't it? Now, try to breathe out and let your vocal chords vibrate a bit on the air flow. That's it, very nice and relaxed. But here comes the tricky part: try to let some of the air escape through your nose. Very good! You managed to pronounce an 'n'! So maybe you're ready to go on to something more difficult? Open your mouth a bit... etc."

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I could preach a sermon or two off these and many other experiences and even use them to validate my own inclusive reformed catholic creedal radically paleo-orthodox ancient-future sacramental new monastic post-liberal incarnational spin on things.

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Originally posted by ZombieBunny in the "recreational drugs" thread in Purg:
It's not really the government's job to protect people from themselves, but to protect people from each other.

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Originally posted by Chorister:
Goodness, I did lead a sheltered little life in my Creamtealand sunday school and church choir. You lot were all being scared to death by stories of demons while I was spending all my time trying to find the Lost Chord.

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Originally posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard:
NICE!

I struggle to be cognitive. Real. Coherent. Six years ago I arranged the furniture for God the Father and God the Son and told them EVERYTHING that they already knew, that was holding me back.

I've prayed EVERY obscenity. To get EVERYTHING in to the light. I've prayed ALL the stuff that would have my shrink blanch.

All the intrusive thinking. And the reasons for it. ALL the shame. ALL the guilt. The horror. The despair. The affliction.

Now I'm an extreme case and need Yahweh Raph'eka.

I've prayed naked. Not just in the shower.

And I have BASKED in His inclusion of me.

Recently, a month or so ago, I acknowledged, invoked the Son sitting on the end of my bedsit bed to my left and the Father dead ahead of this chair. The Holy Ghost is Gelert, swirl of fire, torrent and blast of water and wind who loops between us, and He's laid His head in my lap.

That moves me to tears now.

Told you I'm extreme.

I've NEVER heard a word. NEVER had a theophany or hallucination of any kind. Apart from once ... or twice from the dark side. And I have a POWERFUL, visualizing imagination.

Suits me.

I'm used to myself by now.

Yet only recently have I been getting used to anxiety - fear, depression - sadness as contingent. World-flesh-devil. I don't know where they begin and end.

An irrelevant, discursive tangent? I think not.

Get REAL. Feelings are REAL. Not necessarily our friends. But VERY real. Express them ALL.

Do the metanarratives.

Pray the Psalms. Pray the newspapers. Put it ALL at the foot of the cross. Pray your nightmares. Dreams. Lusts. Fears. Hopes.

I don't ENOUGH despite all this purple prose.

And I have had wonderful visualizations in bleak and desperate and hopeless times.

The best being my old, grey, tatty, woolly head being ruffled.

This thing is on all right.

And remember, when it's all nasty, depressing, frightening, exhausting, tear jerking chaos to PRAISE for its own sake with NO hope of blessing beyond that freedom.

To appreciate the beauty of a leaden sky if that's all there is.

Blue will come despite it.

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...It is quite large but has a concave surface sloping down from the centre to the edges ...

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You need a ripidion to keep the bugs away, and someone to waft it, of course.

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Don't you have as staff wielding flabella to deal with this sort of thing? I'm shocked at the lax liturgical standards of some places.

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Hexapterygon. So there.

There's your trifecta.

Oh...and, fan. Let's not forget fan. I guess this is a fourfecta.

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Many years ago I had a dream that I was walking over I-5 in Seattle, WA when Jesus appeared suddenly, overhead. I fell on the ground in terror but He was really quite friendly, picked me up, helped me dust myself off and said, conversationally, "Don't be afraid, you're going to love this!" and then a lot of angels were standing around me and I woke up. It was a very nice dream and I kind of hope that's what the end of the world will be like.

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In Methodism tea, coffee, juice and biscuits (sadly no gin or wine) are second in sacredness only to the Body and Blood.

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The fact is, God gave us a building of bricks and mortar to serve as His incarnate house. Further, He gave us a 1st-century Palestinian Jew to serve as His incarnate Son. To add insult to injury, He gave us Israel's scriptures (much of which is ancient historiography) and the writings of the apostles to serve as His incarnate Word.

So if you're looking for an unconquerable super-building, God will have to disappoint you with the Temple. If you're looking for an uncrucifiable superhuman deity, God will disappoint you with Jesus. And if you're looking for a perfect book, you'll have to make do with the Bible.

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"Fuck you, I am a Christian!"

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"He who lives by the sneaky little drop shot, dies by the sneaky little drop shot." --Snoopy

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What is it about Hell that attracts the tunnel-visioned, the seen-one-thread-seen-'em-all idiots, and the textese-as-first-language people?

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It's a one syllable word.

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Okay -having spent the day being rather rude about the shortcomings of my own denomination... I would now like to say -by way of fairness and without compromising my grumpy mood...
Hooray for the dear old Church of England, with its loopy clerics, shaky structures, bad-tempered PCCs and decrepit buildings, hooray for its ill-considered attempts at outreach and its watery coffee, its tentative kindness and confident complaints, hooray for its diversity and confusion and open, obviously flawed and authentically tired members (including me). And hallelujah for its incomprehensible survival, its moments of mystical and ancient beauty, its attempts at fairness and justice and bravery, and its genuinely lovely and loving humanity and the cracks all over it where the light shines through... No earthly power COULD or WOULD build a church like this, on anxiety and earnestness, doubt and forgiveness, which might, if it were a human being, look a bit like a rugged and frightened and loving and grumpy fisherman...

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Really??? You do surprise me!!

/Sarcasm off/

Oi, I said /Sarcasm off/!

Bloody Sarcasm circuit's stuck! Damn!

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In addition to the actual worship side of things, I find it tremendously reassuring to know that the liturgy used in most churches has been carefully thought out and discussed by people who have spent years studying scripture and the understanding of the church over the centuries, to make sure it is as right as it can be according to present understanding. When churches are tempted to go off the rails, chasing after passions of the moment, and wild excesses of enthusiasm, which often turn out later to be wild goose chases, the liturgy stands there firm and steady, keeping Christians on the right path. Or, when they stray off it, bringing them gently back.

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We had an old classmate over for dinner, and I decided to make a peach pie. Everything was lovely--except I mistook the salt for the sugar.

He took one bite, got an indescrible look on his face, and said politely:

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... which is about as obvious as the nose on my face. (And I'm not showing you that, but if you stick your head out the window, it's probably visible from where you are)

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To manage you lot, I'd need a pentagram, a goat and a sharp knife.

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Anyone know where I can buy a goat?

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... when your teacher's trying to teach you how to tell whether a verb is aorist or imperfect, and you discover the existence of second aorists and curse God and die for picking Greek as a language to write the greatest treasure of our faith in.

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