Religion
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I'm bloody tired of religion. Last year, my parents caught the Catholics, and every now and then when they are visiting, they have to fast. At least they can be forgiven later, so they usually end up eating and drinking what I serve anyway. But now my brother has entered some jewish cult, and its fucking impossible to put together a kosher meal, especially when I really don't want to bother considering my own viewpoint on spiritual mumbo-jumbo and whatnot. I mean, he's eaten goddamn (pun intended) everything putten on his platter that wasn't able to escape for all his baby, child and grownup life, and NOW if he sips a droplet of milk after eating a steak some pretty fucked up deity will strike him down? Sometimes I wonder if I'm the last sane person in the family, and sometimes I just wait for insanity to break through. Actually, I've given a lot of thought to the flying spaghetti monster, but I think it lacks somewhat in serviceable virgins.
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
Sounds like you're almost converted! Be patient, and give it a go!
Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay
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I'm bloody tired of religion. Last year, my parents caught the Catholics, and every now and then when they are visiting, they have to fast. At least they can be forgiven later, so they usually end up eating and drinking what I serve anyway. But now my brother has entered some jewish cult, and its fucking impossible to put together a kosher meal, especially when I really don't want to bother considering my own viewpoint on spiritual mumbo-jumbo and whatnot. I mean, he's eaten goddamn (pun intended) everything putten on his platter that wasn't able to escape for all his baby, child and grownup life, and NOW if he sips a droplet of milk after eating a steak some pretty fucked up deity will strike him down? Sometimes I wonder if I'm the last sane person in the family, and sometimes I just wait for insanity to break through. Actually, I've given a lot of thought to the flying spaghetti monster, but I think it lacks somewhat in serviceable virgins.
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
jan larsen wrote:
I'm bloody tired of religion.
Why single out religion? Be tired of irrational thought across the board ;) I remember visiting a highschool friend of mine during his graduation week at college. He'd gone all uppity budhist vegan bohemian by that point. Good lord was he impressed with himself! The funny part was that he ate the last part of my steak-and-cheese burrito when I got up to go to the bathroom when we were hanging out one night. I got back and was like "WTF?", to which he replied "I'm not a vegan, I'm a freegan." Freekin hypocrit, more like it (unfortunately I didn't think of that until later on that night) It's unfortunate, but sometimes you just have to learn to put up with friends or relatives hitching a ride on the dumbass wagon. Or you just realize that you've grown apart to the point that you just go your separate ways...
-- Russell Morris Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
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I'm bloody tired of religion. Last year, my parents caught the Catholics, and every now and then when they are visiting, they have to fast. At least they can be forgiven later, so they usually end up eating and drinking what I serve anyway. But now my brother has entered some jewish cult, and its fucking impossible to put together a kosher meal, especially when I really don't want to bother considering my own viewpoint on spiritual mumbo-jumbo and whatnot. I mean, he's eaten goddamn (pun intended) everything putten on his platter that wasn't able to escape for all his baby, child and grownup life, and NOW if he sips a droplet of milk after eating a steak some pretty fucked up deity will strike him down? Sometimes I wonder if I'm the last sane person in the family, and sometimes I just wait for insanity to break through. Actually, I've given a lot of thought to the flying spaghetti monster, but I think it lacks somewhat in serviceable virgins.
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
As a Jew I can understand the frustration. True orthodox Jews will even have separate cooking utensils, plates, etc. for the meat/dairy food. That's a little extreme for me. I personally try to avoid eating pork, but I love shellfish. In fact, the first reform Jewish school for rabbis in Cincinnati, OH served shrimp for their graduation dinner. has he become Orthodox or has he gotten into kaballah? The later is seen as a "cult" to many Jews. The first, well they're odd, but most have true faith and if that is what gets them through the day I am not to question it. Here is the other thing about being Jewish...we don't believe any of us will go to hell. So eat your cheeseburger. You won't be sent to hell for it! :)
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As a Jew I can understand the frustration. True orthodox Jews will even have separate cooking utensils, plates, etc. for the meat/dairy food. That's a little extreme for me. I personally try to avoid eating pork, but I love shellfish. In fact, the first reform Jewish school for rabbis in Cincinnati, OH served shrimp for their graduation dinner. has he become Orthodox or has he gotten into kaballah? The later is seen as a "cult" to many Jews. The first, well they're odd, but most have true faith and if that is what gets them through the day I am not to question it. Here is the other thing about being Jewish...we don't believe any of us will go to hell. So eat your cheeseburger. You won't be sent to hell for it! :)
leckey wrote:
Here is the other thing about being Jewish...we don't believe any of us will go to hell.
Just us filthy un-kosher gentiles will goto hell, right?
And we never know under which new alias you're going to rear your ugly head. - Tim Craig
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leckey wrote:
Here is the other thing about being Jewish...we don't believe any of us will go to hell.
Just us filthy un-kosher gentiles will goto hell, right?
And we never know under which new alias you're going to rear your ugly head. - Tim Craig
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Nope. ALL people go to heaven. We believe that G-d loves his children so much, no matter what they have done, that they will go to heaven.
But that is not what the Bible says: Revelation 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
And we never know under which new alias you're going to rear your ugly head. - Tim Craig
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But that is not what the Bible says: Revelation 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
And we never know under which new alias you're going to rear your ugly head. - Tim Craig
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But Jews are the ones who wrote the original Bible. Did you all change your minds after writing that? :badger:
And we never know under which new alias you're going to rear your ugly head. - Tim Craig
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But Jews are the ones who wrote the original Bible. Did you all change your minds after writing that? :badger:
And we never know under which new alias you're going to rear your ugly head. - Tim Craig
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You know how they should not have messed with the first Coke? Then they went back to "Original Coke"? We didn't change our minds! We were always for the original! :laugh: :badger: I love this badger!
leckey wrote:
You know how they should not have messed with the first Coke? Then they went back to "Original Coke"? We didn't change our minds! We were always for the original!
:doh:
leckey wrote:
I love this badger!
I am sure that b-dger loves you too.
And we never know under which new alias you're going to rear your ugly head. - Tim Craig
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I'm bloody tired of religion. Last year, my parents caught the Catholics, and every now and then when they are visiting, they have to fast. At least they can be forgiven later, so they usually end up eating and drinking what I serve anyway. But now my brother has entered some jewish cult, and its fucking impossible to put together a kosher meal, especially when I really don't want to bother considering my own viewpoint on spiritual mumbo-jumbo and whatnot. I mean, he's eaten goddamn (pun intended) everything putten on his platter that wasn't able to escape for all his baby, child and grownup life, and NOW if he sips a droplet of milk after eating a steak some pretty fucked up deity will strike him down? Sometimes I wonder if I'm the last sane person in the family, and sometimes I just wait for insanity to break through. Actually, I've given a lot of thought to the flying spaghetti monster, but I think it lacks somewhat in serviceable virgins.
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
Habits become customs, custome become traditions, traditions become laws. Why did I just think of "Life of Brian"?
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As a Jew I can understand the frustration. True orthodox Jews will even have separate cooking utensils, plates, etc. for the meat/dairy food. That's a little extreme for me. I personally try to avoid eating pork, but I love shellfish. In fact, the first reform Jewish school for rabbis in Cincinnati, OH served shrimp for their graduation dinner. has he become Orthodox or has he gotten into kaballah? The later is seen as a "cult" to many Jews. The first, well they're odd, but most have true faith and if that is what gets them through the day I am not to question it. Here is the other thing about being Jewish...we don't believe any of us will go to hell. So eat your cheeseburger. You won't be sent to hell for it! :)
leckey wrote:
has he become Orthodox
Given some of his comments I'm sure he would have liked that a lot, but unfortunately, they seem to have a problem with gays, and since he is married to a man, well...
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr