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I would rather have sex with a fat, smelly woman than look at Tim Tebow's stupid face

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I understand the need to stand up for your beliefs, but you should do so frequently....and loudly, just like everyone else here does.
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I remember one time we were in Malibu sitting outside eating lunch. I commented on some girl's hair, something about "pony tails". My friend was like, "what did you just say?" I repeated myself. The whole table said I was wrong and that the proper terminology was "pig tails". I was absolutely, positively sure that they were in the wrong. I was so sure I think I bet a buck or something. I went over to the girl and asked her if she would consider her hair style "pig tails" or "pony tails". She said pig tails. I was shocked.

Growing up my mom always put my hair in "pony tails". It was such a deeply ingrained "belief" that to hear anything to the contrary was shocking. I mean I know were only talking about a hairstyle here, but I seriously felt a weird sense of sickness and vertigo that something I just *knew* for a fact could be blown out of the water so cavalierly.

So, what I'm trying to say here, in this convoluted possibly ridiculous story is that if something so minor could mess up my head so much, I really can understand how something as big as religious beliefs could make you lash out.

But, it's really hard to have a conversation with a person that just says "don't pick on me/call me dumb" and doesn't have a way to defend their position. I think just because you want something to be true, no matter how badly, doesn't mean it is. I can't respect (the position, not you personally) the argument that ends in "well that's what I believe, so you should be polite".

If you watched the Dawkins video, you might have a better understanding on why I feel so strongly, and my difficulty in being "polite" (about religion). Did you even watch it?
 
Mrs. X
I remember one time we were in Malibu sitting outside eating lunch. I commented on some girl's hair, something about "pony tails". My friend was like, "what did you just say?" I repeated myself. The whole table said I was wrong and that the proper terminology was "pig tails". I was absolutely, positively sure that they were in the wrong. I was so sure I think I bet a buck or something. I went over to the girl and asked her if she would consider her hair style "pig tails" or "pony tails". She said pig tails. I was shocked.

Growing up my mom always put my hair in "pony tails". It was such a deeply ingrained "belief" that to hear anything to the contrary was shocking. I mean I know were only talking about a hairstyle here, but I seriously felt a weird sense of sickness and vertigo that something I just *knew* for a fact could be blown out of the water so cavalierly.

So, what I'm trying to say here, in this convoluted possibly ridiculous story is that if something so minor could mess up my head so much, I really can understand how something as big as religious beliefs could make you lash out.

But, it's really hard to have a conversation with a person that just says "don't pick on me/call me dumb" and doesn't have a way to defend their position. I think just because you want something to be true, no matter how badly, doesn't mean it is. I can't respect (the position, not you personally) the argument that ends in "well that's what I believe, so you should be polite". javascript://

If you watched the Dawkins video, you might have a better understanding on why I feel so strongly, and my difficulty in being "polite" (about religion). Did you even watch it?
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this just blew me ind, pterry much
 
I have seen it before and have seen him in a debate with someone in Birmingham. In my belief, the other guy (whose name I can't think of) wiped the floor with him.

Like I mentioned to Fischy, for me it is more than beliefs. It is a relationship. A living, breathing relaitionship much like the one I have with you guys and with people around me on a daily basis, only on a much deeper level. I have gone to bat for my internet friends on other forums many a time when I felt that they were being unjustly belittled and demeaned. So, if I do it for people I have never met but consider a friend from the internet, you really think I will just look the other way on something like this?
 
I watched the video. I didn't dislike him, but again, I really don't think he has the faintest clue what the word "faith" even entails.

You can't put it into percentages of healed to unhealed or just label it "false hope" (that's a nice positive spin by the way).

It takes courage. It takes belief. Belief in something bigger than yourself. If you can't fathom it, you'll never understand it.

Also, he blinks a lot.
 
Pony Tail:
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Pig tail:
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Badnina
I have seen it before and have seen him in a debate with someone in Birmingham. In my belief, the other guy (whose name I can't think of) wiped the floor with him.

Like I mentioned to Fischy, for me it is more than beliefs. It is a relationship. A living, breathing relaitionship much like the one I have with you guys and with people around me on a daily basis, only on a much deeper level. I have gone to bat for my internet friends on other forums many a time when I felt that they were being unjustly belittled and demeaned. So, if I do it for people I have never met but consider a friend from the internet, you really think I will just look the other way on something like this?
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Nina start a thread once in awhile declaring your faith. When the detractors arrive, have a good hearted debate with them.

One thing I can GUARANTEE you, is that nobody here will disrespect you personally. You are correct...you do stick up for everyone here.

This argument could be over anything. It could be over Packers-Bears. Chocolate-Vanilla. SBR-EOG. Sometimes they get heated. And most times, the minority gets drowned out.

But you know the drill. We are all a bunch of off-collar belligerent idiots. But chime in. Go with the flow. Don't be sensitive about anything. If you're getting picked on personally, the majority will put a stop to it. If you can't see that by the response tonight, then you will see nothing.

Now...CALM DOWN! :moped:
 
Bread
If it was creation, I guess the number seems somewhat logical. If it was evolution, at what point did we snap out of being cameman-ish and look all snappy like?
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With his excessively simian features, Bread is a prime example of the missing link proving not only the existence of human evolution but that also that the process isn't yet fully completed.
 
Mrs. X
RIGHT! So you see how a pig tail is curly, like a braid and a pony tail is like, well, a pony tail. You put two of them on either side of your head...pony tails!

I'm so right, and the world is so wrong.
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Pony tail makes sense.

Who the fuck would want a pig tail?
(I mean the hairstyle, NOT the deep fried pig tail sammich - yum)
 
Badnina
What Robs? You don't see John as Pious?

It was a comment made that I haven't responded to but in some ways it has weighed on my mind. Not that I find piety there. At all. Shoot....when I logged out in a huff I went to Peep's.
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Why is gamelive even crossing that cranky old DB's fingertips? We are nothing but a $25 message board that should mean absolutely nothing to him. Bizarre to me that he even considers us at all.
 
Just get home from the bar and this? Really hope I had nothing to do with this.

Badnina - I will explain the Tebow issue from my angle rationally. I hope he does great in Denver, or wherever. He is a very positive role model for many. The problem that I have is the Jesus Freak label assigned to him and his image. ESPN and other media outlets take this and run with it, kind of like an American Idol phenomenon. Forcing the religion down people's throats draws attention to him. If he gets a TD, it's God's will. His teammates don't want to hear that when they are busting their asses too.
 
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