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Even though he's wearing a pink button up shirt....a pink shirt.....doesn't mean he's gay

Exactly. I have a pink shirt and I'm not gay.

Just a loser.

I couldn't resist.

exulted

Blah...

Well, if he's not an 'out' gay man, he seriously needs to ask himself a few questions. He's as camp as a row of tents. Perhaps that explains his strength of feeling towards gays - he is one, and hates himself for it.

His trousers didn't catch fire. I am disappoint.

Albatross wrote:He's as camp as a row of tents.

Too bad there's no Google Translate option for Britspeak.

Coolyo294 wrote:

Albatross wrote:He's as camp as a row of tents.

Too bad there's no Google Translate option for Britspeak.

How do you not get that?

Save the cheerios, burn gays!

They're flaming already.

Better yet, cheerios should make gayrios.

All we need now is a "Snicker" bar

I don't know why someone sets a box of cereal on fire and then immediately tries to put it out.

Isn't the whole idea to watch it burn?

*confused*

Shadowseer_Kim wrote:I don't know why someone sets a box of cereal on fire and then immediately tries to put it out.

Isn't the whole idea to watch it burn?

*confused*

Well yea, but there is a difference between burning a box of cereal that you bought and arson.

Squigsquasher wrote:Come on, setting fire to a box of Cheerios is a bit "special".

And a waste of food.

Given all the chemicals that go into consumer cereals, it barely counts as food. Unless you count the allowable percentages of insect parts and rat droppings. Mmmm mmm... rat droppings.

Setting fire to cheerios is the best thing for them, anything is better than actually eating cheerios.

I don't quite get the connection between homosexuality and cheerios.

But according to sebster since I am an evangelical Christian and actually believe the Bible and don't buy into all of the politicking/proselytizing being done by the homosexual lobby, who are so desperate for society at large to accept their behavior..I'm an "Autobigot" so I guess I should think like cereal burner guy.

When you remove God from the equation anythings goes, or as Dostoevski put it "If there is no God, everything is permitted."


GG

mattyrm wrote:Of course its sensible to assume they are Christians. There is a perfectly logical pathway from devout theistic belief and homophobia and any fair minded observer can see it, you wont get any argument from me. People don't like it when you mention facts they don't like though.

Oh while you are on, don't forget the Muzzas though, I don't like threads like this without my acid-throwing pals in Afghanistan getting a mention. Funny thing they arent too hot for Gays either, as evidenced by the ridiculously absurd fact that the men in charge handed the World Cup to Qatar.

I would point out that at least some anti-gay gak from Christians is merely words 99.9% of the time, If you want to get outraged about this type of illogical brain washing gak, again, I suggest you look at the face burning Taliban, or the numerous British Muslims that are being busted for raping and prostituting little girls, clearly because they view them as less valuable than believers, but again, watch out, people don't like facts if they aren't ridiculously PC.

There was another two on the BBC website today, I actually keep count.

So why are you sitting around in your underwear watching the BBC and not out cracking skulls Punisher style?

generalgrog wrote:

When you remove God from the equation anythings goes, or as Dostoevski put it "If there is no God, everything is permitted."


GG

Yes, because obviously people can't think for themselves and must always listen to what others say even if it's from a dubious source.

generalgrog wrote:I don't quite get the connection between homosexuality and cheerios.

General Mills supports gay marriage.

generalgrog wrote:
But according to sebster since I am an evangelical Christian and actually believe the Bible and don't buy into all of the politicking/proselytizing being done by the homosexual lobby, who are so desperate for society at large to accept their behavior..I'm an "Autobigot" so I guess I should think like cereal burner guy.

Yeah, that pretty much makes you a bigot. More precisely, the use of "politicking/proselytizing" makes you a bigot by way of deliberately denying the ability of ~50% of the country to make a rational choice.

generalgrog wrote:
When you remove God from the equation anythings goes, or as Dostoevski put it "If there is no God, everything is permitted."

That was Satre interpreting Ivan Karamazov, not Dostoevski.

And everything is permitted even if there is a God, what with that whole "free will" thing.

Karamozov was ambiguous and undecided about the concept. Dostoevsky was making an existentialist point about personal freedom and responsibility, as well as expressing some ideas on faith, through his characters.

I'm not particularly fond of how sebster's raised the subject. There are reasonable questions about how and whether it bothers moderate, ethical and moral people for their religion to be identified with ignorant bigots. We hope for members of a group to police their own; for Muslims to speak out against violent Islamists. For Christians who believe in love and acceptance to speak out against those who pervert their religion into bigotry and hatred. In the Neopagan community we expect our folks to speak out against frauds and charlatans who invent credentials and swindle people, using the mystery and decentralization of a small religion's communities to conceal criminal or at least dishonest behavior. In practice there are thorny challenges involved in correcting people who are (in theory) part of "your" group, and those actions may not be easily visible from the outside.

Many Christians try to counter the actions of bigots by not being bigots themselves, and by participating in their church and speaking up against bigotry within that framework. If I were a Christian it would certainly bother me for bigots and psychos to claim to be the same thing as me. Just as in real life it bothers me when I see an idiot or jackass claiming to be a Druid. That's just a lot less common, because Christianity's a vastly larger and more powerful religion.

Mannahnin wrote: Just as in real life it bothers me when I see an idiot or jackass claiming to be a Druid.

So, how many Druids would you say there are in NH?

generalgrog wrote:But according to sebster since I am an evangelical Christian and actually believe the Bible and don't buy into all of the politicking/proselytizing being done by the homosexual lobby, who are so desperate for society at large to accept their behavior..I'm an "Autobigot" so I guess I should think like cereal burner guy.

Its your right to believe that, its not your right to force your beliefs down others throats and force them to live their lifes in a style of your choosing.

Mannahnin wrote:Karamozov was ambiguous and undecided about the concept. Dostoevsky was making an existentialist point about personal freedom and responsibility, as well as expressing some ideas on faith, through his characters.

I'm not particularly fond of how sebster's raised the subject. There are reasonable questions about how and whether it bothers moderate, ethical and moral people for their religion to be identified with ignorant bigots. We hope for members of a group to police their own; for Muslims to speak out against violent Islamists. For Christians who believe in love and acceptance to speak out against those who pervert their religion into bigotry and hatred. In the Neopagan community we expect our folks to speak out against frauds and charlatans who invent credentials and swindle people, using the mystery and decentralization of a small religion's communities to conceal criminal or at least dishonest behavior. In practice there are thorny challenges involved in correcting people who are (in theory) part of "your" group, and those actions may not be easily visible from the outside.

Many Christians try to counter the actions of bigots by not being bigots themselves, and by participating in their church and speaking up against bigotry within that framework. If I were a Christian it would certainly bother me for bigots and psychos to claim to be the same thing as me. Just as in real life it bothers me when I see an idiot or jackass claiming to be a Druid. That's just a lot less common, because Christianity's a vastly larger and more powerful religion.

Are you saying that you're a druid Mannahnin?

That’s kind of cool… except that it means that I am off to Wikipedia to see exactly what the druidic religion entails.

This could take all night...

Fett:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Reconstructionist_Paganism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-druidism
My group is an offshoot of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81r_nDra%C3%ADocht_F%C3%A9in

See also:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080418025755/http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usma&c=trads&id=6645
http://www.paganachd.com/faq/

CT GAMER wrote:

Mannahnin wrote: Just as in real life it bothers me when I see an idiot or jackass claiming to be a Druid.

So, how many Druids would you say there are in NH?

Very few.

Mannahnin wrote:Karamozov was ambiguous and undecided about the concept. Dostoevsky was making an existentialist point about personal freedom and responsibility, as well as expressing some ideas on faith, through his characters.

Thanks for the correction, its been a while since I read Brothers, and I went off the same website.

Mannahnin wrote:
There are reasonable questions about how and whether it bothers moderate, ethical and moral people for their religion to be identified with ignorant bigots.

My father (UCC minister) hates conservative evangelicals more than any militant atheist I've ever met, specifically because he believes that they're destroying the religion. Conversely, I imagine conservative evangelicals feel much the same about him, even if they to couch it in loving terminology.

There can be real pressures from inside a community not to make waves or make members of the same (or similar) faith look bad to outsiders, too. My mom encountered a good bit of resistance from some quarters in exposing these folks:
http://www.neopagan.net/DCSG.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos300.htm

From Isaac's article:

Several people have sent me email over the last few years, asking me why I keep saying negative things about Janette Copeland and her Divine Circle of the Sacred Grove. “After all,” they ask me, “doesn’t everybody have something worthwhile to teach?” and, “Can’t we all just be friends?” My response, of course, to the first question is, “Maybe, but not always on what they think they can teach,” and to the second, “Friends don’t cheat, steal from, or lie to each other if they’re really friends.” Thus, this essay.

Frazzled wrote:Setting fire to cheerios is the best thing for them, anything is better than actually eating cheerios.

I'm with ya there. To me, they taste like burned rubber smells.

Cheerios and Chex are fondly remembered from my childhood. I still have good teeth, too. Didn't eat the sugary cereals very often.

I would just like to point out that had he actually managed to immolate himself, he would have at least used a recognizable form of protest.