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LaMort:
Batman just partied with Polaks on the weekend,
but he was too sober to enjoy it... :(
Madpole:
how can You stay sober with Pollacks - tell
me the secret! I am DESPERATE! They always get
me drunk - on SPIRIT-ual subjects!
LaMort:
you can't....Batman is just...challenged...that's
all....
Batman:
I'm challenged? wuh uh.
LaMort:
LaMort now realizes that Batman is actually
here.....giggle....
Batman:
I just got here. :) I see my name and a discussion
on sobriety...
LaMort:
what did you sense me thinking of you? I didn't
realize I could send thoughts that strongly....is
usually just mild.....he he
Batman:
I wasn't going to log on, but some unseen hand
clicked the "Connect" button.
dlh:
Batman, you have no free will dude, face it!
LOL
LaMort:
hmm, the hand, eh???? (thinking) Batman!!!!
stop that!!!!
eadon-com:
I choose not to have free will, I got married
:(
Madpole:
Spiritual experience again! I got disconnected
for Spiritual reasons - I hope I have not missed
anything!
Batman:
hah
LaMort:
aww, come on, we're not that much of a mind/will
sucking parasitic bunch....... :)
Madpole:
Finger ? In god's hand ? Do we have one hand
going here ?
dlh:
your finger is in gods hand?
Madpole:
no - we are god's fingers! ;-)
LaMort:
it's too hot to follow this conversation, especially
with dlh adding to it.....lol....
dlh:
cool [dlh thinks about what that could be like----]
Well, personally, I believe god shot man the
bird in the garden of Eden
LaMort:
no, dlh, I think that's where women lost out
big time....lol.....freakin' snakes....
dlh:
true LaMort, women are characterized by all
the pain they would have from then on
eadon-com:
I am that serpent, LaMort. Taste my forbidden
fruit!
Madpole:
oh yes - apples!
eadon-com:
taste my forbidden apple LaMort
Batman:
oh my.
LaMort:
well, if it had of been me back then you would
be partying with that dumb ass Adam outside
the garden.....lol....no offense to my fellow
christians.....
LaMort:
yeah right eadon-com, that's how this alllllll
got started.... :)
eadon-com:
all part of the service :)
Madpole:
I thought snakes were connected with bananas
- not apples...
Madpole:
apple is European Invention - no ?
Madpole:
that's what we catholics were brought up with
in Poland anyway!
Dudge:
LadyGodiva is going to bring herself as my gift
for my 18th birthday party, she says
dlh:
I like the version of the golden rule that says
do others before they do it to you! LOL
dlh:
eadon, have you read the ice cream virgin of
Guadalupe story?
eadon-com:
I am not acquainted with the ice-cream virgin,
should I be, sounds very tasty/tempting
dlh:
its a great tabloid story, it is hysterical
dlh:
from the pages of the Austin American Statesman
dated January 14, 2000 comes a story with a
headline entitled "Believers Flock to Virgin
in ice cream stain! And now the story line from
Houston, Texas!
dlh:
They've come from far and wide, clutching their
rosaries and their cameras, jostling to peer
through the afternoon heat at an improbable
shrine. Adoring visitors have dropped wilting
roses, a forest of supermarket candles and crude
crosses on the cement bed of a southwest Houston
apartment complex. In the midst of it all, they
say, the Virgin of Guadalupe reveals herself
to the faithful. In an amorphous stain of melted
ice cream, ecstatic believers swear they can
discern the form of the beloved Mexican idol.
dlh:
Gloria Castro made her way to the front of the
crowd, crossed herself, and burst into tears.
"She knows that we need her" the 47 year old
Houston resident said in Spanish. "I had to
see her", "I had to pray to her. Virginia Hernandez
patted Castro's arm. "But look, look how lovely"
she murmured. "Even the colors are the same.
She wants to bring us closer to God. The ice
cream is disintegrating fast, but somebody placed
a glass pane over the smear, hemmed the makeshift
frame with duct tape in the hopes of preserving
the image.
eadon-com:
a virgin made of ice-cream, how quaint, I am
deeply moved by that miracle dlh. I imagine
that if I had beheld the melting of the ice-cream
into a virgin, I too would have believed hehehe
Madpole:
Virgin Mary saved a lot of Towns in Poland!
Madpole:
and SHE came back recently - interestingly it
was the priest which denied her existence....
TheVicar:
dlh, that IS mean of you. A lot of people have
deep faith in the ice cream virgin.
dlh:
To unfaithful eyes, the crusty smear looks about
as earthshaking as, well, a melted Popsicle.
"I just let em in" said apartment manager Maria
Cervantes. "If they want to believe it, its
fine with me."
Isolani:
Faith is the sum of things hoped for. So a blotch
of ice-cream...
dlh:
Cervantes has spent this week watching a thick
stream of Catholics, cameramen and the curios
troop past her office. The uproar began Monday,
when residents picked out the brilliant robes
of the Mexican saint in the sticky swirls at
the foot of a soda machine. Word moved faster
than a thundercloud.
Isolani:
How much does Mrs. Cervantes charge at the door
I wonder? I smell a money-maker.
dlh:
The apparition has drawn between 500-800 onlookers
from as far away as Miami, Seattle, and Canada,
Cervantes said. Some stay at the shrine all
night, absorbed in meditation. Our Lady of the
Guadalupe has been adored for centuries-ever
since, believers, say, an olive-skinned Virgin
Mary first appeared in Mexico to an Aztec Indian
named Juan Diego in December 1531. Clerics say
millions of polytheist Indians converted to
Catholicism after the apparition.
dlh:
Clustered in the Houston courtyard, old women
bounce babies on their laps, Fathers shush their
children, teens move their lips in silent prayer.
A hand-scrawled poster, in Spanish and English,
warns worshippers to lower their voices.
dlh:
end of story!! And the moral?: If ignorant supplicants
can see an image of a virgin in a melted ice
cream puddle they can certainly make up a story
about a dead dude rising from the dead.
eadon-com:
I am convinced. A virgin made of ice-cream is
too good to be a myth, too quaint to be a mistake,
I am deeply moved by that miracle.
eadon-com:
funny story dlh, but now I will have fantasies
about ice-cream women Hahahahaha
Isolani:
eadon's women will resemble pints of ale I should
think :)
eadon-com:
A miracle: how about Gillian Anderson who turns
into a pint after a good long night?
Isolani:
Gillian Anderson is proof that God knows what
he's doing.
Isolani:
He/she's doing I mean (in case the pronoun police
are watching)
Madpole:
Trees cry....blood pours out of pictures...
we had all this... I am not saying it is not
true.... what I am saying is that it had a purpose....
Isolani:
When someone is on acid they see things that
appear real too.
Madpole:
exactly.... nothing to do against religion...
but for me religion has to incorporate global-hallucinations...
this is only human...arghhhhh is as well! ;-)
TheVicar:
There was a female bookkeeper in my office who
died 22 years ago. Her adding machine came on
operated with no human intervention for about
a month before we threw it out. The woman's
soul evidently wanted to keep working. Another
miracle.
TheVicar:
I once participated in a healing service as
one of the Deacons who applied hands on to a
woman who had been paralyzed in one arm. Her
arm COMPLETELY recovered and she remained healthy
until she died 6 months later. Another miracle.
eadon-com:
great story dlh, but now I have a strange obsession
about ice-cream virgins
dlh:
like FriarFryUp says, god is in everything
eadon-com:
I mean I want to lick ice-cream virgins
Isolani:
Oy vey eadon!
eadon-com:
correction I want to lick a virginal Gillian
Anderson made of ice-cream that turns into a
six-pack after a long night :)
TheVicar:
dlh, I BELIEVE in that ice cream apparition
of the Virgin. She was REAL and you cynically
debunked Her. You should be ashamed of yourself.
dlh:
TheVicar, you believe some strange things dude
dlh:
da stone tabloids brought down from mt. sinus
and given to Moses by de alien space ship is
all de christians need!"
dlh:
[quotes TheVicar] : TheVicar:
I also believe
that the Star of Bethlehem was a space ship.
How else could it have stayed immobile in the
sky over Bethlehem." : TheVicar:
dlh, you
don't believe in the stone tables from Mt. Sinai?
Your are really an unbeliever....
dlh:
or the burnin bush either TheVicar
dlh:
now Madonna may have a burnin bush, but that
is another subject
eadon-com:
that's it! An ice-cream virgin with a burning
bush! My fantasies are multiplying out of control.
dlh, I knew that listening to your story would
be a mistake, I find myself insane
Madpole:
Gentle-Men! Why facts ? What facts have to do
with REALITY ?
Madpole:
FACTS are not important! TRUTH is!
TheVicar:
You don't believe in the Burning Bush??? dlh,
you are really far gone. Jesus and Moses don't
seem to like you, do they.
TheVicar:
dlh, do you believe in giving everyone Sundays
off or should we all work a SEVEN day week?
After all, that Seventh DAY is God's command.
eadon-com:
the word DAY does not mean the same in Hebrew
as it does in English, so your argument is not
particularly enlightening
dlh:
it should be a matter between an employer and
an employee, with appropriate state by state
regulation. What if a federal employer required
you to keep the Sabbath TheVicar? think that
would be constitutional?
TheVicar:
dlh, thank goodness atheists haven't done away
with Sabbath Rest yet. There are a lot of workers
who would be very upset by that kind of atheist
"victory."
Isolani:
Where would Christians go after church to enjoy
pie and coffee?
TheVicar:
dlh, I'm in favor of Fridays off for the Muslim
Sabbath, Saturday off for the Jewish Sabbath
and Sundays for the Christian Lord's Day. I
WOULD like a THREE day RELIGIOUS weekend.
dlh:
letting somebody off for 2 days a week has nothing
to do with the Sabbath TheVicar
TheVicar:
dlh, those weekends off are grounded in Scripture.
Commies never gave any days off in their heyday
because they said religion was the opiate of
the masses. Those masses resented it all the
time and now have their Sabbaths back.
dlh:
of course, if you demythologize the ten commandments
then I have no problem. You could put up the
sayings of Buddha and others along with the
10 commandments then it would be okay
dlh:
kind of like a smorgasbord of thought. Employment
laws TheVicar, state and federal, are totally
secular now.
TheVicar:
dlh, I'm in favor of EVERY religious doctrine
which makes life BETTER for ME. I'll take the
best from all faiths. I'd even like to get a
month off for Ramadan. I'd support the Muslims
if they ever pushed. that.
dlh:
what if we put the book of mormon up on the
supreme court building? then fundies would be
screaming to take it down for sure.
Isolani:
If you take all the best from all faiths TheVicar
then prepared to have a festival every day of
the year.
eadon-com:
you will find the muslims loath to support you,
TheVicar :)
TheVicar:
dlh, I'd like to have Mormon holidays off as
well. I have no problem with that either.
eadon-com:
The best festivals were pre-Christian, and the
sodding christians hijacked them. The fun parts
of Christmas are pagan.
Isolani:
I can't go on/ I must go on ... Samuel Beckett
dlh:
Isolani, you are waiting for godot
Isolani:
Godot is bringing the beer
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