Little girl gets torture instrument for birthday

[dahduh]

Look! Look! Look what her evil grandmother gave my niece for her birthday! Arrgh! Aarrrrggggghhhh!

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_971047e628c939b0c.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=11403)

[vidiviciveni]

Yes well... A cross isn't just for Easter y'know.

[Senex]

I'm as hard core an atheist as you will find on this site and I'll state that no one here will villanize a grandmother for giving a cross to her granddaughter.

Go away troll.

[Pato2747]

Oh no! It's a cross! She will use it as a torture instrument!

Come on, you troll. A cross is a cross. For a christian, it has a short, sweet symbolical sense. For an atheist, it has, too, a symbolical sense (Not to be compared with the point of view with a Christian).

I'm an atheist. I was given a cross for easter many years ago. So what? I was still an atheist and wore it a few times (Until I had a 10-minute shower and the golden paint fell off the cross).

[Lothian]

Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh a red marker pen :jaw-dropp

I was tortured throughout my school years by one of them.

[Lisa Simpson]

A torture device? Who or what could be crucified on a cross that small?

[Cainkane1]

Look! Look! Look what her evil grandmother gave my niece for her birthday! Arrgh! Aarrrrggggghhhh!

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_971047e628c939b0c.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=11403)

A silver cross is just a piece of jewelry.

[rebecca]

A torture device? Who or what could be crucified on a cross that small?

The Littlest Messiah.

[Tricky]

Move the loop and have her hang it upside down.

[Vic Vega]

I'm as hard core an atheist as you will find on this site and I'll state that no one here will villanize a grandmother for giving a cross to her granddaughter.

Go away troll.

Uh... I think his post was tounge in cheek.

Maybe I'm reading it wrong.... Or maybe you have no sense of humor.

[Senex]

Uh... I think his post was tounge in cheek.

Maybe I'm reading it wrong.... Or maybe you have no sense of humor.

Maybe I have no sense of humor, or maybe you and your animation of someone being kicked in the groin are inappropriate and would go away in a perfect world. Maybe you are an idiot. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm not ;)

[woodguard]

I don’t think math is really a method of torture. So what, the girl has a plus sign on her neck.
It is not like she’s wearing a dirt multiplication sign. :p

[Vic Vega]

Maybe I have no sense of humor, or maybe you and your animation of someone being kicked in the groin are inapropriate and would go away in a perfect world. Maybe you are an idiot. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm not ;)

You don't like the avatar? Dude!

There is noting that's ever inappropriate about a kick in the groin, as long as the target is chosen with care.

:)

It's almost time to change it anyway. I'll have to find something else that will tick people off. Maybe I'll go with the Red Sox logo.

[Babylon Sister]

Maybe, unbeknownst to you, your niece is having problems with vampires and gramma is just trying to help?

[JoeTheJuggler]

No. . I think Dahduh was being serious, and most of you misread his post. He didn't say "execution device" but "torture device".

Obviously his niece is a vampire. ;)

ETA: Dern it--I didn't see your post, Babylon Sister, until after I added mine.

[Senex]

Maybe, unbeknownst to you, your niece is having problems with vampires and gramma is just trying to help?

Maybe the members of Steely Dan wince everytime you post.

[dahduh]

[QUOTE=Vic Vega;3554466]Uh... I think his post was tounge in cheek.
QUOTE]

Well I'm glad somebody gets it.

Jeez, lighten up guys! I gave her the Skeptic's dictionary, Flim-Flam, and the Cosmos DVD, so I really don't think she's in too much danger.

Oh, and Blue Man Group. Hmm, maybe she is...

[this charming man]

Maybe grandmother is mad (http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=cross&x=47&y=15) at her and that was her subtle way of telling her.

[Senex]

Well I'm glad somebody gets it.

Gets what?

[Moochie]

Well, it's not as though there are any blood stains on it...

M.

[Aepervius]

If she had gotten a life-sized wood cross, a mallet, and a few iron nail, The OP would have had a point :).

[Chimera]

Jeez, lighten up guys! I gave her the Skeptic's dictionary, Flim-Flam, and the Cosmos DVD, so I really don't think she's in too much danger.




Good for you! Sounds like she needs some indoctrination prevention...

BTW, I thought the post was hysterical. :D

Then again, people usually don't get my sense of humor, either.

[fuelair]

A torture device? Who or what could be crucified on a cross that small?
Small rodent?:D
mus masochus

[Vic Vega]

Well I'm glad somebody gets it.

Jeez, lighten up guys! I gave her the Skeptic's dictionary, Flim-Flam, and the Cosmos DVD, so I really don't think she's in too much danger.

Oh, and Blue Man Group. Hmm, maybe she is...


Some people around here tend to take themselves a bit too seriously at times.

[Linda777NJ]

Some people around here tend to take themselves a bit too seriously at times.

I LOVE your avitar:) it's very cool!

Another one of my favs is the one with the one penguin smacking the other penguin knocking him down...

I do realize I have a twisted sense of humor though:boggled:

[thaiboxerken]

Not a torture device, just a symbol of one.

[dahduh]

I LOVE your avitar:) it's very cool!

I nominate Chimera's Curious George for the unsubtle irony category. Has anyone actually run a 'coolest avatar' competition?


Another one of my favs is the one with the one penguin smacking the other penguin knocking him down...

I do realize I have a twisted sense of humor though:boggled:

Yes you do.

[DRBUZZ0]

So what's the big deal about this lower case letter T she is wearing?

[JoeTheJuggler]

So what's the big deal about this lower case letter T she is wearing?

Ah. . .it must stand for "thumbscrew", and thus it is symbol of an instrument of torture. (Or just "torture" for the less imaginative.)

[DRBUZZ0]

Actually it might not be such a bad thing to keep that around one's neck. It looks like you could use it as a flat-head screwdriver, or maybe to pry open something like a paint can.

[DmKrispin]

So what's the big deal about this lower case letter T she is wearing?


My son, who was about 4 at the time, came home from an outing with my (Christian) parents with a little cross necklace one afternoon. I was about to be real upset ... until he asked me how I liked the "t" necklace he had gotten out of the gumball machine.

:D

Btw, I read the OP as being quite snarky. I lol'd.

[laarree]

The Littlest Messiah.

LOL!

[Polaris]

A torture device? Who or what could be crucified on a cross that small?

http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/moviepics/gm1twins1.jpg

[TX50]

Actually it might not be such a bad thing to keep that around one's neck. It looks like you could use it as a flat-head screwdriver, or maybe to pry open something like a paint can.

If it's made of gold then it'd not be much use as a tool. It'd be too bendy!
You can't beat a Swiss Army knife (that has a cross on it too)! :)

[Senex]

I am going through hell right now because people in my life don't wish to hear what is painfully true to me. My mom, the most important person in my life won't talk to me today because she doesn't want to listen to my atheistic beliefs. And believe me, it rarely comes up.

I believed the OP made a joke about what is ruining my life.

[Mark A. Siefert]

Now now. |Crucifixion isn't a method of torture...

...it's a method of execution.

[Beerina]

No. . I think Dahduh was being serious, and most of you misread his post. He didn't say "execution device" but "torture device".

Let's not quibble.

It was both. Execution via protracted torture in public, for the purpose of scaring the public into obeying.

It's the best things in life all rolled into one. And the best part? The kind god Yahweh had it planned all along!


I just wish the rapture had happened centuries ago, before that eight day old baby was raped to death er, that 9 year old girl was kidnapped, raped, then wrapped in plastic and given a teddy bear to comfort her as she was buried alive er, before that mentally challenged pregnant 28 year old woman was tortured to death by a family over the course of 3 weeks.

Yahweh, you card! You always know what's best for us! :) :o :blush:

[thaiboxerken]

Conan survive crucifixion.

[Apathia]

I wear an ankh sometimes, and it always gets mistaken for a cross.:beararghh:

[JoeTheJuggler]

I wear an ankh sometimes, and it always gets mistaken for a cross.:beararghh:
You should definitely wear it like a bracelet around your lower leg.

Ankhlet!

[Moochie]

I am going through hell right now because people in my life don't wish to hear what is painfully true to me. My mom, the most important person in my life won't talk to me today because she doesn't want to listen to my atheistic beliefs. And believe me, it rarely comes up.

I believed the OP made a joke about what is ruining my life.

Commiserations old chum. It's the cross you have to bear. :D

M.

[Senex]

Commiserations old chum. It's the cross you have to bear. :D

M.

I'm having a bad day and you made me feel better. Thank You.

[Michelle Lyon]

You know gold is up to over $1,000 per ounce right now. :D

[Senex]

You know gold is up to over $1,000 per ounce right now. :D

And certain young women need to be spanked.

It's pathetic how easily I am cheered.

[Apathia]

I am going through hell right now because people in my life don't wish to hear what is painfully true to me. My mom, the most important person in my life won't talk to me today because she doesn't want to listen to my atheistic beliefs. And believe me, it rarely comes up.

I believed the OP made a joke about what is ruining my life.

Oh, I missed this before I posted. That really hurts. I hope she catches on that she's hurting herself as well and breaks this bigotry.

[Senex]

Oh, I missed this before I posted. That really hurts. I hope she catches on that she's hurting herself as well and breaks this bigotry.

I may not have understood everything you wrote -- but I can say, without fear of being contradicted, you nesd a good spanking;)

[Third Eye Open]

I think that device would have some use over in the "I don't believe in faeries" thread.