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Muse
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Church Signs get more aggressive
Well, I wish I had my camera handy, because I passed the most aggressive church sign I've ever seen:
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You think, therefore I am. "There is no hope for humanity. Reason is dead and we dance on the corpse. Tra la la la la! " - c4ts "What is the meaning of life? Monkey!" - c4ts |
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Philosopher
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Oh please. In the middle ages church signs said things like "ye be damned and tortured if ye not pay thy tythe!!"
Anyway you can't get ye FLASK. |
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Ha ha ha ha.... Stupid signature size limit. |
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Muse
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Okay, so it's not more aggressive then signs during the inquisition, but it's more aggressive than things like "CHRCH - The only thing missing is U".
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You think, therefore I am. "There is no hope for humanity. Reason is dead and we dance on the corpse. Tra la la la la! " - c4ts "What is the meaning of life? Monkey!" - c4ts |
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The Jester
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Saw a good one today- "Respect cannot be earned by demanding it." Methinks they have a beam in their own eye....
(Where is that thread necromancy smily?) |
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As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of resolving approaches zero. -Vaarsuvius It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face. -Charlie Brooker |
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Banned
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Illuminator
Join Date: Aug 2001
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The sign could add the words of Rev Lovejoy from The Simpsons:
"And, once again, tithing is ten percent off the top. That's gross income, not net. Please people, don't force us to audit." |
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Is there a God? Find the answer at The Official God FAQ. |
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"We throw all the money in the air, and what God wants, he keeps."
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"The perfect haiku would have just two syllables: Airwolf" ~ Ernest Cline "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop" ~ Dara O'Briain. |
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Master Poster
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Some of it goes the opposite way.
First comes His Particle and then the entire scientific enchilada proving the Whole of Divine. It has been worked on . . . |
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Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Huh? What's your point? |
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Tergiversator
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What's the best argument for UHC? This argument against UHC. "Perhaps one reason per capita GDP is lower in UHC countries is because they've tried to prevent this important function [bankrupting the sick] and thus carry forward considerable economic dead wood?"-BeAChooser |
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Grammaton Cleric
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"The perfect haiku would have just two syllables: Airwolf" ~ Ernest Cline "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop" ~ Dara O'Briain. |
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Gazerbeam's Protege
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"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." -- Mark Twain
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I wish someone would find something I wrote on this board to be sig-worthy, thereby effectively granting me immortality.--Antiquehunter The gods do not deduct from a man's allotted years on earth the time spent eating butterscotch pudding. AMERICA! NUMBER 1 IN PARTICLE PHYSICS SINCE JULY 4TH, 1776!!! --SusanConstant |
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Metasyntactic Variable
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One of my favorites:
"Remember that 'Love Thy Neighbor' thing? I meant it. -- God" |
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Belief is the subjective acceptance of a (valid or invalid) concept, opinion, or theory; Faith is the unreasoned belief in improvable things; and Knowledge is the reasoned belief in provable things. Belief itself proves nothing.
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Master Poster
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Why are you generalizing all the time? What works for you, may not work for others. Besides, I don't have any reason to change my preferences.
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Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Huh? What's your point? |
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Grammaton Cleric
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A lot more water with it.
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"The perfect haiku would have just two syllables: Airwolf" ~ Ernest Cline "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop" ~ Dara O'Briain. |
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Master Poster
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Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Huh? What's your point? |
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Master Poster
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This is the grossest misquotation I've ever come across -- a misquotation that reaches the level of plain fraudulence due to the sheer lack of common ethics.
Let me present the original text, my Esteemed Forum: Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. Genesis 13:10 |
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Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Huh? What's your point? |
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Master Poster
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Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Huh? What's your point? |
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Of course I did. I noticed that YOU posted first:
What's that got to do with church signs? In reply to that, Sledge said "take more water with it." No clue what that means, either. But then you come back with the bloody brilliant: Neither of your posts seem to have anything to do with church signs. But if you can tie it in somehow, I'm all eyes. Can you? FTFY. |
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Master Poster
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I don't think so -- I can only manage church_signs_holy_water. But ask Sledge. Maybe he didn't forget.
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Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Huh? What's your point? |
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Oh, okay, I can just ignore your failed argument, then. Works for me.
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Metasyntactic Variable
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Do not wait for the hearse to take you to church.
If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns. If you don't like the way you were born, try being born again. Looking at the way some people live, they ought to obtain eternal fire insurance soon. |
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Belief is the subjective acceptance of a (valid or invalid) concept, opinion, or theory; Faith is the unreasoned belief in improvable things; and Knowledge is the reasoned belief in provable things. Belief itself proves nothing.
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NLH
Join Date: Oct 2002
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It would be a very dull heaven that had no dogs or rocks.
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Grammaton Cleric
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It is a humourous implication that epix is posting whilst under the influence of alcohol, and should in future dilute his drink of choice with more water to mitigate its effects.
Interestingly, this thread is now the fourth result on Google for "take more water with it." |
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"The perfect haiku would have just two syllables: Airwolf" ~ Ernest Cline "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop" ~ Dara O'Briain. |
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Sarcastic Conqueror of Notions
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There're some huge billboards along a highway near here, "Only liars go to <some local megachurch>!" and "Only hypocrites go to <it>!"
These include a URL that points out something to the effect of "Yes, we accept liars and hypocrites and sinners of all kinds!" Clever, if it weren't doing evil. |
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"Great innovations should not be forced [by way of] slender majorities." - Thomas Jefferson The government should nationalize it! Socialized, single-payer video game development and sales now! More, cheaper, better games, right? Right? |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Feb 2006
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My favorite sign has sat beside the road on I-65 North between Montgomery and Birmingham since I was kid:
"Go to church or the devil will get you!" (complete with a red horned Lucifer straight off the Underwood Deviled Ham package) It doesn't get more direct than that... |
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"You ask me do I love you... does the pope live in the woods? Quad Erat Demonstrandum, baby... " "Oh! You speak French!" -- Airhead, by Thomas Dolby "When you're slapped you'll take it and like it." -- Sam Spade |
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Metaphorical Anomaly
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There's a sign near where I used to live on I-35 in Kansas that says "Accept Jesus Christ -- or regret it later."
Seriously, a threat? I'd actually like to know who put it up so I could knock them upside the head for misrepresenting our fair, meth infested city in such a way. I don't know whether it was a church or an individual responsible. |
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Grammaton Cleric
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One of my favorite letters to the Viz letters page was "Why is it that it's ok for the vicar to threaten me with eternal damnation every Sunday, but when I threaten him with a Stanley knife, the police are called?"
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"The perfect haiku would have just two syllables: Airwolf" ~ Ernest Cline "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop" ~ Dara O'Briain. |
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Muse
Join Date: Jul 2010
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"There's no stop, drop and roll in Hell"
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Muse
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One near my old house read:
FOR ALL YOU DO HIS BLOOD'S FOR YOU |
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"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!" Kurt Vonnegut |
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Seeking Honesty and Sanity
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I saw a great one several years ago that was posted shortly before Mother's Day (and unfortunately I did not have a camera), it said:
EVE WAS A WOMAN The fellow who wrote that sermon sure had some issues. |
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A man's best friend is his dogma. |
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Muse
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There's a great sign near Kalispell, Montana:
Is This The Sign You've Been Waiting For? —God It's really big, I thought it was hilarious, but I don't think the sign makers meant it like I took it, there's another down the road from the same people of the repent variety. Flippin' hilarious. |
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Philosopher
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Muse
Join Date: Apr 2006
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One time in church, a man said that he found a bible verse that mentioned a heavenly cavalry with vast numbers of horsemen. He said that if all of those horses can be in heaven, so could his dog.
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