Shit like this makes me sick, they want a fucking pity party because they have to sell off millions of dollars worth of property. At the same time they are bringing in millions of dollars every year, tax free, I wonder if they got some of that sweet, sweet PPP money. All the while they are selling a nonexistent product, and making mad cash at it. Meanwhile, research groups, like the one I work for, are begging the NIH for funds so we can do useless shit like, I don't know, find new ways to treat muscular dystrophy. Fucking religion poisons everything, and I need to get back into the lab.
Wanna know what diminishes us, Franky? It's the way you and your religion have mistreated humanity for 2000 years and how you continue to mistreat women, LGBTQs and especially children.
And your words are blatantly self-serving. Couples electing to have pets reduces your stock of those aforementioned children. If this were to continue, you'd find yourself having sex with animals.
Even worse, dogs and cats don't tend to tithe very much so even worse than throwing a kink into a priest's sex life, they are choking off the cash flow and Franky don't want to have to explain why he and the rest of the priest's need to get real jobs.
"While speaking with a general audience at the Vatican, the 85-year-old said that living a child-free lifestyle is "a form of selfishness," as first reported by The Guardian newspaper."
Too stupid to realize he just condemned himself, Catholic priests, nuns, and monks.
They’re serving God in other ways, so it’s cool. It’s the rest of us plebes who need to serve God by producing multiple minions. The Pope also said having only one is bad.
Interesting. One of the Prot fundies at Patheos had a post recently about pets vs children. This is one of those things they have a fit about that makes me wonder why it’s even an issue. I was raised a fundie but I must be way out of practice.
You know, this gave me a very amusing mental image of you, a chair, and Tawreos. Which is even more amusing since I don’t know what either of you look like, my imagination is running wild.
Way back, before I had kids, my hubs and I went as Frankenstein monster and bride of Frankenstein. I coaxed my hair into a two foot tall coif with white stripes up the side. I had to use the colored hairspray (in black, of course) for the right amount of hold and I skipped right past teasing my hair into bullying to get it up there. But when I was done, my hair made me taller than my 6’5” husband. I’m 5’7”. Unfortunately, that was before ubiquitous cell phone use and I am not sure I have a photo of the night.
All that to say, I believe you could with the right amount of hairspray.
---“COVID-19 forced every church in America to rethink how to best serve their parishioners and the broader community,”---
Yes, they did that by staying open, speeding up the spread of infection, and guaranteeing the pandemic continues on for several more years longer than it should have, spawning several new vaccine-resistant variants in the process.
They should be very proud of continuing their death cult's mission.
So it never occurred to the Roberts that instead of selling their church/property, they should spend all their tax-free $$$ to renovate/convert that building and its 32 acres into a place that could take care of the sick and needy the way their messiah wanted his followers to.
Imagine how many tiny houses you could build on 32 acres to give homeless people a re-start point, you know, a place, warm and dry, a place where you can take a shower and have a dump with some dignity, where you can leave some of your stuff, and sleep in a bed. A place with a few m², where you can plant some tomatoes, some flowers, some beauty. A place with people trained to give you a hand to remake your life.
Yeah, I'm one of those left-wing monsters that think we could make this world a better place for all living beings. I'm a horrible person, shame on me!!
Jesus never said the poor had to be taken care of well. A run down building in a bad neighborhood is good enough for the poor. Treat them well in a nice place and they might start saving their money to move there instead of giving that excess cash to the preacher, god I said god.
Some suffering is part of life, can't be avoided, and should be taught to deal with it. Human-made suffering on the other hand, suffering due to imaginary class superiority, greed, ideology, religion, is a stain on humanity and will hold us back until we change it, or it brings about our downfall.
Snopes is relying on the wife being honest about her husband not carrying arms. It is possible wifey is lying and he did have a taser with him, and still didn’t taser himself in the balls, but I do not believe for a second that he went to the insurrection un armed, not after seeing his Facebook posts. Even if it isn’t true, Taserballs deserves the ridicule.
Had an interesting conversation with vicar relative last week. She says that here in the UK, a debate is going on about livestream services. Apparently someone in her diocese said she loves livestream as she can do the ironing at the same time. So one faction says the church must embrace what could be called the 'Netflix generation' which is accustomed to a vast choice of what to watch whilst the other says that's not what church community is. Whilst some worshippers are put off by blurry sermons broadcast from the vicar's phone, other churches and cathedrals provide good quality professional productions, making services slick and attractive to watch. I ran this past another vicar friend who said - in typical CofE-pander-to-everybody style that in future they'd obviously need to do both, in person and livestream services. Which, ISTM is just another compromise idea which, it will be claimed, revitalises the poor old CofE whilst doing nothing of the sort.
OT: Star Trek Prodigy picked up again, with episode 6 featuring archived voice clips of Leonard Nimoy, René Auberjonois, Nichelle Nicols, James Doohan, and Gates McFadden repurposed for scene dialogue.
Also, a timeline was established which proved.... problematic.
### Spoilers abound, take care ###
Voyager returned to Earth in 2378-79, but the Prodigy series establishes that the USS Protostar with Holo-Janeway and Captain Chakotay has already been stranded in the Delta Quadrant for several years by 2366. The series itself takes place 17 years after that in 2383, which is verified by press materials according to GameRant.
The USS Protostar's registry (NX-76884) is about two thousand ships ahead of the multi-vector USS Prometheus (NX-74913), which was launched in 2373. The USS Voyager (NCC-74656) was launched in 2371, only about 300 ships behind the Prometheus. Best guess? The USS Protostar was launched in 2384, one year AFTER this series takes place.
EDIT: Just realized that the USS Protostar was stranded *BEFORE* the Voyager was even built. So yeah, most definitely time travel shenanigans involved.
I finished watching Next Generation over Christmas break and started on DS9. I guess I’m going to watch Voyager next, though it might not be for a while yet.
I didn’t see the original series available, so I’m starting with Riker’s beard.
There was a lady that came around and said that things might be a bit wibbley wobbley and timey wimey for awhile, but if we have a Jammy Dodger and a few Jelly Babies we should be able to deal with the fallout just fine.
Well, if four and a half to five thousand years old pyramids and even older precursors to those pyramids don't do it, I'm sure two-hundred-million-years old dinosaur footprints will do!
My hope is that all religion of the future becomes fully virtual. A private PPV exercise from home, ideally with the same kind of parental controls as porn has to keep children from accessing it until they reach an age where they can make decisions for themselves.
All donations and charitable giving will hopefully be subject to audit by the IRS, which my retired accountant mother claims this year will be monitoring all private electronic $$ transfers that total $600/year or more in total.
In the present day, Parsonage tax exemptions should go the way of the Dodo if you don't even have a building
I'd tend to agree, but... what would be the point in virtual religion? Many talented screenwriters, directors, performers, and game developers have produced a smorgasbord of fantasies far more compelling, consistent, and of a higher overall quality than anything the extant major religions can provide- even when they're based, as many are, on religious source material. Why ask a priest to do what artists already do better?
I could equally argue why would I want to go through the trouble of finding serial non-procreative sexual hookups if online porn or even prostitution is a smorgasbord of fantasies far more compelling, consistent, and of a higher overall quality than meeting someone with multiple hang-ups, potential STIs or has a possibility of unwanted pregnancy? It's all about making a connection, even if it's brief and superficial
The next generation already works jobs, studies, and socializes and dates virtually, while some of those with disfigurements and/or socially impairing disabilities &/or pathological shyness &/or who simply enjoy catfishing have sex and romantic lives that are entirely virtual as well.
Unlike fantasies, religious people seem to want that connection to fellow believers and the chance for virtue signaling that confers status and privilege or even extra income that comes from a real life community. Perhaps 100 years from now, having church in a real brick and mortar building will be as antiquated as going to public bathhouses?
OT - Relying on gawd is a mistake he will never make again.
Conspiracy theorist Doug Kuzma dies from COVID
One of Kuzma’s associates at FROG News — which stands for “Fully Rely on God” — said the podcast host’s final photo showed him with a “refill of ivermectin.”
Shit like this makes me sick, they want a fucking pity party because they have to sell off millions of dollars worth of property. At the same time they are bringing in millions of dollars every year, tax free, I wonder if they got some of that sweet, sweet PPP money. All the while they are selling a nonexistent product, and making mad cash at it. Meanwhile, research groups, like the one I work for, are begging the NIH for funds so we can do useless shit like, I don't know, find new ways to treat muscular dystrophy. Fucking religion poisons everything, and I need to get back into the lab.
The taxes from that one church, or maybe two or three similar churches, could probably find your lab, if they were required to pay taxes.
They did receive the PPP money.
Trump, McConnell, and all the Republicans made sure of that.
OT 2
Looks like Papa Francis is having a fit over couples who choose to have pets instead of kids:
"Pope Francis warns that choosing pets over children 'diminishes us' "
https://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-warns-choosing-pets-204203044.html
Wanna know what diminishes us, Franky? It's the way you and your religion have mistreated humanity for 2000 years and how you continue to mistreat women, LGBTQs and especially children.
And your words are blatantly self-serving. Couples electing to have pets reduces your stock of those aforementioned children. If this were to continue, you'd find yourself having sex with animals.
We live in a world with nearly 8 billion people living on it, and he’s worried about married couples having pets rather than children?
His staff would much rather fuck children than cats.
Even worse, dogs and cats don't tend to tithe very much so even worse than throwing a kink into a priest's sex life, they are choking off the cash flow and Franky don't want to have to explain why he and the rest of the priest's need to get real jobs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ81irG6zKw
He says it’s selfish not to have children. I say it’s selfish to demand other people procreate for your dogma.
I know more people who have had children for selfish reasons than those who didn’t have children.
"While speaking with a general audience at the Vatican, the 85-year-old said that living a child-free lifestyle is "a form of selfishness," as first reported by The Guardian newspaper."
Too stupid to realize he just condemned himself, Catholic priests, nuns, and monks.
They’re serving God in other ways, so it’s cool. It’s the rest of us plebes who need to serve God by producing multiple minions. The Pope also said having only one is bad.
I would like to see him say that to DM face. After my birth, doctors said her that another (non monitored) pregnancy would kill her.
From DM "He wants children, he can start to make them when he wants".
You mean to tell me they aren't already?
The next big reveal.
That the Vatican has a dungeon full of loli catgirls?
Technically all humans with a sex drive have sex with animals :D
Except when we’re having sex with a robot.
Sadly they have started to program robots with standards and the ability to withhold consent so that leaves m...many people out.
Not the robots I’m playing with. They have only one task, vibrate.
Some also rotate.
Or so I've heard.
My wife was waiting for one that would leave a chocolate on the pillow when she was done.
Earworm Alert!
Aria's message ..|..
Interesting. One of the Prot fundies at Patheos had a post recently about pets vs children. This is one of those things they have a fit about that makes me wonder why it’s even an issue. I was raised a fundie but I must be way out of practice.
Oh Noes! Now how will Denverites know how to be moral? Perhaps they will become environmentalists or support animals, the horror!!!!
I heard there is a new weed shop opening up called Morality so they will be just fine.
*Climb on a chair and slap Tawreos head*
You know, this gave me a very amusing mental image of you, a chair, and Tawreos. Which is even more amusing since I don’t know what either of you look like, my imagination is running wild.
4'9 but with enough hair spray I can add at least a foot and half to my height :D
Way back, before I had kids, my hubs and I went as Frankenstein monster and bride of Frankenstein. I coaxed my hair into a two foot tall coif with white stripes up the side. I had to use the colored hairspray (in black, of course) for the right amount of hold and I skipped right past teasing my hair into bullying to get it up there. But when I was done, my hair made me taller than my 6’5” husband. I’m 5’7”. Unfortunately, that was before ubiquitous cell phone use and I am not sure I have a photo of the night.
All that to say, I believe you could with the right amount of hairspray.
(Also, I was a part of the Aquanet generation)
In the 90's a girl from my board school recreated this hairstyle for the Mardi Gras ball.
https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-20-2019/hNIKpy.gif
I think of you as Rosie the hobbit, sorry I don't know if you have red hair.
Dark brown. I don't have a Hobbit appetite either. One of their meal could probably feed me for 3 days.
BHF on French nanny mode ;-))
You can ask and even beg all you want, I am not putting a diaper on you.
By Thor's hammer, why on Earth would I ever do that? (except you're a nurse by profession, and I'm in a nursery home depending on your care)
Since when is $50 not $50? =)
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/lovely-puppy-portrait-picture-id92359506?k=20&m=92359506&s=612x612&w=0&h=tZkP0X2qQ-dyjj4hj_5K4RSdNoqRNMt1U_fFgsTTXvU=
I thought nannies preferred to shake not slap.
Professional nannies but I am not one.
Things to do in Denver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfsT_c-PZXg
I am sure the good citizen of Denver won't lose their morality, how can they lose something they never had.
Hey, now. I used to live in Denver.
It’s those megachurch citizens that have questionable morality.
I lived just outside Denver in the 70's, maybe things of changed but there was little sign of it back then.
---“COVID-19 forced every church in America to rethink how to best serve their parishioners and the broader community,”---
Yes, they did that by staying open, speeding up the spread of infection, and guaranteeing the pandemic continues on for several more years longer than it should have, spawning several new vaccine-resistant variants in the process.
They should be very proud of continuing their death cult's mission.
They feel it isn't a proper death cult if it doesn't work to magnify the deaths it causes.
Well, mission accomplished. Job well done!
*spits*
Happy Insurrection Day, kids!
Don't forget to Mock a MAGA for good luck!
I'd rather clock a MAGAt.
#NoQuarterForTraitors
Mock, Glock....it's all good. 😏
Marjarin Traitor Gruel and Matt Greaze are saying that Jan 6 was caused by the FBI.
Meanwhile, deSandtos says was "Christmas" for "the media".
All three are still repeating the "stolen election" lie, all three are still kissing the golden ass.
So it never occurred to the Roberts that instead of selling their church/property, they should spend all their tax-free $$$ to renovate/convert that building and its 32 acres into a place that could take care of the sick and needy the way their messiah wanted his followers to.
Imagine how many tiny houses you could build on 32 acres to give homeless people a re-start point, you know, a place, warm and dry, a place where you can take a shower and have a dump with some dignity, where you can leave some of your stuff, and sleep in a bed. A place with a few m², where you can plant some tomatoes, some flowers, some beauty. A place with people trained to give you a hand to remake your life.
Yeah, I'm one of those left-wing monsters that think we could make this world a better place for all living beings. I'm a horrible person, shame on me!!
Jesus never said the poor had to be taken care of well. A run down building in a bad neighborhood is good enough for the poor. Treat them well in a nice place and they might start saving their money to move there instead of giving that excess cash to the preacher, god I said god.
The poor need to suffer, suffering gets them closer to gawd. Just look at the shining example of the hypocritical "saint" mother Teresa.
Some suffering is part of life, can't be avoided, and should be taught to deal with it. Human-made suffering on the other hand, suffering due to imaginary class superiority, greed, ideology, religion, is a stain on humanity and will hold us back until we change it, or it brings about our downfall.
Help the sick and needy? What kind of charity do you think they're running here?
The pastors are sick of last year pair and needy of the new expensive sneakers.
Where did you ever get such a foolish thing for a church to do.
I mean, if those self-professed followers of Jesus actually followed what Jesus said...
The Roberts are the sorts of 'disciples' Jesus shook his head over and uttered "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and yet don't do what I tell you?"
This will come as a big surprise to all the prosperity preachers.
Churches are pyramid schemes, it would seem.
Except everything goes directly to the pastor.
You do know what a pyramid scheme is, don’t you? That is how they’re supposed to work.
And so, another scam does the one and only useful thing it ever has, by shutting down.
Oh, and happy coup-iversary, everybody. Best celebrate democracy while we've still got it.
Special shout out to the guy that tased himself in the nuts to death. Too soon?
Link ?
Snopes say no.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/capitol-riot-taser-death/
Snopes is relying on the wife being honest about her husband not carrying arms. It is possible wifey is lying and he did have a taser with him, and still didn’t taser himself in the balls, but I do not believe for a second that he went to the insurrection un armed, not after seeing his Facebook posts. Even if it isn’t true, Taserballs deserves the ridicule.
Snopes should take down that fact check.
That way, all the Q-onspiracy theorists will froth at the mouth and post "proof" videos of them tasering their own balls.
Which one is funnier? The story or the truth? =)
The story – and if it is true, it's even funnier because you can so well imagine those morons doing just that and "it" being so well deserved.
Had an interesting conversation with vicar relative last week. She says that here in the UK, a debate is going on about livestream services. Apparently someone in her diocese said she loves livestream as she can do the ironing at the same time. So one faction says the church must embrace what could be called the 'Netflix generation' which is accustomed to a vast choice of what to watch whilst the other says that's not what church community is. Whilst some worshippers are put off by blurry sermons broadcast from the vicar's phone, other churches and cathedrals provide good quality professional productions, making services slick and attractive to watch. I ran this past another vicar friend who said - in typical CofE-pander-to-everybody style that in future they'd obviously need to do both, in person and livestream services. Which, ISTM is just another compromise idea which, it will be claimed, revitalises the poor old CofE whilst doing nothing of the sort.
“Due to the inability to gather..."
Still trying to blame the government and sneak in the persecution complex. They managed to do the proper thing and fuck it up at the same time.
It's even more explicit in the linked news article.
"Potter’s House Pastor Touré Roberts said the pandemic, with its government shutdown of religious services,..."
Government shutdown of all large gatherings including religious services. But lest not let facts get in the way of a pity party.
They will say what ever will bring in the most donations.
OT: Star Trek Prodigy picked up again, with episode 6 featuring archived voice clips of Leonard Nimoy, René Auberjonois, Nichelle Nicols, James Doohan, and Gates McFadden repurposed for scene dialogue.
Also, a timeline was established which proved.... problematic.
### Spoilers abound, take care ###
Voyager returned to Earth in 2378-79, but the Prodigy series establishes that the USS Protostar with Holo-Janeway and Captain Chakotay has already been stranded in the Delta Quadrant for several years by 2366. The series itself takes place 17 years after that in 2383, which is verified by press materials according to GameRant.
The USS Protostar's registry (NX-76884) is about two thousand ships ahead of the multi-vector USS Prometheus (NX-74913), which was launched in 2373. The USS Voyager (NCC-74656) was launched in 2371, only about 300 ships behind the Prometheus. Best guess? The USS Protostar was launched in 2384, one year AFTER this series takes place.
EDIT: Just realized that the USS Protostar was stranded *BEFORE* the Voyager was even built. So yeah, most definitely time travel shenanigans involved.
I finished watching Next Generation over Christmas break and started on DS9. I guess I’m going to watch Voyager next, though it might not be for a while yet.
I didn’t see the original series available, so I’m starting with Riker’s beard.
It's weird, it's available in France.
I confess I didn’t look that hard for it. I wanted to watch next gen in the first place. I might search for it when ds9 is done.
There's also The Animated Series.
All the same VAs from TOS.
Why did Riker name his beard "12-Gauge?"
Because chicks like riding shotgun.
There was a lady that came around and said that things might be a bit wibbley wobbley and timey wimey for awhile, but if we have a Jammy Dodger and a few Jelly Babies we should be able to deal with the fallout just fine.
Jellied babies, yum.
OT
Another blow to YECs:
"200-million year-old dinosaur footprints discovered"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/200-hundred-million-year-old-dinosaur-footprints-discovered/ar-AASuBvi
Well, if four and a half to five thousand years old pyramids and even older precursors to those pyramids don't do it, I'm sure two-hundred-million-years old dinosaur footprints will do!
The stupidest YEC "proof" argument I've read is about the number of stone age tools found.
Apparently, the number of stone aged tools found cannot fit in a millions of years-old timeline, but is "just right" for a 6000-year-old timeline.
I lost many good brain cells that day.
It's very simple, the flood messed with the datation and the debunking of Piltdown skull with carbone 14 is a hoax :D
It's worse than that.
They said that the number of tools found is "too much" to be produced in millions of years.
Too much? A longer time frame would have less tools than a considerably shorter time frame? What ducking sense does that make?
And it isn’t like stone tools will decay like animal or plant based items. I mean, if rock decayed like that, there would be no mountains.
SMDH at bass ackwards creationists.
Like I said, I lost plenty of good brain cells that day.
Creation “Science” always begats me a headache.
It begats everything but the truth.
If they can't say gawddit or it's in the babble so it must be true, then they have no real argument.
Hillary Clinton e-mails.
I think you mean "Another piece of evidence for YEC's to ignore while they lie to the gullible to fleece them for cash." =)
Too bad, so sad.
YouTube Jesus is the way of the future.
So the future looks bleak is what you're saying. =)
Fuck you SubStack.
I read that as going viral.
Religion is indeed a virus. One it's best to be fully inoculated against.
And for some youths it just takes a prick to do it.
I got all my shots for that. The Hitchens, the AronRa, the Dillahunty...
My hope is that all religion of the future becomes fully virtual. A private PPV exercise from home, ideally with the same kind of parental controls as porn has to keep children from accessing it until they reach an age where they can make decisions for themselves.
All donations and charitable giving will hopefully be subject to audit by the IRS, which my retired accountant mother claims this year will be monitoring all private electronic $$ transfers that total $600/year or more in total.
In the present day, Parsonage tax exemptions should go the way of the Dodo if you don't even have a building
I'd tend to agree, but... what would be the point in virtual religion? Many talented screenwriters, directors, performers, and game developers have produced a smorgasbord of fantasies far more compelling, consistent, and of a higher overall quality than anything the extant major religions can provide- even when they're based, as many are, on religious source material. Why ask a priest to do what artists already do better?
Any ST or SG episode is far more entertaining and morally “valuable” than any bible story I know of.
I could equally argue why would I want to go through the trouble of finding serial non-procreative sexual hookups if online porn or even prostitution is a smorgasbord of fantasies far more compelling, consistent, and of a higher overall quality than meeting someone with multiple hang-ups, potential STIs or has a possibility of unwanted pregnancy? It's all about making a connection, even if it's brief and superficial
The next generation already works jobs, studies, and socializes and dates virtually, while some of those with disfigurements and/or socially impairing disabilities &/or pathological shyness &/or who simply enjoy catfishing have sex and romantic lives that are entirely virtual as well.
Unlike fantasies, religious people seem to want that connection to fellow believers and the chance for virtue signaling that confers status and privilege or even extra income that comes from a real life community. Perhaps 100 years from now, having church in a real brick and mortar building will be as antiquated as going to public bathhouses?
OT - Relying on gawd is a mistake he will never make again.
Conspiracy theorist Doug Kuzma dies from COVID
One of Kuzma’s associates at FROG News — which stands for “Fully Rely on God” — said the podcast host’s final photo showed him with a “refill of ivermectin.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/conspiracy-theorist-doug-kuzma-dies-from-covid/ar-AASvuiQ?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz
God is just ivermectin for the mind.
Awesome! Fucking Awesome!