For a religion whose "leader" is supposed to be "all mighty" the followers sure are weak and impressionable. Literally everything they see, hear, or are around is going to cause "the debil" to get them. Movies are the devil and Satan will possess you if you watch them. Music is the devil and will cause evil to get your soul. Now a fucking bus route will cause evil to get you. I thought their "faith" protected them? Do they even see themselves? Like, this shit is ridiculous.
My late partner’s mother, like his whole family, were very fervent southern Baptist in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia. His mother had some psychic talents. Not the fake kind, the real kind. And they scared the crap out of her. She was absolutely certain that the devil was working on her, as she put it. She couldn’t process how she knew things that she shouldn’t or couldn’t possibly know. She didn’t want to be a witch, which she was not. She simply had some talents. I never actually talk to her in the seven years we were together. I would have been happy to try to talk her out of thinking that the devil was working on her. Even accepting her own religious framework, I would have tried to convince her that it was a gift from God. Anything but allowing her to drive herself and her family crazy because of her visions.
Actually, although I didn’t know the lady, my partner was very descriptive. Apparently, she knew lots of things that she could not possibly have known— like the red convertible of the new boyfriend of her slutty granddaughter and what town they were being slutty in. There were a lot of stories like this that he told me.
My own mother had a bit of that herself. She just knew some things that she couldn’t possibly have known. My sister went out on a first date with some guy when she was in college. The man appeared at the door, exchanged about one minute worth of pleasantries with my mother, and took my sister and left. My mother turned to me and said, “that man is married. I know he is”
In Poland, Christian means Catholic most of the time (from anywhere between 71% to 82% right now, though secularism is gaining). These Catholics were more concerned about a bus route than children being molested by the Catholic clergy?
Good gravy, we got Polish Christian snowflakes now? I will admit, that new signage with the 669 and the upside-down bus on the last character was amusing, never mind the "holiday route to Hel." One would hope that believers could take a step back and just laugh at it.
Not all Christians have no sense of humour or can't laugh at themselves. I give a partial recommendation to the Christian singer Steve Taylor who, in the 80s and 90s, got into all kinds of bother with the US Christian rock industry for his quite popular satirical oeuvre:
A great many Christians of all flavors continue to put their faith forward as the solution to all of humanity’s problems. They do this in spite of the fact their belief systems seldom rises above magical thinking.
Of course the response would be mainly positive/neutral. The only negative response seems to be from snowflake Christian supremacists, an export thst makes me ashamed of my country.
Isn’t it just amazing? Christians claim that their God is a wonderful God, an awesome God, their rock, their Shield, their sword, their protector, who will keep them from stumbling on the way— unless they do, because everybody sins, ya know— and who loves everyone so goddamn much that he even protects all of the little children from the minions of Satan who happen to work for him.
And yet simultaneously, the existence of a bus route to a town is a terrible threat to their faith and their place in the world.
Their God is almost as snowflakey as they are. But the problem is obvious. They are really worried that people will laugh at them, that more than anything else. A few years ago, Poland was really worried about gay people, so much that they had signs outside of towns proclaiming that the town was gay free. They were so worried about gay people because they had a sexual abuse problem going back decades in the Catholic Church. They weren’t so worried about people thinking that priests were child molesters as they were worried about gay people, who weren’t molesting the kids .
Near me in Wales, there's a Pant (means 'hollow') And many welsh villages don't have a street address with road name and number. They just have house name+village name. Pen Isa is a not uncommon house name. (it kind of means 'top of the lower past of the village.) Bored teens with little else to do in small places do like to get busy with a Sharpie from time to time.
For a religion whose "leader" is supposed to be "all mighty" the followers sure are weak and impressionable. Literally everything they see, hear, or are around is going to cause "the debil" to get them. Movies are the devil and Satan will possess you if you watch them. Music is the devil and will cause evil to get your soul. Now a fucking bus route will cause evil to get you. I thought their "faith" protected them? Do they even see themselves? Like, this shit is ridiculous.
Can you say, "Insecurity," boys and girls? I KNEW that you could! 😁
My late partner’s mother, like his whole family, were very fervent southern Baptist in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia. His mother had some psychic talents. Not the fake kind, the real kind. And they scared the crap out of her. She was absolutely certain that the devil was working on her, as she put it. She couldn’t process how she knew things that she shouldn’t or couldn’t possibly know. She didn’t want to be a witch, which she was not. She simply had some talents. I never actually talk to her in the seven years we were together. I would have been happy to try to talk her out of thinking that the devil was working on her. Even accepting her own religious framework, I would have tried to convince her that it was a gift from God. Anything but allowing her to drive herself and her family crazy because of her visions.
Ah, she had the Shine, as Stephen King called it. Some people view it as a talent. Others view it as a curse. And for the True Knot, it's food.
"Not the fake kind, the real kind." - There's only one kind.
Actually, although I didn’t know the lady, my partner was very descriptive. Apparently, she knew lots of things that she could not possibly have known— like the red convertible of the new boyfriend of her slutty granddaughter and what town they were being slutty in. There were a lot of stories like this that he told me.
My own mother had a bit of that herself. She just knew some things that she couldn’t possibly have known. My sister went out on a first date with some guy when she was in college. The man appeared at the door, exchanged about one minute worth of pleasantries with my mother, and took my sister and left. My mother turned to me and said, “that man is married. I know he is”
And he was.
In Poland, Christian means Catholic most of the time (from anywhere between 71% to 82% right now, though secularism is gaining). These Catholics were more concerned about a bus route than children being molested by the Catholic clergy?
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
Yes indeed they are. One of the reasons the crackdown on gay people was happening was because the Catholic Church needed a distraction.
Please explain to me, like I'm 5yo, how religion is not insane.
I generally don't lie to 5 year olds. : )
Generally.
Majorally.
Never lie to a 5yo even in Private.
5yo should be too smart for religion.
I’m going to use a very adult word that five year olds sometimes hear.
Religion is not insane. It is fucking crazy.
Does that help?
Good gravy, we got Polish Christian snowflakes now? I will admit, that new signage with the 669 and the upside-down bus on the last character was amusing, never mind the "holiday route to Hel." One would hope that believers could take a step back and just laugh at it.
Sadly, apparently not.
Not all Christians have no sense of humour or can't laugh at themselves. I give a partial recommendation to the Christian singer Steve Taylor who, in the 80s and 90s, got into all kinds of bother with the US Christian rock industry for his quite popular satirical oeuvre:
"Marching to Pretoria
Colour codes in churches huh?
Following a fascist creed
Whose translation do you read?
True believers won't be snowed
We don't need no colour code."
🎵Hiiiiiighway ta Hel...🎵
https://youtu.be/l482T0yNkeo?si=1JVZPP2e2x57W_gS
A great many Christians of all flavors continue to put their faith forward as the solution to all of humanity’s problems. They do this in spite of the fact their belief systems seldom rises above magical thinking.
“They do this in spite of the fact their belief systems seldom rises above magical thinking.”
And despite the fact that the religion they follow is often the cause of (many of) humanity’s problems.
𝐻𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑, 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙.
Of course the response would be mainly positive/neutral. The only negative response seems to be from snowflake Christian supremacists, an export thst makes me ashamed of my country.
Isn’t it just amazing? Christians claim that their God is a wonderful God, an awesome God, their rock, their Shield, their sword, their protector, who will keep them from stumbling on the way— unless they do, because everybody sins, ya know— and who loves everyone so goddamn much that he even protects all of the little children from the minions of Satan who happen to work for him.
And yet simultaneously, the existence of a bus route to a town is a terrible threat to their faith and their place in the world.
Their God is almost as snowflakey as they are. But the problem is obvious. They are really worried that people will laugh at them, that more than anything else. A few years ago, Poland was really worried about gay people, so much that they had signs outside of towns proclaiming that the town was gay free. They were so worried about gay people because they had a sexual abuse problem going back decades in the Catholic Church. They weren’t so worried about people thinking that priests were child molesters as they were worried about gay people, who weren’t molesting the kids .
Funny how that works.
Aren't buses like an Iron chariot of sorts?
Some iron, mostly aluminum. : )
The weak xtian god loses again.
In the land of the metaphorically dumb, the man with words is king.
There is a Hell in central Norway. It's a small town in the mountains, but there seems to be more humor about their moniker.
My house is about an hour's drove from Hell, Michigan. It freezes over there, too.
In Norway, Hell REALLY freezes over. :)
There's also a Sodom, New Hampshire.
Near me in Wales, there's a Pant (means 'hollow') And many welsh villages don't have a street address with road name and number. They just have house name+village name. Pen Isa is a not uncommon house name. (it kind of means 'top of the lower past of the village.) Bored teens with little else to do in small places do like to get busy with a Sharpie from time to time.
Another note of the dangerous cult thinking of imaginary issues while genocide takes place somewhere on earth.
Here in America, you could make a fair argument every bus is a bus to Hell. Ridden on one lately?
Daily. They certainly have their fair share of characters.
You're slacking off (see above). : )
(or below)
As above, so below.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9BD143JEzQ
It's Saturday. I'm still half-asleep. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLcmdWz_B0M&list=RDrLcmdWz_B0M&start_radio=1
Bermuda Schwartz plays a mean accordion case. :)
♫Every day, I get in the queue
To get on the bus that takes me to you♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfQQC1bsf4&list=RDTmfQQC1bsf4&start_radio=1
♫♪ Too much, MAGIC BUS!!! ♪♫
🎵666. The Number of the Bus...🎵
666 is the number of the Beast.
But did you know that:
660 Approximate number of the Beast
DCLXVI - Roman numeral of the Beast
666.0000 - Number of the High Precision Beast
0.666 Number of the Millibeast
/666- Beast Common Denominator
1010011010 - Binary of the Beast
1-666- Area code of the Beast
00666 Postcode of the Beast
$665.95 Retail price of the Beast
$699.25- Price of the Beast plus sales tax
$769.95 Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul
$656.66 - Target price of the Beast
Route 666 - Way of the Beast
666F - Oven temperature for roast Beast
666mg - Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast
Netscape 6.66 - BetaBrowser of the Beast
i66686 CPU of the Beast
6661BMW of the Beast
668 - Next-door neighbor of the Beast
1-900-666-0666 - Live Beasts! One-on-one pacts! Call Now! Only
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https://youtu.be/9646W4JSyf8?si=hF6v9Ec1tUW0kXYG
Exhibit number 666 that Christians ruin everything.
You're going to have to add a lot more sixes. : )
666 to the 666th power.
That's a Hel of a good marketing tactic.
Christians are most narrow minded, fearful , superstitious rubes ever. It's why they are such easy marks for grifting.
Imaginary friends and imaginary enemies and constant fear. They are such unhappy people.