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Partnoy Quoted in Great Movie "Inside Job"
Partnoy's Complaint? With apologies to Philip Roth, of course. I couldn't help it, the low-hanging fruit is too tempting ;)
— November 22, 2010 2:40 p.m.
Savior
Mormons tend to bang big giant screws into doctrine and tie themselves to those footholds. They make it sound as though they have all of the answers, but really, I've found it to be a grand creation of what they want religion to be. I grew up understanding that Christianity was faith-based, so I always found it odd the the Book of Mormon recommended that the reader sit in a room and ask God for guidance as to whether or not the book was true. Anti-faith, much? Still, I think they are mostly very nice people and they are willing to listen even though I think that their minds are closed for the most part. I grew up a few houses down from a couple of Mormon families, they were great kids to pal around with, I went to church with them many times. More Mormons wouldn't make for a bad planet. I equate them in an odd way with the Witnesses, except that the Witnesses seem to be stuck on numbers. One hundred and forty-four thousand, imagine that. Every time I hear that I can only think of the late Carl Sagan saying, "Billions!" Try telling a Witness that the use of numbers in literature in ancient Greek was entirely symbolic. Good luck convincing them otherwise.
— November 22, 2010 1:39 p.m.
Savior
Guilt is - or at least should be - based on experience. I would not have crucified a Christ, I wouldn't do it now, that if someone wandered up to me and told me that He was the Son of God I would have no choice but to accept his statement at face value. Believing in such a statement is an entirely different matter. Having faith in such a belief is the cornerstone of Christianity. God killed his own son. Hell of a story, eh? It is easy to say that God's act mandates humanity's culpability. It is much more difficult to rationalize that statement, and I can't speak for everyone but it's certainly above my pay grade. My children do not deserve the guilt of original sin. They have been taught about it, the three that I've had control of have been to church, baptized and confirmed and so on. I think it was important for them to learn about religion, and had no qualms with the Catholic lessons. As for myself, I've never been baptized by water. I have no plans to do so in the future. According to many versions of Christianity, this condemns me to a life non-eternal. I could care less about that, Altius. The great-big giant awesome message inside of the New Testament is completely lost if I need to have some holy man sprinkle water on my head so that I am somehow absolved in the murder of the Son of God. For my children, I only want their guilt borne of a crime they've committed, not one that society decides to dump onto them. I'd rather see them run in the sprinklers because it's fun, not because they owe their God an offering. But I will defend the rights of those people who believe that guilt is an integral part of their eventual salvation. Should they want even more guilt, they can have mine. I hammered no nails into that cross, I have nothing to be guilty of and neither do my children.
— November 22, 2010 11:43 a.m.
A Woman's Work
Yeah, I'm a house-husband at the moment. I think that women have been on the crap-end of the stick for a long time. Before, when I worked out and the wife stayed home, I never said a word about the house. It isn't perfect, and I kind of like it that way. Hope she doesn't mind my sloppy house-keeping either ;)
— November 22, 2010 10:22 a.m.
Savior
Guilt. Guilt has always been the feeling I've associated with Catholicism. The first thing you notice is Christ nailed to a cross, and he died for YOUR sins. That's some pretty tough love for a nine-year-old kid to have to endure. They tried to make up for it by serving cookies and punch after catechism, but all I could imagine was that Jesus was very disappointed with me every time I touched myself inappropriately. It's pretty easy to screw a kid up with religion. I've always tried to make certain that my kids were completely free to decide for themselves what was comfortable and what they wanted from any belief in a higher power.
— November 22, 2010 9:44 a.m.
Journal writing
Hey, just write. Screw the input, just write, feedback isn't so important after a while. Write like everyone in the world is reading it, but don't worry about the response. You know when you've written something totally bitchen. That's the most important thing. That's the thing that matters.
— November 21, 2010 9:30 p.m.
Savior
Oh man, one of these days I'm going to write about the very last time I was cast out of Lutheran Sunday School :) Seriously, they got a big giant hard-on and tossed me. It was AWESOME! And I was innocent! I dared to bring up to very turning point of Jesus' baptism, and they went nuts. The singular pivot-point of the entire biblical experience, and they wouldn't even entertain the notion that once Jesus was baptized in water, humanity was then destined to be baptized in his SPIRIT! Epic kick-out. I was so proud, my mother so embarrassed.
— November 21, 2010 9:02 p.m.
Savior
Nope, although I am familiar with them. My attendance was mostly in my youth. Since I've grown into adulthood, I've not strayed far from my living room. I'm pretty good pals with a pair of Baha'i faithful, she's Mexican he's American. Very balanced folks, I appreciate the ease and patience in which they communicate. I enjoy people of faith that seem to have no driving need to ramrod their beliefs down my throat, and the Baha'i folk seem to fill that bill quite swimmingly.
— November 21, 2010 8:45 p.m.
Savior
Religion is how people define it, I wouldn't know any different. I've been to a boatload of churches, none of them harmed me in any way, but I can't say that any of them enlightened me either. Ive been to Kingdom Hall's, Catholic masses, Assemblies of God, you name it, I've been there, even to Mormon churches. I have no complaints about any of them, so long as people are happy attending. It won't be me in any case. So far as the father of your kids, I can't tell you how to feel about that, but as much of an a-hole as my ex-wife is, my kids need a mother and I never said a bad word against her until they hit 18 and asked me why I wasn't around when they grew up. I still don't think they believe me when I told them about the ex sending Child Protective Services out to take away my youngest daughter. This is what happens.
— November 21, 2010 8:21 p.m.
Savior
I've always had a big problem with heaven as a reward. I don't want a reward. I just want to be human, and part of me being human is being willing to get snuffed out in place for the good of someone else. I'd trade that everlasting life away with no regrets if it meant something good for someone else.
— November 21, 2010 6:55 p.m.
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Partnoy Quoted in Great Movie "Inside Job"
Partnoy's Complaint? With apologies to Philip Roth, of course. I couldn't help it, the low-hanging fruit is too tempting ;)— November 22, 2010 2:40 p.m.
Savior
Mormons tend to bang big giant screws into doctrine and tie themselves to those footholds. They make it sound as though they have all of the answers, but really, I've found it to be a grand creation of what they want religion to be. I grew up understanding that Christianity was faith-based, so I always found it odd the the Book of Mormon recommended that the reader sit in a room and ask God for guidance as to whether or not the book was true. Anti-faith, much? Still, I think they are mostly very nice people and they are willing to listen even though I think that their minds are closed for the most part. I grew up a few houses down from a couple of Mormon families, they were great kids to pal around with, I went to church with them many times. More Mormons wouldn't make for a bad planet. I equate them in an odd way with the Witnesses, except that the Witnesses seem to be stuck on numbers. One hundred and forty-four thousand, imagine that. Every time I hear that I can only think of the late Carl Sagan saying, "Billions!" Try telling a Witness that the use of numbers in literature in ancient Greek was entirely symbolic. Good luck convincing them otherwise.— November 22, 2010 1:39 p.m.
Savior
Guilt is - or at least should be - based on experience. I would not have crucified a Christ, I wouldn't do it now, that if someone wandered up to me and told me that He was the Son of God I would have no choice but to accept his statement at face value. Believing in such a statement is an entirely different matter. Having faith in such a belief is the cornerstone of Christianity. God killed his own son. Hell of a story, eh? It is easy to say that God's act mandates humanity's culpability. It is much more difficult to rationalize that statement, and I can't speak for everyone but it's certainly above my pay grade. My children do not deserve the guilt of original sin. They have been taught about it, the three that I've had control of have been to church, baptized and confirmed and so on. I think it was important for them to learn about religion, and had no qualms with the Catholic lessons. As for myself, I've never been baptized by water. I have no plans to do so in the future. According to many versions of Christianity, this condemns me to a life non-eternal. I could care less about that, Altius. The great-big giant awesome message inside of the New Testament is completely lost if I need to have some holy man sprinkle water on my head so that I am somehow absolved in the murder of the Son of God. For my children, I only want their guilt borne of a crime they've committed, not one that society decides to dump onto them. I'd rather see them run in the sprinklers because it's fun, not because they owe their God an offering. But I will defend the rights of those people who believe that guilt is an integral part of their eventual salvation. Should they want even more guilt, they can have mine. I hammered no nails into that cross, I have nothing to be guilty of and neither do my children.— November 22, 2010 11:43 a.m.
A Woman's Work
Yeah, I'm a house-husband at the moment. I think that women have been on the crap-end of the stick for a long time. Before, when I worked out and the wife stayed home, I never said a word about the house. It isn't perfect, and I kind of like it that way. Hope she doesn't mind my sloppy house-keeping either ;)— November 22, 2010 10:22 a.m.
Savior
Guilt. Guilt has always been the feeling I've associated with Catholicism. The first thing you notice is Christ nailed to a cross, and he died for YOUR sins. That's some pretty tough love for a nine-year-old kid to have to endure. They tried to make up for it by serving cookies and punch after catechism, but all I could imagine was that Jesus was very disappointed with me every time I touched myself inappropriately. It's pretty easy to screw a kid up with religion. I've always tried to make certain that my kids were completely free to decide for themselves what was comfortable and what they wanted from any belief in a higher power.— November 22, 2010 9:44 a.m.
Journal writing
Hey, just write. Screw the input, just write, feedback isn't so important after a while. Write like everyone in the world is reading it, but don't worry about the response. You know when you've written something totally bitchen. That's the most important thing. That's the thing that matters.— November 21, 2010 9:30 p.m.
Savior
Oh man, one of these days I'm going to write about the very last time I was cast out of Lutheran Sunday School :) Seriously, they got a big giant hard-on and tossed me. It was AWESOME! And I was innocent! I dared to bring up to very turning point of Jesus' baptism, and they went nuts. The singular pivot-point of the entire biblical experience, and they wouldn't even entertain the notion that once Jesus was baptized in water, humanity was then destined to be baptized in his SPIRIT! Epic kick-out. I was so proud, my mother so embarrassed.— November 21, 2010 9:02 p.m.
Savior
Nope, although I am familiar with them. My attendance was mostly in my youth. Since I've grown into adulthood, I've not strayed far from my living room. I'm pretty good pals with a pair of Baha'i faithful, she's Mexican he's American. Very balanced folks, I appreciate the ease and patience in which they communicate. I enjoy people of faith that seem to have no driving need to ramrod their beliefs down my throat, and the Baha'i folk seem to fill that bill quite swimmingly.— November 21, 2010 8:45 p.m.
Savior
Religion is how people define it, I wouldn't know any different. I've been to a boatload of churches, none of them harmed me in any way, but I can't say that any of them enlightened me either. Ive been to Kingdom Hall's, Catholic masses, Assemblies of God, you name it, I've been there, even to Mormon churches. I have no complaints about any of them, so long as people are happy attending. It won't be me in any case. So far as the father of your kids, I can't tell you how to feel about that, but as much of an a-hole as my ex-wife is, my kids need a mother and I never said a bad word against her until they hit 18 and asked me why I wasn't around when they grew up. I still don't think they believe me when I told them about the ex sending Child Protective Services out to take away my youngest daughter. This is what happens.— November 21, 2010 8:21 p.m.
Savior
I've always had a big problem with heaven as a reward. I don't want a reward. I just want to be human, and part of me being human is being willing to get snuffed out in place for the good of someone else. I'd trade that everlasting life away with no regrets if it meant something good for someone else.— November 21, 2010 6:55 p.m.