FUCKING AMINOSWEET!! FUCKING SHROUD OF TURIN!!!...

[SidDithers]

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

Sorry, needed to get that off my chest.

Sid

[Codeine]

1. I feel your pain, man.

And explain as many times as you want, they ain't gettin' it.

[beam me up scottie]

2. And still the question stands.

Where do the credulous draw the line on woo? Religious, new age, self-motivation, Amway...

How obviously fucking batshit ridiculous does an idea have to be before they'll reject it?

Fairies hiding your pansies / vampires scratching on your window at night

Noah building a ship big enough to hold two of every animal / Sylphs breaking up chem-trails to protect us

Demonic possessions / reptilians lurking at the center of the Earth waiting to make us their slaves

Moon Landing was a hoax / orgone



Never had one answer, they refuse to think about it.

[sixstrings75]

14. Thinking about that question led me to post this:

It was a while ago...

Lol. I should post it in R/T...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=263x38306

[beam me up scottie]

15. Ooooooooo, not a good time.

It's an honest and valid opinion but everybody is still ubersensitive about the annual "DU Easter christian bashing". :eyes:

I worked with a good, decent man for years, he was a wonderful husband, father and friend. We were sitting around the office one day discussing organ donation, every person except B was a donor. When I asked him why he made that choice he said it was because he couldn't stand the thought of someone walking around with his parts after he was dead. I asked him if he had considered children who were burn victims, who were blind, etc. and he told me "I don't know what to think, I'll have to ask my minister this Sunday."

:wow:

I lost all respect for the guy. I still feel guilty but I cannot find it in my heart to absolve a 30-something husband and father of two who needed his minister to tell him organ donation is the right thing to do. A lot of it was anger, I had really admired the dude, he was liberal, tolerant and kind. I felt like he let ME down. I know that's not fair, but it's how I feel. I lost touch with him when I moved, it was probably for the best, he never understood why I turned cold.

[iris27]

18. I do it, too, but I try not to talk about it except with people I know will understand.

On a book-swapping site I frequent that has somewhat active forums, a thread was started about "What unexpected things will make you think less of a person? Not obvious things like drug use, etc." People were posting all kinds of minor crap - chewing gum, swearing, and the like.

I contemplated adding mine - "Finding out they are religious" - but decided not to turn the thread into a total flamewar against me.

But it's true, and unavoidable.

For example, a local news station came to interview my boss a few months back, and they were asking her random pointless questions while testing their sound and video. In answer to "What's your favorite book?", she started talking about "The Shack", and how her church book club is reading it, and how it's surprisingly insightful, blah, blah. Ugh.

[The Green Manalishi]

17. If you can get them to believe in an invisible friend in the sky

you can get them to believe in anything else.

[mr blur]

3. Lots of "serious" discussion in GD

Must be 'cos it's Cosmic Zombie Weekend.

[sixstrings75]

4. That 'Shroud' thread is an eye-opener...

Seriously. I lost a lot of respect for DU after reading that thing...

Scary.

[laconicsax]

5. Par for the course with "liberal/progressive Christians"

They'll believe whatever they're told if it comes from one of their favored authoritarian sources.

-Person A claims that Object A is a holy relic.
-Liberal Christians B, C, D, ... G and Fundy Christians H, I, J, ... R believe it without question.
-Persons S, T, and U examine object A and determine it to be a forgery.
-Person A confesses to creating the forgery.
-Liberal Christians B, C, D, ... G, are shocked and don't know what to believe.
-Fundy Christians H, I, J, ... R don't believe S, T, and U.
-Fundy Christian V claims that S, T, and U faked their results and Object A is authentic.
-Christians B, C, D, ... R accept V's statement without question..
-TV station A broadcasts show A to cater to B, C, D, ... R's deeply held fiction.
-B, C, D, ... R take broadcast A as proof that their beliefs are legitimate.
-Persons W, X, Y, and Z argue at length with B, C, D, ... Q, R about why Object A is a forgery to no avail, after all it's a matter of faith isn't it? You can't disprove faith.

[trotsky]

6. Correcting people has become the new Nazism, evidently.

Facts are not welcome.

[SidDithers]

7. Right. And disgreement is bullying...

It's mind bottling*.

*credit to Will Ferrell

Sid

[Silent3]

8. Unless you're correcting people about correcting people

Then you can be quite nasty. It's a necessary, justifiable defense against "oppression". :)

[trotsky]

9. How DARE you question my worldview?!?!?

It's AT LEAST as valid as one based on observation and reason!!1eleventyhundredeleven! You scientismist!

[beam me up scottie]

10. oops, excuse me, sorry!

I thought this was a sex thread :blush:

[realisticphish]

11. "shroud of turin" is an odd thing to call out during sex

unless one has a bizarre attachment to linen, or forgeries ;)

[beam me up scottie]

12. I think screaming out "god!" or "jesus!" is just as bizarre.

If they weren't so well known, someone would have a lot of explaining to do...

[charlie]

13. FUCKING SHROUD OF TURIN

is what a bishop yells when the rubber busts.

[beam me up scottie]

16. !

:spray: