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So, you’re Jesus now?
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You know who else was mocked to his face?
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People who mess up coding? 
That’s very good. Original?
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Kanicbird often expresses a very unusual theological outlook, but it’s not all that much more wackadoodle than other religion’s perspectives. Wackadoodle is wackadoodle. It’s kind of the “buy the premise buy the bit” kind of thing. If some sky fairy can raise the dead, part a sea, or make a killer pasta, then pretty much all bets are off.
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Kanicbird is much more than a one-trick pony. We’ve had religious posters like that. Yes, he frequently injects his fairly peculiar theological outlook into otherwise godless threads, but it’s far from omnipresent. There are other posters (typically with an economic/political bent) that tend to make many more irrelevant (to the thread) posts on their favourite topic.
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It’s time to let the Dudeling out of the Basement of Woe.
When I was a child and very much interested in and supportive of the political activism of the day, I really did want to start a kids liberation movement. My main grievance was that I was not allowed to check out certain books from the library because they were considered too mature for me. I argued that if I would be able to read the books then, I ought to be able to read them now. I remember that my father was not very sympathetic to the argument, although he did admire the attempt. Eventually I concluded that kids lib was doomed to failure, since as soon as they developed any power, the activists would stop being kids.
I’ve seen it (in first person) attributed to… Bob Somebody? Dangit, I don’t have the quote book with me right now.
When come back, bring cite, I suppose.
Man, if only that wasn’t an insult against someone else, I’d ask to use that as my signature.
Go for it.
Damn. Now I’m hungry for lechon asado AND Chinese food.
Bob Saget?
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Milhouse is thrilled because he and some other kids were going to sneak into an R-rated movie: “We’re going to see ‘Barton Fink’!” 
What She’s always given children for - the aggravation.
I agree with the OP. All parents should be immediately imprisoned after the birth of their first child, leaving the child free to… well, starve to death I guess. But they would be FREE!
God gives people children as punishment for breaking the Fifth Commandment.
Well that’s certainly what my parents used me for, but I’m always hearing about how miraculous and joyous having kids is meant to be, so I assumed that would be the angle religious people would try to sell.
Although having seen some birth videos I’ve got to say it didn’t look particularly joyous to me.
You know, I honestly read that as “Damn. Now I’m hungry for lesbian action…” :eek:
Fine by me too - as hinted above, it’s not original (I can manage original or funny, not both).
Just so you know, I’m stealin’ this. I’m sure it 'll come in handy.
Not to mention “spare the rod and spoil the child.”
Hmmm. If there’s an addressable complaint in the OP, what would be the cure? Biggirl suggested setting them free. Crab Rangoon suggested an island. I considered locking mine in a closet once, long ago. But the problem isn’t in the adults, it’s in the children.
Children come with their brains largely empty. So empty that if you tickle their little foot, they can’t figure out where that sensation is coming from. And though they do absorb a terrific amount of information about the world around them by the formation and testing of hypotheses (see recent web article about child development and artificial intellegence experts teaming up - the google can probably find it), they also seem to come wired with the instruction to identify a family/clan and mimic clan members, especially the ones that other clan members are listening to.
Believing what the clan believes, taking on the protective coloration of those beliefs, fools the clan into thinking that the child, though weak and unproductive, is one of them. That’s it! The OP has it backwards!
In our society, adults are not brainwashing children.* Children are actively mimicing adults as part of their own agenda. They are fraudulently absorbing the time and resources of the adults by tricking them into thinking that they are smaller versions of the adults. Then when the adults are no longer needed, they drop their childhood coloration and show themselves to be mouthy adolescent cucoos. I see it all, now. I’ve been defrauded.
Except, of course, that adolescents turn into adults - at least most of the time. So it may not be a complete fraud. Still, it makes me wish I had kept receipts. Because if children are defrauding us, the only way to address that is to enact laws requiring them to repay the cost of their keep. And without receipts, I’m not in a position to benefit from any such laws.
I did my bit to free my own children’s minds by lying to them outrageously. I wasn’t quite as good at it as the guy who convinced his children that when the TV put up the message PLEASE STAND BY, it meant that someone had to go stand by the TV and put one hand on it and one hand in the air while they tried to re-establish the connection.
Yup. Once they’ve twigged to a few whoppers like that, they’re compelled to wonder in what other ways have the adults around them misused their childish trust.
- Barring cases where they actually do.
There really are people with idiotic parents, you know. And the vast majority of adults are not nearly as competent as we imagine as children. Heaven forbid the old folk around here take a dose of medicine like a grownup, though. 
Bob Monkhouse.