Ahh…you need to spend more time wandering hospitals! Save for the few I have found stuffed in shelves at K-Mart, Target and the like, most of the Chick tracts in my collection have come from right here in the hospital. I go around picking them up when I can–I mean, they leave them right where kids can reach them! Just doing my part to save humanity!
I pick up any tracts I find lying around and carefully tear them into a few pieces, so they can’t be re-used. Then I make SURE to deposit them in the nearest covered wastebasket. I even carry them in my purse, until I can find an appropriate place to dispose of them.
I never should have asked…
Find them frequently in the Horror section at Blockbuster.
>1 Nobody was agueing back. You SAID, and i beleive you- that you took the actual words from someone else work- but context, and the ability to explain and defend is everything. That is why the there is a “defense” attorney in trials. You guys did not bother with any defense- you picked out lines & viewpoints, out of context- and mocked them. Maybe, if they were here to defend themselves they would have made a poor showing, or at least agreed your re-phrasing of their words was correct, and properly in context. But maybe they were not. You can take just about anyones work, and pick some lines out of context, or re-phase them- and make them sound like idiots. You were just shooting ducks in a barrel. Just who were you debating with? Since all of you already had your opinions on the matter- who were going to convince? Some anon lurker? And, just how do you “cite” a radio-show? Was there a link to a transcript that I missed?
>2 Not quite- David said (not exact words)“it is OK to START (emph mine) a debate with no-one on the other side- these things usually die after a while”. Which I interpreted as saying: “It was OK to start this, hoping someone will come in and debate the other side, but when no-body does, it should be ended”.
>3 I have told the DanielintheWOLVESden story about 3 times now- look it up.
Nothing to add here, really, except to say that I’m disappointed that the opportunity was missed to call this thread Hot Chick Links!…
::inor, SLAPPING jr8::
hee hee hee.
I fukkin love it…
My former church used to believe in the efficacy of those tracts.
From the artwork, you can pretty much spot them from a distance.
Also, from that particular tract, it seems before the flood, there were lots of intelligent people around.
It was CecilWorld!
“I even carry them in my purse, until I can find an appropriate place to dispose of them.”
—Careful, Lynn! What if you’re hit by a bus and they find you with a purseful of Chick tracts? EMS worker: “She seemed to be stablized, but then she actually died of embarrassment!”
The “Sin City” tract is an instant classic, very much in the Jack Chick Bizarro World tradition.
[li]Homosexuals run the government and the police.[/li][li]Homosexuals are ultraviolent toughs bent on killing innocent Christians.[/li][li]Homosexuals entice young people into the “gay lifestyle”.[/li][li]All you need to do to turn straight is to recite a simple formula and, poof, no more poofter![/li]
There are not enough rolling eye smileys to adequately express my disgust with Chick and his agitprop, but it is an interesting glimpse of how Fred Phelps and his tribe view the world. I’m curious, since the Christian god as seen in Chick’s tracts seems to enjoy sending people to eternal damnation, is there any real difference between Chick’s god and Satan?
Danielinthewolvesden:
Since a Jack Chick thread is a thing of rare beauty, please join me here for an in-depth discussion of your last post.
Fenris
What IS it about this place that makes me want to do Bad Things, like click on those links? I KNOW better, but still, I do it anyway. Gaaaaaaaaaah.
What I thought was rather odd was Janet’s “He was going to destry Mother Earth???” thing. AS IF she’d never even been in the same COUNTY as SOMEONE who had EVER DRIVEN PAST a CHURCH or a LIBRARY before! GAAAAAAH! If she’s a COLLEGE student, she’s taken at least ONE ANCIENT HISTORY class, and EVERY civilization has at least ONE flood story! What college is she going to??? Bob’s Discount College O’ Bad Science, Haridressing, and Drive-Thru Technology???
Don’t even get me STARTED on that doctor inn “That Crazy Guy!” I think that buttmunch went to the same college.
went there
picked out one I thought would be particularly idiotic, called bicycling with god.
liked and agreed with it, while still not having decided what ‘god’ is, exactly.
fuck me.
not that I’m not religious/spiritual, just that I hate knee-jerk religion/spirituality.
all the while realizing my hate is a knee-jerk reaction.
i must now go to the bathroom and think hopeless thoughts.
a little metamucil will help inor…
Well, his bedside manner needs work. “Suzie, you’re going to die and there’s no cure. Ya shoulda read your bible. Pay the nurse on the way out, will you?”
I showed a friend the tract, and he noted that:
- It only took the virus 12 days to show up.
- They were able to run the AIDS test in a day.
thanks vanilla
Also IMO worthy of note is the Dark Dungeons parody and commentary by Scott Kurtz of PvPonline:
http://www.pvponline.com/rants_jesus.php3
RE: space for animals
In figuring average space per animal, you’re failing to calculate space needed per animal. I’ve forgotten all statistics & math terminology, so work with me here.
Some of those animals were vewy, vewy small. I mean, since God chose to save fleas, ticks, roaches, mosquitos, tapeworms, silverfish, so on and et cetera, some very large percentage of those 50,000 (?right?) didn’t need much space. All the parasites, for instance, must have traveled on or in the other animals, thereby giving up their .75m for the greater good.
Of course that leaves us with another question:
If evolution doesn’t occur, and Noah only had 50,000 animals / 2 animals per species = 25,000 species
…
Where did all the rest of them come from??
Somewhere I’ve got a collection of Chicks; dunno where they’ve gotten off to, probably in the garage with the rest of my library. They used to be easy to find 'round here - public restrooms were a common drop point. Actually, you’d see them just about anywhere they wouldn’t be immediately thrown away. Don’t see them much any more. That sort of thing gives me hope, on my better days.
Reminded me of a cartoon I saw many years ago :
Noah is by the ark, peering at the ground through a magnifying glass.
Voice of God : “Hey, Noah! Don’t worry about the other amoeba!”
Probably. If she had received a competent education, she wouldn’t have folded like that at the end.