I hope not. I’m totally jonesin’ to call someone a platypus-rimmer now.
This post is just about answering this one post. To those of you arguing about Pit rules, please pass right on by.
I’m not a Christian, so if you are, I think I’m reading a Christian pastor author that I interpret to be disagreeing with you here. His name is John Ortberg and his book is “Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them” and the chapter is called “Put Down Your Stones.” It is about John Eight. It is about a woman that was caught with a man, not her husband, and dragged out to be stoned. As she was about to be stoned, Jesus wrote some things in the sand and people put down the stones and walked away. Ortberg notes that scholars speculate that what Jesus may have been writing was the sins of the people picking up stones.
You seem to be saying that one can judge someone else as long as their sin is different than yours. I don’t think that’s what this Christian pastor is saying.
And this quote probably doesn’t have to do with the argument here, but it’s my favorite quote so I’m placing it here anyway. From the same Ortberg book:
That last line is always an interesting thought for me.
Be the Pit you wish to see.
~acient faithfool proverb
MizGrand if it makes you feel any better there are now more threads about Imus than you. 
Hee - the Google Ad is for Peace Flags and Banners - even Google’s trying to offer up some suggestions 
Huh. My ad says, “Fuck off back to MPSIMS.”
Seriously, there are eight forums on this board which provide opportunity for conversation, debate, engagement, criticism, opinions, or whining that do not allow vitriol. If the Pit bothers you so much, why not stay out of it? Many other posters do.
Some of us are, by nature, Pit denizens; some of us are, by nature, not. You’re not. Why do you feel so obsessed with “improving” those of us who are?
I’m not exactly saying that the sin has to be different from your own, I wasn’t very clear. I am familiar with the John 8 story, Jesus does bring in the new law of the spirit or heart as opposed to the Old Testament law of rules and regulations. He points out that your intent or spirit is more important than following the rules. God looks at your heart and not just your surface actions.
This passage also needs to be taken in context, the adulterous woman was brought out not just as a regular stoning, but specifically before Jesus by the Pharisees as a trap – if Jesus said the woman should not be stoned, he could be accused of violating Moses’ law. If he said to stone her, he could be given up to the Romans, because the Jews were not supposed to perform their own executions. So there is a lot going on in this passage, and many books and better minds than I have interpreted it. Anyway, I am not trying to turn this into a Biblical interpretation thread. My only irritation is that people use these passages as meaning to say no one should make any sort of judgement on others’ behavior, as if to say, we cannot ever tell someone what they are doing is wrong. Jesus was compassionate toward the woman but he also told her to leave her life of sin, to change her ways.
This of course doesn’t mean anything to those who aren’t Christian, and I am not trying to make this about turning to God to change your ways or whatever. I only bring it up because the Pharisees were brought up several times in this context, and I often hear phrase “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” quote misapplied. I know it’s nitpicky and I probably shouldn’t have even brought it up here…I don’t know why I felt compelled to say this of all things after staying out of this whole mess from the beginning.
I got something to say, you’re being a goddamn moron. You’re being a self-righteous bitch who thinks you’re somehow exempt from the very same judgment you try to put on everyone else. I’ve seen you say stupid shit before, but this by far takes the cake.
Honestly, your thread was the epitome of jackaldom, if there is such a thing here. Not to mention junior moderation.
What would we call a kinder, gentler BBQ Pit, anyway? “The Crock-Pot?” “The Comfy Heating Pad?”
How 'bout the FonduPot? Everybody loves fondu.
And if you read the whole thread in question, as you claim, I think you would see that the pittee kept coming back with new shit, which was a reason why many of the points were repeated again and again, in – probably – vain hope that she would “get it.”
Now, if the pittee had simply backed off and if the sorid mess had gone on for 10 pages, then I’d agree about invoking a mercy killing.
I find this curiously arousing.
I’m also not seeing why this ridiculous argument keeps cropping up. What is nasty, or crossing the line is so subjective there will never be enough agreement to actually make or change any rules. Certainly things do change sometimes if enough people yell, but this is the Pit, for cryin’ out loud. The Pit! Even the name isn’t friendly or cheerful.
It appears the majority of Pit Posters (which I’m not really one, since I’m more of a Pit Browser) don’t have an issue with how things are done here. The few that do take issue can yell all they want, but I don’t think anything will be accomplished anytime soon.
I agree things are sometimes out of line, but I don’t have any particular post or thread in mind. Usually if I come across one I might think “Wow, that was fucked up,” but then I move on, 'cause vicious posting is typical here. It’s expected. Besides, what if the person that was flamed doesn’t think it was out of line? Take alice’s grandma, for example. She doesn’t seem too bothered by a comment like that, but a bystander may have read it and been wetting themselves with self-righteous anger.
We call it MPSIMS, where QG and Auto et al should go hang out and leave us cranky mean bitchy judgmental assholes alone. And stay off our fucking lawn.
Gee. Mine now says ‘if the Pit is for Pitting, then everybody’s game’.
Because it’s not ‘the Pit’ that ‘bothers me so much’. Which has been explained by not only me but several others. More than once.
Well then you’re not communicating very well, because that’s not the message most of us are getting. Most of us are getting a whiney, holier-than-thou, “you need to do things MY way” message from you.
Goddam! Why don’t you give it up already. You are acting like a holier than thou bitch from hell. Why do you fucking post here?
Well, somebody’s got to think of the children.
Oh well. Perception comes from within and all that.
Dammit luci, I had worked myself into a lather of mild irritation, and you come along and make me laugh, ruining the mood. Damn you!
No, I’m actually not. But, hey, YMMV. You maybe want to get that leak checked.
Why do you? If you’re so troubled, why not go read GD for a while and calm yourself. Or maybe check out a few recipes in CS?