# Kanicbird, you are an idiot. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555 "2009-02-19T15:53:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/221 "2009-02-23T21:06:11Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > In a matter of speaking, yes He is, we are to clothe ourselves with Christ (Ro 13:14) > In doing so become more conformed to His likeness (Ro 8:29). To the point that we become one with Him in a marital relationship relationship between Christ (bridegroom) and the church (bride)(Eph 5:31,32). Sounds awfully superficial to me – if all you have to do is “act” like you’re a Believer in Christ, by putting on sheep’s clothing and pretending as if you’re enjoying the party, then this “church” you speak of is no more relevant than a high school clique of girls who gossip about the teachers and other cliques of high school girls. In other words, it’s all a popularity contest, and it’s extremely disingenuous to claim that Jesus will “love” you as a result, when all He is concerned about is your superficial appearance. God must be fucking stupid, if He gets taken in by those kind of selfish games. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/222 "2009-02-23T21:36:11Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Is the The Bible or The Sopranos we’re talking about? Jesus “Christ” Soprano hanging on the cross : “Remind me to have Judas whacked.” ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/223 "2009-02-23T22:07:56Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > there are a LOT of Christian churches where the atmosphere is one of, “This is what you must think about this issue, and here’s the Biblical reason why – and disagreement is not permissible.” Brainwashing is an excellent word for it. With all due respect, it ain’t just Christians. \*“There are a LOT of \ where the atmosphere is one of, “This is what you must think about this issue, and here’s the \ reason why – and disagreement is not permissible.” Brainwashing is an excellent word for it.” \* is just as valid. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/224 "2009-02-23T22:14:15Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Sounds awfully superficial to me – if all you have to do is “act” like you’re a Believer in Christ, by putting on sheep’s clothing and pretending as if you’re enjoying the party, then this “church” you speak of is no more relevant than a high school clique of girls who gossip about the teachers and other cliques of high school girls. In other words, it’s all a popularity contest, and it’s extremely disingenuous to claim that Jesus will “love” you as a result, when all He is concerned about is your superficial appearance. > > God must be fucking stupid, if He gets taken in by those kind of selfish games. It’s putting on the Sheppard cloths with the Sheppard inside us. We are not to accept Jesus into our hearts and go and do our own thing (cloth ourselves with other clothes). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/225 "2009-02-23T22:31:21Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > Thank God you came along to give him your diagnosis. If you have anything constructive to add, by all means, please do so. Otherwise, I doubt I’m the only one who thinks this guy needs serious psychiatric help. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/226 "2009-02-23T22:59:12Z")
[Jesus Christ on a popscicle stick](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10864339&postcount=8). ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/227 "2009-02-23T23:04:50Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Jesus Christ on a popscicle stick](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10864339&postcount=8). That demonstrates idiocy, not insanity. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/228 "2009-02-23T23:10:08Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Jesus Christ on a popscicle stick](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10864339&postcount=8). Shame on you, **Guin** , for false advertising. [Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick.](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2033/2444780886_88f7861c81.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/itmonkie/2444780886/&usg=__CNf6LBItERSVk0XWwXM0KxYR0_4=&h=400&w=500&sz=103&hl=en&start=94&tbnid=amX0ErEz7j7AaM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djesus%2Bchrist%2Bon%2Ba%2Bpopsicle%2Bstick%26start%3D80%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/229 "2009-02-23T23:20:48Z")
You want insanity? I offer exhibit A (from the infamous [Ouija Board thread)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10865042#post10865042): > [@Ouija Boards - I used to think it was bull until......](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-boards-i-used-to-think-it-was-bull-until/486528/380): > > They [demons / spirit guides] exploit our weaknesses, I like to explore, they offered a whole new, but dark, world to explore. I also believe the ‘gay gene’ is just a marker for them to guide some people into homosexuality. > > I believe I always knew they existed, and believe I was visited very early in life by them, pre-birth and many times after. > > A soul tie is the uniting of 2 souls into one, physically sex does this as the 2 souls become (now are in) one flesh. In a Loving scriptural marriage this is a great blessing, in the demonic realms this is how much of voodoo works, even putting anothers soul with a animal’s soul and tormenting/killing that animal to hurt the person. The prosecution rests. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/230 "2009-02-23T23:40:50Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > That demonstrates idiocy, not insanity. Can’t a person be both? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/231 "2009-02-23T23:55:20Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Can’t a person be both? 😉 I’m pretty sure my posting history says it’s possible. I was just pointing out that the quote you chose only supports idiocy. If you try harder, you can easily find insane posts too. Here’s an example: Hitler was an **idiot** to not supply his armies with sufficiently with winter gear for the invasion of Russia for fear that the tacit admission that the campaign would be lengthy would be bad for morale. He was EVIL for wanting to exterminate the Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Holocaust. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/232 "2009-02-24T00:04:54Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If you have anything constructive to add, by all means, please do so. Uh huh. > [@](#): > > Otherwise, I doubt I’m the only one who thinks this guy needs serious psychiatric help. So in other words, “Me too”? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/233 "2009-02-24T00:14:19Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If you have anything constructive to add, by all means, please do so. You first. Bleating the party line, “get heeeeelp!!!1!1one” is not, as you appear to believe, actually constructive. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/234 "2009-02-24T00:30:24Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > The second question in unanswerable to science because it cannot be posed in scientific terms. I’m not asking about _how_ the universe came into being, I’m asking what is the _purpose_ of its existence. “Purpose” cannot be observed and a statement about purpose cannot be falsified. It doesn’t have one, as far as we’re concerned. It may have a purpose as far as some unknown entity is concerned, but since whoever that might be isn’t talking it’s just the big, empty place in which we live. More to the point, “purpose” is something which only a sentient mind can devise; in the face of a complete and utter lack of evidence for any putative intelligent designer of the univers, it’s perfectly reasonable and logical to assume that puposeless is the universe. There, that was easy. > [@jovan](#): > > The third question isn’t about the existence of a particle that cannot be detected _now_ but that cannot _ever_ be detected. Hypothesis: There is a particle _x_ that has the property that it can never be observed. Question: Does _x_ exist? As far as science is concerned, no. Anything which cannot be observed–by which we mean interact with or affect us in any way–can be effectively said not to exist. Doesn’t mean it _de facto_ doesn’t exist, it simply means that it might as well not. This is as true of particle x as it is of parallel universes. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/235 "2009-02-24T00:59:56Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > You want insanity? I offer exhibit A (from the infamous [Ouija Board thread)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10865042#post10865042) > > The prosecution rests. Gee, thanx, Cape-spoiler. You may be well resting but that quote you provided leaves me anything but placid. I mean for all we know, **kanicbird** is a functioning member of society. So thanks to you I am going to be giving strangers some weird-ass looks in the next few days. As in: _:::Hmmmm…if I shake that dude’s hand will I get Teh Gay or grow horns?:::::_ ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/236 "2009-02-24T01:16:56Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It’s putting on the Sheppard cloths with the Sheppard inside us. Huh? Sheppard? As in, Sam Sheppard? Oh I get it, you’re just fucking with my head now. :rolleyes: I’m 100% you’re just trolling now. Not sure if I should feel disgusted, or relieved. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/237 "2009-02-24T01:22:51Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Huh? Sheppard? As in, Sam Sheppard? Yeah, that’s how they caught the one-armed man; he got all tangled up trying to put on the Sheppard cloth. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/238 "2009-02-24T01:37:18Z")
Does that mean I have to go around dressed up like Little Bo Peep? ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/239 "2009-02-24T01:40:02Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > As far as science is concerned, no. Anything which cannot be observed–by which we mean interact with or affect us in any way–can be effectively said not to exist. Doesn’t mean it _de facto_ doesn’t exist, it simply means that it might as well not. This is as true of particle x as it is of parallel universes. What about the contents of a black hole though? Can they be measured? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555/240 "2009-02-24T01:45:59Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > What about the contents of a black hole though? Can they be measured? The only content of a black hole is mass, electric charge and spin. AFAIK, all of those can be measured. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanicbird-you-are-an-idiot/486555.md?page=13)