I happen to be saved… but also happen to have some differing views that get me into some ummm… “interesting” conversations on LB… as you may have noticed.
Hope to see you posting over there though still. I know that I have learned so much from having to sit and think about what I believe and why before I post. And I know I have learned much from others over there and am learning from some here.
Scary part is when you start to agree with Satan though
hi everyone- yes, I’m one of those “LB” people (and yes, I admit it, I have partaken in the holy <<bump>>)-
I’ve been following along with this rediculous inter-message board war since New Years (mostly for entertainment purposes) and finally had to register.
I couldn’t figure out where to post first, so here’s as good as any… so HI! I promise if I stay around I won’t <<bump>> !
Pita: Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board. Here’s quick lesson number one:
Unlike the Pounder board, this board allows HTML. While that allows people who know how to use it to do some really cool stuff in their posts, it is tough to get used to for those of us who don’t know the language. Generally, you want to avoid using those carets (the pointy parentheses), because if you don’t use them just right everything between them disappears. The forum “About This Message Board” has several threads dedicated to practicing. Feel free to post there to your heart’s content until you’re comfortable.
O’K… I wrote bump but it came out as <>. What happened??? AAAAAARRRRRRGGGHH. You mean I can’t “bump” here? What am I going to do??? I think I’m going into withdrawal. Maybe I left LB too soon. Maybe I need to wean… help…
“It’s like I always said…there’s nothing an agnostic can’t do if he really doesn’t know whether he believes in anything or not” --Monty Python, “The Meaning of Life”
::groan:; how embarrassing. Proving my own damn point.
<<bump!>>
“It’s like I always said…there’s nothing an agnostic can’t do if he really doesn’t know whether he believes in anything or not” --Monty Python, “The Meaning of Life”
Hmmmph. Just another thing to add to my already crappy day. I’ll bet the next thing you’re going to tell me is that I can’t make my smiley faces anymore.
You see? That is me on my knees, and not you on a pedestal!
(You never responded to the Mary Magdelene story. I grew concerned that you might have drawn certain unnecessary parallels that were unintended.)
“You are entitled to my opinions, and I will fight to the death for your right to agree with them.” — heard on January 18, 2000 at 4:32 PM Eastern Time from the movie Weapons of Mass Distraction, 1997, with Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsly that aired in the 4:30 PM to 6:15 PM time slot on HBO-C by Time-Warner Cable, thus documented this eighteenth day of the first month of the two-thousandth year of our Lord.
What, that I thought you thought I was coming on to you? Given your respect for me, I doubt you would think so, although I will cheerfully toss off mildly sexually suggestive comments to anyone within range. It did, however, occur to me that you were saying I should hang out with a better class of men…
Seriously, it was a good story, but I am familiar with the attributes Jesus is supposed to have (at least in modern sympathetic renderings), and that is exactly what I would have expected Him to say.
You know, Lib., the problem with that story is that the lady in question (in the Bible version of that story) is not Mary M. at all but an otherwise nameless person called the Samaritan woman (that being where she lived). Jesus notes to her that she had six husbands and the man she was living with at the time they talked was not her husband. This little exchange convinces her he knows what he’s talking about.
