Shodan's Angels

[Autolycus]

Your guardian angel is not amused.

[tomndebb]

When did the Pit become the repository of so much Mindless Pointless Stuff Ideologues* Must Share?

• (Not reserved for any particular participant of this “discussion.”)

[Jodi]

@Princhester

Again, the idea that I was upset about the use of the word “angels” is one that seems a persistent meme in this thread, but is not the thrust of what I said. Read the whole of my first post in the original thread again. Particularly the last sentence. **Shodan ** wrote a smug OP, with a cute religiously referenced title, to celebrate the departure of a prickly atheist. The point is not “angels”. The point is that badchad’s departure doesn’t help the fundamentally childish and silly nature of superstition, be it a belief in a god or angels or pixies or whatever.

As a past-master at getting a bug up my ass over nothing, allow me to inform you, Princhester, that you have a bug in your ass over nothing.

Frankly, of the two interpretations given for your over-reaction to Shodan’s thread title – (a) you didn’t recognize the quote and saw literal angels where none flew; or (b) that religion is superstition, “fundamentally childish and silly” and you somehow felt compelled to make that original and never-before-posted argument right then, I personally prefer (a). Because if it’s (a), you were only mistaken and humorless, but if it’s (b) you were being a tiresome bore whose best contribution to the thread about badchad’s banning boiled down to (1) “yeah, well, your beliefs are a bunch of crap anyhow!” and (2) “Plus, I don’t like your thread title.”

So if the point of this thread is to clarify that you weren’t mistaken, you were simply tight-assed and tiresome, point made. Personally, I’m not sure that’s a clarification I’d be so intent on making that I’d open up another Pit thread to do it. In any event, the implication that you might not have recognized the quote is the piddliest of piddly shit and hardly worth getting your panties in a knot over. Go outside into the sunshine for awhile.

[Lord_Ashtar]

So I’ve read Shodan’s thread, where the original comment was made, and this one. I still don’t get what Princhester’s got his ass on his shoulders about.

[Shodan]

I think this thread is Much Ado About Nothing.

Please, please - nobody tell him.

Regards,
Shodan

[enigm4tic]

Do some of you guys still not realize that Princhester is joking?

@Happy Lendervedder

Wait wait, are we being whooshed? Is this a parody thread?

AFAIK…yup

it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

erm…

[look_ninjas]

@Princhester

Again, the idea that I was upset about the use of the word “angels” is one that seems a persistent meme in this thread, but is not the thrust of what I said. Read the whole of my first post in the original thread again. Particularly the last sentence. **Shodan ** wrote a smug OP, with a cute religiously referenced title, to celebrate the departure of a prickly atheist. The point is not “angels”. The point is that badchad’s departure doesn’t help the fundamentally childish and silly nature of superstition, be it a belief in a god or angels or pixies or whatever.

Then why didn’t you say something like that instead of saying “There’s no such thing as angels!” I think that’s what’s tripping the rest of us up.

For the record, I’m assuming that the problem isn’t so much that you don’t like angels, it’s that you don’t like Shodan. Am I on the right track?

[Crotalus]

@Shodan

I think this thread is Much Ado About Nothing.

Please, please - nobody tell him.

Regards,
Shodan

That’s it. You do WIN. Thanks for the laughs. Good job.

[Miller]

@enigm4tic

Do some of you guys still not realize that Princhester is joking?

Man, I hope so, because there’s no other way any part of this thread makes the remotest sort of sense.

[MovieMogul]

@Autolycus

Your guardian angel is not amused.

“Hey God. Those wings? Not worth it.”

[Polycarp]

@Shodan

I think this thread is Much Ado About Nothing.

Please, please - nobody tell him.

Regards,
Shodan

If our camelopardic sesquipedalolingual moderator should find it necessary to close this thread, he could always follow the pattern and post:

Our revels now are ended…

[Shodan]

@Polycarp

If our camelopardic sesquipedalolingual moderator should find it necessary to close this thread, he could always follow the pattern and post:

Our revels now are ended…

“How long will a thread lie i’ the Pit ere it rot?”
Exit, pursued by a bear.

Regards,
Shodan

[straight_man]

[Hijack] A really amazingly gorgeous song of the same title composed by John Tavener was used at Lady Di’s funeral. I completely recommend giving it a listen.[/Hijack]

(edit): by same title, I mean “May Flights of Angels Sing thee to thy Rest”, not “Shodan’s Angels”.

[Liberal]

@Princhester

Certainly anyone who mocks superstition on a rationalist message board dedicated to fighting ignorance should be assumed to be an ignoramus unless you know them well.

I for one refuse to mock you for your irrational and superstitious ignorance about faith in God.

[Abe_Babe]

What’s in a name? That which we call an angel
By any other word would remain as imaginary.
Oh, that Princhester, what a li’l devil. :eek:

[Contrapuntal]

@Princhester

Do you usually regard a post in a thread as an interruption? Or do you only view a post as an “interruption” when it is an inconvenient barb in what was otherwise enjoyable circle jerk?

Ya gotta admit, a barb in a circle jerk is pretty much the definition of an unwanted guest.

Now a Barbarella, that’s a different story …

[fisha]

So, to recap:

I am supposed to believe in Princhester or hamsters, but not Shakespeare. But if I believe in Shakespeare, I must then believe in sea cucumbers. Therefore there are no angels.

PvH
~S
S>cukes // ~A

[Monstre]

@Shodan

I think this thread is Much Ado About Nothing.

Shodan, you’d better stop quoting Shakespeare. It’s full of… fictional characters!

Which are not real.

And which don’t exist.

And which are, you know, made up.

I mean, why would anyone over the age of five mention fictional Shakespearean characters in a serious context?

Your words are razors to my wounded heart…

[Alan_Smithee]

I’m serious when I ask the following question, and I’d appreciate an answer to it: Has Princhester always been an obnoxious, arrogant cumstain and I just never paid enough attention to notice, or did he just pull a Pseudotriton?

Also, I feel the need to point out that there are no fucking angels. Princhester should really know better than to mention them in a thread title, where people might think he was being serious. I point this out because Princhester really needs his little balloon of smugness popped.

[Malacandra]

Yup, Printy’s definitely got a touch of the salamanderitis. Hope it’s treatable. I’ve not noticed him being a giant jerk before now.