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  • #16
    I used to watch Burn Notice. That means I'm abnormal, does it not? How do you feel about Fiona, the gal who eagerly asks, "Should I shoot him?"
    The greater number of laws . . . , the more thieves . . . there will be. ---- Lao-Tzu

    [T]he truth I’m after and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance -— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post
      I used to watch Burn Notice. That means I'm abnormal, does it not?
      Yes.
      Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.--Isaiah 1:17

      I don't think that all forms o[f] slavery are inherently immoral.--seer

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
        . . . it's that the average atheist is weird and abnormal (sometimes highly so) and the average Christian isn't. I think that's mostly true.
        Speak for yourself. Lots of us are pretty abnormal and even weird.

        ETA: I am so weird and abnormal that I do not even watch TV - any TV.
        Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
          Speak for yourself. Lots of us are pretty abnormal and even weird.

          ETA: I am so weird and abnormal that I do not even watch TV - any TV.
          The fact that you apparently willfully chose to stay in Alaska is already proof of abnormality.
          Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.--Isaiah 1:17

          I don't think that all forms o[f] slavery are inherently immoral.--seer

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
            Speak for yourself. Lots of us are pretty abnormal and even weird.

            ETA: I am so weird and abnormal that I do not even watch TV - any TV.
            It's already a given that if you spend any significant amount of time on a theology message board you're probably way out of the norm.
            "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

            There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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            • #21
              Spend a weekend with me. I'll show you how weird it can get.
              "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

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              • #22
                I thought the meme was ridiculous too, but partly because it portrays listening to bands like Nightwish as some kind of self-destructive behavior. I listen to music way, way more extreme than Nightwish, yet I look a whole lot like the guy on the left. It's not self-destructive at all. Just silly, IMO.
                I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Zymologist View Post
                  I thought the meme was ridiculous too, but partly because it portrays listening to bands like Nightwish as some kind of self-destructive behavior. I listen to music way, way more extreme than Nightwish, yet I look a whole lot like the guy on the left. It's not self-destructive at all. Just silly, IMO.
                  Maybe the creator learned everything they know about music from Chick tracts.
                  "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                  • #24
                    I'm pretty sure the creator just took a picture of a guy who looks like a freak off google images and his having nightwish on his tshirt has nothing to do with that, other than match colors.
                    "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

                    There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                      I'm pretty sure the creator just took a picture of a guy who looks like a freak off google images and his having nightwish on his tshirt has nothing to do with that, other than match colors.
                      I dunno...I've seen plenty of fundamentalists try to make the case that anything with remotely distorted guitar in it is supremely evil.

                      Edit: this is an exaggeration, but you get the point.
                      Last edited by Zymologist; 03-12-2015, 10:16 AM.
                      I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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                      • #26
                        Fundamentalists don't photoshop internet memes.
                        "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

                        There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                          I'm pretty sure the creator just took a picture of a guy who looks like a freak off google images and his having nightwish on his tshirt has nothing to do with that, other than match colors.
                          Probably so.
                          "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                          • #28
                            I've seen metal portrayed as self-destructive before, so that's just what I took it to mean.

                            But I think it's a lousy meme regardless.
                            I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                              I'm pretty sure the creator just took a picture of a guy who looks like a freak off google images
                              The ChristianMingle route, in other words.
                              Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.--Isaiah 1:17

                              I don't think that all forms o[f] slavery are inherently immoral.--seer

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by fm93 View Post
                                The ChristianMingle route, in other words.
                                ChristianMingle route?
                                I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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