Displaying 991 To 1,020 Of 11,789 Comments In the same vein of sorry if repost: Fox Panel: Liberals Support Birth Control To ‘Get Rid Of The Poor’ » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 5:31 pm He thinks sex is only for procreation, so, too bad for those that are infertile or got vasectomies – and where’s the war on that? Also, never mind it as a prescription for cysts and such. No, I never had fun, and no one else should either! Again, remember that High School yearbook photo of him and it all comes together. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 5:28 pm When I saw this happen live, I knew it would make news immediately. And again, he went on to spout so much more nonsense after this. No matter what you say about Andrea Mitchell, she has amazing poise. And in her defense, I think in a situation such as this you don’t stop them. You just let them keep on talking their batshit crazy selves off. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 5:24 pm We can call it ecumenical act of charity between the House of Gordon and Clan Donnachaidh. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 4:20 pm Yes, the main Kirkin’ is at the biggest Presbyterian church in town, also with an organ. They get way more into it than the Episcopalians. (which makes sense, given both church’s countries of origin.) I love both their low registers. Just need a piece of Gordon tartan to get blessed. Most go for scarfs. http://buyakilt.com/gordon-clan-modern-tartan-scarf » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 3:35 pm I thought about going to the Episcopalian church just for the music. We did a Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan at a big one here – with pipe organ and all. I love it, it’s so ‘old-school’, haunting and classic. I don’t need to hear pop rock ballads about Jesus. If he hadn’t been Risen, he’d be turning in his tomb that you de-glorify him with such crap. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 1:29 pm Don’t miss the part where he said we should be talking about Jihadist camps in Latin America instead. And the rest of the interview wasn’t much better. There were so many layers of crazy, I don’t want them all overshadowed by that one comment, as priceless and damaging as it is. For instance, he said a President Santorum would go on a world tour telling everyone how great America was and that would fix our problems. …as if our country’s image problems with the rest of the world were that we didn’t have enough self-esteem. It’s, as you said, just amazing that these people can even brush their teeth they’re so stupid. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 12:18 pm “In my heart I shall build a sanctuary.*” בתוך לבי משכן אבנה לזיוו Reminds me of, O marvel! a garden among the flames… My heart has become capable of all forms. It is a meadow for gazelles and a monastery for Christian monks, A temple for idols and the pilgrim’s Ka’aba, The Tables of the Law and the book of the Koran. I profess the religion of Love, and whatever direction Its steed may take, Love is my religion and my faith. Ibn al-‘Arabi, 13th century » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 11:59 am And yup, my mom is active in her Presbyterian church. There is something afoot there. People arguing, leaving, etc. Presbyterians are moving more pro-Science, LGBT, and for divestment from Israel, etc. Many are not happy about this. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 11:56 am I found pamphlets of my Grandma’s and her friends that urged the conversion of remote tribes in the Philippines and Java and such. And also about how to convert any sundry world religions. Speaking of them as some contemptible blight and travesty to Christendom. I almost think of them as the FLDS or Mel Gibson type Catholic. That this rightwing Evangelical literalism is in a way an anachronistic true heir of the uncompromising and dour early Protestants that can’t adapt to the modern world or find tolerance and respect of any that don’t share their rigid beliefs. They really scare me. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 11:54 am I believe Robert Green Ingersoll, America’s most prominent Agnostic, said something similar. I share that view. Should a loving, wise God exist, I do not fear Him. I would think He could judge me by how I lived my life and treated others. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 11:44 am Not to mention the Republicans actually criticized Obama for “Robin Hood” economic policies. Not Dickensian, technically, but by god, they openly identify with villains! WTF??!! » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 11:27 am I always think more of Sky Father than Mother Earth, but yes more holistic and similar in the yin yang of it all. Still, I’d say this is the most similar. 😛 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic_Polytheistic_Reconstructionism » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 11:21 am I think mine is an apologetic trying to make the best out of his faith. In any case they agree everyone will be rich. And that’s where the interpretation comes in. One can take that to be an egalitarian statement, or can take it to mean a mission statement for acquiring wealth. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 11:06 am I was waiting for your answer, ’cause I’ve always found an answer, well, vague. I know for a long time there was sheol, and then millennia later there developed some sort of afterlife, generally, but there was more about end of the world stuff than “Kingdom in the Sky” stuff, it seemed. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 10:32 am I’d say more Wiccan than Native American. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 10:28 am As soon as video is posted of Santorum supporter Foster Friess on Andrea Mitchell, I recommend you watch it and send it to everyone still not so hot about Obama. Here’s one jewel: “in the old days birth control was a Bayer aspirin between a ladies’ knees.” And it got worse. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 10:27 am I struggle with the same things Cher, as a student of World Religions. I mean, there’s a lot of Hindu things that freak my Evangelical relatives out, they just thing it’s all so bizarre, and I guess it kinda is to them. And so on with other religions. But, Mormonism still seems not so wonderfully strange to me as just creepy. Even the buildings and art seems like décor a dictator with no taste would choose. Really chintzy. On the Fundamentalism though. Yes it is, but also remember Joseph Smith and the other early founders were hardcore Freemasons. That’s not some weird Evangelical slur against them. They were. Even the magic underwear’s symbols are Masonic. So, I don’t really know either, but there might be deeper interpretation. I mean, we’re talking about a religion with a lot of room for such discussion with their celestial views of heaven and such. Don’t know how cut-and-dry you can be on that. » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 7:35 am Well, here is a counter opinion to that: The Book of Mormon Witness on Wealth and the Poor » Posted By Khirad On February 16, 2012 @ 7:29 am Well, this is for the rest of you non Marie Osmond touring folks. http://thetrumpetstone.blogspot.com/2011/01/lds-temple-baptismal-font-styles.html » Posted By Khirad On February 15, 2012 @ 6:52 pm It’s funny how this whole tenet is coming out. And then I show them the special rooms that they do it in. Might as well be an ancient blood Rite of Mithra it looks so bizarre. » Posted By Khirad On February 15, 2012 @ 6:37 pm Indeed, I have no idea what that was about. Linda Ronstadt, Gin Blossoms, Michelle Branch, Alice Cooper, yes, I get all those. But what the hell is his connection? I even looked him up and he was neither born, raised, nor can I see that he lives here – unless he has a vacation home he stays a week at now and then. But more importantly. Why do we want him? » Posted By Khirad On February 14, 2012 @ 12:09 pm Happy 100th Birthday, Arizona? » Posted By Khirad On February 14, 2012 @ 8:34 am Yes, and from that we get how masturbation is wrong. Again, nothing about the brother’s wife, or pleasuring oneself. Just the grave sin of seed spillage. » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 9:55 pm I think he’s having health problems again. I certainly have been worrying about him. » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 9:52 pm My favorite was that Obama has “abandoned America”. » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 12:51 pm New Breeding Program Aimed At Keeping Moderate Republicans From Going Extinct » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 12:41 pm Yeah, open meetings are a lot different. But, I belonged to a young adults home group that was openish to new members, but not random. I really wouldn’t trade that experience for anything. There wasn’t much god talk, unless it was important to them, but it was never lorded on any of us. I mean hell, I still drink now and it was court ordered, but it was what I needed at the time, to be able to just talk to people openly about problems and such. To be honest and intimate with a support group was what I really got out of it, irrespective of the focus on overcoming daily drinking and smoking too much pot–daily. One of the more awkward meetings was when I mistakenly went to the wrong room when an AA and Al-Anon group held meetings in the same church at the same time. I accidentally sat in on the Al-Anon group. Of course, instead of excusing myself, my councilors had recommended it to us should we want to do it so I stayed even when I right away got I was in the wrong place (just by the people, you always know when you’re around addictive personalities or not-like, immediately). It was quite interesting to hear their perspective and how much they didn’t get us and worried about us and their struggles too. It really did open up how selfish we could be–even though we never thought of it like that. But it was funny that I was just as puzzled by their codependency as they were by our substance abuse. I was thinking — what is wrong with you people! 😆 Okay, so I did in a very cheeky way. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 12:37 pm Yeah, I always thought that was poorly written-as if a Christian went over it and rewrote it or something. It seems to view agnosticism merely as a phase before accepting Christ, and that’s not what agnosticism is (no wonder so many atheists seem confused that I’m more like them than they realize!). I focused more on this: To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men. When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God. This applies, too, to other spiritual expressions which you find in this book. Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. Like CL said, I argued that the group, or even nature was a Higher Power if you couldn’t even conjure a symbolic, metaphorical god. I think the main point was to admit you were powerless over your addiction and to let go to something profoundly greater than yourself–even if that be the vastness of the universe and the awe that inspires. I didn’t put up at all with Bible thumpers and had several counselors on my side during my stint who coached me on how to shut their self-righteous asses up. » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 9:46 am I really laughed at the bills proposed to make spilling semen not in a woman a crime. Because, when they criticize the pill for preventing something that was possible, well, take it to its absurd, Biblically-based end if they want to play that game. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. ~ Genesis 38:9-10 » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 9:27 amComments Posted By Khirad
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/15/426509/the-five-birth-control/
http://youngstranger.blogspot.com/2011/03/book-of-mormon-witness-on-wealth-and.html
http://www.az100years.org/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-breeding-program-aimed-at-keeping-moderate-rep,27371/
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