I really don’t get this level of mental illness being seen as normal. Let’s get this straight. You have ever lasting life, you never die yet that’s not enough? Jesus -, no really. The only thing funnier is the State that runs the lottery is investigating those preying on the less fortunate’s desperation.
Only the blessings didn’t come. Fleenor ended up borrowing money from friends and payday loan companies just to buy groceries. At first she believed the explanation given on television: Her faith wasn’t strong enough.
“I wanted to believe God wanted to do something great with me like he was doing with them,” she said. “I’m angry and bitter about it.
This is an interesting problem. It’s not interesting to me so much for the race issue, of which I can’t possibly comment, but the creed? Hey let’s take another swipe at it. If you have 14% of the population coming up with 50% of the cases YET that group claim to follow a code prohibiting this kind of behavior you have to wonder if religion is the biggest STD of them all, after all you can pass it on to your kids.
Here’s the fun part.
Epistemological. There are alternate “ways of knowing” less familiar to Western-educated thinkers that must be embraced for full perception of the “human condition in its most troubled state”—of which STD disparities are just one symptom. Appro-priate responses to the problem depend upon this deep under-standing of the experiential reality of the people involved.
MM seemingly believing things contrary to reality ..er gets you in the ass.
Can we just get it over with? Hearing voices in your head and acting on them without your book would be psychotic, that’s a pretty slim volume for us to hang the rest of reality on. I’m really curious as to why the mother’s not been charged it has to be one hell of a story… Nuts is nuts but the longer we give these defects a framework were they think their delusions are normal the worse it’ll be for all in the end.
Police reportedly found Ronald Marquez, 48, of Phoenix, shirtless and choking his granddaughter early Saturday as her 19-year-old mother, naked and bloody, looked on. The bloodied girl was gasping and screaming as her mother chanted and held a religious picture of some kind, police said.
Seemingly the special units are needed because the average day to day policeman in the UK has no interest in upholding their oath, boy do I know that feeling:) These fucks need to either get out of the 15thC or come up with their own version of the Springer show to resolve these matters.
The changes come after Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old Kurd, was murdered by her father and uncle because they disapproved of her boyfriend who was not a strict Muslim and was not of their tribe.
She was found dumped in a suitcase, with the shoelace used to kill her around her neck. She had repeatedly told police her family were trying to kill her. In one instance where she had escaped from her father, she was not taken seriously, and described as melodramatic and manipulative by an officer who interviewed her.
Seemingly the holier than though crowd are starved for role models that ANY hope of creating another zombie to join their network of dead flesh eaters ( note they didn’t go for the brains) I’m shocked it’s not a yellow guide to the bible but then again as anything other than fiction it’s redundant to use the term idiot.
Since being sentenced to prison, Paris has gained religion. No, she isn’t converting to Islam. She’s showing off her newly purchased self-help books, including the Bible
Naturally I had to comment.
Firstly what’s with the caps it seems that the more “devout” the more you shout. If your god a little hard of hearing, gaging by effectiveness of brayers (not a typo) , please don’t assume we don’t have the same affliction.
That any excuse to push your beliefs has sank so low to even find it worth passing judgment on the “poor little” rich girl suggests that either you don’t read the book that your criticizing her for bandying about as some kind of magical talisman.
Or
You are right to wonder why any adult would buy that line of BS that’s not been indoctrinated since childhood as it stretches credulity that even someone with the intellectual weight of, well herself, would have problems with a fairy tale.
Either way you’ve managed to drag the fine pastime of discussing the lives of people you don’t know into disrepute by invoking such a tawdry,ego driven and shallow being such as the fiction god into a story about Paris.
I hate this story, I was even pissed off at Erin for telling me about it but it won’t go away. Oh the headlines? Well I like people to get upset and angry as I am yet oddly enough it’s not at the people involved , Moi ces’t lightning rod ( we know how much god hated those things too.
A woman blames the devil, and not her husband, for severely burning their infant daughter in a microwave, a Texas television station reported.
Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua’s efforts to become a preacher.
And the mother wants the kid back. I just hope the devil’s next set of instructions to the “innocent” preacher wannabe are welding her birth canal closed.
Sam Harris debates a theist , with all due respect of course;), in this long exchange which has some amusing moments.
I am, of course, unconvinced by your response. But this can hardly disappoint you, as it was not intended to convince me. You simply wrote to inform me that you have never doubted God’s existence, cannot account for how you came to believe in Him, and are well aware that these facts will not (and should not) persuade me of the legitimacy of your religious beliefs. I now feel like a tennis player, in mid-serve, who notices that his opponent is no longer holding a racket.
I’ve talked about the website StopSylviaBrowne before, which is an attempt to make the public aware of the loathsome and vile things done by the self-proclaimed psychic.
Oddly enough, Ms. Browne wasn’t happy that the site existed, and sicced her lawyer on Robert Lancaster, the webmaster and creative force behind StopSylviaBrowne.com. The lawyer sent Robert a letter, saying that the website name was an infringement on her trademarked name, that the site infringed on some of her logos, and various other ridiculous and frivolous claims.
So Robert struck back. His lawyers sent a letter to Ms. Browne. Read it and cheer.
My favorite bit:
Your letter of January 26 has set forth no factual or legal basis as to how Mr. Lancaster is in violation of any of your clients’ rights. Unless you are able to cite some support for your claims, Mr. Lancaster will neither cease nor desist from operating StopSylviaBrowne.Com. He [...]
Would someone like to tell me that all cultures are equally valid? No seriously I’ve a dead dog that needs company in the afterlife and people stupid enough to buy the former would be on his mental level. This is just fucking horrible.. Paying to murder women to be brides in the afterlife.. What the fuck is wrong with you people?
The men preyed on the superstitions of ill-educated farmers eager to ensure that a dead son was happy in the afterlife. It is not uncommon in rural parts of China for a family to seek out the body of a woman who has died to be buried alongside their son after the performance of a marriage ceremony for the deceased pair.
Chris Locke has an interesting psychic test which I am sure most of you can pass. You have to come up with your own title and lineage of super psychic authenticity ,probably print your own certificate too. Anyway I think of my ex writing that book …
Puns aside this is a very good piece, playing to my biases of being anti death penalty and pro the idea that the USA has little clue in dealing with this region. Then again the differences between the Sunni and Shia comes down to line of secession sort of like an earlier Florida vote they just can’t let this go…
The shabby, tawdry scene of Muqtada Sadr’s riffraff taunting their defenseless former tyrant evokes exactly this quality of hysterical falsity and bravado. While Saddam Hussein was alive, they cringed. Now, they find their lost courage, and meanwhile take the drill and the razor blade and the blowtorch to their fellow Iraqis. To watch this abysmal spectacle as a neutral would be bad enough. To know that the U. S. government had even a silent, shamefaced part in it is
Firstly my happy joy at finding a gift from Erin that was unexpected and needed:) I know see my virtual life on a widescreen monitor which looks like it can replace the need for two screens especially for music / vid editing. It did take some installing though . Had to research my card, how to get it to work in a non native resolution and various other bits of fun that may have had many returning the panel to the store. It’s amazing how good this looks when set up properly yet I feel sorry for those that just want to plug in a monitor..
Tequila bottle yum more Patron Anejo to bring in the new year with.
And the child Dobhran? Well he’s still not into it. He was amused by the trainset, a little, and proceeded to do a Beecher act on it, and most of the day he was teething in a way that was frustrating for him and all around.
Haiku time
The Godfather soul
brother number one has left
I don’t feel so good
The “news” paper is filled with more stories of supernatural bullshit than is good for one, people mistaking stains for the virgin Mary and this retrogressive asswipe suggesting
it was shameful that in “this age of plenty and unbridled consumerism” many remained deaf to the “heart-rending cry” of those dying of hunger, thirst, disease, poverty, war and terrorism.
Gee, and I don’t need to be the head of a worldwide religion to know that. Sadly mr pontification doesn’t just how far the technology that saddens him as allowed more people than ever to lead relatively freer lives. So where’s the faith based aircraft, the prayer activated pesticide or the hail mary antibiotic? That’s all well and nice but his Poopiness the Hole would like to skip over that and pray for shit to work.
they just can’t let this go… 
yum more Patron Anejo to bring in the new year with. 
