The Funny Side of Religion

AstraMonti

These ones look nice:

Genghiz Cohen

Or Jaffa Cakes, the only true Agnostic treat. Is it a cake or a biscuit? No one knows and no one can know.

Bannasidhe

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Or Jaffa Cakes, the only true Agnostic treat. Is it a cake or a biscuit? No one knows and no one can know.

I'm boycotting jaffa cakes because they are yukky..um Israel...yes, that's why...

As for baking them bikkies :eek: they can kiss my white atheist ass and count themselves lucky the hose doesn't reach as far as the car park (I tried) or I'd be flinging water back at them.

Worztron

sephir0th

^^

Kivaro

Worztron

Obliq

Which ONE?!! I'll bet it's the Kangaroo.

kiffer

Obliq wrote: »

Which ONE?!! I'll bet it's the Kangaroo.

Pfft that's the only one that's not real... Australians just made them up like drop bears and the pea soup meatpie floater.

sbsquarepants

The kangaroo may not be mentioned in the bible - but they must have been on the ark (although admittedly it's a long hop from the red desert to the red sea), but nonetheless they must have been there. I mean how else would they be here now?
Also what the fúck is a cockatrice? Sounds like something you'd find in a bondage dungeon!

kiffer

sbsquarepants wrote: »

The kangaroo may not be mentioned in the bible - but they must have been on the ark (although admittedly it's a long hop from the red desert to the red sea), but nonetheless they must have been there. I mean how else would they be here now?
Also what the fúck is a cockatrice? Sounds like something you'd find in a bondage dungeon!

The cockatrice is what you get when a toad incubates an egg laid by a Cockerel...
It's touch turns you to stone and it's only enemy is the weasel... Everyone knows that.

Obliq

kiffer wrote: »

Pfft that's the only one that's not real... Australians just made them up like drop bears and the pea soup meatpie floater.

Huh? But drop bears are real.....I'm going to see one in November My fella told me. I'd say you're wrong about the pea soup meatpie floater as well - sounds like a (mmmm!) tasty meal.









Christ. Why am I going to Oz again?

Obliq

kiffer wrote: »

The cockatrice is what you get when a toad incubates an egg laid by a Cockell...
It's touch turns you to stone and it's only enemy is the weasel... Everyone knows that.

Wow. You're so smart :P

AstraMonti

Haha I just googled it and there are actually paths in the bible that mention unicorns.. man that book never seems to be sort of BS.

Delirium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLmvyKYIxr0

we're all gonna die!! :eek::pac:

sbsquarepants

AstraMonti wrote: »

Haha I just googled it and there are actually paths in the bible that mention unicorns.. man that book never seems to be sort of BS.

You think that's bullshít, you'd wanna hear the excuse this mary bird gives when she gets knocked up by some randomer. Keep reading, I won't spoil it for you:D

Obliq

koth wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLmvyKYIxr0

we're all gonna die!! :eek::pac:

WT the very F?? We're going to die first because if we don't believe in supernatural powers, how will we believe we have the strength necessary to survive?? I think that's the jist of what CNN said......

That's a news channel right? Factual much?

kiffer

Obliq wrote: »

Wow. You're so smart :P

Not so sure about that... I mixed up it's and its twice and misspelled cockerel.
Alternative way of getting a cockatrix is a hens egg incubated in a viper's nest...

It's basically the same as a basilisk... except they're made by a rooster incubating a snake's egg.

http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast265.htm

Obliq

kiffer wrote: »

Alternative way of getting a cockatrix is a hens egg incubated in a viper's nest...

It's basically the same as a basilisk... except they're made by a rooster incubating a snake's egg.

http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast265.htm

Cool link, ta! Doesn't sound too difficult to make a cockatrix then, if it's a hen's egg. A cockerel's egg would be a lot tougher to source. Basilisk is doable too! Nice one. Off to train my rooster to sit for 3 or 4 weeks.......

Worztron

Obliq wrote: »

Which ONE?!! I'll bet it's the Kangaroo.

Yep. No surprise that the only real one is omitted from the 'boring book of violent fairy tales' aka 'the bible' aka 'backup toilet paper'.

Gbear

Obliq wrote: »

WT the very F?? We're going to die first because if we don't believe in supernatural powers, how will we believe we have the strength necessary to survive?? I think that's the jist of what CNN said......

That's a news channel right? Factual much?

Doesn't surprise me to be honest.

All other things being equal, if one person has an irrational belief that they'll survive they're probably more likely to survive than someone who doesn't have such a belief.

Galvasean

Gbear wrote: »

Doesn't surprise me to be honest.

All other things being equal, if one person has an irrational belief that they'll survive they're probably more likely to survive than someone who doesn't have such a belief.

Unless their belief was so irrational that they thought they could survive on faith alone, as opposed to food and water. Like those cults who had so much faith in surviving the apocalypse that they decided to commit mass suicide. Ironically they were the only ones to perish...

Galvasean

Stolen from Koth:

swampgas

Galvasean wrote: »

Unless their belief was so irrational that they thought they could survive on faith alone, as opposed to food and water. Like those cults who had so much faith in surviving the apocalypse that they decided to commit mass suicide. Ironically they were the only ones to perish...

Or they walk into a lion's cage believing their faith will protect them. But these tend to be the lunatic fringe.

Many people can exhibit what might be called "irrational optimism" when presented with a difficult situation, or maybe you could call it "positive thinking". I would imagine that believing that you can survive is the crucial bit, if you can do that without the damaging irrationality of religion then I suspect your odds of survival might be even better than those of someone whose irrational optimism is based purely on religious belief.

Acting as though survival is possible, and trying really hard to achieve survival, is the important bit. Dropping to your knees in prayer is unlikely to be as effective.

Galvasean

I agree. Belief is a very important factor. Believing in yourself rather than your God though.

robindch

kiffer wrote: »

Australians just made them up like drop bears and the pea soup meatpie floater.

Pea soup meatpie floater? Ok, Pete McCarthy described a Tasmanian meatpie, but one of those in pea soup?

Googled and, yes, it exists and that's its name. Funny, since us marine/boaty types use the word "floater" for something quite different.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Pie-Floater

Bannasidhe

robindch wrote: »

Pea soup meatpie floater? Ok, Pete McCarthy described a Tasmanian meatpie, but one of those in pea soup?

Googled and, yes, it exists and that's its name. Funny, since us marine/boaty types use the word "floater" for something quite different.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Pie-Floater

Ugh - I tried one of those once. It was the same night I saw The Lions lose the Sydney test. An all round awful night.

kylith

I'd give it a try. It looks just the job for after the pub. Which, I'm guessing, is the prime time for meat pie floater sales.

DazMarz

Shamelessly stolen from YLYL4

endacl

DazMarz wrote: »

Shamelessly stolen from YLYL4

Football. Another weird irrational cult I just don't get...