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The Funny Side of Religion
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First time I've seen it. :pac:
Me too. Oh wait
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Yes I know it wasn't first on the West wing.0 -
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Buy your christmas presents early!
http://www.overthelimit.info/lifestyle/2010/09/15/company-offers-jesus-toaster-virgin-mary-star-david/
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Stolen from the Islam forum OP'd by Oceanclub
That's one catchy remix... Been humming it to myself since I heard it.Move over Antoine Dodson, there’s a new Internet sensation in town. It’s Jacob Isom, a 23-year-old skateboarder based in Armarillo, Texas, and he’s become Web famous after single-handedly stopping a Quran burning last weekend. How did he do it? He simply swiped the gasoline-soaked Quran from a militant Christian protestor, and took off on his skateboard.
While the act was surely admirable, Isom really got people’s attention when an interview he did with a local TV station on the incident went viral. In the video, the hipster-looking hero says he told militant pastor David Grisham, “Dude, you have no Quran!” and “took off.”
Grisham is the director of Repent Armarillo, a staunchly conservative group that crusades against non-Chistians, gays, and promiscuity. Apparently he was determined to pick up where Florida pastor Terry Jones had left off after finally succumbing to public pressure to cancel his widely publicized Quran burning. And when Grisham’s not busy threatening to burn holy texts, he’s got a day job as a security guard at a nuclear bomb facility.
After his encounter with Isom, Grisham left the park while protestors cheered. As for the Quran? Isom gave it to a local imam.
“Everybody tries to justify it by you know: They burn our Bibles and our flags why don’t I burn their Quran. Well that’s what happens in other countries not here and once we start burning people’s holy books people are just gonna get mad and I just don’t wanna be around mad people. Its really basically my only reason for wanting to go there and stop it.”0 -
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edit: A hilarious semi-follow up with a similar theme:
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:pac::pac: That's like some kind of Prayer For Unbelievers. You still get stuff free, but without having to get up early on a sunday morning for religious observance. There are of course "laws of attraction" in physics, but that rubbish is only pseudoscientology.0 -
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haha did I introduce you to him? I've watched every single one of his vids
Yeah!
These are unbelievably smart and the quotations are unbelievable!
Psalm 137:9 happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
against the stones.
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But I suppose, the context, the context, I can't believe you'd even..., the
context the context :mad:
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Ash.J.Williams wrote: »hey Athiests...
what's the story with the scripts new album ....just passed a poster this morning and before i even knew who it was i assumed it was a christian rock band,.......
I detest them enough as it is ...
google image "the script science and faith"
doubt they have an agenda, but they are definitley implying it!
I see that this
is the album cover, but I wish they were a bit more honest and chose this
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While in Munich last weekend (not for the beerfest), a French jaaz outfit was riffing on one of the squares near Marienplatz, just underneath an orange poster for "Erotik Messe". Amongst other things, "messe" is the German word for 'mass':
<Objoke about Jesus' second coming>
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While in Munich last weekend (not for the beerfest), a French jaaz outfit was riffing on one of the squares near Marienplatz, just underneath an orange poster for "Erotik Messe". Amongst other things, "messe" is the German word for 'mass':
<Objoke about Jesus' second coming>
Lol, I was there in that square last week, even recognize the poster and I was there for Oktoberfest. If I recognize it correctly I walked trough it on the way from Marienplatz to Hofbräuhaus.0 -
Since we're talking about Oktoberfest :cool:
Absolutely terrifying! :eek: I know 32 incidents for a crowd of 3 million peopleWhile certain crimes are down at Oktoberfest this year, there have
been more attacks with an unlikely, yet readily available, weapon:
the one-liter beer stein. Some of the victims have been whisked
away in ambulances with concussions and fractured skulls caused by
fights involving the heavy glasses.
Police at the Munich Oktoberfest say crimes such as rape and theft are
down this year but attacks with glass beer steins are on the rise.
The heavy glasses that hold one liter of beer are a symbol of the annual
folk festival. But they can also be deadly weapons. And at this year's fest
they have already sent some to the hospital with serious injuries, such as
concussions, and bleeding in the brain.
"At Oktoberfest it's happening unfortunately more and more," physicist
Erich Schuller, of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Munich University
told SPIEGEL this week. "A stein like that weighs 1.3 kg (2.9 lbs) and
thanks to the handle, it's easy to grip, and that makes it an effective
striking tool."
Six Months to Life in Prison
So far this year there have been 32 injuries resulting from beer stein
assaults, said Munich police spokeswoman Claudia Haas, up from 19 at the
same time during last year's festival. She said she expects the stiff
sentences the perpetrators face will serve as a deterrent in future.
Those penalties could range from six months jail time for assault to a
lifelong prison sentence for someone who commits premeditated murder,
said Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, spokesman for the Munich district attorney's
office. The penalties also depend on whether the perpetrator is under age
or not and on the severity of the injuries to the victim.
The large turnout at this year's festival, brought on by warm weather and
the commemoration of its 200th anniversary, could be responsible for the
increase in beer stein attacks, Steinkraus-Koch said. So far, there have
been 3.5 million visitors to Oktoberfest, which could mean a record year.
Munich itself only has a population of 1.3 million.
With that many people under the influence of alcohol, "things can naturally
increase," said Steinkraus-Koch.
A Hit So Hard The Stein Broke
Still, the number of other crimes at Oktoberfest has decreased. The
number of rapes and attempted rapes is down from five at this point last
year, to three, and the figures for theft are down from 365 last year to
260 incidents, Haas said. So far, one person has died at Oktoberfest this
year. An elderly man who drank too much fell down and hit his head, and
died from the injuries, according to the police.
One of the most serious cases this year of an attack with a beer stein
happened on Sept. 18, when a 20-year-old resident of Munich got into a
fight in a beer tent with a 29-year-old Canadian tourist. The German then
hit the Canadian with his beer stein on his head. The beer stein broke, and
its shards injured two of the Canadian's companions. The Canadian
survived with a concussion, and the German remains in detention awaiting
trial.
On the same day, two more Oktoberfest partygoers were brought to the
hospital after being hit in the head with beer steins in beer tent
altercations. One of them, an Australian tourist, had bleeding in the brain
after he was hit by a Frenchman.
An Accidental Beer Stein to The Face
Some of the beer stein injuries are purely accidental, such as the case of
a 26-year-old Serb who threw his beer stein behind him and hit a
36-year-old German in the head, causing a laceration and trip to the
hospital.
And then there have been situations where groups have gotten into fights
and some have used the beer steins as weapons. On Sept. 25, at 2 p.m.,
a group of French festival-goers and a group of Italians got into a brawl in
which one Frenchman threw his stein into the group of Italians. No one
was hurt by that mug, but the Italians then took their steins and charged
at the French. One Frenchman was hit directly in the head and was
brought to a Munich hospital with a fractured skull. All of the participants
were arrested on the spot, according to the Munich police.
'Every Hit Is Potentially Fatal'
Erich Schuller, of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, said his lab
has recently carried out tests in which they used brand new steins and hit
them against human skulls. "The bones often will break, but we haven't
been able to break the steins," Schuller told SPIEGEL. "A hard hit with a
stein packs more than 8,500 newtons of power -- the human head in the
parietal region breaks with about 4,000 newtons."
In the case of the 29-year-old Canadian it happened the other way. He
survived the attack with a concussion, and the stein broke.
"Surprisingly there have been eight cases in the past few years at
Oktoberfest when the stein broke," Schuller said. "It's likely that these
steins weren't new and therefore were considerably less solid. Still, a
perpetrator can't know that before, and every hit is potentially fatal. In
our institute, we have just performed an autopsy on someone who got
a beer stein to the head."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,719782,00.html
is statistically insignificant but it brings an element of danger to the idea of
wearing green lederhosen while swaying from side to side on a 20 meter
long park bench, previously it was just all about the beer and sausage 0 -
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