All Things Religion Thread
…& da voice of thine flying spaghetti monsterrr spoke forth
- unto those who braced for life vs death in the arena of holy parmesan
… for time of the colander was at hand, and unto pasta straineth doth thou
- as homage and praise be upon thy noodle appendage and holy sauce
…& to those who joineth in sizzling olive oil and garlic aromatic praise
- look within to fight the battle of al dente, and rise to be one with yum
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Don’t forget that godly brain you were born with
hahahah, now the lid is well blown off this pop-stand, and the shingle-heap on the floor is covered in detritus, the formwork showing and the render crumbling.. (pigeon shit covering every horizontal and many verticals), I have a question for you beasts, who dwell in the bushes around the church, as ejected villagers once dwelt in slums hard by the castle wall, its thermal mass giving the illusion of security, and its gormenghast scraps providing fodder..
what other threads are 'on the back pages'.. hope I'm not missing interesting stuff.
I dunno about that, Basey, but you invoked the witch character in Pillars Of The Earth for me just now.
Spires to the sky…. some kinda weird intersection of insecurity and hubris.
I forget the name of the character. I could look it up, but it’s funnier if someone else knows…..
As per my previous posts it’s certainly a bit suspicious how Jesus only started becoming divine, sighted in apparitions, was resurrected and became part of a trinity after a few gospels.
By the way I saw a puppy.
(It was a really cute puppy and I’m glad I chose that path)
(I’m sticking out my tongue at, well, SOMEONE, as I type this.)
danger there @wax, is your tongue can continually stick out at everything (from experience.. matter of fact it's hanging out now), thank Puppy we have a sense of humour! : )
I figure my tongue has been stickin and hangin outta my mouth at least since puberty and probs before that.
The trick is when to feign faux abject indignation, and when to just own it and faux sneer.
I’m not good at either.
haha. loved your past descriptions of roaming about swellnetville.. come across any 'backpage threads'?
I have had a working from home week, and am starting to feel a bit toey
(I so should have beached this morning, but my son had a sleep in, he had a free this morning, by the time I dropped him to school, wind swung, tide wrong..)
here's a phrase I just coined:
"optimists don't need hope and faith, these are for the pessimists"
interesting russin/ukraine thread, ayan rand reference in the below clip, and an example of the pessimist and the optimist (which trendily has become weirdly reversed as the realist and the deluded):
'we'll be swept away by what's coming'
'we'll be transformed in a way we can't begin to guess at'
respectively.
anyhoo.. lit the fire today! makes for nice smells : )
Sorry, my friend. I haven’t had time to roam about SNVille.
It is 2017 (hosp time) Weds eve here, now. I am preppin for a Community Thang tmro.
It’s Thanksgiving here. I got roped into the stuffing for a feed-a-thon. It’s a feverish undertaking. (Stuffing is a highly personal way of using croutons, apples, spices, carrots (yes!) sausage? (Let’s not run amok)) and other ingredients to stuff the various cavities of a turkey about to be cooked.
Tmro, it’s Feed My Peeps (food bank thingy) from 0800-1400 then the requisite family dinner from 1500-1900ish?
Then a coupla hours with the gf (who’ll have been with me all day, but with not enough chances to check in.)
Then at work at 2200.
She was right… I should notta paddled on Tues morn.. too much… but, PUPPYDammit! There’s ALWAYS some good reason to stay dry. But that’s wrong.
So…. Anyways, I’ll roam SwellNetVille in the next few, outta necessity, and report back.
awesome @wax. keep us posted as to any sandwich wins!
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Haha Jesus would be bang up for that shit!!, I’m sure
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Can’t quite believe Jesus would be bang up for that either. But over a cuppa post gig he’d realise the mofos are at least sane
Well, it is the lead up to the day Jeebus wasn’t actually born. Bit of fun.
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^ shit, that was a refeshing watch @Jelly.. good on her, the makers and sponsors.. love when she rides past flat thurso, and says dunnet is way over by that lighthouse.. at horse speed. and doesn't hang around just to explore ego at messy onshore thurso or hectic *nate's secret euro slab*. woulda been way shitter that just going: journey. done.
it's a gift to a good filmer to be able to line up a limestone bothy or a sunlit, whitewased village at *just* the right angle.
For reference
https://serbia.com/unique-serbian-sanctity-planet-underground-church-aus...
(Those were, suspiciously, not quite white horses. At least they weren’t rangas being from Scootlund.)
there's 5 underground churches in Coober Pedy, you could do a tour!
https://www.cooberpedy.com/underground-churches/
We saw a few of them whilst there.
Also saw a real life drunken spear fight between some locals right in front of the cop shop. That was something else. Thankfully no targets were hit.
Great video Richard….thanks……it took around 110 years to build that.
Most people have no idea what Noah went through back then. For us. Read 'Ancient Knowledge' by George Curtis and see how it all connects to Stonehenge too.
You might like this eye opener too Optimist.. the Mt Sinai section is really something.
And this one is interesting regarding the pending pole shift.
https://www.youtube.com/@00Montjoie00/videos
^ cute, guys. love this sort of confirmation-bias archaeology. Protohistoric-archaeologists can certainly earn a crust funded by various churches. Just another version of what Graham Hancock's career has been (he's the 8th most famous Graham on Google as a consequence.. only 2 behind the crackers!).
Cool stuff, fanciful myth-wise, like faces on mars or giant skeleton hoaxes. Bit of fun. Reminds me of when I went exploring with mates in primary school and made 'discoveries'.
vive le fruit de l'imagination!
I have the opportunity to sing Rejoice in the Lamb next year in an 1850s bluestone church, tower and spire added in 1874, stainglass from late 1800s, amazing 1940s mosaics, and one of Australia's best church organs, installed by a Durham, UK company just before 2000. Same company that made the organ in Westminster Abbey, and Kings College. What a symphony of artists, tradies, craftsmen, designers and engineers. In suburban backstreets. Love it.
^ Rejoice in the Lamb written by Benjamin Britten in 1943, uses text from a poem by Christopher Smart (1722–1771). The poem, written while Smart was in an asylum, depicts idiosyncratic praise and worship of God by different things including animals, letters of the alphabet and musical instruments. Britten was introduced to the poem by W. H. Auden whilst visiting the United States.
Humans do beautiful work b6
Look at the resurrected Notre Dame. Amazing as was the original.
God and, in this case, his Catholic Church spent fuck all of their wealth on the project. The people did.
Silly, beautiful people.
Ha ha very good…..there is probably a bit of stuff around but it’s from the Vatican so if you look carefully it probably says “ made in China”.
Seriously though it was interesting that He chose to be a tradesman like Joe.
Born in a barn to Joe and Mary…..then a craftsman making everything from wooden kids toys to wagon wheels and house pillars etc…
Then at 30 began His ministry and flipped the world on its head in 3 1/2 years.
The prince of peace…..not of this world….supernatural doings.
He would be a hero and another outstanding figure these days too…..
…and we celebrate his birth and coming…..
….by ignoring Him….
Because we have Santa.
Or, more boring a story as it may be, is he became a tradie just like his dad Joe.
The Christmas story....from the shepherds view..
..Happy Christmas to all....and .hope you all enjoy your friends and families during this time of peace, celebration, healing of old wounds and reflection...peace to you all.!
Shame that Luke’s gospel is nearly a century after the fact? and the real author is anonymous.
Happy Saturnalias, Optimist.
Hi seeds, Luke’s gospel was written while some of the disciples were still alive so around 30- 40 years after Jesus death and resurrection.
He was a doctor and a non Jewish Greek man.
He also wrote the acts of the apostles recording their adventures after Christ left.
He addresses his letter to a fellow Greek GP. In chapter 1.
Being a GP, he was very thorough collecting accounts and adventures to print.
Matthew was a tax collector, so you notice if you look carefully that his gospel writings are very numeric….like what you would expect from a numbers guy.
Mark….short a sweet….to the point.
And…John…my favorite….a deep thinking spiritual guy….just read how he starts his gospel off…..in the beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with God and the WORD was God…..He was in the beginning with God….
The son of God was there in the beginning….and is Co- equal ….He is the visible image of the invisible God….the son the WORD …the speaking one …the visible one declares God and shows what He is like….and….How much He loves us naughty children.
I know you side on the Jesus team. Merry Christmas
I grew up celebrating both Santa and Jesus at the same time at Xmas. Never saw either of em have a problem with each other.
They don’t Waxxy.
Both are creations by humans that in no way resemble the originals.
Hope you enjoy the festive season. No reason to not partake in the fun and positive aspects of this time of year.
Have a Merry Christmas mate!!
You too, Seedsy. (my fave time of the year)
A Heartfelt Prayer from outta thin air.
Why should tbb even bother to care
To welcome that creepy neighbour just over there.
Why not a gift in true Xmas Spirit
Don't be so daft I wouldn't hear of it.
Yell hey neighbour over here by the back fence
Wave a welcoming gift under no false pretence
Puffing and panting he don't half notice.
Said it's me heart, ain't no flowering lotus.
He says...Please let me pray for yer Heart.
Dear Lord give this man a healthy restart.
More moaning and groaning rising from me Crypt
Another day the same hooked on some PBS script
So when ya gonna stop singing from atop of the hill.
Lord knows it's me neighbour's dodgy Xmas miracle
Exactly how all this bullshit nonsense spreads about
Crew sends peace & goodwill to all our Holy devout.
my two fave ye-olde carols.. very un-falalalala.. but obviously very biblical, as was the taste at the time.. both of these carols were squashed a bit because of various church reformations, but we have written versions of them..
this performance of Veni Veni Emmanuel by New Zealander Haley Westenra is about as good as it gets, having the appropriate sombre pathos - the earliest version of the 'carol' being 15th century French, used in Requiem Mass processions by Franciscan Nuns:
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Coventry Carol is an English lullaby, from a 16th century public nativity play:
..and hate to say it but this cosy, foppish hipster version of Coventry Carol by Sting is probably not very dissimilar to whatever the very first versions might have sounded like..
India. Here's some stats and facts from the Agence France-Presse about Kumbh Mela, the impending 6-week festival of bathing and piety, that happens every 12 years where the Ganges and Yumana meet:
- 400 million to attend (more than Canada + US populations combined)
- tent city two-thirds the size on Manhattan being built on the flood plain
- 150 000 toilets being installed
- 68 000 lighting poles being erected
- community kitchens being set up to feed 50 000 people at a time
- the only human gathering that will be able to be seen from space
- no human gathering like it exists, even a tenth the size
- (only 2 million Muslims pilgrimage to Mecca each year)
- (the biggest Christian gatherings (Manilla) attracts 6 million)
four HUNDRED million!!! Jan 13th to Feb 26th. Holy hell!! (literally).
https://www.abc.net.au/asia/millions-of-people-will-flock-to-ganges-for-...
https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/12/26/world/india-readies-for-400-milli...
Here you go optimist
Not sure my motivation...my instinctive need to stick up for the underdog...my secret desire to be one day honoured rightfully with the role of Forum moderator (expecting a call any day)...
But anyway I couldn't help but read your troubles on another thread...unfortunately I found myself siding with everyone's posts...other than your own...except for the part where you were told you can't post here!
So I put my low IQ mind to coming up with a solution that suits all...and here it is...a safe place if you like
You can post anything you like about your beliefs...and no one has to read it unless they want! Easy peasy...
maybe you could even get Jesus, fat Buddha, Mohammed, and friends to converse in adult conversation here
Solving the world problems, one at a time...call it taking a shovel as a way of moving that mountain
All the best...brother
PS...I actually was born again once, but I grew up, and grew a brain of my own...and realised it was all a load of shit!