The Hazards of Belief

recedite

Spare a thought for poor Mary, lubricants hadn't been invented yet.

obplayer

recedite wrote: »

Spare a thought for poor Mary, lubricants hadn't been invented yet.

Lard?
(the rich girls they use Vaseline, the poor girls they use lard
but Dinah uses axle grease.....)

BlaasForRafa

recedite wrote: »

Spare a thought for poor Mary, lubricants hadn't been invented yet.

Do ghost cocks need lubricant?



....you know, that's not a question I ever expected to have to ask :pac:

obplayer

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Do ghost cocks need lubricant?



....you know, that's not a question I ever expected to have to ask :pac:

Neither did Mary:D

silverharp

Belief that Mary was “ever virgin” is a core Catholic teaching and is also held by Protestant and Orthodox churches.

they got the Protestant bit wrong, most dont believe she remained a virgin.

recedite

We're assuming here that the ghost stayed away once Joseph arrived on the scene.
Lard is all very well for one-night virgins, but the perpetual virgin needs a specialist product.

kylith

I always imagined that the 'ever virgin' thing referred to a spontaneously healing hymen.

BlaasForRafa

recedite wrote: »

We're assuming here that the ghost stayed away once Joseph arrived on the scene.
Lard is all very well for one-night virgins, but the perpetual virgin needs a specialist product.

Not to mention that if she continually used lard every dog in the village would have been following her around and sniffing her crotch :pac:

Brian Shanahan

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Aren't pregnant women and people who are ill etc. given a pass during Ramadan?

Surely those sorts of conditions which have the power to kill you would mean that even supposedly able-bodied people, at risk of dehydration and the like, would be let drink water?

Or am I applying too much logic to the situation?

You see the thing is, the real reason for religious stuff like Ramadan and Lent is to expose and weed out the non-conformists. The religious powers that be don't give two shíts if even millions die as long as a) the majority do what they're told and b) the majority turn on the minority who don't do what they're told and force them out of the group or to conform.

It's the same mentality as with many tribal initiation rituals, except the initiation ritual for religion is constant and unending whereas the tribal one is usually over in a few days.

biko

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e17_1436349388
A young French Muslim shouts in Paris restaurant "People can't eat because it's the ramadan".

recedite

Looks like a prank, or a dare.

robindch

Sydney's Child Abuse Squad arrest a naturopath who allegedly advised a mother to stop her baby's medication and charge her with grievous bodily harm and failure to provide for a child. The mother's up on similar charges.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-09/sydney-naturopath-who-allegedly-advised-mum-over-baby-arrested/6607296

Hotblack Desiato

recedite wrote: »

Looks like a prank, or a dare.

Some fake tan and padding around the midriff and a couple of wires hanging out would've been more daring

Hotblack Desiato

robindch wrote: »

Sydney's Child Abuse Squad arrest a naturopath who allegedly advised a mother to stop her baby's medication and charge her with grievous bodily harm and failure to provide for a child. The mother's up on similar charges.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-09/sydney-naturopath-who-allegedly-advised-mum-over-baby-arrested/6607296

When I hear naturopath I always think sociopath anyway.

smacl

Hazards of disbelief; Interesting piece on Islamism in the Guardian.

Hotblack Desiato

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-33472808

obplayer

Protestants have a right to bonfires....

MrPudding

obplayer wrote: »

Protestants have a right to bonfires....

Brilliant. My mother had to claim off the Northern Ireland office a few years ago as a bonfire melted her front door and her sitting room window.

MrP

robindch

MrPudding wrote: »

My mother had to claim off the Northern Ireland office a few years ago as a bonfire melted her front door and her sitting room window.

Did somebody explain to her that she shoudn'ta built her haice there?

silverharp

ach eye , sure didnt king Billy himself used to go collecting for wooden pallets when he was a we'un!

robindch

David Quinn must be celebrating today - the logo for his "mammies and daddies matter" group, inspired by the strikingly similar logo used by a small group of French homophobes named Le Manif Pour Tous, during the week evolved into the logo of a group of homophobes led by no less a defender of "tradition" than VV Putin himself and his media handlers.

Here are the three logos - go David!

Note the extra child in the Russian image - the Russian government has been attempting for many years to advertize its citizens into having more children, to help stave off a steep decline in population caused by mass emigration, early death and abnormally high rates of abortion.

robindch

^^^ Just on that, one poster in the comments section pointed to a US-based organization named the "National Organization for Marriage" - a multi-million-dollar outfit with just one employee who earned $230,000 in 2013 (page 7):

http://nationformarriage.org/financial-reports/nom-990-2013-redacted.pdf

The expenses aren't broken down in much detail, but from the information on pages 8 + 9, it seems like the far greater proportion of their turnover is going on simply keeping the organization alive.

obplayer

MrPudding wrote: »

Brilliant. My mother had to claim off the Northern Ireland office a few years ago as a bonfire melted her front door and her sitting room window.

MrP

Perhaps more claims?




http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-33497544

Hotblack Desiato

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33486177

The tennis star Novak Djokovic believes he owes his stellar 2011 season to giving up gluten. In his book Serve to Win, he describes the moment his nutritionist Igor Cetojevicv gave him a slice of bread and told him to hold it against his stomach while he held his other arm out straight. Then Cetojevicv pushed down on his arm. "With the bread against my stomach, my arm struggled to resist Cetojevicv's downward pressure. I was noticeably weaker," the tennis star writes. "This is a sign that your body is rejecting the wheat in the bread," Cetojevicv told him. (Djokovic did go on to have a blood test too.)

obplayer

Don't Blame the Atheists

We're not the ones wasting our resources like there's no tomorrow because we're not the ones who actually believe there's no tomorrow

It's not the atheists who would take sequestered schoolchildren and force them to recite the mantra that there is no god. We let them choose

And there's more folks!

I know this is based in America but it is a wonderful lecture on what religion will do to a country.

robindch

Grave visit couple asked to remove equal marriage sticker from car in church car park

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/grave-visit-couple-asked-to-remove-equal-marriage-sticker-from-car-in-church-car-park-31375148.html

Independent wrote:

Lucy and John Keaveney, who are in their 60s and from Ratoath, Co Meath, were visiting the grave of a relative when they were told aggressively by a man to remove the sticker or park elsewhere. The incident happened on Sunday afternoon in the car park of a Russian Orthodox Church in Harold's Cross. The couple parked their car in the church car park and walked in the direction of Mount Jerome Cemetery when they were given the ultimatum from an "aggressive, surly" man. "He just took it upon himself to ask me remove the car or to take the sticker off," Mr Keaveney said. The car park is open to patrons visiting Mount Jerome Cemetery.

[...]

"We didn't go out to cause any trouble on a Sunday afternoon. We met friends at the grave and they said they would nearly be afraid that the man would crack in the window of the car," she told the Herald. "It was the only altercation that we have encountered with the sticker in the car."

"I had been thinking of taking it down but it's staying up now," Mrs Keaveney added.

BlaasForRafa

obplayer wrote: »

And there's more folks!

Aron Ra is pretty good alright. He was on Today FM not so long ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6njtr2-M4M

Hotblack Desiato

robindch wrote: »

Note the extra child in the Russian image - the Russian government has been attempting for many years to advertize its citizens into having more children, to help stave off a steep decline in population caused by mass emigration, early death and abnormally high rates of abortion.

This is too easy

Someone else can tidy it up and add the pink or rainbow background if they like

robindch

The 16-year old daughter of two anti-vax parents saves up her baby-sitting money to get vaccinated.

Mom goes mad. Reddit has a good laugh.

http://www.mommyish.com/2015/07/13/teenager-gets-self-vaccinated-babysitting-money-anti-vax-parents/

Angy Mom wrote:

None of my children are vaccinated. Totally by accident I came to find out that my oldest daughter has been fully vaccinated (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hep a and b, menengitis a and b and hpv) without mine or my husband’s knowledge or consent. In Ontario we have socialized medicine and publicly funded vaccines. She admitted she went to clinics run for school aged children run by our local health public health unit to get her shots and also got a few at a local walk in clinic that are not yet publicly funded paid for with her babysitting money. When I called public health and the clinic to complain they both said that because she is age 16 they cannot release any information to me – and I’m her mother! My husband and are livid that she was vaccinated without our consent. What kind of action can we take against public health and the clinic for vaccinating a child without parental consent? Do we have a case for a lawsuit?

Nodin

robindch wrote: »

The 16-year old daughter of two anti-vax parents saves up her baby-sitting money to get vaccinated.

Mom goes mad. Reddit has a good laugh.

http://www.mommyish.com/2015/07/13/teenager-gets-self-vaccinated-babysitting-money-anti-vax-parents/

In Ontario we have socialized medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs