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State spending €3million on communion rituals
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<verbose irrelevance snipped>If 3 million is such a trifling sum, why doesn't the Catholic Church offer to pay it?sponsoredwalk wrote: »
I know you were aiming for some sort of counterexample as a means toBecause it is to highlight the hypocrisy in Lucy's position. No doubt this vital and important service will suddenly become not as vital if the onus to pay it shifts to the people who are pushing this event in the schools and who claim to be charitable.
highlight hypocrisy but notice the question in my post (pre-empting this
response) that asked the question "why" those greedy fcukers should be
forced to pay for this. Not to tout my own horn but I even went into the
specifics of why they shouldn't be paying for this as a further means to
highlight how much of a non-counterexample your question was. They
have their own justifications for not paying for this (which I've already
mentioned, & can easily be checked).
Notice why I bothered to mention this:
Because even if we assume that they should be forced to pay for this
(i.e. if we indulge you in your attempt at highlighting hypocrisy) they
have their own iron-clad reasons not to pay for it because it goes against
the spirit of what they are aiming for on the day which implies, again if
logic has anything to do with this conversation, that the religious aspects
of the day are nothing more than coincidental in this milestone social
event. There's a reason why another poster in another thread recently
offered up Alton Towers as a means to satiate a child from worrying
about not partaking in their communion rituals & I think we all know it
wasn't offered as a means to lull the child into forgetting the sense of
spiritual loss they'll feel for not having been in church that day...
Thus the example fails on two grounds, A) indicating how it's even
relevant,
when examined it just illustrates the very point you all
are arguing against in the first place.<verbose irrelevance snipped>If 3 million is such a trifling sum, why doesn't the Catholic Church offer to pay it?sponsoredwalk wrote: »
I know you were aiming for some sort of counterexample as a means toBecause it is to highlight the hypocrisy in Lucy's position. No doubt this vital and important service will suddenly become not as vital if the onus to pay it shifts to the people who are pushing this event in the schools and who claim to be charitable.
highlight hypocrisy but notice the question in my post (pre-empting this
response) that asked the question "why" those greedy fcukers should be
forced to pay for this. Not to tout my own horn but I even went into the
specifics of why they shouldn't be paying for this as a further means to
highlight how much of a non-counterexample your question was. They
have their own justifications for not paying for this (which I've already
mentioned, & can easily be checked).
Notice why I bothered to mention this:
Because even if we assume that they should be forced to pay for this
(i.e. if we indulge you in your attempt at highlighting hypocrisy) they
have their own iron-clad reasons not to pay for it because it goes against
the spirit of what they are aiming for on the day which implies, again if
logic has anything to do with this conversation, that the religious aspects
of the day are nothing more than coincidental in this milestone social
event. There's a reason why another poster in another thread recently
offered up Alton Towers as a means to satiate a child from worrying
about not partaking in their communion rituals & I think we all know it
wasn't offered as a means to lull the child into forgetting the sense of
spiritual loss they'll feel for not having been in church that day...
Thus the example fails on two grounds, A) indicating how it's even
relevant, when examined it just illustrates the very point you all
are arguing against in the first place.
Now I can't paint any clearer evidence of the insanity of this thread than
this, posting insults that refer to my post as irrelevant despite the fact
that the very portion of the post he referred to as "verbose irrelevance"
specifically responded, & I mean specifically, to the question (s)he asks
me. Just pick up a shovel and fling as much mud as possible as quick
as possible with deft regard to logic...Here's an idea - why not take it out of your church collection?
My church collection? Oh the assumptions keep coming...0 -
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sponsoredwalk wrote: »Except for the fact that it precisely answers your question in considerable
detail...
OK. I'll indulge. There was a lot of spelling and grammar lames. Then this:I know you were aiming for some sort of counterexample as a means to
highlight hypocrisy but notice the question in my post (pre-empting this
response) that asked the question "why" those greedy fcukers should be
forced to pay for this. Not to tout my own horn but I even went into the
specifics of why they shouldn't be paying for this as a further means to
highlight how much of a non-counterexample your question was. They
have their own justifications for not paying for this (which I've already
mentioned, & can easily be checked).
Notice why I bothered to mention this:
Because even if we assume that they should be forced to pay for this
(i.e. if we indulge you in your attempt at highlighting hypocrisy) they
have their own iron-clad reasons not to pay for it because it goes against
the spirit of what they are aiming for on the day which implies, again if
logic has anything to do with this conversation, that the religious aspects
of the day are nothing more than coincidental in this milestone social
event. There's a reason why another poster in another thread recently
offered up Alton Towers as a means to satiate a child from worrying
about not partaking in their communion rituals & I think we all know it
wasn't offered as a means to lull the child into forgetting the sense of
spiritual loss they'll feel for not having been in church that day...
Thus the example fails on two grounds, A) indicating how it's even
relevant, when examined it just illustrates the very point you all
are arguing against in the first place.
I've seen Scientologists make more sense than that.Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.
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This is what it looks like on iPhone:magicbastarder wrote: »do people who find sponsoredwalk's formatting style difficult to read also have trouble with newspaper columns?
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This is what it looks like on iPhone:This shows that you (a) have no interest in the readability of your posts (b) don't understand how text wraps depending on screen/window size.
I had no idea that this would happen...
I apologise but you'll have to forgive me, due to the fact that the focus shifts onto the shape of my posts AFTER I've gotten into an argument with someone on here & AFTER the moment they've lost all credibility I just naturally assumed it was the last refuge of the scoundrel to start off on my posts accompanied with no further explanation than "it's really annoying" or something like that. Judging by the size & detail of some of the responses I've been offered (from those making such comments) I thought they could hardly have even been posted on a mobile phone, let alone not being posted on a phone that couldn't handle such text (in which case I'd think you shouldn't be on the internet with such a junk phone) & really saw no other alternative than a means to divert attention from the topic being discussed. Furthermore this happens, again, in a thread in which all of you just pass over the many insults aimed at Lucy for the way (s)he posts, I think it's not too shocking to assume it's just more of that childish nonsense to then go for me.
So I just had no idea phones did that. However if phones with small screens automatically adjust text based on hard returns then I can understand. Personally I thought writing text in this way would only be better for small screens like phones, but actually seeing that it's reformatted due to hard returns then I can understand & will stop. I really do mean that, it's always been after I've called out some nonsense on here that there's such an interest in the shape, rather than the content, of my posts...
Surely you can understand how ridiculous it seems to focus so intensely on the shape of posts for no apparent reason (when you're unaware of the fact that it's reformatted automatically) other than that they are half the size of the other posts, especially considering the fact that every third page of a magazine will have different column styles (including ones whose lines are not linearly starting and ending (yes, even including nature...)).
With all of this said it's still pretty bad form that the posting frequency goes up when it's my posts that are the topic of discussion but it goes down when insults against those with the opposing perspective are bandied about... Since we've logically found a way to stop me posting the way I did (:() I just ask you all to similarly analyze the posts by those on your own side of the argument with as equal a scrutiny as that devoted to my posts, & I'm not talking about the posts relevant to the topic of the thread I'm merely talking about the insults...
That's your problem right there.sponsoredwalk wrote:this is getting insanely boring trying to teach people acceptance 101
Everything I've said still stands, we're still waiting for somebody to even apologise for the insults to Lucy, let alone even call out the fact that other posters cheerily post insults that themselves carry major flaws, let alone mention the fact that it's just basically wrong to post insults, let alone even explain how the church is more than coincidental to the topic of the thread, let alone explain how even if the church was more than a coincidental this would not be nothing more than taking money from poor people even if it is the result of the middle class being forced to tighten up it's belt after the gluttonous excesses we all orgiastically indulged in during the late 90's, now feeling that good ol' catholic shame for losing ourselves to it all momentarily (quite a long moment)... All of this is the antithesis of acceptance.i like sponsoredwalks posts.
If i miss the screen name when scrolling thru ...i can always tell its him by his style. And i always find his posts worth a read.
Thanks Lucy, same to you too. You can have the priceless gift
(worthless things are also technically priceless
) of being the last one
I'll respond to in the way I'd rather respond to someone. Hmm... What
to say when a miniscule part of ones soul is about to die? I know:
Like the eagle arising out of the ashes in Harry Potter I'll similarly pull
from the embers of my former posting style life renewed in the sense
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the parents are spending money on clothes and celebrations because of the communion. The communion event maybe free, but the parents wouldn't be looking for the money if the communion was happening at all.
And because it has nothing to do with the religious aspects of the day, it's all the more reason why the payment should be cut. The day can still go ahead without it.
As to your criticism of the use of the term "people who really need it", hate to break it to you but that's how a social payment system works. I can't go and get the dole because the government says due to me having a job that I don't need it. Should I now protest this as being unfair?
If you can read this, you're too close!
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Threads have a sell by date, which, once past, are more or less allow to drift about.Since there is apparently no chance that I will be accused of going off topic, can I ask why all the garbage in this thread has been allowed? Is there some sort of in-joke that I am missing?
The sell by date usually passes when everybody is just starting to repeat themselves. I blame the mods.
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