The Mad Hatter

It's okay. We all suck because we're all people :disappointed:

I'm pretty sure that the insulting should end here, because it's not cool and not funny.

Saffire is awesome, actually.

I don't think that either of us actually automatically jump from "wow, this guy is really nice" to "he wants sex".

do you not know what flirting is or i'd really like it if you'd stop fucking doing it, seeing as, oh, i don't know, you're dating me and not her

really. really. I never knew that people being genuine and nice meant they wanted to have sex with you.

:disappointed:

da fuq

toaster strudel topping never comes out the way it should :(

everyone knows that penal is funny because it sounds like penis brent

that's not very nice. happy birthday~

let's not forget his idea for a three-way penal extravaganza

There is a problem with that in the fact that it is a generalization. If you were to base an argument about Americans on "Americans like baseball", that manner of speech wouldn't be productive. Specific word choice is generally key in making a valid point. As a matter of fact, I am concerned about that, and the fact that I still have to brandish Jesus Christ as the example for Christians despite their own Christianity is why I am politely asking you be more careful. I'm not so much offended as I am trying to clear up misconceptions that a lot of non-denominational Christians (along with others) face simply because they believe in the same deity as another group under the Christian category. In some cases, I don't even know if you could call it the same deity, but I guess that's another discussion. It is not my personal alienation I have a problem with here; it's the fact that you have effectively pushed an entire group into one, narrow category, which is becoming more and more of a problem (I'm not crying out "WHITE STRAIGHT CHRISTIAN MALE OPRESSION" here...just making a note of a bit of a growing trend). I would agree with you. The most publicized Christian groups in the USA are the ones that want to fuck up peoples' lives, and that is an issue that Christians that do not adhere to their principles are currently battling. A lot of us spend a lot of time trying to play meek and mild and honest and sweet Christian to hypocritical Christians (while trying to avoid being hypocritical ourselves). Jesus Christ would not make the news today, but Fred Phelps is unavoidable. I'm glad you acknowledge that there are good Christians (though I could hardly call myself one, seeing as I do not have enough hours in a day to evangelize the principles of "good" Christians). I wholeheartedly believe that the best way to open others up to Jesus Christ is not through preaching, but practice, though occasionally, I will call someone out for being hypocritical, knowing that I myself have acted in particularly un-Christlike ways. I haven't made any problems out to be minuscule. I wasn't asking you to ignore the fact that there are Christians who delay progress in social/political issues. I was asking for Christians who do not adhere to the young earth/non-evolutionary creation/whatever other theories to be respected as individuals. My problem is in the fact that you lumped all Christians together, whether you meant to or not. No, I may not have answers about how to fix the problems caused by uneducated people other than by educating them, which doesn't happen quickly. Maybe individual churches can be blamed for the spread of biblical misinterpretation, or ignorance of Christian teachings, but the people following these doctrines are individuals as well, making individual decisions based on whatever evidence they feel they have.

this thread got creepy pretty quickly

pop tarts / junk food / brent's hands thread

those are huge palms

all the better to doctor with

Brent, I think your hands are kind of big, but I think that's nice. :wacko:

Well, surely he wears gloves a lot. When you sweat in gloves, your hands get all soft. :uhoh:

I'm just saying that you can't rightly use the whole of Christianity as a base for an argument. You can use individual denominations, maybe, but when you say "Christianity" you are saying "all Christians" have made/accepted these claims. Go ahead and criticize the YECs for abusing the writings of a book (speaking in terms of OT) that many Christians have accepted as myths because it makes sense, but saying "Christianity has made such and such claims" alienates the many Christians who have not. I only take issue with the wording, but I know that you do not think that all Christians believe these things. I'm just aware of the fact that a lot of people do, and I'd appreciate it if care would be taken to help me help Christians look less insane in light of groups like WBC and other YECs. :|

OH MY GOD I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THOSE CONTAINERS!!!

cheese pop tarts

I don't really like those, though. :(

I miss the 3D Doritos, because you could bite the tip off and spray the cheese in.

Well, I like all of those things, especially the cookies, but they aren't Pop Tarts. :disappointed: