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The White Rabbit Project
December 14, 2016 at 10:05 pm
So this is the new "Mythbusters" style program. It's on Netflix, and the hosts are Kari, Grant and Tory previously from Mythbusters.
Each episode they take a theme (superpowers, jail escapes, WWII weapons) and sort of dissect, recreate, and rate each one.
I have mixed feelings about it so far. I've watched the first three episodes. I'm kinda 'meh' so far. Anyone else watch?
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 14, 2016 at 11:07 pm
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I'd like to see Tory and Jamie tackle some sexual myths . . . .
or me, for that matter.
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 15, 2016 at 9:27 am
OK vorlon13 since you're talking about sex I just want to ask you: as a gay guy were you ever tempted to join Catholic priesthood? I mean since they're so gay and from the start they put you in seminary and you're closed with other guys far from any females and very intimate with each other. Frequently sharing beds and occasionally you have to visit Vatican - which is, I presume, like Disneyland for gays.
So if you were tempted which of two reasons turned you off in the end: the absurdity they have to believe or at least pretend to believe or was it strong paedophilic culture embedded in Catholic clergy?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 15, 2016 at 9:30 am
Haven't seen it, but sounds interesting. 
What don't you like about it Mike?
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 15, 2016 at 11:41 am
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Sounds interesting.
I'll probably check it out at some point.
(December 15, 2016 at 9:27 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: OK vorlon13 since you're talking about sex I just want to ask you: as a gay guy were you ever tempted to join Catholic priesthood? I mean since they're so gay and from the start they put you in seminary and you're closed with other guys far from any females and very intimate with each other. Frequently sharing beds and occasionally you have to visit Vatican - which is, I presume, like Disneyland for gays.
So if you were tempted which of two reasons turned you off in the end: the absurdity they have to believe or at least pretend to believe or was it strong paedophilic culture embedded in Catholic clergy?
The fuck...?
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 15, 2016 at 11:44 am
(December 15, 2016 at 9:27 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: OK vorlon13 since you're talking about sex I just want to ask you: as a gay guy were you ever tempted to join Catholic priesthood? I mean since they're so gay and from the start they put you in seminary and you're closed with other guys far from any females and very intimate with each other. Frequently sharing beds and occasionally you have to visit Vatican - which is, I presume, like Disneyland for gays.
So if you were tempted which of two reasons turned you off in the end: the absurdity they have to believe or at least pretend to believe or was it strong paedophilic culture embedded in Catholic clergy?
Do you suffer from brain damage?
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 15, 2016 at 11:48 am
(December 15, 2016 at 11:44 am)Faith No More Wrote: (December 15, 2016 at 9:27 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: OK vorlon13 since you're talking about sex I just want to ask you: as a gay guy were you ever tempted to join Catholic priesthood? I mean since they're so gay and from the start they put you in seminary and you're closed with other guys far from any females and very intimate with each other. Frequently sharing beds and occasionally you have to visit Vatican - which is, I presume, like Disneyland for gays.
So if you were tempted which of two reasons turned you off in the end: the absurdity they have to believe or at least pretend to believe or was it strong paedophilic culture embedded in Catholic clergy?
Do you suffer from brain damage?
He attacks priests and Catholics any chance he gets, regardless of if it makes sense or not.
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 15, 2016 at 11:51 am
(December 15, 2016 at 11:48 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: He attacks priests and Catholics any chance he gets, regardless of if it makes sense or not.
All of his posts seem like he just smoked a bunch of crystal meth.
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 15, 2016 at 11:58 am
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(December 15, 2016 at 11:51 am)Faith No More Wrote: (December 15, 2016 at 11:48 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: He attacks priests and Catholics any chance he gets, regardless of if it makes sense or not.
All of his posts seem like he just smoked a bunch of crystal meth.
I don't disagree. I usually just ignore them.
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RE: The White Rabbit Project
December 15, 2016 at 12:33 pm
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(December 15, 2016 at 11:48 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: He attacks priests and Catholics any chance he gets, regardless of if it makes sense or not. Yes, as frequent as Catholic priests rape little children.
(December 15, 2016 at 11:44 am)Faith No More Wrote: Do you suffer from brain damage?
Why do you say that? It is widely known that nuns, monks and priests are people brought in Catholic families usually have very repressed sexuality and those that have homosexual tendencies do go for monasteries and priesthoods.
One of the best examples of that was in 1966 when psychologist Carl Rogers was allowed to have an experiment on nuns in LA of order "Immaculate Heart". Nuns were told that they shouldn’t be reserved or shy, that they should open up, that prudence is an oversold virtue, don’t avert your eyes to the ground in piety, but to make eye contact and open up with their inner desires, feelings, and emotions. Soon nuns started kissing each-other and whole order was abandoned and all the nuns (300 of them) went to live secular lives as lesbians.
So you see it takes very little to these gown wearing monks and priests to get into large orgy and a smart gay person could take advantage of that.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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