Refugee thread!

[Pat Mustard]

I have cooties. Nobody touch me unless you’re Amanda and your last name is Nunes.

Hi I am a man to noon es.

[Aegon]

I have aquestion?

Where might one post a vid?

I was out and about in my country side the other day and have some moving wild-life images to share.

Not at work.

Since you took it the "Member Photos" thread sounds good for that, even tho the photos are moving

[Pat Mustard]

You could always go for best new member.

Warning the best new member award requires some serious baby barbequeing skills

Too easy... we just marinate them in Fosters overnight, and  bung 'em on the barbie next to the prawns.   

You're not really Australian are you? Admit it!

[Minimalist]

Aliza,

Do you really believe that "moses" spoke to a burning bush?

Pfffft.       Minimalist, I just took a closer  look at your avatar.     

No, it's not totally off the topic of a burning bush.

Don't fuck with Min the Great.  Look at how he turned the WLB's member into a mushroom!

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Aliza,

Do you really believe that "moses" spoke to a burning bush?

I don't really have a strong stance on that. It sounds like it was a metaphor to me. If at some time in the future, we have the technology to go back and see for ourselves what happened, and it turns out that it really was G-d dressed up as a burning bush, I will be willing to take a firm stance on the matter.

See, this is generally why I like jews better than any other class of religitard.  They think.  And for the most part they don't take it all that seriously.

In 2001, this fellow spoke to his congreagation, thusly:

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/13/news/mn-50481

On Passover last Sunday, Rabbi David Wolpe raised that provocative question before 2,200 faithful at Sinai Temple in Westwood. He minced no words.

"The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the Exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all," Wolpe told his congregants.

Wolpe's startling sermon may have seemed blasphemy to some. In fact, however, the rabbi was merely telling his flock what scholars have known for more than a decade. Slowly and often outside wide public purview, archeologists are radically reshaping modern understanding of the Bible. It was time for his people to know about it, Wolpe decided.

No one called for him to be fired.  Or killed. 

You'll note in the article that the xhristard speaking in opposition is Bryant Wood, a YEC shithead who keeps trying to breathe life back into the fucking bible.  As Dilbert once noted, that's like "trying to do CPR on a mummy."

We'll get along, Aliza.  It's the fundies who draw my wrath!

[Aliza]

Pfffft.       Minimalist, I just took a closer  look at your avatar.     

No, it's not totally off the topic of a burning bush.

Don't fuck with Min the Great.  Look at how he turned the WLB's member into a mushroom!

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I don't really have a strong stance on that. It sounds like it was a metaphor to me. If at some time in the future, we have the technology to go back and see for ourselves what happened, and it turns out that it really was G-d dressed up as a burning bush, I will be willing to take a firm stance on the matter.

See, this is generally why I like jews better than any other class of religitard.  They think.  And for the most part they don't take it all that seriously.

In 2001, this fellow spoke to his congreagation, thusly:

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/13/news/mn-50481

On Passover last Sunday, Rabbi David Wolpe raised that provocative question before 2,200 faithful at Sinai Temple in Westwood. He minced no words.

"The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the Exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all," Wolpe told his congregants.

Wolpe's startling sermon may have seemed blasphemy to some. In fact, however, the rabbi was merely telling his flock what scholars have known for more than a decade. Slowly and often outside wide public purview, archeologists are radically reshaping modern understanding of the Bible. It was time for his people to know about it, Wolpe decided.

No one called for him to be fired.  Or killed. 

You'll note in the article that the xhristard speaking in opposition is Bryant Wood, a YEC shithead who keeps trying to breathe life back into the fucking bible.  As Dilbert once noted, that's like "trying to do CPR on a mummy."

We'll get along, Aliza.  It's the fundies who draw my wrath!

From the LA Times article, "Others think it combines myth, cultural memories and kernels of truth." That's where I am.

Regardless of whether or not G-d was a burning bush that spoke to Moses or whether or not the Jewish people really crossed the sea of reeds because the wind blew and exposed a little land bridge (because tides and blustery days are so unfathomable), it doesn't change anything. Whether it happened or not, the objective in life isn't to decide whether the stories in the Torah are literal or not; you've missed the forest for the trees in that case. The objective is to live a good life and cram in as many amazing experiences as you possibly can. Some people achieve that goal by studying the pearls of wisdom they see in the Torah. Others achieve that goal by following a different path. Either path is correct if you live a good life.

[Minimalist]

Whether it happened or not, the objective in life isn't to decide whether the stories in the Torah are literal or not

We've got a bevy of xhristards around here who will denounce that position.  You'll know them when you see them.  I'll have your back.

BTW, in that article you'll note that they quote Bill Dever.  He famously said "I started writing to oppose the Minimalists and ended up becoming one of them."  Such is the impact of evidence on a rational mind.

[Shai Hulud]

Oh, right, I have an account here...and really liked the place. Why did I stop posting?

[arewethereyet]

Oh, right, I have an account here...and really liked the place.  Why did I stop posting?

YAY!  I asked Shai to come on over.  He's a good guy...be nice to him...okay.

[Shai Hulud]

Oh, right, I have an account here...and really liked the place.  Why did I stop posting?

YAY!  I asked Shai to come on over.  He's a good guy...be nice to him...okay.

Thanks!  Try to be at least.  Some of my students might disagree, but...meh.  One complained to me the other day about how much he loathed a colleague in Sociology, and as he laid out everything my response was basically, "So she made you learn?" as he complained, yet showed a full understanding of the material.

[Joods]

Help me? If by help you mean help, then help yourself.  

 help!

But I have a cure for cooties.

Linda honey, listen, 

Killing doesn't = helping. 

Put the scalpel down before you cut someone.