Discussion Thread from the Funny Anti-Religious Pictures thread.

[Kyanimal]

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And yet it is only North American native speakers of English who ever make the mistake of dropping the -S in sapiens. I've never heard anyone do it in Dutch, German, French or Portuguese. Nor do other English-speakers make the mistake in the UK, Eire, NZ or Australia. Nope. Never.

It's because North-Americans are more linguistically evolved you know that everything we speak and write, in whatever language, is a downgrading (for example by dropping finals), of previous more sophisticatedly "cumbersome" stages of language

We Yanks haven't spoken 'proper' English for the last couple centuries, and we're still in the process of mangling it yet further. We tend to be a rebellious bunch, question authority, value independence (at least our own), etc., etc., etc. Formality is almost anathema to us.

"A Homo Sapiens" simply doesn't sound right. Dropping the last 's' "feels" better. (Hold my beer!)

 

[belamyi]

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We Yanks haven't spoken 'proper' English for the last couple centuries, and we're still in the process of mangling it yet further. We tend to be a rebellious bunch, question authority, value independence (at least our own), etc., etc., etc. Formality is almost anathema to us.

So that is why the Dixies can't suffer Yanks.

I always said I am so American Even too much of an American for the American themselves



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"A Homo Sapiens" simply doesn't sound right. Dropping the last 's' "feels" better. (Hold my beer!)

What I said, a question of bad taste.

 

[Kulindahr]

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What's the humor?

 

[Kulindahr]

I still don't understand why ignorance is funny. This is pure straw man.

 

[Kulindahr]

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99% of gods in human history will fail this. The Abrahamic one doesn't.

This is one reason I'm a Christian: the God of the Bible is unique.

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One more straw man argument, based on the assumption that God would behave the way you want Him to.

 

[Kulindahr]

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But let's not forget that the Alexander campaign has a stronger historical basis, while the Jewish tale is more a myth, and follows the 40-year symbolism of "change, transition" that accompanies that number: like "it rained forty days and forty nights", also like with the "million times" or "dozens of...".

Oh, but misunderstanding things in order to laugh at them is so much more fun.

 

[Kulindahr]

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That's why you are supposed to have just faith to account for (rather than "prove") the existence of God: problem is, faith is almost always substituted by prejudiced, haughty stubbornness.

"Almost always"? No -- just all too frequently.

 

[Kulindahr]

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And do not forget the Boyar-Methodist beard.

Once more I wish we could upvote things here!

 

[Kulindahr]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyar

Whoa -- Eisenstein wrote about Klingons!

 

[Kulindahr]

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^ The Hangover is a great idea. Sadly, the execution leaves much to be desired.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Not funny at all, but worth repeating.

 

[Kulindahr]

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We really need a "laughing so hard it hurts" smiley.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Actually, in terms of deity, the choice is easy, on a criterion I recognized before I was a Christian:

any claimant to deity who is part of the same material existence we have fails. That rules out most of the claimed gods over the millennia.

 

[Kulindahr]

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I saw a study someone did on this; it turns out that shutting down the Vatican would result in less money for the poor. Apparently not having the pope in his palace would mean reduced giving among Roman Catholics.

The Vatican already has a museum, and most of the parts with artwork are open to the public anyway, so the change wouldn't be as big as I think the cartoon wants us to think.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Ignoring the fact that SOMETHING always existed, or nothing would exist.

 

[johaninsc]

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I imagine that opinion would change if alter boys could get pregnant...

 

[johaninsc]

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probably going to have to use this as a reply later...

 

[johaninsc]

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shameful

the just gotta protect those kiddie diddlers

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/1/14/21065579/utah-bill-clergy-report-child-abuse-confessions-house-speaker-catholic-church-mormon-lds-diocese

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[belamyi]

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Actually, in terms of deity, the choice is easy, on a criterion I recognized before I was a Christian:

any claimant to deity who is part of the same material existence we have fails. That rules out most of the claimed gods over the millennia.

But the same goes for any reasoning according to "the same material existence we have" like, for example, the existence in time, and the existence of evil.

The concept of God is remotely similar to the mathematical point: the logic of the existence of God demands to consider it the absolute Absolute, the point before time started unfolding, actually, the LOGICAL condition (if you are familiar with Peirce's semiotic theory, it's easier to conceive) for the very concept of time, "Time", to exist. And the same goes for the existence of all evil, or mere decay: outside that absolutely essential, "reduced", primary point, everything must be decay and evil, even in a paradisiacal, before-sin, state of things.
Relatively close, (because derived - again, if only from a logical point of view-) to the relation of God to man, death, evil, etc. is the relationship between a person and a human or animal that was engendered and given birth to.

 

[belamyi]

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I saw a study someone did on this; it turns out that shutting down the Vatican would result in less money for the poor. Apparently not having the pope in his palace would mean reduced giving among Roman Catholics.

The Vatican already has a museum, and most of the parts with artwork are open to the public anyway, so the change wouldn't be as big as I think the cartoon wants us to think.

That would be right, but only if you consider that suggestion as a mere plundering of finite wealth, but that suggestion is actually what is going on already... only to a relatively small extent. The growth of the Vatican economy, like that which feeds us in our comfy JUB homes in US or Spain, is kept to a closed circle, far bigger than it was before the Industrial Revolution era in each separate country, but still way reduced when considering the wider, global action field that the global economy has set for the past two centuries.
Even after acknowledging the existence of the "Fourth World" of poorer people in each country, the truer consideration of the world today is to consider the whole world like a single nation, say France in the XVIIIth century, and then each country and region in the relation to power and wealth, so that there are three states, the Developed state, the Developing State, and the Destitute State (Haiti, Somalia, Afghanistan...).

The sillier part of

is that the ending does not make quite clear whether it means the ending of the Vatican, or merely the end of the Vatican as known until that point, like in 1870, with the Vatican acting more like a socialdemocrat monarchy... because, it the usually muddled way of bad artists and thinkers, it is presented as an impossible, truly chaotic mix of both conditions, as you would present the future of France in 1764 by depicting it as it was in 1794.