Unless you start poking fun at benevolent zombies from outer-space who want you to cannibalistically feast upon their flesh and vampirishly drink their blood then you won't hear a peep from the whiney crowd complaining about how we make fun of their religion. Making fun of aliens is A OK though... since aliens are SO unbelievable ;-).

Secular music eats at my soul! CHOW DOWN SECULAR MUSIC, THIS FEAST IS FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!

fucking genetics. I was just reading about how to jailbreak the 3.0 iphone and doing some banking, next thing i know im entranced by the beewb feast set out before my eyes. Ahhh boobs, my love, my curse.

>> ^quantumushroom:
There's no way the failures of California can be blamed on conservatives, since they have no power there and Schwarzy isn't one.


You must not live here. Your ignorance of the situation could only be explained by that.

Some 30 years ago, Conservatives put Prop 13 on the ballot. It passed overwhelmingly.

It set limits on property taxes, which means in many communities today, older home owners pay less property taxes than newer, younger home owners.

It also introduced a new rule to the state legislature: All tax increases now require a 2/3rds majority to pass, instead of a 51% majority.

The Conservatives may not have the majority in the California legislature, just like the federal legislature. But they do have just enough power to be a roadblock, just like the federal republican legislators. The minority party always has some rules that work in their favor, don't forget that. Unless you really are just a closet fascist.

This is why we're in the hole we're in. We refuse to tax ourselves adequately. This is basically a problem with the hardline conservative dogma. We had a chance during the Clinton Administration (you know, the largest economic expansion in US history?) to save up for hard times. We ignored the opportunity to save up during our feasts for the inevitable famines that would follow.

What part of this do you not understand? How could you be so ignorant and blind?

One can amend the joke, and suggest the Atheist did not pray, but built a hole in the sand to shelter himself from the hot sun. Upon funding the 3 religious fools dead, he feasted on their remains as a rational and logical course of action to stay alive.

And the Atheist loved every minute of it!

>> ^youmakekittymad
1) the idea of the physical being inferior to the point of being "evil" is an Eastern religious/philosophical one, not Hellenic. Greek philosophy, if one takes Plato as representative of the entirety of that school, only held that perfection was not possible in the physical, but that is not a moral judgment. Ancient Hellenic religious traditions held that the gods were full of the same imperfections as humanity.
2) you would be hard-pressed to find a Christian dogma that holds that the dead are given new PHYSICAL bodies in the afterlife. if one takes their doctrine directly from the bible, hell is described as being a place away from the sight of god and without his grace, which is supposed to be eternal torment. being given a physical body in heaven would actually run contrary to christian teaching since it would allow for physical pleasures - which are generally deemed as base and even sinful on earth - in the afterlife.
which leads me to
3) presenting the miracles jesus is said to have performed in the healing of the sick as evidence for his divinity or the historicity of his person does not help your case a whit as that is one of the major points AGAINST his alleged divinity. it is a well-known problem in christian theology that while jesus taught that the earthly was base and that the afterlife he would create for all mankind was idyllic beyond description, he went to endless trouble to heal the sick and even went so far as resurrecting the dead. attempts to resolve this have only caused further arguments over the fate of lazarus after his resurrection and whether life of the soul after death would be granted, retroactively, to those who had lived before the time of jesus.
all of which is merely to say: sit down. your interpretation of christian doctrine of the afterlife is, at least, equally as made up. Hitchens merely has the edge on you of having his being scripturally correct.


1)I stand corrected. However, even Platonism is dualistic in nature - saying that there is a separation of the ideal/spiritual and the physical/material. My point is simply that this is not a Biblical idea.

2)Ummm, no. Catholics and most Protestants would agree that they ARE given physical bodies. Otherwise, Christians wouldn't call it Resurrection. Christian teaching never says that physical pleasures are evil. Rather, Christian teaching says that sin is a perversion or twisting of what God designed to be good. Contrary to popular mythology, even the Puritans respected a healthy sexuality. If any of them were having marital problems their first question was always "Are you having enough sex?" Christianity would say it becomes sinful when taken outside of marriage because that takes it out of God's intended design, but otherwise go have fun with it. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. He was often criticized by the Pharisees and religious community because he would go to parties, feasts, and the kinds of people he associated with.

3)Jesus never taught that the earthly was base. Again, earth was very important. Why else would God have created the earth and humanity and then declared it good in Genesis? Why else would Jesus come as a man? One of the fundamental doctrines in Christianity is that Jesus was fully God and fully man. This means that there is NO problem with the sicked being healed, but instead reinforces the idea that the physical IS important.

I really don't know where you're getting these ideas of what Christians believe, but they're very far off. As for Hitchens being scripturally correct, I just watched the video again and he doesn't quote it even once. Instead, he makes generalizations about things the Bible never says. He also misquotes C.S. Lewis.

Libertarianism tastes like chicken.

In reply to this comment by burdturgler:
Well .. there's nothing wrong with capitalism ..
It's just a matter of taste.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
blanky didn't wait more than a coupla seconds before he started picking through the pockets of karaidl's bloated, rotting corpse. Libertarians are like that. They have no sense of decency.

In reply to this comment by burdturgler:
I've always hated the idea of picking over a members bones and feasting upon their videos, and I stuck by that for a long time .. but here I was just wandering through the bowels .. the underbelly .. the downright shit hole of the sift and I stumbled across this piece of sift history.

I've watched many of his sifts get cannibalized.

I'm not a big fan of re-sifting old members shit .. so .. don't give your votes to me. Maybe we can start a charity? Free video to a good home. No video left behind?

Oh hell .. do what you will. <gets rope>
But remember! This is karaidl's sift!
And thus it shall always remain.


edit .. lmao
thanks DFT
oh well tribute didnt work out quite like I intended

Well .. there's nothing wrong with capitalism ..
It's just a matter of taste.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
blanky didn't wait more than a coupla seconds before he started picking through the pockets of karaidl's bloated, rotting corpse. Libertarians are like that. They have no sense of decency.

In reply to this comment by burdturgler:
I've always hated the idea of picking over a members bones and feasting upon their videos, and I stuck by that for a long time .. but here I was just wandering through the bowels .. the underbelly .. the downright shit hole of the sift and I stumbled across this piece of sift history.

I've watched many of his sifts get cannibalized.

I'm not a big fan of re-sifting old members shit .. so .. don't give your votes to me. Maybe we can start a charity? Free video to a good home. No video left behind?

Oh hell .. do what you will. <gets rope>
But remember! This is karaidl's sift!
And thus it shall always remain.


edit .. lmao
thanks DFT
oh well tribute didnt work out quite like I intended

blanky didn't wait more than a coupla seconds before he started picking through the pockets of karaidl's bloated, rotting corpse. Libertarians are like that. They have no sense of decency.

In reply to this comment by burdturgler:
I've always hated the idea of picking over a members bones and feasting upon their videos, and I stuck by that for a long time .. but here I was just wandering through the bowels .. the underbelly .. the downright shit hole of the sift and I stumbled across this piece of sift history.

I've watched many of his sifts get cannibalized.

I'm not a big fan of re-sifting old members shit .. so .. don't give your votes to me. Maybe we can start a charity? Free video to a good home. No video left behind?

Oh hell .. do what you will. <gets rope>
But remember! This is karaidl's sift!
And thus it shall always remain.


edit .. lmao
thanks DFT
oh well tribute didnt work out quite like I intended

I've always hated the idea of picking over a members bones and feasting upon their videos, and I stuck by that for a long time .. but here I was just wandering through the bowels .. the underbelly .. the downright shit hole of the sift and I stumbled across this piece of sift history.

I've watched many of his sifts get cannibalized.

I'm not a big fan of re-sifting old members shit .. so .. don't give your votes to me. Maybe we can start a charity? Free video to a good home. No video left behind?

Oh hell .. do what you will. <gets rope>
But remember! This is karaidl's sift!
And thus it shall always remain.


edit .. lmao
thanks DFT
oh well tribute didnt work out quite like I intended

Henry's brilliant speech
http://www.videosift.com/video/HENRY-V-St-Crispins-Day-speech-Great-Moments-in-Cinema

or if you would rather read it

No, my fair cousin;
If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Look at it from the bright side folks, at least now there's actual tangible irrefutable proof there is no god.

Congratulations on your crown, ye Prince of Debauchery. May your reign last longer than that of Caligula and may your feasts be graced with more male rectal violations than a party at Elton John's house.

>> ^imstellar28:
Wow, revolutionary stuff. Thank jesus I don't have to worry about the DEA raiding my house anymore.
Lets throw a feast with the bread crumbs we've just been fed while ignoring the fact that a candidate who would have legalized all drugs without taxation also ran for president.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ron-Paul-on-Real-Time-with
-Bill-Maher-February-20-2009
For as long as you cheer your low standards, you will be relegated to low standards.


Tax it! Tax the hell out of it!

Wow, revolutionary stuff. Thank jesus I don't have to worry about the DEA raiding my house anymore.

Lets throw a feast with the bread crumbs we've just been fed while ignoring the fact that a candidate who would have legalized all drugs without taxation also ran for president.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ron-Paul-on-Real-Time-with-Bill-Maher-February-20-2009

For as long as you cheer your low standards, you will be relegated to low standards.

Ovoviparity is a great example of how the conditions of a habitat shape even the most fundamental aspects of the survival of species and how these can adapt to the habitat, such as breeding.

Put some birds in that habitat that love to feast on baby chameleons and soon enough these chameleons will breed like mammals.

Crazy documentation of evolution in action.