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Say what you will about Obama, I have no idea who and what he is or represents and I'd vote for him just for a chance to ride his cock. I love how he's a better actor than he is any sort of leader, just follow his lead and the world will ooze jelly donuts-filling and Pop Tart pastries in your favorite flavor will fall right off the trees and into your toaster!

So let's keep the spirit of complete douch-nozzle, spit-popping cuntitude going shall we?? (all five of my buddy-crew here who can do nothing else including think, without being told how and what to think about) y'all chime-in.

Which sift asshole piece of shit will be the first to think for themselves without having the television dictate how much of a complete cunt to be, and try to squash and render this asshole's newsspeak into the fertilizer it was meant to be, exposing for what it truly is, pusillanimous, robotic-script drivel, who can pssibly and effectively change the subject?

Lantern? Bobknight? Surely QM has something to say that I can call him out simply to shit upon him? ME, ME, ME, motherfuckers, nothing else matters but FUCKING ME!

Or will one of the few people who knows me better than I know myself, dismiss it reiterating how the parties are all the same in it's usual style of calling shit for what it is, identifying correctly, the crux of the biscuit???

(In case you haven't heard voodoovovovoovo, choggie ain't around here anymore. He was fired.)

*edit: OOPS! Forgot to hit the sar-chasm button. <(lying)

*sar-chasm

Nice selective quoting.

"The classical (Roman) writers affirm that they offered on great occasions human sacrifices; as for success in war or for relief from dangerous diseases. Cæsar has given a detailed account of the manner in which this was done. "They have images of immense size, the limbs of which are framed with twisted twigs and filled with living persons. These being set on fire, those within are encompassed by the flames." Many attempts have been made by Celtic writers to shake the testimony of the Roman historians to this fact, but without success."

We have no reason to doubt the testimony of their contemporaries. And if you want more evidence, how about national geographic:

Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibalism.html

It's actually far worse than I thought. Far from a quaint little holiday where people mourned the dead, it was sick pagan bloodbath.

What's clear is that you're more interested in a convenient truth;; you said it yourself, you skim over the evidence in apathy, and just want to believe what you want. Doesn't change the facts though; Halloween celebrates an evil day where a bunch of savages worshipped demons, sacrificed human beings and apparently ate their flesh. I'm sorry, but there is nothing there for Christians to celebrate. Pat Robertson is 100 percent correct.

>> ^pho3n1x:
Show me where, in your first link, it mentions human sacrifice...
Instead, don't. I'll quote it for you:
That the Druids offered sacrifices to their deity there can be no doubt. But there is some uncertainty as to what they offered, and of the ceremonies connected with their religious services we know almost nothing.
Also, quoting the other article you mentioned regarding bonfires:
It comes from the contraction of bone fire, where the Celts used to burn animal bones to ward off evil spirits.
Try harder.
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Catholic Mass, to my knowledge, is not based on pagan sacrifice at all, but rather using bread and wine as a "bloodless" sacrifice honoring the crucifixion of Christ. Granted, I only skimmed the articles because I'm not really that interested in the whole ordeal, but it seems to me like you don't like to read anything other than the pamphlets your church of choice provides about each secular holiday anyway, so I'm probably just wasting my time.
You can believe what you want to believe, let me believe what I want to believe.
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Religion is like a penis.
It's awesome that you have one.
It's awesome that you're proud of it.
But please stop whipping it out and waving it around in public.
It's not any better or more important than mine.
>> ^shinyblurry:
Druids worshipped baal, engaged in human sacrifice:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_bulfinch_chxlia.htm\

This was not a wholesome little get together, and it did involve blood sacrifice. The root of bonfire is "bonefire" http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_origin_of_the_word_bonfire
No, not all spirits are demons; God is a spirit, and angels are spirits. Yet, many people have this idea of a dichotomy between "good" spirits and evil spirits, but in reality they're almost all evil spirits. Any spirit not sent by God is a demon. Spirits impersonating the dead are demons, spirits which claim to be other gods are demons, the spirits people channel are demons, etc. The astral realm is owned by Satan and populated by demons pretending to be every kind of fantasy someone could imagine, and many people wouldn't. There is no Goddess, there are no ghosts, there aren't any of these psychic manifestations. It all stems from Satan. Satan is a being, not a concept, as real as you and me, and he is the deceiver of this entire world.
I agree, Catholic mass is sacrifice, because it is pagan ritual the church took on as its own. It has nothing to do with God, but it does represent the union of the sun and moon, as per babylonian mystery religions.
By and large, people who practice sorcery, divination, channeling, "psychic" abilities, and the like are all doing Satans will. They all come out in droves to celebrate this evil day, to worship other gods and practice their witchcraft; basically to do all the things which God commanded us not to do. The only involvement Christians should have on this is to pray for those who are deceived.
>> ^pho3n1x:
I think you're misconstruing the use of the word "sacrifice" to summon imagery of blood sacrifice (ie Indiana Jones).
Not all sacrifice is macabre or evil. Catholic Mass is a sacrifice.
I've not read a single source regarding Samhain/Halloween/All Saints Eve, even one from "your side" of the argument, that alludes to human sacrifice.
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Projects/Reln91/Blood/s
acrificemainpage.htm
Besides, "pagan" is a blanket term. The ones you are trying to illustrate are Druids. They would make animal sacrifices, which were then immediately consumed as part of the festival.
Satan does not exist in the religion which you are misunderstanding. Satan is a Christian idea.
And I still assert that spirits are not all demons. Is the Holy Spirit a demon?
Before you try to correct me, I also have a lot of personal experience in these matters, and I know that there are some misguided individuals. By and large though, "pagan" religions (as paganism is not in-and-of-itself a religion) do not share these views and simply see the matter for what it is. Animals and crops are harvested for the coming winter, and tribute is paid to "the death of a god", not to "a god of death".

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>> ^ForgedReality:

People, take the fucking masks off. SARS is the LAST thing you should be worrying about.
How about your house falling into a sinkhole; or getting sick when a sewage line breaks and ruptures up through the street; or a broken water main flooding the city; or a building falling on you.. Oh and let's not forget radiation everywhere, and how you can't eat any of your own food anymore....
Look, no offense and all, but sucks to be you, bro.
edit - Isn't it spelled "liquefy?" >_>


Many people wear the masks whenever they're going to be out in public. It's not SARS so much as any number of things that might be floating around in a city where so many people live so close to one another. And disease outbreaks follow natural disasters.

People, take the fucking masks off. SARS is the LAST thing you should be worrying about.

How about your house falling into a sinkhole; or getting sick when a sewage line breaks and ruptures up through the street; or a broken water main flooding the city; or a building falling on you.. Oh and let's not forget radiation everywhere, and how you can't eat any of your own food anymore....

Look, no offense and all, but sucks to be you, bro.

edit - Isn't it spelled "liquefy?" >_>

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Wait is this really from Canada? No I ask seriously. Just about anyone who lives here for more then a month already knows that you're totting around with a joint or two it's no big deal. Ah...that big concert in Toronto after that SARS thing, I was there. Open air and you could see the haze, it was pretty damn funky.

The only other thing I can think of is this is the stupidest person in Canada, and that's saying a lot.

HAHHAHAHAH!! SARS mask.

i had to learn how to rappel in SAR training.first time is un-nerving but its actually kind of fun.once you get over the whole stomach in your throat deal.

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and some girls from eastern europe singing about how much they like Van der Sar. what i wanted to ask, what language is this? russian? polish?

The biggest thing with any of these "newsworthy" epidemics is to keep it in perspective. The only reason why anyone cares is because the media tells us to be afraid.

This swine flu has killed around 100 people, SARS killed 775 people in 2002, the h5n1 (avian) flu has killed less than 300. These are things to be taken seriously but there are much more important things to worry about:
More than 500,000 people die worldwide every year from the common flu. Malaria kills 1-3 million a year (and infects 350-500 million). Tuberculosis kills more than that.

Unfortunately sometimes the media gets wind of a particularly interesting strain (by which I mean one that has higher chance of killing people in developed countries) and they go out of their way to scare everyone.

Maybe instead of scaring us with small-time diseases the media should be attacking figures like the Pope who are helping AIDS/HIV kill 3 million people each year.

>> ^vairetube:
... no one remembers .. THE SARS?
remember how that went no where because it is... just not that big a deal?
you're more likely to die from reading this post then to even get swine flu.



I always thought it went nowhere because it was publically recognized, proper precautions were taken and it was swiftly dealt with?

I'm certainly not going to argue that the media does not carry these things too far, but this is the among the sort of things the news industry (is supposed to) exist for.