Yummy, arguing on the internet!
I haven't done this in years, I'm gonna throw my hat in the Ring now.
I spent countless hours here for years, just enjoying the show. Staying out of all this, in the end at least, unimportant chatter. I came for the videos. Then somebody starts singing about sluts and I end up with an account. What can I say? I like sluts.
I spent much time reading and skipping over the posts of @shinyblurry here. And I still wonder why people feel the need to argue with him in such detail and length. He talks a lot about his faith in God and Jesus but what it come down to is this: He believes in The Bible.
The Bible features God and Jesus and all that but most important of all, it features a heckload of arguments for all kinds of things that are often in direct conflict.
Earlier in this thread, somebody threw a Bible quote about how rape victims have to marry their rapist in @shinyblurry's face and he actually started to explain (correct me if I misunderstood) how it's a punishment for the rapist that he has to pay money and marry the woman if the father chooses that.
I have money to burn. Is Jessica Alba married and where does her dad live? She's super hot and I *need* that kind of punishment. God wants her to fulfill her marital duties, right? If she's not available, I could make a list.
Now, I could argue this IMO rather distasteful idea with him, quoting the Bible back and forth, using other philosophical sources for arguments (I'm sure Hitchens mentioned rape somewhere sometime) but all that doesn't matter.
He believes in The Bible.
If I went back in time and edited early versions to my liking to include gems like "Every man shall also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed no abomination: they shall surely be praised", old shiny here would organize gay pride parades now. Because it's in the book. Whatever is in there, it's the truth. Whatever.
It's the same reason why creationist (I have no idea if old shiny is among them) can not accept evolution. It's not in the book.
They believe in this powerful, omnipotent god, not just in I-can-command-all-sea-animals-god. No, not that Aquaman shit the Greeks had, I'm talking about I-invented-the-universe-god. Get this, this guy did *invent* the universe. And still it was all some Siegfried and Roy BS we *know* to be nonsense. 7 days? Really? Was he in a hurry? Couldn't he wait until we get to the Game of Thrones and Tivo part of History? Was there another Earth to take care of? Contract work?
The idea to credit that dude for creating Evolution itself is too much to ask for these people. The idea that God created a giant machine (the universe) and allowed it to feature other tiny, tiny machines that repair, reproduce and improve themselves (life itself; evolution), is too mindblowing.
Who's more awesome in your book? The god that can do magic or the god who could do magic but opted for inventing everything science has discovered so far?
You know, science failed to disprove the existence of god. They can't do that yet. But they can disprove The Bible, at least parts. And yet, they still side with that darn book.
They don't care about God, the don't even care about Jesus. They care about what they read about them. They care about their perception of it.
Telling @shinyblurry that Jesus was a little, brown, jewish Hippie who got mixed up with existing mythology is like telling a fourteen year old that Ed Cullen is, by his own admission, a creepy murderer who stalks underage girls 80 years his junior. They don't want to hear it because that is not what the book said. They book didn't say that god created the natural laws of physics, chemistry and biology and set them upon the universe to wreak havoc until dinosaurs showed up. The book said it took 7 days. And ribs and dirt.
The Bible says so. Nothing else matters.
That's why it's pointless to argue scripture with him. The book is everything and allows so brilliantly for circular logic and cherry picking. It worked with slavery and how many are willing to argue nowadays in front of a TV camera for it? But gays are not slaves and women can always be picked on. Some wrong ideas are easier to conceal behind a book cover than others.
The Bible is everything to him, God and Jesus are just featured players. In the end they could be replaced by Donald Duck and Batman, they just weren't around back when they started to write it.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't love to hear your thoughts about the latest Daft Punk single, @shinyblurry. Or are you more into Rock music?

>> ^chingalera:

Remember Siegfried and Roy? One of those cats eats through a tube now-Playing with tigers is almost the same as polar bears.


As Chris Rock observed, everyone talking about the trained Tiger suddenly going crazy is wrong. The Tiger was crazy while it was walking on balls and riding bikes around potential food. The tiger finally trying to eat one of them was the tiger finally being a tiger again.

Remember Siegfried and Roy? One of those cats eats through a tube now-Playing with tigers is almost the same as polar bears.

siegfried and roy at home with the dogs

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>> ^Mcboinkens:
>> ^Sagemind:
Happy Fox is Happy...
Cute fox is cute...
Happy sounds sound Happy...
But
A wild animal is a wild animal.
By treating this fox like a pet, they are ensuring that it will never be able to be released back into the wild. An animal with that kind of affection for humans is bound to get itself into trouble (and ultimately killed).
All animals were "wild" once. If this fox was raised from birth in this household, it is no different than a dog, really. I'm sure it has more anti-human instincts or something like that, but I don't really see that in this video. Obviously the owner doesn't have a problem with it, and although it doesn't seem right to me, it's their choice to keep it around.


Says the person who doesn't know what Darwin and evolution are. Sure...it took thousands of years to domesticate other animals. Why shouldn't it take just one year to domesticate a fox?

Take it from someone who owns a Chaussie cat (half wild and half domestic cat), Sagemind is correct, a wild animal is a wild animal. You may be able to temper their behavior but never truly domesticate....just ask Siegfried and Roy.

>> ^spawnflagger:
"Ah that was nothing" reminded me of "it's just a flesh wound!" from monty python.
Lions are not meant to be played with. Look at Siegfried and Roy who worked with huge tigers daily for years and years, and still (nearly fatal) incidents can happen. This reporter had a little too much machismo for going in there in the first place, and it could have ended much worse.
But I'm sure he got laid that night


Does that make this eia?

"Ah that was nothing" reminded me of "it's just a flesh wound!" from monty python.

Lions are not meant to be played with. Look at Siegfried and Roy who worked with huge tigers daily for years and years, and still (nearly fatal) incidents can happen. This reporter had a little too much machismo for going in there in the first place, and it could have ended much worse.

But I'm sure he got laid that night

Seriously, check out that picture, not just Liza but Siegfried and Roy too... get the popcorn, the freakshow is on.

Roy of Siegfried and Roy, the Croc Hunter, now this guy...

Can we please just leave these fucking animals alone? I'm so tired of hearing about the "tragedies" that befall these people who make their millions agitating wildlife.