Wtf? What happened to the line.... "Mr Hankey the Christmas poo, he loves me, I love you, therefore vicariously he loves you, even if you're a Jew"?!

I still have a Mr Hankey plush I use as a Christmas tree topper.

I stand corrected.
I do recall reading that he did say, at one point, that aside from 'putting God above all else', the golden rule (treat others as you would have them treat you) is the most important thing to learn from religion...this seems to be at odds with supporting the bigotry and hatred of the 'law' (of god), although as I read it (what little I've read of it) the bible should be for telling the reader how they should act, not how they should force everyone else to act. I guess I ignored those parts that said you have to stone the infidels and such. :-)

There are three parts to the Old Testament law, civil, ceremonial and moral. The civil and ceremonial laws were given to nation of Israel only, not to Christians. The ordinances God gave to Israel regarding civil judgments, food and drink and the like are not applicable to Christians.

EDIT: And what happened to 'he died to absolve us of our sins'? If that's supposed to work, then there's no sin after the crucifixion, no? Is that something else I'm mistaken about, or was it a one time absolution only for those present at that time, with everyone else still hosed? If sin is gone, why care if your son is 'doing it' wrong, he'll still go to heaven, right?

Jesus provided what is called the "substitutionary atonement". Meaning, that Jesus took your place (and mine) on the cross and received the punishment for sin that we both deserve. He took the entirety of the punishment on Himself and through His sacrifice we can receive forgiveness for sins. He suffered and died vicariously for us, and through faith in Him we receive a blank slate and attain a perfect standing before God. His righteousness is credited to our account as if it were our own, though there is nothing we could do to earn it; It is only received through faith.

Jesus provided the atonement for all sin, but it isn't universally applied; It must be received by faith. When you stand before God and account for your life, you will be judged for your sins in one of two ways; either by your righteousness or Christs.

Yeah, I think what you were watching there was the reignition of common decency. The guy realises that parading this kids shitty life around for the vicarious pleasure of the audience just isn't right.

Though I don't think this is stupid, one does not get to simply make up new definitions of words.

That's what this lady is doing. She is wrong.

sym·pa·thy
[sim-puh-thee]
noun - harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
or
the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another, especially in sorrow or trouble; fellow feeling, compassion, or commiseration.

em·pa·thy
[em-puh-thee]
noun - the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.

Sympathy does not imply disconnect as she is trying so desperately to redefine. Rather, just the opposite. Though empathy is a very important thing to convey to another, it is an effort to TRY to understand one's feeling. Sympathy is the ability to ACTUALLY feel the other.

In a career field of caring (e.g. mental health therapist), sympathy can be dangerous mainly because the over-identification of an emotion with someone can lead to enmeshment and lack of perspective along with a difficult time centering one's self and self-caring after the other has left.

*promote *quality
@kulpims, I'll just pretend that your queue is my queue and live vicariously through your sifts, mkay?

Haha, I actually tried that for a little while because yeah, it bothered me how insincere the whole thing can be and I hate doing that whole dance. Thing is if you unload fully on your partner then it puts them in an awkward postion because they feel they have to reciprocate your full disclosure when perhaps they don't trust you sufficiently. At least thats the way I see it (and its why I stopped being a dick to people who were just trying to be polite )

The worst small talk? 1st year of university. You meet a lot of new people which I was mostly fine with. What bothered me endlessly was the same few questions. Where are you from. What course are you on etc etc. Maybe its selfish of me, but first I got bored of asking them and then I got bored of answering. Eventually I started asking people what their favorite flavour of icecream was (lemon sorbet btw) just to, you know, break routine. I guess you might call it an ice(cream)breaker and tbh, it worked quite well. Oh, and if somebody answers vanilla then you need to keep that person close. They are the best kinds of people (and there aren't very many vanillas). Maybe I don't really have a problem with small talk, I just have a problem with boring small talk

Interesting to note that "How do you do?" is traditionally reciprocated with another "How do you do?". I mean, its seems totally absurd, its almost like the question is rhetorical - it certainly doesn't expect an answer. Its just a polite courtesy and to do anything but show the same courtesy back would be considered rude - how self absorbed of you to actually answer! The conversation might evem bloom into discourse on the state of the weather (the last refuge of the unimaginative .

Oh, and it kind of is stupid though SveNitoR. Don't worry, I don't consider myself stupid or somehow broken in this regard, but I really can't see how anxiety serves any purpose. Obsessing over the tiny details of a conversation only serves to make me look stiff and robotic, like some sort of psychopath trying to remember how to smile with their eyes. I've heard theories that the reason alcohol is so embedded in our society is because on some level we actually sort of need it to overcome this inhibition. Unfortunately I don't drink, although I have found a sort of vicarious empathy - I inherit the same hibition if I am with people who are a bit buzzed, just none of the memory loss (a blessing ang a curse). Anyway, thats quite tangental. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm quite comfortable being an introvert and while anxiety certainly bothers me and stresses me out more than I'd like I don't let it paralyse me.

He'd be a composer if it was made in software prior to performance. Not a very good composer but a composer nonetheless. I'll give way and admit that since it is music then he is some form of musician. Not a skilled one but still a musician.

Composers are not performance musicians. They are still "musicians" in the sense that they manipulate music, but they do it vicariously. Most composers play one or two instruments but the instruments are not required to compose the music - it goes straight from head to paper.

Is this music? Yes and no. It's nice enough, but it's several orders of magnitude away from say Debussy or Chopin or Bach.

Your organ analogy is flawed (interestingly enough I lived above a full pipe organ for two years - true story). Firstly most modern organs have two keyboards and one pedal board with more keys in total than a piano. They also have a large range of stops that control more notes. Secondly each key activates one note - the same as a piano. It just has no attenuation. So the exact same rules apply except loudness is controlled by a different method.

If he had a 10x10 keypad with each pad assigned exactly one note a semitone apart from the next pad and he played a piece on it then it would be showing a similar level of skill.

Pfft. As if I need an iPhone to live my live vicariously through the internet.

so alone.

BUSTED, BIIIIITCH!!
(living vicariously through LCK with not half the balls or decorum!)

Wound tight: Living vicariously and obsessively through their daughter.....Look like perfectionist wackos filled with more neurosis than a ship's bilge is full of bacteria. I would use this footage to teach a psych 101 class.

Poor girl.

I live in Colorado Springs, so ever since I first got an Aerobie, I've wanted to throw it off Pikes Peak just to see how far it would go... I shall live vicariously through this gentleman...

For now...

Voting for this poll ended in a tie between Pierce a planet and spin it vicariously and Use it to ask silly questions.

mmmmmmmmm... bibley!>> ^dag:

Well if you're going to summon @shinyblurry - you need the right incantation. Mecca lecca high, mecca hiney ho!>> ^shuac:
I can't wait for shinyblurry to come and tell us why vicarious redemption isn't immoral. Or how vicarious redemption isn't at all like scapegoating (assuming scapegoating is bad). Or how the term "vicarious redemption" doesn't really apply to Jesus (assuming vicarious redemption is bad).
Basically, anything to do with Christianity is good. And any and all criticism of it is bad.
^ That's what I can't wait for shinyblurry to come and do.
And quote scripture. That's my favorite.

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Well if you're going to summon @shinyblurry - you need the right incantation. Mecca lecca high, mecca hiney ho!>> ^shuac:

I can't wait for shinyblurry to come and tell us why vicarious redemption isn't immoral. Or how vicarious redemption isn't at all like scapegoating (assuming scapegoating is bad). Or how the term "vicarious redemption" doesn't really apply to Jesus (assuming vicarious redemption is bad).
Basically, anything to do with Christianity is good. And any and all criticism of it is bad.
^ That's what I can't wait for shinyblurry to come and do.
And quote scripture. That's my favorite.

I can't wait for shinyblurry to come and tell us why vicarious redemption isn't immoral. Or how vicarious redemption isn't at all like scapegoating (assuming scapegoating is bad). Or how the term "vicarious redemption" doesn't really apply to Jesus (assuming vicarious redemption is bad).

Basically, anything to do with Christianity is good. And any and all criticism of it is bad.

^ That's what I can't wait for shinyblurry to come and do.

And quote scripture. That's my favorite.