Random Rants : Someone is wrong on the Internet

[Borachio]

My $2.3 million donation thing was a scam as usual. Bah.

You don't say!

I suspect you didn't believe it wasn't a scam. And you were just so bored at the time that you thought you'd reply simply for the sake of something to do.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Man, it's the worst thing when you've been at work almost the entire day, and only finally at 3 in the afternoon realize you have a tomato sauce stain on your pants.

 

[Joecoolyo]

My headphones are broken. It's the cord again. At least this one lasted almost a year.

I find my headphones have a lifespan of about a year. My current pair are getting close to that age, and I suspect they'll break soon too.

 

[bhavv]

You don't say!

I suspect you didn't believe it wasn't a scam. And you were just so bored at the time that you thought you'd reply simply for the sake of something to do.

Well, this was my reply to them, I'll let you judge if I believed it or not:

'Ermehgerd I gots $2.3 million? Gibe me plox!'.

 

[The_J]

I find my headphones have a lifespan of about a year. My current pair are getting close to that age, and I suspect they'll break soon too.

Basically the only reason why I'd consider buying a bluetooth headset when my current one will brake again (only a half year yet, but I catch the cord way too often with my chair).



Rant: Seriously, there's no time to talk to the girls during Salsa. I hate it. Had a perfect topic to discuss with one of them, got started on it, but got disturbed in the middle. And part of it was basically that she's always busy when I ask her about her weekends, would've been perfect to ask her for the next, but no, the damn class began again.
And I'm pretty sure that I'll not get a real change to go out this WE, because basically none of the guys is around. Goddammit !
EDIT: Sometimes I wished I had Facebook. Would be easy to add all of them as friends, and to strike up a simple conversation, but no, I have my principles :/.

 

[bhavv]

What's your usual internal body temp?

Its normal. I even bought a thermometer to keep check.

 

[Cutlass]

i wish i had a damned memory.

 

[SamSniped]

Thought I finally caught a break, but nope. Apparently I did a large chunk of my research project that I've spent hours working on over the last few weeks incorrectly, and I COMPLETELY screwed up part of a math test, the last one for my 4th quarter grade this year.

Just slightly pissed and frustrated at the moment.

 

[Tee Kay]

I return to find Takhisis ruined another serial thread with his Greek numbering system.

 

[The_J]

My boiler broke down at some point during the day .
Great, means codl shower tomorrow morning .

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My main laptop is in the repair shop. Not sure if it will be fixed or euthanized. And the spare one is giving me problems as well.

 

[SamSniped]

A certain person I have to deal with needs to learn when to remove his head from his posterior. Half the time he doesn't even realize when he's annoying his friends no matter what the situation.

 

[bhavv]

My boiler broke down at some point during the day .
Great, means codl shower tomorrow morning .

As a hopefully soon to be first time house owner, I hope this never happens to me

Though flooding would be worse. Or a roof collapse.

 

[The_J]

Will at some point, no worries .
My parents house got most of the time spared by these things though. Think there were twice problems with the heating, and one a storm damaged the roof, but else nothing, which I could remember (within 25 years).

But hey, at least the company, which is responsible for the heating, is quick, they'll be here in a half hour .

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I think that was my first hangover. The fact that dark-colored alcoholic beverages are notorious for them seems to have escaped my mind last night. Missed an event I paid for, lesson reinforced.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

The preacher at my parents church gave an awful sermon today.

After a few bad jokes and silly anecdotes, he used bad exegesis of poorly translated bible verses to reinforce the traditional doctrine of eternal damnation and dismiss the doctrines of universalism and annihilationism as obviously un-Biblical (despite them both, but especially the latter, having a far stronger scriptural justification, imho).

He explained that hell reflects positively on God's holy character, in that God's infinite love logically demands that he must forever torture anyone who fails to perform the moral duty of loving and accepting Him before the end of this life.

He insisted that the whole message of the gospel depends on accepting that every human completely deserve worse torments than anyone could ever imagine.

He ignored everything about the general bodily Resurrection in the last days to insist that we all enter heaven or hell immediately upon death without any lapse of consciousness and can never change from that state.

He repeated the horrible argument that there cannot be an objective right or wrong unless there is someone who will enforce infinite punishments for violating his own opinion of what right and wrong are.



I passionately disagree with essentially every single thing he said and believe that such teachings are a source of great evil in this world, but I don't know anyone in real life with whom I feel I could safely voice my dissent.

At several points during the sermon I wanted to stand up, denounce his dogmas, and walk out never to return. I'm afraid that would just cause conflict with my family rather than actually changing anyone's mind though.

I have recently been listening to Librivox recordings of some apocryphal texts of Gnostic character, and find that this preacher's focus on sexual immorality and evangelizing through threats of hell fit far better with that heresy than with anything I could ever recognize as authentically christian.

I couldn't really find fault with the sermon he gave on Easter (its focus on the coming bodily resurrection of course is in conflict with his statements from today), but every other sermon I have heard him give this year contained something I knew was completely wrong. In the last sermon it was just him giving an incorrect explanation of what the Aorist tense in Koine Greek indicates and putting to much emphasis on how that effects the meaning of a particular verse, without any great theological significance. More often though, his words reveal what I consider to be a morally bankrupt highly authoritarian worldview.


If this continues, I may have to work up the courage to stop avoiding conflict and explain to my parents that I never want to go back there.

 

[Borachio]

That's kind of sad that you feel a sense of conflict with your family over this.

But at least his sermon had some substance to it. Even if a bit nasty.

I attended a Baptist service last week (don't ask, I was curious, and with someone), and the sermon there lacked content entirely as far as I could tell.

This was the text:

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Which I dutifully read on the overhead projection. And felt I understood quite well, though the NIV kind of threw me a bit. (Not that I'd give Paul the time of day, but never mind.)

And then proceeded to listen to some guy go on about it for over half an hour! (I wouldn't have minded even that if only he'd actually said anything.)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The preacher at my parents church gave an awful sermon today.
...
He explained that hell reflects positively on God's holy character, in that God's infinite love logically demands that he must forever torture anyone who fails to perform the moral duty of loving and accepting Him before the end of this life.

He insisted that the whole message of the gospel depends on accepting that every human completely deserve worse torments than anyone could ever imagine.
...
He repeated the horrible argument that there cannot be an objective right or wrong unless there is someone who will enforce infinite punishments for violating his own opinion of what right and wrong are.

This is sickening. This whole "love me and obey me according to my whims or I will torture you forever" is just abuse, plain and simple.

I passionately disagree with essentially every single thing he said and believe that such teachings are a source of great evil in this world, but I don't know anyone in real life with whom I feel I could safely voice my dissent.

At several points during the sermon I wanted to stand up, denounce his dogmas, and walk out never to return. I'm afraid that would just cause conflict with my family rather than actually changing anyone's mind though.

If this continues, I may have to work up the courage to stop avoiding conflict and explain to my parents that I never want to go back there.

What, realistically, is the worst that could happen? They can't forbid you to have your own opinions.

 

[Arakhor]

This is sickening. This whole "love me and obey me according to my whims or I will torture you forever" is just abuse, plain and simple.

Yes.

 

[Civ'ed]

That really sucks