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55 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

Probably not. Octoberfest runs from Sept 21 to October 6 this year.

Awww I should have known that. I stopped drinking years ago for health reasons but sneak a beer occasionally. I got to have a few at the hofbrauhaus once…

I just realized if it’s true, that’s a Panthers game in the middle of Oktoberfest in the city that invented it.

true fact: Munich is the birthplace of the Nazi movement.

Just watch it, so good

I'd like to make the suggestion that you choose your next dog from a shelter instead of a breeder. I've had both a purebred Scotty and a rescue black lab mutt and loved them both the same. We need to discourage excessive breeding.

My black lab mix is pretty chill, but has been known to tear up a trash can when put out by us leaving or something like that. Sweetest girl ever though  

During not football season I do scale model building. It’s a great hobby that demands patience and practice to achieve really good results but it’s easy to get started in. I just finished this Buckley class WWII destroyer escort in the North Atlantic on convoy patrol. The scale is 1/700 making this ship about 5 and a half inches long.

A good friend of mine was the reactor operator on a submarine doing a ballistic missile patrol when a combination of ill advised contiguous drills with a freak accident caused a scram with a complete loss of propulsion and electrical, and the submarine began to slide backwards into the ocean as they attempted to restart the reactor from battery. You surface guys are so cute.

10 hours ago, onmyown said:

 

Sounds like kind of a pick and choose narrative to keep things simple but the jist is certainly correct.

On 3/21/2024 at 12:24 PM, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

I was raised Greek Orthodox and according to church doctrine I punched my ticket to heaven when I was baptized as an infant, so it's all good G.

I was confirmed in the Catholic church at 17 so it was pretty easy to convert to a Godless heathen after that.

10 minutes ago, Buckeye Homer said:

Well, this is a discussion community and management has invited its guests to engage in discussions on a wide variety of topics in this particular sub-forum.  It's my understanding that guests here aren't required to read, let alone respond (as you did), to posts that are of no interest to them.  There are many threads on many discussion forums that don't interest me.  I don't enter into those discussions to announce that I am disinterested in the subject matter.  I try to follow the mantra of "live and let live" but it appears that you don't share that philosophy.  

Live and Let Live is a great philosophy. Too bad organized religion has been used as a tool for war and propaganda since the beginning of time. It’s also incompatible with Christianity as warped by European civilization for its own purposes.

American Christianity as a whole has morphed from disparate groups fleeing persecution in Europe, to tax free indoctrinations of the idea that allowing whatever interpretation of Christianity in vogue the politicians latch onto should be a government obligation to enforce. The fact that so many of them are fine with the most non Christian person imaginable leading them politically has just reinforced this idea. Read about Bob Jones University, the Supreme Court, and how it led to where we are today. Hint: “Religion forbid mixing races where’s our freedom?” Does Christianity forbid interracial dating? Yes, No, or just something we can ignore? All three most likely!

Mister Rogers Neighborhood should be the new Bible. Fred Rogers was even a minister! The Bible could pared down to one page, not spend any page real estate discussing fabric mixing, and we would all be happy together. And we would not need the promise of a heaven that doesn’t exist to make it that way.

3 minutes ago, Buckeye Homer said:

What is a "con game", the Bible, belief in a creator and an afterlife, or both?

I’m speaking of the Bible specifically as indicated and religion based on a book everyone knows as historical fact was written and edited in ways that make it incompatible with an idea that it’s the infallible “Word of God”. 
 

There is no way I can tell you if there is some kind of spiritual thing like an afterlife or something intelligent that made us. But I’ve come to terms with that, uncomfortable as it is. I get how people need to have that but it’s all mass delusion. I am glad you found this thing to believe in, but there’s as much need to put it out here as I do my belief in the Panthers going to the Superbowl next year, for which I would deserve severe mocking for.

1 minute ago, Happy Panther said:

I believe if you have to declare your religion loudly I'm probably not interested.

There’s even a verse about not doing that that’s on the ignore side list lol

1 hour ago, Buckeye Homer said:

I believe this guy provides a good perspective on some of the commandments regarding "slaves".

 

Who the hell cares it’s a book collected from scraps of other religions and rewritten and reinterpreted by men in power for centuries to adjust to their whims. You want slavery? We gotcha covered. You hate slavery? So do we too! 
 

it’s just a different form of astrology, another con game.

1 hour ago, Buckeye Homer said:

I found the following explanation.

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Most Christians would agree — the levitical law that wins the prize for weird is Deuteronomy 22:11:

“Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.”

Why on earth did God make such an odd prohibition? I used to roll my eyes at this one.

In its ancient context, though, the law had a perfectly logical reasoning. Both the priestly garments and the tabernacle weavings were a combination of wool and linen. The priest’s white undergarment was linen, and the brightly colored vestment was wool. So it was prohibited for laypersons to dress in the same way."

Christians are, by need, experts at picking and choosing rationalizations for what should still be followed and what should not, which most of the time makes their lives a lot easier. 
 

Being gay could be rationalized as easily as this but it’s not.  After all back then people needed to breed more often and earlier because half of them would be dead by 25 or something and they had to have more little Christians back then. We clearly don’t have the need to procreate like that anymore. So why are so many people that consider themselves hardcore Christians not just using the same reasoning? All of a sudden, something we don’t have to fight over anymore!

20 hours ago, Buckeye Homer said:

 

Well, every day is closer to Jesus's return than the previous day.  In watching the world around me it is evident that the spread of extreme ungodliness is growing rapidly.  The U.S. has turned into a modern day Sodom.  I hope Jesus returns today.  We need him.  

Once they invented the butter churn and indoor plumbing women had nothing better to do all day than play the third hole and smoke cigarettes. It’s evident from watching the world around me. Indoor plumbing is the devil’s playground mark my words.

Humans have not discovered any “meaning of life” other than the biological and chemical reasons. We probably never will, most likely because there is none (but again this will not ever be conclusively proven). So we have to make poo up to fill the void.
 

Sorry, but evidence strongly suggests you are not eternal except in your own mind, which is really the only place it needs to be. Trying to give yourself a way to avoid facing that is an important survival mechanism for lots of people.

On 3/11/2024 at 1:43 AM, Buckeye Homer said:

I believe that the meaning of life is to become one with our creator.  How about you?

 

1 Corinthians 15:28 ESV

...that God may be all in all.

Nice to meet someone else who stuck around to the end of Star Trek The Motion Picture 

VGER

There’s been a metric shitton more of “ungodliness” per capita in centuries past than today by far. Last century humans built killing factories for fellow humans. I’ll bet the amount of ungodly fornication has decreased since TV was invented. 

This is because the Flying Spaghetti Monster has finally acknowledged the need for alternative types of Pasta. His Noodly Awesomeness has dropped another Tentacle of Goodness to us for allowing Neil Patrick Harris to continue to be famous.

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On 3/4/2024 at 8:58 AM, rayzor said:

it's overrated. grow your hair long and they don't notice the ear hair so much. btw, it's little more painful than you'd think not as bad as yanking nose hair, but still not a great feeling. will wake you up when you're tired and trying to drive, though.

My morning yesterday, got 5 hairs in one pull.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chiefs-fans-amputations_n_65e9a51be4b024897f7b9f2c
 

Tough guys and alcohol FTW it’s not worth it just to catch a glimpse of Taylor Swift.

On 2/3/2024 at 10:16 AM, TheBigKat said:

He has a glaze stare to him that lights are on but nobody is home. 

Talked to him in person once and this was my impression but clearly he’s pretty sharp. Glad to have him here and can’t wait for him to dent a locker or two.

I’ve had the shingles three times. Believe me, you want the shot.

THANKS FOR WASTING FIVE MINUTES OF MY LIFE TYPING IN FORRESTGUINN.COM

40 minutes ago, strato said:

You heard of never Trumpers? I am a never Wilson. Never. Keep him far away. 

Id imagine our new coaches wife and Wilsons wife would get along great.