Charlotte Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Are you listening god...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I disagree... although I've only been on a bendy bus in Sheffield. I suspect it's more exciting being on one in town. I enjoyed the very novel experience of watching the front of the bus disappear around a corner before I did. It was as much fun as you can have on public transport I would wager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 More than a train? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I just got... 528,000,000 for god 420,000,000 for dog 19,500,000 for hamster And : 24,400,000 for supra So Supras are more popular than hamsters In my weekly check up on my followers... 48,200 for Thorin is god. I believe that's more than Scientology. Are you listening god...? I am now, my apologies, I am a very busy deity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I disagree... although I've only been on a bendy bus in Sheffield. I suspect it's more exciting being on one in town. I enjoyed the very novel experience of watching the front of the bus disappear around a corner before I did. It was as much fun as you can have on public transport I would wager. I am currently putting together an effigy of a bus which I intend to burn. In fact I might set fire to one end of the bus, and then watch it burn whilst I go on my merry way in the back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 ...the Humanists have got it spot on. Seems their only "rule" is "treat everybody like you would like to be treated" or something like that. I am not going to go around giving blowjobs! I am currently putting together an effigy of a bus which I intend to burn. In fact I might set fire to one end of the bus, and then watch it burn whilst I go on my merry way in the back. What's wrong with bendy buses? If you had one of sufficient length it would be able to follow the curvature of the Earth and I think we can all agree on the potential awesomeness of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I am not going to go around giving blowjobs! Damn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Damn! Um? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Um? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Fear not... It was a joke . Your not my type... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Your not my type. Um? Joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Fear not... It was a joke . Your not my type... http://www.youre.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Um? Joke. I'm on a drought... im getting desperate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I'm on a drought... im getting desperate! You aren't making me feel any more special! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 You aren't making me feel any more special! Its why I keep strikeing out.... never know when to shut up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Its why I keep strikeing out.... never know when to shut up Or keep you're mouth closed- as it were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 or keep you're mouth closed- as it were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Anyway this is the bendy-bus thread, but best of luck with your exploits and I do hope you *do well* soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbonut Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 They've been using bendy buses in Athens for years, I got used to them when I was living over there as a student. In fact, it was fun standing on the bit in the middle where it bends, in a funny-peculiar sort of way Anything that makes a bus journey interesting has got to be a bonus so as an end user I think there kinda cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanchan Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Hmm. We have: I am not going to go around giving blowjobs! Damn! Followed by: I'm on a drought... im getting desperate! Its why I keep strikeing out.... never know when to shut up Or keep you're mouth closed- as it were. so as an end user All I'm saying is.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 But surely the word of a priest is third hand at best? It's got to be at least 99% of priests who don't claim to have spoken to god (or God, I suppose). Hearing someone who has actually done research and found something out and 'proven' it is more believable to me than someone saying they happen to believe in something that they read, written by someone who thinks they knew a person that might have spoken to god!! Interesting. I guess I was saying that for most of us, science might as well be religion. In both cases, people just blindly accept what they are told by 'experts', without really being equipped to question. I would put myself in that category. I've had a crack at quantum mechanics, astrophysics, cosmology etc over the years, but the blunt truth is that I'm too thick to understand anything but a basic outline of the evidence. As for the second-hand vs. third hand thing, I think this is where my analogy fails. I think a lot of priests and a fair proportion of christians would say that they do have a direct experience of God. That may not mean that they talk to him, but that they have a strong feeling of connection with something. So it's not necessarily third hand. I guess the distinction between the religious and scientific evidence is one of public vs. private experience. If I say: "This table is 1m long", that's public knowledge which we can all verify, provided we agree what a metre is. That is, I guess, a scientific statement. But if I say "This table moves me like no other table", that is a private experience which we can never verify. It's beyond the realms of scientific investigation. It doesn't necessarily mean that it is false, though. Note that Christian philosophers don't only take the line 'you have to experience God yourself'. They use a host of other arguments that don't depend on this e.g. 'intelligent design' (deeply flawed, but makes reference to empirical evidence), miracles and other unexplained phenomena, patterns in nature, ontological arguments, arguments from moral sense etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 But if I say "This table moves me like no other table", that is a private experience which we can never verify. Is that something you're likely to say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Not heard of any Humanists cutting people heads off, blowing people up, etc etc. Plenty of atheists have, though. Stalin, for example, managed to become one of the greatest mass-murderers in history without bending the knee to any higher power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Is that something you're likely to say? I say it almost every day to my 'special table', after making love to it. I have a life-size picture of Bob Carolgees pasted to it. I make a honking noise like a goose throughout the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I say it almost every day to my 'special table', after making love to it. I have a life-size picture of Bob Carolgees pasted to it. I make a honking noise like a goose throughout the process. Brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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