in treehouse of horror xx (don't have a cow, mankind"), the simpsons parody of 28 days later and i am legend, bart simpson is the "saviour", the source of the anti-mutation vaccine.
the soldier explains that men have to eat his flesh to get saved:.
marge apparently disagrees:.
In Treehouse of Horror XX (Don't Have a Cow, Mankind"), the Simpsons parody of 28 Days Later and I am Legend, Bart Simpson is the "saviour", the source of the anti-mutation vaccine. The soldier explains that men have to eat his flesh to get saved:
Marge apparently disagrees:
ooops ...
Other examples?
i find him very confusing and difficult to figure out sometimes.
evidently, peter did also.
anyways, i find him a bit harsh and unloving in the way he deals with the congregations and i was shocked how he rebuked with peter.
I agree with what romanian philosopher Emil Cioran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran) says about Paul in his book La tentation d'exister (The Temptation to Exist):
(translation mine)
We will never blame him enough for having turned Christianity into an inelegant religion, by introducing in it the more detestable Old Testament traditions: intolerance, brutality, provincialism. With what indiscretion does he meddle in things he shouldn’t be concerned with, things he doesn’t have a clue about! His remarks on virginity, abstinence and marriage are frankly repugnant. Responsible of our religious and moral prejudices, he has set the norms of stupidity and multiplied the restrictions that still paralyze our instincts.
Of the ancient prophets he doesn’t have the lyricism nor the elegiac and cosmic accent, rather the sectarian spirit and what they had of bad taste, jabber, rambling. His interest for the citizens habits is immense. As soon as he talks about them, you sense him vibrating with naughtiness. Obsessed by the city, by the one he wants to destroy and by the one he wants to build, he cares less about the relationship between man and God than he does about the relationship among men. Read carefully his famous Epistles: you will never find an instant of relaxation and gentleness, of meditation and nobility; everything in them is furor, anxiety, cheap hysteria, incomprehension for knowledge, for the solitude of knowledge […] Sins, rewards, an accounting of vices and virtues. A religion without questions, an orgy of anthropomorphism. As to the God he offers us, I blush; disqualifying him is a duty […]
In embracing a doctrine that was foreign to him, a convert thinks he has made a step toward himself, while he is just trying to elude his problems. To escape lack of self-confidence – his chief feeling – he offers himself to the first cause chance presents to him. Once he possesses the “truth”, he will avenge himself over the others of his past insecurities, of his past fears. Such was the case of the emblematic converts, St. Paul. His magniloquent poses hardly concealed an anxiety that he tried to overcome without succeeding.
As with all newbies, he believed that with his new faith he would have changed his nature and won his hesitations, which he took care to say nothing about to his hearers. His game no longer deceives us. […] True, those were times when people looked for “truth”, they did not care about cases. If in Athens the apostle was ill-welcomed, if he found an environment insensitive to his ramblings, this is because there people still discussed and skepticism, far from abdicating, kept on defending his positions. Christian silliness could not catch on there; but it would seduce Corinth, city of slums, hostile to dialectics.
Common people want to be dazed by invectives, threats and revelations, by resounding talks: they love charlatans.
St. Paul was one, the more inspired, the more gifted, the more shrewd of antiquity. We still perceive the echoes of the noise he made. […] The sages of his time recommended silence, resignation, abandon, all impracticable things; more clever, he came with tasty recipes: those which save the mob and demoralize the frail ones. His revenge over Athens was complete. Had he triumphed there, perhaps his hate would have sweetened. Never had a setback a graver outcome. And if we are mutilated, struck, crucified pagans, pagans passed through a deep, memorable vulgarity, a two thousand years old vulgarity, we owe it to that setback. […]
A rotten civilization comes to terms with its evil, it loves the virus that corrodes it, no longer has self-respect, it leaves a St. Paul around… By this it declares itself defeated, worm-eaten, terminated. The carcass’ smell attracts and excites the apostles, cupid and talkative buriers.
A world of magnificence and splendor surrendered before the aggressiveness of these “enemies of the Muses”, of these madmen who, to this day, inspire a panic mixed with aversion. Paganism treated them with irony, a harmless weapon, too noble to submit a mob reluctant to nuances. The refined one who reasons cannot measure against the obtuse who prays.
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart" – H. L. Mencken
i know i have threatened to do this before, like when i first left.
but i am thinking of going to college.
this time, i feel determined.
I went back to college at 41 a few months after leaving the borg, graduated at 44 magna cum laude (working 36 hours a week and caring for family all the while). You can make it ATJ.
Behe
http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/10/21/which-religion-should-i-follow/.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=5&id=31423.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6881486.ece.
source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/10/its-global-handwashing-day-do-you-know-where-your-soap-is.html.
it's global handwashing day!
(do you know where your soap is?
October 15, 2009 | 12:18pm
Today, Global Handwashing Day is being celebrated in 70 countries around the world, with ritual hand-washing clinics, children singing about the disease-preventing benefits of hand-washing and, of course, a heartwarming study to explore what messages work best in promoting the use of soap in hand-washing. (Because -- join in with me here -- water doesn't kill germs; soap does!)
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine spent several months leading up to last year's Global Handwashing Day peering through a camera's lens at men and women using a service station's restroom at a major crossroads in Britain. Their challenge: to gauge not only how many people actually use soap when they wash their hands, but also what messages -- flashed onto LED screens at the entrance to the toilets -- will most effectively induce people to use soap when they wash their hands?
They have gleaned these truths about men, women and hand-washing.
Men are basically gross: Fewer than a third of them (32%) used soap when they washed their hands -- and those were the ones that actually washed their hands. And they responded best to hand-washing-reminder messages that invoked disgust, such as "Wash it off now or eat it off later." Eeeuw.
Women are not as gross, though there is room for improvement. Fully twice as many women (64%) used soap. And women seemed especially receptive to messages that were "reminders" of good-hygiene measures they were presumed to know already, such as the always appropriate "Water doesn't kill germs...." (In fact, any messages that included the word "germs" were the most successful in inducing soapy hand-washing in women, but least successful in doing so in men.)
The most effective message in inducing people to use soap in washing their hands was, "Is the person next to you washing with soap?" The authors of the study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, suggest that this message appeals to a viewer's sense of shame: If the person next to me is paying attention, I'd better not get caught dirty-handed.
This blogger has to wonder whether the two genders do not process this message differently as well: For men, "Is the person next to you using soap?" may be an invitation to a contest in the cleanliness arena; for women, it may be a reminder that one must set the right example to those who will be watching.
Either way, in these days of novel H1N1 flu and all manner of predatory pathogens, the message is clear: Celebrate hand-washing day every day -- use soap! Here's a boring government-issued primer on how best to do it, but you can check this funky version out, or better yet, tune in to this one from Bill Nye the Science Guy. And a recent New York Times article explores the oft-asked question: Is hot water better than cold?
-- Melissa Healy
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/found+guilty+negligence+home+circumcision/2108197/story.html.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/nyregion/10elevator.html?_r=2.
