Posts by SacrificialLoon

Haha, that's a good one. I used to read The Onion every week a few years ago though their articles started getting pretty dull. Some of their new video articles are good though.

Here's one you might like: U.S. Out of My Uterus vs. We Must Deploy Troops To Jessica Linden's Uterus Immediately

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Can't sell your house? Time to bury Joe

by startingover in

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So does the bigger statue sell the house faster or for more money? Maybe you need a bigger Joe for a bigger house? I bet the golden ratio applies somehow when determining how much Joe you need to sell your house.

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Rock. Paper. Scissors. Turnip? Satan?

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someone has come up with a chart for a rps game with 101 different items.. .

rps-101

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Someone has come up with a chart for a RPS game with 101 different items.

RPS-101

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WERE HERE ANY DYSFUNCTIAL FAMILIES IN YOUR CONGREGATIOON?

by badboy in

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any takers?

SacrificialLoon

Oh yeah, mine was quite disfunctional.

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Did you taste the "Goodness of Jehovah's Organisation" ?

by truthseeker in

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if you can answer yes to the following questions.... .

1) did you have a full share in the ministry?

2) did you have a desire to do more?

SacrificialLoon

"It tastes like burning." - Ralph Wiggum

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Who actually buys all the political games

by free2beme in

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democrats can do no wrong.

republicans know the only right decisions.

democrats are more intelligent.

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I posted this in another thread, but it got lost in something about home loans. Over 200 years ago George Washington had a thing or two to say about political parties:

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.

You can read the rest of his farewell address here.
A brilliant man, we were lucky to have him as our first president.

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Going under the knife tomorrow morning :S

by Elsewhere in

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i'm not a big fan of surgery.

i always exhaust all non-surgical options before doing it.

i know enough about medicine to know that surgery is effectively a controlled injury... and that makes me nervous.

SacrificialLoon

Wow, a literal application of "Up your nose with a rubber hose.".

Sounds like quite the procedure, good to hear that things are on the mend.

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Did You Ever Think The Demons Were Bothering You?

by minimus in

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when i was younger i used to have terrible convulsions and hear "voices".

my mom was convinced that it must be "the demons".

the congregation prayed over me and eventually i went to a doctor that was able to figure out why i was so sickly and presto: everyone's prayers were answered..

SacrificialLoon

When I was a kid I got rid of my "Garbage Pail Kids" trading cards because I thought they were posessed. :(