Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Aside from your wingnut mind, what can you point to that makes you "pretty sure?" [about God and toast]

Um, Thurgreed, I think that they call it "faith" for a reason.

Apropos of nothing, I can't remember the last Sunday I went to Mass, but I ate a tuna sandwich today, and will keep the next few Fridays meat-free. It's obviously some sort of an atavistic residue of brainwashing in childhood thingy, but I just can't help but do the Lent stuff.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Can you pm me the word, please?*

No need. It's been translated into German for safekeeping, with the usual, um, lengthening effect.

Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I don't think you saw this part of his post: "I have toyed with buying a bottle from Eastern Europe."

Actually, I did. The stuff that you CAN sell here is generally imported, also, but is still not the "real" stuff.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Um, Thurgreed, I think that they call it "faith" for a reason.

I don't think so. I have faith in a deity, but I don't think my dad is toast because he doesn't. Perhaps it is her specific faith.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I've tried some that was purportedly the real stuff, though I have no real way of knowing. No more impact than sort of being drunk and stoned at the same time. Which makes sense given the active ingredient is the wormwood and, of course, the alcohol content. I can still see. It was sort of cool watching it dissolve in the sugar though. And if you're not a Anise fan, you're not going to like the taste. Sort of Zambuca like in taste.

Shit, I'll stick to pot and bourbon. That sounds wretched. Sambuca might be the most vile liquor on the planet.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Shit, I'll stick to pot and bourbon. That sounds wretched. Sambuca might be the most vile liquor on the planet.

I have had absinthe. I think you could get it in Canada for a while. My boyfriend had it. Very trippy. Gross taste though and awful - can't move hangover.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Usually you don't sound as stupid as SD, but you have surpassed him here.

Aside from your wingnut mind, what can you point to that makes you "pretty sure?"

TM

Her faith is not very strong, or she would be certain that you'll burn in hell. Because of her lack of faith, I'm pretty sure she's toast also.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I don't think so. I have faith in a deity, but I don't think my dad is toast because he doesn't. Perhaps it is her specific faith.

Right. And so when one says that one believes that God will send all those who reject Christ someplace other than the the good place, and yet one cannot "prove" that that will happen (other than by citation to various parts of the Bible), that is faith.

Edited (a second time) to add that that is why TM's question is kind of pointless. I mean, essentially he asked "other than your faith in something that can't be proven, how can you prove what you believe?"

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I have had absinthe. I think you could get it in Canada for a while. My boyfriend had it. Very trippy. Gross taste though and awful - can't move hangover.

Trippy like mushroom trippy or just "my body feels rubbery" trippy.

If I'm sending away to Europe and probably getting myself placed on some DEA watch list, I'd like to see the colors dance like the cover of Yoshimi Fights the Pink Robots.*

* I do not recommend this album with drugs. Its "too much."

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Trippy like mushroom trippy or just "my body feels rubbery" trippy.

trippy like "I can't feel my face and have lost all sense of proportion". I don't get like that from mushrooms.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Right. And so when one says that one believes that God will send all those who reject Christ someplace other than the the good place, and yet one cannot "prove" that that will happen (other than by citation to various parts of the Bible), that is faith.

So if i tell my friends I have a twenty inch cock and a Gulfstream IV praked behing my place, I "fabricating", but if I tell them they'll go to a mythical "hell" tended by a fallen angel if they don't follow the edicts of a 2000 year old book, that's "faith." Got it. Next time a judge accuses me of playing fast and loose with the record, I'll say "Your honor, I'm just faithful."

"No, that wasn't perjury. I was being faithful."

Fuck, I like this faith gig already. Sign me up for bible class.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
What happened to the lizard licking?

I have a monkey friend who might be interested...

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
So if i tell my friends I have a twenty inch cock and a Gulfstream IV praked behing my place, I "fabricating", but if I tell them they'll go to a mythical "hell" tended by a fallen angel if they don't follow the edicts of a 2000 year old book, that's "faith." Got it. Next time a judge accuses me of playing fast and loose with the record, I'll say "Your honor, I'm just faithful."

"No, that wasn't perjury. I was being faithful."

Fuck, I like this faith gig already. Sign me up for bible class.

I was going with 2b from the Merriam-Websters online dictionary, but whatever works for you.


Main Entry: 1faith
Pronunciation: 'fAth
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural faiths /'fAths, sometimes 'fA[th]z/
Etymology: Middle English feith, from Old French feid, foi, from Latin fides; akin to Latin fidere to trust -- more at BIDE
1 a : allegiance to duty or a person : LOYALTY b (1) : fidelity to one's promises (2) : sincerity of intentions
2 a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) : complete trust
3 : something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious beliefs
synonym see BELIEF

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Malkovich is back in town???

I don't know, but if he is and Gwinky's up for it, I won't rule out a threesome.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You left out fat.

TM

[Anticipated response?: No, yo' mama is invited too.]

Not after a 40 day romp with Gwinky.

Bitch.