Going Catholic

[The One and Only...]

This is religion too, right?

I'm going Catholic. Make baby Sethomas proud.

I'm still wanking and having premarital sex though. Fuck all that.

[kahljorn]

THIS THREAD IS NOW ABoUt ME

I THINK IM A SWELL GUY BUT MY PROBLEM IS THAT I HAVE TOO BIG OF A HEART

AGREE/DISAGREE?

[executioneer]

religion is for suckers

[Zhukov]

:lol

OAO piss off.

[Pentegarn]

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q1/Pentegarn/Untitled-2.jpg

[Grislygus]

KALHJORN I THINK YOUR A SWELL GUY TOO and i think that d-cup heart implants are a good thing if they MAKE YOU HAPPY

[Colonel Flagg]

I LIKE YOU TOO, KAHL! :love

[Colonel Flagg]

This thread is about Kahljorn, right?

[Geggy]

I stopped going to church when massachusetts repealed alcohol sales ban on sundays.

[Sam]

I'M TURNING CATH-O-LIC I THINK I'M TURNING CATH-O-LIC I REALLY THINK SO

[Esuohlim]

Loving Jesus is kind of gay, dude. Don't fall for it.

[Fathom Zero]

I'm still wanking and having premarital sex though. Fuck all that.

It's fine as long as you feel really, really guilty about it. Or at least say you do.

[kahljorn]

You guys do know that you can get infractions for derailing threads, right?

WELL JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND

[executioneer]

you can also get put into thread backups for that :(

[Pentegarn]

^^^

this = truth

[kahljorn]

BANANA

[kahljorn]

Great things are done when men and mountains meet!

[executioneer]

kxoO5yrabfc

ONLY CATHOLIC INSTEAD OF MOBILE

[Pentegarn]

That was a great album

[kahljorn]

Going Catholic (http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?p=668204#post668204) Jan 18th, 2010
06:24 AM Feb 17th, 2010
06:24 AM 1 Sexist/racist/homophobic/etc. remarks Chojin (http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/member.php?u=3557)

What a ******.

[Sam]

did you get infracted :(

[kahljorn]

yep :O

[Sam]

what'd you do :(

[kahljorn]

I WAS RACIST :( but this is just a coverup for more deep rooted problems

our relationship problems all started about a year ago when he came to me asking for advice on how he could be more feminine and i told him he has to stop being fat

[Sam]

Oh my, that is very sexist/racist/homophobic/etc

[Pentegarn]

How do you know if you have been given an infraction?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

You have to be etceterist towards someone.

[Colonel Flagg]

How do you know if you have been given an infraction?

Not that I would know, but I believe you get a PM from a mod.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

If you look at your user profile it shows up.

[Sam]

You get excommunicated from the church. :eek

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

By Reverand Chojin.

[Colonel Flagg]

If you get one, you need to send a PM to Chojin stating "Forgive me Father, for I have sinned."

[Fathom Zero]

He prefers "Padre". ;)

[Dimnos]

Bah... I cant get this shit to work. :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

On topic...I've never met anyone who wanted to try the Catholic church out. Usually you're born or married into it. I found out a few years ago that I'm Roman Catholic. I thought I was just regular Catholic all this time.

[Fathom Zero]

I've never received communion. So I'm going to Hell because of unforgiven sins and stuff. :\

[Ant10708]

too bad communion has nothing to do with the forgivenness of sins and stuff

[Ant10708]

On topic...I've never met anyone who wanted to try the Catholic church out. Usually you're born or married into it. I found out a few years ago that I'm Roman Catholic. I thought I was just regular Catholic all this time. Isn't that the case with most religions? Do people really try out different religions searching for the truth?

[Tadao]

Yeah, but no one usually goes to a harder religion.

[Fathom Zero]

too bad communion has nothing to do with the forgivenness of sins and stuff

I'M NOT GOOD AT THIS, EITHER. I NEVER CLAIMED TO BE.

Also, I've never asked for forgiveness.

Fuck this shit, yo. Buddhism is where it's at.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Shintoism for the win.

[Sam]

IT'S A GATEWAY RELIGION

[Esuohlim]

No what you've got to do is become an atheist and then make fun of smug atheists while being smug about it.

[The One and Only...]

I actually think gay relationships are, or can be, A-OK, so I would deny the allegation of homophobia.

Unless you think disagreeing with a massively promiscuous, meth addicted subculture is fag-hating.

[Tadao]

WTF are you on about Johnny?

[Ant10708]

Yeah, but no one usually goes to a harder religion.
Is being a catholic really considered one of the harder religions? I always thought catholics were some of the more non fundalmentalists when it comes to different types of christian faiths. i think catholics getbad rap because we have the vatican always making absurd declarations that the average lay person doesn't pay much heed too atleast in america.

[Colonel Flagg]

Yeah, but no one usually goes to a harder religion.

I was brought up Protestant, then gravitated toward Quakerism in college. I guess you can say that this is going to an easier religion. :)

[Tadao]

"we"

THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!

[Colonel Flagg]

How come we don't have a "Going Temple of Set" thread? :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

My ex-fiance from a while back was Russian Orthodox so I was in the middle of converting to it when I found out she was trash. They have some different traditions that I was used to but I really liked the idea of their priests actually being able to marry and have a family compared to the Catholic church where everyone is celebate. Might as well as be Cenobites.

[Fathom Zero]

I'm only Catholic when somebody in my family dies now.

[kahljorn]

I don't know what my religion is :O

[Zhukov]

Raised Irish Catholic, but I'm an atheist because god doesn't exist.

[kahljorn]

WHAT IF GOD EXISTED BUT WASNT ANTHROPOMORPHOUS :( or i guess i should ask do you think god could exist if it were non-anthropomorphous ? would it even be worth calling it god?

i guess religion would still be useless though maybe. No point in worshipping something that prolly wouldn't (be capable of?) see (ing) value in being worshipped.

[Supafly345]

Our instinct to seek out an eternal paternal figure would be thwarted if god didn't look like us.

[Zhukov]

There have been plenty of non human looking gods. Don't make me look for them.
>:

[Supafly345]

Yeah, like when lizard and coyote were deciding what humans would look like they chose lizard hands.

[kahljorn]

You mean like the egyptian gods which had animal heads on top of human bodies and still talked to people?

i guess there's like animists or whatever, but I don't really think that falls under the same category or consideration as gods ;/

[kahljorn]

Our instinct to seek out an eternal paternal figure would be thwarted if god didn't look like us.

that sort of begs the question of whether there is a god or not, but I'm sure that you know that.

[Supafly345]

Yeah, I want to believe in a god, but I don't think any of the myths we have created so far could possibly be correct. And I don't think I should have to make a decision whether there is one or not really. If there is one it probably doesn't exist in any form we have imagined yet, or it may no longer exist at all.

Wouldn't that be a huge pile of shit, if god used to exist but no longer does?

[kahljorn]

I think its ridiculous to think that the potential falsity of the myths about god have anything to do with whether or not he exists. Just because the myths are wrong doesn't mean that there is not a god. Just like its ridiculous to draw the conclusion that, because the myth that hell is in the center of the earth is probably false, there must therefore not be a center of the earth.
As for the later part I would point out that you've already done so, but you were prolly joking so who knows really :O

[Supafly345]

Huh? I think you jumped to the conclusion that I was trying to dis prove god. I said exactly what you just said- that the myths are just myths and they don't effect whether I believe in god or not.
ALL I WANTED WAS TO BE TOLD HOW INTERESTING MY HYPOTHESIS OF A GOD THAT CEASED EXISTING WAS.

[kahljorn]

sorry i think you edited that in so I didn't see it the first time i read it ;O

ITS PRETTY INTERESTING BUT IS IT POSsIBLE FOR THINGS TO STOP EXIstinG ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE tHE SUBSTRATUM FoR the entiRE WORLDS?

[Ant10708]

if god stopped existing he wouldn't be god. he'd be some chump

[Supafly345]

With the power to create the rules of physics that govern our universe!

[Dimnos]

Russian Orthodox is actually a rather interesting religion. But really Baha'i all the way. Oh and...

http://incredimazing.com/static/media/2007/12/21/db3b0e59ccb8bc7/321.gif

[kahljorn]

i love how the fish has feet :O

[Dimnos]

Darwinism man.

[kahljorn]

yea i think ive seen it before but I don't really pay attention to pop culture :(

[Zhukov]

I don't know what that wheel is supposed to be doing as far as torture is concerned. It looks likes it just spins around when you turn the handle.

[executioneer]

maybe his feet are tied to something else

[Supafly345]

Maybe the bottom is in water.

[kahljorn]

maybe you spin it really fast and right when they're about to vomit you aim it up so they vomit on themselves and eventually it drips into a container on the floor so that whenever they are next to the floor their face brushes up against their vomit :O

also i think willie is right :O

[Supafly345]

Maybe it just scrapes your face against the ground really hard and people laugh at it because its so ugly.

[Miss Modular]

As a lapsed Catholic, all I have to say is...Good Luck, OAO. Just remember that Communion Wafers are not a valuable source of fiber.

[bigtimecow]

i don't know too much about religion, but i do know that denouncing evolution makes you a fucking idiot

carl sagan for life yo

[Perndog]

1. Carl Sagan is dead

2. Does this mean OAO's legendary wang is now "coeternal", Seth?

[Fathom Zero]

I ate a burger today. :(

[Esuohlim]

ME TOO :lol

[Sam]

Me three :lol

[executioneer]

i'd be more impressed with yalls burgereating if it was tomorrow, yo :threadrelevant

[Esuohlim]

You're not supposed to burger on ash wednesday either :(

[executioneer]

oh haha wnhoops shows what i know :lol

[Perndog]

I saw a chick at Chipotle yesterday with some gray shit on her forehead, and I said "hey, you've got dirt on your face." She got a little pissed.

[Dimnos]

:lol

[Esuohlim]

If you're like me and find female irreligion sexy as hell, there's nothing quite as disheartening as seeing the girls you find attractive with that stupid forehead cross :(

Or female satanism, I guess, in your case

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I've been meaning to make a "Catholic or Bust" sign for this thread but never remember to make it when I get home.

[Tadao]

my girl is catholic

[Esuohlim]

Get dragged to church often?

[Tadao]

Nah, she's not super catholic, she's almost not catholic.

[Sam]

I ate a hamburger today too :(

[Esuohlim]

It's a sin to not eat a daily hamburger >:

[kahljorn]

if it wasn't for jack in the box advertising cheap fish filets sandwiches i wouldn't even know its almost lint or whatever

[executioneer]

all i care about is the free pancakes next tuesday :kevinsmith

[TheCoolinator]

This is religion too, right?

I'm going Catholic. Make baby Sethomas proud.

I'm still wanking and having premarital sex though. Fuck all that.

I'm assuming that Sethomas is a family member of sorts. All I have to say is Congrats!

You don't have to take it too seriously. Just think of it like this, at least you get a discount when you send your kids to religious class and are able to be married in there nice churches. Catholics have the best chapels.

[Zhukov]

Why would you congratulate someone who is straying from the paved path of science and wisdom, and wandering foolhardily down the filthy track of ignorance and myth?

Not that OAO ever had any wisdom.

[TheCoolinator]

To be honest I would usually just say an indifferent "OK" to a person who has just told me that he / she converted to a different religion but since I'm was in a good mood I believe a "congrats" was in order. And to think of it, Its very difficult to actually go and take religious classes these days. Everyones lives are full of distractions and are very hectic. My brother-in-law had to do it as well before him and my sister got married. It was difficult for him going to seminars, taking tests, reading books, then the ending ceremonies.

Regarding the whole Science and wisdom and ignorance and myth thing.

I think of religion is similar to philosophy on many levels. You read it. Decipher the meanings of the text individually and go out into your life trying to use them to the best of your abilities.

Example: If I read Plato's Republic I get an idea of how Socrates in book 1 defined Justice. Virtue and Wisdom. While when I read the new testament I see how (God, Jesus whoever) define goodness. Charity, mercy, benevolence. All it is, is more information that can be used to better ones self and better the community as a whole in real life. If used properly.

Science is great and all but in the past few years I've lost a lot of faith in it. I read too many articles of Pharmaceutical companies killing people with their medicine and other nefarious dealings in the realm of big business controlling the funding for "scientific" studies.

[The Leader]

That's not really science, that's pharmaceutical companies and big business.

[TheCoolinator]

That's not really science, that's pharmaceutical companies and big business.

We know that but does everyone else?

It takes a ton of people dropping dead for there to be a recall of some of these medications and now take a look at the whole "Global Warming / Climate change" thing. They just found out that some scientists were fudging the numbers. It took a hacker to break into their e-mail accounts and get copies of the letters where the head of the "science" team was telling the rest of the underlings to make the climate measurements higher then they really were.

Like I said above, in the past few years I don't trust anything that's being said by so called "experts" or "scientists". Most of them are just paid prostitutes for whoever is funding them. Only on seldom occasion we see a whistleblower or an act of God (no pun intended) to bring the truth to the surface.

[Colonel Flagg]

It takes a ton of people dropping dead for there to be a recall of some of these medications and now take a look at the whole "Global Warming / Climate change" thing. They just found out that some scientists were fudging the numbers. It took a hacker to break into their e-mail accounts and get copies of the letters where the head of the "science" team was telling the rest of the underlings to make the climate measurements higher then they really were.

:rolleyes

[TheCoolinator]

:rolleyes

All I'm saying is that I'm skeptical of when people come running up to me and say "Look, It's SCIENCE......believe it!!! SCIENCE!!!!".

[Tadao]

Yeah, but you eat up info from Fox News.

[TheCoolinator]

Yeah, but you eat up info from Fox News.

I'm sure if you type in "Climate Gate" into any search engine your going to get a million newspapers covering it and on top of that it's not even an American story. The hackers who broke into the climate scientists e-mails are from Russia.

and I hate fox news. They remind me more of a cartoon show then a News agency.

[Fathom Zero]

Alright.

Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, or Anderson Cooper?

[TheCoolinator]

Alright.

Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, or Anderson Cooper?

None of them, they all make me ill. Especially Sean Hannity.

[Fathom Zero]

Yeah, those talking heads, man. Just prostitutes.

Maaaaaaan

[TheCoolinator]

Yeah, those talking heads, man. Just prostitutes.

Maaaaaaan

Ya,

I really don't know how people take any of them seriously. Everything is already written for them and downloaded into their teleprompters before they even get to work, they self censor themselves, and are in the tank whoever pays the most.

I mean, look at the blatant hypocrisy of Keith Olbermann. He hated everything that Bush did but when Obama continues the same exact polices it's OK.

Sean Hannity is just as silly. Obama is doing everything that Bush is doing and more and Sean Hannity still calls him a "socialist" when he's really just a corporate puppet like the rest.

[Tadao]

7nnVQ2fROOg

[Fathom Zero]

How many times have you seen Oderus Urungus on CNN or MSNBC?

EDIT: Thanks, Tad. I didn't feel like doing the work to call him on that. I like being argumentative more.

[TheCoolinator]

I can't see the video until later but I'm sure its hilarious. I had no idea what you were talking about until I popped Oderus Urungus in a search engine.

Speaking of which I was just playing the Beavis and Butthead genesis game yesterday. What a great game. Very difficult though.

[Tadao]

No, it's not hilarious in the way you think. It's pretty informative. There is a Brit making a few jokes, but that's never funny.

[TheCoolinator]

No, it's not hilarious in the way you think. It's pretty informative. There is a Brit making a few jokes, but that's never funny.

Did I do something wrong :confused:

[Tadao]

Yes, but if you watch that video, you'll be more informed than most people on those hacked emails. Meaning, you'll understand that unless we know what we are talking about, we shouldn't take a side.

[TheCoolinator]

Yes, but if you watch that video, you'll be more informed than most people on those hacked emails. Meaning, you'll understand that unless we know what we are talking about, we shouldn't take a side.


(http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=154&filename=942777075.txt)E-mail file #942777075 (http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=154&filename=942777075.txt)

“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”

Phil Jones (Climatic Research Unit)
University of East Anglia
(http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=154&filename=942777075.txt)

Very true


But I since the whistle has been blown on this scam it's pretty much over. The climate scientists have been found to screw around with the numbers. I don't blame them. If I had a steady job as a climate priest and had to keep saying the sky is falling I would definitely tell everyone who I'm working with to change all the numbers to suit our best interest. Meaning my paycheck.

I think we can go a little further though by saying that many wallstreet investment houses wanted the climate bill to get passed because it would have created a speculative market in carbon trading making a new bubble for corporations to hook on too.

I think the genius of this plan is labeling carbon dioxide as a pollutant. By labeling CO2 as a deadly chemical the regulators will focus directly on that and completely ignore more harmful chemicals such as Volatile Organic Compounds, Mercury oxides, Lead Oxides, sulphur oxides, and numerous other hazardous gases. This is why many of the funders of the Global Warming scheme are big oil and large multinational corporations.

Also look who they choose to be the spokesman for the Global Warming craze. Al Gore. Mr. FREE TRADE.

Anyone in this forum who is unemployed should be thanking Mr. Gore for shipping your jobs to a slave camp in China. Oh, and 3rd world nations don't give a rats ass about Global Warming / Climate Change. China, India, Africa, and ever other country that has a brain is going to completely ignore it because if they don't they will be as penniless as the USA.

[Tadao]

Really? Where was it found that the scientists were screwing around with numbers?

[TheCoolinator]

Really? Where was it found that the scientists were screwing around with numbers?

I know it's difficult to comes to terms with, I believed the hoax when I was still in college but once you see whos behind the curtain you understand why they are so quick to keep the deception going. It's all about making money. Not protecting the environment.




Scientists at the heart of the Climategate controversy face new allegations which cast further doubt about global warming. Analysis shows researchers had tried to suppress key details of their findings for twenty years.


New allegations swirl in Climategate (http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-12-07/spin-climategate-science-thriller.html), which began last November with an email leak at the University of East Anglia, suggesting that one of the world’s foremost centres for climate research had been manipulating data to prove the existence of man-made global warming.
Now, it turns out data manipulation has been going on since at least 1990

http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-02-04/climategate-climate-change-fake.html?fullstory


http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-02-04/climategate-climate-change-fake.html

[Tadao]

:lol You're an idiot. I can't believe you sent me to a gossip link. Give me hard evidence that fraud was committed. On second thought, forget it. That was the biggest waste of time and the week just began.

Chojin, can I mod this area now, we got a live one here.

[Fathom Zero]

but once you see whos behind the curtain

:rolleyes :lol

You're a nutter

[Tadao]

He should sit in a room full of carbon dioxide to prove how safe it is.

[Fathom Zero]

YOU SHOULD GET YOUR INFO FROM A REAL NEWS SOURCE, LIKE THE HUFFINGTON POST.

[TheCoolinator]

Alright, nevermind.

I see some people are emotionally invested in this stuff. Bottom line is I don't believe a word of it and I think the Achilles heel of the whole argument is that they are calling CO2 a pollutant when there are far worse gasses that will not be regulated if a climate bill is passed.

[Tadao]

You should go protest that or something.

[Tadao]

OH I KNOW, WRITE A BLOG ABOUT IT SO THAT SOMEONE CAN LINK ME TO IT AND I CAN TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.

[TheCoolinator]

Alright, Alright, take it easy.

CO2 bad....Al Gore Good......I get it.

Everything will be alright once they can make carbon based derivatives.

[Tadao]

Dude, I totally get it. The man is trying to keep us down.

:conspiracy

[TheCoolinator]

Dude, I totally get it. The man is trying to keep us down.

:conspiracy

lol, there isn't any conspiracies. Everything is done right out in the open.

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[Tadao]

I'm totally with you bro, I got my talking points in the mail yesterday too.

[TheCoolinator]

I'm totally with you bro, I got my talking points in the mail yesterday too.

It's all good. We will agree to disagree.

No hard feelings.

[Tadao]

Trust me, your gonna wanna change you identity here.

[Fathom Zero]

Go rogue.

[TheCoolinator]

Go rogue.

lol :lol

Trust me, your gonna wanna change you identity here.

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[Evil Robot]

Hi collinater, please explain to me without using another video, why your opinions are valid. Do it now.

[Colonel Flagg]

Everything you know is wrong.

:rolleyes

[Colonel Flagg]

IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY DAMMIT!!!

[Colonel Flagg]

All I'm saying is that I'm skeptical of when people come running up to me and say "Look, It's SCIENCE......believe it!!! SCIENCE!!!!".

Real scientists don't say this.

[Fathom Zero]

:lol

[TheCoolinator]

Hi collinater, please explain to me without using another video, why your opinions are valid. Do it now.

I will tomorrow when I'm at my corporate slave job getting paid for doing nothing. :bestthread

Everything you know is wrong.

NO

IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY DAMMIT!!!

NO

Real scientists don't say this.

Have you seen the news lately?

[Fathom Zero]

Dude, the Colonel is science.

[Colonel Flagg]

HE DOESN'T CARE - HE KNOWS EVERYTHING! :explode

[The Leader]

Have you seen the news lately?
That would mean that they aren't real scientists then, wouldn't it?

[Evil Robot]

I will tomorrow when I'm at my corporate slave job getting paid for doing nothing.

So we should take you seriously because your a self proclaimed useless burden?

[Tadao]

:lol BLAME GORE

[Zhukov]

Again, that's scientists, not science. Reading the bible and understanding the moral subject matter of it isn't being a Catholic.

Being a Catholic means believing in an almighty creator, and giving praise to him. Religion is created by man, where science is created by physics/universe etc etc.

[kahljorn]

:O
id say science is created by man but I get what you're going for zhukov so you are forgiven. however a real scientist wouldn't say that probably.

[Zhukov]

Well as long as you know what I mean. I'm no real scientist.

[TheCoolinator]

Hi collinater, please explain to me without using another video, why your opinions are valid. Do it now.

This is what I gathered from my research. I don't mean to hoist my ideology on anyone else. I respect everyones opinions and ideas the real problem comes when people get bent out of shape because we don't see eye to eye. Which is understandable but we need to come to the realization that we all have different points of views that we have been cultivating throughout our lives. Not one persons journey is the same.

(breaks out acoustic guitar and starts singing some hippy song)


That would mean that they aren't real scientists then, wouldn't it?

I think the real problem is that some viewers think they are. They wheel out some guy with "scientist" under his name to defend which ever corporation atrocity that has just taken place.

It goes something like this:

The "scientist" when prompted will immediately say...."EVERYTHING IS FINE, SCIENTIFIC STUDIES SAY THAT TOXIC WASTE IS GOOD FOR THE OCEAN AND GIVES YOUR A BRIGHT ATTRACTIVE SMILE....IM A SCIENTIST....BELIEVE ME....LOOK I'M EVEN WEARING A FANCY LAB COAT, pocket protector, AND GLASSES."

you get where I'm going with this. It's tough now a days to actual find an independent researchers.

[Colonel Flagg]

The "scientist" when prompted will immediately say...."EVERYTHING IS FINE, SCIENTIFIC STUDIES SAY THAT TOXIC WASTE IS GOOD FOR THE OCEAN AND GIVES YOUR A BRIGHT ATTRACTIVE SMILE....IM A SCIENTIST....BELIEVE ME....LOOK I'M EVEN WEARING A FANCY LAB COAT, pocket protector, AND GLASSES."

you get where I'm going with this. It's tough now a days to actual find an independent researchers.

Actually, it isn't tough, but you have to know where to look. :\

This kind of pseudo-science also annoys the heck out of me. It doesn't take much more than a pair of safety glasses, a few test tubes and some colored liquid to convince most people that an actor is a scientist. Look at CSI for example (it's really quite a funny show, from a real scientist's perspective).

What bothers me the most about your stated viewpoints are the blatant discounting of one side of a given story simply because of a single or very few isolated events. As an example, take the climate change debate, for lack of a better term, which is much more complex and convoluted than you, or anyone else for that matter makes it seem. Just because of some e-mails, this throws everything into doubt? Please. You cannot throw away years of data much of which was collected before most of us on this forum were born (or our parents or grandparents for that matter) just on the basis of a few "suspect" points.

The bottom line is that we still have much more that we don't know about climate change than what we do know. It is an insanely complex phenomenon, made even more so by local variations in weather patterns (which allows bozos like O'Reilly or Hannity make cracks about global warming during a very cold winter in DC). I've seen some people on this forum (myself included) complain bitterly about the snowfall in the northeastern US. "Send some of that global warming our way!" The bottom line is that even with this local variance, the average global temperature at sea level is still rising. This trend will not be stemmed by any one course of action, nor is it clear that it is not part of the normal cycle of climate for our planet over millennia. What is clear is that adding to greenhouse gas emissions through technological advancement in third world countries will exacerbate the situation, and adds to pollution of the local environment in any event. Curbing this action is the right thing to do in the long run, whatever the reasoning.

Politics and science have become intermingled, and the truth suffers. :(

[Fathom Zero]

I'm keen to see if we can discern whether or not this is actually part of a larger weather pattern, since recordings of temp. and other things have only been around since the industrial revolution. Correct me on the date if I'm wrong, (I probably am), but the instrumentation hasn't existed for all of recorded history all around the world.

I need to look at all of these ice samples they seem to find, too.

You can't suspend skepticism, Cooli. IT'S THE FOUNDATION OF GOOD SCIENCE.

[Colonel Flagg]

Yep. Good point, FZ. :) Also look at ancient tree ring patterns, which indicate periods of drought and deluge over the years.

[Tadao]

I don't mean to hoist my ideology on anyone else.

You took a thread about Catholicism and spouted talking points about global warming.

[Colonel Flagg]

Sorry T - I'll keep my climatology commentary in the "Science & Health" thread.

Now, let's talk Catechism! :halo

[Fathom Zero]

The soul sucks.

[Tadao]

Nah, I'm down with climate change talk, I'm just pointing out that he is actually imposing his beliefs. Which is fine cause we all do it, we just admit it.

[Tadao]

I'm just worried about what's gonna happen when evil robot finds out he skirted out on answering him.

[TheCoolinator]

The pope is a funny old guy. I don't mind him being around. He's like the crazy grandpa that mumbles stuff. You don't really have to do what he says but you have to nod repeatedly to be polite.

[Evil Robot]

I think the Jerkinator is the new forum asshole and should subsequently face a high level of verbal abuse. Whose with me on this?

btw, do you prefer CDs or tapes?

[Tadao]

WHAT? YOU LEFT OUT VINYL?

btw, I hate how faginfucker has an opinion, but still needs time to back it up, and after 24 hours can't do it. Fuck that ****** faggot.

[Evil Robot]

CDS NUTZ BITCH

[Colonel Flagg]

I'm still waiting for the entertainment value. I'll give it a week or so. I'm patient.

[TheCoolinator]

btw, I hate how faginfucker has an opinion, but still needs time to back it up, and after 24 hours can't do it.

Back up what? How global warming is a complete fraud mythology pseudo-religion created by corporate donors so they are not regulated and how they can start a speculative derivative market on carbon trading while playing upon the frail emotions of the ignorant masses?

STOP CARBON!!!! ....even though its not a pollutant and has nothing to do with the warming cycle and is actually beneficial for plant development.......

What they need to do is instead of attempting to create a carbon bubble which would lower all of our living standards similar to when gasoline was 5 dollars a gallon, they should be pumping money into clean energy.

Solar panels on everyones house
Geothermal
tidal power
Methane
Biodiesel
Alcohol
Hydrogen (Brown's gas)

and so on and so forth. Just these industrial drivers alone would create millions of jobs but they don't want to do that. They just want to harp on CARBON CARBON CARBON....which makes no sense. Carbon is not a pollutant. Its a beneficial gas. Why aren't the global warming priests harping on how they need to ban hexanes, Volatile organic compounds, diesel fuel (replace it with biodiesel), mercury oxides, arsenic oxides, sulpher oxides, nitrogen oxides, petroleum based fertilizers and herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, depleted uranium, all of these need to be regulated out of existance but all they focus on is CARBON....OOOOOOO CARBON.....

Ok, I guess i backed up my point and I'm a little bit closer to break time. Woot!



I'm still waiting for the entertainment value. I'll give it a week or so. I'm patient.

You think we should start a "Global Warming IS IT REAL thread" :confused:

[Colonel Flagg]

http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?p=675416

[Colonel Flagg]

STOP CARBON!!!! ....even though its not a pollutant and has nothing to do with the warming cycle

Carbon is not a pollutant. Its a beneficial gas.

You really don't know what you're talking about, do you.

[Tadao]

It's a cloud of nonsensical talking points.

[TheCoolinator]

You really don't know what you're talking about, do you.

In green houses all over the world they pump in CO2 to accelerate the growth of plants.

Search engine it.

It's a cloud of nonsensical talking points.

I'm highly doubt that any mainstream global warming critic would use any of the examples I gave in my post above. I attack the global warming myth from the left not from the right and it crumbles every time.

[Colonel Flagg]

I BELIEVE EVRYTNG I READ ON TEH INTERWEBS! GOOGLE RULEZ!

I said it before, and I say it again. Naive.

[TheCoolinator]

I BELIEVE EVRYTNG I READ ON TEH INTERWEBS! GOOGLE RULEZ!

I said it before, and I say it again. Naive.

Alright, I don't want to upset anyone. I said my piece and now I'm done.

Is it peace or piece? :confused: hmmmm...

[Colonel Flagg]

I don't want to upset anyone. I said my piece and now I'm done.

:lol

[Supafly345]

His piece of information.

[Evil Robot]

"Gaps do not get filled by ignoring them"

[Grislygus]

So if you're attacking global warming "from the left", then how come you're using a spectacularly DOUBLER POST MY CELL PHONE INTERNET IS BEING AN UNCOOPERATIVE RECALCITRANT BITCH SEND HELP BEFORE ITS TOO LA

[Grislygus]

So if you're attacking global warming "from the left", then how come you're using a spectacularly dense argument that I've seen used, VERBATIM, by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly on their respective programs in the last month alone?

:lol:lol:lol

GEE DA SCIENTISTS SAID DAT OVERADUNDANT CARBON AND DUH CO2 LEVELS CAN THEORETICALLY AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-TERM NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES. THEY MUST BE CLAIMING DAT ITS UH POLLUTANT HUH HUH HUH WHAT A BUNCH OF TOOLS

[TheCoolinator]

Linked to global warming thread

[Colonel Flagg]

I thought we were supposed to talk about Catholicism in this thread.

(we do have a GW thread, you know.) :\

[Pentegarn]

I think the Father, Son and Holy Ghost all like Tadao's new bunny avatar

[Colonel Flagg]

The Lord is my bunny
I shall not want
for a Mr. Softee cone

[Tadao]

He's praying.

[TheCoolinator]

Vatican official cautions against genetically modified organisms

http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/12046-vatican-official-cautions-against-gmos


lol, this article reminded me of this thread. OBEY!!!!

[The Leader]

Coolinator, if you're so against people being sheep then why are you one?

[TheCoolinator]

Coolinator, if you're so against people being sheep then why are you one?

I never called anyone a sheep. :confused: So I don't understand your question.

Hail to the Pope!

[Tadao]

In real news, a big sex scandal in Germany is bursting and it looks to be dmamging to the current pope.

[Pentegarn]

Finally! I can break out my "He put the dick in Pope Benedict" jokes!

[TheCoolinator]

Finally! I can break out my "He put the dick in Pope Benedict" jokes!

lol, that's wrong on so many levels. :x

[Tadao]

:lol

[Dimnos]

I want to hear one of these joke before passing judgment on them. >: