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[Masterpiece]

*shrug* We're all entitled to our own viewpoints after all

love you for this

[Masterpiece]

So I just realized I love all of you and it's unfair both to you as to me if I leave this forum just because I despise one poster here.

So I guess you're stuck with me for the time being

[Detachable Felix]

Not referring to me there, I hope? 

[Method of Madness]

Hopefully whoever it is can work things out with you.

[Thrillho]

*shrug* We're all entitled to our own viewpoints after all

love you for this

How come?

So I just realized I love all of you and it's unfair both to you as to me if I leave this forum just because I despise one poster here.

So I guess you're stuck with me for the time being

Good. The forum was poorer without you here.

[Masterpiece]

Not referring to me there, I hope? 

No.

[BeoPuppy]

Me! Me! Me! Awww ... pick me!!!

[Masterpiece]

I regret saying that already and I'm gonna answer no to everyone who asks.

[BeoPuppy]

Okay. I'm sorry for being a bit flippant.

[ankhtahr]

I would be very sad if you left. I'm happy that you want to stay!

[Barmymoo]

4. Only going to church to find a relationship
Who the fuck does that?

I spent several weeks trying to explain to my therapist why I had a serious issue with her suggestion that I attend the city's gay church. I already have a church, I enjoy the services and feel part of the community, and there is no homophobia or intolerance. Literally the only reason to go to a gay church instead would be so that I could date the congregation.

[Barmymoo]

Just off to the gay supermarket to buy my groceries. I mean, I know the other supermarket sells everything I need, but I just prefer buying things from gay people.

I bank with the gay bank. Their interest rates aren't very good but at least I know I have a better chance of banging the girl who cashes my cheques.

My clothes all come from the gay shop, I like to know that other gay people have used the changing room before me.

[Thrillho]

You think you got problems, you any idea how hard it is to find a bisexual butcher?

God save me I just don't like the taste of hetero pork as much.

[GarandMarine]

*snicker*

[BeoPuppy]

At least at the gay bank you get screwed just how you like it.

[Detachable Felix]

God save me I just don't like the taste of hetero pork as much.

I laughed for like three minutes straight at this. Punintended?

Just off to the gay supermarket to buy my groceries. I mean, I know the other supermarket sells everything I need, but I just prefer buying things from gay people.

I bank with the gay bank. Their interest rates aren't very good but at least I know I have a better chance of banging the girl who cashes my cheques.

My clothes all come from the gay shop, I like to know that other gay people have used the changing room before me.

I always hate it when people refer to marriage equality as gay marriage. I usually reply with "Tell me, did you also gay reverse-parallel-park your gay car on the side of the road? Before having gay lunch at a gay cafe?" Ugggggh.

Also, every time someone says it, all I can think of is this:

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[snalin]

Literally the only reason to go to a gay church instead would be so that I could date the congregation.

You could just date one of them. The entire congregation at once seems a bit overkill.

[BeoPuppy]

... unless that floats your boat. Then go for it.

[Loki]

I think you are gonna need a bigger boat.

[BeoPuppy]

Sure ... the LOVE BOAT!!!

*badaboom tsjjj*

[Is it cold in here?]

If medicine is a more respected profession than law, why is patent law more respectable than patent medicine?

[Method of Madness]

4. Only going to church to find a relationship
Who the fuck does that?

Wait, why is this a bad thing?

[BeoPuppy]

Because it's disrespectful towards god. or other people there. Or a preacher. Or not why people go to church, you know, to foster their close personal relationship with their spiritual world.

I'm an atheist and even I see the issue here.

[Method of Madness]

Not necessarily, some people go to church for the community, and why not go there to meet people who probably have similar values to you?

[Metope]

Well, how about the people who go there specifically to get some peace of mind and being able to think? And then some creep comes up and starts hitting on you, no thanks.

[Method of Madness]

Well yeah, I'm not advocating being a creep.

[Thrillho]

I'm not saying it's a bad thing. If you're a Christian and wanna date someone, why not meet people at church? My point is who does that as their only mode of dating?

[Method of Madness]

I took that as it being your only reason to go to church rather than the only way you try to date.

[Thrillho]

That seems unlikely given it's a Christian website.

[Thrillho]

Sometimes I add forumites from on here to Facebook and think I'll regret it, but find a lot of quite lovely common ground and a real bond forms. Today has been one of those conversations.

[Method of Madness]

That seems unlikely given it's a Christian website.

Keep in mind they're discouraging this.

[Thrillho]

What non Christian would go to church for a date? Not exactly a fast track to an easy lay, is it?

[Method of Madness]

Not everyone looking for a date is looking for an easy lay.

[Detachable Felix]

What non Christian would go to church for a date? Not exactly a fast track to an easy lay, is it?

Well, considering some atheists are more well-read on the bible than most christians, they could easily infiltrate the church and get themselves some holy hanky panky.

I mean, you'd have to be a real scumbag to actually do it, but it's possible.

[Thrillho]

Not everyone looking for a date is looking for an easy lay.

Method, I'm not trying to be a dick here, but are you seriously suggesting as a scenario that atheists go to church to look for a date?

[Loki]

Meh, there are all kinds. I bet there are some that do.
I also bet there are atheists going to satanic meetings, or Satanists going to church, or x's going to congregations of y's for the same reason.
Also, love the expression "holy hanky panky".

[Detachable Felix]

Also, love the expression "holy hanky panky".

I can't claim credit for it. We sell it on a shirt at our campus' godless society

[Method of Madness]

Not everyone looking for a date is looking for an easy lay.

Method, I'm not trying to be a dick here, but are you seriously suggesting as a scenario that atheists go to church to look for a date?

Who said anything about atheists? I was thinking of people who identify as Christian but don't otherwise care enough to go to church. I guess that wasn't really clear though, my bad.

Also, I thought the website was putting that out as a scenario as something not to do.

[Carl-E]

It was.  Because it's something that some people do.  Rarely atheists, though - usually believers looking for others of a similar mindset. 

[GarandMarine]

Sometimes I add forumites from on here to Facebook and think I'll regret it, but find a lot of quite lovely common ground and a real bond forms. Today has been one of those conversations.

The fact that you and I are friends at all certainly gives evidence of this.

[jwhouk]

...And all I did was just post a link. 

[Masterpiece]

Welcome to the internet.

[Barmymoo]

My interpretation was that #4 was directed towards Christians who wouldn't go to church if the object of their interest weren't there any more, or who are aware that their primary motivation is to look for a husband/wife. I think it's a fairly normal human impulse actually; prayer and worship is nice, especially if the hymns are good, but it's the people who make up the church and that's what makes it worth the faff of getting up on a Sunday morning and dragging yourself in a reasonably presentable state down to a building which isn't really any better equipped for quiet prayer than your own living room.

[jwhouk]

..."Hymns"?

Heh. You haven't heard the version of "You Are My Vision" that our worship group plays on Sundays.

[ChaoSera]

Most fascinating XKCD comic ever. I can't stop looking at it. It's... mesmerizing.

(changed link to a persistent one - Paul)

[Emoroffle]

Ever look up at the stars and decide to write a mathematical proof for FTL?

[GarandMarine]

Children's laughter is one of the more magical gifts in life.... unless its 2300... you're alone... and you don't have kids.

[Grognard]

yep.
thanks for reawakening that particular nightmare.

[94ssd]

So I'm currently filling in for one of the Assistant Stage Managers for Love's Labour's lost. And this may be my favorite quote.

HOLOFERNES: Via, goodman Dull! Thou hast spoken no word all this while.
DULL: Nor understood none neither, sir.

And the actress playing Dull has been instructed to mostly stand around and look confused while the other characters have long, pithy monologues. I imagine Dull echoes what the majority of the play's audience will be feeling.

[ChaoSera]

So, "goodman" was appropriate to say to a woman?