Comments by Caudimordax

Comment #278419 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Maybe this question-mark-crisis is a way of sayig we should be more - uh - determined?

Comment #278211 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 1:04 pm

And this just adds another layer of horror to what is already so horrific and contemptible that it beggars description:

nurses were sent to check during the stoning whether the victim was still alive. They removed her from the ground and declared that she was, before she was replaced so the stoning could continue.

Wonder what nursing school they went to?

503. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278162 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 12:33 pm

107. Comment #278147 by admin

Funny - so there's a reason other than the satisfying cher-klunk of the old voting machines to be suspicious of electronic voting.

Edit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdpj3gJofQ

substituted link that works - sorry - doesn't work either

504. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278148 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 12:28 pm

I heard a funny, although incredibly offensive story from Ohio

Substitute "joke" for "story" and everyone's happy.

505. Quentin Letts ranks Dawkins 30th on list of 'people who have wrecked Britain'

Comment #278111 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Oh My Nonexistentdeity! How scathing!

Not.

506. Fred Phelps's son is an atheist: Running from hell

Comment #278101 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 12:08 pm

But there is also a number that seem to me to somehow deny they understand this, as if they never heard of it, or were somehow capable of blanking it out, and yet I find it hard to conceive of virtually everyone having a closely related realisation when they 'got' the concept of mortality.

I'm not sure what the question is. My mother was a completely nutty roman catholic, but of the gooey, sappy variety. When she found some of my early efforts at erotic art, she didn't lecture me about hellfire, she left them on my nightstand with a picture of sad, gentle jesus on top. Bleeeeccchhh! Even at the age of 12 or so, I could recognize the blatant attempt at messing up my natural impulses. That was the beginning of the end for me.
I'm grateful I didn't have my young brain filled with hellfire images, but I have great sympathy for those who did.

Edit:

That's the problem. In order to love god, you must FEAR him first. Fear of what he'll do to you should you fail to live up to his expectations. Fear for the sake of your loved ones who reject him as nonsense (or believe in a different god). Religion is WHOLLY dependent on fear.

So I guess I was really lucky that my mother didn't know how to do it right! (Sort of her MO regarding most things.)

507. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278068 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 11:37 am

74. Comment #278064 by NormanDoering

Added your blog to my favorites.

508. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278061 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 11:32 am

I'm really concerned that so many people here are saying there was little or no wait to vote. Have we suddenly become very efficient at managing the polling places? Or are Obama supporters foolishly supposing this thing is in the bag? (Nice maneuver by Karl Rove calling the election for Obama. As Titania said, "Don't trust him!") Or are disillusioned republicans (like my super-conservative neighbor) just staying home in droves?

Edited for spelling.

509. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #278052 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 11:22 am

That has been a very worrying tendency on the left. Some people feel it is better to stick fully to their principles rather than compromise even if it means the opposition gets in. I think that is self-indulgent.

Like our "friends" who voted for Nader in 2000 because "there was no difference between the candidates." I wonder if they've re-thought their position over the course of the last eight years.

510. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278039 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 11:06 am

I voted. No line.

Does anybody really make up his or her mind 75 feet from the voting booth (the distance beyond which no more canvassing is allowed)?

511. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #278037 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 11:04 am

I voted. No line.

Does anybody really make up his or her mind 75 feet from the voting booth (the distance beyond which no more canvassing is allowed)?

512. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277798 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 7:30 am

"How about a Palin-Joe the Plumber ticket in 2012?"

You'd better believe that they are printing the signs and composing the smear campaigns against (insert name of opponent here) even as we speak - er - type.

Gotta go vote!

Edit: "For example?" Go get 'em perfesser! I didn't want to let that pass either but I really have to go vote now.

513. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277788 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 7:19 am

Jehovah's Witnesses feel voting is immoral.
Thank gosh they don't vote.

I'm going to start knocking on doors pretending to be a JW and get republicans to convert.

514. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277780 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 7:11 am

Please strike a blow from which Bush/Palinism will never recover. Destroy them, demoralise them, finish them off.

Unfortunately, that's probably not possible. This from Paul Krugman:

You might think, perhaps hope, that Republicans will engage in some soul-searching, that they’ll ask themselves whether and how they lost touch with the national mainstream. But my prediction is that this won’t happen any time soon.

Instead, the Republican rump, the party that’s left after the election, will be the party that attends Sarah Palin’s rallies, where crowds chant “Vote McCain, not Hussein!” It will be the party of Saxby Chambliss, the senator from Georgia, who, observing large-scale early voting by African-Americans, warns his supporters that “the other folks are voting.” It will be the party that harbors menacing fantasies about Barack Obama’s Marxist — or was that Islamic? — roots.

Why will the G.O.P. become more, not less, extreme? For one thing, projections suggest that this election will drive many of the remaining Republican moderates out of Congress, while leaving the hard right in place. ...

Also, the Republican base already seems to be gearing up to regard defeat not as a verdict on conservative policies, but as the result of an evil conspiracy. A recent Democracy Corps poll found that Republicans, by a margin of more than two to one, believe that Mr. McCain is losing “because the mainstream media is biased” rather than “because Americans are tired of George Bush.”

515. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277776 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 7:05 am

*GASP*

My comment appears right next to one by Richard Dawkins!

Professor Dawkins, I would vote twice if I could!

516. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277772 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 6:58 am

My husband was at the polling place at 5:30 this morning. By the time the doors opened, there were over 75 people in line! For a town of 34,000, that's impressive. I'm going in about 20 minutes - taking a thick book to read, 'though I don't think I'll be able to concentrate.

517. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277761 by Caudimordax on November 4, 2008 at 5:52 am

Jehovah's witnesses don't vote?

http://www.slate.com/id/2194321/

518. Countdown: Palin Wants To Help Special Needs Kids By Doing Away With Science

Comment #277399 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 4:13 pm

291. Comment #277368 by palin scares me

Well it's a little late to be getting this kind of input! ;-)

I'm really hoping Obama wins so that a year from now I can go back to wearing my favorite red leather jacket whithout everyone (including me) thinking of Sarah Palin.

519. Swatting attacks on fruit flies and science

Comment #277394 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 3:58 pm

126. Comment #277390 by Goldy

I read that this morning - even Bill Kristol is starting to sound pathetic. Nothing he said has even a remote chance of "cheering me up" should McCain win. And saying that an Obama presidency could bring on a Palin presidency? As though she would be less likely to follow a McCain presidency? Please.

520. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277372 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 2:29 pm

360. Comment #277353 by Titania

I'm not sure you can assume DP's mom would be as stingy and vindictive as he is - I mean wouldn't that be sort of impossible? But at least no chance of those kiddies growing up and remembering "that nice republican lady down the street." So maybe she's doing some good - and is naturally too stupid to know it.

Edit: Changed "mean" to "stingy and vindictive."

521. Fred Phelps's son is an atheist: Running from hell

Comment #277338 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 12:35 pm

Fortunately although my mother was a rabid catholic, she was also a "chinese menu" catholic who thought the pope was "misguided" on some issues (like the death penalty), and the emphasis was not on the torture of hell, but on being "cut off from god." Big whup.

522. Fred Phelps's son is an atheist: Running from hell

Comment #277326 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 12:04 pm

Frankus - You're probably right, but it's interesting that if you are a mentally ill, violent child abuser, they take you off to jail or a psychiatric ward, whereas if you are a religious mentally ill, violent child abuser, you get news coverage.

Edit: In other words, religion may not be the underlying cause of this nuttiness, but it does make for an untouchable cover.

523. Fred Phelps's son is an atheist: Running from hell

Comment #277324 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Well, going to the link the story was re-posted from, certainly Shirley Phelps-Roper takes it seriously. What a NUT!!! Actually, I do remember seeing her on some news show - very scary. As for "Most Hated Woman in America," I think that was Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

524. Fred Phelps's son is an atheist: Running from hell

Comment #277319 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 11:52 am

cerad - Good point. Hmmmm.
Checking this out (as best I can).

525. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277297 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 11:02 am

Titania - I like the press release idea. The Connecticut Post (which I stopped reading because there were typos and misspellings in the article headlines) has a weekly section titled "Religion." Not surprisingly, they endorsed McCain. (They also print "healthy" recipes using canned low-fat soup and fat-free half and half.)

526. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277292 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 10:52 am

SSO - what's genuinely scary is the "rump" of the republican party that will be left if Obama wins (great term that, "rump") which is what Paul Krugman talks about in his column today:

The Republican Rump

On the other side of the page (NY Times) Bill Kristol blathers on about things liberals can enjoy about a McCain victory.

BTW - are those stuffed penguins with Skylark?

527. Fred Phelps's son is an atheist: Running from hell

Comment #277275 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 10:12 am

10. Comment #277272 by JFHalsey

Losing the wife and children must have been awful. It seems that a lot of marriages (and friendships) can't survive that kind of change (see Dan Barker's "Losing Faith in Faith"). Although I knew one couple where she was a jehovah's whackjob and he was an atheist and I never had any idea how they worked that out.

528. Fred Phelps's son is an atheist: Running from hell

Comment #277271 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 10:05 am

I think it would be lovely if Nate knew about resources like this - and as long as he stayed away from the Palin threads, he could have his wish:

“That I just want peace. I want to not wake up fearful every morning.”

529. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277270 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 10:01 am

Titania - Wow! Really? It may be a few years away, but I wouldn't forget. Will there be sky-writing?

It's actually an interesting question. How does one announce these things? Email to distribution list? Lawn sign?

530. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277262 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:39 am

Titania - Will you have a "coming out" party?

531. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277261 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:37 am

Then my friend said, oh I don't think so but Tezcatlipoca's an atheist. Great! I'm all for the out campaign as well but I'd have preferred to have outed myself.

Tez - Same thing happened to me, but at least in my case the friend was telling the world "we're atheists." I'm sorry to say it made me a little uncomfortable.

532. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277256 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:33 am

When I got home today, there was a flyer from the jehovah's witnesses stuck in the door - for the first time in my life I was sorry I'd missed them.

533. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277255 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:31 am

Maybe we should all sail to a new world where we can practice out lack of faith without persecution...

Mars, here we come!

534. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277247 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:24 am

First thing you need to do is get an extra large darwinfish welded to the back of your car. Make sure it's welded and not glued otherwise it will come off when the 4x4 pickup with the stars and bars plate up front rams you.

Isn't that the sad truth? Even here in the blue, blue northeast, I have atheist friends who are terrified to put anything atheist on their cars lest they be vandalized. Paranoid? I'm not sure.

Edit: And yet I never ram cars with "Human life - more important than human choice" (there goes fighting for freedom) - I want to, but I don't.

535. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277244 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:19 am

"We've been correcting DarwinsPitbull's grammar..."

"Must make DP proud even..."

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

536. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276929 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:28 pm

What we need is a solution to the problem of how such recalcitrant minds can be changed.

*long heartfelt sigh*

Short of some sort of equipment that looks like a colander with a lot of wires going into it ... it doesn't seem likely.

(Unless it's something like the namshub of Enki)

537. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276923 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:17 pm

My lesbian housemate told me that lesbians must be God's favourite people because they don't do sodomy and wouldn't practise birth control or have abortion.

Yeah, but what about the requirement that the "saved" may not have "defiled themselves" with women?

538. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276922 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:14 pm

ideological commitments can override direct factual contradictions

Don't want to sound like a republican, but somebody's spending money on this? And if they are, shouldn't some of that money be coming here to posters on RD.net who are proving it every day?

539. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276915 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:07 pm

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

The more it changes, the samer it gets. (translation courtesy of S.J. Gould)

Edit: Okay maybe it's Douglas Hofstadter - now I have to go look it up.

540. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276914 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:04 pm

18. Comment #276835 by theseanze on November 2, 2008 at 3:47 pm

Then when he's in office and promoting peace, responsibility, and rationality, at least some will feel the bite of another nail in the coffin of Christianity.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, oh, phew, sorry. You were serious?

These people are soooo whacked, having made up their minds already, Obama could do everything Mother Theresa did and STILL be the anti-christ. The actual Jesus could appear and tell them he's in favor of gay marriage and they would dismiss it as a liberal hoax. In other words, sorry, nothing will change their minds.

Nice thought though.

541. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276796 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 3:20 pm

"Roll on Tuesday! And let's hope they don't have to update www,sorryeverybody.com... "

Turn out the lights on http://www.palinaspresident.us/

Edit: Laurie - suicide is a sin.

542. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276754 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 2:46 pm

I guess none of these people will, if Obama wins by a landslide, say "Well, I reckon it was the lord's will, so I'm going to accept it and support it." Will god have made a mistake? Or, as is more likely, will they interpret it a a victory for satan (who would then be more powerful than god, who is, of course, all powerful)?

Edit: Except James Krause, if I read it correctly?

543. Surprise: Scientists for Obama

Comment #276133 by Caudimordax on November 1, 2008 at 11:33 am

Seems like nothing sways the majority of American voters. Least of all reason or rationality. Four years ago, every American I knew, had met or even briefly talked to was against George W. Bush. And yet, there he still is ruining the planet for all of us.

Actually, fear sways them. I have neighbors who were going to vote for Obama before Russia invaded Georgia, and then decided it would be too "risky." But that was before Sarah Palin and she's scarier than anything, so who knows?

544. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275921 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 8:05 pm

Talking to a friend today - it's all visceral. People vote based on their most visceral classist, racist feelings. They just "pretty" up those feelings with whatever verbiage they can glean from pundits, trying to put some veneer of rationality on their "gut" reactions to the candidates.

Edit: Okay maybe a LITTLE cynical.

545. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275914 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 7:39 pm

Titania

Perfectly executed.

*bows*

Praise from the queen is praise indeed.

546. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275909 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Gotta go so I dont want anyone to think I am dodging questions or anything. I will answer anything you post later with sophisticated and intellectual answers that your minds can not handle.

Sure - whatever you say.

547. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275897 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 7:20 pm

Caudimordax
So now DP is over on the other Palin thread trying to get a rise out of Christoper Davis - DP really is a black hole trying to suck away the life force of other people.

You seem to have the personality of stepped on dog feces.

Ooooooohh! I guess I really pissed you off! That was fun! But you should thank me because "pissed off" is your favorite state of being.

(How was that for a DP impersonation?)

548. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275675 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 11:04 am

So now DP is over on the other Palin thread trying to get a rise out of Christoper Davis - DP really is a black hole trying to suck away the life force of other people.

549. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275666 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:55 am

SSO - don't you want to edit that?

"As rational human beings... "

Edit: I mean to say, most of here are rational.

550. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275620 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:31 am

20,000!! C'mon folks!

I'm going to go get a life.