Dechristo

nice very, Sherri! so, are the colors represented more true in the first or second photo?

with a pretty copy of the Torah and a PainedHog chaser.

I was wondering about him just last week.

Hey, MonkeyBoy, howzabout takin' a chill pill and contemplating the true meaning of "civility"? hint: it's not about anyone obeying your personal strictures of conduct. So, was it the horrifying thought of sullying "sacred texts" with the very substance it condemns that set you off? another bread crumb for you to follow: God is not in the leaves of dry papyrus, be they oil-stained or not.

...except that concoction will give him voluminous intestinal gas. And, it's common knowledge turtle farts border on lethal to humans.

Good that the guys who "don't need no stinking badges" didn't accost you. My best present: avoiding the real probability of kicking my middle-aged cousin's ass.

they're used to keep bacon flat

Ask a kind co-worker to kick you in the nuts

tie 'em to the bumper

Drink a toast each hour to each time zone. Right now: "Here's to Kazakstan!"

On stage, at a ski resort in New Mexico, in front of a ballroom-full of drunk Texans, playin' a bunch of unfamiliar tunes.

Our minds are too small to comprehend that. Our minds are just big enough to comprehend that we can't comprehend that, however. It's good you've started to realize and come to terms with, what should be, your humbling limitations. Now, if you could start to accept that many are not as limited...

Nearly all that is written and attributed to Jesus is in parable or allegorical form. Including the "7 days".

maybe you should employ a translator

yeah, I need to clean my house,too.

Yeah, if you, TTK, and JH didn't tell me you were atheists, I'd think you were great people too. heck, I might even like you in person. Good point. Although, I don't know that this was the point you were making: Most people don't realize we all live by faith. Each has their own mental mode of operation that operates, largely, and minute by minute, on assumptions of many things we don't know to be fact. Some ascribe, additionally, to codified constructs of metaphor and allegory that may help to structure, enrich, and/or explain their existence, depending on their personality and/or situation. Labels are often a simple vulgarity that act as an effort-saving, categorizing tool most employed when our mode of operation has a stake in believing we are all more different than alike. That would be me. Considering, Yeshua Ben Yosef was often and widely criticized for his "partying" ways, that he was equally critical of those who thought themselves morally above anyone, that he warned of possessing a "religious spirit", and that it says he thought of me as his "brother and friend", I have doubts he would have a problem with the image.

Belief is a choice. If this were untrue, there would be people who believed but did not want to and people who wanted to believe but couldn’t. This is not the case; belief *is* a choice. So, given the constant, inescapable bath of Christianty and Jesus-talk in America, how can you presume that any climbers “need to hear” the Good News? It seems very arrogant that you would think it was your place and role to put your religion in climbers’ faces. They have heard it all ad nauseum. If they wished to pursue it, they would. Add your frikkin guitar and that’s a tasin’. Muddy thinking (of which, I am King). If your premise were true, there would be no product advertising anywhere. You simply don't want VH's "goods" advertised in a specific location.

Heh - last year I was climbing with some Canadians, and one of them said "Why is it that whenever I go out with Americans, the conversation always gets around to bestiality?" Because Canadians look more like monkeys.

Funny. I neither live in SF nor am a whipping boy of the ACLU, but I will not support the Boy Scouts in any way until they stop with the rules excluding atheists and gay people. I know a lot of you grownup types got dragged outside because you were in the Scouts, but nowadays the BSA have made far too much of their exclusions. What a terrible turn for a formerly quality organization. It's not that the BSA has turned, but that they have continued without turning to match popular culture.

You must lay down the "fault"-finding game, Ass-hopper. God gave him the gift. Now, I've got to go fifteen pages back to catch up on this year's "God Eats Climbers on Mt. Hood" thread.

I like cavorting in a conga line with the Eight Maids A-Milking.

mass transit husbandry?

of course, that wouldn't be "stream of consciousness".