February 2008 Screwball Nominations

[Raphael]

Nomination for Jimbo as he manages to completely smash the irony meter in Billy's thread:

Hey Folks,

You should all step back for just a moment and take a look at your behavior. Over and over again JP Holding "invites" someone to the Tektonics board and as soon as the person steps into the forum, a horde of rabid, frenzied JP Holding synchophants gang up on and attack the invitee. A tidal wave of angry questions are piled on and venemous insults are spewed with impunity. The TWEB newbie is attacked from all sides with no time to catch his breath. In the midst of the melee, Holding chortles with laughter and dismiss the hapless guest as a mindless buffoon. This happens over and over again and it just looks absolutely silly. This kind of behavior is not dissimilar to the behavior of small, angry children on the playground ganging up on the class geek. It is somewhat understandable when seen in young children, but it is rather pathetic when it is manifested by grown adults.

It seems obvious that there is no genuine desire for a calm, reasoned, adult discusssion underlying these invititations. The point simply seems to be to use the invitee as a target for all sorts of repressed anger.

Cheers,

Jimbo

[OfficialPro]

Nomination for Jimbo as he manages to completely smash the irony meter in Billy's thread:

Someone should tell dimbo that rational discussion flies right out the window the minute the one party starts making bogus diagnoses of mental disorders based on words typed on a page. That's not even "phoning it in."

[Teluog]

Nomination for Jimbo as he manages to completely smash the irony meter in Billy's thread:

The part I don't get the most is:

The TWEB newbie is attacked from all sides with no time to catch his breath.

How do you not catch your breath? Turn off your computer and go watch TV. The only reason Silly never caught his breath is because he's been smoking so much cocaine-laced dubies.

[Chaotic Void]

Nomination for Jimbo as he manages to completely smash the irony meter in Billy's thread:

He didn't Smash it...
He Atomized it.

[jpholding]

Poor Harry hasn't caught up yet....meanwhile here's some Gold from commenters on his last entry:

Lady through the Looking Glass said...

While browsing some sites for Christian apologists, I found his, but didn't stay very long, because I was turned off by his heavily sarcastic tone. Even if what he was saying made perfect sense, it was lost on me, because he came across as arrogant. I believe that truth should be presented with an attitude of humility, highlighting the facts, and certainly not by trying to belittle those who do not share one's views.

AndreLinoge said...

Why does anyone need "scholarship"?

Do you mean to say that God didn't make his word plain? Why didn't he?

[jpholding]

Reader nominates someone he had a chat with...choice quotes:

the church is ****, and alot of reseach later, came ot the decision, lifes prob better when believe in nothing

[Christianity is] albout what you've done wrong even buddhism is about mostly positivity

lol, if you base your life on a religion thats all about "ah i might do something wrong and have to waste my ***** time saying sorry for it.." ... thats messed..

rather be sorry for nothing, no regrets, no ******, no one greater, just me, my life my ***** choice

name one time god says WOW YOUR SO GREAT YOU"RE DOING WELL
no.. he's like DON"T DO THIS and YOU'VE ***** UP! REPENT

just like all the other fairys and goblins in childrens fairy tales to teach kids or anyone studpid enough to fall for the dribble


nothing in history about the church means anthing today



you just believe it because.. reasons don't matter

And no, there is no scienctific proof that some magic man jesus existed

lol and if there was, it'd be some made up ******* by some christian turned scientist funded by the US government


I don't find anything difficult in christianity, lol it's easy. you can do whatever the *** you want, and just repent to the air and when you die you will be in some magical place appaerntly

Let's send jwarrend and Kirk Cameron to witness to him.

[Alucard]

JP, just so you know, until a couple of months ago, he was a hardcore fully-into-it-mate charismatic Christian.

Who obviously didn't understand his own religion.

And come on, there was more than that! What about his quip about there being pyramids and dinosaur bones, and somehow this negates any evidence that would be sufficient for Jesus' existence?

[Raphael]

Nomination for The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute, and specifically Christine M Miller, the write of the following article:
http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/questions/yq/yq195.html

TML

Did the Blessed Virgin Mary menstruate?
.....
We have already seen that because the Garden of Eden was conceived of a sanctuary Eve could not have menstruated since that would have rendered her unclean.
......
But we do know dogmatically as Catholics that Mary would not have "bled" during her giving birth to Jesus. We know this from the dogma of Mary's Perpetual Virginity - before, after, and particularly during the birth of Jesus. It is an article of divine Catholic faith that Mary preserved her virginity—inviolate from any physical damage or destruction. This would mean, on a physical level that Mary's hymen remained intact. This can be a contentious issue for some, since we know that the hymen can be burst outside of sexual intercourse or giving birth and the girl would still be considered a virgin. But theologically, it is different for Mary because of her integral involvement with the Incarnation and Redemption worked by Jesus.

© source where applicable

More in the article (including a quote from Pope Benedict on the issue).

[One Bad Pig]

[A Deeper Look]

andreLinoge said...

Why does anyone need "scholarship"?

Do you mean to say that God didn't make his word plain? Why didn't he?

He's just lookin for a picture book ;-)

[Glenn P]

Censorship. Coming soon.

You mean you have to abide by the same rules as me? Oh the humanity!

[jwarrend]

Let's send jwarrend and Kirk Cameron to witness to him.

Um...????

-Jeff

[historic salve]

Nomination for John Powell for this asinine comparison between the evidence for God and the evidence for Santa Claus:

Johnny: I think you're making Santa Claus up. Where does he live? Can I go see him at home?
Daddy: Oh no you can't, he lives too far away for you to visit. He lives . . . at the north pole, yea that's the ticket.

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...=109181&page=4

[jpholding]

Gold for one of DJ's Idiot Fans, insanezenmistress. Setup with Screwball nominated before. withinreason is a Christian (not a screwball():

withinreason said...

yep, everyone does have an opinion.. it's just too bad that you think you that you opinion is top-notch Bible scholarship ;-)

1:24 AM, February 21, 2008
Blogger AndreLinoge said...

Why does anyone need "scholarship"?

Do you mean to say that God didn't make his word plain? Why didn't he?

2:33 AM, February 21, 2008
Blogger withinreason said...

I'm sorry God didn't make a picture book.. I'm sure you would even complain about that :-P

12:31 AM, February 22, 2008
Blogger Insanezenmistress said...

within reason

i doubt that your concerned with the atheist "reading" of the word.
Clearly you both have access to the same information and the same use of eyes and memories.

What concerns you is our interpretation and use of what we read. maybe God did give out a picture book, the pictures look like words.

Words hide meaning like a picture hides discriptions. We both see plainly, but interpret differently.
Feel differently.

So when you say "get an education" you really mean "learn and believe my understanding."

[jpholding]

Gold also for Paul Jacobsen. He cleaned up the profanity but is still stupid -- he uses Rational Responders (and their use of John Remsberg) as a source!