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Shotgun last won the day on December 25 2018

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  1. Here in the Yooessuvvay, many of the same people who have no problem dressing in Kelly Green, exaggerating their tenuous ancestral links to the Emerald Isle and drinking shitey beer dyed green every year, also get livid at the very idea of anyone celebrating Cinco de Mayo (Mexico's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862). "That's not our culture!" It takes a special breed of miseryguts to get angry at people enjoying themselves.
  2. Sitting by a warm fire on a cold day, with a dug snoozing at your feet.
  3. No Morton fans on the thread tonight? Odd.
  4. You can guarantee the people most in favour of this will be the ones who are confident THEY won’t be going.
  5. Wills probably gave Kate a dose. That or an unwanted pregnancy due to the risk of the offspring looking like her bodyguard.
  6. How many active users are there on P&B these days? We could all chip in a few quid and make it our official clubhouse. Handy for all central belt games, especially those in Glasgow and the surrounding environs. Given the number of alcoholics on the site, we'll never be short of customers and there are enough teetotalers here to set up a Designated Driver rota. Get in a decent pie vendor, negotiate a deal with Tennents and install a kettle for the Bovril and we'll be raking it in. @Shandon Par could decorate the place, @throbber to do a tasteful mural and give @RH33 a stool near the door to entice the passing trade. I think we could be onto something here.
  7. I have a long, vicious, vertical scar on my face from a knife fight in a waterfront bar in Marseille just after the war. I'd been running guns through Algiers and... Ach, I slipped on the ice and the dug leapt in for the kill, catching me under the eye with a toenail. Once I'd washed my physog you could hardly notice it and it's almost completely invisible this morning. Made me look dead fierce for a couple of hours though.
  8. My soul is shrunken, blackened husk of a thing now. It can leave if it wants. Let it make its own way in the world.
  9. It's also where the nursery rhyme "Ring-a-ring-a-roses", referenced by @Venti, upthread, comes from. A sneeze was apparently the first sign of the bubonic plague (as I like to tell other people when they sneeze) and if the sneezer was famous. a good indicator to update your Dead Pool spreadsheet. A ring of roses round the neck or a pocket full of posies was supposed to ward off the dreaded lurgi. "We all fall down" is pretty self-explanatory.
  10. February is the Tuesday of the month world. Last bit of fun is over, next bit of fun is way off. The weather’s always crap, Christmas bonus is spent and the credit card bills are rolling in. Get February TF. Tuesday too, while we’re at it.
  11. Aye. Quarter of my squad gone by July but not one of the others found their way to the mortuary after that. Still my best ever performance mind.
  12. Wrong. Atheists do not have one ounce of a burden of proof. Theologists are the ones making nonsensical claims and it's up to them to provide evidence. Something which despite millennia of opportunity, none have been able to do. If I tell you there are pixies living at the bottom of my garden, neither you nor anyone else has a "burden of proof" to show that there aren't. If I then start committing atrocities because "the pixies told me to" then you and everyone else has a moral obligation to stop me. Your omnipotent, infallible, all loving god who has a plan for all of us will, through no fault of your own, let you suffer a life of misery, agonising pain and terror, but will change his mind and stop it if you simply ask? Are you seriously claiming that people in concentration camps, prisoners in torture chambers, children being sexually abused could've seen an end to their torment if only they'd prayed? You really think none of them did that? The patients in the Gazan hospitals, waiting for the bombs to drop? None of them prayed? Just f**k off. Don't feel bad about having cancer; things will be better once you're dead. Unless of course, you ate meat on a Friday before 1984. Make sure you remember to love Jesus through every minute of your agony until then though. This may be the "best way out" in your opinion but personally, I believe an omnipotent being should be able to come up with something better. What is it you struggle with? Either god can't stop it, in which case he isn't omnipotent, or he chooses not to stop it in which case he's evil. Either way he is unworthy of simple respect, never mind worship and adoration. The consequences of no war? Millions of innocent people no longer being slaughtered for the benefit of the few? Are you saying that would be bad? Seriously? And if it's easy for us to moralise about strategies, think how much easier it would be for an omnipotent, infallible being to do so. For example, he could consider punishing the people responsible for the crimes and not the innocents. And do it while they're alive so other potential tyrants can see it happen and learn from it. That might be one way a loving deity could handle things. And yet you still haven't reached the obvious conclusion? All Christians pick and choose. It would be impossible to follow the tenets otherwise. Do you follow every instruction given in the bible? Or just the ones you like? Your poor mother lived a life of misery and pain but didn't seek help because she'd been brainwashed into thinking this was god's plan for her. And that even to question this idea was itself a sin. The ultimate in mind-fuckery. And no, her prayers were never answered. Sometimes things she wanted to happen, happened. Nothing more, nothing less. Unless you're admitting that, per your claim above, the abuse would've stopped if she had only prayed for that to happen. Well yes, hard to argue with because it's inane. What does one have to do with the other? I'd rather die in a car crash than have onchocerca volvulus living in my eyeballs after being bitten by a black fly, as some people do. But frankly, I'd prefer neither. Nobody is expecting you to be perfect. It's not unreasonable though, to expect higher standards of an omnipotent being. Your favourite falls well short. While you yourself may not tell others how to live their lives, you enthusiastically support organisations that do. And you yell "BIGOT!!" at anyone who calls you out on it. Don't try to claim the moral high ground here.
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