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pleco
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 Posted - 01/09/2008 : 14:14:00
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A man who believed he bore the biblical "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.
The man, in his mid-20s, was calm when Kootenai County sheriff's deputies arrived Saturday. He was in protective custody in the mental health unit of Kootenai Medical Center. |
My psychic powers predict a Darwin Honorable mention.
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Edited by - pleco on 01/09/2008 14:37:49
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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 Posted - 01/09/2008 : 14:35:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
Priceless
A man who believed he bore the biblical "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.
The man, in his mid-20s, was calm when Kootenai County sheriff's deputies arrived Saturday. He was in protective custody in the mental health unit of Kootenai Medical Center. |
My psychic powers predict a Darwin Honoralble mention.
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From the article: The Book of Revelation in the New Testament contains a passage in which an angel is quoted as saying: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink the wine of God's fury."
The book of Matthew also contains the passage: "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for you whole body to do into hell." |
At least the poor fellow used sound scriptural reasoning. So much for taking that stuff literally and as inerrant.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 01/09/2008 : 14:37:46 [Permalink]
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Oh m'god! What if he sees the Whore of Babylon next?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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pleco
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Posted - 01/09/2008 : 14:39:08 [Permalink]
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I'm just not so sure about using the Microwave. There is no scripture reference to irradiating the offending appendage.
Also, why is he in a mental health facility? That is religious persecution! Evil!!!!!!1!!!!  |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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bngbuck
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Posted - 01/09/2008 : 15:29:38 [Permalink]
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I live in Coeur D'Alene. Hayden is a suburb. This guy is almost a neighbor. There are more fundies up here than potatoes! One of my neighbors belongs to a "Hunters for Christ" group. Yep, they go out and blast all the wildlife in reverence of Jesus. Sort of an animal sacrifice, I guess. Great bunch of Northern Lights up here!
Even the dogcatcher is a Republican. A few years ago it was skinhead central. All, in all, a wonderful nesting spot for a ranting liberal atheist, but the scenery and lake and resort atmosphere are wonderful! |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 01/09/2008 : 22:25:47 [Permalink]
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bng said:
| All, in all, a wonderful nesting spot for a ranting liberal atheist |
Yeah, sounds like pure joy. How much does your security system cost you?
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 01/09/2008 : 23:44:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
...One of my neighbors belongs to a "Hunters for Christ" group. Yep, they go out and blast all the wildlife in reverence of Jesus...
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Years ago I lived in Phoenix Arizona (when it was a small city, believe it or not,) and there was a fundie group on local UHF "Christian TV" back then called "Clowns for Christ". They would appear on wacky religious shows in makeup and yell "You're a clown!" That didn't set to well with more dignified ministers. There was also (I kid you not) a bunch of nitwits called "Weight Lifters for Jesus" - they would hoist weights above their heads and before letting go, spout off some Bible quote. I recall they had body stockings over all but their hands and heads lest you see any bare flesh. This is all true.
At least the guy with no hand can't use it now to vote for Huckabee if it comes to that!
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 01/10/2008 : 06:15:57 [Permalink]
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| I noticed the other day at my work there is a notice: Christian Women's Car Pool, not sure if they discriminate or just try to convert. Maybe its a car radio preference thing. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
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Posted - 01/10/2008 : 17:38:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by pleco
Priceless
A man who believed he bore the biblical "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.
The man, in his mid-20s, was calm when Kootenai County sheriff's deputies arrived Saturday. He was in protective custody in the mental health unit of Kootenai Medical Center. |
My psychic powers predict a Darwin Honoralble mention.
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From the article: The Book of Revelation in the New Testament contains a passage in which an angel is quoted as saying: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink the wine of God's fury."
The book of Matthew also contains the passage: "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for you whole body to do into hell." |
At least the poor fellow used sound scriptural reasoning. So much for taking that stuff literally and as inerrant.
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But he didn't. He only cut it off and cooked it. He didn't discard it. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
Brother Cutlass of Reasoned Discussion |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 01/15/2008 : 11:21:10 [Permalink]
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Too bad he didn't see the mark on his forehead. That would have saved our already strapped medical care industry a few bucks. Moron.
Note, that said, if you consider Faith a virtue, this guy's got some virtue. Gotta give credit for walking the talk or whatever. Naw, he's a moron. Or crazy. |
-Chaloobi
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skeptic griggsy
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 02/13/2008 : 05:47:27 [Permalink]
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 Fr. Leo Booth notes that Yeshua overstated his case and one must view the hard sayings as metaphors. Now the latter's reference to cut out ones eyes is not literal. Now doubling the robbers' take is not overstatement but goofiness! The metaphor is to redouble ones faith when God does not answer prayers and lets such as the Holocaust happen! How even errantists have that shield of faith that keeps them from seeing things as we naturalists so do. John HIck and Bishop John Shelby Spong know that natural theology is nonsense and the Buy-bull is treacherous but their shield keeps them bowing to their imaginary Sky Pappy! 
That poor man is indeed nuts. Theists cannot see that they and he are both deluded by that shield. God need not apply to tell us how to live! Actually, it is the ignorant men of yore speaking for Him.  |
Fr. Griggs rests in his Socratic ignorance and humble naturalism. Logic is the bane of theists.Religion is mythinformation. Reason saves, not a dead Galilean fanatic. |
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Man sees mark o' beast, cuts off hand
