Loaded Language

[KDbeads]

I don't know what the hell you urinate out of but I pee out of my vagina and Im pretty sure urine is waste .

Uhmmmmm.... anatomy lesson needed here, you do not urinate out of your vagina, you urinate out of your urethra, not the same.  Same as men, though their bodies also use the urethra as a conduit for semen after it is produced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urethra

[NothingSacred]

I don't know what the hell you urinate out of but I pee out of my vagina and Im pretty sure urine is waste .

Uhmmmmm.... anatomy lesson needed here, you do not urinate out of your vagina, you urinate out of your urethra, not the same.  Same as men, though their bodies also use the urethra as a conduit for semen after it is produced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urethra

Oh ok fair enough i wasnt going to be that specific since it was pretty clear what i meant

[KDbeads]

 
I had an interesting consult with my GYN a few weeks ago when she actually had to ask if I knew what and where everything was before she explained a procedure.  When I laughed, she was relived, let me know she's had to explain this to a few too many women lately!

Ok, back to our regularly scheduled thread

[NothingSacred]

since im bored and have nothing better to do im going to translate some christianese....


"You're twisting my words around."

Translation : 1.)You will not comply with my use of loaded language . 2.)You have seen where I was leading with my bate question and I'm frustrated.


" You have a hardened heart"

Translation: 1.) You are cold and unemotional because you rely on logic as a basis for belief. 2.) You are a bad person for not believing in god.

"You just want to keep on living in sin."

Translation: 1.) my religious leader told me that all non believers are bad so it must be true. 2.) I'm upset because you can partake in normal human conduct such as sex without guilt and I cannot.


" Some things just require faith."

Translation: 1.) I cannot verify the claims of my faith but you should still believe me.

"Man has only a finite understanding."

Translation: 1.) Some things just require faith. 2.)I don't know everything about the universe or how we got here so I am content to believe those who make shit up.


"You may not believe but you'll see on judgement day"

Translation: 1.) Ive run out of arguments and Im pissed ... go to hell

"God is a god of love."

Translation: 1.) Im making a choice to ignore all of the fucked up things in my holy book. 2.) I havent read all of my holy book.

"Ive been where you are...youre just lost"


Translation: 1.) Im going to pretend to understand your problems and or the problems I assume you have in order to convert you.

" Knowing god has made me a better person"

Translation: 1.) Im preteding to be happy all of the time because the bible says to so that the world wants what ive got. 2.)I made a choice to correct my behaviour but instead of giving myself due credit i'll attribute it to a god.

" I'll pray for you"
Translation: 1.) I dont actually want to help. 2.)I cant convince you to convert maybe god can. 3.) I think im better than you and feel like being condescending.


Any others folks?

[DaveD]

"God moves in mysterious ways"

Translation: 1.) You've spotted the fatal flaws in my dogma, and I'm unable to explain them away.

                   2.) Look, what's that over there?..-------------------->

[Sophus]

"Only God can know the answers."

1. you've spotted my obvious contradiction 2. God is so magic he can make contradictions poof away, just like that!

Their talk reminds me of this:

Judith:You're so small.
Max: Small is good. My powers are able to slip right through the cracks.
Judith: But what if the cracks are closed up?
Max: Then I have a re-cracker, which goes right through that.
Judith: But what if they have some sort of material that re-crackers can't get through?
Max: Then I have a double re-cracker, which can get through anything in this whole universe. And that's the end, and there's nothing more powerful after that, ever. Period.
Alexander: He has a double re-cracker.
Ira: He does sound powerful.

They're aren't looking to talk reason. Just how much bigger and more powerful their imaginary friend is from our inferior human logic! Which obviously, any awesome thing I dream up can crush under his huge spiky tail!!!!

[Thumpalumpacus]

"You may not believe but you'll see on judgement day"

Translation: 1.) Ive run out of arguments and Im pissed ... go to hell

Or: "It worked on me, it might work on you."

"God is a god of love."

Translation: 1.) Im making a choice to ignore all of the fucked up things in my holy book. 2.) I havent read all of my holy book.

Or: "I've been programmed to ignore cognitive dissonance."

" Knowing god has made me a better person"

Translation: 1.) Im preteding to be happy all of the time because the bible says to so that the world wants what ive got. 2.)I made a choice to correct my behaviour but instead of giving myself due credit i'll attribute it to a god.

Or:  "I'm better than you."

[deekayfry]

"God only helps those who help themselves."

Translation
1)  Use this phrase when you see you an old lady who drops a bag of grocery and a car pull up and the driver blows the horn at her the hell out of the way.
2) Use this phrase when through no fault of their own someone lose their job, their homes, their loved ones, or become sick and turn to anyone just to survive.  Actually, they are just looking for hand-outs because they don't want to work
3) You are not really depressed, you are just lazy
4)  See God doesn't care about you until you do something about it.  Yet, you pray to him when you need his help?  

"The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways"

Translation
1) Means that a chain of fortunate events can be mysteriously explained by mysterious divine being.
2) Use to gloss over something that you really don't understand.  Like how electricity works...
3) Quit bugging me about facts!
4)  I am just too ignorant or lazy to think something through
5) Convenient for explaining just about anything I don't understand but I like any way

[NothingSacred]

"God only helps those who help themselves."

Translation
1)  Use this phrase when you see you an old lady who drops a bag of grocery and a car pull up and the driver blows the horn at her the hell out of the way.
2) Use this phrase when through no fault of their own someone lose their job, their homes, their loved ones, or become sick and turn to anyone just to survive.  Actually, they are just looking for hand-outs because they don't want to work
3) You are not really depressed, you are just lazy
4)  See God doesn't care about you until you do something about it.  Yet, you pray to him when you need his help?  :crazy:

[Asmodean]

We all got to eat and no one wants to be trash, but damn if their God isn't petty.

I seem to remember some fantasy tale in which there was this turkish-looking jew who said something about a rich man and a camel and a needle eye...

Now what I don't seem to remember is seeing a theist actually following that word willingly. Why is that, I wonder... Cherries. Let's blame those.