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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2006, 09:09:42 pm »
Holy Blood Holy Grail, which I have no intention of reading anytime soon.
Why not?

Because it's laid out as a book of fact, when truely it's misinformed. If it were a fictional story like The DaVinci Code I'd (maybe) read it, but this one I'd rather not.

Eww, dump the mormon bible!

(says the guy who has like, two of them).
My pastor told me to burn it. Personally I think he's being an extremist right there. I'm not planning on reading that either. Personally I think the dude was an attention whore, but if I get really bored I may open it up and see how insane the guy was. I just read the preface and it's clearly bull.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #31 on: June 27, 2006, 10:47:17 pm »
I watched the South Park episode on how the Mormon religion came to be.  It was hilarious.  ;D
errr... something like that...

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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #32 on: June 27, 2006, 11:17:37 pm »
I've used the Book of Mormon for research and apologetics (it's one of my study/interest areas).  I also have the D&C/PGP (Doctrine & Covenants and Pearl of Great Price), which are also fun reads.  One has to be careful reading them, though, that you don't confuse them for actual scripture.  ;)
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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #33 on: June 28, 2006, 01:07:40 am »
I realize what you mean in the be careful part. I often mix up Harry Potter fanficts with the actual book. =p
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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« Reply #34 on: June 28, 2006, 03:29:21 am »
*sigh* Joe and his Jesus loving...

He didn't do anything to try to force his beliefs on you, so why do you have to ridicule him?  Totally uncalled for.

But he does me!   :(

So... *sigh* Joe and his Jesus loving...
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« Reply #35 on: June 28, 2006, 03:32:23 am »
I watched the South Park episode on how the Mormon religion came to be.  It was hilarious.  ;D

Yes, but the moral of that episode and the christian one were pretty good.
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« Reply #36 on: June 28, 2006, 03:28:20 pm »
I watched the South Park episode on how the Mormon religion came to be.  It was hilarious.  ;D

Signed. :P

I remember the part when they had that high-pitched angelic chorus, and they'd say something after each part of the story, and when they said, " Lies, lies, lies.. " or something along those lines I crapped my pants.

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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #37 on: June 28, 2006, 03:40:13 pm »
I watched the South Park episode on how the Mormon religion came to be.  It was hilarious.  ;D

Signed. :P

I remember the part when they had that high-pitched angelic chorus, and they'd say something after each part of the story, and when they said, " Lies, lies, lies.. " or something along those lines I crapped my pants.

"Dum dum dum dum" (sounded like "Dumb dumb dumb dumb")

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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #38 on: June 28, 2006, 03:43:44 pm »
Yes, but the moral of that episode and the christian one were pretty good.

It's South Park... it doesn't have any sort of moral.

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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #39 on: June 28, 2006, 03:44:27 pm »
Sure it does. Everyone hates Kenny.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #40 on: June 28, 2006, 04:31:10 pm »
Yes, but the moral of that episode and the christian one were pretty good.

It's South Park... it doesn't have any sort of moral.

Do you watch South Park? 

More so in the recenter episodes, they have a very strong moral.  Most of the episodes are centered around some problem or belief in the US. 

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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #41 on: June 28, 2006, 04:48:22 pm »
Do you watch South Park? 

More so in the recenter episodes, they have a very strong moral.  Most of the episodes are centered around some problem or belief in the US. 

Sorry: they don't have a reasonable or justifed moral.  If they do, the proposed solution is stupid or unreasoned.  Take, for example, their multitues of insults on religion.  They can make fun of them all they want, but they're not proving anything by doing so.

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« Reply #42 on: June 28, 2006, 05:25:57 pm »
Do you watch South Park? 

More so in the recenter episodes, they have a very strong moral.  Most of the episodes are centered around some problem or belief in the US. 

Sorry: they don't have a reasonable or justifed moral.  If they do, the proposed solution is stupid or unreasoned.  Take, for example, their multitues of insults on religion.  They can make fun of them all they want, but they're not proving anything by doing so.

Let me explain Satire to you.  The creators of South Park take an issue to the extreme, even ridiculing it.  By ridiculing it, they force people to think about it.  The point of most episodes is to get people to think of issues. 

For example, the "Me and my future self" episode takes parents' unwillingness to talk to their children about drugs/alcohol to the extreme by showing the parents hiring somebody to pretend to have come back for the past.  The moral isn't "You shouldn't hire an actor to pretend to go back in time", it's "be direct with your children". 

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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #43 on: June 28, 2006, 05:47:49 pm »
..I too believe South Park does try to get across a message sometimes :(...its weird.

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Re: Joe's bookshelf..
« Reply #44 on: June 28, 2006, 05:54:44 pm »
I couldn't have said it better.
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...