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posted by martyb on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the "this-end-up" dept.

If you had big plans this weekend, David Meade regrets to inform you that the world will be ending Saturday.

Meade, a Christian numerologist and self-described "researcher," says Sept. 23 is foretold in the Bible's Book of Revelation as the day a series of catastrophic events will begin, and as a result, "a major part of the world will not be the same," the Washington Post reports.

The Bible prophecies a woman "clothed with the sun" and a "crown of 12 stars" giving birth to a boy who will "rule all the nations" while she fights off a seven-headed dragon. The woman, Meade says, is the constellation Virgo, which on Saturday will be positioned under nine stars and three planets, per Popular Mechanics.

The baby boy will be the planet Jupiter, which will be moving out of Virgo on that night.

According to Meade, who says he studied astronomy at an unspecified university in Kentucky, the great change in our world will be the result of the arrival of Nibiru, a planet famous in conspiracy circles but which astronomers say doesn't exist.

http://wnep.com/2017/09/20/researcher-says-this-saturday-will-be-the-end-of-the-world/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/ (soft paywalled)


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:29AM (31 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:29AM (#571002)

    The people who study Ancient Klingon are at least doing something worthwhile with their lives.

    Why do people find the Bible even remotely interesting as a guide for life? It pails in comparison to the literature of more modern times.

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  • (Score: 4, Disagree) by jmorris on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:51AM (17 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:51AM (#571008)

    Evolution my boy, evolution. The Bible has proven its fitness to serve as a basis for a major civilization's moral and social code. All of the proposed replacements since the later portion of the Enlightenment have crashed and burned. Badly.

    Considering the body count most of the failures have ran up, and the one our current failing attempt is likely to achieve soon as it collapses, we might want to consider the wisdom of Chesterton's Fence and attempt to understand the social technology embodied in it before the next attempt to modify our society away from the proven pattern in it. Because it is a veritable certainty that come the collapse of the current West's societies there will be a major religious revival, there is ALWAYS a major revival when things go to tits up.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:12AM (#571015)

      The Bible has proven its fitness to serve as a basis for a major civilization's moral and social code.

      Ha ha ha ah ha! I cannot wait to see what the Eth makes of this! Jmorris is a jew? And an "observant jew"? Wow, shit just got real. Bible suck, y'all. It says you cannot charge interest, because that is usury. So all capitalists are going to hell. But we knew that already, right? So where does jmorris go? Hmmm.

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:19AM (2 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:19AM (#571019) Journal

      there is ALWAYS a major revival when things go to tits up

      Not in things that really matter, no.
      Case at point, the religious sentiment revival pales in significance when compared with the fact a certain part of my body experiences only a minor revival when seeing some tits up.

      (grin)

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      • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:24PM (1 child)

        by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:24PM (#571134) Journal

        At least you are smiling during adversity.

        --
        "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:05PM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:05PM (#571150) Journal

          At least you are smiling during adversity.

          Adversity? What adversity? Without that thing I needed to take care of, I'm left with so much spare time in my hands (grin)

          Ah, it's the religious sentiment revival you were talking about. Well, I see no reason to waste my time worrying about it, posting on S/N is evidently more profitable (double grin)

          (and no, I'm not smiling. Just triple grinning - as you most probably know, cynics use to do that)

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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:26AM (9 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:26AM (#571023)

      The past participle of "to run" is "run", not "ran".

      Also, the founders of the U.S. were Deists at best, drew on the lessons of ancient governance and philosophy, and even stated that the United States is explicitly not a Christian society; on 11 April 1823, Thomas Jefferson wrote the following to John Adams:

      The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter… we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding…

      • (Score: 2, Disagree) by jmorris on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:42AM (8 children)

        by jmorris (4844) on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:42AM (#571045)

        I think everyone is missing the point here. But lemme me take the bait a moment and respond to the false point raised since it is a very common misconception that needs killing off anyway. The Founders were not Deists. Glenn Beck agrees with NeoReaction on one point, the importance of old books. Him and David Barton take it one step farther though and don't content themselves with reading old books on Gutenberg and Google, they collect the actual old books, manuscripts, journals, proclamations, etc. LOTS of them. Enough to remove all doubt as to the actual religious beliefs and practices of the Founders. I mean what are ya gonna believe, what your professor said about the Founders or what they actually wrote in their own handwriting?

        Almost all were mainstream (for their day) Protestant, sect mostly varying by geography which makes sense considering how they were founded. Jefferson was somewhat doubtful in some writings, less so in others, he varied a lot, especially after falling under the influence of French Revolutionary thinking. But most of what you were taught about Jefferson is as wrong as the modern rewrite of all of the Founders. Try this [wallbuilders.com] as a corrective. Paine drank the French Kool-Aid and went full retard, you should read some of the other Founders flame him, in fact you can do just that [wallbuilders.com]. Oops, so much for Franklin being a Deist too.

        Now to the point you all are missing. I was being careful to speak of the Bible as social technology, not religion. It doesn't really matter if it is "True", what matters is the code it embodies "works" better than the others tried before or after. Evolution isn't about "Truth" it is about "better".

        The French Revolution unleashed rivers of blood, a near world war and France is on the 5th Republic now. We must judge it a failure.

        Then Marx tried, and again we got rivers of blood. Hitler? More rivers of blood. While our current Secular Humanist / Progressive / Socialist civilization finishes rotting into collapse, Islam seem to be making a play... not yet rivers of blood there but some serious streams already. And of course we can look elsewhere around the world to see where many others have tried variations of the 20th Century's replacement social tech and find only misery, death and horror. DOES. NOT. WORK.

        There is a reason Europe had the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution and China or India didn't. Some cultures are more compatible with reason and science than others.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:00AM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:00AM (#571051) Journal

          France is on the 5th Republic now. We must judge it a failure.

          LOL.**

          ---

          **I wish those people could temper their compulsion to tell others: "You must think this way. This is The Truth! It will set you free!". Not gonna happen very soon, does it?

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          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:46AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:46AM (#571067)

          But lemme me take the bait a moment and respond to the false point raised since it is a very common misconception that needs killing off anyway. The Founders were not Deists. Glenn Beck agrees with NeoReaction on one point, the importance of old books. Him and David Barton take it one step farther though and don't content themselves with reading old books on Gutenberg and Google, they collect the actual old books, manuscripts, journals, proclamations, etc. LOTS of them. Enough to remove all doubt as to the actual religious beliefs and practices of the Founders. I mean what are ya gonna believe, what your professor said about the Founders or what they actually wrote in their own handwriting?

          jmorris, you refute yourself at your very beginning. Barton? And you believe him when he says he has collected "actual old books"? Have you seen the movie, "National Treasure" with Jon Voight, well known Trump supporter? This may be better evidence than what you offer here. Glenn Beck: less crazy is still crazy. Or: "Glenn Beck, the Mormon Alex Jones!" Can't trust those professors! They are the ones who actually have studied the stuff, in kind of a peer reviewed way, and stuff.

          • (Score: 3, Touché) by jmorris on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:19PM (1 child)

            by jmorris (4844) on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:19PM (#571182)

            I have read enough old books myself to know the U.S. academy is defective and an active menace to those seeking knowledge. Started with the Progressives and Woodrow Wilson's misfits when he ran Princeton. Try it sometime for yourself. There is no excuse anymore, Gutenberg and Google provide instant access to tons of old books. Read a modern biography and then read one written before the 20th Century. Do it for any of the Founders. Deconstruction is what they call it, if you know where to look they admit to what they are doing.

            So lemme get this straight. When Beck and Barton display a modern copy of a book with the collected sayings of Washington then show an old copy of the same title with additional content, your mind would prefer to believe the old book is a carefully manufactured fake. When they show the edited copies of Alexis de Tocqueville's _Democracy in America_ promoted to modern students, that admits it is cut and then points out the pattern in the edits to make it fit Prog ideas better, that is fake? The hundred plus handwritten notes, proclamations, etc. they have shown are all fake. Even when they are showing stuff they haven't managed to buy personally, that nice lady from the auction house is an actress and is part of the scam too.

            Because Beck is nuts and going broke they haven't built the permanent museum they keep planning, but have had a couple of open house events where folks can get in to see the collection of artifacts (not just books) they are collecting. Nobody has spotted a fake artifact and raised a ruckus yet.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @06:58AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @06:58AM (#571586)

              Because Beck is nuts and going broke they haven't built the permanent museum they keep planning, but have had a couple of open house events where folks can get in to see the collection of artifacts (not just books) they are collecting. Nobody has spotted a fake artifact and raised a ruckus yet.

              Going? Jesus! Will there be a full-scale model of the Ark in this museum? Give it up, jmorris, God has afflicted you with the pestilence of a conservative mind. You best just suffer in silence rather than encouraging mockery and derision. And maybe you can be reborn as a donkey in your next life, if you are lucky.

        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by letssee on Thursday September 21 2017, @10:21AM (1 child)

          by letssee (2537) on Thursday September 21 2017, @10:21AM (#571089)

          Do you really *believe* this? That the enlightenment only could happen in europe because of the 'working' moral code form the bible?
          The bible has caused impressive rivers of blood in the past, and still does. I wouldn't really call it a 'working' system.

          Can I tell you a secret? It's all about the money. It always was and it always will be.

          Also, it took a chinese emperor dying at an inopportune moment to prevent europe being colonized by the chinese instead of the other way around. Lots and lots of coincidences in world history.

          • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:11PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:11PM (#571207)

            It's pretty well established that everyone who tried to invade Europe got decimated by Europe's impressive array of diseases.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:41PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:41PM (#571355)

          Glenn Beck agrees with NeoReaction on one point, the importance of old books.

          Do we need further proof that jmo is just a walking talking breathing propaganda machine? I mean Glenn Beck agrees so wowowowowowwo! Talk radio is garbage, anyone forming their opinions based on the rantings of talk radio hosts is lacking serious critical thinking skills. "All heil capitalism! May the pyramid scheme never end, and may I one day reach the higher levels. Oh, and please send me some new military boots for Jesusmas the old ones are wearing out from all the face stomping."

          • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @12:05AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @12:05AM (#571480)

            Impressive set of meaningless and inflammatory jibberjabba! jmo ad hominem! I think Glenn Beck sucks! People I don't like are garbage! People who disagree with me can't think critically!

            Mmm, yes. I can tell from your post that the size of your critical thinker is incredible.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:42AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:42AM (#571066)

      All of the proposed replacements since the later portion of the Enlightenment have crashed and burned. Badly.

      And what is wrong with a secular moral and social code? Because whether most people admit it or not, they are using it. Strange how people cherrypick verses from the bible and use the most convenient interpretations possible to suit their own beliefs; it's like the bible doesn't matter much at all and people don't really need it.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:45PM

        by jmorris (4844) on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:45PM (#571196)

        Agreed. But up to the late 18th Century they were picking one closely based on the Biblical; one that was known to work. Slow change, discard the failures (by deliberate action or by failure/death), propagate the successes, in short evolution. Starting with the French Revolution and Marx it was Revolution, throw out -everything- and build an entire social order and moral code based on reason. The evidence from that experiment says that either our reason or our knowledge is not yet up to the task.

        They weren't interested in examining the old to see what worked, why it worked, what would be the non-obvious consequences of changes in area A to B, none of that. They simply ripped and replaced. But even if we did, I doubt we have the knowledge required to make massive changes and avoid hosing ourselves. Arrogance is deadly, we have been thinking about these things in a methodical way but a short time, we should admit our limitations. Our Science and Reason are nowhere near ready to provide a total philosophical system. It makes for dangerous times, we know enough to be unwilling to follow the old stable codes and are still too ignorant to replace them.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:43PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:43PM (#571230) Journal

      ...are...are you fucking serious? Compare the Bill of Rights and the Ten Commandments. Tell me why we don't have formalized chattel slavery despite everything Paul says about "obey your masters as Christ."

      J-Mo, you complete goddamn historical illiterate...you want a "Biblical" world? Go to Iran. The Koran isn't a lot different in that regard. THAT is what you're advocating when you say shit like "[t]he Bible has proven its fitness to serve as a basis for a major civilization's moral and social code." Just...lie down and shut up. I'm embarrassed *for* you that you'd say something that ignorant, since it's clear you have no shame.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:06AM (#571036)

    Why do people find the Bible even remotely interesting as a guide for life?

    Because they are highly interested in Deuter0nomy.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 21 2017, @11:57AM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 21 2017, @11:57AM (#571104) Journal

    "Why do people find the Bible even remotely interesting as a guide for life?"

    The answer to that question is a lot more complex than you realize. There is a lot in the Bible that is interesting as a guide for life. Of course there would be. It's a carefully curated collection of compositions by those considered wisest for thousands of years. Some of it sounds dated to us now, but there's a whole bunch in there that connects to the common humanity we share with them. Take the advice of an Akkadian father to his son [youtube.com]. Written thousands of years ago, but still a whole lot of it is still good advice today.

    So there's a lot of wisdom and guidance for life you can get from the Bible. The "because God says so" part of it lends more authority to the advice. The "do it, or I shall smite thee" is nearly identical to what I tell my kids to get them to stop fighting and treat one another better.

    On another level, some people use the Bible as a weapon. They claim its authority for their own, and thereby God's authority, and then proceed to use it as justification for horrible things that are mostly contrary to what the book actually says, and whose actual goals are mundane, banal.

    Others use the Bible's precepts to codify and reinforce tribalism. "Our tribe does this. If you don't, then you are not of our tribe." Some tribes take that more strenuously than others. View the Orthodox Jews swaying as they read their torahs, or the snake handlers waving Bibles in Appalachia.

    However many nefarious or reductive uses all those folks put the Bible to, it doesn't change the fact there is a lot in the Bible that is a useful guide for life.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by tfried on Friday September 22 2017, @09:06AM (2 children)

      by tfried (5534) on Friday September 22 2017, @09:06AM (#571595)

      Yes, the Bible is an interesting (if sort of lengthy) read for several reasons, including that it contains some bits of advice that still sound reasonable today. However that does not set it apart from the Harry Potter series, for instance. Or - a bit more seriously - from the works of Shakespeare, or - if that is looking too newfangled - the works of Seneca or Aristotele. BTW, the one you cite ("Counsels of Wisdom") is a lot older, and happens to be historically close to some parts of the Old Testament, but is not part of the Bible.

      The whole dilemma with the Bible is the huge machinery surrounding it, and especially the obnoxious notions that
      - the Bible is the best read/advice that you can get
      - the Bible is the literal word of God, and therefore
      - every single bit of it is to be taken literally, and no single bit must ever be dismissed as outdated.
      Clearly the kills any open-minded debate.

      Every other negative you mention (the Bible being misused to justify just about anything, including horrible deeds) is just a consequence of that: As the Bible is the "book you cannot argue with" makes it the ultimate book for arguments from authority.

      TL;DR: The one really unique thing about the Bible is the way it is being misused to end all debate. If you are looking for meaningful advice, look elsewhere.

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 22 2017, @12:04PM (1 child)

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 22 2017, @12:04PM (#571613) Journal

        The one really unique thing about the Bible is the way it is being misused to end all debate. If you are looking for meaningful advice, look elsewhere.

        Isn't the Constitution of the United States used in the same exact way, though, to end all debate? It's the authority, it says this, you're not doing what it says, you're wrong. Period.

        That the Bible does have meaningful advice is not negated by the ends toward which some people employ it. If I read, "Thou shalt not kill," and say, "Hey, that's good advice," doesn't that stand alone? If some other guys engraves that on a stone tablet and then uses that tablet to brain somebody else, it still doesn't change the value of the statement, "Thou shalt not kill." It merely says that guy is a retard who can't read.

        As for the Bible being the literal word of God, I think most people who profess Christian faith would probably opt for the milder, "inspired by God." There are too many contradictions and other flaws in the Bible to ascribe its sole authorship to a perfect, supreme being. As a document inspired by God the Bible would be in good company with many other cultures. The Greeks invoked divine inspiration for their compositions all the time from the Muses.

        For me, the actual provenance of the advice in the Bible is less material, but if believing "Thou shalt not kill" is divinely ordered has more success in preventing the aforementioned illiterate from disobeying it, then where's the harm?

        --
        Washington DC delenda est.
        • (Score: 2) by tfried on Friday September 22 2017, @08:19PM

          by tfried (5534) on Friday September 22 2017, @08:19PM (#571784)

          The problem with anything used as ultimate authority is that it better be consistently good advice, not some self-contradictory mix of good and bad. Take your "Counsels of Wisdom" for contrast: It holds a bunch of very specific advice, but it also gives the reasoning behind that advice (and beyond god likes this / god dislikes this). In other words, it gives you the tools to judge whether that advice is sound, and whether it applies to whatever time, place, and context you happen to be in. The Bible ... can't really think of any section that would stand up in comparison.

          Also, yes, the same applies to the Constitution. It was clearly written by mere - if exceptional - human beings. There is ample reason not to take it lightly, and there are wise guards against modifying it on a whim, and on a flimsy majority. That doesn't mean it cannot be modified or should never clarified, modified or amended In fact, there are clear rules on how to do just that. Therefore it also isn't suited for arguments to (ultimate) authority, even if many are trying to use it that way, and many are falling for it.

          For your example of "thou shalt not kill", I will mention that:
          a) There seems to be widespread agreement that it is one of the better pieces of advice in the Bible. But how can we even judge, whether biblical advice is good or bad? Obviously we are drawing from additional sources of insight.
          b) Most other cultures have come up with a similar rule, independently.
          c) Such rules are usually backed up by formal or informal earthly consequences, not just scripture.
          d) Christians and non-Christians alike have been all too good at finding exceptions to that simple rule.

  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday September 21 2017, @12:21PM (4 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Thursday September 21 2017, @12:21PM (#571114)

    Probably because one can't even teach science in schools these days: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/09/18/dropping-science [penny-arcade.com]

    And even a mistaken hint that Glorious Magic Sky Fairy doesn't really exist must be purged so as not to offend Glorious Magic Sky Fairy http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/277845187-story [fox5atlanta.com]

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday September 22 2017, @04:58AM (3 children)

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday September 22 2017, @04:58AM (#571568) Journal

      Of course the Penny Arcade comic got science wrong. The whole point of science is that you don't need to believe it since you can test it. As soon as you start to blindly believe, it's no longer science, it's a religion whose dogmas happen to coincide with scientific facts.

      Religion asks you to believe. Science tries to convince you. Very different things.

      --
      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
      • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday September 22 2017, @02:36PM (2 children)

        by SomeGuy (5632) on Friday September 22 2017, @02:36PM (#571649)

        Of course only people here could completely miss the point - that educational systems are increasingly making concessions for religious nutjobs.

        The whole point of science is that you don't need to believe it since you can test it.

        Which doesn't do a lot of good when a large chunk arbitrarily dismiss the results of such tests because some 2000 year old book of ball gargling conflicts with the results.

        • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday September 22 2017, @02:57PM (1 child)

          by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday September 22 2017, @02:57PM (#571656) Journal

          If you make the point wrongly, you are not actually making it. That is, if you present science as something you are supposed to believe, then one can rightfully ask why you should believe that, and not something else. The fact that science is not about believing is exactly the point of it. And the claim that science is just another believe system is exactly what the religious anti-science groups claim in order to . So despite obviously not intending to do so, that comic actually helps the religious anti-science groups by reinforcing their main (wrong) argument.

          --
          The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
          • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday September 22 2017, @05:02PM

            by SomeGuy (5632) on Friday September 22 2017, @05:02PM (#571704)

            Unfortunately, I have personally seen religious idiots eat up scientific uncertainty in such a way to as to continue justifying their own beliefs. So in other words - and yes, I did learn this a long time ago - there is no way to reason with religious nutjobs.

            So, it is sort of a necessary evil, if you will, to present scientific theories as more or less fact with the hope that those learning it will eventually also understand the core principals of science. It would be nice if that understanding came first, but it isn't always going to happen.

            If you make the point wrongly, you are not actually making it.

            This is incorrect. Using humor to punctuate a point is a common way to get a point across. The vast majority of people on this planet - even the nutjobs - can parse and understand it even if the exact wording is "wrong", or even if they don't ultimately agree with the said point.

            This is a common cop out for people who don't want to listen to something. It is always possible to pick apart a statement or view it from an unintended perspective to find something pedantically "wrong". That does not necessarily invalidate the original point.

            Quite frankly, I could get more intelligent commentary from my neighbor's parrots! Oh, dear, were you unable to understand my point because I overstated it? LOOOOOLLLLL! So cute.

            If you really can't understand it, you need to go back to kindergarten and learn how to communicate. That is, assuming you don't already have your diploma from "Troll U"! :)

  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:50PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:50PM (#571143) Journal

    It pails in comparison to the literature of more modern times.

    You know, I just can't handle this. This isn't just water under the bridge; I'm putting something on my bucket list right now. I'm not going to carry water for these kinds of things, no sir. Okay, that's enough. I'll bail now.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:43PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:43PM (#571358)

    I think the word you're looking for is pales. [google.com]

    ...unless you have a trick with a bucket that I don't know about.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @12:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @12:08AM (#571482)

      ...unless you have a trick with a bucket that I don't know about.

      He does.

      Don't ask.