MeFi comment:
"...I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. ... I saw the organization - with all its warts, growing pains and problems - as an..." [
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favorited 50 times, recently by problemspace, kittyprecious, axon, frenetic, ruelle, Earl the Polliwog, Lexica, hhc5, oostevo, liza, koeselitz, Dreadnought, turgid dahlia, Free word order!, Nanukthedog, availablelight, mrzarquon, ooga_booga, spinifex23, gen, Auden, mrgrimm, palindromic, khaibit, vorfeed, blackberet, arcticseal, Harvey Jerkwater, lodurr, lalochezia, DevilsAdvocate, RokkitNite, notswedish, iminurmefi, Lou Stuells, Lazlo Hollyfeld, philip-random, EatTheWeak, lumensimus, Senor Cardgage, arcolz, Aversion Therapy, numinous, magstheaxe, tomierna, revgeorge, emperor.seamus, Wufpak, eustatic, crayz
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I think it's unkind, offensive and petty for you to claim that there are two kinds of pet owners, those who love their pets - and those who want to have furniture.
for you, it seems like having an emotional, affectionate relationship with your cat..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by marble, cj_, Rumple, electroboy
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I think a lot of this comes from a fundamentally misunderstanding of how genuinely dangerous the world at large is and how hostile it is to human life, generally speaking. I have numerous friends who accept very little to no western medicine,..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by marble, litlnemo, grapefruitmoon, lootie777, Hactar, Sticherbeast, thebrokedown, smoke, feckless, oneirodynia, damn dirty ape, bearwife, Kadin2048, Blazecock Pileon, sebastienbailard, orrnyereg, lalochezia, revgeorge, Drastic, haltingproblemsolved, tippiedog, longdaysjourney, everichon, BaxterG4
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I only eat cats that haven't been declawed." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by Lesser Shrew, eegphalanges, sien, GilloD, blueberry, AaronRaphael, mordax, Bageena, MysteriousMan, stormpooper, schyler523, These Premises Are Alarmed, LMGM, thewittyname, qvantamon, jimmythefish, ignignokt, jock@law, EarBucket, spaltavian
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Jeeeeaaaayyysus. I apologize for even bringing that up. I was raised in a home with cats and dogs, the cats were declawed and the dogs were crate trained. It was the way things were done - we had a vet in the family and as far as I can tell we had..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by janelikes, Rumple, Balonious Assault
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Your replies all stem from the premise that the human population needs to maintain its current count. This is faulty.
you first" [
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favorited 13 times, recently by problemspace, almodis, the dief, The Bellman, bearwife, fook, sebastienbailard, longdaysjourney, Blazecock Pileon, xthlc, rocket88, haltingproblemsolved, Pope Guilty
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I would rather a cat be humanely euthanized than to have to suffer through such a painful procedure
good lord" [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, tzikeh, cj_
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Huh. I'm a native Michigander with loads of California relatives and most of their youngin's are moving back here to go to college. They like our seasons...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blucevalo
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"He could teach! I'm a pastor who teaches at a state university and I love it. A good Lutheran pastor friend of mine went back and got his Ph.D. in linguistics and teaches at the school as well.
Grading papers completely sucks but teaching..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Fiasco da Gama
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The Pre comes close, but the hardware design (flimsy), and Palm stigma sorta fuck it.
It's kind of weird that people continuously refer to the Pre as having "flimsy hardware." I've had mine for a couple of weeks now and it's like a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agress
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"For the love of god - let the goats into the game. There's simply no reason to deny it. If you bring a goat to a cubs game there should be stables provided. Come on people, we can beat this one!
Amazing post, btw. Best of the web - and this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lizc
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I used to drink with some German guys and they thought it was hilarious when I'd go off in made-up German. Then they'd try to translate it.
Anyway, once I asked them to speak in made up English and they looked at each other, and, in perfect unison,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by invitapriore
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If we legalize pot, how the heck are we going to keep our prisons filled with young black men? Then the prisons will start runnin' on empty and then all those prison companies will come lookin' for a bail-out and you know who's going to have to pay..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mrgrimm
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My Palm Pre does exactly this. Except they're called "cards." And they blow my mind with their awesomeness and I would pay top dollar to have cards on my pc...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by desiderandus, /\/\/\/
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey, this is awesome. Cut him some slack. I can't imagine most of the legislators I've met successfully buying a ham sandwich at a deli without some 19 year-old nephew/aide showing them how to use a menu. Kudos on him...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sebastienbailard, burnmp3s, mai
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't BELIEVE they lumped Kalamazoo together with Grand Rapids and Battle Creek! ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. We are nothing alike, people! Nothing alike! West Michigan is an intricate tapestry of lovely centers of urban renewal and higher education,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jocelmeow
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey! Listen up! There are marvelous partners for you out there in every hue imaginable! If you don't date someone based on the color of their skin, you deserve to sit at home alone...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grapefruitmoon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"yeesh. Metafilter doesn't do race well at all. Felix cites relevant material and points out some fairly basic stuff about the U.S. print media (stuff I though most of learned about in college) and y'all call him a racist. boggles my mind.
And..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mer2113, RajahKing
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Wow. How frustrating. A good friend and I did this for much of Luke during our first year in seminary as a joke. We should have published. Basically, to render a conservative reading of the gospels you simply invert the sayings of Jesus. It..." [
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favorited 27 times, recently by Navelgazer, kosher_jenny, shponglespore, mrgrimm, FatherDagon, DevilsAdvocate, beandip, contessa, fuq, Gable Oak, psmealey, DreamerFi, Bangaioh, lysdexic, JoeXIII007, Electric Dragon, acb, Infinite Jest, teraflop, pandaharma, wobh, DoctorFedora, Monsters, EarBucket, saulgoodman, nave, verb
Last month
MeFi comment:
"As an orientation leader at a large state school, I was granted access to a whole heap of yearbooks dating back many decades. I found the earliest one in the collection - it was from 1911. Most of the signatures were illegible, however one young..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by cobwebberies, Greg Nog
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The difficult part - for me, anyway - is that we've lost liberation and process theology to the rhetoric of the right.
Process and liberation are the theological cornerstones in my everyday work in parish ministry and Harvey Cox - amongst others -..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by Chomskyfied, Nanukthedog, Lou Stuells, Pater Aletheias, Hactar, Hardcore Poser, Wolof, tarheelcoxn, MythMaker, tippiedog, reverend cuttle, joe lisboa, scdjpowell, HighTechUnderpants, lysimache
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Hey cool! My band recorded a track for a compilation album for this campaign. It was an interesting experience - we were completely unaware of the campaign and all the producer told us was that he wanted a song about "nature" or something...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wood
Last month
MeFi comment:
"jamstigator: "Anybody who owns a handgun and identifies themself as a Christian as a pure unadulterated hypocrite."
fwiw I agree with you, however Jesus did fashion a whip out of corded leather to drive the money-changers out of the..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by cryosis
Last month
MeFi comment:
"That's an excellent point, Kadin2048, and I especially appreciate your statement that his arguments may be influence by the experience of living on/near Harvard's campus. When I attended seminary in Chicago, there were no conservative Christians to..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The hands-down worst beer I ever drank in my life was in Jordan. We stopped in some ridiculously tiny bedo village between Petra and Wadi Rum. I felt like boozin' it up and sleeping in a cave so we asked around to find the local alcohol distributor...." [
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favorited 6 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I just bought this issue at a local antique store and had it framed. Phenomenal photography, writing, and a bizarrely lucid perspective on possible future events. I wish we still had journalism like this in the U.S. - thank God for the bbc...." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Sometimes it's really fascinating when all the stars align perfectly and you realize you are a minority of one in this strange, winding world we live in.
I love and have always obsessed over the sheer genius that is Cowboy Bebop.
I also think..." [
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favorited 2 times
Last month
Ask comment:
"Good lord don't eat it.
is this all the food you have?
memail me and i will send you food." [
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favorited 3 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I was chuckling about Barrett Caulk's completely awesome comment all weekend, until this afternoon when I took a look at Glenn Beck's comment section and experienced some profoundly nauseating déjà vu:
"jjla, I could care less if you are..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Somehow this attitude doesn't translate into my work at all.
Recently a close friend passed away and the family had no church and knew no one in the ministry other than myself.
Now, I went to school for 7 years and am paying down massive loans..." [
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favorited 13 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Darn! I was just preparing an FPP about this. Awesome job, wfitzgerald.
If you're really interested - Sacred Harp should be sung, not listened to. Find a singing in your area and show up! It's completely awesome...." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
Ask comment:
"Well.... I know you explicitly stated that you're not interested in hearing about religion - but I did recently turn my life around in a pretty serious way... I wasn't bonked on the head by the Jesus or anything, but the church did play kind of a..." [
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favorited 32 times
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"fritley: I don't have kids but if a sibling wanted to have a wedding in Europe I'd think it was overly-extravagant and ridiculous. I wouldn't want to go.
If my baby sister told me she was getting married on the moon I would steal a space shuttle..." [
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favorited 6 times
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think that this is, at its core, an entitlement issue and is closely related to the idea that any young American "deserves" to own an I-Phone or drive a BMW or whatever. "Why shouldn't I just be able to sleep with whoever the hell I..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Frankly I believe that our current addiction to wires is a product of the powerful wire lobby that plagues D.C." [
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favorited 4 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Moldover's toy is not a theremin.
He never said it was a theremin. Other people are saying this. He said it was a musical instrument, which it is.
I know a lot of you out there in the metafilter community take your theremins very, very..." [
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favorited 2 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I laughed my ass off - just about cried when he sprayed himself in the face with that can.
You people are a bunch of humorless nerds." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah I guess I meant the APOCALYPTIC THREE-DAY EASTER WEEKEND OF DOOOOOOM." [
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favorited 2 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"mish: "I vote for 2036, since there is actually a slight chance Apophis will hit us on April 13th"
Misha that's completely awesome. Not only is it Friday the 13th, it's also Easter Sunday, almost (some would argue) two millennia after..." [
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favorited 3 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In contrast, Israel has a thriving Arab population with the same sort of civil rights as other Israelis.
lol" [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"anotherpanacea - first of all, those are shoes. And they're like, 320 pounds, which - given the condition of the dollar - is something like a million bucks.
Good Fryes can be had for $170. Fryes are boots. They go a third of the way up to your..." [
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favorited 18 times
2 months ago
