LOL given the religion discussions here on DU this light hearted photo should crack you up

that's exactly what fan is short for.

:)

cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQhypv3cpRM

Original album version is much slower tempo.

I knew him slightly when he was in The Haynes Boys back in Columbus and is such a great songwriter..

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:)

My sentiments exactly.

eom

:spray: +1.

Even when I was 18, and considered myself a hippie who was born 20 years too late, Deadheads just made me think "WTF?". I know, I know...there are plenty of good people in that community, but too many of the ones that I actually met, saw on TV, read about in books, magazines, etc., just seemed so damn pathetic. Too many of them had a frat boy's sense of entitlement...the feeling that they could break through or climb over any fence, piss in anybody's front yard, basically do whatever they wanted wherever they wanted and if anybody told them "no" they were Establishment fascists. I saw the band play several times in high school and college but it got to the point that none of the local venues would allow them to play because of the trail of filth and destruction wrought by Deadheads. (That whole pissing in front yards thing I think was in Philly.) I remember Jerry himself pleading with fans to cut the roaming magic pixie elf crap because it was getting increasingly difficult for the Dead to find communities that would allow them to play. And I have rarely seen anything so pathetic as the zombies circling the old Spectrum in Philadelphia, eyes glazed, muttering "I need a miracle...I need a miracle....".

I saw them twice in Philly. Once at the Spectrum and the old JFK Stadium, which was condemned afterward.

Check it out from wikipedia: It was not known at the time but the last event at the stadium was the Grateful Dead's concert on July 7, 1989. Bruce Hornsby & The Range opened. Fans at the show recall concrete crumbling from the stadium and bathrooms in poor shape. The Dead closed the show with Knockin' on Heaven's Door; it would be the last song played at the stadium.<12>


http://www.archive.org/details/gd89-07-07.sbd.wiley.7855.sbeok.shnf

They were all great times. I think it was the fact that I actually did find something beautiful in what the band stood for that somehow piqued my dislike of deadheads. I don't know...go figure....

Actually, no.

Since the possibility of a god of any kind is so small as to not be worth bothering with, I'd say pretending he exists but his followers are the problem is pretty dumb. His followers are the only problem. I personally am not "alright" with god because there's nothing to be alright with in the 1st place.

I'd prefer a statement that doesn't try to make those who believe in ancient superstitions have a point. They don't.

As a joke, it's pretty sophomoric.

Go ahead...flame away. But I don't see why I should pretend I'm amused.

What animosity? There's no hate in my statement. I just don't think the tired old saying is funny. And religions do not exist without the people who believe in them, so the only problem are the believers. I don't hate anybody.

It's kinda like.... If I think what you're wearing is tacky, that doesn't mean I hate you.

Your chip on your shoulder eats you, it does!

Criticism of religion is not hatred. Get a clue.

You are not exhibiting rational thinking.

God is evil.

:thumbsup:

Too bad I can't show this to some of my family members. :rofl:

I also have trouble with some of His detractors.

student of faith, not denomonational religion. Sometimes they want to engage in a debate, most walk away, mistified.

spanish only speaking preacher brought a woman translator with him and he insisted I take some pamphlets. he would'nt take no for an answer and kept thrusting the pamphlets at me. the woman was embarresed as I told her to make him go away.

knocking at my door. They usually go away when I tell them I'm an atheist. But one time, a preacher asked me what traumatic experience in my life turned me away from god. I told him that nothing happened. I just woke up to the fact that there is no big man in the sky.

K&R


on edit: I meant to say distribution....But I wouldn't mind to carry along to disrupt the shit disturbers.

Deer Hunting with Jesus. by Joe Bageant
It's so funny as he writes about his own people in Virgina where he grew up.


I can relate to the people...Even my brother in NJ is a redneck.. He wasn't one until he mated with a redneck football and bar loving chick. He really Hates Obama and public option health care, of course he has a good job with the phone company and expects to retire from it. He may get lucky.

It's people taking them too seriously that I can't stand.



Yeah, my version of this slogan isn't going to be the crowd pleaser that the original is, but it's a more accurate representation of my personal feelings on the subject.

:)

Color me surprised.

pity for the whacked-out snake-handlers who think the Creation Museum is "real" history. :crazy:

...I say it's fucking hate speech.

Oh for crying out loud.....

I say calling any tiny utterance of criticism of ancient superstitions is hate speech....from self important childish fools.

and within those who professed and acted in false faith of him,
and gave out a great and mournful sigh....

"Sheesh! WTF have I wrought?" (See Quotations 73: 1-2)

must... have... where can I buy it??????

DU should make this one their official slogan.



Oh, intolerance. It's such a hoot at Democratic Underground!

Blank one for y'all. Have at it.