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wilderthanmild posted:Why do your churches have gymnasiums? I was going to ask the same thing. I had to read his post 3 times to make sure of what it said.
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wilderthanmild posted:Why do your churches have gymnasiums? For the kids to play in.
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Nov 3, 2015 17:57
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zoux posted:For the kids to play in. Gotta keep em fit so they can grow up to have those Christ-like abs.
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Nov 3, 2015 17:59
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wilderthanmild posted:Gotta keep em fit so they can grow up to have those Christ-like abs. No one outside of the narrow border of beach towns in Florida has abs of any sort. Much less the ones that go to those kinds of churches.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:01
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You know how a Christian will censor themselves and say "flipping" instead of "loving"? It's because they are all excellent flippers because of their gymnasiums. All Christians are really good at gymnastics in general, did you never notice?
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Nov 3, 2015 18:02
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I thought it was due to them Jews having gyms in the YMCA.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:03
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I think it's cruel for Jesus to set unrealistic body standards for men while at the same time force feeding followers bread and wine at 9 in the morning.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:04
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Crain posted:No one outside of the narrow border of beach towns in Florida has abs of any sort. Much less the ones that go to those kinds of churches. What's the point in working out and eating healthy foods when God is going to Rapture us any day now? 
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Nov 3, 2015 18:05
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wilderthanmild posted:Why do your churches have gymnasiums? So you can play basketball? 
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Nov 3, 2015 18:05
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HootTheOwl posted:And that extremist wing gets largely shut out of government because they're not centrists. Where as in a PR system they might get 30% of government for all time. Even in the video you posted it detailed how the two parties were the most centrist parties because FPTP makes anything else unelactable. What? In case you've missed it, the extremist wing has effectively taken over the establishment conservatives. They have enough seats and influence to logjam the entire legislative process, partly thanks to our separation of powers. In a PR system, assuming we also abolished gerrymandering and money in politics, tea partiers would achieve nowhere near 30% of the seats in Congress. In fact, their influence is greatly exaggerated because of our FPTP system in combination with the other inefficient aspects of our political system. The extreme right wing's rise can be blamed almost entirely on a FPTP system, and under PR their actual influence would be revealed for what it truly is.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:06
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wilderthanmild posted:Why do your churches have gymnasiums? The churches are attached to schools. So you have the cafagymatorium that serves as any generic big space
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Nov 3, 2015 18:06
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Logikv9 posted:What's the point in working out and eating healthy foods when God is going to Rapture us any day now? Good point quote:Laura McIntyre began educating her nine children more than a decade ago inside a vacant office at an El Paso motorcycle dealership she ran with her husband and other relatives.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:07
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Mormon churches have gyms too, for that bloodsport known as church basketball. Like if at least one person isn't carted off the court on a stretcher the game is considered a failure. This goes for girls too. Some of the Catholic churches around here have gyms as well. Honestly it's not such a crazy idea, kids can go after school and shoot hoops or whatever. It's not as much of an issue around here, but you might want to have your kids be able to play and if your area doesn't have a lot of municipal parks or good equipment then they have somewhere to go.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:08
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wilderthanmild posted:Why do your churches have gymnasiums? Combined youth sports practice location and a place to host pot lucks. Pretty much all moderately sized Protestant churches have gyms. Of course, I'm in Kentucky where there's a basketball court every fifteen feet. (The local Catholic Church has a really nice one too, but the Islamic center has to make due with an outdoor half-court. )
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Nov 3, 2015 18:09
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The Rapture is the dumbest loving idea that anyone in the religion racket has come up with in the last 200 years. The Catholics were right, the Bible should never have been translated into the vernacular.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:09
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I shouldn't be surprised, but drat.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:11
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Church gyms are for sleeping on when the church has other churches over for a visit.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:12
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Gravel Gravy posted:I think it's cruel for Jesus to set unrealistic body standards for men while at the same time force feeding followers bread and wine at 9 in the morning. I think you mean delicious human meat and blood.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:12
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wilderthanmild posted:Why do your churches have gymnasiums? The money for it was raised "to help bring poor children who have yet to see the light of Christ into the congregation and get them off the street." After it's built, it's exclusively used for well-to-do (white) congregation members kids and purity balls.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:13
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If you want to get an idea of how and why churches are building stuff like that, the phrase to google is family or community life center.
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BurntCornMuffin posted:The money for it was raised "to help bring poor children who have yet to see the light of Christ into the congregation and get them off the street." Jesus christ, church gyms are not a secret Christian Dominion plot.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:15
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Zeroisanumber posted:The Rapture is the dumbest loving idea that anyone in the religion racket has come up with in the last 200 years. The Catholics were right, the Bible should never have been translated into the vernacular. Counterpoint: The Singularity
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BurntCornMuffin posted:The money for it was raised "to help bring poor children who have yet to see the light of Christ into the congregation and get them off the street." Actually it's an ugly cinder block building where you hung out after school to shoot hoops until your mom picked you up.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:18
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Chalets the Baka posted:What? In case you've missed it, the extremist wing has effectively taken over the establishment conservatives. They have enough seats and influence to logjam the entire legislative process, partly thanks to our separation of powers. In a PR system, assuming we also abolished gerrymandering and money in politics, tea partiers would achieve nowhere near 30% of the seats in Congress. In fact, their influence is greatly exaggerated because of our FPTP system in combination with the other inefficient aspects of our political system. The extreme right wing's rise can be blamed almost entirely on a FPTP system, and under PR their actual influence would be revealed for what it truly is. I mean, we joke about they're ruining government but most of that isn't the fault of centrist FPTP voting, it's the fault of dumb Hastert rules and the filibusterer which are causing our electoral disfunction. Again, even with gerrymandering they only have 38 seats in a body of 435, and were forced to kiss Ryan's rings.
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Early voted last week, so no worrying about voting today.Fried Chicken posted:Counterpoint: The Singularity
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Are goons really freaking out that a church would have a gym? The local catholic church has a basketball court that was converted to a small skate park...should I warn tweens and teens about the secret christian plot to infiltrate the secular past time?
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Are goons really freaking out that a church would have a gym? The Priest was seen nearby commenting that young Mike Taylor's ollie was "gnarly".
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Nov 3, 2015 18:23
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HootTheOwl posted:We can use the House Freedom Caucus as a measurement of the strength of the tea party, which currently has 38 seats or about 8% of congress. If you think that this "fringe" only represents 8% of the electorate then you're wildly misrepresenting the current state of American politics. Racist populism (READ: Tea Party) is easily more than 8% of the electorate which is demonstrated by the GOP primaries being dominated by Carson and Trump. If there were a tiny minority they wouldn't be pandered to so heavily. 17% say they support the Tea Party, which is happily the lowest level since they started tracking it.
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Sometimes a gym is just a gym.
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wilderthanmild posted:Ohio has a very confusing Weed legalization thing with two amendments that appear to counter each other. One that legalizes marijuana and establishes a predetermined number of eligible grow sites.(And allows for personal growth and sharing up to a certain amount). One that establishes a board that reviews any ballot initiative to make sure it doesn't give preferential economic status.(And is worded in such a way that they could pretty much create an arbitrary roadblock to success for any ballot initiative) and explicitly is worded to block initiatives related to schedule 1 substances.(Because they couldn't just name Issue 3 by name?) Ah you're right, I forgot about that initiative. The reason Issue 3 attacks the preferential economic status is because Issue 3 explicitly reserves the right to those grow sites to people who promised to fund the pro-3 campaign. I also forgot that Seattle's Initiative 122, on the ballot today, would establish a public campaign financing system which would give residents four $25 vouchers to fund the candidates they want, which would be interesting to see play out if approved.
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The real answer is that when segregation ended support for communal public spaces dropped like a loving rock. But there was still a need for them so as time went on churches started building "gymatoriums" that served as general communal semi public places, so now it is back to we have our spaces and they have their separate but as equal as their fundraising will allow spaces and it's just our churches and not the uglier divide that no one wants to realize is still there Edit: consider the fact that now we have to fight over funding parks (rather than it being a zoning issue) and have to justify it as "attracting tourists" rather than that parks are good and cool Fried Chicken fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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FAUXTON posted:I just realized that Trump's anger translator would be Andrew Dice Clay. Bernie is obviously Larry David at all times
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Nov 3, 2015 18:27
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Glad to see the Midwest/East loving up what the West has already accomplished (drama-free legalization of cannabis) a long time ago.
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So I'm meeting Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) later this month, what should I know about him?
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zoux posted:17% say they support the Tea Party, which is happily the lowest level since they started tracking it. The article also says the Tea Party has 32% among republicans, yet it does not represent 32% of their elected officials.
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zoux posted:Just think, in a just world, we're all off of work today. Why would we all be off today? Only goony dumb states are having elections. Pro-tip: off-year elections are bad.
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Nov 3, 2015 18:46
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HootTheOwl posted:The article also says the Tea Party has 32% among republicans, yet it does not represent 32% of their elected officials. Are you saying it's higher or lower than that.
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HootTheOwl posted:We can use the House Freedom Caucus as a measurement of the strength of the tea party, which currently has 38 seats or about 8% of congress. If you think that this "fringe" only represents 8% of the electorate then you're wildly misrepresenting the current state of American politics. Racist populism (READ: Tea Party) is easily more than 8% of the electorate which is demonstrated by the GOP primaries being dominated by Carson and Trump. If there were a tiny minority they wouldn't be pandered to so heavily. Every country, even the most progressive, has their political sect of racist populists. Because there is mathematically no room for more than two parties in US politics, they have no choice but to piggyback on the Republican party which has resulted in them basically co-opting the party for themselves. They're free to filibuster and stamp the RINO label on whomever they wish to steer the party as they choose. That can't happen in a PR system; they would get some seats, sure, but they would definitely not be able to play the games they are playing right now and literally halt the functioning of the government over trivial issues. If we had the system of government that most of our allies have, the radical conservatives would possess less influence and centrist parties could more easily work together. Our system of government does not allow for the forming of coalitions, votes of no confidence and the dissolution of Congress at any time, or any of the efficient electoral process that modern democracies have, all of which result in a government that simply works better and produces results. Your fears that tea partiers would somehow gain enough seats in a PR system to do anything beyond what they're already doing is not supported by anything. There is nothing exceptional about America or its political ideologies, and just about any political scientist and game theorist on this planet will tell you that it would be better for the country to move to a PR system.
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Just got screamed at for being part of the hogsett campaign (after I told him I wasn't) for putting a flier with pentagram a and satanic symbols (the Indianapolis logo) on a guys windshield where the rain (3 days ago) made it stick. My repeated attempts to say I had nothing to do with it only got him to yell more Got me to the point of just telling him I don't give a poo poo, he stormed off screaming about that's the problem The someone yelled at me about how the family of the dead person parked their car
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Riatsala posted:So I'm meeting Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) later this month, what should I know about him? What's his favorite brand of yeast?
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