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Nov 27, 2021 19:52
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Keromaru5 posted:Not sure about Catholic or Episcopalian, but Orthodox priests will bless just about anything you ask them to. Eons ago, when I was teaching at a Catholic school, a priest to,d me a story about how he once blessed a broken-down old school bus to put people's minds at ease
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Nov 27, 2021 20:19
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There's exceptions but if I was any sort of religious figure (priest, reverend, rabbi etc.) that blessed other objects regularly I wouldn't have a problem blessing almost anything. Like I wouldn't bless someone's gun, even if they were a hunter who I regularly ate venison with, but absolutely no issues blessing a water heater.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:09
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Admiralty Flag posted:Eons ago, when I was teaching at a Catholic school, a priest to,d me a story about how he once blessed a broken-down old school bus to put people's minds at ease
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Nov 27, 2021 21:32
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Darthemed posted:
Ignignokt: Loverboy has always sucked. Carl: Oh no they don't! I saw them back in '85 at Madison Square, and they kicked rear end!
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Darthemed posted:…put them at ease about what? That it wouldn’t start driving itself? Maybe that it wouldn't plunge into a gorge, to the delight of news services everywhere
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Skwirl posted:There's exceptions but if I was any sort of religious figure (priest, reverend, rabbi etc.) that blessed other objects regularly I wouldn't have a problem blessing almost anything. BSS > Post Funny Panels: Absolutely no issues blessing a water heater! 
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Nov 28, 2021 02:59
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you laugh, but blade has that done to his arsenal every sunday
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Nov 28, 2021 03:05
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Oct, 4th is also the sorta official St Francis Blessing of the Animals day and many Catholic churches will have priests bless everyone's pets that day. Also, well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUBiwi3QsaY
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Nov 28, 2021 03:11
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I’d imagine any problems Bruce had getting someone to bless a boiler would be solved by buying the church a new bell tower
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Nov 28, 2021 03:25
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Retro Futurist posted:I’d imagine any problems Bruce had getting someone to bless a boiler would be solved by buying the church a new bell tower "Mister Wayne, your donation was very generous, but we've seen the plans, and... aren't the gargoyles a little excessive? We're out in the suburbs, after all." "The gargoyles are non-negotiable, Father."
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Nov 28, 2021 03:29
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(the bell tower is also full of surveillance equipment and acts as a router for BatNet)
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Nov 28, 2021 03:41
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Kalli posted:Oct, 4th is also the sorta official St Francis Blessing of the Animals day and many Catholic churches will have priests bless everyone's pets that day. Wait, are you telling me Toodle Day from Tom Goes to the Mayor actually has a real-world inspiration or at least sort-of counterpart?
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Nov 28, 2021 04:47
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Retro Futurist posted:I’d imagine any problems Bruce had getting someone to bless a boiler would be solved by buying the church a new bell tower It's Batman. He probably went through seminary and had himself ordained just in case he might need divine help to fight crime someday. ManiacClown posted:Wait, are you telling me Toodle Day from Tom Goes to the Mayor actually has a real-world inspiration or at least sort-of counterpart? The Blessing of the Animals is a major annual event at St. John the Divine in NYC because people bring in everything you can think of. Cats and dogs, turtles, birds, lizards, livestock (which has included horses, cows, camels, llamas, and alpacas), fish, insects, and even weirder -- someone once brought a test tube full of bacteria for a blessing.
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Nov 28, 2021 04:57
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Selachian posted:It's Batman. He probably went through seminary and had himself ordained just in case he might need divine help to fight crime someday. To be fair, getting ordained is really easy since the Universal Life Church exists.
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Nov 28, 2021 05:26
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blessing any and everything at the drop of the hat is only a big deal when vampires exist.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:To be fair, getting ordained is really easy since the Universal Life Church exists. I should know, I'm ordained in the ULC lol
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How much to bless my water heater mate?
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Ragle Gumm posted:Check out I liked how she carefully ripped her fishnet stockings to get the precise wholes she wanted and how she carefully picked the goofiest skull she could find to make jewelry out of.
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Nov 28, 2021 12:17
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 House of Mystery #42 (1955)  Impulse #85 (2002)
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Alhazred posted:I liked how she carefully ripped her fishnet stockings to get the precise wholes she wanted and how she carefully picked the goofiest skull she could find to make jewelry out of.
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Darthemed posted:…put them at ease about what? That it wouldn’t start driving itself? The bus was broken-down in the sense that it was old and finicky but would still run; the blessing was so it wouldn't crap itself out while on a field trip or whatever. If I had to guess it was that a broke Catholic school couldn't afford a new one and had to keep the bus of Theseus running by repairing exactly what they could afford when it needed to be fixed
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Selachian posted:It's Batman. He probably went through seminary and had himself ordained just in case he might need divine help to fight crime someday. Just before nerve-pinching two thugs into sleepytime he whispers between them "I now pronounce you legally wed."
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Nov 28, 2021 17:02
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   X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #10 Issue #11 also has a bunch of great Sauron bits.
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Uthor posted:
That looks like some sort of Bergmann or whatever, not a Mauser? But then I'm not a gun guy so 
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Nov 28, 2021 21:22
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He tells you the acronum right there! It could be a water pistol and it's stoll ba a MAOSer.
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Nov 28, 2021 21:30
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Uthor posted:
Lmao
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That looks like some sort of Bergmann or whatever, not a Mauser? But then I'm not a gun guy so that is, very specifically, a Bergmann 1896
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Nov 28, 2021 22:49
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Batman Urban Legends #8  Yeah Batman, don't be ridiculous
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:blessing any and everything at the drop of the hat is only a big deal when vampires exist. Wasn’t there a bit in the 90s Vampirella comic where she had a priest bless a rain cloud that was above some vampire stronghold? As a recovered Catholic, I will tell you that priests will bless literally anything you ask them to. One of the most popular things to buy at Ohio flea markets was always the “Jesus blessing a semi” picture. One trucker that used to frequent my pharmacy not only had the picture, but had a priest bless his own semi AND the picture that he kept in the semi.
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FFT posted:Pretty sure getting ordained in the ULC doesn't include training for making holy water. The easy solution is to be a Discordian. You don't need training if there's no procedure!
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FFT posted:Pretty sure getting ordained in the ULC doesn't include training for making holy water. what training? Holy water is water blessed by a priest. You're a priest. Go bless some water. Poof, holy water! Them's the rules
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ManiacClown posted:The easy solution is to be a Discordian. You don't need training if there's no procedure! There's the risk of having to settle a lot of wrongful injury cases on all the people making violent jack-off motions at you when you say you are a Discordian.
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Nov 29, 2021 05:49
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Discord SUXX. Just use IRC.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:what training? Holy water is water blessed by a priest. You're a priest. Go bless some water. Poof, holy water! I got a Priest to bless the Ocean about a decade ago, so all water is holy by now.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Discord SUXX. Just use IRC. Ah, I see you are a member of the Church of Later Day IRCians. Not me though. Though in my youth I did used to preach the Gospel according to AIM.
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Nov 29, 2021 13:56
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blessing my dick to piss on vampires
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:blessing my dick to piss on vampires Sorry but blessing dicks to kill stuff is Satan's department, if God blessed your dick you would just keep having kids to replace the ones you lost. I think that was the moral of Job.
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Binary Badger posted:The robot made out of percussion instruments and old cans of SPAM is more qualified to be an Avenger than Spidey Hey, Spidey got invited to be a member of the Avengers twice! I was always kind of disappointed as a kid that they didn't do more with that. IIRC the first time he turned them down because he preferred working on his own -- I don't have that issue, but it's referenced in a few places in the ones I do have. A few years later, when the Avengers are looking for new members, Thor invites him to try out; he's flattered but still lukewarm on the idea. Then a few issues later (#235) he finds out in a conversation with Shulk that being an Avenger is a salaried position, $52k/year (about $140k today) + room and board at Avengers Mansion if you want it. Since, being Spider-Man, he's in dire straights financially, he decides that maybe learning to work in a team is worth it for that kind of financial security. In the next two issues he tries to follow up on Thor's offer, but they're in a rush to deal with poo poo going down at Project Pegasus -- so he stows away on the Quinjet and ends up helping them deal with a lava-man invasion, four escaped supervillains, and an impending nuclear meltdown. Cap offers to bring him on as a probationary member, and he accepts, but when they're doing the paperwork back at Avengers Mansion their contact with the feds flips his poo poo at the idea of everyone's favourite threat and/or menace joining the Avengers. Cap offers to go to bat for him, but Spidey decides that it's not worth getting into a fight with the federal government about and leaves. The whole Spidey/Avengers teamup at Project Pegasus was a favourite of mine when I was a kid and I always wondered how things would have played out if he'd taken them up on their original offer, or if he'd decided it was worth fighting for in #237.
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