This is such a great ad!! It makes me confident that all youth will return to church and find religion again…give up sex and start praying. We need more ads like his sooooo goooood!! The don't get any better. Praise the LORD!
@ paladin. Oh praise the LORD! Praise him in the morning and in the afternoon and in the evening. Thank you, thank you for those steps. They are so precious! Praise the LORD!
🙂 Hey, ER, if you amuse your audience of one, have at it. It's interesting to know that the life of trolls can incorporate at least a small amount of temporary glee…
You might want to start back at Step #1, though; I think you missed it.
I think ER does have it… religion (or for that matter, politics,) can never be successful when sheeple blindly follow a charismatic leader who has no compassion or williness to give of himself in sacrifice for a cause. There's a German philosopher, whom I cannot remember or get Google to find right now, who said, "A god who does not suffer is not God… it's the devil." It's the realization that rhetorical "hope and change" is nothing more than an emotional manipulation of the masses, especially the young who truly hope for something better (with "hope" being realized as a virtue rather than merely the manifestation of a worldly desire) that this ad illuminates.
Unfortunately, our nation and many of its young people have had to learn this lesson the hard way. I do think that when the bottom does drop out of all of this charade, when the economy does finally meltdown into nothingness to correct for the raging mismanagement of both politcal parties in recent decades, when all we have is the content of our character, that's when there will be a retreat to tried and true wisdom of the ages… as ER says, "give up sex and start praying." He's absolutely right. It does not get any better.
And, yes, both sides of this argument make egregious oversimplifications, but it is a thirty second short and this is a free-for-all blog. You get what you pay for. If anyone needs more cerebral stimulation or a reason to be smug about their political position, my advice would be to go off and read a book and leave well enough alone.
September 24, 2010 at 1:33 am
This is such a great ad!! It makes me confident that all youth will return to church and find religion again…give up sex and start praying. We need more ads like his sooooo goooood!! The don't get any better. Praise the LORD!
September 24, 2010 at 8:42 pm
In the interests of charity, Early Riser:
Step 1: You admit that you are powerless over the urge to troll, and that your life has become unmanageable.
Step 2: You came to believe that a Higher Power could restore you to sanity.
(etc.)
September 25, 2010 at 2:17 am
@ paladin. Oh praise the LORD! Praise him in the morning and in the afternoon and in the evening. Thank you, thank you for those steps. They are so precious! Praise the LORD!
September 25, 2010 at 5:01 am
What an egregious oversimplification of the issues.
September 25, 2010 at 3:43 pm
🙂 Hey, ER, if you amuse your audience of one, have at it. It's interesting to know that the life of trolls can incorporate at least a small amount of temporary glee…
You might want to start back at Step #1, though; I think you missed it.
September 25, 2010 at 10:49 pm
@ paladin "cough" audience of two!
September 26, 2010 at 3:32 am
Er… you weren't including *me* in that count, were you?
September 28, 2010 at 5:15 pm
I think ER does have it… religion (or for that matter, politics,) can never be successful when sheeple blindly follow a charismatic leader who has no compassion or williness to give of himself in sacrifice for a cause. There's a German philosopher, whom I cannot remember or get Google to find right now, who said, "A god who does not suffer is not God… it's the devil." It's the realization that rhetorical "hope and change" is nothing more than an emotional manipulation of the masses, especially the young who truly hope for something better (with "hope" being realized as a virtue rather than merely the manifestation of a worldly desire) that this ad illuminates.
Unfortunately, our nation and many of its young people have had to learn this lesson the hard way. I do think that when the bottom does drop out of all of this charade, when the economy does finally meltdown into nothingness to correct for the raging mismanagement of both politcal parties in recent decades, when all we have is the content of our character, that's when there will be a retreat to tried and true wisdom of the ages… as ER says, "give up sex and start praying." He's absolutely right. It does not get any better.
And, yes, both sides of this argument make egregious oversimplifications, but it is a thirty second short and this is a free-for-all blog. You get what you pay for. If anyone needs more cerebral stimulation or a reason to be smug about their political position, my advice would be to go off and read a book and leave well enough alone.