Posted on 03/16/2009 6:19:18 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
"God exists, and he's American" is the judgment of Dr. Milton Glass, fictional nuclear physicist from the acclaimed Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons comic Watchmen, when he learns that Jon Osterman, has come back from the dead. Osterman disputes Glass's judgment, but the new deity's protest rings as hollow as his promise of fealty to his first girlfriend.
In the story, Osterman dies in a freak lab accident that is the stuff of countless superhero origin stories. It utterly obliterates his body but leaves his mind intact and powerful. Osterman then re-creates himself from scratch. He is not just reborn but transfigured and renamed, as the world's oddest crime fighter: Dr. Manhattan. By the end of the tale, Manhattan even talks of Osterman as a different person.
Obviously, Dr. Manhattan looks different. He has the skin of a Smurf, the body of a Greek god. He crackles with energy and can manipulate other matter with the same ease that he reconstructed himself. Less obviously: His changed perceptions bracket him off from the rest of mankind. He can see things at the molecular level but is puzzled by basic human emotions and conventions. His women complain that they can't connect with him and he often walks around in his rebirthday suit. He perceives time differently as well -- the future and the past run together.
Dr. Manhattan is clearly a sort of god. After the mystery at the heart of Watchmen is resolved, he professes a newfound fondness for human life and muses, "perhaps I'll create some" -- elsewhere in the universe. But what sort of a god is he?
Enter: irony. One group that is not likely to come out in great numbers to see the new film Watchmen is members in good standing of the
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spamlds is no longer with us.
So, if I read you right, you are saying that we should NOT used the BIBLE to understand false doctrine?
And then are you saying that we SHOULD use LDS 'scripture' to understand TRUE doctrine?
I am truly confused as to the logic of this!
I'm a COW and am NOT mangy!
He's dead Elsie
Peas go with spam, right?
When did THIS memo go out?
I never get the dumb things on time!
I'm still operating on the "Natural Man" one!
--MormonDude(Hey HEADQUARTERS!! Put ME back on your routing list!!)
Rarely??
Rarely??
RARELY???
Rats!
I was looking forward to him...
What did he do that was so bad?
My goodness Elsie, did someone slip extra fiber into you oatmeal this morning LOL.
Coming to this forum to pick fights against forum members to continue in the safety of another forum is trollish behavior and/or pimping a blog. New signups behaving this way on the Religion Forum will be shown the door.
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Ah..
I see.
Just as long as we ol’ timers can still pick and tease one another...
;^)
Anti-FR behavior will get a poster pinched, newbies sooner than oldtimers, but it is still considered trollish.
Read it for yourself, both what he claimed to do and what he claimed he didn't do. In Greg West's own words:
From the blog entry Prepare for the next wave:
...After a hiatus of a couple years, I rejoined the forums at Freerepublic.com. I had been a member there since around 2004 on this conservative political forum, but I asked the moderators there to delete my account [FReeper name gregwest, last posting history here.] in protest after someone posted some of the temple stuff up there. The Christian "Taliban" that dominates the right wing of the Republican party was having hissy-fits because they thought Mitt Romney was going to get nominated. The place is still a hotbed for anti-Mormons and rarely does anything appear there about the Church that doesn't send them into paroxysms.......I had a fun time the last 24 hours or so. I've checked the forum posts on FR off and on throughout the day and posted a few short replies. I was able to identify 24 anti-Mormons (I mean virulently anti-Mormon!) and my few comments incited 194 hateful, attacking replies. I was able to identify the "ringleader" of the antis, who alerted all the others to my presence, calling them to action. Another guy used three of the six anti-Mormon tactics.
All in all it was a productive day! And all I had to do was show up and say that it was wrong for people to say mean, scurrilous, and disrespectful things with them. I didn't bash or debate with any of them. That was enough to generate nearly 200 posts! Anti-Mormonism is an amazing obsession! If I wasn't so old, I'd go back to school to be a psychiatrist and write a dissertation on it!
From the blog entry spamlds FreeRepublic account suspended:
So I went and checked it out. I can log into FR but I've been banned as a "troll." I would ask that you Freepers intervene and ask that my account be restored. If you go back and read the two threads from yesterday, all you'll see is me defending. When the antis wanted answers, I just referred them here. I guess even that was too effective for them and the antis complained and had me banned. I'll be writing up a summary of the day's encounters later on. It should be interesting.
Hey, I am trying to give benefit of the doubt here...
LOL!!!
So which one of you two is the "ringleader"? ROTFL!
We’re still fighting about it.
:)
"I've got one that can see!"
Well, ALL Inmans know that the "ringleader" position is SACRED AND SECRET. Anyone divulging the sacred name will be disemboweled and have their throat slit!
Poor persecuted things, have to demonize an internet "ping" list, and not for the first time....
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