Magic mushrooms

Originally posted by sonship
If I take a crack [no pun intended] at this question, you'll have to be willing to read more than 25 or 30 words of my response.

Its a good question. I can tell you how I think of the issue. But I don't want to be too brief. If I do that then someone will only say "But you didn't think of this, and that, and this other matter, or that matter. How shortsighted of you Mr. religious person. "

Can you read through longer post on a response ?

Don't do it for my benefit, sonship. You got a wee bit too much a self-regarding pout going on for my taste. But if you feel like writing for others here, go ahead. 😀

Originally posted by FMF
Don't do it for my benefit, sonship. You got a wee bit too much a self-regarding pout going on for my taste. But if you feel like writing for others here, go ahead. 😀

What do you mean "self regarding pout" ? What on earth could you mean by that ?

I COULD BE WRONG. Okay?

could be right too.

Originally posted by sonship
What do you mean "self regarding pout" ? What on earth could you mean by that ?

I COULD BE WRONG. Okay?

could be right too.

...you'll have to be willing to read more than 25 or 30 words of my response. [...] Can you read through longer post on a response ?

A self regarding pout, if ever there was one. 😉

If you feel like writing for others here, go ahead.

Originally posted by FMF
[b]...you'll have to be willing to read more than 25 or 30 words of my response. [...] Can you read through longer post on a response ?

A self regarding pout, if ever there was one. 😉

If you feel like writing for others here, go ahead.[/b]

No answer to the question there about self regarding pout..

A dodging and ducking evasive pout must be as bad as a self regarding pout. eh?

Originally posted by sonship
No answer to the question there about self regarding pout..

Here:

...you'll have to be willing to read more than 25 or 30 words of my response. [...] Can you read through longer post on a response ?

That's the self regarding pout!

Just write whatever you're going to write and whatever quantity you're going to write. Enough with the pouting!

Originally posted by FMF
For religionists who believe that all flora and fauna were created deliberately and with intelligence, what is the purpose of something like magic mushrooms and are there any theological reasons for the eating of them to be forbidden?

I sometimes order pizza with mushrooms. I don't know if there suppose to be magic or not.

I also like Campbell's Mushroom Soup. Delicious.

The Corinthian Christians were arguing with each other and the Apostle Paul about this and that kind of food, Basically he wrote back that all things in moderation was good and one should not become enslaved to anything.

"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. "

I know I left some things unaddressed.

Originally posted by sonship
I sometimes order pizza with mushrooms. I don't know if there suppose to be magic or not. I also like Campbell's Mushroom Soup. Delicious.

More pouting.

Originally posted by sonship
IThe Corinthian Christians were arguing with each other and the Apostle Paul about this and that kind of food, Basically he wrote back that all things in moderation was good and one should not become enslaved to anything.

"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. "

62 words. Thanks.

Originally posted by FMF
More pouting.

Where?

I sometimes order pizza with mushrooms. I don't know if they're suppose to be magic or not. I also like Campbell's Mushroom Soup. Delicious.

Originally posted by sonship
Where?

I sometimes order pizza with mushrooms. I don't know if they're suppose to be magic or not. I also like Campbell's Mushroom Soup. Delicious.

Write a post that's longer than pizza if you want. Write a post that's longer than soup. Poison the well, by all means, if it makes you feel better about whatever it is you have to offer.

The Corinthian Christians were arguing with each other and the Apostle Paul about this and that kind of food, Basically he wrote back that all things in moderation was good and one should not become enslaved to anything.
"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. "

Thanks.

Originally posted by FMF
Write a post that's longer than pizza if you want. Write a post that's longer than soup. Poison the well, by all means, if it makes you feel better about whatever it is you have to offer.

[b]The Corinthian Christians were arguing with each other and the Apostle Paul about this and that kind of food, Basically he wrote back that all things in moderation was go ...[text shortened]... re not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. "

Thanks.[/b]

I duuno what your beef is with jaywill, he explained his position, did he not?

Originally posted by FMF
Write a post that's longer than pizza if you want. Write a post that's longer than soup. Poison the well, by all means, if it makes you feel better about whatever it is you have to offer.

[b]The Corinthian Christians were arguing with each other and the Apostle Paul about this and that kind of food, Basically he wrote back that all things in moderation was go ...[text shortened]... re not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. "

Thanks.[/b]

Okay. If I take myself too seriously I am a pout.
If I lighten up a bit and interject some humor, I am poisoning the well.

Originally posted by Suzianne
It might twist your jaw to read them, but obviously you have no problem repeating them ad infinitum.

These were pre-technology times. Male slaves could work fields, providing food for the owners, even enough to sell to others. This is where the profit was. Males could work longer hours and produce more goods than women. The Mosaic laws were not rife ...[text shortened]... n, and any religious law that did not account for it was doomed to failure. God isn't stupid.

So you figure all that female repression is over now? May I remind you of the sex slave trade in Russia and most other ex-Soviet countries, where they literally starve the girls to death.

Or the fact there has NEVER been a female pope.

Or the fact that the wages of women still pretty much reflects the 50:35 ratio even today.

So you figure all that biblical sexism is over?

Originally posted by FMF
For religionists who believe that all flora and fauna were created deliberately and with intelligence, what is the purpose of something like magic mushrooms and are there any theological reasons for the eating of them to be forbidden?

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I duuno what your beef is with jaywill, he explained his position, did he not?

I thanked him for it twice.