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Fibbing Friday #285

Mixed bag from Pensitivity101 last week with familiar words that need fibbing definitions.

1. What is a winklepicker?

A Jewish cucumber-harvester for kosher gherkins.  Oy!! My back!

2.  What is a pipsqueak?

An English house-mouse.  Pip, Pip, Cheerio, and all that, old chip chap.

3.  What is a beatnik?

That’s the Nik-At-Nite spin-off, aimed at very tired senior citizens.

4.  What is a sequin?

That’s the bonsai version of a sequoia

5.  What is spiel?

A bunch of Scotsmen, sliding rocks across the frozen Loch Ness

6.  What is asphalt?

That’s when no one is willing to take the blame…  It’s Ash’s fault.

7.  What is a hologram?

That’s when you pay a street dealer for Maui Zowie, but wind up smoking oregano, when you get home.

8.  What is a dickie seat?

Isn’t that one of those bicycle style ice cream sellers?

9.  What is sinew?

What those Christian folks try and call you when you’ve done something they don’t approve of.

10. What is a collage?

It’s a post-secondary institute of supposedly higher learning, attended by some of the rich, but none-too-bright, social scions.  Daddy’s money buys guaranteed enrollment, a diploma-mill diploma, and enough social, financial, and political connections to give the appearance of a real job/career.  See George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.

Blowing his brains out

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Fibbing Friday#280

Another mixed bag from Pensitivity101 last week.

1. What is a saga?

The wife’s boobs, and my gut

2. What is a synopsis?

A list of things that The Church doesn’t want you to do

3. What is a dialect?

An old, rotary telephone

4. What is a goblin?

Me, when I see a French-fry wagon, and the censor spoilsport wife isn’t in the car

5. What is a pinstripe?

San Bruno, USA – October 7, 2022: A burgundy Chevrolet Impala with custom pinstriping, chrome trim, gold wire wheels and whitewall tire at a car show

It was a way to adorn cars, back in the nostalgia days of big-block engines and floor-shifters – when cars had personality, and showed more decoration than just corporate logos.  The closest thing I’ve seen recently is a TRO – Toyota Racing Organization – sedan with decals that make it look like the body panels are laced, or strapped, together, with images of stuffed toys on the rear deck, and a gas filler cover that appears to be made from armor.

6. What is a catapult?

The sound made during the frantic escape of the Poor Cat that the cartoon skunk, Pepe Le Pew is always harassing…

7. What is a mousse?

Isn’t that the plural of “Mouse”??  I’m sure I’ve heard that somewhere, must be French or something…

8. What is meant by bona fide?

What I used to be able to create, in the presence of a naked female

9. What is a sally?

She’s a Religious chick that you sully, silly

10. What is a harem?

A rabbit hole that’s not on YouTube

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It Would Be A Sin

Many Christian debaters and apologists view and present Good, and Evil, Right, and Wrong, as real, concrete items, rather than abstract, human, mental concepts.  They claim that the existence of Sin and Morality somehow proves the existence of God.  Rather, it is the exact opposite.  It requires a God to prove the existence of morality, and especially, Sin.

Sin is a transgression against God.  No God = no sin.  No God to hand it out means that there is no morality.  What we have is social-animal, evolution-driven, ethics – The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number.

What’s the point?  What am I here for?  How can I live the most valuable life with the time I’ve got?
Interesting and productive questions…. but they can be both asked and answered, without stuffing God into the cracks.
It’s just tough to ask the questions without acknowledging Spirituality and Soul which then provokes one’s view of creation, humans, time, etc.
Two delightfully vague and tenuous terms whose definitions can be made to mean anything, without evidence, but which usually mean desperation and delusion.  Also, there is no evidence of “Creation,” and no evidence of the need for a God for the existence of humans, time, etc.

A.J. Swoboda, After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith Without Losing It.
That’s not the dumbest book title I’ve ever seen, but it’s well up on the list.
Cool.  What are some of the other dumb titles that have made your list?
Well, there was that one titled, “The Curious Case Of The Man With No Sense Of Irony, Or Humor.”   😮

As with so many things about Christianity, many Apologists have not done enough research about their religion to actually know what they’re talking about.  When the Jews were held in slavery in Babylon, each spring it was a ritual to go to the local temple, and engage in sex with the priests, exchanging seminal fluid – a sign of fertility – for a promise of abundant crops.

The SIN – even if God were to exist – is not gay sex.  It is using it to entreat and worship any deity who is not The Lord thy God is a jealous God.  Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

I have not found any evidence, especially in the Jewish Torah, that circumcision of baby boys was a command of God/Yahweh.  The Jewish people collectively tend to suffer from a DNA genetic likelihood of hemophilia.  While an individual tragedy, the death of a newborn boy from blood loss, would be far less of a drag on his family, and a tribe of nomads.

Similarly, circumcised boys would be far less likely to later develop penile and urinary infections, again being a noisy drag on a poor tribe of nomads, trying to evade and avoid human and animal predators in the wilds.  This is not a God/Yahweh-given religious procedure!  It is a social-evolutionary method to achieve The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number.  The Rabbis just ensured that they made a shekel or two for performing it.

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’25 A To Z Challenge – E

Enervate, effulgence, encomium, eristic, exody, euphemism

So many useless, esoteric words that begin with the latter E, I think I’ll irritate some Buy-Bull Thumpers, and discuss

EPICENE

lacking the typical characteristics of a particular gender or sex;
flaccid; feeble; weak, sexless, effeminate, unmasculine.

For some people, ‘Attention to Detail’ just means how far they can stick their nose into someone else’s business.  If there were ever calm discussion about the subject, this could be the upscale word to describe transgenderism.

There is a California, First Amendment Auditor, who goes by the name ‘Chris.’  I don’t know if he’s a guy, trying to be a girl, or if she’s a gal, trying to be a guy.  It’s about 4’ 10”, in any direction, and exhibits the characteristics of a beach ball.

An approaching female police officer began a conversation with, ‘Can you explain what you’re doing here, sir…. Uh, Ma’am…….. Uh, what do I call you?’  The response was, “Good Citizen.”  This is a difficult word for religiously indoctrinated people, who have been taught to expect answers to every question – whether they are entitled to answers or not.  Sometimes the honest answer is, I don’t know.

I do know that there will be a Fibbing Friday post in a couple of days.  I look forward to seeing you there, when you can question my sanity and/or sense of humor.

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’24 A To Z Challenge – S

Shiver me timbers!  Scupper and scuttle me, mateys.  It’s time for a post about the letter S.

I thought that I would tell you about the first young couple to get caught

SCRUMPING

It was Adam and Eve – and not doing what you might have thought, at all.  “Scrumping” means to

Steal fruit

Scrumping is an old-fashioned informal term in England that means to steal fruit such as apples from trees. It is a dialectal term that can also refer to something that is shriveled or cooked to a crisp.

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About what you thought it might mean:  If God created Adam and Eve immortal – no sin, no death, no painful childbirth, no human race – did He also create them with sexual equipment and orgasms, or was Eve just there to make apple butter??  Discuss among yourselves, and with any available tight-assed Buy-Bull thumper.

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Personal Preference Prayer

Jesus is coming!  Look busy – but not stupid.

She said:

Some signs of Jesus return are familiar (earthquakes, wars, famines, rumors of wars, persecution, etc.), others, not so much. Over the course of the next few weeks I will discuss some of the lesser known signs of end time events. The first is found in Matthew twenty-four, a long discourse on the end of the age. It says;  

I responded:  There are 55 earthquakes each day, there have been wars, and rumors of wars, every day for the last 2000 years. There has not been a day without famine, or the persecution of someone or some group, it’s just life, and the World, as usual…. still no sign of Christ returning.

After deep and careful thought, she sent back, 2nd Peter 3:3-9

What a wonderful answer!  What a marvelous riposte!  I am truly impressed. (Insert sarcasm here!) Instead of going to First Peter 3:15, where it says that you are responsible for providing proof for what you believe, you give another passage which makes it seem as if  I am somehow responsible to accept your personal delusions.

Having been shown that all the mystical signs and omens that you listed are constant and continuous, do you have any actual evidence that the imminent return of Christ is any more likely today, than it was last week – last month – last year – last century – last millennium??

Another End-Timer called the Atheist Experience program to claim that The Rapture was right around the corner, because of COVID19.  Never before, in the history of Man, have we had such a world-wide disease which killed so many people.  Apparently, his fire-and-brimstone preacher didn’t tell him about the 1916 Spanish Flu (Which, by the way, began in Oklahoma – but we can’t blame America.) which killed more people around the world than did World War I.  Or the Black Plague, in the mid-14th century, which killed a third to a half of Europe.

These morose and dismal Necromongers are the reason that the Holy Catholic Church ruled that suicide was a sin – even though it wasn’t.  To paraphrase the antagonist in The DaVinci Code, “One day it wasn’t a sin.  The next day it had been ruled that it was.”

In the early centuries of Christianity, life for European peasants was so brutal, and the allure of a perfect after-life was so strong, that hundreds and thousands of them committed suicide and killed their families, to go to Heaven.  In some areas, there weren’t enough of them left to feed and serve the nobles.  Some petty King or Emperor beseeched the Pope to stop it, and, VOILA, a new infallible rule!  😮

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Tu Quoque

A Christian Apologist walked into a bar….
No he didn’t.  Don’t be silly.  They don’t walk into bars.
He walked into a church and had some communion wine because
Jesus turned water into wine, and said alcohol is good for you.
He made some drunken accusations about a well-known Atheist.
I accused him of Tu Quoque.
(Which means Christians do the same things, but claim to be better than everybody else)
He denied it, and claimed that I was ‘projecting.’
He said – She said

The rest is THISTORY

Frustrated and angry about the ongoing actions and attitudes of Christians, Christianity, the Christian Church, and specifically the Catholic Church, P Z Meyers indulged in a little hypothetical hyperbole.  To present it as if you believed it literally, is either incredibly naïve, or an intentional lie.  Likewise, to take the angry rant of one Atheist, and present it as if it were somehow The Official Atheist Position, is also naïve or a lie.

You admit that Meyers supposedly has the same actions and attitudes that some Christians do.  To castigate the Atheist, and then even imply that Christians still hold the moral high ground is the Tu Quoque fallacy that I mentioned.  This is not projection!  This is cold, hard logic, and demonstrable fact.

You complained that Meyers advocated (he didn’t) burning down the churches of the very Indigenous People he tries to support.  These are the same churches which were thrust, unwanted, upon them – which stifled and strangled their native spirituality – and treated them like shit for centuries.  Meyers honestly believes that they would be better off without them.  Mentioning burning them down is a bit over-the-top, for effect.  I agree with Schadenfreude’s suggestion that they could be made much better use of in other, non-church ways.

As for the old Nazi-wannabe….  Meyers does not believe in Heaven or Hell.  He doesn’t think that there will ever be any final punishment for this man’s evil ways.  Even if God and Heaven were to exist, he can still sneak out through the Holy loophole by confessing his sins and asking for forgiveness.

Fair is where you take your pig to have it judged, but Meyers obviously feels that the universe would a little fairer place if this man suffered in retribution in the here and now – the only time and place that we can be sure that he will pay for his many transgressions.

Kevin, below, wants to write him a free pass because he wasn’t quite the asshole that Hitler was.  This was only through lack of ability and lack of opportunity, not through any lack of trying.  His ideology – his evil – his sin – is precisely the same.  Any difference in size is irrelevant.

In your follow-up post, you maunder on about Meyers putting someone through a wood-chipper.  He would not do such a thing!  He did not even advocate that anyone should do this!  What he PRECISELY said was, if all that Regnery did, was put one person into a wood-chipper, as horrible and gruesome as that might be, it would still be less evil and cause less pain and suffering to others, than what Regnery has achieved over many years.

Your rants might have a firmer base if you stopped assigning thoughts and claims to others, and studied and understood satire, sarcasm, and hyperbole.  But then, what’s the fun of dishing out the truth?  😯

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Tell Me If You’ve Heard This One – V

Agon (noun) [AH-gahn]
Conflict, especially the dramatic conflict between the main characters in a literary work.
The family feud in “Romeo and Juliette” is a famous agon.

Billow (verb) [BIL-oh]
to swell up, to puff out, as by the action of wind
Held by two men, the flag billowed within their grasp as though it could unfurl any moment.

Clishmaclaver (noun) [klish-muh-kley-ver, kleesh]
Scottish: gossip, idle or foolish talk
There was no way that Robbie Burns Day would be cancelled.  It was utter clishmaclaver.

Ekistics (noun) [ih-kis-tiks]
The scientific study of human settlements, drawing on diverse disciplines, including architecture, city planning, and behavioral science.
(Look out!  Big Brother is watching you.)

Gewgaw (noun) [gyoo-gaw, goo]
Something gaudy and useless, trinket, bauble
The tourist market was filled with nothing but counterfeit handbags and gewgaws – objects that no-one really wanted

Gleek (verb) [gleek]
Archaic: To make a joke, to jest
First recorded 1540 – 50, of uncertain origin  (Let’s Blame the Scots.)
In Shakespearean plays, joking was referred to as gleeking

Impecunious (adjective) [im-pi-kyoo-nee-uh s]
Having little or no money, penniless, poor
The dot-com crash left him impecunious, with not a cent to his name.

Moira (noun) [moy-ruh]
A person’s fate or destiny
She believed that it was her moira to win a gold Olympic medal.

Naissance (noun) [ney-suh ns]
A birth, an organization, or a growth, as that of a person, an organization, an idea, or a movement.
The naissance of the Civil Rights Movement occurred on college campuses.

Pilgarlic (noun) [pil-gahr-lik]
A person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity
Chris was a bit of a pilgarlic, untrusted and untrustworthy.

Pyknic (adjective) [pik-nik]
Characterised by shortness of stature, broadness of girth, and powerful musculature
Even though he had a pyknic build – short and stocky – he was well-known for his brute strength.

Remonstrate (verb) [ri-mon-streyt]
To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval
The decision to trade the popular player caused many fans to remonstrate.

Shimony – also Simony (noun)  [sehy-muh-nee, sim-uh]
the making of profit out of sacred things.
the sin of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferments, benefices, etc.
1175–1225; Middle English simonie <Late Latin simōnia; so called from Simon Magus, who tried to purchase apostolic powers; see Simon (def. 5), -y3
This is the word which my son, Shimoniac, bases his online identity on.

Whatsis (noun) [hwuhts-iss, hwots-,wuhts-, wots-]
A thing or object whose name one does not know, or cannot recall
Having momentarily forgotten the word for “stapler,” he asked his colleague to bring him the whatsis.

Word is, there’ll be another great post in a couple of days.  See you there.  Don’t be late.  You know how grumpy my ego can get, if it hasn’t been fed.  👿

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Rave On

A Flash Fiction about a rave in a park, brought questions from ‘Old Fogeys’ about WHY.  I responded that I once worked with a young fellow who said that, after work, he was going to the big bar down the street, to party with 300 strangers. He was strange enough to fit right in. I didn’t see the attraction.

The answer may lie in the ability to make a drunken (and/or drugged-out) fool of yourself in anonymity.  A second layer to that answer may relate to ‘Good Christians’, who want to engage in (to them) SINFUL behavior, without friends, relatives, or neighbors finding out.  It’s how my Father and Mother met and got married.

During the 1940s and ‘50s, in my area, it was not considered wise to go drinking (and perhaps, pursuing the company of young females) in a local establishment.  I heard the axioms, ‘Don’t Shit Where You Eat,’ and, ‘Don’t Mess Your Own Nest.’   During the war years, young men of Armed Service age, who were  drinking in a bar, might be loudly and forcefully accosted.

My Mother’s younger brother and a pal, used to drive 30 miles north, to my Father’s home town, to do their drinking and Hoo-Rahing.  My Mother returned from Detroit, sans husband.  When my Father returned from Naval Service, her brother was quick to point out that she was single and available.  Introductions were made, and soon, a marriage was performed.  Don’t start counting on your fingers.  I was born 14 months after the wedding date.

Even after he was married, the local undertaker/furniture store owner used to drive 30 miles south every Saturday night to go anonymously drinking.  The town was a mile off the north/south highway, and the access road used to come out to a T-intersection.  Drinking and driving must have been an Olympic sport.  So many cars wound up through the fence, and into a farmer’s field, that the Department of Highways added a 90 degree curve merge ramp.

One Saturday night – actually Sunday morning – he went screaming around the merge ramp at highway speed.  Normally, at that time, the highway would be empty, but this night there was a young family returning from a visit to his parents.  If he even noticed them, he still slammed into the side of their car, spinning it out of control, first into a tree, and then a deep drainage culvert.

The mother and young boy were killed instantly.  The father survived, but was so badly smashed up that he could never work.  The dark joke around town was that the undertaker was just making more business for himself.

You want to party?  You want to get drunk?  You want to do drugs?  You want to do it –not at Cheers – where nobody knows your name?  You have the right to be stupid.  Just carry ID, so the cops know who to notify – either for a funeral, medical treatment, or bail.

Click to hear Buddy Holly going to a rave, back in 1958.

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There’s Morality – And Then There’s Morality

If you don’t believe in God, where do you think you get your morals?
They say that there are no stupid questions.  In your case, I’ll make an exception.

If you’re right, and God exists, then I get my morals installed by Him, whether I believe in Him or not.
If I’m right, and no God exists, then I get my morals from evolution-guided empathy.

Do you think that God forgot to install my morality, and the reason that I’m an Atheist is His fault?  😯

Faith is believing in something without any evidence.
Integrity is admitting it.

Faith is the excuse people give when they believe in something without a good reason.  If they had a good reason, they would give that.

In addition to above:
Here’s a terrible and extreme example. Imagine there is another 9-11 style terror attack. You, as a commander in the US Air Force, suddenly find yourself with two F19’s tailing a full Boeing 777 which is heading towards Manhattan. On board, the terrorists have stated their intention to recreate the horrific events of that previous tragedy. Also on board are over 460 passengers and crew members. Looking at the manifest – you have families on board. What do you do?

Well, if the moral action is dictated solely by empathy, you are going to be in a pickle. You will feel for all the thousands of people and fire crews working in Manhattan. But you will also feel for all the innocent people on board the plane! So, on empathy alone, are you going to make the tough and tragic call to shoot down the plane? You’ll probably be left stumbling over the right thing to do. And surely waiting too long will result in bad consequences that could have been avoided. Surely an immoral choice?
(What is the immoral choice?  To shoot it down?  To not shoot it down?  Or merely to be faced with such a dilemma?)

If your morality is grounded in God, how would your choice in the 777 scenario be any easier – or better – or faster??
Make the painful and hard choice now – trust that ultimately, justice will be done by Him in the future.
This doesn’t answer any of the questions.  It merely starts the big game of ‘Pass The Buck.’  Satan gets blamed for all the evil stuff – God cleans up the mess and (maybe) punishes the bad guys posthumously – and this morally-conflicted clown doesn’t have to accept any responsibility or blame for any action or decision.
  Mr. Miyagi say, Best way to avoid sin – not be there.

The above argument may look good on a Christian Apologist’s blog site, but the answer isn’t religious, it’s secular/military.  Does the writer think (probably not 😛 ) that young men are put into the sky with machines of mass destruction, without every conceivable alternative being considered BEFORE they take off?

The decision wouldn’t even be left to the pilot.  It would be a group discussion, and bucked up to Generals, Defense Secretaries, and ultimately, the President – and it wouldn’t even be left to the discretion of one pilot to refuse.  That’s why there are two F19s.

There would be figurative Hell to pay if it becomes necessary to shoot the airliner down, but the ultimate choice would come from an Atheist standpoint, even if a ‘Good Christian’ made it.  “The greatest good for the greatest number”  While it would be a heartbreaking decision to make, and not one made quickly, or easily, 460 dead in the sky is better than the same 460 dead in a crash, and thousands dead on the ground, along with them.

I’ve stopped wondering if maybe God has installed faith and morals in Apologists, and begun wondering why He, so often, seems to forget to install intelligence or logic.