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The thing about Christianity is that it is such a wide tradition, with so many interpretations and subgroups. So many different kinds of people label themselves as Christian that I think the word has really lost most of its meaning....
I never cursed as a child. My parents forbade it, as did the JW's. I don't recall ever saying Goddamnit, or fuck... I remember once when I got spanked for saying piss.
None of this has ANYTHING to do with Bea Arthur's vagina.
my dad lived in the US for a year when he was little, and he had to pledge allegiance to the flag every morning in school (or something like that--do you still have to do that?), but he always mumbled "and the Netherlands" under his breath.
not really because he was such a rebel or anything, but it simply makes more sense that way, to a kid, i suppose.
Good for your Dad.
Legally, you don't still have to recite the pledge in school in America, but some schools still insist on it. As far I as I know, currently it's often said in elementary schools, sometimes in junior high schools, and very seldom in high schools.
The U. S. Supreme Court originally decided right before the beginning of World War II that schools could force students to recite it. Members of I think the Jehovah's Witnesses had believed that saying a pledge to an inanimate object was idolatry (frankly, I tend to agree), but they lost. But ironically during World War II, when American Patriotism was at its height ("Kill for America!"), the Supreme Court reversed its decision, I think on First Amendment grounds (for non-Americans, that amendment to the U. S. Constitution covers Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press, stuff like that).
I've refused to say the pledge from the 6th grade up through my senior year oh highschool, and most of the time I was able to get away with just some dirty looks, but I got kicked out of a few classes, was not allowed to take a test which would have ruined my grade if the administration hadn't intervened, and I've had multiple angry phone calls to my parents.
I still don't get what the point of that would be.
I dunno... that motherfucker caused a hell of a lot of chaos over the past 2000 years.
Ohhhhhhh, wow, it just occurred to me how many people it would piss off if we canonized Jesus...
my dad lived in the US for a year when he was little, and he had to pledge allegiance to the flag every morning in school (or something like that--do you still have to do that?), but he always mumbled "and the Netherlands" under his breath.
not really because he was such a rebel or anything, but it simply makes more sense that way, to a kid, i suppose.
Oddly enough, it says Book of Eris was added there Jan 01,1970, decades before it was even written. How'd they do that?
Verthaine probably messed up the target date while travelling between multiverses. It happens.
Jan 1, 1970 is the start of the UNIX time epoch.
it's the date/time you get when a UNIX timestamp (measured as seconds since midnight Jan 1 1970) is accidentally set to zero.
so probably a computer glitch somewhere.
This is Discordia... there are no rules. However, if you break the rules, goddess help ya.
I think they mean Verthaine's Book of Eris.
http://poee.co.uk/site/component/option,com_rsfiles/task,files.display/path,...Ancient_Erisian_Texts...bookoferis.pdf/Itemid,28/ should get you to where you want to be.
I'll update the links page.
