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  1. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    ’ bout the size of him

  2. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    maybe I’m just way tired, but can someone explain this to me … I don’t get it

  3. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    Sword in the stone… King Arthur… Camelot…

    Arthur pulled the Sword from the stone which was put there to determine who should be the King of the Britons.

    Gorell’s saying that Barack doesn’t have the “UMPH” to be the new King of the new Camelot.

  4. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    Don’t speak rudely of Gorell, INanity; he’s trying.

  5. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 2 months ago

    … we “knew John Kennedy and, you’re no John Kennedy” or even a Teddy.

  6. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    this toon reminds me of the Congresswoman who recently said what America needs is another “great white hope” and then claimed she had just no gosh durn idea that had a racial connotation …. i hope her constituents take pause for that remark but I doubt it

    no, I don’t think that’s what Gorrell is saying … he’s consistently anti-change to status quo … just reminded me of it

  7. johnking

    johnking said, 2 months ago

    The mysterious thing is why anyone would think Teddy was any better than Barack, when both have been blots on American democracy.

  8. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    BCS,

    “this toon reminds me of the Congresswoman who recently said what America needs is another “great white hope” and then claimed she had just no gosh durn idea that had a racial connotation …”

    BCS, I read her epiphany as just that, she had no idea. I think that is why there need to be programs such as Affirmative Action, and Quotas, because many people just have zero idea that they are clueless.

    It’s the same as talking with some people about politics and religion, they have no idea how much they don’t know.

  9. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    Dr Canucky–Gorrell isn’t half as trying as Bennett, Lowe, Morin, Sherffius, Wright…

  10. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    RV, I read that Obama’s spokesman said they believe her that she had no racial intent in mind. I just find it hard to believe that anyone saying America needing a “great white hope” when we have a black president for the first time could not understand the racial comment underlying that statement.

    at the very least, it reveals, it seems to me, a subconscious intent. IMHO

  11. parkersinthehouse

    parkersinthehouse said, 2 months ago

    I hope y’all don’t mind, i have to answer Dr’s question - the toon changed before i finished.

    Ok Dr
    let me answer your questions/opinions with my opinions (point by point)

    [Still rather vague, parker’, as “knowing me” could well refer to knowing a soul (the essence of the “me”) even before conception.]

    —yes, i agree with you, and also think the two are inseparable

    [The body alone is then “knit” and the soul enters with the first breath. As in the “breath of life” breathed into Adam’s nostrils.]

    —no, i believe the soul is known by God before the body is “knit” - and therefore, is a living being either before or as it is physically conceived. In other words, the conception is the manifestation of the soul and viable.
    —some more of psalm 139:15 – When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother’s womb, when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there.
    16 – You saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.”

    —(agree with 555) Adam was created, not born, and he was the first, thus he needed the official Creator-jump-start. Eve was then created from Adam’s flesh, and we can assume that God breathed into her the breath of life, or that she inherited it from Adam, otherwise she could not have given birth to Cain and Abel. Right?

    [People “breathe their last” when they die]
    —is simply a human-designed saying - a worn one - not found in the Bible except as regards Christ at the crucifixion.

    [And we say “bless you” when people sneeze as their souls have suddenly left their bodies, leaving a void for demons to inhabit]
    — is a superstition.

    —However, even though we may not be superstitious, we still say “God bless you” understanding that a sneeze may signal a cold, not imminent demon-possession.

    [The ancients had no idea of sperm and eggs so couldn’t have possibly believed or wrote that life began at fertilization.

    One fellow amongst us here made a reference to a man’s “seed.” Exactly. The ancients’ understanding was that men provided everything to a fetus and the woman was simply the fertile ground, an agriculture analogy.]

    —uh, ancients didn’t know? of course they knew. it’s suggested all through the bible - immutable. I’d be glad to site scriptures for you -

    —God told the serpent “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall crush your head, and you shall crush His heel” —“seed” and “he” in this case, referring to offspring. Genesis 3:14-15

    —through the old testament, seed refers to Abraham’s descendants, spilled semen, sperm, woman’s seed, man’s seed, parables about seeds cast, sown, sprouted, watered, etc. i think your analogy is flawed.

    [So again, the seed was alive BEFORE conception; then grew.]

    —the seed, as man’s sperm, is alive but not singularly viable.

    Furthermore, Science tells us that human life begins at the time of conception. From the moment fertilization takes place, the child’s genetic makeup is already complete. Its gender has already been determined, along with its height and hair, eye and skin color. The only thing the embryo needs to become a fully-functioning being is the time to grow and develop. Of course God created science. Go figure.

  12. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    BCS,

    I think that a fair number of people just repeat colorful phrases they have heard without giving them the thought that they ought.

    The lady probably thought that the saying was akin to “The Great White Whale”. As for me I always think of it as meaning something to do with Boxing. Jerry Cooney (?) was know derisively as “The Great White Dope” after having been the GWH and having his head bashed in much to the glee of bookmakers everywhere who could sucker white betting suckers into giving them odds on Jerry.

    But what’s good for the goose… People make dumb remarks all of the time. When Barack made the “lipstick on a pig” remark (even though three weeks earlier it would have been fine) he was out of line.

    Zell Miller was out of line when he said that they ought to put Gorilla Glue on Obama’s Oval Office chair to keep him in town for a while instead of galavanting aroung the globe. I don’t think he meant it as a racial slur, but it wound up being one anyway.

    As a guy who has tasted toe jam more times than I care to count, I know that; when you are trying your dangdest… “Whatever you do Shel, don’t say anything about his scar on his face, he’s very self conscious about the scar on his face, so don’t say anything about it!” You gonna say when he opens the door “A ‘Z’?!”

  13. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    “Furthermore, Science tells us that human life begins at the time of conception. From the moment fertilization takes place, the child’s genetic makeup is already complete. Its gender has already been determined, along with its height and hair, eye and skin color. The only thing the embryo needs to become a fully-functioning being is the time to grow and develop. Of course God created science. Go figure.”

    NO, not true! (not that it makes a difference, but still)

    http://tinyurl.com/lmx88x

    Here’s an interesting article that talks about the several other things that can happen on the road to determining the sex of a child. It doesn’t happen at conception.

  14. fennec

    fennec said, 2 months ago

    Most people haven’t much knowledge of epigenetic phenomena such as are discussed in that article. Moreover, most do not recognize the fact that genotype does not hardwire phenotype. Expression of genes is modified in development. All humans have genes for language, but full use of language must be developed within the first decade of life.

  15. Tigger

    TiggerGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Obama is no where near the Man JFK was and he never will be.

  16. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    Sheesh! Parker, let’s get together for a beer somewhere. We can’t do this on these blogs.

    Just a couple. “Her seed.” Did not know that. Thank you for proving me wrong. I’ve learned something. (but go research the sneezing thing.)

    “conception is the manifestation of the soul.” You can’t really be a Formist, are you? The soul creates the body?

    “Science tells us that human life begins at the time of conception.” I’d challenge that one. Science does not say life begins at conception. Life began once, 3.5 billion years ago. Everything we see now is a continuation. Sperm and eggs are still human life.

    Fennec, get in here.

  17. fennec

    fennec said, 2 months ago

    DrC, I’ve said my piece. I’m not sure what a soul is supposed to be. Geez, I’m not even sure what a God is supposed to be, given the wildly varying portraits we’ve seen on this site alone. parker is an artist….I am definitely NOT an artist. I do not have the imagination to be one, although I do appreciate and enjoy the creations of artists. So here we have the Art/Science dichotomy. Where do we go from here?

  18. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    N’er the twain shall meet.

    But surely you’re enough of a biologist to reject the existence of a (superfluous) soul?

  19. HUMPHRIES

    HUMPHRIESGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    The best laught I’ve had in a while, ANandy calling anyone a “mental midget”.

  20. charlie555

    charlie555 said, 2 months ago

    This toon also works on the level of Kennedy’s death leaving Obama hanging.

  21. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    I can absolutely reject the existence of a superfluous soul.

    I cannot, however, reject the existence of the one I’m using.

    I have absolutely seen and done too many things that convince my aesthetic mind that there is a “Yaqui way of knowledge” so to speak.

    My rational mind, however, while assured that that there is something there (so that the two don’t fight over it any more) is quite satisfied to live within the “real world” and yet accept the dichotomy of the two.

  22. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    ^ is the notion you expressed above part of the reason why your screen name contains the word “ventriloquist?”

  23. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    RV: So THAT’S why no one here can understand your posts. Too much peyote as a small child, huh?

  24. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    One never knows all the reasons for anything.

  25. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    DrC.

    Reread your Carlos Casteneda, Don Juan told him again and again that peyote wasn’t the pathway.

    That’s why Carlos only glimpsed it.

    Oh, and “What you mean ‘We’, white man?”

    You and those with a right axe to grind are the ones who don’t understand me.

    Most people just ignore me because my posts are too long.

  26. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    No, most people ignore you because your posts are garbled.

  27. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    And you know what “most people” do because….?