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Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

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  1. Dutchboy1

    Dutchboy1 said, 5 months ago

    That is exactly the reason that so many people have a problem with religion.

  2. DigitalFrog

    DigitalFrogGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    That’s one deep friar!

  3. Edcole1961

    Edcole1961 said, 5 months ago

    He reminds me of an ex short-order cook, who went out of the frying pan and into the friars.

  4. JFri

    JFri said, 5 months ago

    Looks like bmonk on docT’s nuclear coffee to me!

  5. baslim_the_begger

    baslim_the_beggerGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition Nuclear Option!

  6. Bender_Sastre

    Bender_Sastre said, 5 months ago

    We had a bruiser in my LDS mission, Elder Bona. If you didn’t respond to polite discussion, we called in Elder Bona with his “truncheon of reason”. Okay, so no we didn’t do that, but he was a rather large lad, even larger by comparison in Guatemala, where everyone is about 4” shorter.

  7. grazer

    grazer said, 5 months ago

    See?—the evolutionists had it wrong all along….it was a key monk, not a monkey.

  8. Superfrog

    Superfrog said, 5 months ago

    Nothing wrong with a little gentle persuasion…

  9. Akenta

    Akenta said, 5 months ago

    JFri exactly what I was thinking.

  10. Leonardeuler

    Leonardeuler said, 5 months ago

    Splendid comment, Grazer !!!!! Couldn’t stop laughing……

  11. twright64

    twright64 said, 5 months ago

    Dutchboy: How does that illustrate anybody’s problem
    with religion?

    Does anybody else find the new mouseover vignettes
    annoying? Sure wish the webmaster would lose them!

  12. n2theabyss

    n2theabyss said, 5 months ago

    are they going for a visit with mr ILL¿

  13. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    Grazer - that was a good one. I may have met my match. Golfing does you good. La la la la la….

    Its kim Jong ill.

    No, not the big one. He’s the first one looking over his shoulder because he really is just afraid of lots of things…especially the illuminati disguised as Jesuits. But he’s in front of the torches, which is the international symbol of pergatory. Always better to be in front of the line of fire.

  14. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    So, a new Christian walks into a Christian radio booth at a music festival. Two girls across the aisle are checking out the Francisican friar booth. The Christian calls them over to his booth, and says ’ Do you know why they are called friars? Because they are going to burn in hell. ’

    Then the girls tell their mother, who tells the friar, who walks over to the new Christian with a book of doctrine and the Christian said ‘aaaaahhhhhhh, …..’ and lost the battle. His companion suggested he study more before quacking jokes at the opposition.

    True story. Really. Thats why I am out of demoninations but still into studying the Scriptures. Beeeeee nice!

  15. MurphyHerself

    MurphyHerself said, 5 months ago

    Contact uclick and complain about those popups–click on the Contact Us link below. If they got a thousand complaints, they might take them off.

  16. Carmy

    CarmyGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    LOL, JFri!

  17. Wildmustang1262

    Wildmustang1262 said, 5 months ago

    Just like a GIANT MONK!

    JFri said, about 7 hours ago

    Looks like bmonk on docT’s nuclear coffee to me!

    JFri, you nailed it! LOLs!

  18. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    What is LOLs?

  19. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 5 months ago

    Brother Nuclear Option - the Mother of all Monks?

  20. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    WHAT IT LOL???? And how come no one sends that to me? Is it my beard? I feel so alienated.

  21. bmonk

    bmonkGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Dare I poke my nose in here?

    There’s an old canard about the Rule of Benedict that talks about “if the guest will not leave, let two stout monks explain the matter to him”, but it’s not really in the rule. Any religious rule. While we do, on occasion, stray from the spirit of the Gospel (Abbot Pons of Cluny comes to mind; he invaded the Abbey with an army to try to get reinstated as Abbot), we tend to be rather gentler for the most part.

    I can’t say I’ve ever tried DocT’s coffee.

    As for EMET’s christian, I don’t know why he, or anyone, would imagine someone dedicated to following the Gospel with their whole life would burn in he||. We do not believe that our vows or lifestyle will save us; it’s just our response to the overwhelming gift and call of God’s grace.

  22. damarpi

    damarpi said, 5 months ago

    Oops, the discussion is getting serious again. EMET BeeBeard, LOL stands for Laugh Out Loud (I had to ask recently, too) – something we all need to do more of

  23. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    The big guy must be Hordle John.

  24. Doctor Toon

    Doctor ToonGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    JFri, Akenta, and bmonk -
    I did say my nuclear coffee has only produced benevolent mutations so far, didn’t I?

  25. TapiocaHead

    TapiocaHeadGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Illuminati

  26. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    Bmonk - check ‘rabbits against magic’ as a warning against poking your nose. Then check the 1st letter of John. Then check Moses vs. Constantine.

    Oops - you are now playing hockey defense against your will.

    That means a lot of checking for good defense.

  27. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    A puddin head has broken the code. Nice job, Tapioca head. Way to shed some new light on the discussion.

    And to bmonk - they don’t burn in hell. He didn’t study the opposing playbook . Purgatory is where all the refining takes place, even according to the monk key. And never trust a rule by some guy named Benedict…. or Arnold, who may be out with the swine flu today.

    Never been to a funeral where they said ‘well, this guy’s in pergatory now……’
    la la la la la la ………

    Try the coffee.

    Thank you, damarpi for not being offended by my beard and answering my question. ’

  28. openminded

    openmindedGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    WHEW!!

  29. bmonk

    bmonkGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    @EMET, I did have a funeral where the guy died of a drug overdose, and the family chose one reading from Wisdom 4, including verse 7: “The just man, though he die early, shall be at rest.” Had to say that the fellow did not die early because he was just, but because he was flawed, weak–like us all. Only our sins don’t catch up with us quite so quickly. I didn’t exactly say “This guy’s in purgatory”, but that’s the hope. After all, if you make it to purgatory, heaven will come in due time.

  30. Akenta

    Akenta said, 5 months ago

    There was a comic a while ago (I think Zack Hill) where the mom was just learning to text. She thought LOL meant “lots of love” and she wound up using it when her friend told her some bad news..

  31. alife

    alife said, 5 months ago

    LOL ;D
    Life of Leo http://leoville.com/
    or
    Life of Liz http://home.pacbell.net/ankhlife/home.html

  32. Ira Nayman

    Ira Nayman said, 5 months ago

    Sorry to inject politics but…

    The last time I heard the phrase “nuclear option,” it was used by Republicans to describe what they would do if the Democrats dared to filibuster any of their Supreme Court nominees. Of course, now that the nominating sock is on the other foot, they sing a very different tune…

    I’m just sayin’.

  33. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    @bmonk: Does not Catholic Doctrine teach that purgatory is flaming hot? How else do you get purged? Ice doesn’t purge.

    Does Catholic doctrine also teach that money can buy your way out, as well as other people’s, way out of purgatory? That can’t be true, or only people with money or with rich relatives could get out. All that money taken was professional theivery, and those in the counting houses will pay the price for the lie. Purgatory sounds more like being cast into outer darkness if you want it to fit into some biblical theology trap door.

    I believe Reggie White knows about rest - he is ‘sleeping’ until the first resurrection. His testimony in his last days appears to fit the description of ‘a just man’ as you described in Wisdom 4. You can find his testimony online, but i don’t exactly remember where.

    Thanks for the feedback - I, like many others, are trying to weed through the gardens and toss out the tares of falsehood, hopefully leaving only the spelt. Even wheat has been altered and genetically modified. It is a sad era we live in. The 13 sieve system, spiritually speaking, should rectify everything in due time.

    Well, bless your heart, bmonk.

  34. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    Hey bmonk - are you the pope? I am detecting some very decent opposing arguments.

    Strength training requires a real adversary. However, it usually is just dead weights.

    Good thing there is something known as a ‘dead lift’. The hope of being in the first resurrection, or lifting up, or rapture.

    Or to take the other opposing option - is the first rapture only for those that are full of leaven and puffed up like a bunch of hot air, then will come back to reality after they run out of hypocrisy.

    Stay on this page if you want to continue - not too many people back track and probably won’t yell us off these topics. I’m not a genius though, so I think we only have 5 more days to at least plod through a few things together

  35. bmonk

    bmonkGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Not the pope, just an average joe of a monk. Catholic doctrine tends not to say too much about the afterlife specifics, but the New Testament would probably indicate flames. I’ll look if I have time.

    We discovered (about 500-600 years back) the dangers of buying out of punishment, and changed our views. And it was never the only, or best way. (I believe it was first promoted in the Renaissance to fund the restoration of St. Peter’s on the Vatican Hill.)

    I believe that’s usually how the Spirit works for us: we can and do go astray, but not for too long before we get yanked back to reality and have to try again…. And that’s the advantage of tradition: we are apt to remember and reflect on what went before and avoid at least a few pitfalls.

    One example comes to mind: at Columbine, the one girl (at least) was asked if she believed in Jesus; when she replied yes, she was shot and killed. Her church immediately acclaimed her as a martyr and holds her memory in high regard. Interesting point is that the church seems to be Evangelical of some stripe, and likely mocks the Catholics for our veneration of Saints. Yet they are doing the very thing that led us to develop the whole tradition, and safeguards (Canonization, to weed out the bogus/less edifying saints, limits on how to venerate saints vs. worship God, and so on). Only difference: we are about 1800 years further developed in our tradition…

    As for the Rapture, we don’t worry about those specifics, as I said earlier. We do have an immediate, personal judgment by Christ, and a general judgment on the Last Day, but it isn’t even entirely clear what the difference is, or if there is a difference.

  36. bmonk

    bmonkGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Another idea: If the discussion goes on longer than a week, we might just have to continue on another day (or two) old comic…

  37. lindz.coop

    lindz.coopGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    I think it kinda resembles the sheeny man

  38. KAWINKIDINK

    KAWINKIDINK said, 5 months ago

    they look like the retarded monks from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (the ones that kept smacking their heads with the boards)