Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumGoblinmonger
(22,340 posts)I think I will start substituting "Bloody Christ on a cross" for "Jesus Christ on a pogo stick."
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)I don't know the usual posters in there so I can't guess that specifically.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)The Girls, Guys and Society pictures have to do with romantic/sexual love. Oh, wait, maybe some Christians are sexually turned on by the thought of bloody Jesus on a cross.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)darkstar3
(8,763 posts)Warpy
(111,328 posts)Yes, in a series of cats, often rescues and occasionally barn cats who wanted indoors, who decided I was OK as far as monkeys go and displayed abundant affection and even gratitude. In fact, there's one in my lap right now, nuzzling my hand and making it hard to type. She's just been fed, so this is affection instead of wheedling.
I've found love with friends, lovers, coworkers and the like, but no one has come close to beating the unconditional affection from cats. And a few dogs.
I never got anything but acute boredom and occasional outrage in any building that featured a plaster effigy of a bleeding man on a cross.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Animals are the best place to find love---and especially rescues who have not always had a good life.
But I have to say that dogs can be as good as cats. All animals have a higher capacity for love than humans seem to have.
Animal love is not unconditional (as is often said)... just try not feeding them for a week or two...
But it is GENUINE.
Mumble
(201 posts)...with a pic of an old wise man with a white beard, their image would possibly be more palatable. And that's a big "if."
darkstar3
(8,763 posts)Sexism, species shame, torture porn, and a complete misunderstanding of the concept of love.
Yep, sounds like the bible belt.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)but they seem into it.
It's perfect.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)How revealing that the "where guys think they'll find it" panel merely contains the printed word "sex" rather than a physical depiction of the act, even abstractly, to fit in with the other panels.
Apparently the sex act is just too awful to be depicted, unlike the last panel which depicts the victim of a bloody murder as the very epitome of love.
onager
(9,356 posts)The "actually find it" pic is from the famous S&M/snuff movie, Passion of the Christ. I Googled the movie title, clicked "Images," and it popped right up on a Time magazine site:
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Oy...
well if you love pretentious crap.
Exactly having it in Aramaic with subtitles contributed....what?... exactly? And that's just one example of "look how smart we are!" movie-excess.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)You are projecting qualities onto perceived stimuli.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Well, crappiness may be a quality of poop, but that is different.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)And the observer of a made object cannot correctly perceive the creator's qualities and skills? That is one odd theory of art you have.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)We can say the creators of an object failed to live up to our current standards and current tastes.
Objective qualities can be perceived, such as being bipedal, but subjective qualities are projected, such as pretentiousness. Skills can be perceived, but judgements on those skills are subjective, and therefore projected.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Dear Jury give a break. Not an attack on the messenger.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)That is commendable.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)...nah, I won't call it what it is, I don't want to get my jury duty probability further reduced.
Let's say... we have fireworks.