A candid opinion please

[weak_link]

I never intended to be hostile to you.

You might want to consider reexamining your style of posting because you do come off as hostile and very combative, often. I have exactly zero beef with you, please don't misunderstand.

Also, this is General not the Sink.

 

[tuxumino]

Don't know you the song is my but the lyrics might be expressing what many feel.

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oh and Rimmey, thanks for giving me the opportunity to post more Sailor Moon stuff on this forum, it'll endear you to me but not the rest of the users, they're pretty much to the tolerance level on Sailor Moon.

 

[HeatXfer]

My only experience with this MC was this one dood on the internet who came across as a little self-centered and humorless.

In other news, I have coffee and I have cereal in the morning. What do you guys think of mixing the two into one bowl?

I like the cut of your jib, Sir and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!

 

[acidjzaz]

This thread has nothing to do with bikes and should be moved to the sink.
All this talk about god and the bible yadayada makes me wanna from deep down inside of my belly.. it just keeps coming and then I think well maybe this thread will die and it won't keep coming back but it won't .. it lives and livessssss

I mean we are wasting our time talking about this when we could be talking about my new vespa 2 stroke.. every morning that 2 stroke smoke makes me feel alive

My first piece of Italian machinery and his name is Mustache

 

[Rimmy]

This thread has nothing to do with bikes and should be moved to the sink.
All this talk about god and the bible yadayada makes me wanna from deep down inside of my belly.. it just keeps coming and then I think well maybe this thread will die and it won't keep coming back but it won't .. it lives and livessssss

I mean we are wasting our time talking about this when we could be talking about my new vespa 2 stroke.. every morning that 2 stroke smoke makes me feel alive

My first piece of Italian machinery and his name is Mustache

If you notice I didn't put it in the general section it was moved there.

 

[Alan_Hepburn]

To derail this topic even further: Rimmy, your bike info under your avatar shows a '04 C50T - if that''s my old bike it started out life as an '07 model. The '04s were known as Volusias, and had carbs instead of fuel injection.

 

[Rimmy]

To derail this topic even further: Rimmy, your bike info under your avatar shows a '04 C50T - if that''s my old bike it started out life as an '07 model. The '04s were known as Volusias, and had carbs instead of fuel injection.

thanks for the heas up Alan! I will change that right now. its sitting in my garage right now too!

 

[CurveSurfer]

its not really validation I am seeking, its just more like this:

the organization exists to be a silent witness of Jesus Christ. In order to do that, we need to be out, seen, and willing.

If the purpose is to be a "silent witness" then why advertise your faith on the back of your vest? Or initiate a poll that seems like a pretense to call attention to your group and your faith?

And if service to the riding community is a goal, why must it been done under the banner of Christ? Barf and Connie have been doing the same thing for years in a non-denominational fashion, without the evangelical motivation, which seems far more selfless to me.

 

[ST Guy]

My parents were RC, I was raised in the faith, now not one of the seven kids believe in any organized religion.

Couple decades ago I got to wondering if I was missing something in my reading of the Bible, which was the reason for me dropping the faith. Went to study with a retired Jesuit priest. Third or fourth time I pointed out inconsistencies in the Bible - we hadn't yet gotten to Noah finding dry land and I was looking forward to his take on Ham - the old guy threw up his hands and said, "Stop asking questions! The OT is entirely myth and fable!" I damn near fell out of my chair.

'Brings back memories. I was raised RC as well as all 11 of my other brothers and sisters. None are now Christian. Two are now practicing Muslims.

Besides the the OT being mostly parables and stories meant to inspire, inform, and put the "fear of god" into someone, the NT isn't a whole lot different. The RC church (formed as a cross polination of early Christianity and some of the pagan religions active at the time in the Roman empire) has greatly modified, censured, banned and otherwise controlled all the writings in the NT to suit their needs.

I have no beef with any religion but draw the line at proselytizers. And I take the view that while there's no proof of a god, and for that matter much of what is taken "as gospel" by many religions, I also have to wonder about how all "this" came about and why. The more I/we find out about the universe and just how unfathomable it is, ya just have to wonder. But I'm not going to waste anytime following any one prescibed dogma. I live by my innate wisdom and goodness (sometimes failing in both) and perhaps someday when I die, I may learn more. Or not.

 

[Beauregard]

Cross M/C?

Never fuckin heard of them.

 

[Lex Talionis]

'Brings back memories. I was raised RC as well as all 11 of my other brothers and sisters. None are now Christian. Two are now practicing Muslims.

Besides the the OT being mostly parables and stories meant to inspire, inform, and put the "fear of god" into someone, the NT isn't a whole lot different. The RC church (formed as a cross polination of early Christianity and some of the pagan religions active at the time in the Roman empire) has greatly modified, censured, banned and otherwise controlled all the writings in the NT to suit their needs.

I have no beef with any religion but draw the line at proselytizers. And I take the view that while there's no proof of a god, and for that matter much of what is taken "as gospel" by many religions, I also have to wonder about how all "this" came about and why. The more I/we find out about the universe and just how unfathomable it is, ya just have to wonder. But I'm not going to waste anytime following any one prescibed dogma. I live by my innate wisdom and goodness (sometimes failing in both) and perhaps someday when I die, I may learn more. Or not.

In the very early days of pastoral and especially agrarian societal formation, religion had a very beneficial purpose, of cohesion for the nuclear society and creating an us vs. them attitude between neighboring societies. You could generally trust a fellow of your same religion to be an honest trading partner; adherents of every other religion were suspect.

The Old Testament is now being understood as mainly a political document, created by incorporating extant mythology with idealized recent history and total fictionalized history (as in, the Exodus tale) to provide a foundation document for a splinter group of Caananites that formed their own, separate society and tribe by geographical separation. The OT promoted and enforced marriage within the Israeli society, which enforced societal cohesion and separateness.

Lex

 

[Brown81]

God should make a Ducati that never needs a valve adjustment.

And is a little more affordable.

 

[Rimmy]

God should make a Ducati that never needs a valve adjustment.

And is a little more affordable.

sounds an aweful lot like my honda....

 

[Bondage]

No idea whatsoever. If I see someone wearing a cut I tend to just giggle and ignore them