Comments for unscriptured http://unscriptured.com and now, a word from our creator Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:30:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 Comment on One Lump or Two? by some poor unfortunate soul http://unscriptured.com/2009/12/11/one-lump-or-two/#comment-2885 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:43:55 +0000 http://unscriptured.com/2009/12/11/one-lump-or-two/#comment-2885 C.S. Lewis's 'The Problem of Pain' deals with this idea very directly. It's been years since I last read it, so I can't give any great detail about what he says, other than that a lot of Christians seem to feel that God has abandoned them when something bad happens, when, if they were following their faith the way they were supposed to, they'd know that that isn't the case. Just praying that the problem will go away won't do it, either. A Christian has to build these rather intricate walls about the pain (and by pain, I mean anything that causes one distress, not just physical pain) so that it can be coped with. I find his argument to be logical, just not convincing. And I think you're right on about people believing in angels, but not devils. According to the Bible, though, angels haven't been visiting us for about 2000 years, but devils are always around. And some Christian groups look at it that way, too. C.S. Lewis’s ‘The Problem of Pain’ deals with this idea very directly. It’s been years since I last read it, so I can’t give any great detail about what he says, other than that a lot of Christians seem to feel that God has abandoned them when something bad happens, when, if they were following their faith the way they were supposed to, they’d know that that isn’t the case. Just praying that the problem will go away won’t do it, either. A Christian has to build these rather intricate walls about the pain (and by pain, I mean anything that causes one distress, not just physical pain) so that it can be coped with. I find his argument to be logical, just not convincing.
And I think you’re right on about people believing in angels, but not devils. According to the Bible, though, angels haven’t been visiting us for about 2000 years, but devils are always around. And some Christian groups look at it that way, too.

]]> Comment on No Puns Today by some poor unfortunate soul http://unscriptured.com/2009/09/18/no-puns-today/#comment-2735 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:33:58 +0000 http://unscriptured.com/2009/09/18/no-puns-today/#comment-2735 I'm not sure the pun or pain dichotomy is true.. consider this one by Hedberg: <i>My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, I said "No, but I want a regular banana later, so ... yeah".</i> I wouldn't call it a pun.. as it relies on a literal (but not excessively literal) reading. And certainly it doesn't seem particularly painful to anyone (other than perhaps slightly disconcerting the listener, which seems to me, more than anything else, to be the essence of humor). I’m not sure the pun or pain dichotomy is true.. consider this one by Hedberg:

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, I said “No, but I want a regular banana later, so … yeah”.

I wouldn’t call it a pun.. as it relies on a literal (but not excessively literal) reading. And certainly it doesn’t seem particularly painful to anyone (other than perhaps slightly disconcerting the listener, which seems to me, more than anything else, to be the essence of humor).

]]> Comment on All My Children by some poor unfortunate soul http://unscriptured.com/2008/09/12/all-my-children/#comment-1944 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:35:40 +0000 http://unscriptured.com/2008/09/12/all-my-children/#comment-1944 Gee, Dad, Can I borrow your car? Gee, Dad,
Can I borrow your car?

]]> Comment on It’s a Dead Man’s Party by BobGod http://unscriptured.com/2008/03/21/its-a-dead-mans-party/#comment-862 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:41:59 +0000 http://unscriptured.com/2008/03/21/its-a-dead-mans-party/#comment-862 Midnight Mass was the same time as the Witching Hour. A dead man nailed to dead wood comes back to life. Christianity looks like Necromancy to me. Midnight Mass was the same time as the Witching Hour. A dead man nailed to dead wood comes back to life.

Christianity looks like Necromancy to me.

]]> Comment on Sex and Sentiment by some poor unfortunate soul http://unscriptured.com/2008/02/08/sex-and-sentiment/#comment-570 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:22:49 +0000 http://unscriptured.com/2008/02/08/sex-and-sentiment/#comment-570 Romance is easy to define; it means a language based on Latin a really long time ago, right? Okay, maybe that's not what you meant. I think that romantic love is more about getting all mushy and sentimental and less about lust or partnership or any of those other things that I think go into a fulfilling significant-other kinda love. I've had flirtations that are all about feeling sexy and making the other person feel sexy and not much at all about wanting sex. I think that I've had crushes that I would define as romantic, flushed with warm, fuzzy daydreams and unrealistic ideals but that weren't about wanting sex either. And I've wanted sex from people who didn't once inspire any feelings I would call romantic. I think that lust and romance are just two different ingredients that may or may not be in the love one feels for another, but that they are separate from each other. They're separate from love too, a person can have romantic feelings for someone they don't know well enough to really love. Romance is the natural equivalent of beer-goggles. It puts things into a softer, more forgiving, focus and sets a fertile ground for feeling all those other things. That's what I think. --Crystal Romance is easy to define; it means a language based on Latin a really long time ago, right? Okay, maybe that’s not what you meant.

I think that romantic love is more about getting all mushy and sentimental and less about lust or partnership or any of those other things that I think go into a fulfilling significant-other kinda love. I’ve had flirtations that are all about feeling sexy and making the other person feel sexy and not much at all about wanting sex. I think that I’ve had crushes that I would define as romantic, flushed with warm, fuzzy daydreams and unrealistic ideals but that weren’t about wanting sex either. And I’ve wanted sex from people who didn’t once inspire any feelings I would call romantic. I think that lust and romance are just two different ingredients that may or may not be in the love one feels for another, but that they are separate from each other. They’re separate from love too, a person can have romantic feelings for someone they don’t know well enough to really love. Romance is the natural equivalent of beer-goggles. It puts things into a softer, more forgiving, focus and sets a fertile ground for feeling all those other things. That’s what I think.

–Crystal

]]> Comment on Sexual Strategy by some poor unfortunate soul http://unscriptured.com/2008/01/11/sexual-strategy/#comment-445 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:02:02 +0000 http://unscriptured.com/2008/01/11/sexual-strategy/#comment-445 I have been enjoying your site, very witty, keep on writing I have been enjoying your site, very witty, keep on writing

]]> Comment on Weekening by BobGod http://unscriptured.com/2007/10/29/weekening/#comment-365 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:47:37 +0000 http://unscriptured.com/2007/10/29/weekening/#comment-365 Booooo Booooo

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