Apikorus

Truly, this is the most asinine thread extant.

Spaz

LOL! I get it! Nice.

John/nyc

Apikoris,

Are you making the posters on this thread the butt of a joke?

Vinnie

I rediscovered a picture of Balaam's ass that I put on the internet a long tiome ago when making an ass out of a good friend :

http://www.geocities.com/ilgwamh/jackass.html

Vinnie

Apikorus

John, I hope you will not think me a bum for doing so. I may be a bit behind in my reading, but things really seem to have bottomed out in this thread. Generally I take a rear seat and just lurk, but, if I'm not completely wild with my h(a)unches, I no longer think this is fanny - particularly what has been happening here at the tail end.

Kosh

I vote we all buy Vinnie a couple drinks every time he's about to start posting.

:notworthy

But if I may get anal about this whole thing....

That whole passage sounds like maybe it was a joke that people took wrong... I mean

"Am I not your ass, upon which you have ridden all your life long to this day?"

C'mon guys, it was a punn joke!

Vinnie

I'm not one to turn down free beer and my bosses will love yall since they are supplying the free beer now when I finish my shifts at work

Does Michael Jackson have a petting zoo in Neverland? If so I'll bet he loves it when small children pet his ass

Vinnie:

Felstorm

Well this has gotten totally ass-inine.

I can't help but make the bible the butt of a joke!

malookiemaloo

With all respect to those contributing to this thread, what is it about something out of the ordinary that causes liberal theologians and non-theists to start making jokes?

Whatever we say about Balaam, he was more spiritual than most people are today and he therefore 'expected the unexpected'. That is why he showed no surprise when his ass spoke. And if God, who called the universe into being ex nihilo wanted to make an ass talk, what's the problem?

Fair enough if you don't believe in a deity but if you do, then the background probability of a talking donkey, or an axehead floating, Red Sea opening, Jesus resurrection etc is very high.


m

emur

This view of God causes my gullibility meter to go off scale.

I received an email shortly after 9-11 from an evangelical Christian. This Christian told the story of how a Christian worker looked out her window and saw one of the planes coming straight for her. Realizing it was going to hit the building where she was, she crawled under a desk. The result? You got it - God delivered her. She escaped death and serious injury.

Mal, do you believe this story is true, just as you believe the talking ass story?

Mel