comments of the month
There are some very interesting conversations taking place in the previous post about demons that I plan to summarise in a future post. But in the meantime, there are a couple of cracking comments that deserve further consideration and a feature post of their very own.
The first beautifully written observation comes from tildeb:
Religion is the human version of the cloaking device, where it makes all kinds of harm-causing crazy disappear. POOF! It’s a Murickle.
Harming children by willful neglect is almost always a crime but, cloaked in piety, becomes invisible and morphs into religious freedom. POOF!
Actively discriminating against people based on their sexual orientation is almost a crime but, cloaked in piety, becomes invisible and morphs into religious freedom. POOF!
Withholding treatment to the extent of allowing pregnant women to die by medical neglect is almost always a crime but, cloaked in piety, becomes invisible and morphs into religious freedom. POOF!
Not upholding and exercising one’s professional standards is almost always cause for dismissal but, when cloaked in piety, becomes invisible and morphs into religious freedom. POOF!
And the the long depressing list of harm caused by piety just keeps on growing under the playing card I thought was a joker called Religious freedom! What harm cannot be POOF!ed into religious freedom under what I now find out is not a joker at all but actually a get-out-jail-free card?
The second comment that particularly grabbed my attention is from higharka:
(1) If you were a self-aware, malevolent entity with the power and desire to possess people, is it possible that you would act differently during (A) eras in which they hadn’t yet developed magnetic resonance imaging, and (B) eras in which they had developed magnetic resonance imaging?
(2) So-called “historians” claim that it took the so-called “Emperor” Napoleon years to reach Moscow. We know better, because anyone with a plane ticket can get to Moscow from anywhere in the world in less than 72 hours. Does this mean that (A) Napoleon didn’t exist, or (B) people must have been making up the long march to Moscow?
I hope you all thoroughly enjoyed both these stunning comments.
Perhaps in the name of religious freedom, Bible following Christians will soon be at liberty to stone adulterers and rebellious offspring.
In the meantime, be sure to keep an MRI scanner close to hand in order to avoid demonic possession.
Tildeb = Predictably awesome.
Higharka = Predictably ridiculous.
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Well, you have said it.
What is higharka high on?
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Yeah, that Tildeb comment could well be my comment of the year. It’s sheer poetry. As for Higharaka, I spat my coffee out.
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Outstanding shot of the daffodils, Violet…very interesting lighting!
As for the topic at hand, I agree with John’s comment above.
I applaud anyone who could figure out what higharka’s comment was saying. As a nurse I’m not used to hearing the phrase “self-aware, malevolent entity” and “MRI” in the same sentence. My logical mind glitched up with that one and it failed to compute for quite awhile. Throw in Napoleon, Moscow, and plane tickets, and I nearly started crying.
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I read it several times just to check I wasn’t missing anything. Think I may be missing a key piece of the puzzle though …
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I’m dying to hear what it is!
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I agree with Violet. Those daffodils are gorgeous V!
I don’t have anything to add. My mind stopped at ‘demons’ and I could only see Sam and Dean. 😆
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Oh, I had to google that, I’m so out of touch! 😀
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LOL V! I’m still watching that series. Sam and Dean are always on the hunt for ‘demons’. 😆
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Taking higharka’s second comment seriously. How does the ability to get to Moscow in a few hours negate Napoleon’s existence?
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Oh dear lord, Noel, don’t go there! 🙂
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Mak, I’d love to hear your view on this. I appear to be lacking the intellect necessary to answer this question. 😉
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Vi, I have read many of higharka’s comments and this one like the ones before only make sense in his head
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I think it’s a ‘clever’ comment. (?)
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Mak dear, it’s because he had to walk. OK, I think he got to ride the horse, something about his legs being too short for him to keep up. I am reminded, however of the questionable use by some professional skeptics who say that since we can’t do something today, or because we don’t know about something today, it is never possible. It makes me nervous when someone says Never. It’s like tempting the fates or something to come up with that missing piece of information.
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Tildeb was on form. I like magic.
Highara? Are you sure that isn’t meant to be satire?
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I don’t think it was satire…higharka asked for violet answer her question when Violet laughed instead. Go back to the post on demons (it was one or two back) and you’ll see higharka’s comment at the bottom. That said, I think it was a *wonderful* comment to be included in “comment of the month.” I never get interesting comments like that on my blog.
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Higharka is a friend of Insanitybytes. I think that says it all. 😀
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(Although saying that, you have got me wondering …)
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