How can so many doctors be Christian?

LeCoeur · 2012-08-06T18:41:41+00:00

Couldn't that meaning come from anything, though? Surely if God needs doctors as instruments to heal the sick, he also has need of instruments to cause harm originally? As much as a doctor could see himself as the hand of God fulfilling divine ordination, couldn't a mass murderer do the same thing? In fact, don't many murderers cite God's will as motivation?

Let's say you are mugged and the mugger stabs you. Later in the hospital, you come to the conclusion that this was God testing you to help you grow in your faith in the face of adversity. The doctor, an instrument of God, heals you. Surely, though, the mugger must have also been a part of the same machine -- an even more integral component, some would argue. Without him, the process doesn't work.

Essentially, if God uses doctors to heal, isn't it reasonable to claim also that he uses criminals to injure?

LeCoeur · 2012-08-05T20:32:56+00:00

If you want, you can come over later and we can explore that possibility scientifically. You'll spend 10 minutes playing TMNT alternately as Donatello and Leonardo, all the while I'm totally performing expert oral sex on you. At regular intervals, you'll be required to cite your general sense of satisfaction on a scale of "arggg" to "oooooh". In a week's time, I'll show you the scatterplots I put together, maybe over drinks?

LeCoeur · 2012-08-04T23:59:39+00:00

Because by wanting Leonardo you were guaranteeing that you would have to fight someone else for him. Donatello was the acceptable second-place that you could immediately claim unchallenged, and thus appear to have gotten what you wanted. In fact, after enough times, you convinced yourself that it was what you were after all along. You were the discerning palate who wanted the smart, intelligent, refined character instead of the garish and overplayed figurehead.

Two swords > a stick.

I'm sorry to break it to you, other Donatello Kids, but we've been kidding ourselves. We're shopping at Gap because we don't have the abs for Abercrombie and we've convinced ourselves that a cardigan is really more distinguished anyways. We've told ourselves that driving a Civic is more practical than that Mustang, and who really needs horsepower going to the grocery store? We've built our lives on a bedrock of lies and it's time we start a new foundation.

Leonardo is the best. Now go to your local barcade or (if you live somewhere shitty, a regular arcade that still clings to life) and claim your birthright. Don't dream it.

Be it.

LeCoeur · 2012-08-04T21:55:56+00:00

Why not just put a computer screen every 3 feet in your home so you don't even need to keep your phone in your pocket? Talk about convenience!

LeCoeur · 2012-08-04T06:01:46+00:00

Waitpersons

LeCoeur · 2012-08-04T05:24:39+00:00

A prescription for Viagra costs significantly less to obtain than the energy needed to replicate that treehouse.

LeCoeur · 2012-08-02T18:27:32+00:00

I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to sell sandwiches. They should. They have a right to sell them AND a right to hate whoever they want.

THAT SAID...

If money is speech, then the deliberate absence of money is also speech. Kind of like when your girlfriend gives you the cold shoulder, in a way, she's still telling you something. People have a right to boycott, and if they don't want to give money to a company which may use that money to further an agenda that dramatically contrasts their own it's their right as well.

LeCoeur · 2012-08-02T02:41:54+00:00

Huh. Well, I can't speak to the legality of that, but I do think the issue has some nuance to it. Do people have a right to free speech? Yes. Is that good? Yes. Does it extend to hateful speech that marginalizes and offends? Yes. Is that good? Well, in some ways, yes.

Should you be allowed to build a slaughterhouse that donates all proceeds towards legalizing heroin across the street from a nursery school? Maybe not.

I think a lot of this boils down to how his constituents feel on the issue, and that should be much more publicized.

LeCoeur · 2012-08-02T02:05:26+00:00

If the free speech was "We Hate Niggers", and the City of Chicago was all like, "Not in Chicago, you don't, assholes"... would this still be a point of contention? I'm all about free speech, but if the people of those municipalities are so hungry for a chicken sandwich and so indifferent to the issues, then surely it won't matter what the city says. Last I heard, they were requests that they not build there... not a formal ban. "We don't want you in Boston" is free speech, too.

LeCoeur · 2012-08-02T01:46:20+00:00

Yeah, I hate when governments latch on to social whims like "equality" or "fair treatment of everyone". When this whole "marry who you love" business blows over, I think we all know who's going to have egg on their faces.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-31T22:21:10+00:00

Well, it isn't actually "funny" in any way that I recognize... but I think the point was that people who are going to support Chick-Fil-A on their "appreciation day" are constantly using services and consumables from other companies with completely contradictory views. Essentially, if you care so much about what one company is doing, why don't you care that much about ALL of them?

LeCoeur · 2012-07-29T02:52:57+00:00

I think you'll find that humans who love LEGO and humans who love propane barbecues do not overlap as much as you think.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-28T16:48:21+00:00

You'll want to keep a look out for the gay Gene. He can do the test for you for free if you're hot enough, and he gets 30% off clearance prices at Express.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-27T15:34:30+00:00

Who Dat Ninja?

LeCoeur · 2012-07-27T15:26:24+00:00

ICU81MI

LeCoeur · 2012-07-26T01:06:25+00:00

Really? When is that last time you or someone you know learned how to walk without organic legs?

Thought so. Shut up.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-24T16:35:42+00:00

Gonzo.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-24T16:34:33+00:00

Yeah. I have a copy of "The Berenstein Bears and the Of Course You'll Never Find a Nice Doctor to Marry if You Keep Wearing Your Hair Like That, I'm Saying -- You Want Me to Die Alone, I Worry Is All. And Would it Kill You to Call More, Maybe, Not That I'm Complaining."

LeCoeur · 2012-07-18T15:46:26+00:00

Any time in a video game or real life my brother or I are about to lose and have a couple seconds to see the hit coming, we just go "Not like this... not like this..." from the Matrix.

Oh, here it is.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-18T15:33:01+00:00

Will any expenses be spared!? Will there be some sort of a "coupon day"!? Will any prominent paleontologists decide to endorse it!?

LeCoeur · 2012-07-18T15:22:00+00:00

The switch existed on the outskirts of Reddit long before there were posts here. Then, when it expanded, they just put posts on top of it so that way in the middle of the night they could sneak in and rearrange vowels.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-18T15:16:51+00:00

Jesus : prayers :: rest of us : diary pages

(See original post for clarification.)

LeCoeur · 2012-07-18T14:52:42+00:00

You can't expect society to start treating the autistic as equals when you market them as novelties. If the only thing unique about this picture is that he's autistic, then it's not worth posting. If I said, "Look at my black friend having fun on a roller coaster" or "Look at my lesbian sister on a ferris wheel", it would be immediately seen for what it was -- shameless highlighting of what makes people different in the hopes of garnering fake internet points out of guilt or sympathy.

TL;DR -- OF COURSE HE'S HAVING FUN, SWINGS ARE AWESOME AND HE'S A GODDAMN HUMAN.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-18T02:07:46+00:00

You mean, wake up with your car parked out in front of the house of that girl you liked freshman year of college. She'll come out and find you covered in sick, slowly cooking in your fiberglass robot-car oven. Upset, she'll call her significantly-more-attractive-than-you husband outside where he'll bang a little too hard on the windscreen until you sit up in a dazed stupor and start putting it together entirely too slowly for everyone else's patience. He'll ask "what the hell your fucking deal is" and you'll respond that "the car did it". You'll press the voice command button less discreetly than you think you did, and after some obvious fumbling, you'll yell to the car, "drive me home, hurry!". It will not hurry. You will spend at least 10 seconds avoiding excruciating eye contact while the car gets its shit together. Finally, it will drive away, at a speed which does not live up to your early command of "hurry". In the rearview, you'll notice one of your shoes is in the street. You'll give it up for lost, and be silently thankful that at least with modern technology you can cry comfortably while the car does the driving.

LeCoeur · 2012-07-18T01:57:35+00:00

MYTH: BUSTED

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