Why did Christianity align itself with Judaism and not Islam?

circusnachos · 2012-05-27T00:42:17.466951+00:00

My Dad always said the best time in history for the Jews was under Islam. He said he could live with rules like "Don't build your houses as tall as ours."

CitizenPremier · 2012-05-27T00:40:35.959590+00:00

I'll take that on a T-shirt please.

circusnachos · 2012-05-26T23:59:01.670140+00:00

It's my commentary on the dehumanization of the "enemy."

circusnachos · 2012-05-26T23:58:42.526926+00:00

No, my issue is with the dehumanizing of the "enemy." Some people I know have been posting comments like "Until every enemy is vanquished." Yep, all our problems will be solved when all the brown people are dead.

circusnachos · 2012-05-26T23:54:42.562057+00:00

Judging by my facebook feed, no, we celebrate Memorial Day to whip ourselves into a patriotic frenzy and share photos of "ghost soldiers" standing over their loved ones.

MarioY19 · 2012-05-26T23:29:38.918280+00:00

I quit from January 2010 - October 2010
I was married and my husband didn't like me talking to people on the internet.
I had a lot of free time on my hands. I baked a lot. We adopted puppies. I also had no outlet to talk about personal problems or interact with people.
I missed it a lot.
I missed funny cat pictures and commentary on world news. I also missed the warm fuzzy group hug feeling that comes from 2 people on opposites sides of the globe realizing they struggle with the same issues.

thankyoueric · 2012-05-26T23:24:29.998035+00:00

4 years ago, I had breakfast at a diner when all I had on me was my mom's Discover card. I was already 100 miles from home and 400 miles from my college. I offered to wash dishes, sweep, anything, but the hostess just told me not to worry about it.

I make a point of eating there whenever my travels take me that way, and I leave 100% tips on my meals.

FuzzyWuz · 2012-05-26T22:43:38.546018+00:00

In terms of making medical decisions, how would this be different from a 70 year old woman with 4 kids, all legal adults, and no power of attorney? Who makes the decisions for Mom when she's in a coma? The oldest child? The one who lives closest?

CitizenPremier · 2012-05-26T22:32:51.341389+00:00

The muggers didn't know who he was; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This here. I don't know what any of the current justices look like. Here I am, sitting with my internet box, not looking up what they look like. And yet even without the internet, I couldn't avoid knowing what Obama looks like, or Bush before him, or Clinton before him. Magazine covers, newspapers, on the news on the TV at my coffee shop, in the airport, on Chia pets. The president is high profile. The Supreme Court justices could come into my bar tonight and I would just think they were 7 (9?) random old people.

circusnachos · 2012-05-26T22:09:14.267493+00:00

Is it fixed? TIL not to use paragraph indents on reddit.

rustang0422 · 2 days

It's a great message, one that I happen to agree with. But is it art?

morgus2 · 2 days

I know I'm late to the thread, but I have had hospitals close me up with stitches in some places, and medical grade super glue in others. My super glue scar is on my little pinkie, and it seems like it's better suited for small tears near the surface. I don't imagine you'd have much success trying to glue yourself back together after getting shot or stabbed.

fastparticles · 2 days

Can you elaborate on vaccinations? I'm getting to the age where everyone around me is starting to spawn, so I'm hearing both sides ... and by both sides, I mean people are violently defending their side with so much hyperbole that I'm thinking about just getting another puppy instead of a baby.

fatalhall · 2 days

It's only a savings of $5 a week, but I stopped buying the fancy 12 grain bread I loved and started making my own. For the price of 2 bags of flour and a jar of yeast, I've got bread for over a month.

throwastevebuscemi · 2 days

I should be more cautious of men, but I'm not.

I was raped twice (2 different men, years apart). A high school boyfriend stole $2000 from me, cheated on me when I wouldn't have sex with him, then blamed me and turned our friends against me for being upset with the cheating and dumping him. I was once kept locked in an apartment outside of Buffalo NY for several days with no clothing or phone in January - this was rapist #1. I was married briefly and left after being choked 4 times.

But I'm a hopeless romantic. I've been with my current boyfriend for almost a year now. He's so radically different from everyone else I've ever been with. I spent the first 6 months of our relationship expecting poor treatment and being surprised when it didn't happen. Finally I've started getting used to being treated with respect and kindness.

LeonSan · 2 days

Creamy chicken ramen noodles - drain out most of the water, only use half packet of seasoning.

Add can of tuna, handful of frozen peas, dollop of cream cheese.

Delicious and marginally more healthy than just plain ramen.

TheMellowestyellow · 2 days

I have to believe that the end of the world will sound like that ... millions of people's iPhones, left all alone, screaming into the dust and the darkness until they run out of power.

forceheretic · 2 days

I only ever heard it at bars and clubs. So I never looked at the liner notes. I went to a Manson concert 13 years ago and singing about being a kitten just didn't seem outside the range of things he might do.

Momentumjam · 2 days

4 colleges, no degree. It's just not right for everybody. Let it go and do something you enjoy, and stop burying yourself in debt/shame.

ZaidiePops · 2 days

I'm totally talking out of my ass here. I'm making fun of myself for being a sheltered American with a pitiable grasp of world events, while at the same time mocking an impossible catastrophe that everyone in my age group seems to be obsessed with. If there were real zombies, I would almost certainly die.

ZaidiePops · 2 days

Ah, gotcha, sort of Lion King kinda thing. Carry on with the AMA, I was just freaking out over missing the zombie uprising.

ZaidiePops · 2 days

Sheltered American here ... are you referring to Saddam Hussein? You speak of him as if he is alive.

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