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#465708
Old Viking
Dedicated humans who persevere at the task can even train fundies for "a whole variety of services."
4/14/2008 11:26:28 PM
#465711
David D.G.
"I don't know if the birds or any other creature knows about God per say...."
Please, please, for the love of whatever you do or do not worship: The expression is not "per say," but per se. It's just pronounced like "per say."
Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled fundie mocking already in progress.
~David D.G.
4/14/2008 11:28:21 PM
#465713
David D.G.
"My dog has an adoration for us we humans would do well to have for God. Where did he learn this kind of dedication~~...."
From 10,000 years of selective breeding by his "creators": human beings.
This we have evidence for. Where is your evidence of the god you want us to beg, fetch, and roll over for?
~David D.G.
4/14/2008 11:31:24 PM
#465714
""My dog has an adoration for us we humans would do well to have for God.""
Dogs' unconditional love for their owners is very easily abused. You have to yell at, starve and torture your dog a good deal for it to stop loving you. Much like fundies and their gods, in fact.
4/14/2008 11:32:33 PM
#465715
My dollar bill has "In God We Trust" on it, obviously this is a sign from the 'Creator' that we should trust him.
4/14/2008 11:33:07 PM
#465716
Mayhem
Dogs learned that kind of dedication through generations of behavioral modification. Since birth, they are taught, using reinforcement, by their trainers that they need to slavishly follow orders, regardless of the reason or even whether or not its in their own self-interest. So, I guess they are a lot like you and other fundies.
4/14/2008 11:33:35 PM
#465718
Berny
"And the lovely music the birds provide certainly may be a tribute to the Creator."
It's actually an evolutionary trait designed to allow the bird to find a mate.
He's not singing for his creator, he's singing to get laid.
4/14/2008 11:34:02 PM
#465722
Nowonmai
You are kidding, right?
Your dog, by evolution and breeding of the species, has replaced you as the pack leader.
4/14/2008 11:35:03 PM
#465726
David B.
"birds instinctively return to build their nests each year in anticipation of the new lives within them"
1. Cuckoos don't.
2. Birds that don't build nests (or lay their eggs in someone else's) tend to leave less offspring behind to perpetuate their 'independent' ways.
"And the lovely music the birds provide certainly may be a tribute to the Creator. Who knows?"
People who've studied birdsong perhaps? Sure, birdsong sounds nice to many of us, but to a competing bird it sounds like "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!"
4/14/2008 11:36:19 PM
#465734
I wouldn't call this a fundy, just a tad bit sentimental....
4/14/2008 11:43:03 PM
#465739
The Watcher
"Animals are always proving how really intelligent they are."
And fundies are always proving things to themselves that they already believe.
4/14/2008 11:46:25 PM
#465755
DW
Animals prove at how more intelligent they are compared to fundies!
4/15/2008 12:28:42 AM
#465767
484
Not you, apparently.
4/15/2008 12:54:47 AM
#465770
onions
I love cute fundies.
4/15/2008 1:01:32 AM
#465773
a
atheist birds make annoying sounds to blaspheme their creator.
4/15/2008 1:03:44 AM
#465776
Antichrist
Don't take your dogs admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful ~ Ann Landers
I've worked with a lot of dogs in my life. Most of the problem ones tend to be rather intelligent and have outsmarted their owners. Or people that can't get their head around the fact that dogs are not human.
As for the birds, I remember one spring on the prairies, where we had a late cold snap. Birds froze to death and dropped out of trees. You think God would of warned them if he loved them so much.
I've also met birds that whistle the Andy Griffith intro, and the Hockey Night in Canada Song. Does that mean that God loves a good cross-check?
Edit:
@ a ~ So ravens, starlings and jays are all atheists? Knew I liked that family of birds for a reason.
4/15/2008 1:07:36 AM
#465779
Mageapprentice
Or, could it just be a case of manufacturing evidence to prop up a shaky belief system?
Occam's razor tends to agree.
4/15/2008 1:13:57 AM
#465782
Philbert McAdamia
@Berny
He's not singing for his creator, he's singing to get laid.
Haha - typical musician.
4/15/2008 1:26:46 AM
#465804
Ltap
the "lovely music" is just incidental in its "loveliness" - it's actually communication. Perhaps in some future time when aliens have overrun the planet, we'll be paired up in cages to talk to each other so that the aliens can hear the beautiful sounds of our voices.
Also, if you take this thought to a conclusion it leads to dangerous ideas (fundie-wise)... if birds instinctively build nests, humans instinctively have sex? Blasphemy!
4/15/2008 2:08:30 AM
#465806
Ltap
Also, the other people are right. Dogs are sort of like a certain breed of fundie (not the born-again ones, but the raised-from-birth ones). They are taught with repeated commands and instructions over and over and over from the day they are born. That is why a lot of fundies hate the internet - it gives their brattish offspring a way to escape from the fundyism.
4/15/2008 2:10:52 AM
#465823
Quaffer
"Animals are always proving how really intelligent they are."
Which places them a step above a fundie.
4/15/2008 2:28:57 AM
#465830
cyborgtroy
God, let me outside, I gotta pee. Come on, man.
4/15/2008 2:38:56 AM
#465884
nfp
Are you lost, ma'am? Do you know where you live? Is there someone we can call for you?
4/15/2008 3:53:18 AM
#465904
Vincent
"Who knows?"
I do.
You're wrong.
4/15/2008 4:26:04 AM
#465919
LOLKILLZ
"Of course he did, Christians don't believe in gravity."
4/15/2008 5:01:17 AM
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