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Sheep are people who actually care about people and go out of their way to serve them. It's the difference between sheep and goats.

Goats are people who see the less fortunate and "outcasts" as an eyesore, or "in their way". They see theirselves as better than the homeless, widows, prisoners, orphans.

What's interesting is that the sheep didn't even realize what they had done because it's their nature. It's just normal to care for other people when you are a sheep.

rob64, Rapture Ready 46 Comments [2/15/2009 2:59:05 AM]
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#900117
Blackvoice

Goats are cool, man. Who cares about erosion?

2/15/2009 3:02:49 AM
#900121


So close, yet so far away.

2/15/2009 3:04:35 AM
#900144
Zoo

I love all the hidden assumptions and personal attacks.

2/15/2009 3:16:41 AM
#900164
Mitch

I think he's talking about the bit in the bible where God separates people by what they have done for fellow humans, he forgot to mention and missed the point that the sheep knew they were doing good for people, but they believed to get into heaven they needed to worship God more. The goats thought they would get into heaven because they worshipped God, but they didn't due to their bad deeds towards other humans. Technically this isn't a fundamentalist verse, in fact quite the opposite because the it dictates that those who go to heaven would only do so by helping their fellow humans, fundamentalist therefore seem to be goats.

2/15/2009 3:26:19 AM
#900167
WMDKitty

Sheep are people who don't question, but follow blindly, no matter what the outcome.

Goats ask questions, and work to *change* the things that are wrong and hurtful. It's the "goats" who're out there *helping* people.

2/15/2009 3:27:48 AM
#900180
Mintywolf

As Terry Prachett said . . . "Sheep are stupid and need to be driven. Goats are smart and need to be led."

2/15/2009 3:35:19 AM
#900183
Emmy

Sheep are people

Sooo...are you an ALF member?

2/15/2009 3:37:08 AM
#900184
szena

Goats are people who see the less fortunate and "outcasts" as an eyesore, or "in their way". They see theirselves as better than the homeless, widows, prisoners, orphans.

Whereas the RR sheep just see unwed mothers, atheists, Catholics and gays as an eyesore or in their way. They see themselves as better than all of us.

2/15/2009 3:38:42 AM
#900201
Thejebusfire

[Goats are people who see the less fortunate and "outcasts" as an eyesore, or "in their way". They see theirselves as better than the homeless, widows, prisoners, orphans. ]

Like a Christian?

2/15/2009 3:49:25 AM
#900202
solomongrundy

@ Mintywolf.

Memo to self: read some Terry Prachett.

There was a bit on the BBC's 'Victorian Farm' recently (it's a TV series where three people live the lives of 1880's English smallholders for a year} which introduced a guy who kept some traditional breed of sheep. As he said, 'the sheep is the only animal in God's creation that's constantly looking for a way to die'.

He'd clearly never heard of Rapture Ready.

Edit: Goats have weird eyes though. I can't warm to the creatures. The only goat I ever liked was curried at Notting Hill festival.

2/15/2009 3:49:27 AM
#900213
Kitourahime

I was near-mauled my a sheep once. Not by a goat though.

It just goes to show.

2/15/2009 3:59:46 AM
#900246
Thinking Allowed

Just goes to prove that those at RR are goats.

2/15/2009 4:30:48 AM
#900275
Mintywolf

@solomongrundy
Everyone should read the Discworld series. A friend bought Small Gods for me, and I was hooked. :) Very relevant to the topic, and I believe where the quote came from IIRC.

And goats *do* have freakin evil eyes, I have to admit. But they're still so cute...

2/15/2009 4:47:18 AM
#900287
Agnostic Antagonist

"Goats are people who see the less fortunate and "outcasts" as an eyesore, or "in their way". They see theirselves as better than the homeless, widows, prisoners, orphans"

Goats still have nothing on sheep, who seem to think they're better than all non-sheep, and that their shepherd will give them strong, young bodies that live forever while everyone else will roast in flames for all time.

@Mintywolf: Discworld fans unite!

2/15/2009 5:01:41 AM
#900314
ozznova

Uh, that's not how sheep act. Sheep are fucking dumb and only obey one "Judas sheep".

If the Judas won't eat, for example, none of them will eat.

2/15/2009 5:21:09 AM
#900328
Ken

I'm pretty sure sheep don't give a damn.

2/15/2009 5:33:00 AM
#900338
HoJuSimpson

You want to fuck a sheep?

2/15/2009 5:39:10 AM
#900372
LOLWUT

So you're like a goatsheep then.

2/15/2009 6:35:58 AM
#900376
Clown

Yay to Terry Pratchett. "To be an atheist on discworld was asking for trouble. Gods would come at night and break the windows at atheist houses.".
Also, god is my shepherd. Thats why he feeds me and keeps me fit, so he can take my wool, milk (for as long as posible) and meat(at the end).

2/15/2009 6:43:08 AM
#900384
MysticalChicken

Huh, now I have Cake stuck in my head.

edit: We used to own a goat when I was a kid. One time it got loose and chased me all the way to the front door of the house (I can still see him, in my head, through the window that was in the door, rearing up on his hind legs and beating on the door with his front hooves). I was seven years old and terrified, and I've hated goats from then on.

2/15/2009 6:59:43 AM
#900411
old scrotum

There must be a sheep shagger joke in there somewhere, but I'm
fucked if I can see it

2/15/2009 7:55:35 AM
#900418
Illuminatalie

While I agree the RR board is full of hypocrites and haters, I don't have issue with this quote by itself. If it's true, then the RR people are hoisted on their own petard.


2/15/2009 8:17:35 AM
#900482
aaa

Goats also can handle themselves.

2/15/2009 10:15:12 AM
#900506
Brain_In_A_Jar

Gah, terminally simple analogies are not an acceptable substitute for proper, analytical consideration of reality, they're just a starting point for it, and that they can occasionally be used to illustrate deeper concepts does not excuse you from then working out the details of that deeper concept properly.

In case you hadn't noticed, you're neither a fucking sheep nor a goat, you're a human being. Start thinking like one.

2/15/2009 10:44:46 AM
#900528
LDM

Ummm, what?!?

2/15/2009 11:12:56 AM
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