Update XIX: Melancholy and the Infinite Napping

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Bushie is as competent in handling of his life as Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was in handling Mexico.

You mean His Most Serene Highness Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Our Dear Friend wouldn't want it any other way.

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As the Bible says in the book of James - Faith without works is dead.

Yes, Bushie, yes! Accepting this is the first step towards salvation and acknowledging divine Truth.

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Several bowls of cereal... lol

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That actually looks gross to me.

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Presentation could be better but that actually looks pretty tasty. I'd go for that.

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Grumps, I, admittedly, still watch it after she's gone to bed with the volume on real low.

...the hell? I actually waved my arms around in exasperation. Someone just gave me a look. But, I mean, seriously? What? How is this at all compatible with your melange of religious "beliefs"? And in your grandmother's house?

I mean, it's a bit different with my grandmother living on another continent and whatnot, but I could never conceive of watching pornographic material in my grandmother's house, particularly if said aged grandmother cooked and cleaned for me. Then again, I struggle to conceive either of the former, or the latter, which seems even more morally repugnant.

You are a despicable human being, I think I it is safe to say. No one, those "relations" included, should be having an 89 (?) year-old woman regularly cook and clean after them. Maybe it's an Ethiopian thing (the Ghanaians, at least according to my father, prefer to spend heavily on their elderly after their deaths), but I can hardly think of anything more vile and base than that. I'd rather starve than be in such a position.

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Grumps, I, admittedly, still watch it after she's gone to bed with the volume on real low.

...the hell? I actually waved my arms around in exasperation. Someone just gave me a look. But, I mean, seriously? What? How is this at all compatible with your melange of religious "beliefs"? And in your grandmother's house?

I mean, it's a bit different with my grandmother living on another continent and whatnot, but I could never conceive of watching pornographic material in my grandmother's house, particularly if said aged grandmother cooked and cleaned for me. Then again, I struggle to conceive either of the former, or the latter, which seems even more morally repugnant.

You are a despicable human being, I think I it is safe to say. No one, those "relations" included, should be having an 89 (?) year-old woman regularly cook and clean after them. Maybe it's an Ethiopian thing (the Ghanaians, at least according to my father, prefer to spend heavily on their elderly after their deaths), but I can hardly think of anything more vile and base than that. I'd rather starve than be in such a position.

Easy there, tiger!

Fair point. I am repeating myself. As is everyone in this farce.

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Bushie don't listen to these worryworts. There's nothing wrong with having a nice relaxing wank at the end of a long day at work. I would, though, just implore you on two unrelated points: First, please don't pay for any of it. In this day and age, free and high-definition pornography is just a click away. Second, try to avoid any of the more misogynistic stuff, or anything that reinforces particularly harmful patriarchal tropes. Maybe seek out some feminist pornography to balance against the mainstream stuff. It's always good to mix your hardcore interracial bukkake gangbang scenes with some by-and-for lesbian scenes or some femdom stuff.

He's not working, and he's not in his own bed, not eating his own food, etc, etc, so I'd say he has no right to do what he wants.

Also I'm bemused and slightly concerned by your characterisation of interracial... erm... yeah... as "misogynistic", "harmful", and "patriarchal". Of course I'm taking your quote out of context. It sounds awful.

I wonder if he watches videos of people who look like him.

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He's not working...

Since when?

Since just about forever, if one considers "work" to inherently be meaningful or productive.

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Interracial porn, as a mainstream porn genre, is incredibly bad. It's basically made for self-hating racists. This is less the case when it's a white guy and a black girl, but the treatment of black men by mainstream porn is horrible imo. (Obviously I'm not saying there's anything wrong with interracial sex, just its treatment by the porn industry.)

On the bukakke subject, it depends on how the scene is directed and acted. It can be a very empowering thing for the female actress at the center of it all. It can also just be an exercise in humiliation and degradation, as pretty much the most extreme sort of sexual objectification.

I don't see how what you describe could be "very empowering" unless I am mistaken as to what "bukakke" is. Personally I think it's all objectifying and degrading but I'll take your word for it and leave it at that.

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Interracial porn, as a mainstream porn genre, is incredibly bad. It's basically made for self-hating racists. This is less the case when it's a white guy and a black girl, but the treatment of black men by mainstream porn is horrible imo. (Obviously I'm not saying there's anything wrong with interracial sex, just its treatment by the porn industry.)

On the bukakke subject, it depends on how the scene is directed and acted. It can be a very empowering thing for the female actress at the center of it all. It can also just be an exercise in humiliation and degradation, as pretty much the most extreme sort of sexual objectification.

I don't see how what you describe could be "very empowering" unless I am mistaken as to what "bukakke" is. Personally I think it's all objectifying and degrading but I'll take your word for it and leave it at that.

There is such a thing a sex-positive feminism.

I am aware. Some of those people here brought a pornographic actress to come speak about that sort of thing a few weeks ago, or something like that. I was confused.

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Where did I say I did not find men's public performance of sexual acts repulsive or demeaning?

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Alright, I've had enough, guys.  I'm done being treated like crap on this forum.

Too bad you no longer produce the Update!

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Oh God. I figured Braum's was like an Arby's. Instead, it's much, much worse. I guess the silver lining is that they didn't try to pass it off offensively by calling it "Alfredo's" or "Mama DiRosa's" or something.

It's not an Italian place.

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There's a chain called  Spaghetti Warehouse? Sounds disgusting.

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That's enough of the end time discussion.  It's only going to turn into a flame war and nobody needs that going into Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Haha, oh let me just casually drop in a line about the leader of the worlds largest church perhaps being in league with the anti-Christ.  Be asked to back anything up with facts, oh its not important never mind its christmas...  Too lazy to even back up your bull$hit theories.

I know. This is pretty offensive stuff, Bushie. For God's sake, at least put some thought into it. Don't just drop it like some turd and leave it there- defend it. Otherwise it's pretty disgraceful, not to mention bigoted.

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...you can't just insult people's religion and waltz off, Bushie.

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Does Bushie hate his grandma so much that he wants to leaver her all alone for New Years so he can witness Vorkuta ringing in 2015 live from his bachelor pad in Tulsa?

Also, how does one watch Kiribati's New Year's celebrations (which, presumably, are nothing extraordinary)? Does any normal TV channel in America still cover that kind of stuff? Does Bushie's cable package include Kiribati national TV?

She will be in bed by 1830 or 1900 regardless if I'm there or not.

My "celebration" of Kiritimati (and every other time zone until New York) will be simply watching their clock turn to midnight on the World Clock at www.timeanddate.com.  I can also see the map traverse across the world from east to west all day on New Year's Eve.

Although, I would enjoy seeing all the civilized places and see how each individual culture ring in the New Year starting with New Zealand at 0500 Oklahoma time, then going to Sydney, Guam, Tokyo, Beijing, Bangkok, India, Abu Dhabi, our troops in Afghanistan, my Kenya kids, Israel, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, London, Rio, the peach drop in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver/Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Eskimos, and Maui.

"All the civilised places"

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His middle name was "Jetty"? I get that "Nicolae" was asssumedly unoriginally derived from Ceaucescu, and Carpathia... again very unoriginal, but Jetty? What is that?!

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Oh dear.

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FOCUS ON EASTER!

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I don't know what pistachio pudding is, but it sounds intriguing. Also sort of sounds like something my people would make, but with a shit ton of rose water mixed in.

It sure does...

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oh god no

Good God, that's truly awful. Absolutely awful. I'm sorry you have to see that.

Peach Jell-O works perfectly in our classic mango mousse, however.

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Plus, Christianity - true Christianity - is NOT a religion.  It is a relationship with Almighty God.

Terrifying.

Absolutely disgusting.

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Good evening, folks.  I am posting for the first time on Luke Skywalker (my new laptop)!

Jabba was taken?

No, I just drafted Luke first!

Well try to not lay about like a Hutt and use it to be productive.

I'm planning on using it as my main finance hub.  I am going to invest in the latest edition of Quicken in the next few days, maybe tomorrow after church.  It will not be plagued with porn.

Oh for f#$%'s sake, Jeff, why do you need to spend $50 on Quicken? If you want to attempt to create a monthly budget, there are plenty of free Excel spreadsheet templates available online. It's not like you have any assets to your name that are worth keeping track of - only debts. And your creditors will always make sure that you are well aware of how much you still owe them.

Bushie always likes to spend money to do things, particularly when there's a free alternative. He's better than that, you see, and is making a commitment by spending money.

Of course, it's money he doesn't have and there's no actual commitment regardless.

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By any definition, Mormons aren't Christians. Mormonism is certainly influenced by Christianity but it's a separate faith that operates according to doctrines derived from a holy text that Christians don't recognize.

If that's your definition then Orthodox Tewahedo aren't Christian either.

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What is this?! What texts besides assorted apocrypha does the Tewahido Church follow that "mainstream" Christianity does not? Never mind the fact that they were organised into a canon, in many cases, before the Chalcedonian chruch got around to doing so.