Don’t want to rain on your parade, but there are fewer wars going on now than for ages and ages. I doubt it’s the prayers, but the Pope is probably praying against Pat Robertson..
Absolutely. It’s the same argument as free will. God KNOWs everything; god CAN do everything, but he just chooses not to intervene. And god totally talked to people 1000 years ago when mental disorders were relatively unknown; he’s just said all he has to say now and ‘the heavens are closed.’ Oh, but he still speaks with a still small voice to the hearts of individuals, but he tells each person something just a little bit different just to fuck with you.
Barmaid: “I would have remained stony silent, but I just though I’d point out that the absence of your two beers, just goes to show affirmation of their presence”
Barmaid: “I would have remained stony silent, but I just though I’d point out that the absence of your two beers, just goes to show affirmation of their presenceâ€Â
Consider this: perhaps the people praying were praying the wrong way or were otherwise unacceptable prayer-senders. Didn’t the video clip show Buddhist monks? Who is to say that God wouldn’t have answered the prayers if it was some other group, eh?
Or consider this: maybe the prayer actually prevented the post-surgical complications from being worse than they would have been without the prayer!!
There really can be no end to “spinning” in such situations. And I guess we should be grateful for that, or how else could Jesus & Mo be so entertaining?
I don’t understand why Jesus and Mo are scoring own-goals like this. It suits the author’s point of view and makes them look stupid, but an author should defend his or her characters.
@peterNW1: Instead of the usual single protagonist, the author is using the buddy system.
The author is actually using a valid narration technique in faithfully rendering these two in a picaresque style, with the Barmaid employed as their foil, and Moses as the sidekick. These are quite classic and conventional roles.
Please note that they just *happen* to be stupid.
As a result, we, the audience, love J&M for their boneheadedness. (Note that some may even be said to *worship* these fictional characters.)
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I laughed my a** out!
One of the best I’ve seen 😀
OK, folks, caption time. What is the best riposte you can think of for the barmaid to use?
Truly successful prayers are answered. Only the insane hear the answers.
I think Mother Teresa did hear answers, for a little while. She really missed them when they stopped. Magical thinking really can cause misery.
I think Barmaid should be half dead from laughter by now.
Don’t want to rain on your parade, but there are fewer wars going on now than for ages and ages. I doubt it’s the prayers, but the Pope is probably praying against Pat Robertson..
Absolutely. It’s the same argument as free will. God KNOWs everything; god CAN do everything, but he just chooses not to intervene. And god totally talked to people 1000 years ago when mental disorders were relatively unknown; he’s just said all he has to say now and ‘the heavens are closed.’ Oh, but he still speaks with a still small voice to the hearts of individuals, but he tells each person something just a little bit different just to fuck with you.
Praise God/Allah/Whomever!
Barmaid: “I would have remained stony silent, but I just though I’d point out that the absence of your two beers, just goes to show affirmation of their presence”
[…] (HT Olly’s Onions via Jesus and Mo.) […]
Or as I like to put it, if God is omnipotent, how come a dose of clozapine can make him shut up?
“Jrf Says:
Barmaid: “I would have remained stony silent, but I just though I’d point out that the absence of your two beers, just goes to show affirmation of their presenceâ€Â
ROTFL. Perfect answer.
Yes, Jrf’s answer is very close to what the barmaid actually said.
[…] “Stony silence is just God’s way of saying ‘hi.’” At Jesus and Mo. […]
Proof of the power of prayer:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19025463.200-prayers-found-ineffective-in-speeding-recovery.html
… only, probably not the proof they were hoping for.
This is a great page concerning the “effect” of prayer with an extremely funny video excerpt (by Jon Stewart):
http://www.yoism.org/?q=node/178
Oi, a turkswoman rains insults on the author who asked for translation.
Crap.
Re link provided by JayBee and the first video:
Consider this: perhaps the people praying were praying the wrong way or were otherwise unacceptable prayer-senders. Didn’t the video clip show Buddhist monks? Who is to say that God wouldn’t have answered the prayers if it was some other group, eh?
Or consider this: maybe the prayer actually prevented the post-surgical complications from being worse than they would have been without the prayer!!
There really can be no end to “spinning” in such situations. And I guess we should be grateful for that, or how else could Jesus & Mo be so entertaining?
Mark
I don’t understand why Jesus and Mo are scoring own-goals like this. It suits the author’s point of view and makes them look stupid, but an author should defend his or her characters.
@peterNW1: Instead of the usual single protagonist, the author is using the buddy system.
The author is actually using a valid narration technique in faithfully rendering these two in a picaresque style, with the Barmaid employed as their foil, and Moses as the sidekick. These are quite classic and conventional roles.
Please note that they just *happen* to be stupid.
As a result, we, the audience, love J&M for their boneheadedness. (Note that some may even be said to *worship* these fictional characters.)
Fenchurch! Wash your blasphemous mouth. We worship the Word of Author, as spoken through His earthly prophet Barmaid.
Okay … poser for y’all:
How does one tell the difference between an apparent unwillingness of some deity to answer from the inability to answer, owing to non-existence?
Troubleshooter,
I’m thinking thats part of the whole ‘ineffable’ mythos