Mr. Misanthrope

re: A new book

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/26/26 at 12:44 pm to white perch

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You may challenge me on my prose, but you will find yourself eclipsed by my sapience and sagacity.

:Lol:

And evidently in alliteration and redundancy as well.

re: Talarico. The Apostle Peter wrote about him back around 65 AD

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/26/26 at 12:33 pm to BaculumRubrum

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mythological dude.

You’re a smart guy. Certainly you know the differences between myths, legends, and the historical Jesus.

I think this thread was debating the candidate’s claim he’s a Christian. He’s certainly not a traditional, conservative, orthodox one. It’s questionable if he acknowledges or believes the core elements of Christianity including its most significant claim, the physical bodily resurrection of Jesus.

Putting a “Christian” suit on a super progressive liberal socialist doesn’t make him a Christian. He is a blasphemous heretic in my opinion and culpable in furthering a climate of animosity towards Christians who don’t share his twisted beliefs.

Your comment I responded to echoed a very old hostility to religion in general and Christianity in particular that has resulted in the persecution and killing of Christians over many years and in many countries. I assume your list was to show that Christians killed and persecuted people too.

I don’t quibble much with your long list of crimes committed by “Christians” claiming to be acting in Jesus’s name but if you total up deaths over the years attributed to socialist and communist countries I believe you will find your list will be a small drop in an ocean of blood and horror.

re: Talarico. The Apostle Peter wrote about him back around 65 AD

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/25/26 at 11:32 pm to BaculumRubrum

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Keep up stupid charades to oppress people.

OG FrenchRevolution/Marx/Engles/Socialist/
Communist argument.

It pops up to support a bad intellectual argument (no God) with an emotional appeal (the no-God religion oppresses people).

It’s fostered an anti-Christian/religious hostility in socialist/communist countries that’s abetted and supported the persecution and murder of untold numbers of people of faith.

re: Talarico. The Apostle Peter wrote about him back around 65 AD

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/25/26 at 11:03 pm to biscuitsngravy

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Ok lol! Judge not, eh?

Familiarize yourself with this bit of St. Paul’s teaching found in his first letter to the Corinthian Christians, fifth chapter-

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I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside.

Judge not is applicable to those outside the Faith. I don’t see a problem with a Christian calling out publicly a man trafficking his Christian faith for political gain or addressing his false-frankly blasphemous heretical-pronouncements concerning Christianity.

re: Beatles obsession thread

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/25/26 at 10:17 pm to Bass Tiger

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Laid on the living room floor, a B&W television with the whole family watching the Ed Sullivan Show

Same.

Music Board

re: A new book

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/25/26 at 9:17 pm to white perch

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He just has to be diplomatic about it and make y’all think y’all had a chance.

So you’re saying there is a chance?

I’ll break out my Strunk & White and Roget’s Thesaurus.

Perhaps he will issue a pre-publication sample of his magnum opus with guidelines for its forward and pick from a list of invitees who respond.

re: My 2026 Bingo card is missing the “Mole People” square.

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/25/26 at 9:02 pm to Boomdaddy65201

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1st day of Fall and the vermin were seen scurrying out of NYC manholes.

No doubt driven to the surface from imminent flooding due to the “Nor’easter”.

re: A new book

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/22/26 at 5:14 pm to TulaneLSU

Dear TulaneLSU,

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L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!

A Tigerdroppings Miscellany-released coinciding with Advent will, no doubt, confirm mankind’s great need for a Savior.

I’m in.

Carry on.

Cordially,

M.

re: The Jeep rubber ducky thing..

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/15/26 at 2:51 am to LSUballs

The Fat Electrician’s QUACKBANG GRENADE is the only acceptable Rubber Duck dashboard ornament.

When we restore my old Cherokee Sport one will grace the dash. Just one though.

re: Forgot to do week 2 cfb pickem

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/13/26 at 11:49 am to S

Yep.

re: SEC sues LSU and Lane Kiffin

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/3/26 at 12:50 pm to SidewalkTiger

It’s very simple.
1. NCAA fricked up vis a vis 2022 class and created this mess
2. Players with reason sued them.
3. NCAA member colleges took advantage.
4. Power conferences took advantage seeing opportunity to establish power and prestige over the NCAA in order to weaken the NCAA and establish themselves as a replacement with ultimate authority over collegiate athletics.
If they have to screw over a conference member in their flexing-they will and are.

The solution:
NCAA admits full blame and responsibility. Mea Culpa! We apologize and waive all restrictions on a fifth year to the class of 2022. Limited to them and them only. And we are instructing all member schools and conferences to comply with appropriate penalties applicable. We are reimbursing the players’s legal fees to date and declare the matter settled.
1. Everyone admires a contrite admission of responsibility with restitution.
2. Good PR optics for NCAA.
3. Cut the legs out from underneath the power conferences and reestablish NCAA authority.

Simple.

I am not a fan of the imbecilic NCAA. It’s their best option and it puts out a fire that’s becoming out of control.

SEC Rant

-7

re: Clancy trial verdict predictions

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 9/2/26 at 5:52 pm to ILurkThereforeIAm

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Not guilty by reason of insanity. She’ll end up in a mental health facility or state hospital for the foreseeable future.

Unless Massachusetts requires unanimity from the jury, I fear you might be right. My only hope, though slight, is she is incarcerated for the rest of her life.

re: People who get Christian-themed tattoos, tacky or kosher?

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 8/31/26 at 2:43 pm to The Scofflaw

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“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.” – Leviticus 19:28

Make of it what you will.

It’s Old Covenant for sure but it’s not a ritual observance or dietary restriction that Jesus and his Apostles saw as no longer valid.

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And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Mark 7: 17-23 and “Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving”. 1 Tim. 4:4

In any event, many Christians have had ink laid down for various reasons, many before their conversions. Post conversion their old person is forgiven, they are cleansed, and the former person is dead and buried with Christ in baptism and raised to a new life joining Christ in his resurrection so tats are small potatoes in the larger context.

I’ve known converts who have, perhaps with misguided joy and exuberance, gotten specifically Christian symbols to identify themselves with their new faith in Jesus. Certainly done in ignorance of whether it’s wrong or not. It’s hard to imagine Jesus condemning such a person he bled and died to save. Maybe a palm face Jesus reaction from the King of Kings but probably little more.

re: Why can’t we separate Conservative values from religion?

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 8/29/26 at 5:51 pm to VooDude

To which conservative values are you referring?

You fear that the Left will win over supporters from Christians? (Be honest, religion mostly means Christianity to you and it’s Jesus toward whom-ultimately-your enmity is directed.

Be advised: Leftists have already made inroads into the Church by corrupting it on a number of fronts and issues. A good many educated white females and their men supporting the Left and its policies with their votes likely profess to be Christians, probably have their children in private (liberal) denomination Christian schools, and hate DJT, JDV, and closed border policies-profess support for illegals and would never bring one into their neighborhood much less their home or their kids’ schools. They would never have an abortion but support a woman’s “right” to kill their child. No wonder the “mother” who killed her three children has such support from so many women.

I believe the answer to your question is that conservative values, at least those values implicitly moral and ethical, stem from a universal sense of good and evil, right and wrong-a moral and ethical “law” that generally pertains to all cultures and at all times. One example. Some cultures permit a man multiple wives while others permit and encourage monogamous marriage. No culture encourages a man, married or otherwise, to take another man’s wife. Although it seems to me at times that our society is close.

I believe C. S. Lewis in his writings referred to this universal code as the Tao.

re: What natural wonders have you seen

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 8/25/26 at 3:31 pm to travelgamer

Grand Canyon
Carlsbad Caverns
Some caverns in Kentucky I believe that escape my memory.
Someone said Rock City:Lol: I’d add to that Ruby Falls. Went to Rock City on the way back from Knoxville picking up my two granddaughters. I really enjoyed it. It’s a fun walk, and, hard as you might try, counting the gnomes becomes a compulsion in competition with your family. It’s much cooler than Chattanooga during the summer and the little cafe at the top had a great BLT and we watched bald eagles flying about eye level with us over the valley.

re: I've flipped. I'm Pro-Abortion af nowadays

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 8/19/26 at 7:04 pm to Meauxjeaux

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It just took some deeper thinking to realize this is really a better stance.

No pro-life people are aborting their kids... just the libs and undesirables.

This reasoning is perplexing.
Presumably you were pro-life because abortion is an issue of justice and morality concerning the industrialized murder of innocent infants.

You seem to be personally pro-life but now wholeheartedly support abortion for others for utilitarian reasons and social engineering?

Put another way-you’d never have an abortion yourself but the unborn children of “libs and undesirables” are fair game for the abortion abattoirs to hasten the attrition of those undesirables.

This slaughter of innocents is not only acceptable to you now, but desirable as well?

Coming from you that’s hard to believe.

It seems more frustration and anger at the current successes of the enemy talking rather than deep thought.

If we go down that road the enemy wins. We will have become little better than them. Molech and his undesirables don’t care if we’re pro-life conservatives or not. They just want our votes. Absent our active support of abortion, our silence will do.

I pray you rethink the matter. Stand fast.

The poet’s words seem appropriate-

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Things fall apart;
the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

re: What’s an American history hot take you’ve got?

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 8/19/26 at 10:39 am to Sam Quint

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you gotta say something like "Douglas MacArthur was the greatest general America ever produced"

Something like that could have really ginned up the discussions

Vis a vis MacArthur. I believe he and his Dad are the only father/son MOH awardees.

re: Who here has ever used a fire extinguisher during a street brawl?

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 8/15/26 at 8:48 am to Wolfhound45

:Lol:

re: A descendant of slaves, Earl Jackson, basically says the Smithsonian is full of shiit

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 8/10/26 at 3:49 pm to dickkellog

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before the civil rights act in 1964 2/3's of black children grew up in an intact 2 parent married household today it's 1/4 is that because of slavery?

You’re right.
FEIW
That’ was only one of a number of telling progressively positive statistics highlighting the stability, productivity, and health of black families in the pre-civil rights act era.

Lyndon Johnson and his crew introduced a more effective and more insidious slavery destroying black families by intentionally and cynically detaching black fathers from their responsibilities and replacing them with the state.