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Posted: 10/5/2005 8:48:49 PM     Post subject: Can furries be compared to Christian fundies?  

So I read Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter with Kansas?" and the bit about how when the fundie Christians there complain about persecution, call people fascists and Nazis, and generally behave like total nutbars, they're not doing this in the face of actual persecution, eg being jailed, exiled, executed, whatever. What they call persecution is in fact just criticism: Saying "Wow, these people are nuts, they want to teach Creationism in lieu of actual fucking science" makes you into a member of the anti-Christ death squads.

And this seemed familiar. It's probably common to a lot of groups that see themselves as being marginalised, or martyrs, or whatever... Often they are marginalised, often by their own hands, but rarely are they truly martyred.

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Posted: 10/5/2005 9:03:09 PM     Post subject:  

The worst aspect of liking anthropomorphic animals, is being associate with the furry crowd and all it's connotations. But death be a sweet relief!

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The worst aspect of being a thinking Christian, is that you will spend all eternity with the fundamental nutcases. Wherever they go.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 9:29:35 PM     Post subject:  

The worst aspect of liking anthropomorphic animals, is being associate with the furry crowd and all it's connotations. But death be a sweet relief!

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The worst aspect of being a thinking Christian, is that you will spend all eternity with the fundamental nutcases. Wherever they go.

By that logic it sounds like it's better to be a furry than a fundie. :D
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Posted: 10/5/2005 10:08:21 PM     Post subject:  

By that logic it sounds like it's better to be a furry than a fundie. :D


Isn't it though? Saying someone is 'attacking' you by debating you online is a tad less delusional than believing everyone who doesn't think exactly like you is doomed to suffer for all eternity.

If furries are left on their own, they mostly on hurt themselves (and the occassional real animal). If fundies are left on their own, we have total theocracy for everyone.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 10:17:48 PM     Post subject:  

By that logic it sounds like it's better to be a furry than a fundie. :D


Isn't it though? Saying someone is 'attacking' you by debating you online is a tad less delusional than believing everyone who doesn't think exactly like you is doomed to suffer for all eternity.

If furries are left on their own, they mostly on hurt themselves (and the occassional real animal). If fundies are left on their own, we have total theocracy for everyone.


You know I think many Fundies actually want to wreck the world in order to bring about the biblical apocalypse.

I'm serious some of them believe this, it's part of the reason they support Israel ( they don't even like jews ) they think it's part of the requirement to end the world.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 10:19:11 PM     Post subject:  

Two words:

"Furry Christians"










*shudder!*
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Posted: 10/5/2005 10:21:55 PM     Post subject:  

Two words:

"Furry Christians"










*shudder!*


One word

Oxymoron.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 10:50:42 PM     Post subject:  

You know I think many Fundies actually want to wreck the world in order to bring about the biblical apocalypse.


Yes, I know the ones. Those who make signs saying "Thank God for 9/11" or who honestly think that after the last tree has fallen Jesus will return. Very scary.
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Posted: 10/5/2005 11:15:25 PM     Post subject:  

You know I think many Fundies actually want to wreck the world in order to bring about the biblical apocalypse.


Yes, I know the ones. Those who make signs saying "Thank God for 9/11" or who honestly think that after the last tree has fallen Jesus will return. Very scary.


These people must be stopped for the good of mankind, they care nothing for the benefit of humanity.

Furries are annoying.

Islamic Fundamentalist want to blow us up and create a theocracy.

Christian Fundamentalists will destroy us all.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 5:06:01 AM     Post subject:  

Of those three groups I'd choose to live in a society of annoying furries, and... No wait, I'll take the theocracy.

I guess the reason I've stayed in the fandom as long as I have is because I've never gotten the chance to really see Furrydumb in its glory... Uhh, I mean idiocy, other than periodically on the net. And of course then you have the opportunity to get a few laughs out of your own kinkyness, which helps considering the majority of the planet would never speak to you again as a human being if you came out (apparently).

Being one of the 'good' furries, it seems, requires a sense of humor and self-irony.

So fundies are actively in pursuit of the end of the world so their boss can show up and say 'Hey mankind! We're taking twenty people out of the entire population of Earth with us, since you've all been such assholes about the whole apocalypse thing! Have a nice eternity of damnation!'

Smart. I mean, real smart.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 7:55:16 AM     Post subject:  

At least the average furry is far less ignorant than the average fundie (i.e. my dads whole side of the family from texas). At least furries know the earth is older than 5000 years.

It kinda scares me that the religion i was raised to believe, sufism reoriented apparently believes that Meher Baba will wipe out all life on planet earth to "save it" inbetween the next 50 to 200 years. Apparently baba placed this date conviniently juuuuuuuuuust outside of the lifespan of all existing sufis i might add. So nobody can say "i told you so"

I just found out about this from my dad, sufism is sounding more and more like a cult all the time :?
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Posted: 10/6/2005 4:18:02 PM     Post subject:  

Whatever happened to that Altar Skunk guy?
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Posted: 10/6/2005 6:11:54 PM     Post subject:  

Angelbear?

The fact that he was allowed onto Yerf remains one of the internet's great unsolved mysteries...
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Posted: 10/6/2005 6:23:42 PM     Post subject:  

Actually, Xian Jaguar is an interesting case...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/xianjaguar/111461.html?style=mine#cutid1

She's a Christian, but she draws yiffy art.

I like her work, personally.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 6:58:17 PM     Post subject:  

Actually, Xian Jaguar is an interesting case...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/xianjaguar/111461.html?style=mine#cutid1

She's a Christian, but she draws yiffy art.

I like her work, personally.

I like her work too, she's also a member of FCC. Personally though (and we've had this conversation on FFC as well) there's difference between tasteful nude art and pornography. Look through Xian's VCL archive and you will find find bits, but nothing hardcore. No sexual intercourse, not even an erect penis.

Unfortunately, even tasteful (or fully clothed for that matter) art can serve as wank material, but hey. At least some people have standards.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 7:12:42 PM     Post subject:  

I like her work too, she's also a member of FCC. Personally though (and we've had this conversation on FFC as well) there's difference between tasteful nude art and pornography. Look through Xian's VCL archive and you will find find bits, but nothing hardcore. No sexual intercourse, not even an erect penis.


According to your definition, Biohazard's rats aren't porn.

Unfortunately, even tasteful (or fully clothed for that matter) art can serve as wank material, but hey. At least some people have standards.


It's not really unchristian to draw porn, is it? I mean, that's real close to think-crime. I can see how masturbation can be seen as a sin, but as long as you aren't typing or drawing with one hand, smut creation isn't outright mentioned as a way to go to hell.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 7:17:53 PM     Post subject:  


It's not really unchristian to draw porn, is it? I mean, that's real close to think-crime. I can see how masturbation can be seen as a sin, but as long as you aren't typing or drawing with one hand, smut creation isn't outright mentioned as a way to go to hell.


I've never heard of someone looking at porn and not get themselves off. Self inflicted blueballs seems improbable to me, it's usually caused by dates that are too drunk and surprise uninvited guests :x
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Posted: 10/6/2005 7:20:53 PM     Post subject:  

Not to steer the topic off-topic, but...

In Biblical times they didn't need porn.

1. Old people died in their 40s
2. You could marry as many wifes as you like
3. Everyone was equally smelly and dirty (except the Romans)
4. If you were a social retard, they'd find a reason to stone you before you got too lonely

So no laws were made against its posession.

Oh, and another thing. They didn't have cameras back then.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 7:26:14 PM     Post subject:  

I've never heard of someone looking at porn and not get themselves off. Self inflicted blueballs seems improbable to me, it's usually caused by dates that are too drunk and surprise uninvited guests :x


But we're talking about porn creation, not porn viewing for the hell of it. (pun!) Just because a woman poses nude for playboy doesn't mean she fingers herself later to her own image.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 8:31:23 PM     Post subject:  

I've never heard of someone looking at porn and not get themselves off. Self inflicted blueballs seems improbable to me, it's usually caused by dates that are too drunk and surprise uninvited guests :x


I've actually heard of one like that. Unrelated to furry, but still online.

Friend: How can you look at porn and not wank to it?
Me: Haw. You sent that to the wrong guy. You talking to (mutual acquaintance)?
Friend: Yeah. It's not natural, man.

The fact that I guessed right from the dozens of people we knew in common says something. Said mutual acquaintance was wound up tighter than a cheap watch.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 9:56:59 PM     Post subject:  

I like her work too, she's also a member of FCC. Personally though (and we've had this conversation on FFC as well) there's difference between tasteful nude art and pornography. Look through Xian's VCL archive and you will find find bits, but nothing hardcore. No sexual intercourse, not even an erect penis.

According to your definition, Biohazard's rats aren't porn.

Uh, no. Because Biohazard has drawn tons of pics of Alice and Bob pleasuring or having sex with eachother (and others). Hense the difference between hardcore and softcore. Xian doesn't have pictures of characters having sex with eachother on her archive.

No offense, Bio.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 9:58:59 PM     Post subject:  

Of those three groups I'd choose to live in a society of annoying furries, and... No wait, I'll take the theocracy.

I guess the reason I've stayed in the fandom as long as I have is because I've never gotten the chance to really see Furrydumb in its glory... Uhh, I mean idiocy, other than periodically on the net. And of course then you have the opportunity to get a few laughs out of your own kinkyness, which helps considering the majority of the planet would never speak to you again as a human being if you came out (apparently).

Being one of the 'good' furries, it seems, requires a sense of humor and self-irony.

So fundies are actively in pursuit of the end of the world so their boss can show up and say 'Hey mankind! We're taking twenty people out of the entire population of Earth with us, since you've all been such assholes about the whole apocalypse thing! Have a nice eternity of damnation!'

Smart. I mean, real smart.


I'm not a furry but I might consider going to a con.................... as the crocadile hunter.

Today we are going to learn about furries by pissing them off immensely.





God I suck.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 10:16:32 PM     Post subject:  

I like her work too, she's also a member of FCC. Personally though (and we've had this conversation on FFC as well) there's difference between tasteful nude art and pornography. Look through Xian's VCL archive and you will find find bits, but nothing hardcore. No sexual intercourse, not even an erect penis.


According to your definition, Biohazard's rats aren't porn.

Unfortunately, even tasteful (or fully clothed for that matter) art can serve as wank material, but hey. At least some people have standards.


It's not really unchristian to draw porn, is it? I mean, that's real close to think-crime. I can see how masturbation can be seen as a sin, but as long as you aren't typing or drawing with one hand, smut creation isn't outright mentioned as a way to go to hell.


Masterbation is refered to as Onanism.

most christians misunderstood the story, God told him to totally bang this chick (his brother's wife I think) and she would have his child. The bible says he spilled his seed anti masturbation folks say he masterbated, I say he had sex with her and pulled out.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 10:19:36 PM     Post subject:  


most christians misunderstood the story, God told him to bang this chick (his brother's wife I think) and she would have his child. The bible says he spilled his seed anti masturbation folks say he whacked off, I say he had sex with her and oulled out.


He did. He spilled his seed on the sheets and not within her.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 10:25:00 PM     Post subject:  

God, being history's most crazy voyeur, is always watching. And he wants to see creampie, damn it. Or else you die.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 10:25:04 PM     Post subject:  


most christians misunderstood the story, God told him to bang this chick (his brother's wife I think) and she would have his child. The bible says he spilled his seed anti masturbation folks say he whacked off, I say he had sex with her and oulled out.


He did. He spilled his seed on the sheets and not within her.


And thus there is nothing in the bible that says you can't crank one out, amen.
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Posted: 10/6/2005 11:04:51 PM     Post subject:  

God, being history's most crazy voyeur, is always watching. And he wants to see creampie, damn it. Or else you die.


I, of course, instantly thought of this.
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Posted: 10/7/2005 12:02:58 AM     Post subject:  

God, being history's most crazy voyeur, is always watching. And he wants to see creampie, damn it. Or else you die.


I, of course, instantly thought of this.

Me too!
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Posted: 10/7/2005 2:00:16 AM     Post subject:  

It's not really unchristian to draw porn, is it? I mean, that's real close to think-crime. I can see how masturbation can be seen as a sin, but as long as you aren't typing or drawing with one hand, smut creation isn't outright mentioned as a way to go to hell.

Actually yes, Jesus warned of the dangers of thoughtcrime. When the fundies preach that eyeing up a woman is committing adultery in the heart, they're not taking it out of context. He said that. Of course Jesus said and did a lot of really strange things, like spitefully withering a fig tree because it didn't have any fruit for him, and telling Joseph that castration was the best way to avoid sin. That wacky messiah.

The sin of Onan definitely refers to coitus interruptus, though. Technically, if you masturbate while thinking of your wife, it's all cool with the Lord.
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Posted: 10/7/2005 2:05:36 AM     Post subject:  



The sin of Onan definitely refers to coitus interruptus, though. Technically, if you masturbate while thinking of your wife, it's all cool with the Lord.


That just seems like such an odd thing to have gotten uppity about, I'll never understand these people.
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Posted: 10/7/2005 2:12:31 AM     Post subject:  

I think the lesson to be learned there was supposed to be "When God says do something, you'd better fucking do it," not "Pulling out is bad," but I think we're all aware of some of the strange interpretations religious folk have come away with.
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Posted: 10/7/2005 7:10:40 AM     Post subject:  



The sin of Onan definitely refers to coitus interruptus, though. Technically, if you masturbate while thinking of your wife, it's all cool with the Lord.


That just seems like such an odd thing to have gotten uppity about, I'll never understand these people.


Every sperm is sacred o/~
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Posted: 10/7/2005 7:58:33 AM     Post subject:  

that is just about the dumbest question ever
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Posted: 10/7/2005 8:33:10 PM     Post subject:  

http://www.sexinchrist.com/

I am pretty sure this is a joke, but then again, this is the internet.
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Posted: 10/7/2005 10:12:35 PM     Post subject:  

and so dos began to read while eating his dinner.

he then changed his mind.
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Posted: 10/7/2005 10:48:25 PM     Post subject:  

http://www.sexinchrist.com/

I am pretty sure this is a joke, but then again, this is the internet.


It's a nice roundabout jab to the sex-police bible thumpers, wherein their book views women as property of husbands, and doesn't even consider most modern sexual pratices, like dildos or women with women.

Overall, a very nicely laid out fuck-you to the fundies, and done in such a manner that some groupthink among southern baptists will read it and go out and annoy their secret-pedophile pastors.
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Posted: 10/8/2005 1:13:26 AM     Post subject:  

http://www.sexinchrist.com/

I am pretty sure this is a joke, but then again, this is the internet.


It's a nice roundabout jab to the sex-police bible thumpers, wherein their book views women as property of husbands, and doesn't even consider most modern sexual pratices, like dildos or women with women.

Overall, a very nicely laid out fuck-you to the fundies, and done in such a manner that some groupthink among southern baptists will read it and go out and annoy their secret-pedophile pastors.


However, were it real, it wouldn't be the first thing on the net I thought was fake... That wasn't.
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Posted: 10/8/2005 1:22:35 AM     Post subject:  

http://www.sexinchrist.com/

I am pretty sure this is a joke, but then again, this is the internet.


It's a nice roundabout jab to the sex-police bible thumpers, wherein their book views women as property of husbands, and doesn't even consider most modern sexual pratices, like dildos or women with women.

Overall, a very nicely laid out fuck-you to the fundies, and done in such a manner that some groupthink among southern baptists will read it and go out and annoy their secret-pedophile pastors.


Um Dildos have been around for thousands of years, the anciant egyptians used clay ones (the wealthy had theirs glazed)

and Lesbians are nothing new either, of course it was more stimatized in the west in general (demonized by the Judeo christian societies.. and muslims which is really the same thing anyway)
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Posted: 10/8/2005 1:41:01 AM     Post subject:  

Viruses existed in biblical times, doesn't mean the average bible-author knew about them either. So many human conditions simply aren't covered (or considered fact, see Queen Victoria and the denial of lesbianism) it makes any possible sexual approach to the bible beyond "whores are bad" ridiculous.
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Posted: 10/8/2005 1:59:33 AM     Post subject:  

I think the lesson to be learned there was supposed to be "When God says do something, you'd better fucking do it"...

Heh, nice choice of words.

Plus, the fact that God is telling him to have sex with his brother's wife isn't actually as dirty as it sounds if you read it carefully: the brother in question was dead at this point, and according to the King James at least, the wife then remarried -- to Onan.
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Posted: 10/8/2005 3:48:57 AM     Post subject:  

"When God says do something, you'd better fucking do it"...


Sing it like it's an Andrew Lloyd-Webber number and the mental imagary just flows like water.
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Posted: 10/8/2005 6:50:23 PM     Post subject:  

Back to the original topic...

If you compare furries to any religious fundamentalist, then you give furry the same footing as the basis of that fundamentalism. Religious fundamentalists are based on religion. To give furry that much weight is a gigantic mistake. Then the nuts who ramble about anthropomorphics and desire to have sex with animal people going back to ancient Eqypt get all warm and fuzzy and that's not helping anyone, is it?
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