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| Quote (Hermagoras @ May 06 2008,15:37) | | Quote (Richardthughes @ May 06 2008,16:38) | | Quote (olegt @ May 06 2008,16:28) | BarryA is a tard. His example supposedly proving the existence of an absolute moral standard is sex with little children. In Barry's view, there is no reason to consider it a bad idea other than god told us not to. Hey Barry, if you flexed your considerable brain muscle, maybe you could figure out that such an activity hurts little children, both physically and psychologically? That didn't occur to you, did it?
And while we're on the subject of absolute, immutable, set-in-stone moral standards, what's with the age of consent? It used to be moral to get a 12-year-old bride in Christian medieval England, remember? Is it still moral or has morality evolved? |
Probably in biblical times and in biblical countries also. I'm thinking an early start was necessary given life expectancy in those days... |
If Mary existed, she was probably 13 or so when she birthed Yahweh Jr. Which makes God a child abuser. |
Well, maybe it was actually unintentional. If we assume Yahweh is rather like Kal-El of Krypton (Silver Age version), the whole Gospel tradition may represent some sort of divine PR spin after-the-fact. Consider:
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Within her body there are still tens of millions of frustrated kryptonian sperm. The single egg is now too diffuse to be a target. The sperm scatter.
They scatter without regard to what is in their path. They leave curved channels, microscopically small. Presently all will have found their way to the open air.
That leaves LL with several million microscopic perforations all leading deep into her abdomen. Most of the channels will intersect one or more loops of intestine.
Peritonitis is inevitable. LL becomes desperately ill.
Meanwhile, tens of millions of sperm swarm in the air over Metropolis.
This is more serious than it looks.
Consider: these sperm are virtually indestructible. Within days or weeks they will die for lack of nourishment. Meanwhile they cannot be affected by heat, cold, vacuum, toxins, or anything short of green kryptonite. (*And other forms of kryptonite. For instance, there are chunks of red kryptonite that make giants of kryptonians. Imagine ten million earthworm size spermatozoa swarming over a Metropolis beach, diving to fertilize the beach balls... but I digress.*) There they are, minuscule but dangerous; for each has supernormal powers.
Metropolis is shaken by tiny sonic booms. Wormholes, charred by meteoric heat, sprout magically in all kinds of things: plate glass, masonry, antique ceramics, electric mixers, wood, household pets, and citizens. Some of the sperm will crack lightspeed. The Metropolis night comes alive with a network of narrow, eerie blue lines of Cherenkov radiation.
And women whom Superman has never met find themselves in a delicate condition.
Consider: LL won't get pregnant because there were too many of the blind mindless beasts. But whenever one sperm approaches an unfertilized human egg in its panic flight, it will attack.
How close is close enough? A few centimeters? Are sperm attracted by chemical cues? It seems likely. Metropolis had a population of millions; and kryptonian sperm could travel a long and crooked path, billions of miles, before it gives up and dies.
Several thousand blessed events seem not unlikely. (*If the pubescent Superboy plays with himself, we have the same problem over Smallville.*)
Several thousand lawsuits would follow. Not that Superman can't afford to pay. There's a trick where you squeeze a lump of coal into its allotropic diamond form... |
If Yahweh was actually off in space relieving some ungodly frustrations, then it's possible Mary was just on the unlucky receiving end of a divine tracjectory.
(edited because I initially used Golden Age Kal-L as my Yahweh model.)
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I wouldn't be bothered reading about the selfish gene because it has never been identified. -- Denyse O'Leary, professional moron
Again "how much". I don't think that's a good way to be quantitative.-- gpuccio
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