I love you, too.GORDON wrote:Good because I have many strong and complicated feelings for you.
Indiana's freedom of religious discrimination
As someone that has done art work (nothing of grand scale of particularly awesome aesthetic pieces) it's really impossible to gauge how an artist will feel about any particular piece. For all we know, The Last Supper was just another mural for him.TheCatt wrote:Umm... I think you over-corrected, there.Vince wrote:No more than The Last Supper was just another mural for Da Vinci.
Michelangelo didn't want to do the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel because he considered himself a sculptor rather than a painter. When he did finally paint it, he did nothing that they wanted. The Pope was rather pissed off because all the scenes represented where Old Testament. When he first finished, there wasn't a single depiction of Jesus up there. Not sure if he went back and added some.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
I would miss you as well. You're one of the good ones where if I don't let my emotions get the better of me, I can have a good debate and learn where the other side on some issues is coming from.TPRJones wrote:Nah, just busy at work.
You won't run me off, you'll have to ban me out of annoyance and frustration one day. :p
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
For all we know, The Last Supper was just another mural for him.
Uh, no way. Based on the sheer size of the piece and the pains in the ass he went to in order to work with that particular medium, he obviously invested a great deal of himself into it.
Michelangelo didn't want to do the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel because he considered himself a sculptor rather than a painter. When he did finally paint it, he did nothing that they wanted. The Pope was rather pissed off because all the scenes represented where Old Testament.
Mikey was the quintessential "artiste." Pissing him off or offending his artistic sensibilities required as much effort as seeing tits during Mardi Gras. The pope at the time (as with most times) was a power-hungry control freak not used to disagreement, let alone impudence.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I saw an article in National Geographic probably 3 decades ago where they were restoring the painting. They had a shot of it from the end of the hallway it's in. It was mind boggling that from that perspective the ceiling of the hallway extended into the painting itself. It was like those weird 3d street paintings they do.Malcolm wrote:Uh, no way. Based on the sheer size of the piece and the pains in the ass he went to in order to work with that particular medium, he obviously invested a great deal of himself into it.For all we know, The Last Supper was just another mural for him.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
Well, don't take my positions too seriously as an exemplar. On most issues I am far more likely to agree with you than them. Just not this one.Vince wrote:I would miss you as well. You're one of the good ones where if I don't let my emotions get the better of me, I can have a good debate and learn where the other side on some issues is coming from.
Ultimately I'm an insane contrarian who disagrees with everyone. But at least I have fun doing it.
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gofundme has cut off christian businesses because they like discrimination.
But.... isn't that discrimination?
Oh, it must be the correct kind of discrimination.
http://tinyurl.com/mfgb9s9
But.... isn't that discrimination?
Oh, it must be the correct kind of discrimination.
http://tinyurl.com/mfgb9s9
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I was listening to the long laundry list of problems that the two lesbians in OR listed were a result of their having the Christian bakers refuse to bake them a cake. They said they both started smoking again because of it, they gained weight, they slept too much, they suffered a loss of confidence... on and on. I'm thinking, thank God you're gay because you should NOT be reproducing. And please don't inflict an adopted kid with your special kind of neurotic.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
Kristen Waggoner, the Alliance Defending Freedom attorney representing Arlene’s Flowers, said in an interview Tuesday that GoFundMe’s decision to drop the page, even though Ms. Stutzman has not been charged with a crime, raises questions as to whether GoFundMe is discriminating on the basis of religion.
They'll use the same defense I called out earlier. It's not based on religion, it's based on the amount of traffic or cash they think they'll lose if they don't.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
1. Lesbians go to a jeweler in Canada, ask for custom wedding rings.
2. Jeweler makes them and sells them to the lesbians for the agreed upon price.
3. Lesbians later find out the jeweler doesn't care for gay marriages because he is Catholic.
4. Mob threatens jeweler to refund the price of the rings, "or else," he does, lesbians keep rings.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher....ns-lose
2. Jeweler makes them and sells them to the lesbians for the agreed upon price.
3. Lesbians later find out the jeweler doesn't care for gay marriages because he is Catholic.
4. Mob threatens jeweler to refund the price of the rings, "or else," he does, lesbians keep rings.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher....ns-lose
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Since they are custom rings, it's almost the same as far as the jeweler is concerned. They whole reason for a deposit on a custom job is because if they don't follow through and buy them, they've screwed the jeweler out of money. ESPECIALLY with a set of homosexual rings.TheCatt wrote:Are you sure on point #4? Sounded like the refund decision had been made, but not yet done, and the rings hadn't been kept yet, necessarily.
At any rate, I think the people harassing the jeweler are out of line.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
Agreed, poor form on the clients.Vince wrote:Since they are custom rings, it's almost the same as far as the jeweler is concerned. They whole reason for a deposit on a custom job is because if they don't follow through and buy them, they've screwed the jeweler out of money. ESPECIALLY with a set of homosexual rings.TheCatt wrote:Are you sure on point #4? Sounded like the refund decision had been made, but not yet done, and the rings hadn't been kept yet, necessarily.
At any rate, I think the people harassing the jeweler are out of line.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Yeah, this is some bullshit right here. But one thing I have to comment on:
I don't think rings can have a sexual orientation. Or are they tainted because the homos touched them?
ESPECIALLY with a set of homosexual rings.
I don't think rings can have a sexual orientation. Or are they tainted because the homos touched them?
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Someone once publicly corrected me when I said, "Gay marriage" with, "There is only marriage not gay or straight marriage."
Then I unfriended her on facebook and it took her a couple years to figure it out.
Maybe the rings were inscribed, "Lesbo love forever" inside the band.
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Then I unfriended her on facebook and it took her a couple years to figure it out.
Maybe the rings were inscribed, "Lesbo love forever" inside the band.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I think Vince's point is that homosexuals are about ~2% of the population. As such, they are about 2% of the wedding market. Since they were a PAIR of engagement rings, I'd say that's pretty constraining to the traditional lesbian market.TPRJones wrote:I don't think rings can have a sexual orientation. Or are they tainted because the homos touched them?ESPECIALLY with a set of homosexual rings.
It's not me, it's someone else.