Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 August 2021, 01:59:39 AM
If you're a believer and have actually read the Bible, the opinion is defensible. Ridiculous, but credo qvia impossibile est.

This is a story of a man, who was a firm believer of god.

One day it began to rain very heavily. It kept raining and a big flood came.

The man climbed up on the roof of his house, and knew that he would be ok. God would protect him.

It kept raining and now the water had reached his waist. A rowboat came by and a guy in the boat said: "Hey, jump in. I'll take you with me".

"No thanks", said the man. "I'm a firm believer in God. He will rescue me". He sent the boat away.

It kept on raining and now the water had reached his neck. A patrol boat came by and a police officer in the boat said: "You look like you could need some help. Jump in and we'll take you with us".

"No", said the man. "I'm a firm believer in God. He will rescue me. Don't worry about me". The boat sailed away.

It still rained and the water now reached his mouth. A rescue helicopter came by and a guy in the helicopter let down a rope ladder and said: "Hi there my friend. Climb up. We'll rescue you".

"No", said the man. "I'm a firm believer in God. He will rescue me. I know he will". The helicopter flew away.

It kept on raining, and finally the man drowned.

When the man died, he went to heaven. When entering Heaven, he had an interview with God.

After giving a polite greeting and sitting down, the man asked: "Where were you. I waited and waited. I was sure you would rescue me, as I have been a firm believer all my life, and have only done good to others. So where were you when I needed you?"

God scratched his confused looking face and answered: "I don't get it either. I sent you two boats and a helicopter".

Nobby - coat chewing time !!!

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 06 October 2021, 11:45:44 AM
Don't call us we won't call you 

By the way, I'm crushed. 

That was an oldie, Mike. 

Quote from: Westmarcher on 06 October 2021, 04:30:02 PM
That was an oldie, Mike. 

No one has ever accused me of being original :-)

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 21 August 2021, 03:00:31 PM
Listening to R4 on the way home - late night news . Ran a report from I think Louisiana - in a church...The peps interviewed all said that the jab was aganist the will of god. That's what the US authorities are up against fortuneatly the uk has very few like that.

Most of the anti-vaxxers seem to be atheists, well very few seem to mention any religious aspect on their internet postings.  They generally seem to be suspicious of authority or doubt the efficacy of the vaccine or think it is more dangerous to have than to risk getting Covid and, hopefully, surviving it.  A challenging exercise in the interplay between the individual and the community.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 August 2021, 06:10:03 AM
The New too. I had a Catholic friend once who was much troubled by the way you can't really combine faith and hope (if you believe it, hope doesn't make sense, and if you hope for it, where's the certainty of faith?).

The whole point is that they are complimentary and not in conflict, like two sides of a coin.

I think we need to minimise the politics and religion aspects of the forum.  To judge from the top-totty folder the politically incorrect amorous postings have, at least, been corralled in one place.

Quote from: hammurabi70 on 06 October 2021, 11:14:51 PM

I think we need to minimise the politics and religion aspects of the forum. 

Absolutely

This is a forum for a 10mm Miniature figure manufacture. Modelling, Wargaming, Painting and their associated topics really should be the core topics of discussions.

We do have the unwritten rule about politics and religion....Both subjects can just end up causing bad feeling on the forum.

Said it so many times, that I've just about given up repeating myself.

(I'll just use my Lock and Delete buttons if things get out of hand.)

Cheers - Phil.

I see Chat & News or Fun Stuff as 'fairly open', for topic or comment... other boards for more modelling specific.
People need somewhere to 'communicate'... whether, 'Blowing Off Steam', or 'Relating'... and where better than on a site with SOME shared interests, so some common ground. We all know of some of the 'radical' or 'pedantc' views , sometimes expreesed on other Fora.

ANYWAY!, A guy on another Forum, just starting in 10mm or 1/144, was asking about Decals / Transfers for Free French WW2 vehicles. Yeah, some Lorraine Crosses and Flags available fron PenD... but think he might be after a wider selection of markings.
Any recommends to forward?

10mm gaming IS a religion!

As most of us have survived merciless commentary on our generalship/ability to roll dice, surely we can cope with a bit of robust controversy contained in a few threads?  I find reading others perspectives on hot topics is useful even if they are so obviously wrong.    

While the forum host (peace be upon him) and his acolytes have absolute authority over what remains posted,  is it not far easier to rely on us making our own minds up on what to bother reading ?   Just to stir it up:   Given that objectification of women is clearly a hot political topic in the UK, surely the entire "top totty" thread becomes a political statement.   It is very hard to have a  "no politics" rule as you actually get  "no politics I disagree with".    What I think is meant is that "we don't want two members getting into aggressive personal arguments (unless in "forum bar fight") or posting stuff/language thats clearly offensive.  So its more about thread control and forcing posts into the right threads so the the rest of us are left in peace to admire the latest sashimonos on the sengoku ashigaru  or ever more obscure WW2 vehicles.     
 
In any case, the Lisbon Maru post http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,21192.msg334210.html#msg334210   reminds me how trivial are the "hot" debates here or our whines about the shortage of petrol, turkeys, common sense, ...   

Quote from: Techno II on 07 October 2021, 06:43:40 AM
We do have the unwritten rule about politics and religion....Both subjects can just end up causing bad feeling on the forum.

Said it so many times, that I've just about given up repeating myself.

(I'll just use my Lock and Delete buttons if things get out of hand.)

Cheers - Phil.

Sure you won't just delete yourself !! 

That's always a possibility. 

I'm still being a sad old git, and watching the map of "How many cases of corona virus in your area."

Coo...the map of the UK has gone awfully red in the past few weeks, as cases rise.
Doesn't seem THAT long ago that Pembrokeshire reached the 'heady heights' of zero cases per 100,000...We're now the worst in Wales.....if not the whole of the UK, at 754 per 100,000.
Only blue bits on the UK map are the Shetland Islands and the Orkneys.

Oh well...I'll keep wearing my mask...though,in Wales, I think we're still required to in shops.
Very rarely see anyone 'unmasked' in Tesco's.

Cheers - Phil.

Cases in my wife's infant's and primary school sharply on the rise, with year 6 badly hit. Even the infants have cases now which didn't happen last year. According to a report on The Today programme yesterday, cases are circa 45K per day, with Secondary School age children the worst hit. Deaths I think 500 a day/week. Still many people not wearing masks around here .

My friend's 17 yera-old daughter has had to be put onto Beta Blockers due to long COVID.
Her heart rate has been running between 100-120 at rest!
And they say it will have no effect on the youth..