it doesn't matter they're not christian anyways
says the man attempting to be open-minded
one slip proved everything I already knew
already f'in knew

t doesn't matter they're not christian anyways says the man attempting to be open-minded one slip proved everything I already knew already f'in knew

huh?

huh?

Oh good, it wasn't just me...
Yeah, I'm not getting the deep, well-hidden message of that poem.

AHA! You thought you could hide it from me... From hell's heart I stab at thee (with a welcoming Insightful! that is)

AHA! You thought you could hide it from me... From hell's heart I stab at thee (with a welcoming Insightful! that is)

You have been watching too much Star Trek! Of course I ain't much better since I reconized the quote.

KHAAAAN!

"....for hates sake, I SPIT my last BREATH....at thee...."
Ah yes, arguably the best of the Trek films.

It sounds to me, singrdave, that you may have simply rebelled against your father's system of beliefs, and, since your mother kind of went along with him, hers, too.
I did the same, in a way....my dad was an alcoholic who sometimes would slap my mom around (in later years, to his great credit, he mellowed, though, and was a fine example of a man before he died).
I swore as a kid that I would never drink like that and would never, ever hit a woman. I don't (to great excess like that, anyway), and haven't.
Many on here would disagree with you (mostly "non-judgemental" libs, natch, who nontheless sit in gleeful judgement of our beliefs), but there are many of us more open-minded cons on here.
What those "non-judgmental" libs fail to realize is that a little self-righteousness and judgmentalism is a good thing for you; it keeps you grounded in your own beliefs.

"You gotta stand for somethin', or you fall for anything."

"....for hates sake, I SPIT my last BREATH....at thee...." Ah yes, arguably the best of the Trek films. It sounds to me, singrdave, that you may have simply rebelled against your father's system of beliefs, and, since your mother kind of went along with him, hers, too. I did the same, in a way....my dad was an alcoholic who sometimes would slap my mom around (in later years, to his great credit, he mellowed, though, and was a fine example of a man before he died). I swore as a kid that I would never drink like that and would never, ever hit a woman. I don't (to great excess like that, anyway), and haven't. Many on here would disagree with you (mostly "non-judgemental" libs, natch, who nontheless sit in gleeful judgement of our beliefs), but there are many of us more open-minded cons on here. What those "non-judgmental" libs fail to realize is that a little self-righteousness and judgmentalism is a good thing for you; it keeps you grounded in your own beliefs. "You gotta stand for somethin', or you fall for anything."

Listening to Country Western are we?

lol

Star Trek

I've been teaching English too long, I said "Moby Dick..." but yeah, Ricardo Montalban was better than any captain ahab...

Listening to Country Western are we?

Yep...love that song. I figured, as long as we're doing quotes, I'd go there.....

lol Star Trek I've been teaching English too long, I said "Moby Dick..." but yeah, Ricardo Montalban was better than any captain ahab...

Well, the original Trek used a lot of classic lit for its subjects and titles, especially Shakespeare. Gene Coon (one of the writers..inventor of the Klingons, The Prime Directive and other important plot points), I think it was, was a big fan of Willie S. When Star Trek II was being written, the director, Nicholas Meyer, happened to be reading "Moby Dick", and since Kirk was Khan's "white whale", the reference was used.