“Excuse me, do you…?”

[anarchicq]

I dislike people. I can like a person, but people en-masse just rub me the wrong way. My friend Doppleganger rationalized it to me as such:
“People are stupid, to varying levels. You’re stupid, I’m stupid, but some are just bread-is-an-animal stupid.” (I might be paraphrasing.)

And the Splurd Crew have adopted the rational that “All people are

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[anarchicq]

True story: When my nephew was...7 I guess, and Dopp (trent_shard) came to visit, he tried to convince said nephew that bread was indeed an animal. It almost worked. It eventually evolved into "prove that it's NOT an animal."

[furikku]

My shirt had the god Anubis on it and my pants had a Chinese dragon. Do those sound like the garments of a follower of the lord? Really?

Actually, yes. Not a very ORTHODOX one, mind you, but yes.

I would have asked if Jesus could make my leg grow back.

He totally can! The question is, is he GONNA? (The answer is usually, "No. No, he is not.")

[sailor_titan]

OH man, it's like you have a special license for why does god hate amputees. I suppose that's one small comfort for an obnoxious medical condition....

[anarchicq]

For this experiment, we need to find a deserving person who has had both of his legs amputated. For example, find a sincere, devout veteran of the Iraqi war, or a person who was involved in a tragic automobile accident.
Oh, darn, I'm not eligible for God's love anyway because I didn't lose my leg in some tragedy, I was born missing bones. WOE!

[rosehiptea]

You were nicer than I would have been. (Or at least nicer than he deserved.) I probably would have told him I don't want people healing me with the power of Jesus because I'm a Jew. Which, let me tell you, is the wrong thing to say to people like that.

You should have asked him if Jesus could make your leg grow back though.

[anarchicq]

Yeah, it came to mind as he was going on and on but my mind at the same time was continuing the line of thought with "...or make my nose open, or give me a real thumb, or give me perfect eyesight in my right eye..." and it just got too personal in my head because honestly my leg is the least of my problems (other than my thumb, my thunb is awesome.)

[korinacaffeine]

What happened to your leg, if you don't mind me asking?

[anarchicq]

There was this....ferris wheel...

I was born with basically the whole right side of my body messed up. My right eye looks like a keyhole (It's called Coloboma), my right nostril is closed, my right thumb is mussing a bone and it's ball/socket (or something) so it 'floats', and my leg was missing my femur and knee so I was amputated at 14 months old. I can't remember not being an amputee, so it's all good.

[korinacaffeine]

I googled Coloboma, and it actually looks really neat. Aesthetically, I mean.

It's cool that you deal with all of that so well, and I'm glad you at least don't remember not being an amputee. Also that you were fortunate enough to get a prosthetic leg!

[anarchicq]

Canada health care, man, Canada health care.

[okami_no_yume]

For getting harassed by an obnoxious fundie, you handled that really well. I'm a rather tall person (5'9) but I am by nature leery, wary, and misanthropic, and I don't like random strangers talking to me out of the blue. Especially the Jesus freaks, and down here in the South, we got a lot of 'em, unfortunately.

You were nicer about it than I would have been. I would have gotten a wee bit hostile if he'd wanted to lay his hands on me. Like threaten to kick him in the balls with my steel toed boots. Only because I'm a bitch like that.