The banana is the atheist's worst nightmare? (Video)

[Nomad559]

View the video from the 3:30 mark until about 4:36

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5479410612081345878

:rofl:

[Old and In the Way]

1. Is this a joke? Are they goofing on the faithful?

Sure looks that way to me. I'll bet they smoked a couple of doob's before they filmed that jem.

[beam me up scottie]

4. No, they really believe that.

So do several of the religious bigots in this forum.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Saw that too. A Freudian's field day.

Bananas fit so perfectly in the human hand, and shaped ideally for the human mouth. They must have been designed as such by God. Uh - can somebody help me here, or does this guy have issues, on too many levels to contemplate?

[salvorhardin]

8. You'd have issues like Kirk Cameron too

If you were subjected to years of Alan Thicke.

[Monk06]

10. And God made the tab on the banana so the contents wouldn't

"SQUIRT IN YOUR FACE???????"

I guess God forgot to put a tab on the Human penis.

Also if God made the tab and then 'launched' it with
the Tab brand, how come Coca Cola was able to take over
the Tab brand????????

Did Coca Cola out-bid God?

Is Coca Cola an ineffable, omnipotent, omniscient entity???????

Are the copyright laws in heaven less strict?

Does Coca Cola have better lawyers than God?


Answer: yes to all of the above.

And if anyone is wondering these two guys are heretics
and stark raving mad to boot.

[beam me up scottie]

11. ROFLMAO !!!

I guess God forgot to put a tab on the Human penis.

:spray:

Maybe it's still under warranty?

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

14. A "tab"

So the contents won't "sqirt" in your face? What do people do, puree the banana in the skin before eating it?

Did anyone ever think the purpose of that object is just to keep the banana on the tree until it's time for it to fall off (which is what it would do naturally if humans didn't pull or lop them off)?

Where do people come up with these bizarre ideas?

[Name removed]

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[beam me up scottie]

16. Could you delete the homophobic slur from your post please?

Otherwise your whole post will probably get deleted.

PLus it's offensive as all hell.

[Monk06]

18. Sorry, what I said was not homophobic. I have many gay friends who

are openly gay. They do not like closet queens.

Straight acting is a legitimate gay lifestyle.

Closet queens usually compensate for their fear
of their own sexuality by being very right wing
and anti-gay.

Maybe you don't appreciate my candor here but on
post #14 you ROTFLYAO regarding my joke at the
expense of these two fundy nut jobs. Some
Christians might find those remarks offensive.

So how come you didn't complain about that?

As far as being homophobic goes, I'm heterosexual
but I've had sex with another man so I am speaking
from real experience.

In fact a buddy of mine who I slept with accused me
of being a closet queen. Now that's gotta hurt.

So lighten up scottie. We were getting along so nicely.

[crikkett]

21. Maybe, the religion forum isn't where one expects to read on sex organs

and your gender-specific relationship with bananas?

[Monk06]

25. "your gender-specific relationship with bananas?"

The subject of bananas and sexuality was the
whole point of this thread as averred to by
nomad559.

Did you click on the video link?

I made a legitimate comment in answer to nomad559
regarding the literal mindedness of modern Christian
fundamentalists and the ludicrous apostasy they are
led to by their obsession with creationism.

God made bananas to fit the human hand?

God invented the tab opener too make soft drinks easier
to open?

Both my posts on this thread are quite relevant to the
subject at hand. I find your insinuation that I have a
banana sex fetish quite mischievous and frankly I'm
offended.

On edit, I looked at the posting rules (the detailed version)
and I found no indescretion on my part. Some may disagree.

[beam me up scottie]

28. Check again.

Better yet, call someone else a "closet queen" and see what happens.

[Monk06]

29. I live in a gay neighborhood and the term is used by gays often >>

to describe gays who secretly deny their sexuality.

Heteros didn't invent the term, gays did.

If "closet queen is a homophobic expression then gays who use
it are homophobic, which by definition they can't be.

This is my last comment on the matter so don't bother
taking the discussion further. I don't indulge in flame
wars.

[beam me up scottie]

30. I live in the south, black people use the word n*gger all the time.

So using your *cough*logic, my use of that word to describe others I disagree with would be justified.

Not even close.

[Monk06]

31. From the posting rules >>>>>>>>>>>

Civility

Personal Attacks, Civility and Respect

"Do not post messages with the purpose of "calling out"
another member or picking a fight with another member."



I told you politely that I don't participate in flame wars.

I find your remarks dissembling, importunate and increasingly
hostile.

I repeat. I do not wish to continue this discussion with you
if all you want to do is to provoke a reaction.

[beam me up scottie]

32. I know the rules, have you read them yet?

If you don't wish to discuss anything with me, stop replying to my posts.

[beam me up scottie]

27. Are you really that clueless?

Calling people you dislike "closet queens" is the very definition of homophobic.

Using racial, ethnic, homosexual and gender based smears is intolerant, hateful and commonly used by reich wing morans.

I don't give a shit what "real" experience you claim to have had, what you posted was unacceptable and one of the most un-liberal comments I've ever read on DU.


Oh, and I will NOT lighten up on ANY kind of bigotry, so you'd better get used to it.

Getting along with intolerant morans is extremely low on my list.









Oh, wait.

I just checked.

It's not on my list at all.

[Zhade]

33. Oh my cod, you so totally rock.

You are correct - using "gay" or "closet queen" is really offensive to THIS queer, and pretty much every gay/bi man.

[beam me up scottie]

34. Thanks, Z.

I thought most people stopped using expressions like that when they graduated from junior high.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. No no no. Wrong phrasing.

It's "some of my best friends are gay."

Gee, get on with the program.

[NMMNG]

17. Fruit was not designed to be food for humans

It was designed to protect the seeds until they could make it into the soil to form another tree/vine. But of course narcicisstic humans love to think everything is about them. The land, the animals, the fruits and veggies were all given to them for their use (by God of course).

No wonder they treat everything so shabbily.




Did you catch how the Aussie guy was going on about how the peel fits so conveniently over the hand after you peel the banana?

I take that to mean he's uncircumcised and more familiar with folding skin over ones hand after peeling.


I'm not going to touch that one. :rofl:

[Richard D]

24. Actually . . .

. . . the breeding strategy of fruit seems to me to be that it should be used as food which in a natural world would mean that a critter like you or I or a bird or bat would come along and eat the fruit and than later, at a different location, have a nice seed-filled poop, allowing the species to spread farther than gravity would be able to take it. Even works for berries, tomatoes, etc. Other fruit bearing plants have inedible seeds but with a quite delicious fruit that can be carried off by humans and monkeys and such again to a location farther than gravity could take it.

[crikkett]

20. sometimes, a banana is just a banana n/t

[beam me up scottie]

3. Hey!

I recognize those two!

They post in here all the time !

[Xeric]

5. It's a nightmare of ignorance

What's really goofy about this is that a wild banana is small, pithy, tasteless, and has many huge seeds. It took years of human selection to come up with a decent fruit. So I guess God must be a screw up that needs our help. It's like that with most crops. The wild original was improved by centuries of selection. Teosinte, the ancestor of modern corn is a tiny grain. Only after a positve mutation occured that was found by our ancestors and improved upon did modern corn arise.
It's just another example of the hopeless stupidity of creationists. And if it's not stupidity, it's willfull deliberate lying. Hardly a Christian thing to do. If you have to lie to push your belief system, how good can it be?

[mrcheerful]

9. Well the religious have a hard time imagining anything outside of their

time line. They talk about the good old days like people that lived back in the 1800's lived just like they do today. Most of them either forgot or weren't born when out houses were normal sites in peoples yards, they think indoor plumping has been in all houses since jebus walked the ME. Your dealing with a lot of people that to them the hardest time they ever faced was when the cable went off the air for 2 hours.

They don't know a thing about evolution natural or man made. They think the foods they eat today is the same fods that jebuss ate 2000 years ago. Your dealing with people that think Father knows best, happy days and I love Lucy weren't sit coms but documentries.

[Island Blue]

6. Nothing like creating a subliminal message

(man + woman = God's design) out of your hand and a banana. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it. :shrug: It was funny regardless!

[nuxvomica]

7. I'm listening now and it's delightfully silly

They just have no conception of the numbers side of evolution. They can't imagine any process that would take longer than their own lifetimes or involve more than a handful of individuals. I've seen episodes of this series (yes, series) before and it's so absurd it's almost poetic. I just heard this "An agnostic is a person who doesn't know there is a god. That's like a person looking at a building and not knowing there's a building." Metaphor or explicit analogy? :rofl:

[xiamiam]

12. i thought it was a joke but it ran on for too long to be comedy...

even so, i find it hard to believe that anyone could buy this hogwash...on second thought, its got to be a joke...

[Richard D]

13. They've obvioiusly . . .

. . . never seen a durian.

[crikkett]

22. brilliant!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

[Richard D]

23. Thanks!

To me the existence and perfection of the banana negates any "intelligent design" (other than that of the tens of thousands of farmers who created the current cultivars of bananas of course) simply because of it's pull top ridges and shape are so unique. If there was an intelligent designer of food, should not all foods be equally as convenient? I mean, think of the mess and horror that goes into making a package of bacon or a hamburger.

Their observations about bananas are interesting (and pretty damn funny) but really reflect a level of naivete and stupidity that really begs the question: "if there is an intelligent designer, how could he or she design people who are so friggin stupid?

[Dogmudgeon]

19. Worship of a food ?

Sounds almost like ... Pastafarianism!

--p!
"Worship? Worship? Get up off your lazy ass and feed the fuckin' poor, damn it!"
--God, to Pigwidgeon, in an acid trip circa 1981

[Smudge]

26. Whoa

You really don't realize how crazy some people are until you watch something like that.

That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard.

[hunter]

36. Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhh! Watching it is like having "brain liposuction."

(Stealing a phrase from the video.)

By the way, did you know that apples were created by bears, wild pigs, and horses?

http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/weekly/040500/news/story_5.htm