Stigmata

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Stigmata, doesn't anybody clue in to the fact that only Catholics have these markings? You never see a Baptist with them...
 
SkepticJ said:
Stigmata, doesn't anybody clue in to the fact that only Catholics have these markings? You never see a Baptist with them...
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That's because Baptists don't worship the One True God, who demonstrates his love for his followers by making them bleed severely.
 
Baptists get stigmata all the time, but since they believe the blood running out of their hands adds flavour to their potluck dishes, they never complain.
 
Anyone can get stigmata. All it takes is a sharp nail or letter opener and a high tolerance for stabbing oneself.
 
I read this book on the subject several years ago. I'd recommend it.

He basically put it down to mental illness and trickery, if I remember correctly.
 
SkepticJ said:
Stigmata, doesn't anybody clue in to the fact that only Catholics have these markings? You never see a Baptist with them...
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I don't know, why does the Devil almost always speak in Latin in horror movies?
 
Rufo said:
It's probably because he only considers you half antichrist. :p

No offense. :duck:
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None taken, especially since you spelled it wrong.

Now try reacalculating with the actual spelling:
דוד סווידלר.

(For the rest of you who actually care but can't view Hebrew fonts, that's dalet-vav-dalet, samekh-vav-vav-yud-dalet-lamed-resh. The rest of you can go about your business).
 
HeyLeroy said:
I read this book on the subject several years ago. I'd recommend it.

He basically put it down to mental illness and trickery, if I remember correctly.
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Ain't it funny how many of the Amazon reviewers seem to have come to a completely different conclusion on the findings of the book..? I wonder how they managed that.
It's almost as if they read it and selected the bits they wanted to believe and disregarded anything they didn't like, but nobody would do that, would they?
 
David Swidler said:
None taken, especially since you spelled it wrong.
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Again? Why are all my attempts to help you prove you're antichrist ruined by bad spelling? It must be some kind of curse. (Or the fact that I don't know any Hebrew.)
Now try reacalculating with the actual spelling:
דוד סווידלר.
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I get it to 330. Not too far from my result...
You don't happen to have a second name with a numerical value of 336?

brettDbass said:
Ain't it funny how many of the Amazon reviewers seem to have come to a completely different conclusion on the findings of the book..? I wonder how they managed that.
It's almost as if they read it and selected the bits they wanted to believe and disregarded anything they didn't like, but nobody would do that, would they?
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No, and especially not with a book about religion!
 
The reason that Roman Catholics are the only ones that seem to get them is the same reason they're the only ones that see aparations of Mary: They're the only ones looking for them. Specifically, there's a Catholic dogma to the effect that our suffering adds to the "treasury of merit". Hence, asceticism, corporal mortification (i.e. self-flagellation, self-crucifixion, et al.) and stigmata.

I think they're mostly psychosomatic and probably at least a few cases of outright fraud. I see them as kind of like the Catholic version of speaking in tongues. People get themselves so worked up that all that emotion has to come out somewhere.
 
Yeah

It also annoys me that all these stigmatas (stigmati?) have the hole in the center of the hand.

If anyone was crucified like that they would have fallen off the cross as the nail ripped through their hand.

If you want to emulate Christ, put that compass end in your wrist.
 
Rufo said:
Again? Why are all my attempts to help you prove you're antichrist ruined by bad spelling? It must be some kind of curse. (Or the fact that I don't know any Hebrew.)

I get it to 330. Not too far from my result...
You don't happen to have a second name with a numerical value of 336?
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I do have a second name, value of 68: חיים

Play a while, knock yourself out. I'm busy plotting to rule the world (If they're gonna accuse me of it, I might as well reap the benefits).
 
Abbyas said:
It also annoys me that all these stigmatas (stigmati?) have the hole in the center of the hand.

If anyone was crucified like that they would have fallen off the cross as the nail ripped through their hand.

If you want to emulate Christ, put that compass end in your wrist.
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I'm sure certain clever people have tried it.
 
On "My Name is Earl" (a great American TV show) last week Earl accidently fired a nail through his hand with a nailgun. The sexy Catalina responded to the effect of, "If you do that to the other hand, I'll take you down to my church so we can make some old ladies cry." :D
 
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