[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: Smoking reefer with Bible pages!!!!!

Wait what? Why would I steal your horse? This makes no sense to me. I'm simply trying to convey a point and you threaten me with violence over an act I'd never commit. Just because I don't believe in YOUR God, I believe in my own, does not mean that I would ever, EVER steal from someone.

I didn't say you'd steal a horse. I said I'd be comfortable with hanging you for horse-theft.

[spaghettii]

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With Jesus nobody gets baked! If you have faith, that is!

So if I gave you pot brownies and told you that they were regular brownies and you ate them you would not be high simply because you have faith that Jesus doesn't want you to be high. Wow. Just. Wow.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: Smoking reefer with Bible pages!!!!!

So if I gave you pot brownies and told you that they were regular brownies and you ate them you would not be high simply because you have faith that Jesus doesn't want you to be high. Wow. Just. Wow.

Then we'd hang you for lying. We don't eat brownies provided by street urchins.

[eliot mayfield]

Re: Smoking reefer with Bible pages!!!!!

So if I gave you pot brownies and told you that they were regular brownies and you ate them you would not be high simply because you have faith that Jesus doesn't want you to be high. Wow. Just. Wow.

I wouldn't get baked. With Jesus anything is possible, if he wants it.

[eliot mayfield]

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Wait what? Why would I steal your horse? This makes no sense to me. I'm simply trying to convey a point and you threaten me with violence over an act I'd never commit. Just because I don't believe in YOUR God, I believe in my own, does not mean that I would ever, EVER steal from someone.

See, that reefer stuff destroys your mind.

[spaghettii]

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I didn't say you'd steal a horse. I said I'd be comfortable with hanging you for horse-theft.

Then you are a disturbing human being. I don't think I could ever feel comfortable taking the life of another man even if I had been wronged.

[spaghettii]

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Oh and to Eliot Mayfield, I haven't believed in your God since before I started smoking marijuana, so your logic is flawed. And I'm pretty sure Plato and Aristotle didn't smoke pot either but they found ways to deviate from the norm of religion, it's not weed, it's the doubt of humans to disbelieve religions that demand so much and give nothing but an empty promise in return.

[eliot mayfield]

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Oh and to Eliot Mayfield, I haven't believed in your God since before I started smoking marijuana, so your logic is flawed. And I'm pretty sure Plato and Aristotle didn't smoke pot either but they found ways to deviate from the norm of religion, it's not weed, it's the doubt of humans to disbelieve religions that demand so much and give nothing but an empty promise in return.

What part of Heaven don't you understand, Mr. philosopher? I doubt Plato and Aristotle, homosexuals that they were, smoked reefers!

[Kenneth (aka "Mr. K")]

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Your threat of domestic and international terrorism has been forwarded to the Department of Faith and the US Department of Homeland Security, who will work with the RCMP to deal with you directly.

I believe such threats are as much a felony in Canuckistan as they are in the Godly United States.

What threat?
He just named some things you can use Bible-paper for, he didn't say that he's actually going to do those things... Do you really think police will take you seriously when you show them this conversation?

[Meek and Humble]

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What threat?
He just named some things you can use Bible-paper for, he didn't say that he's actually going to do those things... Do you really think police will take you seriously when you show them this conversation?

JennyD, I suggest you list this Kenny character as a possible accomplice!

[Nobar King]

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I nominate you for the Captain Obvious award.

[JennyD]

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What threat?
He just named some things you can use Bible-paper for, he didn't say that he's actually going to do those things... Do you really think police will take you seriously when you show them this conversation?

Let's find out.

Why don't you say the same thing, only substitute "the White House".

I'm sure the Department of Homeland Security won't take it seriously.

[Nobar King]

Re: Smoking reefer with Bible pages!!!!!

I guess it hardly matters what you're smoking if you're rolling it with Bible pages. INHALING THE BIBLE IS NOT THE SAME AS READING IT!!

Smokers Drive Up Costs of Bibles

It used to be that prisoners would roll an inexpensive cigarette from a page out of the Bible, but no longer. According to a report from Crosswalk.com, smokers half a world away are driving up the cost of the special paper used to print Bibles.

What goes around comes around.

Smoking Curtails Bible Production

Religion Today Summaries, April 26, 2007—There are at least two good reasons to stop smoking. Number one: It may damage your health. Number two: It raises the production costs for Bibles, ASSIST News Service reports. The Chinese craving for cigarettes is responsible for rising paper costs in bible printing, according to the business manager of the German Bible Society, Felix Breidenstein. Because of the rising demand for cigarette paper in China the special thin paper used in bible printing is getting more expensive, as Breidenstein told the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The German Bible Society sells approximately 400,000 bibles per year.

I've always been intrigued by how our experience of the Bible is affected by the medium, which in turn is constrained by logistical factors such as the cost of paper.

The Bible has a lot of pages and yet it's a book we carry around with us more than most other books. That means we want it to be thin and light, not big and bulky. Hence special, super-thin paper, small print, two- or three-column layout, and relatively narrow margins. All of these factors impact our interaction with the Bible in subtle or not-so subtle ways.

Example: Thin pages => special no-bleed marking pens => crocheted Bible cover with pockets to hold pens. It's a slippery slope. Of course, the experience of using an electronic Bible is similarly influenced by the library software used to read and search it. How cross-references or footnotes are handled, how poetry is formatted, options for notes and highlighting—all these and more contribute to the user experience, and all are subject to various constraints.

The difference is, electronic Bible publishers fret about CPU, RAM, and screen size while print Bible publishers lie awake at night worrying about how many Chinese are taking up smoking.

Update 4/27 - Smoking Bible pages actually does happen, as attested by a Bible Network News audio report about a prisoner whose chaplain asked him not to smoke the book of John. Click here to open the BNN page, then scroll down to "Texan smoked Bible passages".

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

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Look! More of them are doing it!

SANDUSKY, Ohio, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Authorities in Ohio said a 16-year-old arrested for drug possession allegedly used a page torn from his Bible as a marijuana cigarette rolling paper.

The Erie County sheriff deputy's report said the teenager's cowardly mother called authorities at about 11:35 p.m. Tuesday and asked deputies to meet her at a car wash on Ohio 101 in Margaretta Township, the Sandusky (Ohio) Register reported Monday.

The mother told deputies she had seen her son smoking in his room and discovered a small bag of marijuana in his nightstand.

The report said the woman told deputies the boy "was smoking a marijuana cigarette using a page from his Bible."

Deputies confiscated the marijuana and the boy was arrested and charged with drug possession. The mother was charged with neglect for failing to properly parent her child.

[Nobar King]

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The mother was charged with neglect for failing to properly parent her child.

Duh! She's equally guilty in the desecration of that Bible and should be held accountable.