Douchebag or Not Douchebag?

**BeMyIcon** · Subject: Douchebag or Not Douchebag? Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:08 am

Rush Limbaugh
Douchebag

Sean Hannity
Douchebag

Bill O'Reilly
Douchebag

Conan O'Brien
Not Douchebag

Jay Leno
Douchebag

Internet Explorer
Douchebag

Firefox Mozilla
Not Douchebag

Yahoo!
Douchebag

Google
Not Douchebag

Wal-Mart
Douchebag

Target
Not Douchebag

O.K., so it got a little weird about half-way through, but you get the point.
Smile

**47.5** · Number of posts: 275 Age: 16 Registration date: 2008-01-01

Alright... I'm not completely sure why this thread exists but...

Coke
Not Douchebag

Pepsi
Douchebag

Democrats
Douchebag(s?)

Bassists
Sexiest beasts on the planet

T-Mobile
Douchebag

PC
Douchebag

Mac
Not Douchebag

Captain Crunch
Not Douchebag

Count Chocula
Douchebag

Communists
see "Democrats"

BMI
Douchebag

47.5
Not Douchebag

**BeMyIcon** · Admin Number of posts: 396 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-12-15

Democrats are douchebags?
I wouldn't say that.
I would say it like this:

Politics
Bag of douche

Also, by Democrats, you're not saying Liberals, right?
I don't really know the difference - politically -
but certainly Jesus is a liberal.

*waits for the flaming*

**47.5** · Number of posts: 275 Age: 16 Registration date: 2008-01-01

BeMyIcon wrote:

Also, by Democrats, you're not saying Liberals, right?
I don't really know the difference - politically -
but certainly Jesus is a liberal.

*waits for the flaming*

...liberal is another name for Democratic. It's like Republican and conservative.

And Jesus would not be a Democrat. Don't even try that.

**BeMyIcon** · Admin Number of posts: 396 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-12-15

47.5 wrote:

BeMyIcon wrote:

Also, by Democrats, you're not saying Liberals, right?
I don't really know the difference - politically -
but certainly Jesus is a liberal.

*waits for the flaming*

...liberal is another name for Democratic. It's like Republican and conservative.

And Jesus would not be a Democrat. Don't even try that.

I don't feel that Jesus would assign Himself to any political party.

Liberal is not another name for democrat.
And conservative is not another name for Republican.
Liberal and conservative are used as adjectives to be more precise
when describing what kind of Democrat or Republican one is.
Or at least that's how I've always seen it used.

I'm not speaking "politically", anyway.

Jesus IS a liberal (He's still here).
As was the historical Jesus.
Look at the definition of a liberal, and ask your pastor.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/liberal

**47.5** · Number of posts: 275 Age: 16 Registration date: 2008-01-01

BeMyIcon wrote:

Jesus IS a liberal (He's still here).
As was the historical Jesus.
Look at the definition of a liberal, and ask your pastor.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/liberal

Alright liberal is the Democratic side of the spectrum whereas conservative is the Republican. Close enough.

Liberal also means that he would want more government and I doubt that he would.

**BeMyIcon** · Admin Number of posts: 396 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-12-15

47.5 wrote:

Alright liberal is the Democratic side of the spectrum whereas conservative is the Republican. Close enough.

Not at all.
I'm not talking politics.
I'm talking about humanity and human interaction.
Did you read the definition I posted?

**47.5** · Number of posts: 275 Age: 16 Registration date: 2008-01-01

I read the first four definitions

**BeMyIcon** · Admin Number of posts: 396 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-12-15

47.5 wrote:

I read the first four definitions

1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism.
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
6. of or pertaining to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.
8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
9. characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts: a liberal donor.
10. given freely or abundantly; generous: a liberal donation.
11. not strict or rigorous; free; not literal: a liberal interpretation of a rule.
12. of, pertaining to, or based on the liberal arts.
13. of, pertaining to, or befitting a freeman.
–noun
14. a person of liberal principles or views, esp. in politics or religion.
15. (often initial capital letter) a member of a liberal party in politics, esp. of the Liberal party in Great Britain.

The bold sounds like Jesus to ME.
scratch

**BeMyIcon** · Admin Number of posts: 396 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-12-15

Conversely, here's "conservative":

1. disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
2. cautiously moderate or purposefully low: a conservative estimate.
3. traditional in style or manner; avoiding novelty or showiness: conservative suit.
4. (often initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the Conservative party.
5. (initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Conservative Jews or Conservative Judaism.
6. having the power or tendency to conserve; preservative.
7. Mathematics. (of a vector or vector function) having curl equal to zero; irrotational; lamellar.
–noun
8. a person who is conservative in principles, actions, habits, etc.
9. a supporter of conservative political policies.
10. (initial capital letter) a member of a conservative political party, esp. the Conservative party in Great Britain.
11. a preservative.

I don't think I can put any of those in bold.

**47.5** · Number of posts: 275 Age: 16 Registration date: 2008-01-01

1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
Eh. I guess Jesus would probably want to reform the current government we have...
3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism.
This just states he supports what you're saying he is...
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
I don't completely understand this but I think it states that each person has the most freedom possible. Yeah I guess Jesus would want that.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
Jesus would actually want everyone to be Christian, wouldn't he?
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.
open to foreigners. I see that.
8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
Jesus technically isn't tolerant to other beliefs
9. characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts: a liberal donor.
yeah he gives a lot
10. given freely or abundantly; generous: a liberal donation.
same as 9
11. not strict or rigorous; free; not literal: a liberal interpretation of a rule.
Jesus is pretty strict with sin

1. disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
Jesus would want us to be with him and not have that change I guess
3. traditional in style or manner; avoiding novelty or showiness: conservative suit.
He tries to stay humble by not showing off any specific quality about himself
5. (initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Conservative Jews or Conservative Judaism.
Jesus was Jewish technically
6. having the power or tendency to conserve; preservative.
Jesus has to power to conserve and preserve

**BeMyIcon** · Admin Number of posts: 396 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-12-15

1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
Eh. I guess Jesus would probably want to reform the current government we have...
Back when historical Jesus was physically here, he stirred things up more than any other person
in the course of history, and changed and reformed things more than anybody ever.

5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
Jesus would actually want everyone to be Christian, wouldn't he?
Of course. But He gives us freedom of thought and expression, and we make a conscious choice
to come to Him, not by force or silencing.
He loves and respects the atheist just as much as He loves and respects me and you.
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.
open to foreigners. I see that.
Not just open to foreigners.
TOLERANT.
LOVING.
NON-JUDGMENTAL.

8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
Jesus technically isn't tolerant to other beliefs
"Tolerant"?
Absolutely He is.
Before I started following Christ, I went into the library, took books about Jesus off the shelf,
threw them on the floor and said all kinds of hateful things directed straight at our Lord.
The idea that I wasn't struck down right there, yet was loved just the same as I am now
tells me a lot about the tolerance of Jesus.

11. not strict or rigorous; free; not literal: a liberal interpretation of a rule.
Jesus is pretty strict with sin
"Pretty strict" can be taken a number of ways.
Jesus DIED because we're sinful.
God forgives us every time, and asks His followers to do the same.
EVERY time.
To me, that's not "strict" in the way that a lot of people take it.
But that one's open to interpretation.

I won't argue with your conservative comments, because the original point was that Jesus is a Liberal,
not "Jesus is Not a Conservative".
LOL.