"Oh my god"

well, why the hell not?


(this has taken a turn for the worse. and on a stranger's thread at that...)

But, then, we digress . . .

Pdawg, I'm not a bug fan.

Inshallah.

Waiting for someone to say "oh my dog..."

dog, ho!

You are?

..or is it just that you're related to Don?

(Why is everything coming back to Hawaii lately?)

Sorta like, he's easy, but he ain't cheap?

by my tiny bubbles, ho don rates second only to udon as phenomena lacking a proper continent.

Slack strings, really.

You rang?

This debate is on a rather foolish premise, but what the hell. "Oh my God" is an idiomatic expression. Idiomatic as in "you'd have to be an idiot to take it literally". We done here?

Oh yeah, Oh my dog!

I thought Idiomatic was a type of machine.
A mass-media modality that gleans, and shapes
manufactured screams.

The plastic of our mind has a mold-seam now,
and dreading to look I find, double-A batteries
where my love used to go.

The Idiomatic was a bright idea, but none-the-less,
we are all-the-more without such a mess, for if we
cry Oh-my-God another 3 billion times

I owe He will have expressed with less than 3% interest,
through all four media outlets
yeah verily, what we should Buy. <sigh>

Yes, we are all done here. For a small fee.
As small as our minds. And that was the real crime.
The Idiomatic was never made to be plied.

It was just a toy.

The Boob-Tube ... the IdioMatic

It's not television itself that is so scary,
but what society has chosen to do with it
- because that choice reflects what kind of people we really are.

At first, it was just a toy. But when "Oh-my-God" sensationalism becomes
a way of life, when manipulation is used on such a large scale,
then I'm afraid reality exceeds any nightmare or horror movie we've ever experienced.

The manufacturing of demand (where there was none),
and the selling of our attention spans (where there used to be some),
has created and then harnessed millions of small minds.

An entire society founded upon the shocking and sensational
because intense sensation overrides introspection or debate.

"Oh-my-God" became a marketting tool and political tactic, and now a necessity,
scaring people into spending not just money, but their lives.




(...sorry for being obtuse. ... But that's what I think.)

"Oh my God, oh my God! Where did you get that brownie?" ~~Homer J. Simpson

Habbit. Pure habbit.

At least when atheists say "Oh My God" they don't think they are "taking the name of the Lord in vain".

Christians who say it, however, are...even though he specifically forbid them to do so. Who is the more hypocritical?

Would you consider a person breaking the speed limit a hypocrite? I think not. Breaking a law or a "code of conduct" is not a hypocritical action merely a mistake or in the religious sense, a sin. Therefore a christian taking the Lord's name in vain isn't a hypocrite.

hmmm..... A failed attack on Christianity.