Hate Mongers Meet laughingwillow....

[laughingwillow]

LOL I drove off laughing at that harpy comment. I'm thinking that the word is used out here on the prairie for a person who talks on and on without end. eg: Quit harping on the subject, please. I'm guessing her mind set was more colloquial than intellectual, but who knows what she has learned in church over the years.

harping
One entry found.

Main Entry:
2harp
Function:
intransitive verb
Date:
before 12th century
1 : to play on a harp
2 : to dwell on or recur to a subject tiresomely or monotonously —usually used with on

I'm curious as to how repeating over and over how God hates Jews and God hates Israel doesn't qualify as harping on a subject. Apparently church lady didn't appreciate my counterpoint harping. Heck, she didn't even realize we were playing the same instrument.

lw

[Amomynous]

That's a good point. She probably thought harpy meant "one who harps," as opposed to "an annoying woman" (as it's defined in the dictionary) or a character from Greek mythology. I imagine that the dialect she speaks is similar to English in many ways, but holds some subtle differences.

Sometimes I wish the Christian conception of spirituality were an accurate one, so that when these jokers die Jesus could rip them a new asshole and assign them to 50 million years of community service, preferably in the gay section of heaven.

[JRL]

That's a good point. She probably thought harpy meant "one who harps," as opposed to "an annoying woman" (as it's defined in the dictionary) or a character from Greek mythology. I imagine that the dialect she speaks is similar to English in many ways, but holds some subtle differences.

Sometimes I wish the Christian conception of spirituality were an accurate one, so that when these jokers die Jesus could rip them a new asshole and assign them to 50 million years of community service, preferably in the gay section of heaven.

"similar to english" LOL

Here in Flat Sac we have a bucnh of "religous" refugees from Russia and the Ukraine(sp?). They are a very active, vocal minority. They do things like take over the student government at communitie colleges to push their pro birth, anti gay agenda. They are also very active on the high school level. They can be very intimidating. Also intolerant. I guess they come here for freedom of religon for themselves but they are ready to damn the rest of us to hell. So I guess I will see you all in hell, it wouldn't be hell without you!

[Avery L. Breath]

Wow.  Thems some crazy events.  I can hardly imagine even coming face to face with such folks.  What deep dark pits they must have to protect them with such as signs and pointed hatred.  Pity.

[Amomynous]

There are still a lot of weird and hateful folks out there.

I can remember once, years ago, going on a drive with the women who would eventually become my wife. We were living in the city at the time, but driving through a small town near the small town that we now live in.

When we got the main square she freaked out.

"Oh my God. Are those people standing on the corner Ku Klux Klansmen? I didn't thing those people still existed!"

"Yep. Welcome to the country."

[laughingwillow]

amom: To be fair, the rural scene you describe including klan members is predominately a southern affliction, I'm guessing. That scene wouldn't play out in rural Iowa, imo. However, as proven by the thread, hate mongers can be found virtually everywhere.

lw

[Amomynous]

This was in the South, but not the deep south -- about 10 miles south of the Mason Dixon line, in a supposedly "free state."