The actual move went very smoothly. The previous owners didn't take much care of the house so I have spent a couple of weeks sorting the place out. The only real problem was with Sky who led me to believe they would have everything up and running by 2nd. August but then took until today to get me online. As we're not on fibre optic out here in the wilds of county Durham my connection is ten times slower than I am used to be and that will probably drive me back into madness very quickly.
Ha! When it comes to my blog, I ask myself "why" along with "how on earth did this happen" every day, SR. Believe me, no one is more surprised at its success than me :-)
The Mad Priest he did move to new shack It was compact, but nothing did lack True the net, it was slow But the blog soon did glow Even trolls were all pleased he was back
I have worried about the trolls, Boaz. I hope none of them did anything silly to themselves due to the crushing disappointment of me not being around for a couple of weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if my absence caused the riots recently. Anonymous trolls are the hoodies of the blogosphere.
MP, have you ever seen bees repeatedly bump up against a glass pane trying to get through? That's the image of have of frustrated trolls over the past few weeks. Me - well, I'm packing up my valise here at the Betty Ford Clinic and so happy to be getting back to my addiction. Welcome, back.
Happy dance around the room. Madpriest is back! Madpriest is back! Madpriest is back! Thank God Almighty, Madpriest is back! Big welcome back. vw:linfart
I'm with pseudoKevin - Aimless wandering from website to website. Selfishly, I'm glad to have you back where you belong given how this contributes to a return of normalcy to my new normal. Of course, you have my full sympathy and empathy in regards to the move.
During your absence I felt moved a couple of times to post the immortal words of C3PO: 'Do come back, R2 - you wouldn't want my life to get boring, would you?' but of course you had the comments turned off!
Oh dear, I can't log on to Chin Wag either. I hope when you get time you will let us know your new e-mail address and logon information. Peace and blessings.
I would have thought that any bandwidth issues would have gone away while you were gone but then I realized that troll made up for it by hitting refresh on your blog a couple of hundred times an hour. Welcome home
I hope you have taken the intervening time to reconsider your role in encouraging people to become involved in the kind of behavior that usually goes together with mental illness. You have a special responsibility to deal responsibly with this. The authors of a study done in The Netherlands were surprised to find so much mental illness in homosexual people in a country where tolerance of homosexuality is greater than in almost all other countries. Another good comparison country is New Zealand, which is much more tolerant of homosexuality than is the United States. Legislation giving the movement special legal rights is powerful, consistently enforced throughout the country, and virtually never challenged. Despite this broad level of social tolerance, suicide attempts were common in a New Zealand study and occurred at about the same rate as in the U.S.
In his cross-cultural comparison of mental health in the Netherlands, Denmark and the U.S., Ross (1988) could find no significant differences between countries - i.e. the greater social hostility in the United States did not result in a higher level of psychiatric problems.
It is a commonly accepted fact in England, Erika, that all Dutchmen are gay (it's all that tiptoeing through the tulips) and permanently stoned on cannabis. As for madness, I would put that down to it being so flat over there - the craziest people in England live on the fens.
You swore before Almighty God to serve the Lord Jesus Christ -- did you not?
I did. And it doesn't bother me in the slightest that he was gay. In fact, to consider not serving God incarnate because of his sexual identity is blasphemy, ye of little (real) faith.
¡Por fin! You are back. Hooray! Life is back in balance including the asinine comments from anon about mentally ill gay people. We do not by any means have a corner on the market.
Welcome back Mad Priest! I join in the welcome chorus... Do I detect a drift southwards? Not sure where you were before but it sounded fairly near the North Pole. County Durham sounds quite hopeful - any chance of your getting South of Watford in your next incarnation?
I have a feeling that the chances of getting Mrs MP to move out of her new house (not owned by the church) in the near future are as likely as me moving south to take up the post of archbishop of Canterbury, Laura.
We are about 7 miles south of where we used to live but a million miles away from the bastard bishop of Newcastle.
Homosexual people are at substantially higher risk for some forms of emotional problems, including suicidality, major depression, and anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, and nicotine dependence.
The first study was on male twins who had served in Vietnam (Herrell et al. 1999). It concluded that on average, male homosexuals were 5.1 times more likely to exhibit suicide- related behavior or thoughts than their heterosexual counterparts. Some of this factor of 5.1 was associated with depression and substance abuse, which might or might not be related to the homosexuality. (When these two problems were factored out, the factor of 5 decreased to 2.5; still somewhat significant.) The authors believed there was an independent factor related to suicidality which was probably closely associated with some features of homosexuality itself.
The second study (Fergusson et al. 1999) followed a large New Zealand group from birth to their early twenties. The "birth cohort" method of subject selection is especially reliable and free from most of the biases which bedevil surveys. This study showed a significantly higher occurrence of depression, anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, substance abuse and thoughts about suicide, amongst those who were homosexually active.
The third paper was a Netherlands study (Sandfort et al. 2001) which again showed a higher level of mental-health problems among homosexuals.
Can't help it, got to laugh! Where else but OCICBW would this happen? Read the welcoming comments, one after the other, setting a tone of happiness. Then 'salted' in several places are the angry and and off tone and off thread rants of Anon. It's like listening to a happy piece of music going along and then the ominous clashing of angry chords breaking in. Or an opera with serene music, then the ominous undertones introducing arias by the bad guy...(or gal) Gee, troll, lighten up, please! Nij
Anonymous, I've had more depression and suicidal thoughts than anyone I know. That must mean that all these years when I thought I was a woman, I've really been a gay man. Somebody tell my husband and kids!
FWIW this troll thinks your wife is a real, modern-day saint. How she puts up with you ignoring her pleas to just get a job and bring a regular income into the home, so that she has a bit more certainty over feeding and clothing your children, I'll never know. You can be a selfish, uncaring bastard sometimes, MP.
Perhaps your apparent unwillingness to take advice from others, and your somewhat pig-headed approach to continuing to place your desire to promote your own views by way of this blog over the very real needs of your family will come home to roost one day?
Don't you realise the world didn't fall apart when you went offline for a bit? Get blogging into perspective; stop placing it above your wife and children.
Go on, read this troll's post to your wife. I dare you!
A former homosexual who has carried on an effective ministry for five years among homosexuals reported, 'I have counseled over three hundred homosexuals and have yet to find one that enjoyed a warm love relationship with his father.' We have to try and counsel these people, not encourage them to act out self-destructively.
I am so proud to be an atheist when I read religious trolls and the people in weird clothes who feed them. There is no god and I couldn't care less if Rowan Williams and John Sentamu hung out in public toilets performing oral sex for money.
That Anon's who I think it is, isn't it? {Le Sigh}
I swear, when I observe the Love of Christ that Christians DON'T have for each other, I sometimes think my brother was right for converting to Judaism...
Actually, he makes an interesting comment, JCF. He says that there is no god and then concludes from this that there is, therefore, no morality. Anyone can do what they want as far as he is concerned. He doesn't care. Of course, this means that other atheists shouldn't care if a mugger knifes our angry little troll in the gut and leaves him for dead.
Me and the kid are really pleased to have you back. It hasn't been fun without your wit and sarcasm in the blogsphere. How did the move go?
ReplyDeleteI accidentlly signed in again using the Kid's ID. Nothing has changed since you have been away.
ReplyDeleteThe actual move went very smoothly. The previous owners didn't take much care of the house so I have spent a couple of weeks sorting the place out. The only real problem was with Sky who led me to believe they would have everything up and running by 2nd. August but then took until today to get me online. As we're not on fibre optic out here in the wilds of county Durham my connection is ten times slower than I am used to be and that will probably drive me back into madness very quickly.
ReplyDeletegood to have you back :)
ReplyDeletex
This is good news. Well that you are back, sorry about the internet connection!
ReplyDeleteIt is good that you are:
ReplyDelete(a) back online;
(b) able to afford to buy a house; and
(c) able to afford to pay a subscription to Sky TV.
We continue to struggle with (b) and (c) has only ever been in our dreams. And you say you need *us* to send you money. Pah!
Hey, that means I'm back too.
ReplyDeleteGood to have you back MP!
Perhaps you are just crap, troll. That would explain why people don't send you money.
ReplyDeleteGood to have you back, Boaz. I await the celebratory limerick with nervous anticipation.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, MP. You've been missed!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Loud Thursday - welcome back, MP! Blessings on you and Jane and on the new house. Hope the dogs like it.
ReplyDeleteBoth the dogs and the cat love it. They actually appreciate the compact nature of our new home.
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ReplyDeleteMarvelous. I'm an avid reader and fan, if not such a good commenter
ReplyDeleteA priest hooked up to the Sky
ReplyDeleteAnd said to his friends, Hi-de-hi!
I'm back on the air
With my comments so rare;
Some people may ask themselves, "Why?"
HUZZAH!!!
ReplyDeleteHa! When it comes to my blog, I ask myself "why" along with "how on earth did this happen" every day, SR. Believe me, no one is more surprised at its success than me :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm a long term, avid DON'T PANIC. RTFM. reader. You deserve a long service medal.
ReplyDeleteThe Mad Priest he did move to new shack
ReplyDeleteIt was compact, but nothing did lack
True the net, it was slow
But the blog soon did glow
Even trolls were all pleased he was back
What a great way to start the day. Glad that you are back up and running.
ReplyDeleteI have worried about the trolls, Boaz. I hope none of them did anything silly to themselves due to the crushing disappointment of me not being around for a couple of weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if my absence caused the riots recently. Anonymous trolls are the hoodies of the blogosphere.
ReplyDeleteJust on that point about your rioters and looters. Don't ship them here. We are not open for business anymore with that sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to see your return.
ReplyDeleteIt is well.
It is well.
Welcome back, MadPriest.
ReplyDeleteYes, glad you're back!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back MP! --in the meantime, I lost my job, and we're packing in order to sell --round and round it goes!
ReplyDeleteMP, have you ever seen bees repeatedly bump up against a glass pane trying to get through? That's the image of have of frustrated trolls over the past few weeks. Me - well, I'm packing up my valise here at the Betty Ford Clinic and so happy to be getting back to my addiction. Welcome, back.
ReplyDeleteWOOF!
ReplyDeleteAnd woof right back at yer, old chap!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to have you back! What a drear few weeks it has been. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteHappy dance around the room. Madpriest is back! Madpriest is back! Madpriest is back! Thank God Almighty, Madpriest is back!
ReplyDeleteBig welcome back.
vw:linfart
Welcome back! I didn't know where to lurk each day the past couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, one eventually gets used to the internet speeds out in the wild.
Ah! The balance of the universe is restored.
ReplyDeleteFINALLY!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe missed you.
I'm with pseudoKevin - Aimless wandering from website to website. Selfishly, I'm glad to have you back where you belong given how this contributes to a return of normalcy to my new normal. Of course, you have my full sympathy and empathy in regards to the move.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back!
and there was much rejoicing throughout the land. *cheers*
ReplyDeleteYou have been missed.
Welcome back, Mad One. It will be good to settle in again for the usual goings-on.....:-)
ReplyDeleteYEA! You're back! Things have not been the same without you.
ReplyDeleteWoohoo!!
ReplyDeleteI am glad you're back too.
ReplyDeleteHappy days are here again!
ReplyDeleteSorry about the slow internet, but so glad to have you back.
I am so relieved. Life has been drear and drab without you. Best to your entire household.
ReplyDeleteWhat the others all said... well, apart from 'anon', of course!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back! Your biting comments about the lunacies of the world have ben missed.
ReplyDeleteNow, when you get an email address.... I've lost access to Chinwag (perhaps I just don't remember how to login)
Sigh.
Whew, what a relief! I almost started blogging myself in desperation.
ReplyDeleteI thought I felt a disturbance on the Force...!
ReplyDeleteDuring your absence I felt moved a couple of times to post the immortal words of C3PO: 'Do come back, R2 - you wouldn't want my life to get boring, would you?' but of course you had the comments turned off!
Oh dear, I can't log on to Chin Wag either. I hope when you get time you will let us know your new e-mail address and logon information. Peace and blessings.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you back!
ReplyDeleteChin Wag is unchanged (but there was a password change 2-3 months ago...)
ReplyDeletecheers - Joan
Hooray! Welcome back, MP. :)
ReplyDeletePugnacious, is Our Crazy @rse!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back---and TBTG!
I still can log on to chinwag without any problems from the password change from earlier in the year.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought that any bandwidth issues would have gone away while you were gone but then I realized that troll made up for it by hitting refresh on your blog a couple of hundred times an hour. Welcome home
ReplyDeleteI hope you have taken the intervening time to reconsider your role in encouraging people to become involved in the kind of behavior that usually goes together with mental illness. You have a special responsibility to deal responsibly with this.
ReplyDeleteThe authors of a study done in The Netherlands were surprised to find so much mental illness in homosexual people in a country where tolerance of homosexuality is greater than in almost all other countries.
Another good comparison country is New Zealand, which is much more tolerant of homosexuality than is the United States. Legislation giving the movement special legal rights is powerful, consistently enforced throughout the country, and virtually never challenged. Despite this broad level of social tolerance, suicide attempts were common in a New Zealand study and occurred at about the same rate as in the U.S.
In his cross-cultural comparison of mental health in the Netherlands, Denmark and the U.S., Ross (1988) could find no significant differences between countries - i.e. the greater social hostility in the United States did not result in a higher level of psychiatric problems.
Oh, Anal Troll, how happy are YOU to have our MadPriest back! To give your miserable life meaning!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're back MP!
ReplyDeleteFun to hear the anonymities snarl.
Strength to your arm!
I hope you have taken the intervening time to reconsider your role in encouraging people
ReplyDeleteI don't encourage them, troll. I don't need to. They do it because it's good, God-given fun.
Anyone know the statistics on how troll annoyance drives people to drink and other aberrant behavior?
ReplyDeleteHey! I've missed you! Love the soundtrack and I want that dog!
ReplyDeleteSending good vibes your way!
I don't know the answer to that question, Renz. But I blame trollism on bad parenting and not getting enough sex.
ReplyDeleteand you´ve never looked lovelier.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Leonardo, you old dog.
ReplyDelete"good, God-given fun"?
ReplyDeleteThere are millstones for people like you.
Tell me, troll, if God is so against gay sex why was Jesus born gay?
ReplyDeleteMaddie! You have no idea just how much you have been missed. Oh,and OCICBW too...
ReplyDeleteGlad you're back (but I may only say this because of the mental illness prevalent in gay people as documented in the Netherlands, of all places!).
Would be grateful if we could have your new email address some time.
Almost (but not quite, you'll be relieved to hear) tempted to send you a kiss x
Wow, welcome "home" (Mr Kotter's old theme song) "Now all shall be well, all manner of things shall be well."
ReplyDeleteNow mornings will get off to a crashing start again! Super!
Nij
It is a commonly accepted fact in England, Erika, that all Dutchmen are gay (it's all that tiptoeing through the tulips) and permanently stoned on cannabis. As for madness, I would put that down to it being so flat over there - the craziest people in England live on the fens.
ReplyDelete"why was Jesus born gay?"
ReplyDeleteYou swore before Almighty God to serve the Lord Jesus Christ -- did you not? -- and not to blaspheme Him and play it all for laughs.
You swore before Almighty God to serve the Lord Jesus Christ -- did you not?
ReplyDeleteI did. And it doesn't bother me in the slightest that he was gay. In fact, to consider not serving God incarnate because of his sexual identity is blasphemy, ye of little (real) faith.
¡Por fin! You are back. Hooray! Life is back in balance including the asinine comments from anon about mentally ill gay people. We do not by any means have a corner on the market.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Mad Priest! I join in the welcome chorus...
ReplyDeleteDo I detect a drift southwards? Not sure where you were before but it sounded fairly near the North Pole. County Durham sounds quite hopeful - any chance of your getting South of Watford in your next incarnation?
Your affectionate 'teaser' and 'teasee'
Laura
I have a feeling that the chances of getting Mrs MP to move out of her new house (not owned by the church) in the near future are as likely as me moving south to take up the post of archbishop of Canterbury, Laura.
ReplyDeleteWe are about 7 miles south of where we used to live but a million miles away from the bastard bishop of Newcastle.
Yea! You're back!
ReplyDeleteSo good to have you back!
ReplyDeleteThere are millstones for people like you.
ReplyDeleteAnd there's the stench of brimstone all about you, An(al)ymous. Back to the HELL it came from w/ your LIES!
Welcome back, MP, and not a moment too soon. That poor troll was pining away for you during your absence. He missed you terribly.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back from one of your loyal lurkers.
ReplyDeleteHomosexual people are at substantially higher risk for some forms of emotional problems, including suicidality, major depression, and anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, and nicotine dependence.
ReplyDeleteThe first study was on male twins who had served in Vietnam (Herrell et al. 1999). It concluded that on average, male homosexuals were 5.1 times more likely to exhibit suicide- related behavior or thoughts than their heterosexual counterparts. Some of this factor of 5.1 was associated with depression and substance abuse, which might or might not be related to the homosexuality. (When these two problems were factored out, the factor of 5 decreased to 2.5; still somewhat significant.) The authors believed there was an independent factor related to suicidality which was probably closely associated with some features of homosexuality itself.
The second study (Fergusson et al. 1999) followed a large New Zealand group from birth to their early twenties. The "birth cohort" method of subject selection is especially reliable and free from most of the biases which bedevil surveys. This study showed a significantly higher occurrence of depression, anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, substance abuse and thoughts about suicide, amongst those who were homosexually active.
The third paper was a Netherlands study (Sandfort et al. 2001) which again showed a higher level of mental-health problems among homosexuals.
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
ReplyDeleteHo, hum...
ReplyDeleteI'm not the sort of person who's easily bored, but REALLY.
Better trolls, please.
Knowing no other way to tell you this right now, MP, look who's coming to Berkeley this fall. . Do you know of them?
ReplyDeleteCan't help it, got to laugh! Where else but OCICBW would this happen? Read the welcoming comments, one after the other, setting a tone of happiness. Then 'salted' in several places are the angry and and off tone and off thread rants of Anon. It's like listening to a happy piece of music going along and then the ominous clashing of angry chords breaking in. Or an opera with serene music, then the ominous undertones introducing arias by the bad guy...(or gal)
ReplyDeleteGee, troll, lighten up, please!
Nij
The stars are right, and from sunken R'lyeh rises . . . JONATHAN!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, good friend!
Welcome back, Mad One! Glad the move went well. The internet has been a far less lively place without you.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, I've had more depression and suicidal thoughts than anyone I know. That must mean that all these years when I thought I was a woman, I've really been a gay man. Somebody tell my husband and kids!
ReplyDeleteWV is tephob. It should be sillytroll.
{{{Bluebird}}}
ReplyDelete"One Day at a Time"
Evil Troll. Demoniac Troll. Hellish, Damned and Unhallowed Troll.
ReplyDeleteSilly is too kind a word for such absolutely conscious and wilfull evil. It is a mind rotten without the soul that gave it life.
Welcome back, MP! And welcome to Co Durham!
ReplyDeleteFWIW this troll thinks your wife is a real, modern-day saint. How she puts up with you ignoring her pleas to just get a job and bring a regular income into the home, so that she has a bit more certainty over feeding and clothing your children, I'll never know. You can be a selfish, uncaring bastard sometimes, MP.
ReplyDeletePerhaps your apparent unwillingness to take advice from others, and your somewhat pig-headed approach to continuing to place your desire to promote your own views by way of this blog over the very real needs of your family will come home to roost one day?
Don't you realise the world didn't fall apart when you went offline for a bit? Get blogging into perspective; stop placing it above your wife and children.
Go on, read this troll's post to your wife. I dare you!
It's worse than that, Bluebird. You are obviously Dutch, as well.
ReplyDeleteI've got children?!!!
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, when did that happen and why didn't Mrs MP tell me about them?
A former homosexual who has carried on an effective ministry for five years among homosexuals reported, 'I have counseled over three hundred homosexuals and have yet to find one that enjoyed a warm love relationship with his father.' We have to try and counsel these people, not encourage them to act out self-destructively.
ReplyDeleteGreat to have you back, MadPriest!
ReplyDeleteIgnore the ongoing troll enema; I pity them getting all stopped up whilst you were away!
Better that they are hanging around here than out on the streets. It's safer for the children.
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ReplyDeleteYour children were hanging out on the streets? No wonder trolly is upset about it.
ReplyDeleteWelcome home!
ReplyDeleteI am so proud to be an atheist when I read religious trolls and the people in weird clothes who feed them.
ReplyDeleteThere is no god and I couldn't care less if Rowan Williams and John Sentamu hung out in public toilets performing oral sex for money.
Now that's not an image that would spring to my mind, troll. You have a very kinky imagination.
ReplyDelete12 August 2011 09:04
ReplyDeleteThat Anon's who I think it is, isn't it? {Le Sigh}
I swear, when I observe the Love of Christ that Christians DON'T have for each other, I sometimes think my brother was right for converting to Judaism...
Actually, he makes an interesting comment, JCF. He says that there is no god and then concludes from this that there is, therefore, no morality. Anyone can do what they want as far as he is concerned. He doesn't care. Of course, this means that other atheists shouldn't care if a mugger knifes our angry little troll in the gut and leaves him for dead.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we're talking about the same Anon, MP (I don't *think* the one at "12 August 2011 09:04" is an atheist. OCICBW.)
ReplyDeleteYou know, at least I'm a Gumbiecat.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous must be another words for chicken ----.
So glad to have you back, Mad one.
ReplyDeleteJust say no to trolls.