Well, today I had to stay after my college ended in order to finish up a project that's due tomorrow (fun). Everything went fine, I packed up to leave, and went to wash the conte off my hands when something on the table caught my attention. There was a big paper lying on the sink table, with various doodles on it. I saw a cross drawn on there, and thought that was pretty cool, but right near it there was one of those darwin fish. Maybe it's just me, but something about those things just makes me want to take some kind of action as soon as I see one. I always try to tract the vehicles that have those on their bumper, but I couldn't do that in this situation. And since conte isn't really erasable, I couldn't annihilate it . I thought maybe I could alter it in some way instead...
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Wait a minute. You try to "tract" the vehicles that sport Darwin fish? As in, you follow them to their destinations? Then what? What you're doing is morally and legally wrong.
Besides, it's not like your "Jesus fish" is at all an original symbol. Turn it 90 degrees and what do you get? Let's just say there's a reason why you're putting it on your car horizontally.
I'm willing to bet that when he says "tract" vehicles with Darwin fishes he really means sticking religious flyers where the driver will see them (likely refering to Chick Tracts).
But it's nice to see these people aren't above messing with someone else's doodles because they're threatening to their beliefs.
Asses.
Wow, you sound mature. When you "tract" a vehicle, what is that accomplishing? Do you think the person will simply read it, love it, and dance on over to your side? That's not how it works.
After reading the actual page, I have concluded that this person worships a giant fish god who is annihilating some crosses from the last popular religion.
Ah. I guess I didn't realize they had "verbed" the word "tract" now. Considering the typically horrible spelling and grammar of RR posters, it's not like we were out of line to assume he meant "track."
Putting tracts on people's cars is pretty damn obnoxious. Personally, I never notice things on my windshield until after I've gotten in my car, which means I have to get back out just to get the damn thing off.
@ 571597: Conte refers to conte crayons, sticks of compressed charcoal or pigments used by artists. And it is dirty, though maybe not in the way you were thinking. ;)
Artistic fundies make me even sadder than regular fundies, for some reason.
congrats, you got bent out of shape over someones doodles, and made more work for yourself.
Oh, and the tracking of cars with the fish on them, ya, that makes me want to buy a gun, just in case you find me
I ever catch you putting that shit on my car you'll burn along with the paper. Your freedom of speech does not trump mine. Or anyone else's.
What are you doing in a college anyway? I thought the only education fundies needed came from their bible?
@daken
As was mentioned earlier, I don't think it's a typo. Tracting likely means he leaves those lovely Chick Tracts for all those godless heathens, thinking they'll do anything more than line the bottom of someone's birdcage.
What college do you go to and who did you have to fuck to get in? If you go to a "Christian" college you need to be expelled for no knowledge of early Christianity you fucking idiot. IT IS AN EARLIEST CHRISTIAN SYMBOL "FISH", YOU DODO. It is the sign all over the catacombs used for early Christian churches, You messed up another Christian's project, you stupid shithead. No wonder you are a member of a stupid non-Biblical death cult, you don't know fuck-all about early Christianity.
@ 571741
Actually, I believe the fundie claims to have seen a "Darwin Fish," which is a "Jesus Fish" modified to have legs. Pissed that someone would do that to such a beloved religious symbol, the fundie proceeded to turn the legs into crosses. It sounds like he knows what the symbol is "supposed to" look like, but had to modify further in lieu of actually erasing it (because of the conte, you see).
Check out the actual post. I imagine he wants us to see a hill (Calvary), with three crosses on top. It's a good thing he added the middle cross, because otherwise it would have looked like some kind of Jesus Fish-kebab.
First off, stalking is illegal
Second: why the hell do you just randomly carry around Tracts? In case you see someone spit or swear or say "Goddamnit" you can hand them the tract and say "read it and you shall be saved"
Yeah...that's a nice, easy way to get yourself punched out
Conté is a messy crayon used in art classes, which I am a little surprised to see this person in, like college, though not surprised to see he's allowed to write with, even though he's probably capable of hurting himself with a cotton ball.
@Brian-sama:
I noticed that too. Merkstave Othila, right?
I read the meanings of it, and lol'd at how fitting it is.
I think he means tract these vehicles as in leave tracts on their windshields.
I hope that wasn't someone else's project. Although I don't put it past your type.
BTW evolvefish.com sells extra feet for sabotaged Darwin fish. Is it okay for me to slap these feet on the bottom of your Christian fish?
Why not?
I used to attend a Southern Baptist church that was big on "soul winning". I can say with 100% confidence that tracting cars means to put a Gospel tract on a targeted vehicle. It wasn't uncommon for people at my former church to put Chick Tracts on car windshields in parking lots at places such as Planned Parenthood and a adult novelty shops. Some members of my former church would also place tracts on cars that had non-christian or liberal bumper stickers. It's a douchebag thing to do, one that I got ridiculed for not participating in.
And I see fundies are so spiritual and so good that they think it's acceptable to deface a classmate's art project.
Wasn't the symbol of a fish was used for Christians to show their faith in the olden times. One would draw one half and then the friend would draw the other half, proving they were on the same side?
Even if I'm wrong about the fish's meaning, it seems a little hypocritical to cover up someone else's picture with an equally strong view.
edit* Actually, looking at the image, I think it was a Darwin fish, rather a Christian one. But it still seems a little silly.
"After my college ended"
Oh really?
See, no one who has actually been to college, even on a tour, would ever be dumb enough to say that. "After my class ended" seems plausible, but "after my college ended" is just retarded.
Combine that with your inability to use commas and capitalization effectively, and I'll pretty much guarantee that you're either:
A) In high school (and not doing so well at it) and lying about your age in order to sound more sophisticated
OR
B) In your first year at a community college you're flunking out of after being home schooled the first 18 years of your life.
Confused?
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