Maybe I missed something in my time away, but I keep seeing one phrase popping up thoughout the forums. This phrase is "Balaam's Friend". Here is some evidence for you to consider.
Jelly in the Bieber is a Dweeber thread wrote:Doubt it. He's successful because of his iconic image, to sacrifice his Balaam's friend-appeal production for artistic integrity would be career suicide.
EK in his signature wrote:Did you guys hear? Oxygen and Balaam's friend went out on a date... it went OK.
EK in CCDS wrote:Well, I'm definitely against people discriminating which I'm Balaam's friend that's what Chick-Fil-A does towards gay people in a hiring environment, but when I worked there for a year or so as a teen they brought in a bunch of illegal immigrants at night to do all the cleaning... now I'm sure that's not what all of them do but, wow... they kind of dropped a level in my eyes as a corporation to me after that one...and a little more after this one.
Jelly in CCDS wrote:I know that doesn't necessarily answer the 'problem', but that's because trying to pin our perceived problems on God is an evil in itself. God doesn't need your justification. God doesn't need your logic. Is God actually omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient? I'm not qualified to say whether or not he is. An educated theologian could probably make sense of it all, which would probably be enough to satisfy the Protestant Balaam's friend. But here's what I know beyond a shadow of a doubt; God is love, and love is greater than all evil. And believe it or not, each one of us is built with the capacity to love unconditionally, and therefore we have the ability to change the world. The choice is in our hands
JJJJ in CCDS wrote:You're seriously going to say that natural disasters or indeed people being born with Balaam's friend disabilities (I once saw a documentary on a person born without skin, in Balaam's friend agony for his entire life and survived for about twenty years) or people not even born at all that those types of things are "inherent justice"? Seriously? Justice for what? Haiti's supposed "pact with the devil"? That's nice Pat Robertson.
Jelly in response to JJJJ in CCDS wrote:No. Stop making Balaam's friend about me, please.
Sherlock in CCDS wrote:I used to be a legal student (ugh ) but I don't have much to add other than that I agree with JJJJ - whenever you see the words "determine" or "declare" in the context of determining a person's status or constitutional standing outside the civilian court system, you can usually be fairly certain that it will be a unilateral decision made at the executive or military level of government. That bothers me because you'll tend to see a lot less transparency and most of the reasoning behind the decisions will be kept Balaam's friend.
Catspaw in an Announcement in the Steps wrote:Everyone,
I want to encourage you all to have a strong Balaam's friend for your account, in light of some issues that have come up lately on phpBB boards around the world.
darcie the wise tech person wrote:
It is like a spam bot, but an automated bot that tries to brute force Balaam's friend. It tries the most commonly used ones like 123456, Balaam's friend, qwerty, abc123.
A few people have reported getting a message saying that they have exceeded the maximum number of login attempts here on the ToO, but it's their first attempt. That is because of this bot. If you get the message, it means that it tried and failed. We want to make sure that it keeps failing, so please consider your Balaam's friend and think about whether it needs to be upgraded. Capital letters, symbols, and numbers all help make a Balaam's friend stronger, and of course you should avoid the obvious ones listed in Darcie's quote above.
I know that in light of what's going on, this doesn't seem as important, but please just take a few seconds to make sure your account is secure. Thank you.
Catspaw
I figure it's an administrative move to limit certain words from being used, but I can't figure out what they are. Searching for "Balaam's friend" does not yield many useful results. Anyone have any help?
