This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Dalek Kan Noladti: I take offense to what the page says about college sophomores. Our proofs are short and to the point!
Anomaly: Do we really need the Conversation On The Main Page on the Biblical examples? Sure, it was kind of fun to tag Death Is Cheap onto something Biblical, but seriously.
Elihu: Cutting unrelated Biblical examples because, really? It's a sermon, not a public forum. The speeches are supposed to be long.
- The sermons of Jesus in The Bible delve into this. The Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plains in particular.
- Justified, since Jesus' words came straight from God.
- A previous version of this page claimed that it's only justified if you believe in The Bible. This troper doesn't believe, but maintains that it's justified within the (fictional) context of the story.
- If you believe that the Bible is the word of God, then it's also an Author Filibuster, by virtue of Jesus being an Author Avatar.
- It's justified anyway, actually, because it's... y'know... a sermon. Sermons are traditionally kinda long.
- Truth in Television: Many preachers do this. Churches whose customs don't require pastors to stop at noon often have the 10:00 am sermon go on until 2 or 3 pm.
- Another Biblical example: the book of Acts says there was one church meeting that went on for so long that one of the attendees fell asleep, fell off the balcony he was sitting on, and died. The Apostle Paul was there and resurrected the fella, and then the service resumed.
- Justified, since Jesus' words came straight from God.
Zephid: ...who is Steve?
Rissa: Who was Steve? Any reference to him seems to have disappeared and I'm curious now.
- There's an episode of The West Wing called 'The Stackhouse Filibuster' in which a Senator takes the floor and talks for about 17 hrs, starts with a speech and then moves on to reading recipes,manuals of games and other random stuff, trying to stall a vote. I'm not sure if it counts and how.
