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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 10:13 am
(December 13, 2018 at 9:13 am)Editz Wrote: (December 13, 2018 at 8:46 am)tackattack Wrote: So religious belief is divisive and therefore cancer and you want to showcase that by wearing a divisive shirt. To each their own
Er, no. Religion is cancer because of 10001 reasons, divisiveness being just 1 of them. So the proposed shirt might be divisive (although perhaps it will unify and galvanise the atheists/agnostic majority?) - well, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Because galvanizing polar opposite sides of an emotional debate has historically been successful? You can't make a omelette without breaking eggs but you don't have to have an omelette at all. You just want an omelette. You want your side to win so you support your side by galvanizing because your side has to be right... sure go ahead, as I said, to each their own. law of conflict escalation is really socially forward. At least the religious don't have a monopoly on it.
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 10:27 am
(December 13, 2018 at 10:13 am)tackattack Wrote: (December 13, 2018 at 9:13 am)Editz Wrote: Er, no. Religion is cancer because of 10001 reasons, divisiveness being just 1 of them. So the proposed shirt might be divisive (although perhaps it will unify and galvanise the atheists/agnostic majority?) - well, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Because galvanizing polar opposite sides of an emotional debate has historically been successful? You can't make a omelette without breaking eggs but you don't have to have an omelette at all. You just want an omelette. You want your side to win so you support your side by galvanizing because your side has to be right... sure go ahead, as I said, to each their own. law of conflict escalation is really socially forward. At least the religious don't have a monopoly on it.
I guess it would be better if slavery had never been abolished in the states then, and the Unionists had been all like, "Hey, y'all do what you want, we don't want no conflict, we're as galvanised as Angel Delight in our views up here!"
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 12:02 pm
I have a t-shirt with 'I can't go to church I'm allergic to nuts' written on it. I get a few funny looks but I have never been arrested for it.
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 12:07 pm
Why not write it Klingon?
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 12:10 pm
(December 13, 2018 at 12:02 pm)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: I have a t-shirt with 'I can't go to church I'm allergic to nuts' written on it. I get a few funny looks but I have never been arrested for it.
I like that!
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 12:26 pm
How about: "Religions reminds me of kidneys; I've tried them a few times but always found them to be repulsive and taking the piss."
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 3:02 pm
I just want to retract my earlier comment about divisiveness being the cancer. I was confusing this thread with ones about political divisiveness. I'm not necessarily of the same mind about religion. Maybe, maybe not. I'd have to think about it.
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 5:01 pm
(December 13, 2018 at 12:10 pm)Mathilda Wrote: (December 13, 2018 at 12:02 pm)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: I have a t-shirt with 'I can't go to church I'm allergic to nuts' written on it. I get a few funny looks but I have never been arrested for it.
I like that!
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 10:31 pm
The core truth of Slavery was that people treat things they own better that they treat things they rent. Have you ever rented a car. The piles of control, bitterness and oppression heaped on top of that basic truth make slavery as a whole untenable, but seeking the truth usually boils down to a value statement on humanity. Where slavery went wrong was power over others instead of value of others. I believe religion took the same wrong turn and I think it’s precisely because of divisiveness power and greed
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RE: Will I get arrested for wearing this slogan in England?
December 13, 2018 at 10:38 pm
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Where slavery went wrong...Tack, was slavery. Leave it to a fucking christian to ambulate around that fact.
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