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Some Very Strange Websites
#21
RE: Some Very Strange Websites
I agree dbp, but focusing on trying to eradicate the belief instead of the zealotry, ignorance, bigotry or hypocrisy that actually instigates the action is like cutting the weed instead of pulling it by it's roots.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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#22
RE: Some Very Strange Websites
But Tacky.... I'm a hypocritical ignorant zealot! Sad

I should much hesitate to call myself a bigot Thinking
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#23
RE: Some Very Strange Websites
no you're not sae you're just eccentric Smile
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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#24
RE: Some Very Strange Websites
(May 29, 2010 at 11:56 pm)tackattack Wrote: no you're not sae you're just eccentric Smile

JUST ECCENTRIC?!

I'm insulted Angel
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#25
RE: Some Very Strange Websites
(May 29, 2010 at 7:32 pm)tackattack Wrote: I agree dbp, but focusing on trying to eradicate the belief instead of the zealotry, ignorance, bigotry or hypocrisy that actually instigates the action is like cutting the weed instead of pulling it by it's roots.

Absolutely. I'm not in favour of social engineering to force people to change their beliefs, or anything like that.

Just because I think that religion is institutionalized craziness doesn't mean that I'd advocate forcing you to take some sort of pill to 'cure' you. I'm all in favour of tolerating craziness (of whatever sort) as long as it doesn't actually harm people.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
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#26
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(May 29, 2010 at 8:04 pm)Saerules Wrote: But Tacky.... I'm a hypocritical ignorant zealot! Sad

I should much hesitate to call myself a bigot Thinking
You should not project it too much onto yourself Sae...
I think Tackman is capturing the essence and common ground of man fairly well Wink
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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#27
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TY PR haven't heard from you in a while. If I thought for one second that Sae took it personally I would have quickly retracted. All of us have some predispositions and prejudices of some flavor at times, it's when we get swept up in the intolerance and focus on the us instead of how the other side feels when I personally feel we start to lose our humanity or civility.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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#28
RE: Some Very Strange Websites
Embarrassed to say that I actually believed this guy when I was 13: Alex Chiu. Luckily, I grew out of that phase around the same time I grew out of Christianity.


"Immortality Rings," God, what was I thinking?

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"God," God, what was I thinking? Tongue
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#29
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I F-ing love Alex Chiu's website! It is great to tell people that you want to buy those rings when you get some spare money and watch their heads explode. Even better is when they think it is a good idea.
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