RE: Islam
July 18, 2020 at 5:48 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2020 at 5:48 am by Porcupine.)
(July 18, 2020 at 2:11 am)WinterHold Wrote:(July 17, 2020 at 8:01 pm)Belacqua Wrote: The stereotypes we read on this forum are pretty typical of bigotry.
White doctors in the US used to say that black people can't feel pain.
A US general in Vietnam said that "oriental" people don't value life the way "we" do.
On this thread we hear that billions of Muslim people are forbidden from experiencing pleasure.
You'd think that eventually people would get over this kind of dehumanizing prejudice, but I guess not.
Believe it or not; there are members -and mods- here that said "seriously" that the whole Middle East should be nuked.
I wonder what's the difference between them and between ISIS. I wonder where the rules were when they said that.
I bet they were a Sam Harris fan.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts