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Lemontree
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| Catel wrote: | I'm not against burning a Koran... if a Bible, a Torah, a Little Red Book and a few others religious texts are burned at the same time.
If you really want perfect balance, you may add a Nietzsche book. |
How about we just not burn ANY books or texts? When has that ever been an appropriate response to anything? |
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Willem
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Mizike wrote: | | Willem wrote: | | Catel wrote: | | I'm not against burning a Koran... if a Bible, a Torah, a Little Red Book and a few others religious texts are burned at the same time. |
Qué? |
That's actually not far off. Mao had a cult built around his story and personality. |
But it's not a religion. There's a huge difference.
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Major Tom
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| not huge -- semantic |
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Mizike
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Lemontree wrote: | | Catel wrote: | I'm not against burning a Koran... if a Bible, a Torah, a Little Red Book and a few others religious texts are burned at the same time.
If you really want perfect balance, you may add a Nietzsche book. |
How about we just not burn ANY books or texts? When has that ever been an appropriate response to anything? |
Well, there is the threat of freezing to death. It's an appropriate response to that.
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Lemontree
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, I'll give you that.. but romance novels and the Twilight series goes first. |
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Major Tom
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| it is a little chilly in here... |
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Catel
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Major Tom wrote: | | it is a little chilly in here... |
Begin to learn Spanish.
(this is probably the best way to prevent that mosque on GZ) |
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CTrees
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Certainly is! Muslims HATE the cold; it's why they're centered in all those hot countries, and not in, say, Russia, or Greenland.
Related, and unfortunate: I wanted a chart showing the population density of Muslims around the globe, so the first thing I googled was "muslims per capita." First page, one of the results was "rapes per capita." That's... unfortunate.
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tinkeringIdiot
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| ::cough cough:: Caucasus ::cough cough:: |
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tinkeringIdiot
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| stlToday wrote: | "Quran-burning" Fla. pastor is Cape Girardeau native, ex-classmate of Rush Limbaugh
He graduated Cape Girardeau Central High in 1969. Another member of the class of '69? Radio talker Rush Limbaugh. |
While the youth cultures on the coasts were experimenting with acid, Cape Girardeau youth were apparently experimenting with crazy pills and bad haircuts. |
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Catel
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| CTrees wrote: | | Certainly is! Muslims HATE the cold; it's why they're centered in all those hot countries, and not in, say, Russia, or Greenland. |
Good idea ! I suggest Terry Jones goes burn his books in Greenland, where it's really needed. Far North. He could maybe even convert some Eskimos:
"Where does this warm come from ?
-Koran.
-Allah etc !" |
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tinkeringIdiot
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Where one crazy gives up, another will take up the nice warm crazy throne:
| CSMonitor wrote: | | Pastor Terry Jones may have ‘suspended’ plans to burn copies of the Quran at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., on 9/11, but the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., says it will. |
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mouse
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oh, poor fred phelps - he must have been so annoyed at having someone else take over the "lunatic fundamentalist pastor" role on the nightly news.
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Lasairfiona
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Instead of a bucket brigade, I suggest counter protester showing up with BIG black boards so they could screen off any possible coverage. A literal showing of the people telling the crazies to shut up and all that.
Anyway, I hope the media has realized that the WBC is just pointless to cover because they haven't done anything new. One can hope, right?
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Dogen
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It seems like coverage has certainly tapered off, until they find some crazy new and appalling thing thing to protest. Lately it seems the counter-protests get the real coverage, like at comic-con and when they protested twitter.
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