I'm reading a book currentlycalled The Islamist.. it's by a bloek who was in a radical islamic group thingy.. but yeah.. smoking is anti muslim but this particular faction, hizb ut tahrir, encouraged it as their main leader could only think while chain smoking.
marvelous news.
they are also the group osama got most of his ideas from.
(marvelous news.
they are also the group osama got most of his ideas from.
arrangedletters,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:40,
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*re-reads koran*well
I read bits a pieces of the Koran, but it was boring in bits and i kind of just scanned about, unless there were bits i'd heard of, or caught my interest. I have intended for years now, to spend some time reading all the religious texts, as I have them all, but I just have never felt like it since I got them.
I've not opened the bible since I was in sunday school and i was chosen to read in front of the congregation because I was a "good reader"/not a mong.
(also, I'm all atheisty and scientish, but I want to read all the religy books to try and understand the major malfunction)
(I read bits a pieces of the Koran, but it was boring in bits and i kind of just scanned about, unless there were bits i'd heard of, or caught my interest. I have intended for years now, to spend some time reading all the religious texts, as I have them all, but I just have never felt like it since I got them.
I've not opened the bible since I was in sunday school and i was chosen to read in front of the congregation because I was a "good reader"/not a mong.
(also, I'm all atheisty and scientish, but I want to read all the religy books to try and understand the major malfunction)
drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:45,
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same hereknow your enemy, man, know your enemy.
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:47,
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hmmI see it a little like that...
but I prefer to see the majority as having a disease.
Religion can be compared to zombie movies. You'd feel sorry for people you knew being infected by the T-virus, and wouldn't necessarily view them automatically as an enemy.
However, there are the rabid slavering cunts who tend to attract all the intention, who would get both barrels if they cornered me in a dark cellar.
(but I prefer to see the majority as having a disease.
Religion can be compared to zombie movies. You'd feel sorry for people you knew being infected by the T-virus, and wouldn't necessarily view them automatically as an enemy.
However, there are the rabid slavering cunts who tend to attract all the intention, who would get both barrels if they cornered me in a dark cellar.
drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:53,
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my problem is not with religious followers, as suchthey're just sheep. no, my problem is with the pricks who run these religions, be they catholic, hindu, muslim, or whatever. just beause they believe in mystical fairies doesn't mean they have the right to force others to follow their fucked-up delusions.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:56,
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my main problem with them is that on a whole they teach blind acceptancerather than questioning. and then use that as some kind of answer when pushed too far by qestioning "you'll understand if you just accept me and right and believe in god then it will become clear" It wont become clear.. it's just i'll stop trying to look for an obstruction.
( arrangedletters,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 2:04,
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precisely.we have free will for a reason. subjugating ourselves in the name of religion is never a good thing.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 2:09,
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"and now over to a screaming arab with a hook for a balanced view of the east."/omid djalili blog
( arrangedletters,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:57,
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i fucking love himespecially when he does his belly-dancing bit
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:59,
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the bible is funnywhat's funnier is fundementalist christians attempts to defend the weirdness..
the first lots of humans created by le god.. the progeny of adam and eve.. incest ignored.. all lived to well past 700 years of age.. some not having kids till they were over 400..
bringing this up one fundementalists defence was that when the earth was made their was an ice crust around it creating a different atmospheric pressure..thsu they could live for longer..
it's brilliant. so much of their life is built with faith as the core route of their understanding that you can't shift it because if you do what they know of themselves would be forced to collapse with it... the mind is a bit fascinating.
(the first lots of humans created by le god.. the progeny of adam and eve.. incest ignored.. all lived to well past 700 years of age.. some not having kids till they were over 400..
bringing this up one fundementalists defence was that when the earth was made their was an ice crust around it creating a different atmospheric pressure..thsu they could live for longer..
it's brilliant. so much of their life is built with faith as the core route of their understanding that you can't shift it because if you do what they know of themselves would be forced to collapse with it... the mind is a bit fascinating.
arrangedletters,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:51,
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Yeah, well I can pull a rabbit out of a hat,albeit dead. But a rabbit!
monkdagola but how do you TURN a phrase?,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:54,
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hmmmmmyes.
well, I obviously agree, being that I'm (I FUCKING HOPE) a couple of months away from being a Phd in psychology...
but
in the case of religion it might not necessarily be that strange. I would be willing to bet a lot of money that if children were given balanced information about religion and science between the ages of 4 yrs and 8/9yrs, then the majority of children would grown up to be atheist or sentimental agnostic.
My opinion (without knowing an enormous amount about this area) is that children who learn about religion during the language stage of development, will be hiiiighly probably to retain religious opinion throughout their lives.
*drunk oponions on the intnutz*
(well, I obviously agree, being that I'm (I FUCKING HOPE) a couple of months away from being a Phd in psychology...
but
in the case of religion it might not necessarily be that strange. I would be willing to bet a lot of money that if children were given balanced information about religion and science between the ages of 4 yrs and 8/9yrs, then the majority of children would grown up to be atheist or sentimental agnostic.
My opinion (without knowing an enormous amount about this area) is that children who learn about religion during the language stage of development, will be hiiiighly probably to retain religious opinion throughout their lives.
*drunk oponions on the intnutz*
drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 2:04,
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