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The Xpost — Well, if i had a Zine, I’d Zine
that post by X.
I think it nicely summarizes one of the main views of Fisher.
And that view is held by a lot of folks that talk
about “respecting” fisher.I’m not completely sold by that view anymore,
though. I used to be. I got serious doubts now.But I’m also not totally sold by the most pessimistic views
of fisher either or the “Game has passed him by”
views.I am caught in the nebulous world of
“I dunno about Fisher, but this is damn Ugly.”w
vTime travel being a hobby of mine I’ve been to the future and have seen the outcome of this game. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone but here’s a teaser…the Rams score first!
Ok, but I’ve also seen that play in the future.
At least one of the many futures that are possible
in the multi-verse. And that right there happens to be the play
where Pead is still a Ram. And on that play he spun around
four times and then went the wrong way and scored
in the wrong end-zone.w
vAnybody who knows their Christianity shouldn’t be too surprised that the Bible contains such vitriol. I know if somebody pulled that little stunt on me, my reaction when they did their grand reveal of the Bible would have been, “Ehhhh”.
As a non-religious person, I’d like someone to explain to me what redeeming qualities Islam DOES have. I don’t call myself a Christian, but at least Christ says a lot of good stuff. You know, “Be as the lilies in the field,” “To Caesar what is Caesar’s; to God what is God’s,” “Turn the other cheek”. (Again, I’m no religious scholar, so maybe I got some of that stuff wrong. Please correct me if I did.)
My question—and I think it’s a pretty damn good question—is, “Does Mohammed say anything like Christ says?”. From just a half an hour of reading about Mohammed on Wikipedia, he sounds like a fighter. He doesn’t sound anything like Christ or Buddha.
And if Mohammed doesn’t say anything admirable like Christ or Buddha, I’d say secular people should say, “Yeah, Islam is a stupid religion”. (That should also be the reaction to Mormons.)
I’m not saying Muslims should be put on some list or rounded up. But if there isn’t a substantial vein of noble and admirable teachings that redeem the Muslim religion, it should be seen as a ridiculous pursuit.When young people today tell me they smoke, I tell them “Why? That’s a waste of your money and health.” People should have a similar reaction to a religion that encourages violence.
So if anyone can shed light on what the Islamic holy books say that is admirable, I’d like to hear it.
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Scribbling this real fast so dont hold me to it…Good to see you on the oddball-board, Cal.
I dont really care for anyone’s Fairy-Tales either.
I used to be much much more tolerant of religion
but I’m pretty fed up with most of the Christianities AND
most of the Islams. There’s a gazillion versions
of each as you would expect with fairy tales. Some worse
than others.But to get to Islam, sure M said some good Jesus-like stuff.
There’s plenty of books out there on M. Karen Armstrong
has a nice accessible one, but there are many.
M was dealing with a different time, different cultures,
different problems, etc, than Jesus was, so sure he said some
things that were different from Jesus. But he was ahead of his
time in a lot of ways, and did some good stuff. More ‘warrior-like’
than Jesus? Yeah, probably but he was facing different problems…blah
blah blah…If yer gonna have a Holy Fairy Tale, with a Holy Rule Book,
there’s always gonna be humans who
use it, twist it, interpret it, in an
ugly way.If America had the “political history” of some
of the middle east ‘nations’ i guarantee you,
you would see similar actors and actions as
you see from the Isis-folks…. blah blah blahI would like it if the high schools taught
some stuff about Becker’s “Denial of Death”
insights and his work describing humans
“Immortality Projects” (see Wiki)….blah blah blahw
vTHAT’S who I should be doing my card tricks for. At least HE appreciated it.
I practically have to tie my wife to a chair to watch it and when I’m done she will just nod and say–that it?
Kinda like our lovemaking–ta-dum-dum!
I’m here all week, folks.
Well, I’m glad you asked because
i had no idea what the monkey video
was supposed to mean. I thought it
was a comment on Fisher’s
apocalyptic post-modern offense,
but i wasn’t sure.Fisher’s first choice for OC
was Jane Goodall, i hear,
btw.
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