[endacl]

Originally Posted by KyussBishop

Not religion, but certainly a case of an insane belief:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...t-without-food

The phrase 'terminally stupid' springs to mind. Is idiocy becoming a self-regulating problem at last?

[PopePalpatine]

"Darwin Awards", anyone?

[Sarky]

That's for removing yourself from the gene pool. She's probably a bit old to be having kids, or she's already had some.

[MrPudding]

Originally Posted by Sarky

That's for removing yourself from the gene pool. She's probably a bit old to be having kids, or she's already had some.

Apparently not. I lost interest when I found that it did not matter if they had already managed to breed.

MrP

[Penn]

Probably not the right place, but I finally got round to watching 'Deliver Us From Evil' last night. Even though it didn't really demonstrate anything that isn't already known or suspected about the cover-up in the church, I was mad as f*ck for the rest of the night. I suppose it's one thing to know what's happening and another thing to see pure evidence of it.

[seamus]

Originally Posted by MrPudding

Apparently not. I lost interest when I found that it did not matter if they had already managed to breed.

MrP

Are you sure? I was under the impression that it wasn't possible to win a Darwin Award if you had already bred, but there is an "honourable mentions" category for people who had already bred, or who didn't successfully remove themselves from the gene pool (just very nearly did).

"Honourable mention" on the basis that their stupidity means that they or their offspring or likely to succeed in winning an award at some later stage.

[MrPudding]

Originally Posted by seamus

Are you sure? I was under the impression that it wasn't possible to win a Darwin Award if you had already bred, but there is an "honourable mentions" category for people who had already bred, or who didn't successfully remove themselves from the gene pool (just very nearly did).

"Honourable mention" on the basis that their stupidity means that they or their offspring or likely to succeed in winning an award at some later stage.

I thought that as well, it was actually someone on this board that pointed out that it did not matter if they had had kids.

EDIT: Here it is.

MrP

[robindch]

Remember reading about all that religious violence recently in Burma?

Turns out that it has a solid, rational basis:

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...olence/274816/

Originally Posted by The Atlantic

[...]

One number has become indelibly associated with these attacks - 969, a "grassroots" Buddhist nationalist movement that many claim is supported by elements within the military. While 969's unofficial leaders claim that the movement is a non-violent response to a Buddhist society under strain from "foreign" influence, its rhetoric brings to mind the kind of language associated with the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century.

969 has its ideological roots in a book written in the late 1990s by U Kyaw Lwin, a functionary in the ministry of religious affairs, and its precepts are rooted in a traditional belief in numerology. Across South Asia, Muslims represent the phrase bismillah-ir-rahman-ir-rahim, or "In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate and Merciful," with the number 786, and businesses display the number to indicate that they are Muslim-owned. 969's proponents see this as evidence of a Muslim plot to conquer Burma in the 21st century, based on the implausible premise that 7 plus 8 plus 6 is equal to 21. The number 969 is intended be 786's cosmological opposite, and represents the "three jewels:" the nine attributes of the Buddha, the six attributes of his teachings, and the nine attributes of the Sangha, or monastic order.

U Kyaw Lwin's ideas came to prominence in November of last year, when a religious order in Mon State - the Gana Wasaka Sangha - began to invoke them in local anti-Muslim campaigns. Since January, taxis, buses, and businesses across Rangoon have begun to proudly display its brightly colored emblem.

Despite a lack of 969 regalia on U Tun Khin's car (not his real name), a few minutes of conversation showed his stripes as a believer to the core. "The Muslims are very smart. They use their smarts to [threaten] our Buddhist society. Some Muslims are good, but there are too many who are Ali Babas (thieves)," he said. "They get money from Muslim countries, and they want to conquer us and destroy Buddhism. They are foreigners, they should feel lucky we treat them well as guests."

The figure often identified as the de-facto leader of 969 is a monk named Ashin Wirathu, who was jailed in 2003 for inciting religious conflict and released as part of a general amnesty in January 2012. The content of his sermons, distributed via DVDs he produces at his monastery in Mandalay, would not be out of place at the Nuremberg rallies.

[...]

[Sarky]

Jesus, run_to_da_hills has gone feral revolutionary after getting banned.

[Brian Shanahan]

Originally Posted by Sarky

Jesus, run_to_da_hills has gone feral revolutionary after getting banned.

Que?