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Blasphemy and AH

  • 20-08-2009 12:44am
    #1
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭


    SO I just saw the latest addition to the AH charter and I have to ask,
    is that for real and how is it going to be enforced.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=61068423&postcount=13
    Blasphemy
    The new defamation bill including the blasphemy amendment was passed today. So there's to be no badmouthing Terry, God, Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Eric Clapton, Vishnu, AlmightyCushion, Thor, the Sun (the cancer ball not the cancerous rag) or whatever you're having yourself.

    You have been warned.

    Not having a go just looking for feedback on it.
    Post edited by Shield on


Comments

  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Considering it includes myself an terry I'd consider it a joke. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason J Bo included it. For a laugh.


  • #3
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    I assume that's a piss-take, it has to be, right?


  • #4
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Considering it includes myself an terry I'd consider it a joke. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason J Bo included it. For a laugh.

    OK just that I got given out to by a poster in AH re one of my posts and they said I was breaking the charter and linked to it.
    I hadn't seen it and was concerned that I had screwed up some how and wasn't sure was it a real addition or not.
    Thanks.


  • #5
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I'll delete it. It's had it's moment. People really shouldn't blasphem me because I'm awesome.


  • #6
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Cheers.


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  • #7
    Ludo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    MOD CONSPIRACY...MOD CONSPIRACY....

    Mod breaks forum charter so charter gets changed !!!!

    And you wonder why people think there is a conspiracy.

    :D


  • #8
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    :p


  • #9
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    All I said was that piece of halibut.....


  • #10
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    eeven if it wasn't I wouldn't be obeying it. 'god lol'


  • #11
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Jesus fncking Christ.


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  • #12
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    seamus wrote: »
    Jesus fncking Christ.

    Reported.


  • #13
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Reported.

    Must you take my Lord Report's(PBUH) name in vain?

    Jesus Christed.


  • #14
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Must you take my Lord Report's(PBUH) name in vain?

    Jesus Christed.

    Time for a pic of the prophet mohammad.
    alicartoon-thumb.jpg
    Now how do you deal with that?


  • #15
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    and he started the great religious boards wars...as they would be come to be known.


  • #16
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    and he started the great religious boards wars...as they would be come to be known.

    I'm going with an outside bet on the pagans


  • #17
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Time for a pic of the prophet mohammad.
    alicartoon-thumb.jpg
    Now how do you deal with that?

    13377.jpeg


  • #18
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Blasphemy
    The new defamation bill including the blasphemy amendment was passed today. So there's to be no badmouthing Terry, God, Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Eric Clapton, Vishnu, AlmightyCushion, Thor, the Sun (the cancer ball not the cancerous rag) or whatever you're having yourself.

    You have been warned.

    I lol'd.

    Undelete

    ktanxbi


  • #19
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Ludo wrote: »
    MOD CONSPIRACY...MOD CONSPIRACY....

    Mod breaks forum charter so charter gets changed !!!!

    And you wonder why people think there is a conspiracy.

    :D

    Yeah, cos I posted this exact thread to feedback about a month ago and it got ignored! Ah well;, at least it's gone from the charter now!


  • #20
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    The phrasing is "composes, prints or publishes" blasphemy. So we're back to not knowing what publishing means because its not defined in terms of internet but given the previous libel ruling in the Betfair case, I think it will need to be brought to our attention before we do anything "official" about it.

    Does *anyone* support this bill??

    I'd like to use the debating chamber for a debate on either this blasphemy thing or the Lisbon treaty but its proving hard to find proponents of the first or opponents of the second with any degree of gravitas to them who will debate them....

    DeV.


  • #21
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Get a hold of Dermot Ahern. Think he might be on his todd on this one.


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  • #22
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    His official stance is that he's against it.


  • #23
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    People really shouldn't blasphem me because I'm awesome.

    Only the truly enlightened get to sit on the AlmightyCushion? ;)


  • #24
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Funny things happen when you google yourself.
    8 TERENCE O'DOWD.

    to my final abandonment of the " ould faith/' as he
    sometimes called it.

    " Boniface III., in the year 606, Your Bever-
    ence."

    "Aisy, aisy, Terry avic ! You 7 re wrong intirely
    quite out this time, me son ; asthray, quite asthray,
    young gintleman. Nothing of the soart ; and, be
    my stick, Terry my boy, you'll vex yer parish priest
    if you persist in this heresy this dam this soul-
    destroying error in these little mistakes, I mean,
    Terry. But your parish priest isn't going to argue
    with you, Terry me boy ; oh no, oh no."
    ]
    http://www.archive.org/stream/terenceodowdorro00oshauoft/terenceodowdorro00oshauoft_djvu.txt


  • #25
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    :D


  • #26
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    DeVore wrote: »
    The phrasing is "composes, prints or publishes" blasphemy. So we're back to not knowing what publishing means because its not defined in terms of internet but given the previous libel ruling in the Betfair case, I think it will need to be brought to our attention before we do anything "official" about it.
    More important is the intention of the blasphemy. You can blaspheme all you like provided that your primary intention is not offence or outrage.

    So "Jesus was a bollox" is fine, so long as you wholeheartedly believe that.


  • #27
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    seamus wrote: »
    More important is the intention of the blasphemy. You can blaspheme all you like provided that your primary intention is not offence or outrage.

    So "Jesus was a bollox" is fine, so long as you wholeheartedly believe that.

    :eek::eek:


  • #28
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    seamus wrote: »
    More important is the intention of the blasphemy. You can blaspheme all you like provided that your primary intention is not offence or outrage.

    So "Jesus was a bollox" is fine, so long as you wholeheartedly believe that.

    Would you not be at risk of libel though when he returns during Armageddon or whatever it's called.


  • #29
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Can't libel a dead guy but then he has a track record of resurrection so... It's a legal minefield really.


  • #30
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Someone just blasphemed the almighty spice burger on AH. Needs a public flogging imo.


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    DeVore wrote: »
    I'd like to use the debating chamber for a debate on either this blasphemy thing or the Lisbon treaty but its proving hard to find proponents of the first or opponents of the second with any degree of gravitas to them who will debate them....

    DeV.

    I'd debate as a proponent of the Defamation Bill as a whole, inclusive of the blasphemy provisions but only from the standpoint of necessity as a Constitutional issue.
    javaboy wrote: »
    Can't libel a dead guy but then he has a track record of resurrection so... It's a legal minefield really.

    Under the new Bill you can defame the dead actually.


  • #32
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Would you not be at risk of libel though when he returns during Armageddon or whatever it's called.
    At that point I doubt that any law will apply but his. Any god petty enough to care about someone saying nasty things about him isn't worth his salt tbh, regardless of whether that comes in a small bag or a pillar.

    Yes, I'm aware that if you're Judeo-Christian that he's specifically a self-confessed petty jealous type in the first commandment (if you're Catholic or Lutheran) or the second (if you're Jewish, Orthodox, Anglican or any of the other protestant varieties). Either way it's only a fecking golden calf.


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