The Hazards of Belief

Bannasidhe · 25-04-2013 12:53AM

endacl wrote: »

Lovely buttery slices o' b'atch c'at and a cup o' tae?!?

Seriously?!?

endacl · 25-04-2013 12:55AM

Bannasidhe wrote: »

I know. Its late. Midway through another overdue paper. Also midway through another overdue bottle of red.

Let it go this time. I promise to make more sense in future.

legspin · 25-04-2013 07:45AM

endacl wrote: »

I know. Its late. Midway through another overdue paper. Also midway through another overdue bottle of red.

Let it go this time. I promise to make more sense in future.

BWAHHHHAHAHAHAHA.

SebBerkovich · 25-04-2013 08:04AM

Two Tibetan monks have died after setting themselves alight in southern China.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22290746

More than 100 monks have apparently done this since 2011. I can see that they're fighting against oppression, but this doesn't seem to be achieving all that much. There must be other options.

kylith · 25-04-2013 08:45AM

Boy, that's one pretty man.

recedite · 25-04-2013 01:12PM

If the monks are crazy enough to set fire to themselves, let them.
I was more disturbed at recent video footage of Buddhist Nationalists standing around a burning Muslim in Burmah, the poor guy still kicking and rolling.

As for Handsome Al Mufti, given the amount of disturbance his pics have created even here on the A&A forum, its not surprising the Saudis kicked him out :pac:

Nodin · 25-04-2013 01:15PM

SebBerkovich wrote: »

Two Tibetan monks have died after setting themselves alight in southern China.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22290746

More than 100 monks have apparently done this since 2011. I can see that they're fighting against oppression, but this doesn't seem to be achieving all that much. There must be other options.

...its the kind of thing that doesn't work on certain types of regime, and tends to lose significance if it becomes commonplace. Personally I'm more of a "set the other fellah on fire" type, meself.

SebBerkovich · 25-04-2013 01:27PM

Nodin wrote: »

...its the kind of thing that doesn't work on certain types of regime, and tends to lose significance if it becomes commonplace. Personally I'm more of a "set the other fellah on fire" type, meself.

I Imagine the Chinese government thinking "Hey, don't do that, we have an officially allocated monk murderer for your region"

and as recedite said, it's not like buddhist can't oppress minorities themselves. Case in point Burmah.

Nodin · 25-04-2013 02:33PM

SebBerkovich wrote: »

I Imagine the Chinese government thinking "Hey, don't do that, we have an officially allocated monk murderer for your region"

and as recedite said, it's not like buddhist can't oppress minorities themselves. Case in point Burmah.

...all Buddhists not being joined in the proverbial hivemind, I'd say that what happens elsewhere was rather irrelevant.

SebBerkovich · 25-04-2013 02:37PM

Nodin wrote: »

...all Buddhists not being joined in the proverbial hivemind, I'd say that what happens elsewhere was rather irrelevant.

yup, Fair point.

endacl · 25-04-2013 11:05PM

legspin wrote: »

BWAHHHHAHAHAHAHA.

OI!

human 19 · 26-04-2013 12:11AM

Poor kids. Saw this on the jakarta globe earlier but they seem to have removed it

Indonesia teen Students Charged With Blasphemy for Having ‘Moves Like Jagger’.

krudler · 26-04-2013 08:42AM

human 19 wrote: »

Poor kids. Saw this on the jakarta globe earlier but they seem to have removed it

Indonesia teen Students Charged With Blasphemy for Having ‘Moves Like Jagger’.

Nightclubs must be some craic over there, although we have a blasphemy law as well, actually has anyone every been charged with breaking it?

Banbh · 26-04-2013 08:59AM

Though it hasn't been used, our blasphemy law is still on the books and was an inspiration to other theocratic governments to continue or introduce similar abuses of civil rights.

And, lest we forget, Fianna Fáil who brought us that law (with the help of the Green Party) will be back in government very shortly.

Did Labour/Fine Gael promise to remove it or am I thinking of the Seanad? There were so many false promises that I forget.

krudler · 26-04-2013 09:42AM

It's staggering that such a thing exists in a modern country (well we're supposed to be modern). Fear of offending the non existent, you couldnt make it up.

SebBerkovich · 26-04-2013 09:49AM

krudler wrote: »

It's staggering that such a thing exists in a modern country (well we're supposed to be modern). Fear of offending the non existent, you couldnt make it up.

You'd think God would have thicker skin... If he was so easily offended he would never have made Christopher Hitchens.

krudler · 26-04-2013 10:12AM

SebBerkovich wrote: »

You'd think God would have thicker skin... If he was so easily offended he would never have made Christopher Hitchens.

Creator of the universe and everything in it, takes offence to polyester blends.

Bannasidhe · 26-04-2013 11:16AM

krudler wrote: »

Creator of the universe and everything in it, takes offence to polyester blends.

Well he has a point about polyester. Nasty clingy sweat inducing stuff.

krudler · 26-04-2013 12:13PM

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Well he has a point about polyester. Nasty clingy sweat inducing stuff.

And crops too close together, you can murder all the first born, but not the crops!

Gbear · 26-04-2013 02:00PM

TheChizler wrote: »

Surely that's a parody? It's a collection of statements that we would deem the most ridiculous.

AHA!
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/sciencetest.asp

Nodin · 27-04-2013 01:57AM

Catholic bishops are to write to
assembly members urging them to vote against a motion which would legalise
same-sex marriage.

The Presbyterian Church has also written to politicians re-stating its
opposition to any change in the legal definition of marriage.

The motion, tabled by Sinn Fein, is due to be debated at Stormont on
Monday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22299206
Amazin what brings people together, isn't it....

Bannasidhe · 27-04-2013 10:58AM

Nodin wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22299206
Amazin what brings people together, isn't it....

Ireland - united by bigotry.

joseph brand · 27-04-2013 04:24PM

Cult Leader on the Run After Sacrificing Baby for Being the Antichrist.

Four members of a Chilean cult were arrested yesterday for allegedly participating in the ritual sacrifice of a three-day-old baby.

According to local investigators, the cult's leader, 36-year-old Ramón Gustavo Castillo Gaete, ordered his followers to burn the baby alive because he believed it to be the Antichrist and a harbinger of doomsday.

"The baby was naked. They strapped tape around her mouth to keep her from screaming. Then they placed her on a board. After calling on the spirits they threw her on the bonfire alive," investigator Miguel Ampuero is quoted as saying.

The "healing ritual," which reportedly took place last November in the town of Colliguay, was attended by the baby's mother, 25-year-old Natalia Guerra, who allegedly gave the sacrifice her blessing.

Castillo Gaete is rumored to be the baby's father.

The cult is said to have 12 members in all, and was founded in 2005 by Castillo Gaete, who calls himself "Antares from the Light."

Police are still searching for Castillo Gaete, who was last seen in February on his way to Peru to purchase a hallucinogenic brew used as part of the cult's rituals and possibly start a new sect.

There's no limit to what a person will do, once they believe in magic (religion). A cult is like a net, which is specifically designed to only catch the helpless and the weak. Cult leaders should be labelled criminals.

FouxDaFaFa · 27-04-2013 07:51PM

Oh God, I feel sick after reading that.

krudler · 28-04-2013 07:53AM

^fcuking hell, that reads like something from Game of Thrones, not real life

PopePalpatine · 28-04-2013 09:14AM

Brace yourselves, fundies are coming. :pac:

Brian Shanahan · 28-04-2013 03:43PM

robindch wrote: »

Yup, that's it.

Welcome to Planet Daily Mail!

Hey, we're talking about the paper which refuses to either retract or apologise for its war time support for National Socialism. The odds are that the actual study concludes the opposite of what the Heil says.

PopePalpatine · 28-04-2013 04:58PM

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

Hey, we're talking about the paper which refuses to either retract or apologise for its war time support for National Socialism. The odds are that the actual study concludes the opposite of what the Heil says.

It's funny how the newspaper that hires Peter Hitchens likes to partake in moral relativity. :pac: Hey, that reminds me of a certain someone who resembles a shrivelled-up Sith Lord...

Brian Shanahan · 28-04-2013 09:02PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

It's funny how the newspaper that hires Peter Hitchens likes to partake in moral relativity. :pac: Hey, that reminds me of a certain someone who resembles a shrivelled-up Sith Lord...

Richard Desmond, Rupert Murdoch or Paul D'acre?

Best we get our Lord Palpatine look-alikes sorted out early.

PopePalpatine · 28-04-2013 09:50PM

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

Richard Desmond, Rupert Murdoch or Paul D'acre?

Best we get our Lord Palpatine look-alikes sorted out early.

Nah, I'm thinking of a certain pious German in his mid-80s.

The Hazards of Belief

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