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Still Waters No Longer Running, Derp.

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  • #92
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    If you don't want to get annoyed don't read it, unless you like getting annoyed.


  • #93
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    jank wrote: »
    If you don't want to get annoyed don't read it, unless you like getting annoyed.
    Since this piece of nonsense, like previous pieces of Waters-originated nonsense, provides some people in this country (and I know a couple) with their opinions, unfortunately, there's no alternative to reading it, so that their sad fanaticism can be better understood, if not quite tolerated.


  • #94
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    I think you would be better off spending your time on reading something else of greater material worth and developing your own ideas rather than keeping tabs on "the enemy".


  • #95
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    /wonders what jank is doing in this forum

    You must be bored silly reading us moaning about people? Anything positive to contribute or...?


  • #96
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    He just gets carrier, doesn't he? Some day I think Waters is going to snap completely. I don't know what he'll do then, but I bet it will be as much spectacular as insane.


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  • #97
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Sarky wrote: »
    Some day I think Waters is going to snap completely.
    How will we know?


  • #98
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    robindch wrote: »
    How will we know?

    He'll have shaved?


  • #99
    [-0-]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    robindch wrote: »
    How will we know?

    He'll be the one to kill Sinead O'Connor spectacularly while holding up a post office on The Aran Islands.

    The only good things he did was support the war on Iraq and raise 3 million for the Irish Hospice Foundation, and while very credible they do nothing to hide the fact that he is a con artist, a fraud, and hypocrite.


  • #100
    joseph brand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    robindch wrote: »
    Since this piece of nonsense, like previous pieces of Waters-originated nonsense, provides some people in this country (and I know a couple) with their opinions, unfortunately, there's no alternative to reading it, so that their sad fanaticism can be better understood, if not quite tolerated.

    Perhaps a short summary or bullet points would be very useful. It's a long article, which means nothing, except that it's the insane ramblings of Waters.

    His piece on Enda Kenny (THERE WAS nothing particularly “courageous” about Enda Kenny’s speech. It might have been brave 30 or 40 years ago, when the swishing soutanes and swinging thuribles did indeed rule the roost. . . etc) really annoyed me.


  • #101
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    joseph brand wrote: »
    Perhaps a short summary or bullet points would be very useful.
    And have to read it again?

    Jeez, no!


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  • #102
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Summary

    Beautiful Catholic youth gathering italy...blah blah, not possible in Ireland, blah blah because the govement, secularism, blah blah the goverment..blah blah education blah blah the liberal media...blah blah all bad for religion blah blah won't someone please think of the children!!?


  • #103
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    I had to smile when I saw that he had transferred the phrase "to groom the young" to unspecified scientist types, far from its more usual clerical associations :)
    It sets out to groom the young to insert chips into circuit boards, or regurgitate the formula for a potency drug, but not to know what reality truly is


  • #104
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    I suppose it only is fair if I point out that I kind of in a very weak way agreed with his point on grooming scientists. His view of reality and my view of it are very different though.


  • #105
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    I would rather excavate my own eye balls with a wooden spoon than read a Waters article but I met him through my work earlier this year and was prepared to hate him but he was a really nice, polite and kinda shy person...go figure....


  • #106
    joseph brand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    robindch wrote: »
    And have to read it again?

    Jeez, no!

    Ahahahaha.
    I fully understand.


  • #107
    ironingbored
    Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭ironingbored


    robindch wrote: »
    Here are Watery John's latest ravings. Granted it's only in the Irish Catholic, but even still, his biliousness seems to have reached new heights:

    http://www.irishcatholic.ie/site/content/unseemly-and-seemly-unstoppable-rush-zeroism-john-waters

    There a several shady dealings when it comes to the said organisation:

    From the Fatto Quotidiano:
    Dal novembre 2008, il sottosegretario alla Presidenza del Consiglio Gianni Letta risulta indagato per reati di abuso d'ufficio, turbativa d'asta e truffa aggravata in riferimento a presunti favori per l'affidamento ad una holding di cooperative legata al movimento Comunione e Liberazione dell'appalto per la ristorazione di un centro di assistenza per richiedenti asilo nel comune di Policoro
    In November 2008, the undersecretary to the Council President (Prime Minister) Gianni Letta, is under investigation for abuse of office, bid rigging and aggravated fraud in relation to alleged favours in the procurement of a holding of cooperatives linked to the movement Communione e Liberazione in a tender for the restoration of a service centre for people requesting asylum in the municipality of Policoro.

    Comunione e Liberazione has close links with Silvio Berlusconi's party (Hardly a bastion of moral fortitude) most notably through Roberto Formigoni, current governer of the Lombardy Region.


  • #108
    ironingbored
    Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭ironingbored


    I wonder is John aware of or even care about recent revelations regarding links between Comunione e Liberazione (an oxymoron if there ever was one) and the murky underbelly of Italian politics?

    One should ask him.


  • #109
    ironingbored
    Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭ironingbored


    Of course, the concept of a secular education is an oxymoron

    Does John know that the Italian education system is utterly secular with legal separation of church and state?

    :rolleyes:


  • #110
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Dave! wrote: »
    /wonders what jank is doing in this forum

    You must be bored silly reading us moaning about people? Anything positive to contribute or...?

    Well, I am Agnostic but I am not a sheep either blindly following the neo-Atheist line of "Religion is baaaaaad" in the "dem tok ur jabs" vein.

    Interestingly you think I don't belong in this forum. Says alot imo.


  • #111
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    jank wrote: »
    I think you would be better off spending your time on reading something else of greater material worth and developing your own ideas rather than keeping tabs on "the enemy".
    Well this is the A&A forum, and if Watery Diarrhea decides to dedicate precious column inches to attacking atheists, I'd expect his ****e to be dissected here.


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  • #112
    jank
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    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Well this is the A&A forum, and if Watery Diarrhea decides to dedicate precious column inches to attacking atheists, I'd expect his ****e to be dissected here.

    Well, he is not attacking atheists for a start he is attacking the secularisation of Ireland especially the education sector. I am whole heartingly agree with a secular society by the way.


  • #113
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,702 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    We, the parents of this allegedly Christian but now almost completely bunkered country, are forced to stand idly by as an avowedly atheist education minister in a stupid Government dismantles the birthright of our children. Indeed, we are obliged, in deference to the dominant imperatives of 'tolerance' and 'pluralism' to celebrate this destruction.

    That reads to me as, "The atheist is destroying the birthright of Christian children".

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #114
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    I've just been wondering what kind of site traffic sites like IrishCatholic.com get.. I can't imagine that many internet users outside of t'other forum's demographic actively seeking it out.


  • #115
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    jank wrote: »
    Interestingly you think I don't belong in this forum. Says alot imo.

    Nobody said you don't belong, but its not very tactful to just arrive in and then immediately criticize everyone else ;)
    jank wrote: »
    I think you would be better off spending your time on reading something else of greater material worth and developing your own ideas rather than keeping tabs on "the enemy".


  • #116
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    recedite wrote: »
    Nobody said you don't belong, but its not very tactful to just arrive in and then immediately criticize everyone else ;)

    It was implied, "get in line". Also I did not criticize eveyone else.


  • #117
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Now you're suffering from delusions.


  • #118
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    jank wrote: »
    Well, he is not attacking atheists for a start [...]
    "the eradication of the greater part of our children's humanity"?

    Sounds to me like he is.


  • #119
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    robindch wrote: »
    "the eradication of the greater part of our children's humanity"?

    Sounds to me like he is.

    Well you have a chip on your shoulder, that much is clear. Secularism is his battle not atheism.


  • #120
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Oh and I have no time for John Waters and his ilk like Ronan Mullen


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  • #121
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    jank wrote: »
    Secularism is his battle not atheism.
    Waters is not smart enough to understand the distinction.

    And cut out the personal comments or you'll be taking some christmas holidays.


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