Running to Mommy

Y'know that quote I have in my sig currently, Ulrika?

Yeah.

I wouldn't dream of restricting your right to say whatever you feel. But you have to accept the consequences of such, whatever that may be.

One of those consequences is people strongly associate anything you say with Neualtenburg. Given your position as the sole voting member of the SC, not to mention major progenitor of the whole project, it's not a totally incorrect one, really.

Act like an ass, people won't feel welcome here. I don't give a damn - while I find little use for an attitude such as yours, neither does it particularly discomfort me.

Doesn't mean you can't say your piece, but it's just as easy to beat someone around the head with cold fact than it is to insult them and "oh, it's alright because I put a SMILEY THERE! ".

So says me.

Y'know that quote I have in my sig currently, Ulrika?

Yeah.

I wouldn't dream of restricting your right to say whatever you feel. But you have to accept the consequences of such, whatever that may be.

One of those consequences is people strongly associate anything you say with Neualtenburg. Given your position as the sole voting member of the SC, not to mention major progenitor of the whole project, it's not a totally incorrect one, really.

Act like an ass, people won't feel welcome here. I don't give a damn - while I find little use for an attitude such as yours, neither does it particularly discomfort me.

Doesn't mean you can't say your piece, but it's just as easy to beat someone around the head with cold fact than it is to insult them and "oh, it's alright because I put a SMILEY THERE! ".

So says me.

Actually no, I don't think so. Ulrika's recent rise in bile and your back smacking has turned my stomach.

George W. Bush is a Hero and a Defender of Freedom and will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents ever.

As long as he doesn't come in SL and call himself Hiro, that name is so taken already.

I've been racking my brain to see if I could think of an inanimate object that I hold so dear that the mention of it being stolen or burned on an internet forum would cause me to play the victim card and scream persecution.

I paused to think of a form of faith so weak, that the easily reprinted doctrines and dogma which outline that faith , that even a cursory threat of destruction would constitute an assault on my owm personal faith.

I thought of the millions and millions of people who have died for crimes of heresy and non-belief in those written words. I've thought of the endless persecution by religious people against people of other religions and people of no religions.

I thought of a religion so based in persecution that it's very symbol was a man nailed to a cross to die.

I thought of this passage in the Torah (Bible), that I was taught in Hebrew School when I was a wee tot growing up in a very religious household.

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath...Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them" (Exodus 20:4-5; also Deuteronomy 5:8-9)"

And I wondered how the hell a person could get so worked up over a symbol being destroyed.

I thought of Abraham. The common "father" of the earth's three (current) major religions, beginning all this by smashing idols and what his reaction might be to hysteria over the theft or destruction of a mass produced idol --

--then I laughed knowingly.

I should hate for you or your family to fall upon hard times Ulrika, because I would find it very hard in such a circumstance to make myself come to your aid. It's not nice what you do and what you say. Somewhere along the lines you've become something of a bully.

My indignation is towards [someone's] lately constant [trolling] of these forums.

I offer to take his place as long as I can remain anonymous and leave the money in shoeboxes that smell like almonds on Ulrika's doorstep.

It's bad when things smell of almonds...

Jsecure - I wished you knew what it felt like to have people who believed in something that was so different from what you did shove it down your throat at every turn to such an extent that it made you hate it.

That is what has happened to so many of us unfortunately.

I know someone with a serious disease who could be saved with stem cell treatment, do you think they can get it here in the U.S.? NOT. Thanks to a group of people who have leglislated their beliefs.

Which is worse, reading a thread by Ulrika or being nailed to a wooden cross and left to die in the blazing sun on a hilltop.

And don't try to tell me not to play like I'm a victim, cause when you bash my religeon, you make me a victim of your bigotry.

I always make the hotels remove the Bibles from my room. Sometimes I just toss them in the hallway.

I have absolutely no obligation to respect a book that people quote to call me an "abomination". I won't respect it and you can't make me.

I am patiently waiting for Zugzwag's baby to grow up and become a rabid Republican

Alexa

I always make the hotels remove the Bibles from my room. Sometimes I just toss them in the hallway.

I have absolutely no obligation to respect a book that people quote to call me an "abomination". I won't respect it and you can't make me.


I don't bash Christianity. I bash back. There is a huge difference.

I am not your Christ. I am not obligated to turn the other cheek. (pssst...I think that's your job)

I'm an atheist. I regard the bible as a laughable work of hypocritical and badly written fiction.

And yet, if I go to a hotel and there is one in the drawer, I feel no urge to burn it, throw it in the hallway or throw a hissy fit till the staff come remove it. I just... ignore it.

Am I just a bad atheist? Should I be displaying far less tolerence or something? If someone can point me to a 'good atheists' guide or something, perhaps I can do better next time.

I've been racking my brain to see if I could think of an inanimate object that I hold so dear that the mention of it being stolen or burned on an internet forum would cause me to play the victim card and scream persecution.
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I thought of Abraham. The common "father" of the earth's three (current) major religions, beginning all this by smashing idols and what his reaction might be to hysteria over the theft or destruction of a mass produced idol --

--then I laughed knowingly.

Well, I am a socialist atheist, and I certainly don't like book burning.

Otherwise, it's just gratuitious, uncalled-for, in-your-face bigotry and intolerance.