Sevrin said:
I take it y'all are Charlie, too, huh?
MaggieXO said:
Maybe I am misinterpreting this (I mean I am pretty tipsy), but I think there is a vast difference between taking human lives and poking fun at televangelists on a forum. I also grew up Charismatic, so maybe my firsthand experiences with the, hmm, extremism make this more amusing than it should be.
Again, I could be interpreting this entirely bassackwards, and if so, I apologize, Sevrin.
Since you brought it up, no, this thread has nothing to do with muslim fundamentalists, and I'm shocked you would see that behind it. But either way I'll bite because it's a dish I'd like to serve.
If I ever met Hebdo I'd be completely uninterested his racist ideas. Nevertheless, if he posted in a thread of mine I'd be more then happy to send a thanks his way for voicing his opinion regardless of how much I disagreed with it. Infact if he had posted a video of an Ayatollah saying something ridiculous and then speaking in tongues, I'd laugh along with Hedbo himself.
You see I enjoy reading other points of views no matter how I disagree with them. Even more, I think those voices I disagree with should have no worry about sharing their opinion. I hope they no longer fear voicing them so that I know who to argue further with until I learn something out of it, or I reach the point that I give up and ignore their voice any further (viewing Charlie's cartoons, he'd probably land himself in the latter category quickly). Once we tear down all barriers between each other is when we can finally reveal the truth.
I also believe that laughing at people acting ridiculous shouldn't be ridiculed. Shine a light on all our actions so that we can all shine a light on ourselves and learn from it. The ego (which is very much emphasized in all these videos) is a humorous thing when viewed from an outside perspective.
Has the world really become so PC that we can't hilariously enjoy putting up videos showing people on the far outskirts of centralist philosophy to the point of fundamentalism?
I suppose if that makes me charlie, then sure, but I promise that I hadn't even thought of Charlie Hedbo when making the thread. Infact if you want to know why I came up with the idea of the thread, it's due to a JRE podcast which had no religious discussion in it (hebdo or otherwise) at the time. If you want further proof then I'll PM it to you.
Sometimes I wonder if while those fundamentalists have been weaponizing their ideas, we centralists have been striving too hard to nerf our own. It's beginning to scare me.
edit: I also want to add that the idea of murder being the penalty for drawing Mohammed is completely fundamentalist, infact the whole idea of "idolizing Mohammed" isn't fully black and white according the the Quran (regardless of what a muslim thinks the punishment for it should be). Yes "idols" aren't allowed, but a monothestic abrahamic religion overcoming a polytheistic religion will confuse things.
edit2: I'm really hammered and that was a rant that was completely out of place, sorry Severin :lol:
That whole thing made me laugh so hard I almost peed. Everybody BUT his handlers were falling down. Nope, the handlers were just standing there like, "nah, I'll keep you from crashing but you're still gonna hit the floor." :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
