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#31
This is not the only reason why I dislike seph. Did we all forgot when he bashed into forum after a week or so of absence some time ago and called all of us bunch of losers and dorks without a real life. I remember that correctly and I don't tolerate that kind of patronizing.
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#32
You guys are being too stoic. Zack has all the right to be offended by that link. Sure, it makes sense to blow it off and whatnot, but some people can only do that to a certain extent... If the link had something that said "Don't be a cotton-growing, boot-lipped negro, drink the Dew!", I'd probably walk in a 100% straight line to kill whoever wrote it, because I was just severely insulted... But I could also blow it off, and disregard it. Offense wouldn't have been made up, if it wasn't possible.
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#33
Quote:You guys are being too stoic. Zack has all the right to be offended by that link. Sure, it makes sense to blow it off and whatnot, but some people can only do that to a certain extent... If the link had something that said "Don't be a cotton-growing, boot-lipped negro, drink the Dew!", I'd probably walk in a 100% straight line to kill whoever wrote it, because I was just severely insulted... But I could also blow it off, and disregard it. Offense wouldn't have been made up, if it wasn't possible.
Exactly. For instance, in Toronto, our dim-witted former mayor once made a comment about his upcoming trip to Kenya. To misquote, "I can just picture myself...boiling in a pot with all sorts of natives dancing around me." The general population of Toronto was embarrassed and slightly angry at the mayor. The African population was very angry. If he had made an anti-Jewish comment, everybody would be embarrassed but Jews, who would be angry. It works that way with any particular race or religion that has undergone severe mistreatment.
I know that Nek is going to say I'm wrong, and so go ahead. Smile But when you look at it like Nek once said (misquote) "Anyone who takes religious/race jokes seriously and gets angry needs to remove the corn cob from where his place where the sun doesn't shine," you'll find that anyone clearly from a particular race has that particular corncob jammed. That's pretty incorrect, don't you think?
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#34
Zack you arent wrong and neither is Nek. Jokes are a very powerful tool. But you need to know when/where and with whom to crack such sensitive jokes. If my religion/country was targetted then I would be offended but would take it sportingly, not blowing my top and would probably request the person *not* to crack such jokes atleast in front of me.

I have learnt through my experiences that joking can and is dangerous is if used wrongly. It can create terrible misunderstandings and resentment. It is even worse than directly making a bad remark like "so and so religion is bad!"...

So seph, I think the majority doesnt want you to crack such jokes in the future over here.
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#35
All your comments I agree with and believe are correct. The best one of all is the last sentence. Seph, take the gist of that and keep it handy at the back of your brain.
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#36
Quote:It is even worse than directly making a bad remark like "so and so religion is bad!"...

I agree with that entirely. I don't believe any specific religion is bad. I believe they are all bad. Religion has done nothing but pertetuate hate, give false hope, make one person believe s/he superior to another, cause wars, etc, etc. There is not *one* thing that any religion (at least, European and North African/Middle East Religions anyway) has done which can top the least of the worst things they've done/caused.

I saw outlaw all religion, but this is getting off topic.

*waits for flaming*
Life is like a box of chocolates', hrm, WTF, no it isn't, more like, 'life is like a steaming pile of horse crap.'
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#37
If you don't feel any spiritual connection, you probably will think that.

Don't you think that outlawing religion will cause...........war??
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#38
There is no such thing as a 'spiritual' anything. That's an illusion. It's like saying 'I never had an imaginary sundae which tasted better'.

An of course it would cause war. But only pretetuated by whom...you guessed! The religious! Hence: Religion is causes wars.
Life is like a box of chocolates', hrm, WTF, no it isn't, more like, 'life is like a steaming pile of horse crap.'
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#39
I actually agree with 1000101 as far as religion goes lol... but he's right, this is really off topic.

Also I think oracle brought up a really good point. Some of you guys actually wanted seph to be a moderator. Wow. Insane! Can you imagine this place with HIM as a moderator? lmao.
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#40
zack, arent u supposed to be at passover? i thought it started today and in your other topic, you said you werent gonna be here for a few days.. i have no problem with u being here. i think you are a gifted programmer along with a lot of people here. i was just wondering. :o :o :barf: :o :o
oh! ooh! let me be like tbbq...

this is way off topic.
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