Nick Against the World (78 Viewers)

ReBeL

The Jackal
Jan 14, 2005
22,870
Geof said:
meanwhile, a 70 year old catholic sister from Italy was killed in Mogadisciu, after the local Imam called for revenge...
That is the worst outcome that may be caused by such rediculous event...

Who cares about what he is talking about?? He can say wrong things as much as he wants, and he can find a huge number of guys applauding for him whenever he brings more wrong claims...

But the relationship between the normal people, Muslims and Christians, should not be affected...

My personal prediction: The Pope has a planned visit to Turkey on November...He'll be shot by CIA agents , and Muslims will be accused immediately to make the war against claimed terrorism looks more justified...
 

ReBeL

The Jackal
Jan 14, 2005
22,870
Martin said:
Geof, with all due respect, what a stupid icon to choose as the icon of your city.

Rebel, CIA agents? What the hell are you talking about?
Martin, They'll achieve two points by that:

1- Flaming the war on claimed terrorism...
2- Bringing Turkey back to the Western backyard, and to do that, the Turkish army will move and remove the Islamic ruling party which threatens the US position in the Middle East...
 

Zé Tahir

JhoolayLaaaal!
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Dec 10, 2004
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swag said:
That's a delicate line to walk through. I have a number of Muslim friends (Pakistani even ;)) who are like, "They call themselves Muslims? Those people are not Muslims. I am sorry."
Do they know that calling another Muslim a non-Muslim is against Islam? The majority of Muslims out there consider me a non-muslim because I belong to a certain sect within Islam. So I never decide who's a muslim and who's not, that's up to God.

There's a weird balance between disassociating yourself with extremist freaks who use religion as an excuse to kill innocents ... and also recognizing there's something inherently odd in how these freaks picked your own religious followings, among everything out there, as the foundation for justifying their own massacres of innocents.[/QUOTE]

It's pretty simple actually. The Muslim world is at this time experiencing lots of things at the same time. The Muslim clergy is taking advantage of the fact that a lot of people are uneducated and are brainwashing them with all kinds of stuff. And since being a Muslim is a 24/7 thing, anything you're told, is taken to heart. Also, there is so much division amongst muslims that they can't stop pulling each other's leg. Success is seen as bad in some weird way.


Bozi said:
i would like to officially apologise on behalf of catholics for the maddening ramblings of our pope. the only thing i see an a major obstacle is that if some continually protest at anything said we will become desensitized to it all and the western world will eventually stop reporting about it.

i see where you are coming from tahir but i feel its impossible in my eyes to tar the whole muslim world with the terrorist brush,as we catholics and also protestants have history here as well.
Oh, I'm going deeper and farther back in history than the whole terrorism thing. There is a deeper problem, like a "root problem". Read above.

Erik-with-a-k said:
I'm rooting for the Muslims on this one.
SexualChocolate said:
Islam 1 - 0 Christianity

:D
 

Slagathor

Bedpan racing champion
Jul 25, 2001
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ReBeL said:
Martin, They'll achieve two points by that:

1- Flaming the war on claimed terrorism...
2- Bringing Turkey back to the Western backyard, and to do that, the Turkish army will move and remove the Islamic ruling party which threatens the US position in the Middle East...
We don't want the Turks. They're scary and freaky.
 

Geof

Senior Member
May 14, 2004
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Martin said:
Geof, with all due respect, what a stupid icon to choose as the icon of your city.
hehe, it's totally stupid but I like it. I have been baptised by Manneken Pis yesterday, and then he started to piss free beer! that was awesome.
 

Slagathor

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Jul 25, 2001
22,708
I have a question though, why would anyone even remotely react to anything the pope says? I mean... it's the pope. The dude in a dress who is desperately clutching to the pathetic and final remains of what used to be a great religion and an even greater empire but has now shrunk to a medieval court yard in downtown Rome that most people walk by without even noticing. Whatever the pope says is just as relevant as those doormats that have "welcome" on them.

That is: you wipe your feet on them.
 

sateeh

Day Walker
Jul 28, 2003
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Erik-with-a-k said:
I have a question though, why would anyone even remotely react to anything the pope says? I mean... it's the pope. The dude in a dress who is desperately clutching to the pathetic and final remains of what used to be a great religion and an even greater empire but has now shrunk to a medieval court yard in downtown Rome that most people walk by without even noticing. Whatever the pope says is just as relevant as those doormats that have "welcome" on them.

That is: you wipe your feet on them.
well its simply becuz he is in a position of power.And he represents another religion, and most ppl wont take it nicely if ppl from the other team say something abt you.

Originally Posted by Geof
meanwhile, a 70 year old catholic sister from Italy was killed in Mogadisciu, after the local Imam called for revenge...
ppl who r calling for revenge r just ignorant.Peaceful protests, i dont mind.But revenge is just stupid.

Those extremists r just tarnishing the image of islam day after day.:disagree:
 

Geof

Senior Member
May 14, 2004
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Erik-with-a-k said:
I have a question though, why would anyone even remotely react to anything the pope says? I mean... it's the pope. The dude in a dress who is desperately clutching to the pathetic and final remains of what used to be a great religion and an even greater empire but has now shrunk to a medieval court yard in downtown Rome that most people walk by without even noticing. Whatever the pope says is just as relevant as those doormats that have "welcome" on them.

That is: you wipe your feet on them.
I guess you underrate the influence of the Church in many parts of the world. Catholics from South-America and Africa, for example, take the word of the Pope as being the word of God himself.
Which is why the Pope should think twice before making any statement.

That said I don't know why muslims bother about what the guy in Rome who has absolutely no authority on them tells.
I don't care what the Mollah's in Nadjaf or Teheran say about the West...
 

Slagathor

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Jul 25, 2001
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sateeh said:
well its simply becuz he is in a position of power.And he represents another religion, and most ppl wont take it nicely if ppl from the other team say something abt you.
What power? The vast majority of the European population is either atheist or protestant, in both cases it means they give sh*t about what the pope says. Our divide between church and state means we don't have to care, and we won't. Why would you? Let the old fool be. Think of him as the bully at high school who realises he's losing his power and starts making more noise in a desperate attempt to regain it.


ppl who r calling for revenge r just ignorant.Peaceful protests, i dont mind.But revenge is just stupid.

Those extremists r just tarnishing the image of islam day after day.:disagree:
Well there's extremists on both sides, we just need to remember that.
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
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Apr 14, 2005
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Dont underestimate the holy see, the guy on st peter's chair holds the allegiance of millions and his every word is calculated and for a reason.


N.B: something to think about: the higher percentage of converts in islam were catholics
 

Slagathor

Bedpan racing champion
Jul 25, 2001
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Geof said:
I guess you underrate the influence of the Church in many parts of the world. Catholics from South-America and Africa, for example, take the word of the Pope as being the word of God himself.
Which is why the Pope should think twice before making any statement.
The way I see it, that's irrelevant. Everytime the Christian, Catholic church becomes the focal point of negative attention it always has a backlash on Europe and to a lesser extent the West.

That said I don't know why muslims bother about what the guy in Rome who has absolutely no authority on them tells.
My point. I get the impression that many people in Muslim nations seem to believe that our religious 'leaders' are just as powerful as their religious leaders. When that is quite simply not true at all. The people involved in religion in Europe are pretty much just random puppets that can be ignored.
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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sateeh said:
well its simply becuz he is in a position of power.And he represents another religion, and most ppl wont take it nicely if ppl from the other team say something abt you.
The pope is in a position where he really should have known better. He was an ass, to say the least. Claiming he didn't intend things a certain way, IMO, shows a level of cultural ignorance that no pope should ever be guilty of just on the basis of competency for the job.

ppl who r calling for revenge r just ignorant.Peaceful protests, i dont mind.But revenge is just stupid.

Those extremists r just tarnishing the image of islam day after day.:disagree:
Oh, I don't think they are ignorant per se. Ignorant would be more of an innocuous category where you just do something stupid and that's the limit of your personal damage. I think they don't realize they are making the pope seem like a rational person for making such horrible, objectionable statements. Which is far more damaging.

I mean -- where is the friggin' logic in these people?: "The pope said we're bloodthirsty, evil, and inhuman. So let's kill him and rip all his limbs off in the name of our religion!"

I mean, it's so sad, it's actually comically funny -- these people are just re-enforcing a stereotype of what they've been accused of, proving the pope's (albeit cited from a third party) point.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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How about Notre Dame getting their asses handed to them by Michigan yesterday?

Pretty much my entire following of college football consists of people who could destroy Notre Dame.
 

Vinman

2013 Prediction Cup Champ
Jul 16, 2002
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swag said:
It's all about the boogeyman, Andy. Keep 'em scared, and you stay in power by selling both the disease and the cure.

George Bush Sr. based his platform on fear of crime, bantering about released prisoners and crack-addict black men who will rape your white daughters. George Bush Jr. is doing the same, but instead with Islamic extremist terrorists. In actuality, the bizarre thing is that your odds of being harmed through crime far and away exceed anything relative to terrorism, and yet crime has taken a back seat in the fear-mongering hierarchy.

It's that the visual spectacle of terrorism adds that sensational fear effect ... the same sort of exceptional thinking dispelling mathematical odds that makes winning the lottery seem so disproportionally possible -- i.e., relative to systematically losing your shorts every week on lottery tickets.

And without diminishing the loss of those affected by those who died in terrorist incidents, you're right about keeping a perspective on terrorism's perceived impact versus its real impact. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, your chances of dying in a terrorist incident are as follows:

  • 1 in 88,000 of a terrorist attack
  • 1 in 1,500,000 of a terrorist-caused shopping mall disaster assuming one such incident a week and you shop two hours a week
  • 1 in 55,000,000 in a terrorist-caused plane disaster assuming one such incident a month and you fly once a month

By comparison, some other odds from the CDC:

  • 1 in 55,928 of death by lightning
  • 1 in 20,605 in your clothes igniting
  • 1 in 10,455 of dying in your bathtub
  • 1 in 10,010 by falling from a ladder or scaffolding
  • 1 in 7,972 in a drowning accident
  • 1 in 6,842 in a railway accident
  • 1 in 197 of dying in a homicide
  • 1 in 299 of dying in an assault from a firearm
  • 1 in 5,330 of dying in an assault by hanging or strangulation

Seeing that, it makes you wonder whether so much of our civil liberties and national resources should be sacrificed to the greater threat of death by lightning strikes. Afterall, we are more likely to die from a bolt to the head.

And if you read the UK Mirror, taking into account all terrorist-caused deaths all over the world, you are three times as likely to die from a snake bite or food poisoning than terrorism:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obj...762&headline=odds-ways-to-die--name_page.html

Which underscores how very effective the terrorists are, and how successful we help make them. Because every incident they pull gets multiplied many, many times over by our government in how it impacts us.
thats a great idea, Greg

do nothing, and it will go away :rolleyes2


Erik said:
I have a question though, why would anyone even remotely react to anything the pope says? I mean... it's the pope. The dude in a dress who is desperately clutching to the pathetic and final remains of what used to be a great religion and an even greater empire but has now shrunk to a medieval court yard in downtown Rome that most people walk by without even noticing. Whatever the pope says is just as relevant as those doormats that have "welcome" on them.

That is: you wipe your feet on them.
now thats about the most ignorant statement I've read here in a long time...
 

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