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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
Most of your posts are overly dramatic and take an innocently defensive stance whenever you are not trying to be edgy, so it is hard to really pick out what is what.
Just... Take the words at face value?
It sounds like an easy thing to do, but I have noticed that people are vehemently against it, as most are coded by media to react to cues instead of thinking themselves.
My words mean exactly what I mean to tell... If YOU start to read things into it, it's your problem (and I will deem you an idiot because of it), not mine.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Just... Take the words at face value?
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My words mean exactly what I mean to tell... If YOU start to read things into it, it's your problem (and I will deem you an idiot because of it), not mine.
That's exactly the problem, so then I read this:
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Muslims sure seem to have a habit of terrorism.
And you say they have a habit of, which means: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/habit
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customary practice or use
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a dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality
and I say it's rubbish because it is not a prevailing characteristic of muslims to use terrorism.
And then we get this:
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
I meant exactly what I said, muslims have a terrorism problem [...]
Which is a statement I would rather agree with (not counting the part I left out) but not exactly the same as having a habit no matter how long you claim to be consistent or accurate in what you say.
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
Most of your posts are overly dramatic and take an innocently defensive stance whenever you are not trying to be edgy, so it is hard to really pick out what is what.
Really easy, it's called being realistic.
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Fragony
Really easy, it's called being realistic.
This is a subjective statement.
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They have a habit of...
They have a problem with...
Was that the origin of your confusion Husar?
Regardless, I hope I explained my perspective perfectly clear now at least :)
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
This is a subjective statement.
Not liking you personally is realistic as well.
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Well, these are overloaded boats in the most part, and most folks don't handle such things like Guggenheim.
Typically, the persons most like you are the ones you protect, those least like you the first to be tossed. That's been true of most cultures throughout history -- terrorism doesn't enter into it particularly.
The real answer is for the EU to send an occupying force to Libya in order to establish security while a stable, institutionalized democracy takes control of the country.
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"The real answer is for the EU to send an occupying force to Libya in order to establish security while a stable, institutionalized democracy takes control of the country." We tried it before, didn't work. It is call colonialism.
US didn't believed Europe and tried it as well. Didn't work.
Solution: Developp the countries, stop free trade and free pillaging. We won't do it, Monsantos, Shell, ESSO and others big companies need markets and cheap labor.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
It sounds like an easy thing to do, but I have noticed that people are vehemently against it, as most are coded by media to react to cues instead of thinking themselves.
At face value, this means: Anyone who disagrees with me is an indoctrinated drone.
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Originally Posted by
Fragony
Not liking you personally is realistic as well.
No need to get emotional.
You views are subjective. A more appropriate term would be myopic. You constantly complain about how Islam is an evil problem and cite countless anecdotes and second hand narratives. You take in events and fit them to support your views. You seem to be incapable of really dissecting issues and rely on generalizations and circumstances and posit them as undisputed fact.
Most of the arguments you've had over the years boil down to meme-like constructs where racists try to "prove" the inferiority of blacks by posting pictures of mudhuts somewhere in the middle of African tribeland and then post a marvelous European baroque structure from its period, completely ignoring the horrid squalor most citizens lived in during that time period.
Point is, its seems to me that you aren't seeing the big picture.
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What is the same thing everywhere just is the same thing everywhere.
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Fragony
What is the same thing everywhere just is the same thing everywhere.
Bananas are the clock spring badger of fire extinguisher.
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Originally Posted by
Sarmatian
At face value, this means: Anyone who disagrees with me is an indoctrinated drone.
At face value it meant - disagree all you want, but please source if so.
I am against Islam... You have a problem with that?
Then by all means, tell me why.
Heck, I can fire the first shot... Muhammed was a ****ing pedophile. Shall we take it from there, or do you have some other entry you want to bring forward?
PS: Frags, please stop "defending" me... I have enough people misreading me as is... I really don't want your obscure way with facts to be a further hindrance...
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Originally Posted by
Fragony
I nuanced that myselve mind you, IS wasn't there at the time, only the fight agaist Assad, no foul play, if you look for the post you will see me saying the same thing.
No need, I believe you. I stand corrected.
However, Geert Wilders literally said that 80% (more or less) sympathises with IS and referred to the poll. I remember this clearly, because the organisation that took the poll objected afterwards. He very rarely retracts his words, and AFAIK he didn't do so in this case.
It's debatable wether or not Geert did this deliberately. It's possible that he didn't read the poll correctly and then proceeded to make this bold statement, but since he's a politician with considerable weight I think that this would be almost as bad.
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Kadagar_AV
Heck, I can fire the first shot... Muhammed was a ****ing pedophile. Shall we take it from there, or do you have some other entry you want to bring forward?
Consummation at a young age was common at the time in many places, including Europe.
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
Consummation at a young age was common at the time in many places, including Europe.
Sure... I 100% agree, from the sources I have read.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow though, do you mind to elaborate on why the **** we should listen to some pedophile from the Iron Age?
That it was common practise to be a pedo in his desert living iron age tribe is totally OK by me. But why the **** should we in the west in the year 2015 respect a damn iron age pedophile?
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Originally Posted by
Kralizec
No need, I believe you. I stand corrected.
However, Geert Wilders literally said that 80% (more or less) sympathises with IS and referred to the poll. I remember this clearly, because the organisation that took the poll objected afterwards. He very rarely retracts his words, and AFAIK he didn't do so in this case.
It's debatable wether or not Geert did this deliberately. It's possible that he didn't read the poll correctly and then proceeded to make this bold statement, but since he's a politician with considerable weight I think that this would be almost as bad.
Wouldn't surprise me if it was intentional, but it's simply not true, if it was intentional it's cheap. IS does has a bit of a cult-status among some muslim youths though, like motorgangs and gangster-rappers have here. I wouldn't trust the numbers if simply was asked what they think of IS.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Sure... I 100% agree, from the sources I have read.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow though, do you mind to elaborate on why the **** we should listen to some pedophile from the Iron Age?
That it was common practise to be a pedo in his desert living iron age tribe is totally OK by me. But why the **** should we in the west in the year 2015 respect a damn iron age pedophile?
You don't like religion. OK. Don't follow the religion.
There are other aspects of religion that people choose to follow such as moral codes pertaining to modesty and living righteously, and finding unity with others like yourself. I would think it has more to do with that.
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"There are other aspects of religion that people choose to follow such as moral codes pertaining to modesty and living righteously, and finding unity with others like yourself. I would think it has more to do with that." Yeah, but this is true for all totalitarian ideologies.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Sure... I 100% agree, from the sources I have read.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow though, do you mind to elaborate on why the **** we should listen to some pedophile from the Iron Age?
That it was common practise to be a pedo in his desert living iron age tribe is totally OK by me. But why the **** should we in the west in the year 2015 respect a damn iron age pedophile?
If we reverse the situation, someone might ask why should we respect a weird guy who more than 2000 years ago told us to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
Something that was created such a long time ago is bound to have weird aspects to us now. Being an atheist, I don't personally care for any of that, but it mustn't be used as proof that religions are inherently bad. I find religious nutjobs very disturbing, but I can respect people who find that religion offers some spiritual help, and are trying to make themselves a better person by following it.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
PS: Frags, please stop "defending" me...
oki
any examples? just asking, I dare you to find them Rainman
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Originally Posted by
Sarmatian
If we reverse the situation, someone might ask why should we respect a weird guy who more than 2000 years ago told us to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
Not only that:
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The Gospel According to
St Matthew
Chapter 21
1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
In modern terms one can call it gang robbery.
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
No need to get emotional.
You views are subjective. A more appropriate term would be myopic. You constantly complain about how Islam is an evil problem and cite countless anecdotes and second hand narratives. You take in events and fit them to support your views. You seem to be incapable of really dissecting issues and rely on generalizations and circumstances and posit them as undisputed fact.
Most of the arguments you've had over the years boil down to meme-like constructs where racists try to "prove" the inferiority of blacks by posting pictures of mudhuts somewhere in the middle of African tribeland and then post a marvelous European baroque structure from its period, completely ignoring the horrid squalor most citizens lived in during that time period.
Point is, its seems to me that you aren't seeing the big picture.
Show me where I and when I did that, because your mind seems to be playing tricks on you. It isn't there. You might think you have seen it, but you can't have. It's not real. If I did that I would get an instant ban. Which I don't have.
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Originally Posted by
Gilrandir
In modern terms one can call it gang robbery.
That's more a prediction, he knows how the man will react before it happens, further evidence that free choice is a myth.
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That's more a prediction, he knows how the man will react before it happens, further evidence that free choice is a myth.
Well, you know, the Calvinist types used this sort of Biblical evidence to reason that all human action was an explicit part of God's plan.
From Letter 2 of Voltaire's Letters to an Englishman:
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Originally Posted by Quaker
“When thou movest one of thy limbs, is it moved by thy own power? Certainly not; for this limb is often sensible to involuntary motions. Consequently He who created thy body gives motion to this earthly tabernacle. And are the several ideas of which thy soul receives the impression formed by thyself? Much less are they, since these pour in upon thy mind whether thou wilt or no; consequently thou receivest thy ideas from Him who created thy soul.
Though you can see some of the incoherence and ambivalence, it's a remarkable sentiment for the Early Modern era.
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I mean, compare that second sentence to Nietzsche:
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Originally Posted by Beyond Good and Evil
The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: "When I analyze the process that is expressed in the sentence, 'I think,' I find a whole series of daring assertions, the argumentative proof of which would be difficult, perhaps impossible: for instance, that it is I who think, that there must necessarily be something that thinks, that thinking is an activity and operation on the part of a being who is thought of as a cause, that there is an 'ego,' and finally, that it is already determined what is to be designated by thinking—that I KNOW what thinking is. For if I had not already decided within myself what it is, by what standard could I determine whether that which is just happening is not perhaps 'willing' or 'feeling'? In short, the assertion 'I think,' assumes that I COMPARE my state at the present moment with other states of myself which I know, in order to determine what it is; on account of this retrospective connection with further 'knowledge,' it has, at any rate, no immediate certainty for me."—In place of the "immediate certainty" in which the people may believe in the special case, the philosopher thus finds a series of metaphysical questions presented to him, veritable conscience questions of the intellect, to wit: "Whence did I get the notion of 'thinking'? Why do I believe in cause and effect? What gives me the right to speak of an 'ego,' and even of an 'ego' as cause, and finally of an 'ego' as cause of thought?" He who ventures to answer these metaphysical questions at once by an appeal to a sort of INTUITIVE perception, like the person who says, "I think, and know that this, at least, is true, actual, and certain"—will encounter a smile and two notes of interrogation in a philosopher nowadays. "Sir," the philosopher will perhaps give him to understand, "it is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?"
17. With regard to the superstitions of logicians, I shall never tire of emphasizing a small, terse fact, which is unwillingly recognized by these credulous minds—namely, that a thought comes when "it" wishes, and not when "I" wish
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Originally Posted by
Montmorency
Well, you know, the Calvinist types used this sort of Biblical evidence to reason that all human action was an explicit part of God's plan.
From Letter 2 of Voltaire's Letters to an Englishman:
Though you can see some of the incoherence and ambivalence, it's a remarkable sentiment for the Early Modern era.
Remarkable because the BBT ultimately says the same thing?
I also have the ability to find e.g. names in my brain even if they won't come right away. It is a process where the conscious checks for incoming names and sends them back into the void with corrections until the right name pops out of the void. ~;)
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Originally Posted by
Husar
That's more a prediction, he knows how the man will react before it happens, further evidence that free choice is a myth.
Anyone will react similarly if his chattels are taken. So you don't have to be a prophet to predict such a reaction. Yet what I meant was that the property of a stranger is alienated against his will and the reasons for it might as well be called red herring/apple sauce. It is a crime, whether 2000 years ago or now.
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Originally Posted by
Fragony
Show me where I and when I did that, because your mind seems to be playing tricks on you. It isn't there. You might think you have seen it, but you can't have. It's not real. If I did that I would get an instant ban. Which I don't have.
Really, you know what you are doing. You aren't really the only one doing it anymore since there are others like KAV and at least two others make alarmist posts whenever an attack involving Muslim extremists occurs. None of you seem to like each other, however, so I can't claim collaboration. In fact, it sometimes seems like you are having a competition regarding who is "red-pilled", much like the little episode that took place about half a dozen posts up.
I'm still not fully sure whether you have a greater problem with immigration or integration or just Islam, but it seems to fall into the latter most of all. It suggests that you are claiming a conspiracy by Islam as a whole to destroy the West, much like fundies in the West believe that gays spend all day trying to make straight couples miserable.
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
Really, you know what you are doing. You aren't really the only one doing it anymore since there are others like KAV and at least two others make alarmist posts whenever an attack involving Muslim extremists occurs. None of you seem to like each other, however, so I can't claim collaboration. In fact, it sometimes seems like you are having a competition regarding who is "red-pilled", much like the little episode that took place about half a dozen posts up.
I'm still not fully sure whether you have a greater problem with immigration or integration or just Islam, but it seems to fall into the latter most of all. It suggests that you are claiming a conspiracy by Islam as a whole to destroy the West, much like fundies in the West believe that gays spend all day trying to make straight couples miserable.
I actually do like Frags, heck I like most members on this board...
You don't have to go to "conspiracy theory" mode to be against islam.
I know how Sweden was before we had a lot of Muslims, and I know how Sweden has changed now when we have a lot of muslims. And honestly, I do not like it.
That has nothing to do with racism, conspiracies, or anything like that. I just openly state that I dislike Islam, and I do not want Islam around me. Surely that must be a perspective allowed to be had?
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
I actually do like Frags, heck I like most members on this board...
You don't have to go to "conspiracy theory" mode to be against islam.
I know how Sweden was before we had a lot of Muslims, and I know how Sweden has changed now when we have a lot of muslims. And honestly, I do not like it.
That has nothing to do with racism, conspiracies, or anything like that. I just openly state that I dislike Islam, and I do not want Islam around me. Surely that must be a perspective allowed to be had?
Of course it is, but I'm thinking you're equating things that shouldn't be equated. If there's a robbery, one might say "I don't want robbers around me". It would be wrong to say "I don't want blacks around", even if they assume (or even know for sure) that the robber is black.
Part of the problem is also that "they're different from us/they're worse than us" attitude, which discourages people to fit in the society and are instead encouraged to seek solace within their own social circle in which they are accepted.
I've traveled around, and visited a lot of western countries during the 90's, and I personally felt the bigotry, antagonism and sometimes even open hostility. And I'm a white, male Christian. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to understand how it must be for someone who doesn't have to speak before he is recognized.
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Originally Posted by
Gilrandir
Anyone will react similarly if his chattels are taken. So you don't have to be a prophet to predict such a reaction. Yet what I meant was that the property of a stranger is alienated against his will and the reasons for it might as well be called red herring/apple sauce. It is a crime, whether 2000 years ago or now.
Doesn't the last part mean that the man will let them have the ass if they tell him that the lord needs it?
Is that a typical reaction? And how is that against his will if he is willing to part with it for the lord?
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
I know how Sweden has changed now when we have a lot of muslims. And honestly, I do not like it.
That has nothing to do with racism, conspiracies, or anything like that. I just openly state that I dislike Islam, and I do not want Islam around me. Surely that must be a perspective allowed to be had?
You're saying that you don't understand why you should tolerate Muslims who have screwed up your neighborhood. What you should be asking is why your country, and so many others, are so massively incompetent when it comes dealing with immigration integration. You should be asking yourself why more isn't done to improve the places where these people live so that they would not feel such a strong need to immigrate. You should be asking why so many of these people turn to extremism when supposedly given so much opportunity to live splendidly.
I think the "Islam is a Swedish tradition" hugbox liberal muffin-head mentality is idiotic. I'm not simple enough to attribute all the problems to moon worshiping or shekel counting or whatever.
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
You're saying that you don't understand why you should tolerate Muslims who have screwed up your neighborhood. What you should be asking is why your country, and so many others, are so massively incompetent when it comes dealing with immigration integration.
As a wellknown Dutch/Turkish collumnist rightfully putted it, 'a refugee leaves it's troubles behind, a colonist brings it with him'.
Sorry Kads you politily asked me not to defend you, but I am going to do it anyway, apoligies for that. Slap me later.
Sweden HAS changed Crossloper, and not for the better. You just can't expect Sweden to just deal with such an influx, it's just unreasonable to ask that from them. People who support that should try oxazipam first, or heroin, also makes you feel good, difference is that you are only destroying yourself.
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
You're saying that you don't understand why you should tolerate Muslims who have screwed up your neighborhood.
Well... The question is a little bit more complex than that. My main concern is actually that we have broken the wellfare state we used to have, as people these days just simply Do. Not. Trust. Their. Fellow. Swedes like they used to, when we were ethnically more homogenic...
A wellfare state works kind of like a shield wall... You need to trust the guy to the left and right of you to do his job, or the whole shield wall collapse. That is what I have seen happen to Sweden as we choose to become a multi-cultural nation who no longer even try to assimilate the (mainly muslim) immigrants.
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What you should be asking is why your country, and so many others, are so massively incompetent when it comes dealing with immigration integration.
Why?
Seriously, why is that the question I should have to ask? I find the answer quite simple, integration is hard because different cultures work, think and act differently. You think I stopped using Snus (Swedish tobacco you put under your lip) just because I moved to Austria?
I prefer to just think that different people from different nations are different in different ways. Easy, no?
I also choose to think that some cultures are different from mine in a way that is grave enough for me to absolutely NOT want them around me, heck, I don't even want them in the same nation as me.
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You should be asking yourself why more isn't done to improve the places where these people live so that they would not feel such a strong need to immigrate.
How is that my responsibility? Or Swedens?
We have tried, and will keep trying, different methods to help poor nations. Most efforts have turned out to be completely ****ed up though... Heck, not even aid to Africa is an easy question, as it handled wrong easily can kill the local producers economically, and in the end worsen the situation... We had a quite interesting talk about that on these boards some years ago.
But regardless, I say again... It. Is. Not. Swedens. Resposibility. How. Other. Nations. Do.
Mmmmmkay?
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You should be asking why so many of these people turn to extremism when supposedly given so much opportunity to live splendidly.
Eh, why can't we just kick them out instead? Or rather not let them in, in the very first place?
It is a big world with a LOT of history... I do not think Sweden can "change" this anyday soon... All we can do is be a good example, and try to help when and where we can. What we have DONE, however, is to absolutely murder our own culture, and Sweden will very soon not be a positive example anymore (it isn't even today), Sweden will be a multicultural ****state with racial riots and low public safety, restricted wellfare, economicly drained... Yadda yadda...
I just tell it as I see it. I know how Sweden used to be, and I know how it is now. I don't like the way it changed, I don't like having muslims around me, or having to work with them, or having to stand behind them in the line at the food store, or whatever...
Why? Because i don't trust them to act like a Swede would, again, SHIELD WALL mate, we need the trust.
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I think the "Islam is a Swedish tradition" hugbox liberal muffin-head mentality is idiotic. I'm not simple enough to attribute all the problems to moon worshiping or shekel counting or whatever.
I'm not quite sure I get your point here...
But regardless, your MAIN point seem to be that there is some "white mans inherited guilt" and that we somehow should have some obligation to help ****ed up countries by accepting wave after wave of immigrants from them?
Know what, if Swedens population would have FLED everytime there was a problem, we would never have gotten what could have been the best functional state in the world (in the 60's-80's).
I was borne 1980, and again, the Sweden I grew up in is not the Sweden we now have. And it's not for the better, and yes, immigration is much to blame for it.
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Originally Posted by
Sarmatian
Part of the problem is also that "they're different from us/they're worse than us" attitude, which discourages people to fit in the society and are instead encouraged to seek solace within their own social circle in which they are accepted.
Don't you think that the new-comers do something to earn this attitude? I would say that they do something (which was probably quite OK back in their home country), then they get the attitude and then they are ostracized (or shunned) by the natives.
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Originally Posted by
Husar
Doesn't the last part mean that the man will let them have the ass if they tell him that the lord needs it?
Is that a typical reaction? And how is that against his will if he is willing to part with it for the lord?
The scripture doesn't say if the animal was taken by force or freely surrendered, yet if it was the former it was definitely what I said it was. But if the book is so ostensibly meant to champion the commandments it should have specified the case for such ideas as mine not to pop up.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
I was borne 1980, and again, the Sweden I grew up in is not the Sweden we now have.
This is because Karlsson is not there any more. Instead of immigartion you should encourage more people to take their abode on the roof.
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Gilrandir
The scripture doesn't say if the animal was taken by force or freely surrendered, yet if it was the former it was definitely what I said it was. But if the book is so ostensibly meant to champion the commandments it should have specified the case for such ideas as mine not to pop up.
Well, it seems pretty clear what is meant if you take the context of how Jesus behaves and what he preaches. If you only read that one part there may be misunderstandings but that can happen to you with any book that has a few hundred pages when you only read a few lines of it.
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Originally Posted by
Husar
Well, it seems pretty clear what is meant if you take the context of how Jesus behaves and what he preaches. If you only read that one part there may be misunderstandings but that can happen to you with any book that has a few hundred pages when you only read a few lines of it.
His behavior does not always match what he preaches, like his attitude to his mother, whom he seems to be ashamed of and disregards her entreaties. Where is the "respect thy parents" stuff? Having this in view, his ass-confiscating trick doesn't seem so immaculate.
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On the other hand, you could say, "God provides - for himself".
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Well... The question is a little bit more complex than that. My main concern is actually that we have broken the wellfare state we used to have, as people these days just simply Do. Not. Trust. Their. Fellow. Swedes like they used to, when we were ethnically more homogenic...
A wellfare state works kind of like a shield wall... You need to trust the guy to the left and right of you to do his job, or the whole shield wall collapse. That is what I have seen happen to Sweden as we choose to become a multi-cultural nation who no longer even try to assimilate the (mainly muslim) immigrants.
Not the fault of Islam.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Why?
Seriously, why is that the question I should have to ask? I find the answer quite simple, integration is hard because different cultures work, think and act differently. You think I stopped using Snus (Swedish tobacco you put under your lip) just because I moved to Austria?
I prefer to just think that different people from different nations are different in different ways. Easy, no?
I also choose to think that some cultures are different from mine in a way that is grave enough for me to absolutely NOT want them around me, heck, I don't even want them in the same nation as me.
You are assuming that they are all receiving the same opportunities that would allow anyone to succeed. They are not.
http://rt.com/news/stockholm-violenc...eak-fires-671/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/charl.../swedens-riots
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinion...stockholm.html
http://www.euro-islam.info/country-profiles/sweden/
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Kadagar_AV
How is that my responsibility? Or Swedens?
We have tried, and will keep trying, different methods to help poor nations. Most efforts have turned out to be completely ****ed up though... Heck, not even aid to Africa is an easy question, as it handled wrong easily can kill the local producers economically, and in the end worsen the situation... We had a quite interesting talk about that on these boards some years ago.
But regardless, I say again... It. Is. Not. Swedens. Resposibility. How. Other. Nations. Do.
Mmmmmkay?
It is the responsibility of successful nations to encourage developing nations to develop further.
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Kadagar_AV
Eh, why can't we just kick them out instead? Or rather not let them in, in the very first place?
It is a big world with a LOT of history... I do not think Sweden can "change" this anyday soon... All we can do is be a good example, and try to help when and where we can. What we have DONE, however, is to absolutely murder our own culture, and Sweden will very soon not be a positive example anymore (it isn't even today), Sweden will be a multicultural ****state with racial riots and low public safety, restricted wellfare, economicly drained... Yadda yadda...
I just tell it as I see it. I know how Sweden used to be, and I know how it is now. I don't like the way it changed, I don't like having muslims around me, or having to work with them, or having to stand behind them in the line at the food store, or whatever...
Why? Because i don't trust them to act like a Swede would, again, SHIELD WALL mate, we need the trust.
What would the criteria for kicking them out?
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Kadagar_AV
I'm not quite sure I get your point here...
But regardless, your MAIN point seem to be that there is some "white mans inherited guilt" and that we somehow should have some obligation to help ****ed up countries by accepting wave after wave of immigrants from them?
Know what, if Swedens population would have FLED everytime there was a problem, we would never have gotten what could have been the best functional state in the world (in the 60's-80's).
I was borne 1980, and again, the Sweden I grew up in is not the Sweden we now have. And it's not for the better, and yes, immigration is much to blame for it.
First off, I think "white guilt" is a retarded concept. Second, no, you don't have to become a refugee nexus. Third, you seem to have been suffering from problems for a while now, none of it relating to Muslims:
http://www.ekonomifakta.se/en/Swedis...s-and-Reforms/
My point is that you are shifting blame on an easy target and ignoring a host of other issues. The integration issues are a symptom of steady decline that has continued for half a century.
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Gilrandir
His behavior does not always match what he preaches, like his attitude to his mother, whom he seems to be ashamed of and disregards her entreaties. Where is the "respect thy parents" stuff? Having this in view, his ass-confiscating trick doesn't seem so immaculate.
You have a serious lack of understanding and I'm afraid I do not have the patience now to teach you everything about the bible.
If you want to know more about this, here is a link: http://shamelesspopery.com/did-jesus...n-luke-819-21/
It's a catholic one but they seem to know how to explain this.
You can even read up on the ass story if you want to: http://www.tektonics.org/af/donkeythief.php
I like the last paragraph in that one. :laugh4:
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Montmorency
On the other hand, you could say, "God provides - for himself".
I shall also refer you to the last paragraph of my last link, as well as the idea that providing the ass would surely be rewarded in heaven.
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Gilrandir
Not only that:
In modern terms one can call it gang robbery.
Well, he was publicly executed less than a week after ordering this "crime." Was not the fault of the local authorities that the execution didn't take.
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We may add, finally, that since God owns everything, how can the Son of God taking anything be stealing?
Holy shit, so since all human souls belong to God, can Jesus just kill anybody at will?*
We need a buddy comedy, something like: Christ and Beelzebub: Reapers at Law .
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Montmorency
Holy shit, so since all human souls belong to God, can Jesus just kill anybody at will?*
Since god is also love he would never want to do that for fun, only as a punishment if the person deserves it. Or as part of his plan.
Christians should even like the idea since they'd get to heaven and heaven is obviously better than our earthly lives.
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Husar
Since god is also love he would never want to do that for fun, only as a punishment if the person deserves it. Or as part of his plan.
Christians should even like the idea since they'd get to heaven and heaven is obviously better than our earthly lives.
Sounds like dangerous thinking.
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CrossLOPER
Sounds like dangerous thinking.
Nah... Sounds like Husar has post-nazi trauma and want to equal Christianity to Islam...
Even though Christianity in his region has gone through things such as, oh I don't know... The reformation, the enlightenment, the french revolution... Just to name a few.
I will answer other posters when I get the time, hopefully tomorrow... But this post seriously was so stupid I had do jump in.
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Kadagar_AV
Christianity... enlightenment
I thought Montmorency was overly harsh when he said that you had the mind and intellect of a particularly dumb eleven year old, and I try to stay away from direct insults since philosophy major wannabes will start reading from a list of debate fallacies. However, when you start making arguments like this...
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CrossLOPER
Sounds like dangerous thinking.
Well, suicide is usually regarded as a sin, god decides when your time has come, it is not okay to speed up the process since he may need you on earth, e.g. to bring lost souls back to him etc.
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Kadagar_AV
But this post seriously was so stupid I had do jump in.
Come on, CrossLOPER asked a valid question...
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CrossLOPER
I thought Montmorency was overly harsh when he said that you had the mind and intellect of a particularly dumb eleven year old, and I try to stay away from direct insults since philosophy major wannabes will start reading from a list of debate fallacies. However, when you start making arguments like this...
Eh... Do you even have the education to grasp what "The Enlightenment" means in English?
If not, Google search "the enlightenment", will you? Bah.
Husar, If there was a valid question among his ill thought out posts I have yet to see it... If you want to repeat it and make it your own you are more than welcome though :)
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Husar, If there was a valid question among his ill thought out posts I have yet to see it... If you want to repeat it and make it your own you are more than welcome though :)
Why would I want to? I already answered it... :inquisitive:
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Eh... Do you even have the education to grasp what "The Enlightenment" means in English?
If not, Google search "the enlightenment", will you? Bah.
Take your own advice.
You stated that Christianity had gone through some sort of transformational/transitional phase, naming the enlightenment among them. This was a movement which, among other things, undermined Christianity and had several prominent figures denounce and reject it entirely in favor of deism (In extreme cases, Atheism).
If your original statement was pro-Christianity, it was somewhat misguided in that respect.
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Husar
Come on, CrossLOPER asked a valid question...
I was being flippant.
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
I was being flippant.
Well, he quoted your post then talked a lot of rubbish about my posts and then said "this post was seriously so stupid", we may never find out whose/which post was meant so I just blamed it on you. Seems to have worked though. :mellow:
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
Take your own advice.
You stated that Christianity had gone through some sort of transformational/transitional phase, naming the enlightenment among them. This was a movement which, among other things, undermined Christianity and had several prominent figures denounce and reject it entirely in favor of deism (In extreme cases, Atheism).
If your original statement was pro-Christianity, it was somewhat misguided in that respect.
My original statement wasn't pro-christianity, and that is why you make no sense.
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Kadagar_AV
My original statement wasn't pro-christianity, and that is why you make no sense.
Hey, remember that time when you stated that we should take your statements at face-value? Good times, right?
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Nah... Sounds like Husar has post-nazi trauma and want to equal Christianity to Islam...
Even though Christianity in his region has gone through things such as, oh I don't know... The reformation, the enlightenment, the french revolution... Just to name a few.
It seems like you are speaking highly of Christianity in comparison to Islam. Perhaps you would like to clear things up?
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Originally Posted by
CrossLOPER
Hey, remember that time when you stated that we should take your statements at face-value? Good times, right?
It seems like you are speaking highly of Christianity in comparison to Islam. Perhaps you would like to clear things up?
Of course... I wouldn't be a teacher if I didn't like to clear things up for the dim witted.
Yes, I do in fact speak highly of Christianity COMPARED TO ISLAM, because of the reasons I have already given... Christianity has, again, gone through The Reformation, The Enlightenment, the French Revolution... Just to name a few.
Islam has none or little of that.
With that said do I in absolutely NO way support christianity, as I am intelligent and can draw facts from sources.
But still, christianity is better than Islam... Based on numbers and statistics.
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Of course... I wouldn't be a teacher if I didn't like to clear things up for the dim witted.
Disgusting. This is probably one of the worst attitudes I've ever seen regarding teaching short of actually getting the job just so as to more easily prey upon children.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Of course... I wouldn't be a teacher if I didn't like to clear things up for the dim witted.
Teaching is a learning process in itself, I guess. Speaking clearly and being able to communicate your thoughts effectively without brooding or being overcome with your own self-importance is an critical skill that one generally needs to develop.
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Kadagar_AV
Yes, I do in fact speak highly of Christianity COMPARED TO ISLAM, because of the reasons I have already given... Christianity has, again, gone through The Reformation, The Enlightenment, the French Revolution... Just to name a few.
Thereby showing that you carried absolutely nothing away from learning about any of that.
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Kadagar_AV
Islam has none or little of that.
Religions change with people and their environment. This is something that you keep ignoring, and it worries me that your interpretations are so 2-dimensional.
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Kadagar_AV
With that said do I in absolutely NO way support christianity, as I am intelligent and can draw facts from sources.
You're edgy as shit, and say whatever you feel like so long as it makes your views seem somehow more viable.
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Kadagar_AV
But still, christianity is better than Islam... Based on numbers and statistics.
Numbers and statistics that you will never, ever provide because you know they will be shot to tatters.
You still have not addressed my original assertions, but seeing as how you can gracefully you brush everything away with "you're just dim-witted", I guess I will never stop waiting.
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Montmorency
Disgusting. This is probably one of the worst attitudes I've ever seen regarding teaching short of actually getting the job just so as to more easily prey upon children.
Care to elaborate?
YES, students in their preteens can be quite dim witted. Do you seriously think an 11 year old will solve cancer anytime soon? The joy of teaching is to help separate what is true, from what is untrue. And to help DIM WITTED children from bad homes to excel...
That is why I teach math... Because 1+1=2 (unless it is a haystack + a haystack, then you just have one (bigger) haystack, aight... And that is also why the students need to state it).
If you feel ill at ease still, let me just say that my last class scored the best... Like, THE best... Both when it came to maths and how they liked their time in school...
EDIT: I honestly think one of the reasons why I got so good results on all levels was that I had my class when we did geometry out in the snow, in teams, making stuff intead of handing them a textbook and telling them to read.
EDIT2: There is just such a difference between actually building a 1x1x1dm and building a 1x1x1m out in the snow. Sorry, I know I am out of line here... But this is something I burn for... You can accuse me of many things, but never for being a bad teacher or ski instructor... As I always have had more or less spectacular results.
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YES, students in their preteens can be quite dim witted. Do you seriously think an 11 year old will solve cancer anytime soon? The joy of teaching is to help separate what is true, from what is untrue. And to help DIM WITTED children from bad homes to excel...
Condescension is the opposite of education.
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No personal attacks.
Yes, I have let the odd remark slide before, as I don't want to be nitpicky, but blatant ignoring of the rules is a big no-no. As the thread has gone off-topic, it is a good time for it to go for a nap.