Vilageidiotx

Confetti Thread or something, I don't even know. You say stuff and people look at it. Like withheld stuff, like surprise confetti.

i want to bash edgy shit

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Yeah its not a black and white thing, but overall islam hasnt been beaten into tame submission by liberal western values like christianity has for the last 100 or so years. So even in its non extremist form, its still pretty shitty. Plus they don't have a new testament to backdoor all of their crappy verses.

@Dynamo Frokane

I actually read the Quran and the Bible before. As far as their value systems go, they aren't as far away as popular media would have you believe. The way the Quran is written is that it is Muhammad giving commands to people during specific situations, which makes it sometimes unclear what is general and what is specific. For instance, the violent suras usually take place on battlefields, so when Muhammad is telling people to kill infidels its always in the context of him commanding troops in a battle. And that's all irrelevant anyway since infidels means pagans, whereas Christianity and Judaism are presented as good religions that should only be taxed. The Quran, however, is a fucking boring read because Muhammed doesn't have a very complicated message. Its basically "Fuck pagans, follow the law, only worship God." In fact you could read the first Sura and you've pretty much read the book. That only takes about an hour or so to do. The rest of that shit is redundant.

I feel like the real problem with Islam is that the middle east and the Arab world is more uncomfortable with globalism than anybody else is. Extremism is a focusing lens for all the anger that people in the region have against the west, particularly our forcing Israel upon them. Not saying this as an excuse obviously; killing civilians is always fucked up, and none of the people killed in terrorist attacks have had anything to do with the policies that are pissing off modern Muslims. Christianity doesn't have this effect because Christianity was born out of the culture that is globally dominate.

Another interesting thing I got from a book I read about the rise of ISIS is that there is a conspiracy theory popularly believed in the Sunni world that The West, Israel, and the Shia are conspiring the commit genocide on the Sunnis. The uneven way the Iraqi occupation was handled has largely driven the people of northern Iraq into the hands of extremist Jihadism. That's the reason the region was so quick to fall into ISIS hands when it did.

Which is to say this shit is really complicated. Very few people are evil just for shits and giggles. You don't try to identify why somebody is doing something because you are soft or weak or whatever. Rather, the real reasons for behavior can give you the map to fixing the problem, whereas simplistic stereotyping and reactions will lead you astray and complicate the entire matter. So whereas I have no interest in defending the religion itself, I do feel oversimplifying is dangerous because our most important allies against extremist Islam are the non-extremist Muslims. You don't want to paint, say, the Iraqi government or Rojava with the same brush you paint ISIS, lest you lose these important allies.

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I don't know if its the worst but its definitely in the top 5

@Dynamo Frokane

It becomes really complicated by how many different flavors each religion comes equipped with. So yeh, ISIS style ultra-conservative Islam is pure poison. But that is complicated by the fact that most of the people actively fighting against ISIS are also Muslim. Likewise, western Christianity seems to have been more or less tamed in the last few hundred years, but at the same time there are still those fucks who blow up abortions clinics. There are even aggressive Buddhists out there ffs.

Personally I think religion tends to be a tribal thing in these cases. If we do end up going through another rash of fascistic nationalist movements, we can say it started with radical Islam, because really that's what those fuckers are playing at. It's like Sunni nationalism.

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@Vilageidiotx Good thing they're not relevant anymore.

God forbid they sacrifice one of their zealots!

@Savato

Could be relevant again. Don't let your guard down.

I kinda want to see somebody write a novel about a neo-fascist Mexican government that adopts nahuatl religious practices as part of their national mythos. That would be pretty boss.

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And it's a sh*t ideology, takes the cake for worst religion.

@Savato

Montezuma has something to say about that.

Let's question everything!

21-year old Michael Baker was searching for Pokemon around 1AM when he came across someone he believed to be a fellow Pokemon Go player. Baker asked the individual if would he like to battle.

holy fuck

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I have to report into jury things tomorrow.

@Dinh AaronMk

That happened to me last year. I got out of it by telling them I don't believe in witness testimony. Shit worked. Prosecutor looked sad af.

Should I draw some more soldier-y reference shit for your boyfriend to use as reference?

@Dinh AaronMk

do one of those types of things like you see for napoleonic war uniforms. Just dudes posing in uniform and all that shit.

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Happy burfday, most glorious leader. I hope you like your present. A post!

Inside this box is an excuse

Honestly though, it was so hard to actually write it. I've been in a creative slump for a hella long time now, so I need to get back into the groove of writing, again. Hopefully this will kick start it though! First time actually finishing something I started writing in about a year. Whoo progress!

@Shyri

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@Vilageidiotx...

...you manosphere types:

@Dynamo Frokane

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Congratulations on your first Awson thread; it's all downhill from here.

@KnightShade

Say what you will about Awson threads, but I don't see much of a similarity.

@Awson

I can take a whack at one I guess, if that is what the people want.

Is that what the people want? Is it?

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Well hot damn, that is pretty impressive