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Kripayne - making one's self a daily target is one way to blog, there are
many other ways to gain readership but this way works for me.
Others have utilized pandering to popular opinion which can be equally effective, others have utilized the comments as a chat room, which can also be an effective method of gaining readership. I choose to utilize a bit of controversy backed (at least I believe so) by sound reasoning as a means of keeping this blog perpetually near the top of the rankings.
As for reading and commenting on your blogs, I do read them and will comment when I feel I have something to add to the subject matter at hand. In the meantime, I will add your name to my link rotator in the left hand column.
posted by
gomedome
on March 10, 2007 at 12:53 PM
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LoL--
you daily make yourself a target for that ill behavior from a specific group, so that may skew your polling data. Just the title of your blog is inflammatory. Not saying you're necessarily wrong, but most of the people who reply here are probably going to be very opinionated one way or another. People who agree with you are naturally more polite. I find it possible to trip across asses in all walks of life myself...as Jean-Paul Sartre said, "Hell is other people." The things people do just drive me nuts sometimes. I'm sure they say the same of me. Measuring tolerance is like measuring somebody's threshold for pain--it varies from person to person, even from day to day. So that's a very subjective topic. One thing you did write reminded me of something I wrote in my own blog: the more emotionally committed a person is to an idea, the more difficult it is to get them to change their mind/alter their thinking.
posted by
Kripayne
on March 9, 2007 at 10:22 PM
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Tonyzonit - one of the problems as I see it is in the fact that the
prevailing attitudes concerning prosletizing have not kept up with the changes within society.
Religious beliefs worldwide are a dynamic that is shifting to a larger number of different religious beliefs and non beliefs found within all first world societies. These changes have come about primarily through immigration and the individual freedoms as found within these societies. To refuse to acknowledge these changes and continue selling the religious message without consideration of the ever increasing divergency of religious belief and non belief, is rude.
posted by
gomedome
on March 9, 2007 at 8:50 AM
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You've touched on a good point there, Gomedome.
Essentially, any religious proselytizer (have I spelled that right?) is quite simply rude, and needs to learn some social etiquette - more specifically, the kind of consideration for others that is taught in kindergarten.
posted by
Antonionioni
on March 9, 2007 at 7:11 AM
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Jaahda - that's a good way of putting it
Religious belief for many people provides a sense of justification and empowerment. Unfortunately empowering some people is akin to giving hand grenades to monkeys.
posted by
gomedome
on March 8, 2007 at 8:39 PM
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i think some people use their religion as their very own toxic waste dump
into which they deposit all their own failings, insecurities and other negative traits. They then by way of transference think it belongs elsewhere (not on themselves).
posted by
Jaahda
on March 8, 2007 at 7:39 PM
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Xeno-x - no truer words were ever spoken
"when one thinks one's cause is of god, then one thinks one can do anything to promote their cause."
Yep, we saw a good case of this recently right here on Blogit. One quarterwitted insufferable religious numbnut really believed that he was justified in doing anything he possibly could to harrass kooka and myself because his twisted little mind actually believed he was doing God's will. He described it as his "moral duty" to harrass all non believers in the name of God. This makes for some fairly potent stupidity.
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gomedome
on March 8, 2007 at 6:40 PM
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cpklapper - impossibly vague would be a good way to describe your comment
You assume that all education systems have the same tolerance for teachers imparting their personal religious philosophies in the classroom. It is not considered part and parcel with teaching in my country. If anyone is happy to let teachers impart their personal religious philosophy to their children, you can bet on two things; the teacher is of the same faith as the parent who is happy with it and that person has never considered that the teacher could just as easily be of another religion than there own. That's the point of this post; freedoms and rights can only be considered as such if they are a two way street. Or is that too vague for you?
posted by
gomedome
on March 8, 2007 at 6:34 PM
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As to teachers influencing children's beliefs
It goes with the territory. This is why "public education", however meritorious in achieving literacy and competence among large segments of the population (pace statisticians), is not consistent with the prohibition of acts affecting the "establishment of religion" in the U. S. Constitution, especially when the scope was extended to the States after the Civil War. A system of education dollars following each student to a wide selection of private and religious schools would be less objectionable on that score. A child's attendance at a school would be based, at least in part, on the consistency of the parent's and the school's philosophies.
As to the rest of this, I found it impossibly vague. The best response I can give you is Pat Paulsen's : "The Bill of Rights says nothing about Freedom of Hearing".
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on March 8, 2007 at 4:04 PM
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one thing is
belief is like a seed sown. it takes root and becomes as much of a person's psyche as the arm is of the body.
withouit it, they would not be whole
they are afraid of perceived "threats" to that belief.
and, as I have just posted, those Christians, thinking they are righteous and their "cause it is just", become overbearing and inconsiderate -- if they had been among the crusaders, they would have been just as destructive to all in their path.
when one thinks one's cause is of god, then one thinks one can do anything to promote their cause.
posted by
Xeno-x
on March 8, 2007 at 3:37 PM
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