Religiously inspired misbehaviour

[moonkitty]

On face value this looks like a post that neither addresses the post that it quotes nor anything that´s being discussed in this thread at all, but I´m sure there´s some very profound message behind your statement which I simply don´t get.

I think he is referring to the statues the depict a buddha as a short fat chinese man. Which is not the Buddha known as Siddhartha Gautama, who was known as the first buddha. (buddha is a title, not a name).

I think the statues of the fat buddha are often chinese kitchen gods or a chinese monk such as Hotei or Chiche.

 

[Wicked Willow]

I think he is referring to the statues the depict a buddha as a short fat chinese man. Which is not the Buddha known as Siddhartha Gautama, who was known as the first buddha. (buddha is a title, not a name).

I think the statues of the fat buddha are often chinese kitchen gods or a chinese monk such as Hotei or Chiche.

Plus, he seems to be unable to differentiate between "their" and "there" - a phenomenon that, curiously enough, has spread all over the internet over the course of the last two years. I haven't figured out how or why, but it's EVERYWHERE. A pandemic of abominable English.

 

[LittleNipper]

On face value this looks like a post that neither addresses the post that it quotes nor anything that´s being discussed in this thread at all, but I´m sure there´s some very profound message behind your statement which I simply don´t get.

I think it is the term "statue" and that wasted resource plus energy, coupled with artistic obesity. Hey, give that prayer wheel another spin will yeah!

 

[LittleNipper]

Plus, he seems to be unable to differentiate between "their" and "there" - a phenomenon that, curiously enough, has spread all over the internet over the course of the last two years. I haven't figured out how or why, but it's EVERYWHERE. A pandemic of abominable English.

Merely a slip.

 

[MoonLancer]

But you shouldn't be vular if you have a point to make or people might just believe you to be an uneducated creep. And we don't want that.

Gorge Carlin an American patriot disagrees with you.

 

[quatona]

I think it is the term "statue" and that wasted resource plus energy, coupled with artistic obesity.

This sentence appears to be incomplete. What is with the term etc.?

 

[atomweaver]

Plus, he seems to be unable to differentiate between "their" and "there" - a phenomenon that, curiously enough, has spread all over the internet over the course of the last two years. I haven't figured out how or why, but it's EVERYWHERE. A pandemic of abominable English.

Their their, Willow, its not so bad...

 

[bigbadwilf]

Their their, Willow, its not so bad...

Shouldn't that be they're, they're?

 

[bigbadwilf]

fallacy of a authority? Your argument distilled is that its ok what she did because of her position. If she took off her robe and stated to touch would you have the same opinion. afterall she is simply expressing herself right?

It definitely wouldn't have stayed on youtube for a start...

 

[No Swansong]

No, but the nature of the prayer is evidence that they clearly influenced her decision in this instance. If there weren't "test cases" being urged by the legal organizations, she might not have demanded the "right" to give a benediction. If she belonged to a less (for lack of a better word) "dramatic" church, her prayer would not have been so over-the-top. And there is no way she did not rehearse her speech, including the prayer, in front of her family.

I don't know whether she practiced it or not but it seems likely as an educated woman that she most likely did. Whether it had anything to do with her family or Church is purely speculation.

I agree she was probably charismatic or Pentecostal but I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion of freedom of expression or perhaps I am misunderstanding your post?

 

[No Swansong]

You know, at times the US/EU religious dynamic its almost like a biological/evolution experiment; the EU expels a large fragment of its religious fanatics to a New World in which those people have a supreme (military) competitive advantage over the native species. They flourish over time to out-compete the locals in filling the geography, and we're now at the point where the geographic isolation of the two populations (US/EU) is no longer present... I wonder what will happen next?

Perhaps the next logical link in the chain would be that the U.S. becomes expansionist and Imperialistic and the same thing happens. Maybe all of those from the various extremes move to Alaska and Alaska succeeds.

 

[No Swansong]

Well, that runs both ways. The school obviously doesn't represent her nor her faith.

Indeed this is true.

 

[No Swansong]

Gorge Carlin an American patriot disagrees with you.

Not that I agree or disagree with LN but quite honestly while Carlin was funny why should anyone really care? It seems you are appealing to authority and I just don't recognize any that Carlin had. (you do know he passed on right?)