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When I was in first school I won the highly coveted yearly "guess how many jelly beans there are in this jar" competition. There were 374, and I guessed so. The prize was a teddy bear and a huge jar of 374 jelly beans, I didn't like jelly beans so I gave them all to my friend, which I guess is what led to his downspiral into a world of gambling, drug dealing and male prostitution to aid his obsessive jelly bean addiction, eventually ending in a near fatal sugar overdose and a period in rehab.
I could never bring myself to name the bear, it didn't have a persona, with those vacant eyes, partially concealed with fur, devoid of any form of identity. The only glimpse of character it gave off was a jumper brandishing a healthy school meals slogan and a faint aurora of the irony of being paired with a gargantuan tub of jelly beans.
Initially I nicknamed it after it's wonderful healthy eating message, something like "health bear" or "fruit bear," but I realised at some point that the bear probably wouldn't be to be identified as a bear by the clothes it had had no choice in choosing or wearing, lacking a means of communication, (and most probably, although not certainly, consciousness) as most stuffed toys do.
So, the bear sat nameless for many years, with no sense of identity or self, on the windowsill of my bedroom, temporarily being relocated for dusting and other window activities (there seem to be more in your childhood.)
Until now...
You may have heard of the ridiculous story of british school teacher Gillian Gibbons who teaches (or tought, I should say) at Unity high school in Khartoum being arrested for calling the class teddy bear Muhammad, after a school boy suggested calling the bear Muhammad, after his own name. This is similar but on a smaller scale to the danish cartoons fiasco a few years ago.
Innocent people who were not muslims were killed over cartoons, that's right, cartoons, which nobody outside of Holland would have noticed if they had not been actually added to and hyped up by muslim Imams, sickeningly so.
I wish to pay homage to the wonderful religion of Islam by calling my own childhood nameless bear Muhammad (pbuh). In the eyes of a muslim i'm going to hell for doing this anyway, so please, no violence or threats. | |
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12/02/07
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crabster
Marklar said: ""if there wasn't religion around for people to goad people into hatred and violence, it would probably be a little bit harder."
I disagree. Religion is an excuse, not a reason. Bad things happen because people want to control other people, and the people they are trying to control want to control people too and fight back. Wars are fought for control; things like religion and nationality are just excuses to motivate the cannon fodder into dying for those at the top."
I strongly disagree. Take for instance genital mutilation of children. Who would do such a thing if there weren't any religious justifications for it?
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Zanf
^ circumcision is one of the most despicable things that religions do.
I cant get over how many people think its totally acceptable and yet are repulsed by the idea of clitorectomy.
childrens genitals + religious fruitcake + knife = [if ever there was such a thing] pure evil.
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crabster
Zanf: I think it's pretty understandable, since cliterectomies are much more intrusive. I think people should be able to lob off whatever parts of the genitals they want, as long as they are adults when they make the decision.
That's the key part for me I think. Unnecessary surgical procedures should not be performed on anyone not old enough to legally consent. Period.
There's been some debate in sweden about whether churches should be able to discriminate who they marry. This issue, too, is crystal clear in it's simplicity to me. The churches claim to want to perform legally binding rituals and thus in a sense act as a part of the social infrastructure. Discrimination isn't acceptable in the social infrastructure. They can either perform legally binding marriages or discriminate people. They can't have it both ways.
It's a recurring theme when it comes to religion, the need to have it both ways. Creationism is science? Well, bring forth a falsifiable hypothesis and let's test it like any other. Oh, it's not science in THAT sense. Well, what other sense is there? They want the trappings and respectability of science, but are both unwilling and unable to do the legwork.
Absolute bollocks.
Ahem. Rant over.
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owl
religion is a control, a way of stopping people thinking for themselves.
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cbit
@ crabster rant. 100% agreed. Why are we pretending this idiocy is respectable? If it wasn't for the shield of hushed respect that descends as soon as any piece of lunacy is described as being religious our societies wouldn't hesitate to outlaw this stuff. That respect has not been earned. This barbarity should be legislated against.
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soft
i saw this picture and just HAD to post it ...... but i couldn't decide which blog was most relevant .... this or the 'major moral victory' one ..... so decide to post it in both.
link
^^^ that is truly one of the most amazing things i have ever seen and deserves its own blog really.
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soft
if you don't see him at first look a little closer.
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cbit
Truly a miracle!
12/03/07
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soft
OMFG.
i was looking for this thread and googled 'can i bear islam' .... and was shocked to find this thread as the first result.... what with the recent Sudan teddy bear nonsense....
so i tested em411's google fu with 'bear islam' WOW!!
also i bear
12/03/07
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celibacyclub
wow
makes me wonder how much we get read
maybe i should censor myself
12/04/07
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cbit
Blimey.
on topic: Gillian Gibbons has safely returned to the UK
12/04/07
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bla
DEATH TO EXTREMISTS!
12/04/07
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thehydrax
cbit said: "
There is no ultimate good and evil, only actualisation. Cause and effect. "
I like this quote from the ancient Indian Buddhist philosopher Nargarjuna
The gods are all eternal scoundrels
Incapable of dissolving the suffering of impermanence.
Those who serve them and venerate them
May even in this world sink into a sea of sorrow.
We know the gods are false and have no concrete being;
Therefore the wise man believes them not
The fate of the world depends on causes and conditions
Therefore the wise many cannot rely on gods.
The simple laws of cause and effect, impermanence and interdependence (that nothing can exist in and of itself) are good enough to say without a doubt that there are no Gods
12/04/07
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cbit
(that quote was from zanf, not me. though i agree with it)
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