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Topic Started: Dec 8 2015, 05:47 PM (6,961 Views)
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Dec 16 2015, 08:05 PM
Man, humans do strange things when we get bored.

I just keep getting awesome quotes around here.

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While this isn't my encounter, Linkara has shared an Email he has received.

http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/135343401103
Edited by trex841, Dec 16 2015, 09:40 PM.
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Dec 16 2015, 09:32 PM
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Dec 16 2015, 08:05 PM
Man, humans do strange things when we get bored.

I just keep getting awesome quotes around here.

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While this isn't my encounter, Linkara has shared an Email he has received.

http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/135343401103
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Pro tip; if you're ever on the CBC news website or their Facebook page, never read the comments.

For context, this was on the article of a Canadian/Korean pastor of a church in Toronto who got sentenced to life in prison in North Korea for "harming the dignity of the supreme leader" or something like that. Sad, but it happens. There was one guy who decided to go on a multi paragraph rant about how this guy deserved what he got because he violated the laws of the land, and disrespected their hospitality. He also claimed that "radicalized" Christians think they're above all laws, and how laws and civilization predate religion. This is nuts for several reasons; one, this is North Korea, as close to a literal Orwellian dictatorship as we've ever gotten. Their laws are about as far away from just as you can get. Secondly, North Korean "hospitality" is about as close to actual hospitality as a garbage can is to a three course gourmet meal. Finally, the pastor who was sentenced was doing humanitarian work, and actually helping people in North Korea. That takes balls, and he should be admired for it. This commenter couldn't see that for whatever reason.

Anyway, that's the weirdest/dumbest thing I've read on the Internet recently.
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I disagree with circumcision as well. If you're Jewish and 13 years old, sure, you can decide for yourself. If you're like me and you were an infant with no say then no, there's literally no justification for it. Circumcision is not a legitimate medical practice, it's mutilation. Why not cut off babies toes and nipples while we're at it? It will save them the trouble of cleaning them in the future after all! Hell, why stop at the foreskin? Why not remove all their skin? And let's cut out their eyes too, that should be okay. It's not like they'll remember it! Removal of the foreskin is not something that can be reversed, it shouldn't be done to people that can't consent.
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the thing is with people like you,especially, the women, its that, in the darkest truths of things, you are just like spoiled children as you are so easily taken in by a pretty picture or small animal that you can't see a big picture, and there is a picture to be viewed. and it is a big picture. did you know that animals have evolved to look "cute" to other animals, and, especially, to humans who wuold otherwise be driven to slaughter them by there more practical natures. they develop large eyes and small nose like a human baby, in this way animals have manipulated into doing there bidding and not harming them, this naturally is most effective on the women as they like children have not, maybe they cannot, allow rationality to override there emotional response. how does it feel knowing that a dumb animal has exerted mind control over you for your entire life? this is why most slaughterhouse workers, butchers, soldier, police, fishermen, farmers are men. if left to the women we would all starve eating nothing but vegetables, roots, and unable to cull the plague of animals we would lose out and starve. our enemies too would plunder our lands seeing our weakness and affront at blood. it isnt practical to fall for the devious charms of animals nor pretty flowers, these are just a ruse. a man can do his duty and take from the land what his tribe needs to live, or his family, or his nation, he can take from the land with no remorse, he sees the cow as a resource not a baby, with his more practical and enlightened nature. the women will see the cow as nothing more than a baby or a baby doll toy, like a child, and will clutch at it even wile the cow eats all the food, and it shits on her floor, and it takes a man to save the women and children from themselves in this way. one thing that has caused this to get out of control, this suscptibility to animal manipulations is GMO make them more appealing to womens nature, these are secretlyplanted covert weapons to weaken the nation. no meat no hard labour - perfect plan to make the people soft and ripe for conquer. this was all started by the rise in "womens rights", before this, it was eay to strengthen the people. women were more content and men could be real men, strong defenders of tribes and nations. but, as you probably know, but deep down, deny, the "womens rights" caused a lack of procreation. women think that there time is better spent on small animals and carrers, than pleasing a husband - this is why there are less children, less families. women have cats, dogs, cows, instead of a baby, just animal substitutes, they cannot see that they aren't fufiled in life without the touch of a man, i think you have fallen for this. there is one way to save these women, like you, and others who believe silly emotional impulses and GMO propoganda and graphic sexual imagery/fantasy removed. if only you will stop trying to think with your own head, and instead, endless get mislead by your hearts, you can be strong! you can save your family!


Well, that was me told! Via facebook - no idea who this person is or why they sent me this. Not obvious from my profile that I'm a woman either so I guess he did a little stalking before he sent this : / someone really needs a new hobby...( or do I just need a man to save me from cows?)
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Arrange to meet him. Then grab his junk and look him in the eyes with the coldest, most heartless glare imaginable, and start twisting. Continue to do so until blood flow has ceased, his flesh has started to necrotize, and he is on the floor in agony.

Someone who believes that and is willing to rant about it to someone who doesn't know him must never be allowed the capability to reproduce.
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???

That has nothing to do with the castration of idiots.
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Well, circumcision is one of those issues that starts debates online a lot but not in real life.

To be honest, as far as I know, it's only really a debate in America. Virtually everyone I know who I've talked to about it thinks that it's immoral, as it isn't anywhere near as common here or in Europe or Latin America as it is in the US or Middle East. In a few countries there are laws against it, and perhaps more commonly, it is seen as an oddity of some societies.

f you're outside a context where it is normal or expected it is pretty strange that it could be considered normal in some countries to modify the genitals of infants without any actual medical justification or reason. Imagine if people pierced the clitoral hood of their daughters when they were born, sure in that culture it might be normal, and many of those girls would grow up feeling as though it was perfectly fine or even preferable, but across the pond it'd gross people out.
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if left to the women we would all starve eating nothing but vegetables, roots, and unable to cull the plague of animals we would lose out and starve. our enemies too would plunder our lands seeing our weakness and affront at blood.
I find this statement hilarious. One of my best friends is a practicing vet at UC Davis, and she not only eats vast quantities of meat, but she's also shot cows in the head (terminally ill cows), wrestled down llamas, and once pulled out a stillborn and decayed calf from a cow's birth canal. But no, blood and death cause women to spontaneously combust.
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I got a quarter of the way through that message, and decided I really didn't need to read the rest...
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Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

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That has nothing to do with the castration of idiots.
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Well, circumcision is one of those issues that starts debates online a lot but not in real life.

To be honest, as far as I know, it's only really a debate in America. Virtually everyone I know who I've talked to about it thinks that it's immoral, as it isn't anywhere near as common here or in Europe or Latin America as it is in the US or Middle East. In a few countries there are laws against it, and perhaps more commonly, it is seen as an oddity of some societies.

f you're outside a context where it is normal or expected it is pretty strange that it could be considered normal in some countries to modify the genitals of infants without any actual medical justification or reason. Imagine if people pierced the clitoral hood of their daughters when they were born, sure in that culture it might be normal, and many of those girls would grow up feeling as though it was perfectly fine or even preferable, but across the pond it'd gross people out.
The supposed medical benefits are that it reduces risk of smegma or infection as it's easier to clean. But again it's a cultural thing, not really practised in Europe (not sure why America practises it).
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People thought a lot of things would reduce masturbation. None of them worked. :P
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