Rou
Ranting. Raving. Screaming at the stars!
Apr/30
2005
2005
Ah the wonderful world of the internet. So full of… well… the best word to describe them is fuck-nuggets.
Today’s subject is a forum poster who has decided his religious beliefs should somehow translate to how I live my life. Now, I won’t touch the topic at hand, because it’s a completely separate rant. Needless to say, he had moral conviction that his view was Right and Good and Just in the Lord. He even did the stupid capitalization of every 3rd word for effect.
Now, I’m all for people having religion. I got no problem with someone telling me about their beliefs in the context of a topical discussion. If we were to talk about adultery, I can respect someone that said “My religion tells me such and such is a sin in the book of Roulette 69:69”.
That is all fine and good. However, I draw the line at the next step of righteousness that spews forth. He proceeded to speak as if he knows the divine will of god, damning all heathens to hell, and insisting that we all bow down and acknowledge his religious beliefs as the one true belief.
Now, I know full well that this little punk ass bitch wouldn’t have the gall to say that sort of thing if he wasn’t hiding behind anonymity. People wouldn’t stand for that kind of behavior in real life. Even the well known Jehovah’s Witnesses stop when people tell them to go away. Ok, sometimes you need a bat to get them off the porch, but the point is; they go away.
Why do people act differently when they post on the internet? Why would you ever become a self righteous asshole to people that have no interest in your beliefs. I mean, when I tell someone what I believe, and they say ‘I don’t believe that’. I just say ‘its cool.’ And then the conversation has to move on to other topics.
I don’t act differently online. If you think I’m an asshole in my posts it’s because I’m an asshole. Likewise if you think I’m funny or nice or whatever, it’s because that is what I am. The only part of my posts that is a persona is my name.
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Comment from: u235 [Member] 
Truth in representation.
While I may not agree with someone (ok many someones) I entirely respect them if they're consistant in the persona they project. If you're a jerk, then fine - be a jerk. I know how to interpret jerkiness and I know what to expect, in the worst case I know when to add you to my /ignore list.
It's the bi-polar-posters that make me want to take a hatchet to them. Most of them are empty, faceless types pandering to what they believe the majority of readers want to hear. The worst of them are lacky-fags preparing a suckup fest for someone they desperately want approval from.
Fuck that.
On fanatics, worse -religous- fanatics, well aside from the fact that they are going to hell there's little or nothing you can do with, about or for them.
The only thing worse than sucking up to someone is trying to suck up to god.
While I may not agree with someone (ok many someones) I entirely respect them if they're consistant in the persona they project. If you're a jerk, then fine - be a jerk. I know how to interpret jerkiness and I know what to expect, in the worst case I know when to add you to my /ignore list.
It's the bi-polar-posters that make me want to take a hatchet to them. Most of them are empty, faceless types pandering to what they believe the majority of readers want to hear. The worst of them are lacky-fags preparing a suckup fest for someone they desperately want approval from.
Fuck that.
On fanatics, worse -religous- fanatics, well aside from the fact that they are going to hell there's little or nothing you can do with, about or for them.
The only thing worse than sucking up to someone is trying to suck up to god.
05/01/05 @ 20:21
Comment from: vacant2 [Member]
Extremists of all sorts suck. Whether they belong to the nvidia fanboys, religious zealots, flaming homosexuals, linux evangelists or countless other two word generalizations, they all have one large thing in common. They fuck up the world for the rest of us. Since the topic is religioius freaks we'll pick them for disection. I'm sorry, but the Islamic and Christian "morality" do not jive with my own. Sure they have some good points, but I don't agree with them point for point. And anybody that buys into something wholesale and accepts the belief system without question is an idiot, plain and simple. Religions like to call this faith, I like to call it a lobotomy. Idiots rule.
05/02/05 @ 08:09
Comment from: vacant1 [Member]
The main problem with extremists is that they really don't understand their own agenda they are pushing, whether it is religion, OS, political standing, etc. Its usually quite one sided and mis-interpreted and/or mis-understood. I'm a Christian and have no problem telling people this, but at the same time I'm not going to push my faith on anyone else uninvited. I love to discuss religion and philosophy with anyone, regardless of stance, but its generally the extremists of any side that either can't back up what they say, have no clue what they are saying, or are simply rattling off concepts they don't understand but think are correct cause someone else told them instead of looking into things themselves.
They have lost the ability to think for themselves and think everyone else is silly for having questions or challenging and statements made. The worst are the ones who refuse to even expose themselves to how the other "side" thinks, like it will infect them and they'll be converted to the dark side or something stupid like that. These people are just ignorant.
05/02/05 @ 08:39
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