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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 02:50 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       6 of 76 
38555.6 In reply to 38555.5 
Yes, you are wrong in a weird colonial way. It is good that you are learning.

I've made you a handy diagram to show you all the places where your keyboard is incorrect.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 02:55 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      7 of 76 
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See, I knew this would be much funner than just Googling it!

Your keyboard is a fucking mess! How do you type on that thing? Is the keyboard on your phones the same way?

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The voicemail system will prompt you to select a permanent four-digit PIN and to press the pound (#) key. You will be prompted to enter it again.


See, I knew I was right when I said that whatever you guys over there do, we do something different. Why can't we all just get along?
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 02:57 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       8 of 76 
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Hey, it's not our fault. You're the ones who decided to set up some assbackwards new country where you worship money and do things incorrectly.

When we call phone things which require input they tell us, where appropriate, to press the hash key. Because that is what it is called. I think you need another constitutional amendment to fix this.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 02:59 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      9 of 76 
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oh man, I'm sitting here laughing at that. Your logic can't be denied.

 

Hey on a completely unrelated topic. Who is Geert Wilder? I am reading a speech he gave today? about Islam. Would love to hear your position on it if you've read it.
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 03:02 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       10 of 76 
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Ok from a quick google he's a neonazi politician from Holland. So no doubt I'll be disagreeing.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 03:03 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      11 of 76 
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This is the speech I'm reading.
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 03:05 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       12 of 76 
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That site's title is oxymoronic.

<has a read>
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 03:06 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      13 of 76 
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(fail) you're so mean. I think you and Mr. Bastard are brothers.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 03:13 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      14 of 76 
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Yeah, I don't think you'll be agreeing with him. This is his wiki.

I'm not going to post any more about it until you reply because I'm pretty sure my view on Islam is very different than yours or others here. And not ever really known any Muslims I can't be sure my opinion is correct. Because, of course, mine is based on the few who thought it would be cool to fly fucking jets into sky scrappers. And that would be like you having a view on all Christian or other religions because of the few nut jobs you see from American TV.
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 03:15 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       15 of 76 
38555.15 In reply to 38555.11 
Ok had a quick skim and yeah it's just the usual neo-nazi nonsense.

I think firstly you have to separate Islam out from the behaviour of Islamic states and individuals. The actions of these states and peopel is no more representative of Islam than the USA's actions are of Christianity. The IRA were not Christian terrorists, they were just terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on perspective). Those Catholic Priests who sexually abused children were not representative of Christianity. The Tokugawa Shogunate were not representative of Buddhism. And so on and so on.

The west is not "under attack" by Islam. Western culture will certainly be influenced by large numbers of Muslim immigrants, just as it was by countless waves of other immigrants over the millennia. The slightly hidden assumption is that this is a bad thing, which remains to be proven.

It's the same old stuff. It used to be (in Europe/Britain) directed against the Jews (well, the Jews still get it, sadly). Then it was the blacks and Indians, then the Pakistanis and now it's the Muslims in general and to a lesser extent the Eastern Europeans. There's nothing new in it and its no more a compelling argument now than it was 500 years ago.

We're always afraid of people we see as 'other' encroaching on what we see as ours. And we're always afraid that our culture will be eroded, which supposes that culture was ever a fixed, static thing and that it's something that can and should be protected, which is pretty ridiculous.

H8rs gonna h8.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 03:19 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      16 of 76 
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You're right on about that, so how can you be so wrong about the (#) pound key?
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 03:20 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       17 of 76 
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Stop eroding my culture you fucking muslim.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 03:22 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      18 of 76 
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You watch it mister, or I'll whatever the bad things muslim's do and you won't like it!
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 03:24 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       19 of 76 
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:C

Ok now I really am going to go try DX:HR
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 03:25 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      20 of 76 
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Have fun. I'll talk to you tomorrow!
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 03:43 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      21 of 76 
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Sorry, still here. Do you know who Pat Condell is?
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 03:45 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       22 of 76 
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Only after a quick wiki. Seems to be another dick.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 03:50 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      23 of 76 
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haha, you kill me man! I don't think he's a dick. Watch this if you get time.
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   2 Jun 2011 04:08 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       24 of 76 
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Yeah, definitely a dick. Talking a lot of shit.

Again, he's conflating the actions of people who profess to be Muslims with the religion Islam. He's also using "the news" as evidence for Islamic violence :? News organisations have a vested interest in stirring things up and also are by default representing 'our' (western, non-muslim) perspective. Ask the people of Afghanistan and Iraq whether Muslims or Christians are more violent.

It's valid to criticise Islam (or any other religion), it's valid to criticise Islamic culture (which is separate from but related to the religion of course), it's valid to criticise state actions and it's valid to criticise the actions of individuals. It's invalid to conflate all that into one thing and pretend that one is indicative or representative of the other.

The Muslim world is as varied and as potentially violent as the Christian world. People are varied and, often, violent.

Some people who would identify as culturally or religiously Islamic or both feel, quite understandably, that their culture is under attack from and risks being subsumed by American culture. I think this is more realistic - this fear that global free market economics and the multinational corporations which represent that ideology, along with the governments which are funded by that ideology and happen to be the richest and best-armed nations in the world pose a threat to Islamic culture - than to think that immigrants from Islamic countries will collapse western democratic capitalism by wearing different clothes and building some mosques.

It's just ridiculous.

It's complex, and he's trying to pretend it's simple in order to entertain xenophobes and idiots.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    2 Jun 2011 04:19 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      25 of 76 
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I want to continue this, but I must get to bed.

 

You and I could have some nice drunk discussions on shit like this, that seems to be about the only time I get passionate about much. And most usually it's the only time where I put logic away and follow blind faith in the, "it's always been that way, and I'm sure I'm right" kind of thinking.

 

I remember having those kinds of discussions with friends when I was younger. You never change anyone's mind but it is sometimes good for the soul.

 

But I did rather enjoy listening to that guy. He does make is sound much simpler than it is. Nothing is ever simple, but I think he had a few good points. Anyway there Ice Cube, have a good one. Peace.
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