lulz
Who to blame for this (extremely) funny prank? *hat tip* to them.
btw, the crazy fundies need to get a grip, when it comes to pr0n.
There were red faces at the Indonesian parliament this week after miscreants somehow managed to stream a porn video through an internal TV channel. Officials apparently struggled to turn off the smut stream from an adult website for 15 minutes before finally restoring control. The incident came in the run-up to the proposed …
I think you'll find that the "crazy fundies" ,or "people with morals" as they prefer to be called, don't like anyone gripping anything when it somes to porn.
Also isn't strange that they are crazy fundamentlists, but you're so embaressed by a four letter word you have to deliberately mistype it.
I think that as you feel the need to mock anyone who has any sort of religious belief as a sky fairy worshiper, shows that you think that they stronger moral code that those that don't. Disagree with thier moral code and religious beliefs by all means, but don't belittle them. Anyone who is able to maintain the practice of any faith under the pressures of modern society should be applauded, and not labelled as fundamentalist\extremists just because you don't agree with them. Labeling people as "crazy fundies" just because you don't like\agreed\understand them is what fuels the real extremists.
As for better, well that's a little more subjective.
Why does every person with a religious belief only believe people who believe in a "sky fairy" can have morals and/or have stronger morals than people who don't?
When you look at the history of religion a lot of illegal, unethical and disturbing actions have been taken by followers of a structured religion who believed they were right in what they were doing.
I have strong sense of morality but I'm agnostic, I belittle such "sky fairy" worshippers because most will try to impose their morality on others with little proof such morality will be beneficial to the people they try to impose those beliefs on.
Such people shouldn't be applauded they should be belittled, look at the war on drugs. Proffessor Nutt suggests government policy isn't based on scientific evidence and is actually doing more harm than good and he's sacked while the politician sticks his fingers in his ears and humms "I believe I'm right". I should point out I've never smoked or taken non-prescribed drugs, I just try to have an open mind.
When you look at the history a lot of illegal, unethical and disturbing actions have been taken by
people with no religious beliefs, because they thought they were right in what they were doing
People of faith find themseleves belittled by people who want to impose their secular morality
on others with little proof such morality will be beneficial to the people they try to impose those beliefs on.
Proffessor Nutt suggests government policy isn't based on scientific evidence and is actually doing more harm than good and he's sacked, whilst the politician looks at a calender realising that there is an election coming up and doesn't want to do anything that might lose the middle England\Daily Mail\Daily Express\Law & Order vote.
I should point out I've never smoked or taken non-prescribed drugs.
I just try to have an open mind.
Having different set moral values is fine, disagreeing about what is morally right and wrong is a good thing, dismissing people out of hand because you can find some convient label to attach to them has all the hallmarks of a very closed mind, no doubt an attribute that you would ascribe to any person of any faith .
" the crazy fundies need to get a grip"
There are certainly some pretty strict isolated areas of Indonesia and a couple of Islamist parties with representation in the People's Representative Council, but Indonesia is not a fundamentalist country, citizens have a right to practice their own religion (a right which isn't always respected in practice, to be fair) and some areas of Indonesia are majority non-Muslim (like Bali, of course). Some people reckon the fundamentalists are being rolled back now that the 9/11 and Iraq indignation among the youth is subsiding...a bit, and the clerics are alienating their audience: http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2250&Itemid=202
But the point is that it's not online prawn that's necessarily the main concern here - there is widespread censorship of the arts and media in many respects, particularly if the content looks like it might rock the boat by discussing Suharto-era abuses by the military or modern-day corruption. http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2010statements/2472
Equally, you don't have to be a theocracy or a fundamentalist state to <3 censorship and expensive firewalls - just ask Australia, Dubai or China!
Surely a devout Moslem wouldn't dream of looking for smut on the internet, so that only leave the people affectionately referred to as 'infidels' that would be affected by it.
So this is basically about forcing people to keep to their religious tenants, which they should do anyway if they really believed in it, and restricting the freedoms of people who don't follow that religion. Just goes to show how progressive they are!
You meant 'tenets'.
The rest of you - I've immediately and simulataneously thought of all possible permutations of the joke on 'religious tenants', and none of them are funny, so don't bother.
Besides it's nowhere near as good as the berk the other week who thought 'disciples' was spelt 'decibels'.
Typically not a big fan of activist taking the main stage like that, (Greenpeace closing petrol stations?? idjits.), but that is just brilliant, definitely tip my hat to those folk who embarrassed the hell of the government for implementing stupidity.
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Would ask them to join me in a celebatory beer but guess they are muslims, oh well more for me :)
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