frankie's Journal: What the F#(K is wrong with these people???

It keeps getting harder for me to dismiss the notion that our universe is an elaborate hoax, which is gradually being made more and more ridiculous to find out how long it takes before I reject it entirely.

• "How dare the Pope mention an old essay saying muslims are violent? Kill the infidel!"
• "United Nations, you must punish Iran for not obeying international law! Congress, you must stop trying to make *ME* obey international law!"
• People who want secure verifiable elections "are undermining our democracy".
• etc, etc, etc.

It's unbelievable that millions of people think any of those things make sense. This stuff has gone WAY beyond "outrage fatigue" and well on its way into the Twilight Zone. How can it possibly be "reality"?

I hope you can figure it out soon

[nizo]

Because if you do, please tell me too.

The problem with an extreme mind

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Is that we often do not understand how the other extreme thinks. So much so that we often label those in the center to be from the other side.

So it is here. We're so used to "normal" dialogue between Christian sects, Buddhist sects, Taoists, etc that we fail to remember that at one time, we were just as violent as they are now. We don't remember the Christian Reformation, which stopped killing people for such insults back 450 years ago.

That's where Islam is today- in the midst of their Reformation, the

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[frankie]

Nevertheless, it remains that if someone says you are too violent and unreasonable, responding with "I will kill you for saying such lies!" is competely and utterly STUPID.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Agreed, from a modern Christian point of view. From a Reformationist point of view though, all that matters is the insult of the moment, and destroying theological thought that is opposed to your own. For this very reason, Queen Elizabeth burned the Catholics- and her cousin/nephew King James returned the favor with Anglicans a few years later, thus inspiring the archetectural spare room known as the Priest Hole throughout England.

The hardest thing for the liberal west to accept in the war on terror is t