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Asher Bertrand · 10-22-2007, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade

How about "Homosexual."

Or "Transgendered?"

What's the point of this exercise? Which social group gets more abuse in SL?

Yeah sorta.

I'd heard Christians complain more than once that they get accosted for their beliefs. I'd thought that that's what happens when you make a point of arguing a point, that you open yourself up to debate or even attack. I wasn't arguing anything, just standing there minding my own business reading a notecard, and bam! No one expects the anti-Spanish Inquisition.

So, yeah. Wondering if people react the other way when they perceive you as belonging to other groups. 'Zat a bad thing?

Joshua Nightshade · 10-22-2007, 04:34 PM

It just sounds to me like you happened to meet two morons. Hardly much of a sample size to extrapolate anything from.

Clancy Sullivan · 10-22-2007, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Asher Bertrand

...Wondering if people react the other way when they perceive you as belonging to other groups. 'Zat a bad thing?

Nope, just boring.

Now, if you built a Roman Catholic confessioal box and wore it like a hat so you could stop and set up anywhere, that'd spice things up.

Asher Bertrand · 10-22-2007, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade

It just sounds to me like you happened to meet two morons. Hardly much of a sample size to extrapolate anything from.

Perhaps... perhaps not. I'll check it out further.

Jessyanne · 10-22-2007, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade

extrapolate

Nerd. I love you

Asher Bertrand · 10-22-2007, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Clancy Sullivan

Nope, just boring.

Now, if you built a Roman Catholic confessioal box and wore it like a hat so you could stop and set up anywhere, that'd spice things up.

There are things people do that I dun' wanna know about...

Jessyanne · 10-22-2007, 04:52 PM

I think it's disgusting that people like you (an admitted Atheist) walks around in a Priest collar in SL) You should be ashamed of yourself. Equally disgusting that there's 4 pages of people who never mentioned this. Could be just me... but I find it mocking.

Clancy Sullivan · 10-22-2007, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Asher Bertrand

There are things people do that I dun' wanna know about...

Yeah, right. And, the Pope shits in the woods, too.

Joshua Nightshade · 10-22-2007, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Jessyanne

I think

I think it's disgusting that people like you (an admitted Atheist) walks around in a Priest collar in SL) You should be ashamed of yourself. Equally disgusting that there's 4 pages of people who never mentioned this. Could be just me... but I find it mocking.

Well he didn't say he was an Atheist, just that he's never been Christian.

Jessyanne · 10-22-2007, 04:54 PM

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Well he didn't say he was an Atheist, just that he's never been Christian.

My bad.... but still... I would consider it mocking a religion.

Clancy Sullivan · 10-22-2007, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jessyanne

I think it's disgusting that people like you (an admitted Atheist) walks around in a Priest collar in SL) You should be ashamed of yourself. Equally disgusting that there's 4 pages of people who never mentioned this. Could be just me... but I find it mocking.

Now, that's what I like, upping the stakes. Bold!

Jessyanne · 10-22-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Clancy Sullivan

Now, that's what I like, upping the stakes. Bold!

I have my moments

Joshua Nightshade · 10-22-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jessyanne

My bad.... but still... I would consider it mocking a religion.

I admit I don't really see the point in it either.

Jessyanne · 10-22-2007, 04:58 PM

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I admit I don't really see the point in it either.

(you did miss me!)

Cocoanut Koala · 10-22-2007, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Surreal Farber

Or... This week, I was working on some landscape chores on a corporate avatar and some random person started telling me what a loser I was and that I lived in my parent's basement, etc.

Some people just need to get lives.

Thing is, seems anybody could say the same thing about the avatar himself. I mean, here he is, an avatar on a videogame and all . . .

coco

Asher Bertrand · 10-22-2007, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Jessyanne

I think it's disgusting that people like you (an admitted Atheist) walks around in a Priest collar in SL) You should be ashamed of yourself. Equally disgusting that there's 4 pages of people who never mentioned this. Could be just me... but I find it mocking.

Whoa, hold on. I said I wasn't Christian, not that I was an atheist. And I'm sorry if you found it mocking. I admit it was for a role play, but I took the role seriously, and did not use it to espouse views that a priest wouldn't.

Would you feel the same way about a non-Catholic portraying a priest in a movie or play?

Cindy Claveau · 10-22-2007, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jessyanne

I think it's disgusting that people like you (an admitted Atheist) walks around in a Priest collar in SL) You should be ashamed of yourself. Equally disgusting that there's 4 pages of people who never mentioned this. Could be just me... but I find it mocking.

I'm a practicing atheist myself. And while I completely understand how important people's faith is to them, personally, it always puzzles me why one sect can take themselves seriously and forbid "heresy" - essentially outlawing free debate - all the while pointing to other sects as being worse.

Just my opinion here, but I don't think any body of ideas deserves the kind of awe and sacrosanct privelege that would prohibit (or inhibit) free and open discussion. That open discussion can also take the form of satire and parody, but it should be no less protected as a form of discussion.

Religious satire has been around for centuries. In the darkest of times it has resulted in burnings and torture.

Or wars.

I can understand how it is easy to offend people when it's such a personal thing as faith. But from where I sit, it also strikes me as silly when one thinks of all the better ways to spend time and energy.

Joshua Nightshade · 10-22-2007, 05:10 PM

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I'm a practicing atheist myself. And while I completely understand how important people's faith is to them, personally, it always puzzles me why one sect can take themselves seriously and forbid "heresy" - essentially outlawing free debate - all the while pointing to other sects as being worse.

Just my opinion here, but I don't think any body of ideas deserves the kind of awe and sacrosanct privelege that would prohibit (or inhibit) free and open discussion. That open discussion can also take the form of satire and parody, but it should be no less protected as a form of discussion.

Religious satire has been around for centuries. In the darkest of times it has resulted in burnings and torture.

Or wars.

I can understand how it is easy to offend people when it's such a personal thing as faith. But from where I sit, it also strikes me as silly when one thinks of all the better ways to spend time and energy.

Well said.

Clancy Sullivan · 10-22-2007, 05:25 PM

Asher, may God Almighty strike you dead. You are ruining this forum with your mockery. I'm so upsset now that I can't cook dinner. After Pizza Hut delivers I'll get back to trashing you.

Tyche Shepherd · 10-22-2007, 05:26 PM

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Asher, may God Almighty strike you dead. You are ruining this forum with your mockery. I'm so upsset now that I can't cook dinner. After Pizza Hut delivers I'll get back to trashing you.

oooo Clancy uses his 666th post to good effect

Edit : or is that affect ... *shrugs shoulders*

Aimee Weber · 10-22-2007, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Jessyanne

I think it's disgusting that people like you (an admitted Atheist) walks around in a Priest collar in SL) You should be ashamed of yourself. Equally disgusting that there's 4 pages of people who never mentioned this. Could be just me... but I find it mocking.

It seems with Halloween coming you've got bigger fish to fry.

GradyE · 10-22-2007, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Surreal Farber

Or... This week, I was working on some landscape chores on a corporate avatar and some random person started telling me what a loser I was and that I lived in my parent's basement, etc.

Some people just need to get lives.

That was almost certainly some loser living their parent's basement.

Tyche Shepherd · 10-22-2007, 05:40 PM

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That was almost certainly some loser living their parent's basement.

hey .. nothing wrong with that , where do you think Jesus lived before he went out preaching ?

10-22-2007, 04:34 PM	#27 (permalink)
Joshua Nightshade Banned Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: NYC Posts: 22,229 SL Join Date: 10-11-2004 Business: abstract avatars! SLShopper Ads: 16 My Mood:	It just sounds to me like you happened to meet two morons. Hardly much of a sample size to extrapolate anything from.

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Jessyanne Senior Member Likes the smell of green Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pa Posts: 4,645 Business: Lakeside Homes	I think it's disgusting that people like you (an admitted Atheist) walks around in a Priest collar in SL) You should be ashamed of yourself. Equally disgusting that there's 4 pages of people who never mentioned this. Could be just me... but I find it mocking.

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Clancy Sullivan Banned Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: New York City Posts: 4,630 Business: Rollerskating My Mood: Awards: 1	Asher, may God Almighty strike you dead. You are ruining this forum with your mockery. I'm so upsset now that I can't cook dinner. After Pizza Hut delivers I'll get back to trashing you.