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>> ^xxovercastxx:

Is he referring to this BFG?


Ahh -- I couldn't figure out why the voice would elicit comparisons to the doom BFG, obliterating a roomful of targets in a massive green ball. I bet you've got the proper BFG figured out.

Is he referring to this BFG?

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>> ^Mauru:

What an absolute bunch of horse-crap. If your reasoning sounds like an haiku, it is probably made for the stage. If it is made for the stage you are playing with words. If you are playing with words and you mean to educate, ... ah well, you can probably suspect the value of your reasoning.
We are officially entering the ether of ideological comparison. Go ahead guys. You know how well this has worked out in the past.
I'd feel a lot better if I didn't have the suspicion that this guy got his patriotic hard-on during that video.


Are you talking to me, or talking to him...and furthermore, what are you even saying! I require specificity. Are you saying the Quran doesn't state those things? Are you saying he is taking them out of context? Just saying something doesn't make it so, you must plead the case. The whole point of this thread was to avoid group thing dynamics where you just state things carte blanche to resonate with your fellow minded friends and to engage with the core issue with specific, and perhaps, personal examples. For example:

>> ^Bloocut:

@GeeSussFreeK-Symbols are used, not unlike roughy remarked, by evil fuckers who know how to use them-similar to product placement in cinema. See a symbol enough times then whatever value placed upon it by the bulk of society, becomes the acceptable shit-think.
Symbols contain both intrinsic and adventitious meanings and when used effectively they can convince or otherwise influence the most moral souls to commit unspeakable inhumanities.
To the more enlightened of the planet who take the time to use their computers to explore the history of the place rather than looking at cartoon characters through scopes or hundreds of pairs of tits or listening to National Public Radio, well, it's grammar school time.


At heart, I am an anti-establishment, non-traditionalist, don't-tell-me-what-to-do type of person. So, when I hear rhetoric about the "man", and zombie mind control, I usually bite hard. When I first read this, I was like "right on, fight the power", but then I started to examine the core of the argument, and look into personal examples and found it held less water.

Symbols only matter when you care. A symbol for you doesn't really work for me at times. For example; I still have my tattered, unusable bible, my lego collection that I never use, books galore, star wars figurines, ect. They all have very little rational value. The raw materials couldn't fetch much of anything on any market. But they all have real, deep, and meaningful value to me. Symbolism is a deep part of my life and I didn't even realize it, and in fact would of said I am very iconoclast if I was asked.

It isn't for a lack of enlightenment or reason, I would say I have a slight deal more of that than the average man (not much though), but what I value naturally reflects itself in how I deal with objects of my fixations. I don't care for churches persay, so making one of blowing one up is silly to even care about, but if you grabbed 30 of the worlds fastest graphics processors and melted them down right in front of me, I would be disturbed. Of if you grabbed my legos which I don't use and burned them, the depths of my sadness would be hard to measure. Or to abstract it away to a level of symbolism, if people that made those items went out of business, I care (RIP BFG video cards).

Far be it a stretch of the imagination that people would use symbolism under false pretense to manipulate people, I am sure it is done all the time. But that only strengthens the argument that the mosque could potentially be built under false pretense inasmuch as the people who are offended by it. Everyone here could be guilty of some hidden, secret agenda, who is to say? I just wanted to point out that people getting upset about something that isn't a direct offense but a symbolic one aren't very different from you or me; they just care about a different set of things.

So is a BFG in that Universe akin to Dr. Kevorkian?

She totally needs a BFG!

She totally needs a BFG!

it's a belter. was forced to read it at school and only realised just how incredible it is when i re-read it years later.

it surprises me, but pleases me, that hollywood hasn't dragged it back to the big screen lately.

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That's a great list. I'm a huge fan of Lord of the Flies.

In reply to this comment by deputydog:
making history - stephen fry
misery - stephen king
the wasp factory - iain banks
beowulf
marabou stork nightmares - irvine welsh
lord of the flies - william golding
join me - danny wallace
to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
the beach - alex garland
the bfg - roald dahl

That's a great list. I'm a huge fan of Lord of the Flies.

In reply to this comment by deputydog:
making history - stephen fry
misery - stephen king
the wasp factory - iain banks
beowulf
marabou stork nightmares - irvine welsh
lord of the flies - william golding
join me - danny wallace
to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
the beach - alex garland
the bfg - roald dahl

making history - stephen fry
misery - stephen king
the wasp factory - iain banks
beowulf
marabou stork nightmares - irvine welsh
lord of the flies - william golding
join me - danny wallace
to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
the beach - alex garland
the bfg - roald dahl