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...of Yahell's vast mediocrity?
:D I'm getting rather fond of that wait-for-the-punchline titling tactic. Anyhow, this was just something I followed via sidelink, and figured what the hell, might as well provide some countering to the namby-pamby fangirly mushmouthed socioreligious reinforcement going on in the comments column.
You know, that only gets anywhere if people actually read it. :-| Why they don't have a top-load function like the Questions feature, I have no idea. But anyhow....here's the content in a slightly more visible forum, link first for info:
http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/41/converting-kirk-cameron;_ylt=AnqeZH152SPQTuLnjUvASgYKwId4?start_row=5291#comments
Isn't it nice that he found something to hold onto?
Seriously, people, this one celebrity's "getting religion" was still just his own personal sense of emptiness driving him to find something bigger. Great for him, but let's leave it at that. It doesn't mean that he has the right to generalize everyone else's decisions and beliefs and values as Godfearing or decadent/immoral, black or white, My Way or the highway, just 'cause he's found what currently works for him, at his relatively young and inexperienced/unquestioning stage of conscious life.
Celebrity names have far too much deliberate influence in the area of religion and spirituality, and I for one am tired of them being used as poster children and lobbyists for the right to harass and oppress others. No religion in the world has an absolute claim on truth -- no religion has the right to say that others are damned if they live outside the sanctioned fold. It's a lie, and an unfortunately longlived lie that's made human history a bloody shambles of extremism.
So get that beam out of your eye, Kirk, and stop playing optometrist to the world -- you're only making it worse. You're really not qualified to be anything more than a puppet for fundamentalism....try thinking outside that absolutist box of "heaven or hellfire." I'd be very happy to see you break free of this juvenile state of convert-zealotry, if that's possible.
*sigh* Yeah, if only people actually listened to common sense.....you know, the other problem with "celebrities" (as a social class and a psychological type) is that they really don't have any natural set-point for common sense, and thus tend to tip wildly between extremes of decadence and puritanism. Happy is the star who finds his own balance, preserves what talent he possesses, and makes neither a sacrifice nor a sectarian preacher of himself. 'Cause we got quite enough of that already going on here these days, goddammit....
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:D I'm getting rather fond of that wait-for-the-punchline titling tactic. Anyhow, this was just something I followed via sidelink, and figured what the hell, might as well provide some countering to the namby-pamby fangirly mushmouthed socioreligious reinforcement going on in the comments column.
You know, that only gets anywhere if people actually read it. :-| Why they don't have a top-load function like the Questions feature, I have no idea. But anyhow....here's the content in a slightly more visible forum, link first for info:
http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/41/converting-kirk-cameron;_ylt=AnqeZH152SPQTuLnjUvASgYKwId4?start_row=5291#comments
Isn't it nice that he found something to hold onto?
Seriously, people, this one celebrity's "getting religion" was still just his own personal sense of emptiness driving him to find something bigger. Great for him, but let's leave it at that. It doesn't mean that he has the right to generalize everyone else's decisions and beliefs and values as Godfearing or decadent/immoral, black or white, My Way or the highway, just 'cause he's found what currently works for him, at his relatively young and inexperienced/unquestioning stage of conscious life.
Celebrity names have far too much deliberate influence in the area of religion and spirituality, and I for one am tired of them being used as poster children and lobbyists for the right to harass and oppress others. No religion in the world has an absolute claim on truth -- no religion has the right to say that others are damned if they live outside the sanctioned fold. It's a lie, and an unfortunately longlived lie that's made human history a bloody shambles of extremism.
So get that beam out of your eye, Kirk, and stop playing optometrist to the world -- you're only making it worse. You're really not qualified to be anything more than a puppet for fundamentalism....try thinking outside that absolutist box of "heaven or hellfire." I'd be very happy to see you break free of this juvenile state of convert-zealotry, if that's possible.
*sigh* Yeah, if only people actually listened to common sense.....you know, the other problem with "celebrities" (as a social class and a psychological type) is that they really don't have any natural set-point for common sense, and thus tend to tip wildly between extremes of decadence and puritanism. Happy is the star who finds his own balance, preserves what talent he possesses, and makes neither a sacrifice nor a sectarian preacher of himself. 'Cause we got quite enough of that already going on here these days, goddammit....
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