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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 09:37 AM
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Poll question: Rate my new sig picture
I wanted to capture the "values" message bullshit just right...
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:29 AM
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1. I Would have voted higher, but...
Edited on Wed Dec-22-04 10:30 AM by MarianJack
...if I were writing it, I'd have had Jesus saying "People using my name in vain approved this message".

It is a good image and it does point out the fundie's hypocracy!
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vinnievin777 Donating Member (735 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:51 AM
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5. I totally agree
but since everyone here is smart enough to understand I think it's cool for a post but maybe you might want to reconsider the sig thing.

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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:30 AM
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2. I hate it.
There's a reason I don't go into LBN or GD. I don't want to see that shit all day long.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:45 AM
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3. I agree with Janesez
(and I swear I'm not lounge-stalking you!)

Plus, maybe I'm missing the irony, but I don't believe that Jesus would have ever supported that behaviour.

Maybe if you had Jerry Falwell's picture???
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:49 AM
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4. I think the juxtaposition is intentionally ironic.
I just hate looking at the torture pic.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:51 AM
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6. The point is the fundies seem to believe Jesus approved it.
And they said so on Nov. 2
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:53 AM
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7. It has a very valid point, but I'm with Janesez as well -
I come to the lounge to have fun and be distracted from the horror of this warmongering administration. Maybe you could save if for special occassion?
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:56 AM
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9. People closing their eyes is half the problem.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:57 AM
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10. That's your opinion. Is that not our choice?
Or would you prefer to forcefully foist your beliefs on us?
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:01 AM
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12. Who's foisting beliefs? No one forced you to be here.
Edited on Wed Dec-22-04 11:01 AM by Vash the Stampede
If you want to stick your head in the sand, be my guest.

On edit: I've changed it altogether so you can be blissfully ignorant again. Happy?
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:03 AM
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13. Yes I am.
No one forced me to be in the Lounge, that is correct. The Lounge, where we don't have to generally look at torture images all day. Make more sense? If I was in LBN or GD complaining about your sig line, that would really be my problem.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:04 AM
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14. Such threads wouldn't be allowed in GD or LBN though.
And I don't see any rule saying you have to be amusing in the Lounge.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:06 AM
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15. Of course there isn't a rule. It's common courtesy.
Er, dear, you asked us what we thought. Awfully defensive when you were actively soliciting opinions, aren't you?
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:08 AM
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17. It's one thing to not like the concept of it.
It's another to tell me I shouldn't be posting it where I want to simply because you want to be amused.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:09 AM
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18. I never said that, YOU said that.
You are being a complete jerk about something you asked our opinion about. I have no use for your ad hominim attacks and strawman arguments. Bye bye now.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:12 AM
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20. Fine. This really isn't worth it.
I apologize for anything stupid I said. This is a really dumb thing for us to be fighting about so I retract anything I said that offended you.
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:10 AM
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19. There is not one person here who is
"blissfully ignorant" and I take humbrage at that remark. We are all members of DU because we are passionate about politics and because we care about what's happpening in this world. Some of us just need to vent in ways that you don't seem to understand and we don't want to look at those "in your face" images constantly. Why don't you post them on some Fundie sights were they need to be seen?

You asked for our opinion and you got it.

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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 11:06 AM
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16. I never said I have my eyes closed. Do you understand
that everytime I look at pictures like that, I start to sob? When I see the picture of the little girl whose leg is shattered and whose little body is torn apart, I can't help but break down.

Yes, I look at them to remind myself of the blood that is on the hands of the people in this administration, but I can't look at them all the time.

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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:55 AM
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8. Large images in signatures annoy me
It's nothing personal, but when I see a giant picture in a signature line I feel like the user is yelling at me....

"HEY, THIS IS WHO I AM AND I AM IN YO FACE!"

I don't want to be yelled at.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:59 AM
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11. i think that the irony is delicious. if you could make the image about
1/3 or so of the size, i think it would be less "obtrusive".
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