wanna win $10k?

Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 5 months ago to News
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interesting little competition .......

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. Just b/c we have a natural right to be dicks if we so desire (I mean that with out irony), it does not mean we need to exercise that right.

    There's a book "How to Be a Perfect Stranger" about how to avoid accidentally being ass wrt other people's religious backgrounds. The book was okay. I see no point in antagonizing people.

    I understand the motivations of the author, though. In my world "that's blasphemy" is a joke you might say to someone who doesn't like the Packers. In other people's world, blasphemy is a real thing, a crime. That's horrible, but I don't think intentionally blaspheming for no reason is the answer.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I didn't say you were offended. But can you say that such a "competition" would not be offensive to Muslims?
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm sorry to hear that. I will vociferously argue philosophy with you, but rarely will I intentionally seek to offend. I consider this forum a "home" for all of us. I would never intentionally offend someone in my home, even when debating them strenuously.

    I see no need to intentionally offend someone. I occasionally do because I am human and lose my patience/cool every once in a while. That isn't to say that I don't recognize your statement that we are all targets in any case. This is a war, a religious war, and not of our making. I'll be fighting to defend you, can I expect the same?
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I support free speech. I just don't see being rude as worthy of vocalizing my support.

    As for the contest, it seems idiocy to me to intentionally make oneself a target. There are principles that I'll fight for. Making fun of Mohamed isn't one of them. Hell, I'm not out looking to chastise the idiot who put a crucifix in a jar of piss, and that is something that I find personally offensive, nor do I feel any compulsion to go out and lay my life down to support same.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Um...be "torn" all you want because we're all targets anyway Robbie. Wake up. The more people who participate in this type of satire the BETTER. Some times you really disappoint me. Make that MOST of the time.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 5 months ago
    I may have to enter with my three pigs giving it to three jihadists in hell while the devil watches with mohammed on a leash, and mohammed saying "Sorry boys, I really thought I was the prophet!"
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  • Posted by woodlema 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "FREE SPEECH!!!" Our founders were willing to DIE for their freedom, and we are allowing this band of merciless, jackasses dictate to us OUR laws.

    Maybe if we held these contests in a stadium we could lure enough terrorists there we could let them blow themselves up. After all, you can only be a suicide bomber once. LOL
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  • Posted by term2 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am so embarrassed by Obama representing the US, especially to foreign leaders. He is so inexperienced and arrogant that no one actually looks up to him. They think the US is declining, because it IS, and Obama being its leader is evidence.
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  • Posted by term2 10 years, 5 months ago
    I am not good enough at art to draw a horse's ass.
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If I could draw I would do it just to tweak their noses. Then again as someone else mentioned below I am in Texas.
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  • Posted by samrigel 10 years, 5 months ago
    I agree with Ms. Geller's premise. We must not be silenced. If I could draw I would enter the contest just to be part of the rising voice of freedom and liberty. We should maybe add to the contest innovative ways of pissing off the radical muslims!!
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 5 months ago
    I'm torn. I don't see the point in intentionally seeking to antagonize anybody. Not out of fear or intimidation, but more out of propriety. On the other hand, Jews and Christians particularly, but to a lesser extent other religions as well, have had to endure the onslaught of caricatures for decades (perhaps centuries). So, the Muzzies need to get over it. Is this going to help in that effort or hurt it? I don't know.

    As for the "winner." Who would want to intentionally put themselves out as a target? For $10k? You'd end up spending more than that on security. Doesn't seem rational to do that for no reason other than to throw it into someone's face. A billion plus someone's of whom the "winner" will likely know absolutely none.
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