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I’m not defending Terry Jones, he deserves condemnation, but shouldn’t we be condemning the fools who killed because a book was burned as well?
Personally I would prefer never to burn a book but I think we still should have the freedom to do so without repercussions. Let’s face it, the Quran, the Bible, the Torah, etc., aren’t going out of print anytime soon. A book is just bound paper and ink that can be replaced, the lives that were taken because of this can not. The killers are far more in the wrong here than Terry Jones despite the fact he is a bigoted ass.
I’m not sure what Mr. Jones intentions were but he has certainly made a point about the extreme mindlessness of some people when it comes to religion.
I’m conflicted about this. Terry Jones was warned and perhaps should not have burned the book. But if he had not burned the book, and listened to the threats and warnings, wouldn’t that mean he was losing some freedom of speech? Wouldn’t that mean we all were losing the freedom to make a particular statement? This is why we allow the burning of our flag in the USA, it is a form of speech, a statement. Burning a book does not justify murder.
Who is paying the price, Terry Jones?
Was your message really that important that it had to be said with hate, fire, and death instead of simple words and perhaps even some compassion?
Charles Lewis: Hate-filled pastor should be shunned by the world
What do you do about a man like Jones, who represents every instinct that is anathema to the religion he purports to represent, and is a disgrace to anyone with an ounce of dignity? Here’s the answer. Shun him.
Lorne Gunter: The Koran-burning pastor is a moron, but not a murderer
Burning books (and flags) an old, sad tradition
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Now that Egypt has been so far successful, let’s not forget Yemen and Algeria too!!
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theweekmagazine:Next week’s issue goes out tomorrow, enjoy!
today in missed opportunities: the title really should have been…
“Democracy? There’s an app for that.”
Turn’s out Apple has that phrase trademarked….
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“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.” -Wonko the Sane - Douglas Adams, “So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish”
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Impressive Modern Architecture Developed in Relationship to a Gothic Church
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RT: of blastocysts and ethics →
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos…
Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings…
Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should.
I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics.”
— Sam Harris, on stem cell research.
(Source: cocknbull)
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Here’s a trellis I designed a while back when I was working with Site Design Studio. It is located on the Cal Poly Pomona campus. I designed it to match the overhang of the building entry (though I can’t remember which building this is). I had a little input on the courtyard design too.
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