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Gibberings episode 0x000000c5 -- Play nicely or you're out!

Raasyvibe said:
And why is Christianisation of a Pagan site so terrible anyway? What's the ethical issue? I don't get why you're so angry about this.
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Christian leaders and Christian doctrines have been accused of justifying and perpetrating violence against Native Americans found in the New World.[3][4] Michael Wood asserts that the indigenous peoples were not considered to be human beings and that the colonisers was shaped by "centuries of Ethnocentrism, and Christian monotheism, which espoused one truth, one time and version of reality.”[5] Jordan writes "The catastrophe of Spanish America's rape at the hands of the Conquistadors remains one of the most potent and pungent examples in the entire history of human conquest of the wanton destruction of one culture by another in the name of religion"[6]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=spanish+missions+in+the+americas&l=1
 
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Raasyvibe said:
All talk; no sources.
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Fuck off.

The trip was dominated largely by pink Peru, large pink Peru. If there is a part of this country not under the custody of 12000ft mountains, we are yet to find it. It does make you wonder how the conquistadors managed their conquests, though not why they did so. Actually forget the last six words of my subjective rubbish, conquering had nothing to do with aesthetic beauty, everything to do with the outrageous plunder of silver and gold and the imposition of the Catholic hegemony. As we were about to see.
First stop was a church in the middle of nowhere, a tiny village. I have no time for organized religion but plenty for organized architecture. Catholics are known for their ostentatious buildings (and some less virtuous things) and in this tiny village they had taken their impositions to new heights. Stolen wealth had created a high altar, a very high altar of 22ct gold. Perhaps this was their version of Inca duality, to contrast with the penniless beggars outside. But there was something strange and highly noticeable high up at the very top of the altar. A 22ct sun. A pagan symbol in a Catholic church. We learned this was part of a bribe. In order to more easily convert the Inca pagans they allowed them some of their own symbols of worship to be placed in the church. We also later learned that some of the Incas, who were often forced to construct the Catholic churches on their own sacred sites built in their own symbols surreptitiously. And this is why you can often find Catholic churches all over Peru with coca leaves etched subversively into the masonry.
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http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/planetgeli/1/1226086620/tpod.html
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
It's a shite 'net acronym for 'For The Win'... very Americanised and basically means 'Is the dogs bollocks'.

I always prefer to think of it as 'Fucks The World', which is more appropriate afaic (as far as i'm concerned ;) )
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hahahahahahahahaha

You're bloody ace, you.

StoneHappyMonday said:
Fuck off.



http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/planetgeli/1/1226086620/tpod.html
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Lol you've a way with words, SHM, fair play "fuck off" hahahaha gave me a chuckle did that :)

Evey
 
Raasyvibe said:
It's akin to a cup-of coffee.
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Yup. And caffeine is a legal drug.

Raasyvibe said:
When the pope says he's against the legality of drugs, he's referring to full-blown, refined, powdered cocaine - not a rival to Carte Noir.
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Then he is making no coherent point relating to the real world. Things are simply not so black and white. Cocaine can be used perfectly sensibly - just as any drug can - and the difference between use of coca leaf and use of cocaine Hcl is simply a matter of degree. As such, the position you believe the Pope to have taken is nonsensical.

Raasyvibe said:
And again, the communion wine obviously isn't there to get pissed on...
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Which is exactly what I said... (although I'm sure it has happened now and then)

Raasyvibe said:
When the pope says drugs should not be legalised, he is clearly referring to already illicit drugs.
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Illicit in which country? What about drugs which are not yet illegal anywhere (half a gazillion RC benzos, synth 'noids, stims, dissociatives, psychedelics, entactogens, opioids and so on)?

To be quite honest, you seem to be trying to argue for the sake of arguing when we haven't actually disagreed on anything other than the fundamental fact of drugs being drugs - no matter their legal status - and the fact that their legal status varies wildly from one country to the next.
 
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