[kj] OT: Pat Condell

[Darren A. Peace]

I feel your pain. It's caused a lot of complications in my family over the
years. A good one to try is "how do you explain carbon dating establishing
material has been decaying on the planet for several million years if the
earth was created in 3200 BC or whenever it was supposed to have been in
your dodgy translation?". Only attempt to address that got a "Oh, the cloud
cover just before the Flood affected half-life" after the matter had been
raised with some cabal of Elders somewhere or other. I'm not a slavish
Dawkins acolyte, although he's very funny, but that answer just filled me
with despair. Jehovah's Witnesses were also singled out for extermination in
the concentration camps, which all accords with the prophecy that JWs will
live in perpetual harassment and ignominy. An entire religion based on
martyrdom has never convinced me. I don't think Hale Bopp is back again for
while, is it?

 

What drew the line for me was the "No" response to "Would you donate blood
to my daughter" - (and the family member in question's grand-daughter, as it
happens) - "if she would otherwise die?".

 

Darren

Hungerford, UK

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of sade1
Sent: 22 July 2008 22:30
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Pat Condell

 


   Try growing up with half your family belonging to that bunch. They
actually tried 

to pressure me into not even believing, much less pursuing, a college
education. 
Lost my respect for them right there. 

 

 

... ... ... ... ... ... 


[looking at the current state of things]


'Save me...

  save me from Tomorrow..

   I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...!'   



--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Darren A. Peace <dpeace at bigfoot.com> wrote:

From: Darren A. Peace <dpeace at bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Pat Condell
To: "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'"
<gathering at misera.net>
Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 12:03 AM

Heh. No, on the basis of the emotions he's inspired on that page, I really
do like him. I know it's fashionable, but I really do have no time for
people who are motivated by the handicap of fundamentalist religion. A close
relative of mine is a Jehovah's Witness, and there's nothing I enjoy
more
than a pleasant afternoon undermining their solipsistic faith.
 
Darren
Hungerford, UK
 
-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Brendan
Sent: 22 July 2008 05:44
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Pat Condell
 
So there's something wrong with spending all your spare time furiously
masturbating to violent internet porn now...?!
 
Sigh.
 
I've been a fan of Pat Condell for some time now, can't think of
anything
he's said that I don't agree with so far...
 

> Now I like him.

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> http://www.patcondell.net/page4/page4.html

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> Darren

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> Hungerford, UK

 
 
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