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Kim_Hyun_Han
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hkfosho
Canada213 Posts
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
On November 09 2009 07:36 Japakazol wrote: So sad. This is the kind of thing that really makes you realize that there is no benevolent man in the sky looking down on us all. The bitter irony is that times like this are when people paradoxically cling especially close to those ideas. Your opinion keep it to yourself, you don't see people praising god in every thread. | ||
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DreaM)XeRO
Korea (South)4667 Posts
On November 09 2009 07:36 Japakazol wrote: So sad. This is the kind of thing that really makes you realize that there is no benevolent man in the sky looking down on us all. The bitter irony is that times like this are when people paradoxically cling especially close to those ideas. dont be the douche that starts a religion flame war in every thread. just shut the fuck up and keep this kid in your thoughts | ||
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Japakazol
United States102 Posts
On November 12 2009 04:55 GreEny K wrote: Your opinion keep it to yourself, you don't see people praising god in every thread. How about I don't keep it to myself? What then? | ||
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andiCR
Costa Rica2273 Posts
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DamageControL
United States4222 Posts
On November 11 2009 18:57 omninmo wrote: what about a 3 year old with cancer is inspirational? the fact that a 3 year old is stricken with cancer is either the result of his mom having a drug/mayonaisse addiction or that his family lives near a power plant or that he was given the h1n1 vaccine (which is poison). if he is one of the 1 in a million "unlucky" ones who "just happened to have cancer cells" as a three year old then tough cookies man... send him some cards if you think PITY is a virtue. pity only multiplies suffering in the world and gives the agent (ie he who pities) a false sense of "moral correctness". many people with cancer are going to die alone this xmas. the boy is only relevant because some local news channel made a call and now they use "the sick kid" as a focal point in between terror alerts. This whole post is obviously trying to start shit. Your first point is an assertion. You have no idea what caused the cancer. In addition, who cares what caused the cancer? That isn't relevant because he didn't cause the cancer himself, so he is pitiable. Pity is wrong? Pity is a derivative of empathy, which is necessary for society to survive, or at least for society to be as effective as possible. Moreover, your assuming people who feel pity are only doing it to feel morally correct, or feel morally smug at all. Also, how the fuck does it multiply suffering? On the last point, yes, he was arbitrarily picked to be a focal point, but how is does that make him less worthy of our sympathy? Is it his fault he was picked? And what kind of self righteous asshole divides his emotions equally because to focus on one is too arbitrary? Do you have no friends? Because if you do you picked them based on convenience (i.e. you met them somehow) which is arbitrary. | ||
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andiCR
Costa Rica2273 Posts
On November 12 2009 05:16 Japakazol wrote: How about I don't keep it to myself? What then? What are you, 5? | ||
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Japakazol
United States102 Posts
I'm illustrating the point that this is a forum for expression of opinions, and posting that someone should keep their opinions to themselves is about the most self-contradictory action I can imagine. I didn't troll or flame anyone, so the point is that if he doesn't like it he's going to have to figure out how to deal with that. | ||
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koreasilver
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statix
United States1760 Posts
On November 12 2009 05:21 Japakazol wrote: I'm illustrating the point that this is a forum for expression of opinions, and posting that someone should keep their opinions to themselves is about the most self-contradictory action I can imagine. I didn't troll or flame anyone, so the point is that if he doesn't like it he's going to have to figure out how to deal with that. I suggest you read this if you want to have >59 posts. | ||
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Japakazol
United States102 Posts
On November 12 2009 06:12 koreasilver wrote: The kid just wants some Christmas cards; I have no idea why any talk of religion popped into this thread. I guess it is difficult to see how a post about Christmas, dying, angels, and heaven led to any talk of religion. | ||
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Frits
11782 Posts
On November 12 2009 06:30 Japakazol wrote: I guess it is difficult to see how a post about Christmas, dying, angels, and heaven led to any talk of religion. This thread however, is about doing something nice by sending a dying boy a christmas card, your point is not insightful or original, it's just ruining the thread for no reason. | ||
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Dgtl
Canada889 Posts
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On November 12 2009 06:12 koreasilver wrote: The kid just wants some Christmas cards; I have no idea why any talk of religion popped into this thread. Because the boy said something about wanting to be an angel when he dies or something to that effect. What someone said earlier is true... it's always "God bless this child..." which God clearly already did... just not with the blessing they wanted (namely cancer). That's why I tend to agree that the whole God bless thing is very paradoxical when talking about a poor kid who has been suffering from cancer for x amount of years. It's a shitty dice roll for that kid and I'll take 5 minutes out of my life to send the kid a christmas card because someone put the effort into sending this message out but yea when you say anything even remotely close to angels/god/heaven on a computer forum you're going to get a discussion on religion. That's just the way it goes sadly. | ||
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
On November 12 2009 06:30 Japakazol wrote: I guess it is difficult to see how a post about Christmas, dying, angels, and heaven led to any talk of religion. Christmas is so much more of a cultural holiday revolving around gift giving than the death of Christ. With the heaven and angels thing, the kid is just a kid. He doesn't have any kind of solid conception in his beliefs; it's just something that he has grown up with. I don't find him wanting to be an angel in heaven much different from someone wanting to fly around in pixie dust in eternal childhood in Neverland. I mean, his entire thing about wanting to be an angel in his afterlife shows that he really doesn't know much about his own religion anyway. You dipshits just jumped on it and ragged on with the whole trite anti-religion spiel because of the harmless words of a dying child. You people are wretched. | ||
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9287
United States134 Posts
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TwilightStar
United States649 Posts
On November 09 2009 07:36 Japakazol wrote: So sad. This is the kind of thing that really makes you realize that there is no benevolent man in the sky looking down on us all. The bitter irony is that times like this are when people paradoxically cling especially close to those ideas. True statement... I really feel bad for the boy, I think i'll participate too. | ||
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YPang
United States4024 Posts
On November 12 2009 06:37 Frits wrote: This thread however, is about doing something nice by sending a dying boy a christmas card, your point is not insightful or original, it's just ruining the thread for no reason. for once frits doesn't not sound like an asshole | ||
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Kadoka
United States82 Posts
I don't think anyone here is saying that we should make the kid suffer. Its nice to see that people on here want to send him cards. Nice. And trivial. He's still going to die. Sorry? It's true. ???? What the fuck? Honestly? This sounds like something that dipshit Emile Cioran would have written. Get over yourself. What's your solution? Let the kid die? Let every kid die until there are so few left that we can help everyone at once? Maybe you can go up to his room, let him know it's "tough cookies man," sorry I'd help you but giving you a card would only multiply the suffering in the world, sorry kid. Let the kid die? That's inevitable. He's going to die anyway. We're not helping that, all we're doing is flooding his mailbox with Christmas cards. Did the kid really think this through? Does he want to spend the rest of his life reading card after card? He'll probably be bored to tears. Can he even read? Is his mother willing to spend all of her time reading cards to him that have the same general message for days on end? Again, I think it's nice that so many people on here are sending him a card. Do it, make a card that will make the kid smile or laugh. Make something special, he's getting a lot of cards, make yours stand out. That's great. But these people we're labeling "trolls" haven't deserved it. I would say there are better ways to help people than send this kid 93271498327 Christmas cards. With the money spent on postage you could do something worthwhile that actually helps someone in need. If 10% of the people who read about this kid send a card, how much time and money is that spent on cards and postage? How about that homeless guy you pass on the street? Google for someone who needs money for life saving surgery. | ||
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