Comments on: “If they need to be touched, touch them.” (With compressed video.) http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:35:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: JasonC http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38157 JasonC Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:01:36 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38157 The conservative attack on our internet is on. Prepare for battle, my radical humanist friends. The conservative attack on our internet is on. Prepare for battle, my radical humanist friends.

]]> By: Hattie http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38149 Hattie Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:59:04 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38149 Dax is quite understandable to me now that I am devolving into senility. Bring on the clowns! Dax is quite understandable to me now that I am devolving into senility. Bring on the clowns!

]]> By: Heraclitus (jeff) http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38147 Heraclitus (jeff) Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:09:45 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38147 So, do you think they would drop abstinence-only education if someone came up with a Christian condom? A Prophylactic for the Pious, a Rubber for the Redeemed...I can't think of any clever names. So, do you think they would drop abstinence-only education if someone came up with a Christian condom? A Prophylactic for the Pious, a Rubber for the Redeemed…I can’t think of any clever names.

]]> By: (punkass) Marc Faletti http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38143 (punkass) Marc Faletti Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:47:54 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38143 wow, a pious-off would be a hoot. wow, a pious-off would be a hoot.

]]> By: Kyso Kisaen http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38140 Kyso Kisaen Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:12:41 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38140 <i>Andrew, I think that with the Christians who make a Christian version of everything, it’s an attempt to avoid an unclean “secular” culture—often, “secular” is just a code word for “Jewish”, I think.</i> Those Christians are the ones that have a hard-on for that good vs evil, warrior for the lord, be "equally yoked" stuff. Having a seperate, Christian version of everything is also a good way to maintain your persecution complex and provides a safe venue to out-pious your neighbors, Puritan-style. Andrew, I think that with the Christians who make a Christian version of everything, it’s an attempt to avoid an unclean “secular” culture—often, “secular” is just a code word for “Jewish”, I think.

Those Christians are the ones that have a hard-on for that good vs evil, warrior for the lord, be “equally yoked” stuff. Having a seperate, Christian version of everything is also a good way to maintain your persecution complex and provides a safe venue to out-pious your neighbors, Puritan-style.

]]> By: (punkass) Marc Faletti http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38139 (punkass) Marc Faletti Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:04:59 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38139 He does get a bunch of adoring comments and tribute videos made, but he also inspires plenty of the opposite... He does get a bunch of adoring comments and tribute videos made, but he also inspires plenty of the opposite…

]]> By: Amanda Marcotte http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38138 Amanda Marcotte Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:04:32 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38138 Andrew, I think that with the Christians who make a Christian version of everything, it's an attempt to avoid an unclean "secular" culture---often, "secular" is just a code word for "Jewish", I think. Andrew, I think that with the Christians who make a Christian version of everything, it’s an attempt to avoid an unclean “secular” culture—often, “secular” is just a code word for “Jewish”, I think.

]]> By: Andrew http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38132 Andrew Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:06:12 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38132 I get the impression that a lot of people just watch them to laugh, and that Youtube is replacing Livejournal as the big site for stereotypical adolescent moaning. I get the impression that a lot of people just watch them to laugh, and that Youtube is replacing Livejournal as the big site for stereotypical adolescent moaning.

]]> By: Heraclitus (jeff) http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38118 Heraclitus (jeff) Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:25:50 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38118 <blockquote>In some diaries (I’ve watched like 5 to see if I could “get it”), Daxflame mixes in some light racism, really nasty comments about his mother, and so on, which makes it tough to be sympathetic to him — until you remember he’s just a kid and obviously suffering from some emotional issues.</blockquote> Yeah, it definitely makes him less sympathetic to learn that he's sort of a miniature right-wing blogger. Can you tell if kids are watching his videos as fans or because they're laughing at him? I'm like you--I feel so old it just doesn't make an impression, positive or negative. Just mild perplexity.

In some diaries (I’ve watched like 5 to see if I could “get it”), Daxflame mixes in some light racism, really nasty comments about his mother, and so on, which makes it tough to be sympathetic to him — until you remember he’s just a kid and obviously suffering from some emotional issues.

Yeah, it definitely makes him less sympathetic to learn that he’s sort of a miniature right-wing blogger. Can you tell if kids are watching his videos as fans or because they’re laughing at him? I’m like you–I feel so old it just doesn’t make an impression, positive or negative. Just mild perplexity.

]]> By: divabeq http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38111 divabeq Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:59:23 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/03/23/godtube/#comment-38111 To Andrew: I actually have long thought that is one of the features of religion, that it needs to replace all other things in your life. It is in the design for it to do so. I can't count the number of fun, intelligent, interesting people I've known who have become religious and soon I can't even talk to them anymore because every subject comes back around to religion, and if I stated my opinions about religion it would probably lead to a conversation that would damage our friendship. It keeps the religious isolated, except for others who are also religious and lends itself to a sense of persecution that reinforces and justifies the isolation. To Andrew: I actually have long thought that is one of the features of religion, that it needs to replace all other things in your life. It is in the design for it to do so. I can’t count the number of fun, intelligent, interesting people I’ve known who have become religious and soon I can’t even talk to them anymore because every subject comes back around to religion, and if I stated my opinions about religion it would probably lead to a conversation that would damage our friendship.

It keeps the religious isolated, except for others who are also religious and lends itself to a sense of persecution that reinforces and justifies the isolation.

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