Okay, don't make rallies and force your opinions on someone else. It's fine to make rallies about abortion (I guess) but with all those stupid baby pictures and that microphone thing, that's annoying and obnoxious.
Do rallies and protests really do anything at all (aside from worker strikes and things of the sort)? I can understand trying to create awareness in regards to some overlooked issues. But for larger issues such as abortion, I'm assuming most people alreay have their minds made up. I would think that all a large rally would do is get people who are already sympathetic to the cause riled up and piss off those who oppose the cause.
So rallies like this are to piss off people that don't give a shit and to advertise the fact that you're a moron.
I remember last year there was some abortion thing on campus. Signs saying it's genocide and graphic pictures around and all that shit. I usaully just ignore them. I know where I stand on the issue and no one will change it.
I've had, um, negative experiences when discussing things like this with other people, so I'll try to be as neutral as possible when I voice my opinion:
This seems exactly like something that would be done at my school, but worse; at my school, the protesters would most likely surround a student who was known to be pregnant and having an abortion, and mob them with picket signs and expletives. I wouldn't condone people being loud and obnoxious about their opinions whether they supported or despised abortion.
Yeah, I think we can all agree on that much. Who's given you shit for saying something that common sense?
I've had, um, negative experiences when discussing things like this with other people, so I'll try to be as neutral as possible when I voice my opinion:
This seems exactly like something that would be done at my school, but worse; at my school, the protesters would most likely surround a student who was known to be pregnant and having an abortion, and mob them with picket signs and expletives. I wouldn't condone people being loud and obnoxious about their opinions whether they supported or despised abortion.
Yeah, I think we can all agree on that much. Who's given you shit for saying something that common sense?
I am so, so sorry. You have no idea how much my heart hurts for you right now. I grew up in Texas, and that was bad. That...uh-uh.
William Shakespeare wrote:
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
SoldierHawk
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 01:28 am
SoldierHawk wrote:
Cameron wrote:
SoldierHawk wrote:
Cameron wrote:
I've had, um, negative experiences when discussing things like this with other people, so I'll try to be as neutral as possible when I voice my opinion:
This seems exactly like something that would be done at my school, but worse; at my school, the protesters would most likely surround a student who was known to be pregnant and having an abortion, and mob them with picket signs and expletives. I wouldn't condone people being loud and obnoxious about their opinions whether they supported or despised abortion.
Yeah, I think we can all agree on that much. Who's given you shit for saying something that common sense?
I am so, so sorry. I grew up in Texas, and that was bad. That...uh-uh.
William Shakespeare wrote:
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Optimist With Doubts
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 01:58 am
I really despise the gigantic displays and church lawns and the sort. It really has nothing to do with my beliefs. It's just that seeing gigantic pictures of dead babies and even being pelted with eggs at an abortion clinic probably won't make anyone change their mind.
You can make the argument for the leftist agenda being shoved down peoples throats and it is a good argument. However if you counter people getting the left shoved down their throat with shoving the right down their throat then all you accomplish is possible turning off that person from both sides entirely.
I think what we need is just for all the information of both sides readily available and let people make their own decisions. People can be pretty smart and alone they can make pretty wise decisions. It's only when they are put together in say a rally or either democratic or republican conventions that they all become raging dumbasses hell bent only on showing how wrong the other side is.
Syd Lexia
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 02:02 am
You should organize a big pro-abortion rally. Make up giant posters of Hitler, Saddam, Mao Tse-Tung, and Ho Chi Minh and then have a giant poster that says: ALL THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. ABORTION: KILL ONE BABY, SAVE THE WORLD.
I think what we need is just for all the information of both sides readily available and let people make their own decisions. People can be pretty smart and alone they can make pretty wise decisions. It's only when they are put together in say a rally or either democratic or republican conventions that they all become raging dumbasses hell bent only on showing how wrong the other side is.
See, now you're going and talking all like a sane person. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to escort you to the back of the country, where you're going to have to explain yourself. On your feet, hands behind your head...start moving...
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Cameron
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 02:22 am
Syd Lexia wrote:
ABORTION: KILL ONE BABY, SAVE THE WORLD.
It's easier to just save the cheerleader.
Lady_Satine
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 02:36 am
To paraphrase the Womynists of PCU: "Hey-hey, ho-ho, this fetus party's got to go!"
"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!"
Ross Rifle
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 03:39 am
We have that problem in Chilliwack with born-again Fundamentalist Christians. Every Friday night, they stand in the middle of town with their 'Jesus Loves You' signs and walk around handing out pamphlets and asking you how you feel about Christ. Some notable incidents:
* I received a pamphlet that was a short comic about a guy named Mr. Nice Guy. As it turns out, since Mr. Nice Guy downloads music and pops wood when he sees babes, he, and ultimately you, is no worse than Hitler and Osama Bin Laden. It actually says (and illustrates!!!) that in the comic!!!
* I got stopped by a guy and I literally stood at the corner for the length of 39 RED/GREEN traffic light rotations as he accused Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and SAMMY HAGAR ERA VAN HALEN of being Satanic.
* A guy stopped my buddies and me and started giving us his schpeil when my buddy Geoff stopped him and said, 'I'm sorry, but we cannot accept this. We've already sold our souls for rock n' roll'. Then we flipped him the horns as we walked off.
I live in the middle of the Bible Belt, so of course the overwhelming majority of people here are pro-life, and I myself find my beliefs falling opposite that. I am a father and even in the tricky financial and overall life situation I was in when we found out we were pregnant, I never once thought of abortion as an option, but I wouldn't deign to prevent others from having that option. I couldn't live with myself now if I'd thought of abortion, considering what a great kid I have, and what I could've snuffed out, but I'm not God, and it's not my decision or right to tell other people how to live their lives.
By the way, I go to college in the south. I've seen way too many protests in favor of pro life, but I am the type to speak my mind, and have gotten in trouble for saying so. I am smart enough not to egg on or troll people in person, but when your opinion doesn't agree with protestors, you get booed and harassed awfully quickly.
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"MARGARINE IS ONE MOLECULE AWAY FROM PLASTIC."
Not only is that not right, that's not even wrong. It's a meaningless statement. Saying something is "one molecule away" from plastic is like saying a farm is one letter away from a fart. Water is "one molecule away" from being explosive hydrogen gas.
JStrangiato
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 05:39 am
Ross Rifle wrote:
* I got stopped by a guy and I literally stood at the corner for the length of 39 RED/GREEN traffic light rotations as he accused Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and SAMMY HAGAR ERA VAN HALEN of being Satanic.
That's when you blast some Deicide at him. If he can't handle Van Hagar, I'm sure his brain would melt at "Crucifixation" or "Lunatic of God's Creation."
DISCLAIMER: I don't endorse Satan worship.
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I really like this person.
Ross Rifle
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 05:40 am
Yeah, apparently that 'you don't have to die and go to heaven, yadda yadda be born again' line in Best of Both Worlds is Anti-God. And this guy was going on about how he used to live in Detroit in the hey day and party it up. He fails.
I go to PSU, where there's a weird preacher on every corner. Most of them used to be relatively harmless, but there's a new one that stands outside one building screaming his preaches so that I can't pay attention at all in class.
So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind.
Tyop
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 05:56 pm
A number of Kurdish students at my old university once organized a hunger strike protesting the imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan and other PKK members. For whatever reason they decided to set up camp right next to the student cafeteria where it smells of food all the time. Needless to say that protest didn't last very long.
scamrock
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Posted:
Feb 24 2009 06:18 pm
Ross Rifle wrote:
* I received a pamphlet that was a short comic about a guy named Mr. Nice Guy. As it turns out, since Mr. Nice Guy downloads music and pops wood when he sees babes, he, and ultimately you, is no worse than Hitler and Osama Bin Laden. It actually says (and illustrates!!!) that in the comic!!!
* I got stopped by a guy and I literally stood at the corner for the length of 39 RED/GREEN traffic light rotations as he accused Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and SAMMY HAGAR ERA VAN HALEN of being Satanic.
When they started talking about Mr. Nice Guy and Cooper, you should have broke out some of this:
JimmyLazer
Title: Always bored
Joined: Feb 07 2009
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 216
Posted:
Feb 24 2009 07:12 pm
Alright, I'm pro-life and I'm a democrat so I get alot of shit from my pro-life friends about this but I have a cool story...
My Priest at my church basically told off a pro-life protester for blocking the door. It was kinda funny =-/ A Catholic priest sparten kicking a prolife person. Lol
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Posted:
Feb 27 2009 12:49 am
enshinkarateman wrote:
I got up for my noon class, and I'm walking to it when I see a sign that says "WARNING: Graphic Photos Ahead!" Now, with a title like that, I can't pass it up, so I walk a few feet ahead to see a GIGANTIC tower with a ton of huge photos of abortions and dead babies. I went over to take a closer look, and see a bunch of signs comparing people who get abortions to Hitler. It's a massive Pro-Life rally, and there are people with megaphones yelling at people. They were passing a mic around, inviting people to share their opinion, and if I wasn't late for class, I would have loved to grab the mic and say 'I got something to say..." and then start singing the Misfit's "Last Caress" (look it up).
If you did that, you would have won the entire internet.
I on the other hand, would have recitied the George Carlin bit, "Why is it that people are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?"
There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant.
scamrock
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Posted:
Feb 27 2009 03:05 am
JRA wrote:
I on the other hand, would have recitied the George Carlin bit, "Why is it that people are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?"
"How come when it's us, it's abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen, that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways that we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it. You know why? Cause chickens are decent people."
Valdronius
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Posted:
Feb 27 2009 12:25 pm
No one makes omelets with fertilized eggs. That would be gross. An omelet is more like eating a chicken's menstration.
Klimbatize wrote:
A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd.
TheRoboSleuth
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Posted:
Feb 27 2009 01:27 pm
Valdronius wrote:
No one makes omelets with fertilized eggs. That would be gross. An omelet is more like eating a chicken's menstration.
You stole that from white ninja. I'm calling it.
Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
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Posts: 5042
Posted:
Feb 27 2009 01:42 pm
Or something positive
scamrock
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Posted:
Feb 27 2009 02:49 pm
Valdronius wrote:
No one makes omelets with fertilized eggs. That would be gross. An omelet is more like eating a chicken's menstration.
Yuck! I'm glad I don't like eggs. I always knew they tasted funny.
MOGHARR
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Posted:
Feb 27 2009 03:18 pm
Valdronius wrote:
No one makes omelets with fertilized eggs. That would be gross. An omelet is more like eating a chicken's menstration.
Awwww FUCK YOU I'M EATING EGGS RIGHT NOW
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