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^^This is an ethical thing.

All religions can be used politically. They're all pretty much as stupid as each other and can all be interpreted in whatever ridiculous way people want.

Welcome to the Internet and the modern world.

Buddhism is OK though, right?

All that peace is definitely better than all the fighting the other ones do.

Turns out even Rastafarianism is a bit mean when you read about it, despite all the lovely weed.

https://twitter.com/jeromegodefroy/status/552890287585255424/photo/1

Translation -
In the ten years I've lived at [Place de la] Republique, I've never seen a spontaneous demonstration as large

no, it's not.

Buddhism is still bollocks, although people tend to get a little less angry and killy about stuff. You do have to put up with weird American hippy interpretation fads though, which can be nearly as bad.

they have their own terrorism and life under the Dalai Lama in Tibet was pretty miserable.

The vikings had it right but bloody Christians got rid of that and valhalla has been a boring place for a long time worth such an aging population.

Death and the dying are shown every day in the news. Not just on Vice but on mainstream news media all over the world. Every time this happens it is utterly horrible for the family of the person involved. So why do we let it happen? If you make an exception for one why not make an exception for them all?

I'll tell you why: because it is the job, the responsibility of the media to report what happens in the world and it is not our job to sugar coat it.

Be horrified at the act, not the fact is has been reported.

Showing that video is exercising the very freedom of speech Charlie Hebdo were fighting for.

Setting yourself on fire rather than other people seemed to get a pretty effective message across without making people quite as pissed off at what you're trying to achieve.

Maybe, Snottyotter, but I still object to a video like that being made available, at the very least out of respect for the victim's relatives.

And three people today objected to images of some sort being published, at the very least out of respect for their beliefs.

Obviously the way you are responding is profoundly different (and better), but you're nonetheless taking it upon yourself to pass judgement on others because you have some sense of what is right which differs from theirs.

Which is where Gene Wilder comes in...

Gene has always known what should and shouldn't be shown.

RIP in peace, sweet prince...

BTW How the fuck did the French police let these guys get away?

And then a couple of fireworks, a gin tonic or two and a degree in social networking is what keep us all going. I'm not complaing, actually I'm quite satisfied of this better than nothing. Right now the only shame is not leaving on Rue Saint Germain.

bbc is running it on their site

Pinot Grigio for me tonight... The bottle and the needle are our only salvation...

So if we can't do any of the traditional, organised religions because they're all mean and nasty, what should we do?

Does Russell Brand offer a religion as well as a politics?

Not believing in fairies, profits and eternal life is a perfectly viable option.

Although the norse gods were real.

God. I've been sitting watching the live feed on the Graun and trying the whole day to find a way of expressing how horrible all this is but I can't seem to get my brain to form the right shape around it. Desperately tragic. These poor people.

profits

Same thing there too. Lenin's doctrines seemed well legit, but in practice he too was a git.

I think I'm getting this now, it's not ideas that are the problem at all - it's people. We should just ban people not being nice to eachother.

Read back through the thread - I was trying to make exactly the opposite point to gios78.

And I don't really get how you leap from 'Sharia Law is politics' to 'You seem to think thee is only one interpretation of sharia'??

no cctv like here , the killers switched cars and that flummoxed them .