Now, I don't usually read The Guardian - I find it's relentless onslaught of left wing pandering almost as massively irritating as the Daily Mail's relentless onslaught of right wing pandering, and anyway the Daily Express is infinitely more hilarious for your 20p investment - but my attention has been drawn to this particular story in it's online edition about a 15-year-old boy being prosecuted by the police on behalf of the Church of Scientology for carrying a sign labelling them a cult at a demonstration. It's a case they're going to lose, because, as irritating and obnoxious as the average 15-year-old are, let alone one likely to spend their time attending demonstrations, the dictionary sides with them in this case:
This means you lose.
Thank you, Oxford English Dictionary. Fuck off, Church of Scientology. Is it still my legal right to tell you to fuck off? If not, it should be, so I'm exercising my right to peaceful protest by telling you to fuck off. If you are so deeply offended by being referred to as a cult, stop doing cultish things - imposing excessive control on members, to take the dictionary's example, and something of which many, many ex-members have accused you. Learn to operate within the confines of society without luring people away from their families and into your 'training programs' or learn to live with the scorn and contempt of everyone else. Or you could take my initial advice and, well, fuck off.
I think I'm more upset that the police are the ones that are doing the citing, presumably not openly asked by the Church of Scientology. We really have gone absolutely fucking mental in this country about never ever possibly offending anyone ever, so I'll tell you the same thing I told the two mouth-breathing cunts that came up to me with a petition to get a Christmas tree removed from my place of work over Christmas because it might offend or exclude other religions - bollocks. If you are offended by a tree, a sign, whatever, that doesn't actively call or represent a call for your destruction, look away and get over it. It really isn't that important.
Being a Jew who doesn't 'look' Jewish, I do come to notice that there are a lot of people out there, either casually or seriously, will make derogotary remarks about Jewish people until they find out that I am one, and then their internal censor kicks in with a vengeance. I'm not sure if it's the same with many other people, but if it is then I'm sure you know what I mean. My point is, if people take things too far, I don't think they're dangerous, I think they're someone I don't think I want to talk to anymore, so I ignore them. I don't go about getting them cited for disagreement. To me, it shows a remarkable lack of belief in your faith if you think a few negative comments, or some 15-year-old fashionable protester waving a cardboard sign on a march nobody has heard of, is in some way going to irreperably damage your belief system if they aren't stopped right fucking now.
If I took to heart in the same way the Scientologists have this the level of 'Free Palestine' graffiti around Halifax and Leeds, I'd be hiding in a bunker waiting for the baddies to come.
Grow up.
Goodnight.
cult
• noun 1 a system of religious worship directed towards a particular figure or object. 2 a small religious group regarded as strange or as imposing excessive control over members. 3 something popular or fashionable among a particular section of society.
This means you lose.
Thank you, Oxford English Dictionary. Fuck off, Church of Scientology. Is it still my legal right to tell you to fuck off? If not, it should be, so I'm exercising my right to peaceful protest by telling you to fuck off. If you are so deeply offended by being referred to as a cult, stop doing cultish things - imposing excessive control on members, to take the dictionary's example, and something of which many, many ex-members have accused you. Learn to operate within the confines of society without luring people away from their families and into your 'training programs' or learn to live with the scorn and contempt of everyone else. Or you could take my initial advice and, well, fuck off.
I think I'm more upset that the police are the ones that are doing the citing, presumably not openly asked by the Church of Scientology. We really have gone absolutely fucking mental in this country about never ever possibly offending anyone ever, so I'll tell you the same thing I told the two mouth-breathing cunts that came up to me with a petition to get a Christmas tree removed from my place of work over Christmas because it might offend or exclude other religions - bollocks. If you are offended by a tree, a sign, whatever, that doesn't actively call or represent a call for your destruction, look away and get over it. It really isn't that important.
Being a Jew who doesn't 'look' Jewish, I do come to notice that there are a lot of people out there, either casually or seriously, will make derogotary remarks about Jewish people until they find out that I am one, and then their internal censor kicks in with a vengeance. I'm not sure if it's the same with many other people, but if it is then I'm sure you know what I mean. My point is, if people take things too far, I don't think they're dangerous, I think they're someone I don't think I want to talk to anymore, so I ignore them. I don't go about getting them cited for disagreement. To me, it shows a remarkable lack of belief in your faith if you think a few negative comments, or some 15-year-old fashionable protester waving a cardboard sign on a march nobody has heard of, is in some way going to irreperably damage your belief system if they aren't stopped right fucking now.
If I took to heart in the same way the Scientologists have this the level of 'Free Palestine' graffiti around Halifax and Leeds, I'd be hiding in a bunker waiting for the baddies to come.
Grow up.
Goodnight.
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