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the_ignored
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Posted - 01/26/2010 :  22:26:26  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message  Reply with Quote
It's starting to look like it.

Not that people like to gloat or anything.


Well, we'll see.





>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.

Dude
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Posted - 01/28/2010 :  15:55:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The zombiepope isn't right. Condoms do prevent HIV if they are used.

The problem is that they were not advocated when the problem was manageable. There isn't anything you can do when 50% of a population has a disease. Well, nothing that isn't draconian and inhumane anyway. Without enforced testing and isolation of the infected people you can't halt the spread now.

If the church had advocated, distributed, and educated about condoms 20 years ago the story may have been different.

The USA (and other western democracies) are a case study in point. We recognized the problem, found a way to contain it, and educated the public.

I recall reading that 3% is the HIV prevalance in the US (it would likely be lower than that, but drugs are making people with HIV live a long time now). The biggest number of new infections every year is from the high risk groups (gay/bisexual men, IV drug users, and people who refuse to use condoms).

So no, the zombiepope is not right.

He is just twisting an observation to fit his personal bias.


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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