Comments on: Cons: Why Won’t You Hate? http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: bryan http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42563 bryan Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:25:25 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42563 You can 'convert' to Islam without renouncing your faith. You can either 1) Acknowledge that Islam, Christianity and Judaism all follow the same holy books and encompass a lot more than they exclude. 2) Cross your fingers when saying the statement 3 times that 'converts' you. You can ‘convert’ to Islam without renouncing your faith. You can either
1) Acknowledge that Islam, Christianity and Judaism all follow the same holy books and encompass a lot more than they exclude.
2) Cross your fingers when saying the statement 3 times that ‘converts’ you.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42562 factcheck Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:48:43 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42562 z adura, you don't understand. farris wouldn't renounce his faith to save someone ELSE's life. He's ok with someone ELSE dying for farris faith, just so long as the closest he gets to danger is warblogging. z adura, you don’t understand. farris wouldn’t renounce his faith to save someone ELSE’s life. He’s ok with someone ELSE dying for farris faith, just so long as the closest he gets to danger is warblogging.

]]> By: z adura http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42561 z adura Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:07:28 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42561 Just to be clear, even the robot at Blogs for Bush can understand the pseudo-conversion to Islam in order to save one's life. It is only armchair QB Farris who would not forsake his Lord to save his life. That's why Farris has left this room to enlist. He's finally ready to fight the scourge of Islamofascism. His faith and courage is made of just that stuff. Just to be clear, even the robot at Blogs for Bush can understand the pseudo-conversion to Islam in order to save one’s life. It is only armchair QB Farris who would not forsake his Lord to save his life. That’s why Farris has left this room to enlist. He’s finally ready to fight the scourge of Islamofascism. His faith and courage is made of just that stuff.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42560 factcheck Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:34:49 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42560 "You can't just go around renouncing your faith doing whatever your captives want and hope to retain your journalistic credibility" What does their religion have to do with journalistic credibility? And besides, they work for Fox News, what journalistic credibility could they possibly have? “You can’t just go around renouncing your faith doing whatever your captives want and hope to retain your journalistic credibility”

What does their religion have to do with journalistic credibility? And besides, they work for Fox News, what journalistic credibility could they possibly have?

]]> By: SaveFarris http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42559 SaveFarris Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:06:08 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42559 <blockquote>Neither does yours, since you live nowhere near New Orleans and can't judge what someone from New Orleans should do or could do in their situation.</blockquote> Couldn't be more wrong. Not only did I get hit by the storm, I was, until a week ago, housing a refugee. And now, back on topic!! Sundown, I don't think they should have done what what they did. You can't just go around renouncing your faith doing whatever your captives want and hope to retain your journalistic credibility. Though it's a VERY close call. Ask me again in an hour and I might change my mind.

Neither does yours, since you live nowhere near New Orleans and can’t judge what someone from New Orleans should do or could do in their situation.

Couldn’t be more wrong. Not only did I get hit by the storm, I was, until a week ago, housing a refugee.

And now, back on topic!!

Sundown, I don’t think they should have done what what they did. You can’t just go around renouncing your faith doing whatever your captives want and hope to retain your journalistic credibility. Though it’s a VERY close call. Ask me again in an hour and I might change my mind.

]]> By: Sundown http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42558 Sundown Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:38:04 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42558 So, savefarris, just to be clear. Ignoring the Katrina issue (which isn't relevant): You think that the hostages <b>shouldn't</b> have feigned conversion, and should have just let themselves die? Just making sure. So, savefarris, just to be clear. Ignoring the Katrina issue (which isn’t relevant):

You think that the hostages shouldn’t have feigned conversion, and should have just let themselves die?

Just making sure.

]]> By: Jay http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42557 Jay Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:22:25 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42557 <i>You also need to recognize that your opinion on this means nothing unless you've actually been in that situation.</i> Oh please. 99% of people wouldn't be able to give opinions on 99% of issues if that were the case. That's the biggest cop-out 'argument.' You also need to recognize that your opinion on this means nothing unless you’ve actually been in that situation.

Oh please. 99% of people wouldn’t be able to give opinions on 99% of issues if that were the case.

That’s the biggest cop-out ‘argument.’

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42556 factcheck Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:05:03 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42556 Neither does yours, since you live nowhere near New Orleans and can't judge what someone from New Orleans should do or could do in their situation. Or you can enlist and find out what real life and death decisions are like. But you won't do that because you are more comfortable as a cheerleader (feeling free to 2nd guess them when they aren't "patriotic" enough). Neither does yours, since you live nowhere near New Orleans and can’t judge what someone from New Orleans should do or could do in their situation.

Or you can enlist and find out what real life and death decisions are like. But you won’t do that because you are more comfortable as a cheerleader (feeling free to 2nd guess them when they aren’t “patriotic” enough).

]]> By: SaveFarris http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42555 SaveFarris Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:01:55 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42555 Fine then. Your opinion about Katrina means nothing. Fine then. Your opinion about Katrina means nothing.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42554 factcheck Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:48:57 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42554 Wrong, idiot. You are allowed to have an opinion. You also need to recognize that your opinion on this means nothing unless you've actually been in that situation. What would farris do in the same situation? He would pee his pants, convert to Islam and do anything else his captors wanted him to do. But that's not going to happen, because farris refuses to fight, while at the same time criticizing decisions people make to save their lives. Wrong, idiot. You are allowed to have an opinion. You also need to recognize that your opinion on this means nothing unless you’ve actually been in that situation.

What would farris do in the same situation? He would pee his pants, convert to Islam and do anything else his captors wanted him to do.

But that’s not going to happen, because farris refuses to fight, while at the same time criticizing decisions people make to save their lives.

]]> By: SaveFarris http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42553 SaveFarris Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:28:15 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42553 These are the same folks who say they are willing to die so as not to hand over confidential sources. PS: Just a couple of threads down, you pooh-poohed my interest in Katrina due to my proximity. Yet, I apparently aren't allowed to have an opinion on Iraq unless I enlist. Which is it: does immediate participation in an event qualify you for dicussion of an issue or not? These are the same folks who say they are willing to die so as not to hand over confidential sources.

PS: Just a couple of threads down, you pooh-poohed my interest in Katrina due to my proximity. Yet, I apparently aren’t allowed to have an opinion on Iraq unless I enlist.

Which is it: does immediate participation in an event qualify you for dicussion of an issue or not?

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42552 factcheck Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:45:18 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42552 farris' comment is probably the most ignorant thing that has ever been said on this blog, and that's saying a lot. Let's see, either "let them use us for propoganda purposes" or "die". Seeing as farris has never been in the line of fire (chickenhawk), he needs to shut his mouth and defer to people that are actually putting their life on the line. farris’ comment is probably the most ignorant thing that has ever been said on this blog, and that’s saying a lot.

Let’s see, either “let them use us for propoganda purposes” or “die”.

Seeing as farris has never been in the line of fire (chickenhawk), he needs to shut his mouth and defer to people that are actually putting their life on the line.

]]> By: SaveFarris http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/27/cons-why-wont-you-hate/#comment-42551 SaveFarris Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:27:15 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2611#comment-42551 Maybe he was upset that the hostages in question let themselves be used for propaganda purposes. Yeah, *WE* know their "conversion" was a bunch of bunk merely done to mollify their captors and be released. But that's not how "the Arab street" will see this. Maybe he was upset that the hostages in question let themselves be used for propaganda purposes. Yeah, *WE* know their “conversion” was a bunch of bunk merely done to mollify their captors and be released. But that’s not how “the Arab street” will see this.

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