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"RedRover" |
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26 Sep 2006 05:51:18 PM |
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A Fun Athiest Activity |
Recently at Barnes & Noble, I decided to correct a small
discrepancy by nonchalantly moving the Bibles from the religion
section to sci-fi fantasy. I managed to move about a dozen and
then sat down to watch the comical reactions. What a hoot.
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| User: "AZ Nomad" |
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| Title: Re: A Fun Athiest Activity |
28 Sep 2006 12:44:41 PM |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:18:34 -0500, L. Raymond <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
MarkA wrote:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:36:05 -0500, L. Raymond wrote:
RedRover wrote:
Recently at Barnes & Noble, I decided to correct a small discrepancy by
nonchalantly moving the Bibles from the religion section to sci-fi
fantasy. I managed to move about a dozen and then sat down to watch the
comical reactions. What a hoot.
Once when I was working in a book store I was careless and didn't
realize a new book called "The Boomers Bible" was a parody so I stuck it
in the bible section. About 30 minutes later, some yahoo with bugging
eyes who was almost literally frothing at the mouth brought all six of
them up to the counter, slammed them down and demanded to know why such
blasphemous filth was in the bible section. He didn't realize I had done
it, and I was thoroughly entertained by his rant.
I can only assume that he didn't recognize the KJV Bible as also being
blasphemous filth?
Well, technically it can't be blasphemous since it's what they measure
blasphemous things against.
Sure it can. It's self-contradictory.
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: A Fun Athiest Activity |
28 Sep 2006 02:17:39 PM |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:18:34 -0500, L. Raymond wrote:
MarkA wrote:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:36:05 -0500, L. Raymond wrote:
RedRover wrote:
Recently at Barnes & Noble, I decided to correct a small discrepancy
by nonchalantly moving the Bibles from the religion section to sci-fi
fantasy. I managed to move about a dozen and then sat down to watch
the comical reactions. What a hoot.
Once when I was working in a book store I was careless and didn't
realize a new book called "The Boomers Bible" was a parody so I stuck
it in the bible section. About 30 minutes later, some yahoo with
bugging eyes who was almost literally frothing at the mouth brought all
six of them up to the counter, slammed them down and demanded to know
why such blasphemous filth was in the bible section. He didn't realize
I had done it, and I was thoroughly entertained by his rant.
I can only assume that he didn't recognize the KJV Bible as also being
blasphemous filth?
Well, technically it can't be blasphemous since it's what they measure
blasphemous things against.
True enough. OK, it's just blasphemy-neutral filth.
"I'm sorry, sir, but we are not allowed to play favorites. Pick
whichever version of blasphemous filth you would like to purchase, and
leave the rest for the next patron. Thank you, and have a nice day."
This reminds me of an incident at another store in the same chain. I
wasn't there, but I talked to the clerk who was involved. Some older guy
waited in line to check out, and at the counter he slapped down a bunch of
soft porn magazines that the chain would keep way up in the back of the
rack. He quoted the bible and demanded to know why the store tolerated
such filth etc. etc. The clerk was pointing out this stuff was nowhere a
kid could ever get to it when the man suddenly spun around and showed a
nude centerfold to the ten year old boy behind him, and he asked the
mother if she felt violated that her son could be exposed to such
sinfulness. I guess she did because she hauled off and hit the man hard
enough to knock him away from the counter, and she called him some choice
names and slapped him a few more times for good measure.
Personally, I would worry more about my kids being exposed to such
violence than nudity.
Were you working as a clerk a few years ago when some Xtian groups got all
riled up about a collection of art photography that showed naked children?
I forget the name of the photographer, but his work was clearly art, and
not 'child pornography', as the fundies were trying to label it. All the
attention probably helped sell more copies.
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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| Title: Re: A Fun Athiest Activity |
28 Sep 2006 06:26:48 PM |
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MarkA wrote:
This reminds me of an incident at another store in the same chain. I
wasn't there, but I talked to the clerk who was involved. Some older guy
waited in line to check out, and at the counter he slapped down a bunch of
soft porn magazines that the chain would keep way up in the back of the
rack. He quoted the bible and demanded to know why the store tolerated
such filth etc. etc. The clerk was pointing out this stuff was nowhere a
kid could ever get to it when the man suddenly spun around and showed a
nude centerfold to the ten year old boy behind him, and he asked the
mother if she felt violated that her son could be exposed to such
sinfulness. I guess she did because she hauled off and hit the man hard
enough to knock him away from the counter, and she called him some choice
names and slapped him a few more times for good measure.
Personally, I would worry more about my kids being exposed to such
violence than nudity.
I really don't understand the whole problem with porn. It's only a
problem because the moralists say it's a problem because it makes people
feel dirty which they do because the moralists tell them they're dirty
for looking at porn. I'm familiar with all the psycho-speak about
controlling people's sexual urges in order to funnel them into other
outlets, but if that's even the case it's more something people in power
would do to control the plebs. When the blue-haired old women down the
street try to control porn, I sometimes wonder if it's not just revenge
for their being made to feel bad about it when they were younger.
Were you working as a clerk a few years ago when some Xtian groups got all
riled up about a collection of art photography that showed naked children?
I forget the name of the photographer, but his work was clearly art, and
not 'child pornography', as the fundies were trying to label it. All the
attention probably helped sell more copies.
No, and it's just as well; I had trouble enough putting up with the
ordinary fools we'd get and can't imagine how I'd've dealt with
protesting fundies.
I hate retail and bailed as soon as I could back around '91. Aside
from the Boomers Bible guy, the only time I ever dealt with somebody
wanting to play censor was when two older women had been looking at the
romance section for so long that I wandered over to see if they needed
help. One asked me if we carried books published by Blue Moon, which I
assumed was just another romance publisher (it was soft pornography). I
said no, but mentioned I could order whatever they wanted and asked them
if they had any specific titles they were interested in. I got A Look I
didn't understand and they stormed off.
The next day I found out from one of the managers that these people
had been going to all the book stores, asking for these books and then
raising hell and lecturing on evil if the employee said they carried it
or even made the mistake of asking what sort of book it was. They
apparently included threats to boycott or picket the store if the books
weren't removed. I hate people like that.
--
L. Raymond
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| User: "Ben Kaufman" |
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| Title: Re: A Fun Athiest Activity |
28 Sep 2006 08:42:09 PM |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:26:48 -0500, "L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com>
wrote:
MarkA wrote:
This reminds me of an incident at another store in the same chain. I
wasn't there, but I talked to the clerk who was involved. Some older guy
waited in line to check out, and at the counter he slapped down a bunch of
soft porn magazines that the chain would keep way up in the back of the
rack. He quoted the bible and demanded to know why the store tolerated
such filth etc. etc. The clerk was pointing out this stuff was nowhere a
kid could ever get to it when the man suddenly spun around and showed a
nude centerfold to the ten year old boy behind him, and he asked the
mother if she felt violated that her son could be exposed to such
sinfulness. I guess she did because she hauled off and hit the man hard
enough to knock him away from the counter, and she called him some choice
names and slapped him a few more times for good measure.
Personally, I would worry more about my kids being exposed to such
violence than nudity.
I really don't understand the whole problem with porn. It's only a
problem because the moralists say it's a problem because it makes people
feel dirty which they do because the moralists tell them they're dirty
for looking at porn. I'm familiar with all the psycho-speak about
controlling people's sexual urges in order to funnel them into other
outlets, but if that's even the case it's more something people in power
would do to control the plebs. When the blue-haired old women down the
street try to control porn, I sometimes wonder if it's not just revenge
for their being made to feel bad about it when they were younger.
Were you working as a clerk a few years ago when some Xtian groups got all
riled up about a collection of art photography that showed naked children?
I forget the name of the photographer, but his work was clearly art, and
not 'child pornography', as the fundies were trying to label it. All the
attention probably helped sell more copies.
No, and it's just as well; I had trouble enough putting up with the
ordinary fools we'd get and can't imagine how I'd've dealt with
protesting fundies.
I hate retail and bailed as soon as I could back around '91. Aside
from the Boomers Bible guy, the only time I ever dealt with somebody
wanting to play censor was when two older women had been looking at the
romance section for so long that I wandered over to see if they needed
help. One asked me if we carried books published by Blue Moon, which I
assumed was just another romance publisher (it was soft pornography). I
said no, but mentioned I could order whatever they wanted and asked them
if they had any specific titles they were interested in. I got A Look I
didn't understand and they stormed off.
The next day I found out from one of the managers that these people
had been going to all the book stores, asking for these books and then
raising hell and lecturing on evil if the employee said they carried it
or even made the mistake of asking what sort of book it was. They
apparently included threats to boycott or picket the store if the books
weren't removed. I hate people like that.
Next time some self-righteous bibelots comes into your store looking for
something indecent show them a book with pictures of Iraqi children killed by
phosphorous.
Ben
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| User: "Frank Mayhar" |
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| Title: Re: A Fun Athiest Activity |
28 Sep 2006 07:11:03 PM |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:26:48 -0500, L. Raymond wrote:
The next day I found out from one of the managers that these people
had been going to all the book stores, asking for these books and then
raising hell and lecturing on evil if the employee said they carried it
or even made the mistake of asking what sort of book it was. They
apparently included threats to boycott or picket the store if the books
weren't removed. I hate people like that.
Man, that's almost enough to make me want to open a bookstore just so I
could tell them to go ***** themselves.
--
Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/
Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/
http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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| User: "agray" |
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| Title: Re: A Fun Athiest Activity |
26 Sep 2006 08:43:02 PM |
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RedRover wrote:
Recently at Barnes & Noble, I decided to correct a small
discrepancy by nonchalantly moving the Bibles from the religion
section to sci-fi fantasy. I managed to move about a dozen and
then sat down to watch the comical reactions. What a hoot.
I did this once, but put them in the "Humor" section.
I also like taking the Gideons' bibles and writing (in fancy script)
"I Hereby Desecrate This Bible
--- Satan "
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: A Fun Athiest Activity |
27 Sep 2006 08:12:58 AM |
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agray wrote:
RedRover wrote:
Recently at Barnes & Noble, I decided to correct a small
discrepancy by nonchalantly moving the Bibles from the religion
section to sci-fi fantasy. I managed to move about a dozen and
then sat down to watch the comical reactions. What a hoot.
I did this once, but put them in the "Humor" section.
I also like taking the Gideons' bibles and writing (in fancy script)
"I Hereby Desecrate This Bible
--- Satan "
It would be rather amusing to get stickers printed up with that.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
Help defend marriage in Washington state!
http://www.wa-doma.org
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| User: "Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian" |
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| Title: Re: A Fun Athiest Activity |
26 Sep 2006 09:22:04 PM |
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RedRover:
Recently at Barnes & Noble, I decided to correct a small
discrepancy by nonchalantly moving the Bibles from the religion
section to sci-fi fantasy. I managed to move about a dozen and
then sat down to watch the comical reactions. What a hoot.
Nice idea.
I'd do that over here too, just for a laugh... but then, chances are that
moderate/liberal christians would have asked the staff to return the books
to their old place before a single fundie can discover the act and get a
purple face, so... :)
--
"To his friend a man a friend shall prove, and gifts with gifts requite;
But men shall mocking with mockery answer, and fraud with falsehood meet."
(The Poetic Edda)
Must have been written with fundies in mind...
My personal judgment of monotheism:
http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus
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