We are the same thing.
We are Humans.
Things and Terms aren’t humans.
Last thing I want to say and hopefully I don’t end up finding myself back on this forum post.
In post 1128, TrueSoulEnergy wrote:Despite me not caring about the “lynch” term.
I thought I’d share this in case other stuff is brought up.
Now Yes certain events in history were bad and very disgusting.
But it has nothing to do with a term as a whole.
Just because a term can refer to something that may appear to be racist doesn’t mean it is.
Ever heard the saying “Life is what you make it”.
That applies here.
Yes the word is known for being bad in the past but that just means someone can take initiative and change the word from being bad and degrading to something good and pure. (Or at least not as bad as people make it look like it is)
People can change so why can’t terms or things change?
Spoiler Alert - Anything and Anyone can Change.
You know, what is hilarious is that "I'm 14 and I'm deep" post that was racist earlier has suddenly come full circle and is being hilariously applied to the other side of the argument.
I know school is out for the summer, but do you have to post like this?
Lol I’m 20.
In post 1143, TrueSoulEnergy wrote:Although Age is just you body/shell’s number.
Nothing to do with your soul.
In post 1151, TrueSoulEnergy wrote:We are the same thing.
We are Humans.
Things and Terms aren’t humans.
Last thing I want to say and hopefully I don’t end up finding myself back on this forum post.
is it because you're spending some time reading those articles kuribo and I linked?
In post 1128, TrueSoulEnergy wrote:Despite me not caring about the “lynch” term.
I thought I’d share this in case other stuff is brought up.
Now Yes certain events in history were bad and very disgusting.
But it has nothing to do with a term as a whole.
Just because a term can refer to something that may appear to be racist doesn’t mean it is.
Ever heard the saying “Life is what you make it”.
That applies here.
Yes the word is known for being bad in the past but that just means someone can take initiative and change the word from being bad and degrading to something good and pure. (Or at least not as bad as people make it look like it is)
People can change so why can’t terms or things change?
Spoiler Alert - Anything and Anyone can Change.
You know, what is hilarious is that "I'm 14 and I'm deep" post that was racist earlier has suddenly come full circle and is being hilariously applied to the other side of the argument.
I know school is out for the summer, but do you have to post like this?
Lol I’m 20.
In post 1143, TrueSoulEnergy wrote:Although Age is just you body/shell’s number.
Nothing to do with your soul.
In post 1018, TrueSoulEnergy wrote:But I still believe that in a world where I’m in control is the perfect world because equality and Understandment will co-exist.
This post right here is way more eloquent than I could put my thoughts at the given moment:
In post 113, Elbirn wrote:Mods: This was a good decision and long over-due. Thank you.
Nay-sayers: I'd like to say that for one thing, several of you appear to be not American. And as a result, you don't have the context of exactly why so many Americans are uncomfortable with that word. I don't want that to sound condescending, simply that you are going to feel differently about the word as a result. In other contexts than mafia the word lynch can be taken to mean an execution as a result of some kind of "mob justice", typically by hanging. So maybe it just doesn't seem like a big deal to you. In the United States that word explicitly recalls lynchings of black men, not just throughout our whole history, or in the 1950's, but
even currently
as several other users have pointed out! We're having cases of black men being found dead hung from trees and our police rule them "suicides".
It is really the most minor of inconveniences to update your lingo to not include a word that carrys so much baggage, please just be cool.
Also this:
In post 263, Nahdia wrote:yall, there are some seriously disappointing takes here.
Caring about not making people uncomfortable or hurting them is never a bad thing. Filtering ourselves to be a more inclusive, welcoming community isn't hard.
This isn't censorship, this is kindness.
In post 244, D3f3nd3r wrote:I didn't read the five pages in the middle of this thread, but this seems like the perfect place for us to steal Large Social Game lingo and call it voting a player out. "X has been voted out Day 1, they were a Vanilla Townie." "With 9 alive, it's 5 to vote someone out."
People won't like it because it's Large Social Game lingo but they should
Seriously, just treat it like Survivor. Jeff Probst style.
In post 1121, Alisae wrote:LLD, is it okay to gun down people in the streets if you think racist?
Yeah, the racists are the ones getting gunned down in the streets right now...
Yeah, I need to get out of this country if I care about my human rights. This is about to become a facist shithole soon.
Alisae I can promise you that you and me and any other white people will not be at the front of the line for having our rights taken away under any impending fascism in the United States.
In post 1150, Flavor Leaf wrote:Age is indicative of experience, and while that’s not a definite measure, I definitely feel a giant change of how I saw the world from ages 20-25.
Life experience, seeing different parts of the world, meeting different people, all effects your perspective
Exactly.
But In the right hands if everyone knew the truth and had full Understandment towards each other no issues occurred.
If the world was ruled by 1 Pure Deity Individual such as myself.
Countries - Gone
Racism - Gone
Politics - Gone
Religion - Gone
War - Gone
It’d be so peaceful.
Actually I made a thing on my notepads about a month ago. Here you go.
War (-) Peace
Religion (-) Understandment and Truth
Politics (-) Council
Countries (-) Earth
Racism (-) Equality
(Fuck I’m just gonna stop reading please help me someone!)
In post 1157, kuribo wrote:Nevermind that I also linked an article discussing trans people being lynched too
True, but I really think that if I stood here and said <I am against the word lynch because my people in the trans community are dying> it would diminish the point and be disingenuous.
Especially since the majority of those deaths are BLACK Trans women.
So... valid, but not the main point here tbh
Yes my Lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers.
13 heads and counting now, plurality is adaptive. If our experience might help you,
Norwe is spontaneous, has a stream-of-consciouness posting style, usually posts on catch-ups by commenting on past pages posts, gets rather fired up in certain moments in games, is relatively as playful as me in games and likes casual shitposting
Btw it's more of a Hindu thing and just got absorbed into Buddhism as kind of an afterthought like a lot of other Hindu-flavored content in Buddhism that isn't actually germane to Buddhism's own original content, because Buddhism developed in a Vedic Hindu milieu.
In post 1150, Flavor Leaf wrote:Age is indicative of experience, and while that’s not a definite measure, I definitely feel a giant change of how I saw the world from ages 20-25.
Life experience, seeing different parts of the world, meeting different people, all effects your perspective
Exactly.
But In the right hands if everyone knew the truth and had full Understandment towards each other no issues occurred.
If the world was ruled by 1 Pure Deity Individual such as myself.
Countries - Gone
Racism - Gone
Politics - Gone
Religion - Gone
War - Gone
It’d be so peaceful.
Actually I made a thing on my notepads about a month ago. Here you go.
War (-) Peace
Religion (-) Understandment and Truth
Politics (-) Council
Countries (-) Earth
Racism (-) Equality
(Fuck I’m just gonna stop reading please help me someone!)
Holy shit.
He just advocated for a benevolent monarchy.
No, not even.
HE JUST ADVOCATED FOR UBERMENCH.
I'm dying.
Yes my Lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers.
13 heads and counting now, plurality is adaptive. If our experience might help you,
In post 1165, TrueSoulEnergy wrote:If the world was ruled by 1 Pure Deity Individual such as myself.
Countries - Gone
Racism - Gone
Politics - Gone
Religion - Gone
War - Gone
It’d be so peaceful.
Actually I made a thing on my notepads about a month ago. Here you go.
War (-) Peace
Religion (-) Understandment and Truth
Politics (-) Council
Countries (-) Earth
Racism (-) Equality
In post 1121, Alisae wrote:LLD, is it okay to gun down people in the streets if you think racist?
Yeah, the racists are the ones getting gunned down in the streets right now...
Yeah, I need to get out of this country if I care about my human rights. This is about to become a facist shithole soon.
Alisae I can promise you that you and me and any other white people will not be at the front of the line for having our rights taken away under any impending fascism in the United States.
In post 1121, Alisae wrote:LLD, is it okay to gun down people in the streets if you think racist?
Yeah, the racists are the ones getting gunned down in the streets right now...
Yeah, I need to get out of this country if I care about my human rights. This is about to become a facist shithole soon.
Oh nooooo. People are asking you to stop using a racist term on a website. Your poor poor rights
its not about the word. I don't exactly care about the word. I'm argueing for the sake of argueing and what I dislike is that people think that being assholes for the sake of "taking action against racism" is ok