Island people worship US every February

[JFry]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6370991.stm

Pretty weird stuff. Kinda interested to see how Cpt. Stern feels about this. They rebelled against Christianity to worship... the US?

 

[Ennui]

lol that's interesting

 

[Geogaddi]

A Christian youth worker told me how he thought the cult was childish. "It's like a baby playing games," he insisted. "Those people are holding on to a dream that will never come true," he said.

:angel:

 

[Ennui]

LOL IRONY.

Man, what a quote.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Seriously, that's the most ironic quote I've ever read.

 

[Raziaar]

We should deliver them crates full of ipods, great songs, and many lifetimes worth of batteries.

I hate ipods though. So maybe we could substitute with a better product.

 

[Adabiviak]

Well, in the spirit of religious leadership, how shall we exploit these poor people?

 

[theotherguy]

Well, in the spirit of religious leadership, how shall we exploit these poor people?

I vote we send them stone tablets with the commandments:
1.Buy only U.S goods, or ye shall be struck down by tomahawk missile.
2.Send your childrens to U.S schools, or to mines.
3.Thou shalt make thine island life into a reality TV show
4.????
5.Profit!

 

[<RJMC>]

there wasnt a garfield episode where jhon buckle(sp?) and garfield and odie went to a volcaninc island where lived a tribe that worshiped a fonzie-looking guy that drived in a red cadillac?'
this look kind of similiar

 

[Jintor]

John Arbuckle.

This Cargo Cult seems more sensible than the Christian Youth Worker, anyway...

 

[15357]

That's... certainly strange.

 

[CyberPitz]

Is it wrong of me to be cracking up at that entire read through?

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Nope.

"John is our god," declares village chief Isaac Wan, who beats his fists into the ground to emphasise his words.

I lol'd. Hard. I don't know why.

 

[jondy]

I'm not really sure why, but that's simultaneously the saddest and most touchingly hopeful thing I've read for a long time.



...lol@at the irony of that quote though.

 

[Pulse]

That quote is absolutely priceless.

 

[mortiz]

It's sad that they're left to go on worshipping a "false god", someone should tell them that it's all B.S., like someone should tell the Christian's too, though they're generally too ignorant to listen. This shows exactly how the memeplex that is religion works.

 

[kirovman]

I too have met John Frum!

 

[Solaris]

I read about this in 'The God Delusion'

 

[Icarusintel]

We seriously need to send these guys something... just so that we can keep them on our leash and use them as fanatical fighters against whatever country we attack next.

 

[[Dragoon]]

I've always wanted my own cult... With my luck, they'd probably burn me for being a white devil witch if I tried to awe some island tribe with technology.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

That's... certainly strange.

QFT.

 

[Darkwolf]

Ahhahaha!

That's retarded. But at least it's more tangiable then christianity.

 

[CptStern]

I prefer to refer to them as displaced sheeple:

:E

 

[Geogaddi]

I prefer to refer to them as displaced sheeple:

:E

I was exploring the URL that that picture came from, and I found this.

http://www.miqel.com/reading_library/archived_stories/nixon-racism-marijuana-pope-gays.html

NIXON'S AID: Hot pants.

NIXON: Jesus Christ.

 

[CptStern]

Nixon is a crazy sumabitch:

I have the greatest affection for them [blacks], but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like

I mean past democrat presidents were a mixed bag but pretty much every single republican president in recent history was bat shit insane

edit: wow he really was insane:

NIXON: ... CBS ... glorifying homosexuality.

He has this hippie son-in-law, and usually the general trend is to downgrade him and upgrade the son-in-law--make the square hard hat out to be bad. But a few weeks ago, they had one in which the guy, the son-in-law, wrote a letter to you, President Nixon, to raise hell about something. And the guy said, "You will not write that letter from my home!" Then said, "I'm going to write President Nixon," took off all those sloppy clothes, shaved, and went to his desk and got ready to write his letter to President Nixon. And apparently it was a good episode.

EHRLICHMAN: What's it called?

NIXON: "Archie's Guys." Archie is sitting here with his hippie son-in-law, married to the screwball daughter. The son-in-law apparently goes both ways. This guy. He's obviously queer--wears an ascot--but not offensively so. Very clever. Uses nice language. Shows pictures of his parents. And so Arch goes down to the bar. Sees his best friend, who used to play professional football. Virile, strong, this and that. Then the fairy comes into the bar.

I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.

he's talking about All in the Family