Posted: 4/5/2007 8:43 AM
Post subject: Most Hated Family in America
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Warning, these videos depict people who are very bigoted Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5 Video 6 Video 7 Sorry some of the videos are very glitchy, you can try to find other uploads, if possible. I urge you to watch the whole series. However... If you don't want to watch the videos...Summary: These videos are about the Phelps family, or should I say "cult" that go around places in America and protest the fact that Americans are going to hell because they are supporting gays. They protest at an American soldier's funeral, because they feel that God is punishing Americans for supporting gays, and that American deaths in Iraq are justified. However, this time they take along a British Journalist named Louis Theroux. He gets up close an personal, and it's scary how "normal" the family is when not supporting their church, and how the effects of brainwashing (if you believe it really is brainwashing--I sure do) can be very dramatic. Cliffs: Bigoted hypocritical fundamentalists with a British Journalist tour America and try to proliferate their views on others. Some of the moments in the videos are downright hilarious (All swedes are going to hell), but it's quite disturbing in its own right.
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Posted: 4/5/2007 12:45 PM
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I feel like I hate these people enough WITHOUT watching the video, because I've heard their message and it's despicable. Fred Phelps wanted (or still wants?) to build a monument near Matthew Shepard's grave declaring that he was in hell because Shepard was gay.
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Posted: 4/5/2007 11:07 PM
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I just want to kill those assholes really. But first I'd love to see gay people rape the shit out of em'. BWAHAHAH!! Actually I'd like to see the entire mankind erased some times. Animals didn't invent A-bombs or H-bombs. They just go around, killing stuff to eat. Then they mate (I'd love to write the F-word here, but I didn't). Then they mate some one else, which is not always true for some species. Then they die. Eat, screw, die. Perfect life. Some music would be nice though. I don't really like to listen to rain forest ambient stuff in my stereo at least. :D
Posted: 4/5/2007 11:12 PM
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Highness wrote:
Actually I'd like to see the entire mankind erased some times.
Oh, I hear you, I hear you very much. Let's just hope that transhumanism hits us before some jerk starts WWIII or something like that.
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Posted: 4/5/2007 11:28 PM
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Actually, you might find it shocking that a significant portion of America (perhaps even up to 10%) share these or similar types of beliefs.
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Posted: 4/5/2007 11:34 PM
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Highness wrote:
Animals didn't invent A-bombs or H-bombs.
Why are always the inventors blamed? As for the actual videos: what is scary to me is that it's (roughly) one family. This pretty much shows that pretty much everyone who is born in a family like that will turn out to behave like that. You can hardly blame the girls that are doing it... they've been doing it since they were 6. And since nearly everyone is born into them, I think it is kinda weird to say:
Highness wrote:
I just want to kill those assholes really.
when most of them cannot really be blamed for what they are doing. Of course they showed that some of the familymembers didn't follow this religion, but I think it would be pretty hard to do such a thing. They are instantly abandoned by their family, and they don't have any friends (also shown in the videos) they could turn to.
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Posted: 4/6/2007 1:10 AM
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I've seen these people before. It's almost funny to hear these people try to justify their beliefs. Seriously, Adultery=Homosexuality? I couldn't help but laugh at just how ridiculous their belief structure is (especially to a man who wasn't born in America). You can tell they're all extremely scared about disobeying the Bible (not God) and even the most obscure law in the shortest chapter. They're also very guilty about whatever sin they committed when they were 4 years old or any other bad thing they might have thought for 2 nanoseconds. I have experience debating people who have deep religious convictions and they're all the same. They talk big and say they're bullet-proof, but once their arguments have been shot down, they'll resort to angry statements like "Well, look: God created us and if you don't believe it, you're going to Hell! PERIOD!" Now, these people are a part of the very, very small minority of Christian churches. In fact, like he insinuated, its akin to a cult. Most Christians are respectful, reasonable who do not try to push their beliefs on others. However, <MovieTrailerGuy>in a world where belief in the Bible is waning, this is just a natural product of that progression.
Posted: 4/6/2007 2:45 AM
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I don't need to make a big fancy statement about that program other than LOL
Posted: 4/6/2007 4:22 AM
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I don't need to make a big fancy statement about that program other than LOL
-_- That is my reaction.
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Posted: 4/7/2007 8:14 PM
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Posted: 4/7/2007 10:38 PM
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I think that old guy has just brainwashed these people into taking such a controversial stance so that people will buy his nonsense book.
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Posted: 4/7/2007 11:12 PM
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Almost everyone in that family is a lawyer. They know what they are doing is legal, and their family-owned law firm makes quite a bit of money when they are denied their right to protest (or anything else they can use to press charges). It's like a scam where they provoke hatred so they can turn it into profit with the help of the US legal system. (Going by what I saw on Wikipedia a while back... I haven't seen the videos.)