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Post by szaleniec on Feb 11, 2011 17:35:43 GMT -5
I mentioned earlier that it was vile and the worst thing ever to do. Would they do the same at Auschwitz? It's happened. It was about as well-received as you'd expect.
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Post by Jodie on Feb 11, 2011 17:53:35 GMT -5
Fucking disgusting. Whay are they even allowed there? Can't they be thrown out for disturbing the peace or something??
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Post by ironbite on Feb 11, 2011 18:55:56 GMT -5
Bet they didn't even know where they were and were just preaching to the unwashed heathens.
Ironbite-idiots.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Feb 11, 2011 18:58:15 GMT -5
I mentioned earlier that it was vile and the worst thing ever to do. Would they do the same at Auschwitz? It's happened. It was about as well-received as you'd expect. Badly?
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Feb 12, 2011 6:35:33 GMT -5
Fucking disgusting. Whay are they even allowed there? Can't they be thrown out for disturbing the peace or something?? Well they were there as tourists as well, at least in the Museum. And they were only doing this to me as far as I can tell, they didn't disturb my sister because I was the only one to strike up a conversation. They just 'happened to' carry along a few dozen pamphlets. Anyway this country is a bizarre sad case of poverty and corruption. I just returned from Tonle Sap lake, they had 6-year old children in basins begging on the side of our boat there. Makes you thankful you were born in the right place and time.
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Post by gyeonghwa on Feb 12, 2011 16:58:09 GMT -5
Cambodia is. . . complicated. Thank goodness, my parents made it to the refugee camp in Thailand then came here. I would have probably died at child birth.
I think most of Cambodia problems (now) arises from the wealth gap between the wealthy and the poor, and uneven economic development. There is good things, just not evenly distributed.
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necrobitsch
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Post by necrobitsch on Feb 18, 2011 9:07:37 GMT -5
(Mods: if this belongs to F&B, please move it there) I just returned from the Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Its a place where thousands of people were tortured and killed in utter cold blood during Pol Pot’s reign. And what makes it bizarre is it used to be a school, situated in what is still today a very crowded area of Phnom Penh, and the basic infrastructure of the school is still there, down to the blackboards. Then you see the 5x8 cells, the beds with chains, the ammunition boxes, the torture devices. The skulls. The pictures. No one can walk through that place without feeling affected. But this is not what makes it disrespectful. Its that, in the middle of this place, is a church group from Wisconsin, USA. We struck up a conversation due to the gravity of the place, or so I thought. Then he hands me a pamphlet and asks me “Do you believe when you die you’ll go to hell?” In a place where tens of thousands of people died, you have the attitude to ask me that question? I’ve always maintained that evangelizing is the single worst thing one can do with his mouth. Yet even then, in a goddamn concentration camp, you’d think some people have the decency to keep a lid on it. Apparently not. I grew up in southeast Asia and spent some time in Cambodia. This makes me fucking sick to my stomach. As if Cambodia hasn't suffered enough...
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Post by Ranger Joe on Feb 18, 2011 16:25:41 GMT -5
The Holocaust was a fabricated lie!!1 /troll
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Post by TWoozl on May 12, 2011 16:15:41 GMT -5
I... I'm a little speechless about how tactless a human being has to be, to stand on a site of profound misery and proselytize to total strangers about an opportunity to claim their brand of eternal happiness-- or decline the offer on a site of torture, and be tortured for all eternity. What is wrong with these people? As mentioned earlier (And at the risk of a Godwin), the only thing worse I can imagine would be Christian preachers in Auschwitz. Christian evangelism on the site of atrocities committed at the direction of a fervently insane, Christian leader, while Catholic authorities looked on with a blind eye.
Excuse me. I think I need to go wash now.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on May 12, 2011 16:29:54 GMT -5
Locked for necro, whoo!
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