Jerry Springer The Opera and religious zealots.
Posted by: Shayman on 07 January 2005
No doubt all those of you in the UK will have heard that the BBC plan to broadcast the musical "Jerry Springer The Opera" this weekend.
Fanstastic. Every review I've read says it is a great piece of theatre.
However the BBC has now received 15000 complaints ahead of the showing from various religious and mediawatch groups. The head of Mediawatch-UK has apparently counted 8000 swear words in the show although to do this he had to multiply each word he heard by 27 to account for the whole cast singing certain songs. What (and for whose benefit) does this prat think he's protecting us from. A free and open socitey?
Anyway, as the previous highest level of complaints was 10 times less than for this it would suggest an organised drumming up of intolerance and pro-censorship.
Just wondered if anyone fancied ringing the BBC to complain about Songs Of Praise saying it doesn't match my beliefs or requirements. If we started a campaign perhaps we could eclipse the 15000 Jerry Springer complaints and show these crackpots the banality of their actions.
Jonathan
Fanstastic. Every review I've read says it is a great piece of theatre.
However the BBC has now received 15000 complaints ahead of the showing from various religious and mediawatch groups. The head of Mediawatch-UK has apparently counted 8000 swear words in the show although to do this he had to multiply each word he heard by 27 to account for the whole cast singing certain songs. What (and for whose benefit) does this prat think he's protecting us from. A free and open socitey?
Anyway, as the previous highest level of complaints was 10 times less than for this it would suggest an organised drumming up of intolerance and pro-censorship.
Just wondered if anyone fancied ringing the BBC to complain about Songs Of Praise saying it doesn't match my beliefs or requirements. If we started a campaign perhaps we could eclipse the 15000 Jerry Springer complaints and show these crackpots the banality of their actions.
Jonathan
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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:
Does anyone on the forum really believe the world was created in 7 days a few thousand years ago? Or know anyone who does?
At college many years ago there was a guy who was one of the most intelligent, clever, considered, rational and thoughtful student there. I didn't socialise with him on a regular basis but one lunchtime we happened to be having a conversation in which I discovered he was a Jehovah's Witness. It then transpired that not only did he genuinely believe that God created the world in 7 days (well 6 - he rested on the 7th of course!
) but that if you asked him, he would happily spend time explaining how this was so.Like Rasher with his Baptist architect I thought he was ever so slightly off his trolley but, as he was a gentleman, refrained from telling him so! Instead I thoughtfully made my excuses and left!
Never knew what became of him...
Cheers,
JR
The universe wouldn't be the same every time because any previous time didn't exist to the time that was present. The big bang/singularity event is a slate cleaning moment for all space and time. Also, coming back to the old Zen question, does anything exist if nothing witnesses it?: we, being a product of the big bang ourselves cannot be a valid independant witness, so we cannot ever finally resolve whether we exist or not. But we also have to try and understand where our spirituality comes from and whether that is provable by physics, or whether the big bang world would only have created inanimate objects and non-intelligent carbon lifeforms. So it is valid to entertain the possibility that the spirit exists outside the physical "big bang" universe, and that we are currently only using the carbon lifeforms as a convienient vehicle. That is the logical conclusion when you take it to the end.
Whether that is true or not, I don't care...I've got GTA: San Andreas to play.
It's been fun though.