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also yeah the reason i picked the word poisonous is because of the way people do base their ideas about a LOT of things around it.
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south park and daniel tosh are two sides of the same coin

edit sorry I don't know why I posted that it's not related at all, I guess I've just come to assume tosh is a universal measurement of awfulness. so friggen mindmolt
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oh no they oppress white people.

just the ones that are gay or trans or women
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south park and daniel tosh are two sides of the same coin
i don't think i'm particularly standing up for the south park losers when i say that this is giving daniel tosh way too much credit. but i'm not really able to entertain the thought of comparing daniel tosh to anything but an intestinal parasite. like i know some people who somehow still like south park and i don't HATE them for it, even though i STRONGLY DISAPPROVE of such behavior. i don't know anybody who likes daniel tosh but if i did i would probably construct an internment camp and keep them in it away from all the actual people.



PS these topics were more fun back in the old days when the whole community wasn't just godless ne'er-do-wells
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i like south park in the sense that I spent a lot of time in middle school/high school watching it.  does this make me a bad person?  probably
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PS these topics were more fun back in the old days when the whole community wasn't just godless ne'er-do-wells
That is true.
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Not to stick up for any particular show/comedian mentioned thus far, but is there a single comedic act that gets salt world's approval? I don't think I've ever seen mention to one that doesn't end with it being shunned by the forum.
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i called y'all godless ne'er do wells like a page back an ain't one a you fuckers try to stop me

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Not to stick up for any particular show/comedian mentioned thus far, but is there a single comedic act that gets salt world's approval? I don't think I've ever seen mention to one that doesn't end with it being shunned by the forum.
i dunno, you'd probably have to go with somebody totally innocuous like mitch hedburg if you wanted to figure out the official gw/sw-approved comedian.

i'd be curious to see a discussion of this, actually, seeing as how the people left are so good at despising things. WHAT SCUM FROM THE SEWER CAN GODLESS NE'ER-DO-WELLS AGREE ON???? TUNE IN NEXT WEEK FOR ANOTHER SMASHING EPISODE OF CRAPPY PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET.
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i like all sorts of shit.  i like all sorts of problematic shit.  i just don't really post much about it on the forums.  or much of anything.
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Yeah, it's not like we bleeding hearts require that everything be devoid of anything remotely incorrect or offensive. That's not how it goes. There's no blacklist or whitelist. It's perfectly fine if you like stuff that's got some sort of problem in this regard as long as you're not IN COMPLETE DENIAL about it. If you'd limit yourself to things you find 100% acceptable, you'd end up not being able to enjoy any media or artform.

Personally I'd recommend you to not limit yourself. Just watch whatever you want. Anything is fine. But keep your eyes open, and if you see something questionable in something you like, open yourself up to the possibility that this Thing You Like can be subjected to valid criticism.
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When I was a younger I had mean things on my mind. Had to keep movin'. Had a hellhound on my trail. You could say me and the devil was walkin' side by side. I had blues in my step and walked like a man; until another got my lady and these lonesome blues got me. I got that achin' old heart disease. Which like consumption, killed me by degrees.

I studied the rain to try to drive my blues away. Didn't work and so I had to ride the blinds. Now I know why they say don't cry this time. Cus if you cry bout a nickle you'll die bout a dime...
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I should mention that it's not like I'm trying to shame anyone into not liking South Park, but it does become pretty problematic when you start taking the message seriously without doing a real analysis. I think most rational people would be appalled if they did that. Does anybody really think sexual harassment laws are fascism? South Park does, and they actively try to get you to believe that as well.
found this relevant and interesting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/25/matt-stone-trey-parker-ar_n_475744.html

Article mentions that they actually felt bad when they took shots at Kanye West and Kanye responded by apologizing for being the way he is (dickish).

Also, I suppose I never thought that was what you were trying to do (convince me to hate the show or even its creators). But I felt it important to at least inform rather than be silent of my enjoyment of the show. I felt like I'd be deceitful to not do so.

From what I'm getting here, most of you don't like dickheaded comedy or even comedy based around the very idea of just being a horrible person or horrible people messing with those who may or may not deserve it. South Park has it occasionally and Tosh is almost nothing but that. Its a kind of extreme schaden freud maybe? IDK.

i don't think i'm particularly standing up for the south park losers when i say that this is giving daniel tosh way too much credit. but i'm not really able to entertain the thought of comparing daniel tosh to anything but an intestinal parasite. like i know some people who somehow still like south park and i don't HATE them for it, even though i STRONGLY DISAPPROVE of such behavior. i don't know anybody who likes daniel tosh but if i did i would probably construct an internment camp and keep them in it away from all the actual people.

I don't tend to make statements about how I utterly loathe anyone for wanting to see any type of entertainment. Even in a joking fashion. I guess I'm just boring that way. Then again, I don't hate. I get angry, emotional, stupid about people I don't like. But hate is something you have to think about and come to a conclusion to. Something I have not done since childhood.

I also guess you would hate me, Hundley. I've laughed at Daniel Tosh's jokes, the apparently forbidden comedian.

also yeah the reason i picked the word poisonous is because of the way people do base their ideas about a LOT of things around it.
You place blame on the show. And I suppose I understand where you are coming from, but I'd place more of the blame on the people basing their ideas on it than the show.

Not to stick up for any particular show/comedian mentioned thus far, but is there a single comedic act that gets salt world's approval? I don't think I've ever seen mention to one that doesn't end with it being shunned by the forum.
IDK. I'm sure you mention anything, comedy or not you'll find someone out there with a reason to hate it.

i like all sorts of shit.  i like all sorts of problematic shit.  i just don't really post much about it on the forums.  or much of anything.
See, I guess this is my problem. I've posted my problematic shit. I regretted it. I think this is because I care too much about what people on the internet think of me. But I think I'm starting to snap out of that. Or snap in some sense of the word at least.
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Actually, I take it back. There is one person that I hate. But this person might not actually exist. And probably wont.
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Yeah, it's not like we bleeding hearts require that everything be devoid of anything remotely incorrect or offensive. That's not how it goes. There's no blacklist or whitelist. It's perfectly fine if you like stuff that's got some sort of problem in this regard as long as you're not IN COMPLETE DENIAL about it. If you'd limit yourself to things you find 100% acceptable, you'd end up not being able to enjoy any media or artform.

Personally I'd recommend you to not limit yourself. Just watch whatever you want. Anything is fine. But keep your eyes open, and if you see something questionable in something you like, open yourself up to the possibility that this Thing You Like can be subjected to valid criticism.
That really wasn't what I was getting at. I totally can see that things I like can be criticized and I'm not offended if you guys don't like stuff I like. I just noticed that I've never seen any mention of a comedian or show here that didn't get torn apart by at least one person. For the most part I really have no idea what kind of things people here find humorous anymore.
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Not to stick up for any particular show/comedian mentioned thus far, but is there a single comedic act that gets salt world's approval? I don't think I've ever seen mention to one that doesn't end with it being shunned by the forum.
I'd say limmy, at the risk of there being too many people here who like him for how good he is and that will ruin it

idk what the gang thinks about any of the more recent acts, eg hannibal buress but does it really matter? at least we're still different people in terms of what we find entertaining

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I also guess you would hate me, Hundley. I've laughed at Daniel Tosh's jokes, the apparently forbidden comedian.
it doesn't matter, if you want you can look up shit on him that should show you pretty clearly why he's loathsome. but don't worry about it, whoever brought him up is a dumbo....
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That really wasn't what I was getting at. I totally can see that things I like can be criticized and I'm not offended if you guys don't like stuff I like. I just noticed that I've never seen any mention of a comedian or show here that didn't get torn apart by at least one person. For the most part I really have no idea what kind of things people here find humorous anymore.
idk we're all different people. I love Brother Theodore and I know some other people here do, but you're never going to find someone who "the community" universally (or even close to that) likes.
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I think a lot of the college athiests (or 'south park athiests') seem to ignore is that there is a genuinely spiritual aspect to life, and the human (and potentially other of the more intelligent species) conciousness. Even the New-Athiests like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins are aware of it. It's not like GOD or Homeopathy, but there is a part of us that yearns for a higher awareness, an understanding of the self and the cosmos.

I have no belief in god, I never have, it's just never seemed to make sense to me. I understand why people follow religion and believe in a higher power, but nah, just never done it. That said, I do think it's worth following the philosophical aspects of Buddhism and it's related family (though not stuff like dogmatic buddhism, which is becoming more and more well known for it's bizarre sects and practices), and try to live a life of peace and understanding, which yeah, does involve meditation (though admitedly I haven't done it for half a year, but I put that energy into music, which I approach with a Zen like dedication), and I feel that the effect of meditation must be somewhat similar to that of prayer. Prayer is often just essentially a shorter, more condensed meditation on certain matters. What really did it for me was funnily enough, when I started to read into theoretical physics, and the concept of reality being composed of a series of vibrations on an infinite number of cosmic membranes, to me, everything kinda clicked into place and I became a kinda spiritual person, though with no theological beliefs.
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My high school physics teacher said he was spiritual. He was a cool guy, too bad I sucked at his class.

IDK I don't like the term Spirituality since its kind of misleading. 'Spirituality' is also often used by quacks and frauds so I tend to not trust its users in most contexts.

But yeah I've read that meditation can be beneficial health-wise. The rest of the relevant aspects of secular spirituality can be summed up with a different word, 'humanism'. A word that sounds far less "New Age".
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The rest of the relevant aspects of secular spirituality can be summed up with a different word, 'humanism'. A word that sounds far less "New Age".
Humanism is an umbrella term for a vast amount of philosophies that can be quite different from one another in spite of their commonalities. It's certainly not necessarily secular.