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Greta Thunberg - brave campaigner or deeply disturbed?

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arthwollipot said:
Can we do this without the over-the-top ridiculous hyperbole? No-one thinks she's a saint.
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Here's the leader of "WomenWhoSail":

Charlotte Kaufmann said:
Greta Thunberg is the Saint We Need

[...] Maybe society realizes we are at the doorstep of the point of no return and we need a hero, or at the very least a miracle, to save us from ourselves. In 15th century France, the French were in need of such a hero. It was Joan of Arc who rallied their country to defend themselves against the English. The similarities between Greta and Joan are many: their youth, their beauty, their almost virginal purity, and their spirited calls to action. Like Joan, Greta’s fervor borders on the religious. She herself has stated, a la Joan and the battles she and her armies won, that we must act, “as if we were in crisis, as if there were a war going on.” Who better than a girl child to embolden, inspire, and (if not at the very least) shame us into action? [...]

Her inspiring arrival by sea is about more than just climate change. She is a beacon for women and children, and for those without a voice on the world stage. As a person living with Asperger’s, she is a model for how people can look beyond one’s disability to listen and to support a neurodivergent leader. Greta’s Asperger’s, her youth, and her piercing insistence that the world not look away have pushed her into modern-day sainthood. If it’s a saint we need to implement action on the climate crisis then Greta is the great saint of our time.
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That's just a quick search find of someone I never heard of before, while I have heard other people literally liking her to sainthood. Checked if the pope was among them (after meeting her), but apparently he isn't that far yet.

So I guess you'll have to continue to endure me making as much fun of the cult as I think is appropriate, which might be a bit more than you think. You'll survive it.
 
Childlike Empress said:
That's just a quick search find of someone I never heard of before, while I have heard other people literally liking her to sainthood. Checked if the pope was among them (after meeting her), but apparently he isn't that far yet.
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Of course you can find a counterexample on the internet. You can find counterexamples to everything on the internet. No-one on this forum thinks she's a literal saint. At best, people refer to her as a saint in the same way they refer to a nurse who saved their life as a saint, or a pre-school teacher who doesn't experience a nervous breakdown as a saint, or a wife who still loves her husband despite his drinking habit a saint.

Childlike Empress said:
So I guess you'll have to continue to endure me making as much fun of the cult as I think is appropriate, which might be a bit more than you think. You'll survive it.
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Cult, now.

You're just using the words that you think will demonise and vilify her as much as possible. Like when you refer to Secretary Clinton as "Killary". You're doing it in order to be derogatory. You're doing it in order to insult. And you're doing it in the most egregious and juvenile way possible.
 
arthwollipot said:
No thanks.
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Ok, then at least go back to my post with the little joke about the upcoming youtube series sailing with the saint™, then read your reply where you claimed that nobody thinks she is a saint, then my reply where I found you in no time (hilariously enough) the leader of "WomenWhoSail" claiming exactly that without irony, and then you moving the goalposts to that nobody here thinks she is a saint, something I never claimed.

And then think about why I will not go into your whining afterwards and if what you are doing right now (losing temper on the internet) is what you should be doing.
 
Childlike Empress said:
Ok, then at least go back to my post with the little joke about the upcoming youtube series sailing with the saint™, then read your reply where you claimed that nobody thinks she is a saint, then my reply where I found you in no time (hilariously enough) the leader of "WomenWhoSail" claiming exactly that without irony, and then you moving the goalposts to that nobody here thinks she is a saint, something I never claimed.

And then think about why I will not go into your whining afterwards and if what you are doing right now (losing temper on the internet) is what you should be doing.
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Who says I'm losing my temper? This is hilarious.
 
arthwollipot said:
Who says I'm losing my temper? This is hilarious.
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The 3 or 4 posters in this thread displaying distinctively troll-like behaviour have little idea how preposterous they appear. The strange thing is, at least a couple of those seem to be reasonable people when posting on other topics. There is something about this young lady that triggers them in a most unpleasant way, and I am damned if I can see what it is.

Anyway, I would like to nominate Greta Thunberg to be invested in the pantheon of atheist saints. I am just not sure how to go about this. I am also not sure of the names of anyone else included in the pantheon of atheist saints, but they must exist because St. Greta would surely not be the first. If anyone here understands the nomination process please let me know. We must keep the trolls happy, lest they keep making incorrect assumptions.
 
Steve said:
Anyway, I would like to nominate Greta Thunberg to be invested in the pantheon of atheist saints. I am just not sure how to go about this. I am also not sure of the names of anyone else included in the pantheon of atheist saints, but they must exist because St. Greta would surely not be the first. If anyone here understands the nomination process please let me know. We must keep the trolls happy, lest they keep making incorrect assumptions.
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Okay, that's a nice idea. I don't know what the nomination process should be, but I'm not sure we should co-opt the term "saint". I think we could come up with something better. Something that reflects their role in society, as a model person that we should all emulate.

Can't think of a good phrase to describe that.
 
arthwollipot said:
Strawman. If one bad thing is worse than another bad thing, that doesn't make the second bad thing not bad.
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The second bad thing is bad, which is why I was wondering why you brought him up.

One president did bad thing

Yeah but what about the current one

Yes he is bad as well............and

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You seem to forgot I am not a yank and don't have the baggage

I think the dems and rep are all idiots
 
Steve said:
The 3 or 4 posters in this thread displaying distinctively troll-like behaviour have little idea how preposterous they appear. The strange thing is, at least a couple of those seem to be reasonable people when posting on other topics. There is something about this young lady that triggers them in a most unpleasant way, and I am damned if I can see what it is.

Anyway, I would like to nominate Greta Thunberg to be invested in the pantheon of atheist saints. I am just not sure how to go about this. I am also not sure of the names of anyone else included in the pantheon of atheist saints, but they must exist because St. Greta would surely not be the first. If anyone here understands the nomination process please let me know. We must keep the trolls happy, lest they keep making incorrect assumptions.
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TBF Greta is kind of the perfect topic to wind up people with
 
cullennz said:
TBF Greta is kind of the perfect topic to wind up people with
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That may be. The unknown is what a person gets out of winding people up. Especially when the wind-up comments are so pathetic. We have had much better trolls in this forum than what we are currently seeing.
 
Steve said:
That may be. The unknown is what a person gets out of winding people up. Especially when the wind-up comments are so pathetic. We have had much better trolls in this forum than what we are currently seeing.
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It is not like it is one sided

Version 1 - Men afraid of 16 year old girl!
Version 2 - People think Greta is a Saint!
 
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