What Do They Mean By “Coexist”?
I am a field installation person for the company I work for. This means that I go to my shop from home and then take a company vehicle to the job-site. I travel any where from 30 minutes to 1 1/2 hours to the job-site, and then back again at the end of the day also. I am a person who loves to read bumper stickers as I drive to kill the time. I have noticed some trends over time. Most notably the now famous 1-20-09 end of an error bumper sticker. I remember seeing my first one, not knowing what it referred to until I could catch up to the vehicle to read it. Over time I have seen more and more of these stickers, they are pretty popular now. I saw my first John Edwards ‘08 bumper sticker today on a vehicle with New Hampshire plates, this disturbs me.
A couple of months ago I saw another bumper sticker that made me speed up to read it.
The peace symbol for the “O” told me all I needed to know, or so I thought. Just an anti-war liberal. I didn’t give it a second thought. But more recently I have noticed more and more of these bumper stickers, and have started wondering what these people are trying to say to me. What do they mean by “coexist”? Who do they want to “coexist” with each other?
A closer look at this bumper sticker reveals many religious symbols in it in addition to the peace symbol. It appears to me that the peace symbol actually replaced the original symbol on the sticker as seen in this picture:
According to a website that sells the bumper sticker:
Every letter has a symbol that represents a system of thought: The crescent and star for Islam; the pentagram for Wicca; the relativity formula for science; the star of David for Judaism; the Karma Wheel dotting the i for Buddhism; the Tao symbol for Taoism; the cross for Chrisitianity.
The bumper sticker actually has symbols for many religions as well as science. In the case of the bumper stickers that I have seen the Wicca symbol is replaced with a peace symbol. Does this mean that they are equating peace with religion or the lack thereof? I don’t think so. I think this is a typical liberal feel good bumper sticker. They are telling us that all religions need to coexist, I don’t have a problem with that, I wish all religions could coexist. But they can’t, they can’t because Muslim radicals don’t want to.
I hope these people aren’t trying to tell me that I need to learn to exist with radicals that want to kill me and my family.
So, are these people talking to the radical Muslims? For it is them that truly needs to learn coexist with us. It is they that need to learn to accept us. We have spent far too many years trying to coexist with terrorists and it led to September 11th. I don’t think they are talking to radicals.
These people are so upset with the war and the president that they have lost all sensibility. They are sporting bumper stickers that say coexist in an effort to show their discontent with the war. They are telling me, you, and the president that we just need to coexist. They don’t understand, or don’t want to understand the fact that most Americans, conservatives included, do want to be able to coexist in this world. I would love to coexist in this world and never have to go to war again with another country. The difference between me, other conservatives, the president and these coexist wackos is the fact that we are not naive enough to believe that by just willing everyone to coexist it will happen. These people are naive, that’s what it comes down to.
They are naive enough to the point of being offensive. How dare these people sport bumper stickers on their cars that imply that America needs to learn to coexist with radical Islamists. It is the Islamo-fascists that are teaching their children in schools and on television that America needs to be destroyed, that America is the great Satan, and that they will be rewarded in heaven if they kill Americans.
I don’t need to learn to coexist with them, they need to learn to coexist with me!
NH Tea Party Coalition
Thanks for looking into this. I see it more frequently these days – usually on the back of 10-year old Honda civics or new Subarus – and always kind of wondered what the story was.
Now that you mention it, it’s pretty disgusting, isn’t it? Kinda a feel-good we should all get along despite our difference bullcrap. I don’t think you’d see too many camels with these slapped on their butts out in the sandbox, eh?
It is soooooooooo ironic that you brin this up, in fact I’m just incredulous. I literally just saw this exact same bumper sticker last night and was thinking some of the very same things as you!! In addition to this chick’s annoying bumper stickers she was driving too slow and I was in a hurry so chalk it up to me being pretty irritated.
This mentality is just irritating, sad and wrong!!
This post is another reflection of you and I thinking along the same lines, great minds think alike
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It just irritates me that these type of people are trying to tell us that we need to accept terrorists for who they are and coexist with them. They ironic part is that the same people liberals want to coexist with are the same people who would kill the liberals in a second. Then they wouldn’t have to worry about coexisting, would they. These people will never get it.
I hope I didn’t freak you out too much Dee, and yes, great minds do think alike.
maybe the people who ’sport’ the stickers are simply implying that it would be oh-so-lovely if we COULD all just co-exist. men, women, christians, liberals, conservatives, wiccans, heterosexuals, homosexuals, muslims, scientists, poets, dreamers, thinkers…
will world peace ever happen? probably not. but it’s a nice thought. and if one person is trying to make a difference, and support the idea, then so be it.
to me, the sticker represents someone thinking, feeling, and hoping for something better in our world.
and to ‘mpinkeyes’ …i don’t think these peeps are trying to suggest that “we to need accept terrorists”…i think the idea is how nice it WOULD BE IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF we could all live together harmoniously. far fetched idea? yes. but a nice idea? yes.
besides, it’s better than that lame-ass sticker i’ve seen before with the little cartoon character-type-thing urinating on a ford symbol, or chevorlet symbol, right?
wow, thank youuu for hitting the nail on the head. i love your response, couldn’t have said it better myself.
wow – that reply was AUH MAZING!!!
“How dare these people sport bumper stickers on their cars that imply that America needs to learn to coexist with radical Islamists.”
it doesn’t occur to me that anyone’s proposing coexistence with terrorists (whether radical Muslims or otherwise)
maybe they’re proposing that we recognize the Islamic religion as something more than a mask that certain terrorists work under or use skewed doctrines from to convince followers. The radical groups that terrorize America (and other places! -think of more people than yourself) make up a very small percentage of the people who practice Islam… i think all this bumpersticker wants to to do is be less judgmental. agreed that it’s real uberhippie, but i think the sentiment is something to ponder.. not something to instigate racism.
“I don’t need to learn to coexist with them, they need to learn to coexist with me!”
and since i’m already on the edge of being rude, i’ll go there… i think your mentality is the one that (as “dee” said) is irritating, sad and wrong.
thanks for the vent, don’t take it to heart unless you want to
I know that the percentage of people who radicalize Islam is a minority percentage, that is why I seperate them from peaceful Muslims by using the term radical.
Here is one definition of radical:
Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme.
I don’t care what the percentage is, the fact is this is the group I am talking about. As far as being less judgemental, I will not be less judgemental against this one particular group who wants to kill us. Let me say it again, not all Muslims are terrorists, I am talking about those that are.
In your PC mindthink you couldn’t even type the words radical Muslims without then typing otherwise to show everyone you are not a racist.
By the way, Dee wasn’t talking about me with those comments, if you read a little more closely you will see that.
1. The symbol for Islam used on the bumper sticker does not specify radical fundamentalist Muslims, but your post assumes that the people who endorse the sticker are saying something about those radicals. Do you assume that the cross is only there to represent fundamentalist Christians?
2. You also suggest that people who sport the sticker are addressing only you and other conservatives, telling you to “coexist” with others. It seems logical that, when so many types of people are represented in the symbols on the sticker, one can assume that the sticker is addressing ALL of those people. If you are a man, woman, Christian, Muslim, Jew, or believer in science, you can consider the message of tolerance. The message is not only for you, it’s for everyone.
I hardly think that the people who put this bumper sticker on their cars are in any way suggesting that they support radical Islamic terrorists. Or that they are card-carrying hippie liberals out there trying to spread love and light. Ok, the love and light thing might be true (but I happen to be a registered Republican).
I personally love this sticker. I had absolutely no thoughts whatsoever about radical Islam when I first saw “Coexist.” It just sums up what I feel about religion and personal faith.
It shouldn’t matter how, who, what, or if we worship a god, goddess or whatever higher power is or isn’t out there. The point of the sticker is that we don’t need to beat down other people because their religious beliefs aren’t like ours.
Personally, I think it’s about “being the change you wish to see in the world.” [Ghandi]
Love and Peace
Just wanted to point out that this bumper is not directed only at Americans or at Christians, but also at violent extremist Muslim terrorists. If someone is displaying the bumper sticker, they are wishing for peace and freedom for all religions, and they would absolutely tell a Muslim extremist that THEY need to coexist with you, as well as you coexisting with them. Whether you think that this kind of peace is possible or not is your own thing (of course, if this kind of peace were to happen it would only be because everyone believed in it), but this is not telling you to sit on your ass and let yourself get attacked. It’s talking about respect that EVERYONE needs to have, and I think that the small but horribly effective faction of Muslims that would want to kill people need to get a large dose of that respect! Keep in mind that this is not terrorist sympathetic, it’s PEACE sympathetic, and peace can only happen if there is no more violence involving ANY religion. It’s directed at anyone who is violent or intolerant and that includes many people of EVERY religion, including Islam.
I will give you most of the points that you have made. However I would like you to clarify one part of your post. You said:
“It’s talking about respect that EVERYONE needs to have, and I think that the small but horribly effective faction of Muslims that would want to kill people need to get a large dose of that respect!”
Please tell me that you do not mean that extreme radical Muslims who blow up people in the name of God deserve respect. I hope I am mis-interpretting your comment. Showing them any respect only legitimizes them and weakens us. They do not have respect for us nor do they deserve respect from us.
Yes Anna, and if there’s ONE THING Muslim terrorists respect, it’s a bumper sticker! Woooo bumper stickers!
I am sure they will read the bumper sticker and a bright light of clarity will wash over them and they will understand their misgivings.
Don’t be so ignorant. The percentage of radical Muslims is about .013 and the percent of fundamentalist evangelical christians is about 25%. There is danger in any religion thinking it is the supreme believe system and that all other religious followers must be killed. I don’t think anyone would create a bumper sticker that would represent the idiotic idea that we should support radicals. It was ignorant of you to even assume that. Did you graduate high school?
What if I did’t graduate high school? There are plenty of hard working Americans that didn’t have the oportunity to complete school for various resons.Am I one of them,no.I thought it was supposed to be your side that cared about the little people and that conservatives didn’t.You have shown the real way you feel about the less fortunate, you look down on them with contemt. You feel as though you are better than them.
I am sure they will read the bumper sticker and a bright light of clarity will wash over them and they will understand their misgivings.
Just like you did?
What in the world…
COEXIST.
1 exist at the same time or in the same place.
2 exist in harmony.
You have a problem with people putting this on their cars?
Let’s all just go put Fuck You bumper stickers on our cars and be happy.
By God, if you have a problem with this word, and people using it, you need to rethink your thought.
And by the way. I have the same bumper sticker.
Ever think that it REPRESENTS America?
Coexist…
Bringing of many races, cultures, religions, and people together. The United States of America.
Your hatred of ”muslim radicals” needs to be pushed aside and not judge people so easily. See the good in people, not the bad.
How can you honestly say that a bumper sticker that is depicting 7-8 belief systems is specifically targeting America’s attitude towards radical muslims? It’s ridiculous.
I quote “I don’t need to learn to coexist with them, they need to learn to coexist with me!”
Your the reason we need to “co-exist”
ego perpetuates hate.Everybody is right and everybody is wrong.
Also: From what you’ve said, I don’t think you can coexist with anyone who isn’t a baptized Christian. What if you lived next to a Wiccan family? Or was invited to dinner by an Islamic family of the not radical variety? I’ll put all the money I have that you would refuse dinner and not associate with the Wiccan family?
I am a Wiccan. I am getting the green variety of the Coexist T-shirt. I will wear it proudly, because it means that I would go to the Islamic family’s dinner and I would and do associate with Christians, the Jewish, the Buddhist, the Taoists. It means that I look beyond religion to make judgments. That’s what this shirt and bumper sticker mean. Not that we should accept terrorists.
… and if one of those Islamic families you have dinner with, happens to be Jihadists? After presenting themselves as peaceful, you find that they desire to cut your children’s throats, as they did with David Pearl, maybe then, you’ll wish you’d have been a bit more insightful? Or will it take it happening to a loved one first? Read the Koran.
You know I am always shocked at how much someone will read into one word being displayed. Obviously the sticker is open to anyone’s interpretation but I seriously doubt that anyone that displays this would imply that they support terrorists. Not all that follow Islam are terrorists any more than those that follow Christianity. Remember that Timothy McVeigh claimed to be Christian. We live in a country that is supposed to support religious freedom and this in my opinion supports that.
How can you be so narrow minded? You accuse liberals of being desensitized and yet your solution to the problem of dealing with Muslim extremists is simply to go over and bomb the hell out of them?
Why does war always have to be the solution for Americans when it comes to terrorism? We should be trying to help these people. If all we try to do is kill all of them, we are no better then them.
BTW… I am not a liberal. I am an American and a human being!
Give me a break! Nobody is saying you have to get along with terrorists or anything of that nature. I have the sticker and to me it represents peace. Kind of like “Can’t we all just get along.” People that read so much into it, need to loosen up a bit. It’s not that serious people. It’s only promoting peace.
I am in the UK – But have seen the sticker and dont see any mention of the word TERRORIST
It is all about religions and how as Brothers and Sisters of this planet we should coexist – we should love and we should forgive
Now before anybody shouts at me for my comments, there will always be things that we can not forgive such as terrorism, race hate, stabbings, shootings etc.
But as children of the earth – the mature among us need to try and live in harmony, try and close our eyes to the terrors of this century.
If we all learn to love and to live together, we can bring about change to this world of ours
Isnt this what the hippy movement was all about in the 1960s
Love has always been, and will always continue to be the answer
God bless you and thank you for reading my comments
Seriously?
This is exactly what I expect from 42% of this country. ONE of those religions harbors a fraction of nut job extremists you got a problem with, and rather than understand any more of the sentiment, you throw the whole thing out. Worse yet, you call us (I have one of these) naive.
I have news for you. ALL of these religions have whacko sects that want to destroy all the others.
Holy Order of Aryan Warriors – Christian
Gush Emunim Underground – Jewish
Aum Shinrikyo – Buddhist
BAJRANG DAL – Hindu
I could go on…
Crawl back into your hole, little man. Be afraid of all the bad people in the world that arn’t like you. The rest of us will hold out hope that education, belief and interaction can overcome miseducation and fear.
The fact is, the progressive ideas we have are the end result of a liberal thought evolution that has been moving forward for hundreds of years.
At one point, the crusades were the norm. The inquisition was the norm. Hatred and oppression of others was the norm. These things have changed because good people believed in a better way. We still do.
We will leave people like you behind in the past – along with jim crow laws, Christian dominionism and yes, even Islamic terrorist.
“It just irritates me that these type of people are trying to tell us that we need to accept terrorists for who they are and coexist with them.”
I doubt that this is what anyone is trying to say, not even a single person is trying to convince anyone of this, to think so would be very very stupid.
However, I hate these stickers myself. The problem is not all religions can coexist because all religions by their very nature contradict each other, and some mandate that you must destroy the others. At any rate, religion is a form of accepting ignorance over logic and reason, and I don’t want to tolerate this at all, I shouldn’t have to and no sticker is going to make me.
You agree that all religions should coexist, yet you’re horribly offended by this bumper sticker and judgmental of all who have it on their cars? Perhaps it isn’t directed towards you. I also don’t see any symbols for “Muslim radicals who want to kill your family,” so I don’t believe it’s asking you to accept them. I believe it’s directed towards the many closed-minded people I’ve met in the United States who believe it’s their job to convert everyone who doesn’t practise their religion. Or perhaps it really is directed toward terrorists. We can’t know what each individual is thinking when he or she puts this on the car, but I don’t believe that anyone is under the delusion that a bumper sticker is all it will take to make everyone live in peace. It’s just supposed to make you think, that’s all.
It is amazing what a “radical” conservative can turn into such ridiculousness. A sticker that implies a wonderful world of people caring about each other and NOT being so judgmental. And once you get past all that prejudice judgmental bullsh*t you can really get to know someone and grow from it and learn from it and grow and learn and f*cking have a good time. How can you take such a pure thought and word such as COEXIST and turn it into: “they are telling ME i have to support terrorism.” You crazy closed minded fool. The world can’t get along because of people like you who I compare with “radical” terrorist . Besides the bumper sticker isn’t telling YOU anything; it speaks for the beliefs and feelings of the one who wears it.
…and of course “symbol for Islam” MUST = ’symbol for radical terrorist Islam”.
Do all Christians support the bombing of Planned Parenthood?
What a worthless blog.
Thanks for stopping by.
This is sad but Ive learned to accept it; STOP judging by race its pathetic not every Islam you see has a bomb strapped to his body.Nobody listens to each other anymore we all judge by what we SEE….beauty is grown from within.
I cannot believe that there are such radical Americans, who equate all Muslims with terrorists ! I agree that a lot of terrorism in current times is associated with Islam but …
I am from India and I am not a Muslim. India has seen so much violence by Muslims ( sadly sometimes from Indian muslims too ) and this violence is not even just recent, but has been happening for a few hundred years (with some gaps in between). Still I would not deem all Muslims to be fanatics or terrorists.
I had attended christian institutions and there were some really motivated evangelists who tried to proselytize. I have seen fundamentalist christians in America. Still I do not deem all Christians as fundamentalist !
In all religions, there are fanatics and fundamentalists.
Terrorists are to be punished, no matter which religion they profess. Coexist does not mean coexist with criminals amongst us !
America is much better at implementing the law and order, compared to India. And law should take its course.
Well i am one of those liberals that is clearly an “idiot” as i have the coexist symbol tattooed across my side. and no one is trying to say that you have to coexist because clearly your head is too far up your ass for that to be a problem. and last not all muslims are radical! so open your eyes and stop bitching about things you are too ignorant to understand.
I created the blue/white version of the COEXIST design years before “Stamp and Shout” copied/changed/sold their version. Hence, the Peace Symbol was removed by them and replaced with the wiccan star. I definitely intended you to interpret this as somewhat of a HOPEFUL FEELING that all religions can and should exist together in peace, despite the powers at be at any given time in history, who have and continue to hijack faith and the faithful to serve their own diabolical, greedy and selfish ends. Even to me, the creator of fifteen ’symbol words’ of hope, it seems a far reach to think this is actually possible. However remote the possibility of peaceful WORLDWIDE “Coexistence” between faiths/nations/people, there are undoubtedly POCKETS of society that actually pull off such peaceful coexistence! My suggestion is that we, the hopeful, we the peaceful, find and help enlarge these pockets in whatever means we can find. Mine is through my bumper sticker/shirt/peace merchandising business: http://www.peacemonger.org.
Absolute peace would be nice, but boring. The world will never come to peace because they will continue to raise their children, and future generations with ignorance, or arogances of others. They will be forced into bigotry, and hate. (I know, in everybodym there is a LITTLE of anything, racism,–that’s fine, perfectly normal,–but not normal to the point where they have to harm other races due to not believing in their particular faith, or being the same race etc). I wish people got along, but that will never happen. All we can do is hope for the best. Great STICKER Though, I thought it had an “Om”
Your taking this the wrong way. Who said this design was pointed directly at us? The design is inteded for all religions to look at it and realize we need to all respect and coexist together. This symbol is pointed at the Islam as well so dont think that the world revolves around America. In fact thats exactly what this design is trying to prevent. I think this design was created before 911 anyway because I’ve seen it for years.
Too many of us are puppets these days. Einstein once said, “Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eight”. It seems difficult for people to sit back, draw the world in for themselves, and develop an original opinion of their own. To do this, one needs to throw away what they have learned for basically their entire life. There will always be radicals when it comes to religion. Right now people are thinking I am referring to Islamic radicals and the like. Not so fast. I am also referring to Baptist, Catholic, etc, radicals. I am reading all sorts of replies from people who are super pissed that someone would put this sticker on their car, as if they are being pushed to believe terrorists are good people. Ever heard of occam’s razor? It argues that, “All things being equal, nature usually takes the simplest path.” It is more feasible that someone is trying to make you believe that a radical zealot is a good person or that they are simply saying “get along”?
Well there you go, the creator of the design just told you what it meant….I hope somehow that matters. P.S. I am a proud American with strong morals and values and I find the coexist symbol a beacon of America’s greatness as well as many other country’s. I hope you can see the patriotism in the melting pot as what makes this country great….and not just loose minded fat cats. Later.
God forbid we should all coexist! Let’s instead all meet each other in the middle of a field with a bunch of knives! THAT’LL FIX IT! WTF?
I totally respect this sticker, but why are most of these comments hitting Islam? or they’re terrorist? I’m not siding with the terrorist (of ANY RELIGION)..I do hope most of you know there ARE terrorist of other religions. Not all people who are of Islamic faith are terrorist, or want to harm anyone. I agree with sticker, and wish that’d everyone would get along, but it MUST go both ways, (the golden rule…duh!) I understand that this will never happen, (while with ignorant, aargonant people who believe one religion, or a particular race is the superior, or worst one). Life WOULD be boring if there was absolute peace, but we should stride to a better life for future generations.
“that imply that America needs to learn to coexist with radical Islamists”
“But they can’t, they can’t because Muslim radicals don’t want to.”
Yeah, because there is no such thing as radical Christians who literally kill people from other religions. LMAO
“that imply that America needs to learn to coexist with radical Islamists”
And I forgot to add, USA isn’t the only country in the world. People have this sticker in many countries. Surprise, surprise. Get over it.
RIGHT ON !!
Wake up the fools! Islam teaches the opposite and will not stop- only idiots will believe that coexisting is possible with those who call for your submission or your beheading (and same with your childrens)
Coexist….
Qur’an:9:5 “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”
Regardless of the good we all may hope for. In light there is no darkness. The truth is that the koran teaches hatred and that the submission or beheading of those who will not submit to the islamic belief is among the goals. Qur’an:9:5 “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.” Qur’an:8:39 “So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”
http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/12/immigrant-rape-wave-in-sweden.html
I wish I’d have found your post before I did mine . . . . Well put! I’ve linked to your post. Thanks.
It is always great to learn more when you can. Most people wouldn’t take the time to look into this. I think it is sad that you decided to take the stance you did. There are extremists of every religion and culture; someone who takes their beliefs too far. To only look at one group of extremists once again shows that you choose to remember selective moments in religious history. Look around, there are good and bad of every culture… to stereotype and project your beliefs about a small percentage of radicals onto the entire group makes you seem small minded. We only really hear about the bad that goes on,but you can always find good if you take the time to look for it. I personally interpret COEXIST as a hope for the way the world could and should be if only extremists (kind of like you) could open their mind to outside cultures. Just because they are different does not make them bad. Not every person in a religious group thinks the same.
There is nothing wrong with hope, that is UNLESS it flies in the face of reality that endangers others! That, is exactly what this can do – IF it allows others to becomplacent, forgetting 9/11 and the Marine barracks in Beiruit, the U.S.S. Cole, and the hundreds of other deaths which you do not have to deal with ….. only those who sign up to protect us all.
I’m not sure this will work here; hope so. If it does, take a look:
border.wmv (5.4 MB) If it does not, and I don’t think it will; email me and I’ll be glad to send you a copy; it is something that allow one to see the kind of enemy that has sworn to kill you, your children, and everyone you know – so go ahead and hope! If you don’t think you have to pay as much attention to this as to hope, then those you love will suffer for it and you will grieve!
And no; I do not care if this is unsettling to you!
Hmmm… funny, isn’t it– that the hatred and intolerance towards other religions & beliefs– of both the Religious Right and the Muslim extremists have been equal participants in leading us into this never-ending war. Doesn’t take a genius to see where the problem areas are, does it?
Why do you assume that I am part of the “religious right” just because I am on the right? That is bigotry in itself. I hold my beliefs on government and America based on the constitution and what the founding fathers intended. I do not ever insert my religious beliefs in any of my posts. I bet that you can not correctly identify what my beliefs are. My posts are written from a political angle and a political angle only.
Ally,
Sorry to throw this back in your face; I know you WANT to believe that, but if you’ll show me hate and intolerance from someone on the religious right, I’ll show you someone who is pretending to be a Christian!
Nice try; if you understood good and evil, the most common tactic used by evil, is to posture oneself as a good person while being evil – - – all to discredit good. That allows the idiots and progressives to believe they have the higher ground when all they spout (as you just did) is hate and intolerance!
Or were you not aware you are parroting hate?
When I’m talking with someone face to face, . . . . and they’re trying to say this, after I’ve made my point, I’ll try to use a southern drawl just to make my point even further and say . . .
ya-all have a nice day now hea(and a silent “r”)!
josiah
WOW. All I can say, is that most of you (those agreeing with the writer) are a sad bunch of unintelligent individuals, especially the writer of this article. The bumper sticker is NOT telling YOU (the writer or whomever agrees with him) to coexist with terrorists. It is telling you to have an open mind about ALL (not just ISLAM) religions and all different thoughts, and do come by such ideas honestly, but not by harm, however. It is sad to that you think that this bumper sticker is all about you and what the “big bad terrorists” could do to you if you were to coexist with them. This is a bigger picture than all of that so-called “jazz.”
Also, I think it is even more ridiculous that you say people should be coexisting with you, not you with them. This is the exact stance that the bumper sticker is trying to combat. If everyone (meaning the writer and those in agreement with him) would step back from this thought of having people conform to what you think, and look at the in-fact BIGGER picture of COMPROMISE, then this bumper sticker would have meaning and probably some effect on such types of people.
However, from reading the article and responses in agreement with the author, I can tell that most of you aren’t intelligent (for lack of a better word) to do this “step back and look at the bigger picture” type thinking. Most of you, including the writer, are clearly a bunch of self-centered, egotistical fucks that wouldn’t give a second thought to the fact that they might actually be wrong.
To the UT Austin student ….
Please forgive us. You are obviously more intelligent. Thank you for correcting us. Obviously, you knew personally, what the designer of the B/S meant as well as what others SHOULD have thought …
Certainly is a good thing we have the intellectual liberals to correct us. Good thing you’ve read the Quran and could explain all this to us. Their willingness (terrorists) to compromise is proven … Sure must be nice to be an elite youth intellectual with insight such as yours.
To “Josiahe”:
It is not necessary, and clearly ineffective for your argument’s sake, for you to make an attempt at mocking me. I am not trying to say that “I am the all-knowing elite.” After all, that’s what YOUR “god” is for, right? Secondly, I did not say that I knew “personally, what the designer…thought.” I simply put in my input after analyzing the bumper sticker. Having a background in visual analysis somewhat qualifies me to make my own judgements. It is clear to me, however, that most of YOU MINDLESS CONSERVATIVES (since we are calling names now) probably haven’t experienced a moment in the class of a higher education facility. It just surprises me how the people who are the least educated on a subject tend to speak the loudest or the most about it, and make themselves look like idiots.
And no, “Josiahe,” I have not read the Quran, but the thing is the Quran isn’t the only thing that is to be read in order to explain coexistence among us all. Once again, you clearly think that this bumper sticker was made just for Americans, or to narrow it even farther, all about you. THIS BUMPER STICKER IS NOT ALL ABOUT TERRORISTS, it is about coexisting with EVERYONE, not just Americans and Muslims (or as you would call them, terrorists).
“Josiahe,” you seem to act like you know so much, but I’ll bet you probably haven’t even read the entire holy text to your own sad excuse for a religion. Much less any others, like the Bhagvad Gita for Hinduism or the Tipitaka for Buddhism. So, before you go around mocking me for my knowledge, how about you educate yourself a little bit. I guess I was under the impression that these types of blogs are for the self-educated, and like you said “elite” group of individuals, but clearly I was sadly mistaken. These blogs aren’t for intellectual discourse. They are for ignorant people to ramble off on tangents about things they have no knowledge of, and whenever it starts to get confusing, they can just “blame the terrorist” and everyone will be on their side. And as for your comment about “intellectual liberals,” at least we are just that, intellectual. It is proven that those of us who are educated to a level above high school and are instructed in things other than “how to gut a deer in 5 minutes” tend to see the bigger picture in the world, and become more accepting to the less educated, less fortunate people, like you conservatives.
-TO ALL POSTERS HERE,
Well it seems to me that this is a hot subject an has been since Oct. 25th 2007 when the original posting was uploaded. Let’s all ask a simple question of ourselves, “Has any of this bullshit bickering, back and forth, amongst yourselves solved a damn thing”? NO IT HASN’T! That right there is the reason why people cannot coexist. Yet, some how we do. NOONE CAN AGREE TO DISAGREE! If your one to get pissed off at someone’s opinion, GET THE FUCK OVER IT! It amazes me how much people behave like children.
You know the only reason I found this site was by pure accident when I attempted to retrieve information on these bumper stickers. Unlike many of the posters here, that I can only hope and imagen, did not do themselves. Every single one of you, has destroyed your own arguments! By the way you’ve all displayed your lack of ability to present a sold case, you’ve made your points meaningless. Instead, one by one you have all taken cheap shots at each other! How incredibly sad, stupid and disappointing! You see, you have all proven how that the problem (weather its with extremist or not) is started. AND IT’S STARTED WITH BULLSHIT! This is thee exact reason why things like wars,political demonstrations, and terrorism begins. Because people miss read, miss understand, refuse to bend, refuse to except, and then wind up pissing someone off enough that someone takes action! YES, it does almost always go hand in hand with a person or group believing that they are superior. NOONE IS FUCKING SUPERIOR! Not if you look at history. Ever single country, has done something horrible to their own people, or someone elses (weather documented or not). And resuming to childish resentment of “who started it” is stupid and pointless. And I’m sorry to say, but most people, countries, and individuals end up doing so! ALL PEOPLE FALL SUBJECT TO THE SAME FLAWS! It just depends if those who get pissed off, use it, in a way that harms others physically or unphysically. It as well seems, that we always want to blame everyone, anyone but ourselves! Remember that hatred of any kind (weather deserved or not) breads more hatred. HATERD DESTROYS! It doesn’t just destroy the meek,weak, or the hated. It’s like a virus, HATRED DESTROYS ALL!
I believe in the power of knowledge and understanding. No I am not a hippie and I do not believe in passive aggression. I believe in fighting, but there is more than one way to FIGHT! That doesn’t mean one method is better than another. It just means to take notice, look at every aspect fully, and find the best resolve from a largely informed position. BITCHING DOESN’T SOLVE ANYTHING! BEING DEFESIVE DOESN’T SOLVE ANYTHING! AN BEING UN- OR MISSINFORMED DOESN’T SOLVE ANYTHING!
I don’t find that this bumper sticker is intentionally meant to insult anyone or demand anything. IT’S A FUCKING STICKER! YOU, READ INTO IT! THEN YOU, READ INTO EACH OTHER! The I that the point of it is to unite, or rather the suggestion of being united. Not necessarily to the other drivers, but of the individual driving the car. It’s what they, themselves, have choosen to support! If you’re at odds with it that’s fine, go about your day. However, perhaps being more informed should take place somewhere in there, before a decision is made. BY THAT, I MEAN, AN INFORMED, NON-POLITICAL, NON-RELIGIOUS, NON-CULTURAL BI-IST DECISION! Which is hard for anyone to do, but that doesn’t make it impossible. One more reason why it’s hard for us all to coexist. THE PROBLEM IS US AS PEOPLE! WE CREATE THE ISSUES WE INCOUNTER! THEREFORE, WE AS PEOPLE MUST LEARN (YES I SAID LEARN) TO SOLVE THEM!
Weather we like it or not, we as people already exist on this planet together. That is, unless we would rather destroy it than learn to deal with one another. I’m very sure that there are some of us that have that opinion. However, personally I like existing. In fact, WE AS HUMANBEINGS ARE ALREADY UNITED, TOGETHER, AND COEXSITING! It just depends on if we would like to try to (thats right try to) exist in harmony. No this is not an excuse for radicals, or a get out of jail card for harmful persons! It is not giving hurtful people a free ride out of their punishments! Although, it may help to explain why people do some of the things they do! EACH OF US WOULD FIRST HAVE TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT EACH AND EVERY SITUATION, IN ORDER TO DEFINE THEM! It’s quite sad that that has to be explained!
Unless we as a united people, (All People), want to destroy everything and keep destroying everything that we hold sacred and dear, then maybe we should do something more positive than break each other down! Especiallywhen, we all suffer from the same flaws (weather we think we do or not) and we try so hard to pawn them off on others! COESISTING, OR THE ATTEMPT TO, IS REALLY THE ONLY PLAUSIBLE THING TO DO! IF YOU LIKE THOUGH, FEEL FREE TO GO AGAIST IT!
All I can say after reading your long-winded ridiculous reply to this piece is, “Wow.” You sure are the first one to claim that no one has made a good argument on either side. Well, sadly enough, you haven’t either. First things first, using profanity every 3 words does nothing but crumble the foundation of your argument. No one wants to read a cuss word every three seconds. I have no problem with cussing, but for someone to say that I can’t make an argument and go off cursing up a storm really says a lot about their character.
Secondly, PLEASE, I beg of you, LEARN HOW TO SPELL. Not knowing how to spell a word, or in your case word(s) makes you look uneducated, no matter what the topic is. Also, spelling a word correctly, but using it in the wrong context, makes you look like a complete idiot.
Here are a few examples, however, I will not list them all because my post would be entirely too long to correct your entire response.
“NOONE” is actually two words, spelled No one.
“Weather,” as you have used it should be, Whether.
“Imagen,” is Imagine
“Breads,” is Breeds
and “BI-IST,” I believe is Biased.
However, compliments to you as you have clearly demonstrated that you know how to spell every curse word in the English dictionary.
I could go on and on about your misspelling, but let’s go on to the next problem with your so-called “prose.”
GRAMMAR:
If you do not know how to write a complex sentence, using commas correctly, please don’t. You have no idea how much of an idiot you made yourself look like whenever you wrote this. It appears as though you didn’t even read what you wrote, and that after you wrote every thing you just randomly clicked and slapped a comma in places, but were careful enough not to put them in the middle of a word. Sadly enough, I don’t think it would have made a difference.
So, before you tell me that I don’t know how to create an argument, how about you take a look at your own. Something as simple as grammar and spelling shouldn’t destroy your ethos, as it has. Let’s try and work on that before we start calling names, and biting off more than we can chew.
The arrogance, elitist, foul mouth obvoiusly knows and understands all …. Oh my; it’s the great Oz!
Forgive me that I did not use spell check, but that isn’ t the point of these blogs, post, or what ever you want to call it. Now is it? You don’t use prop. english when you text peps either. Or do your? Oh, but thats right you where only going on the construstion of the post and I was going on content. Once again proving that all this Shit is for is for people to be able t0 BITCH! Oh no, I cussed, but then again I thought we were all adults and wait they cuss. This cussing was to shock you (which it oviously did) and to get the point acrossed that this whole thing is stupid. However, I don’t think you got that symbolism. As I already said, arggueing is pointless and all it does create conflict, but again you have just proved my point. That there is a more positive way of dealing with this “issue” of coexisting or with the topic of the sticker. All you people seem to do is attack indivdual agguements when there is oviously a bigger problem at hand. It doesn’t matter though I’m quit sure you’ll fine some way to try to discredit this as well! Oh and by the way I admited to not knowing everything thats why people (me included) should try to know more. Then again, you don’t really care about that because the only reason for this commenting Bullshit is to point fingers, blame others, and tear each other down! Thats just what people (All People) do. That is why we cannot coexist! Although we still have to and are forced to find a way (peacefuly or not) to exist together. This is also why I don’t believe it works, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try! Have your fun being agguementative and destructive! Believe what you like it doesn’t bother me. This is all to the same end and we are all just getting there that much faster!
To all and all we’re all going down. Here’s to hopfully one day people Understanding! Toya
Well LaToya (or should I say LaTOOLya?),
You shouldn’t have to use spell check to spell a simple word, such as no one, it should just come natural. Secondly, the first thing I would do is use proper English whenever I’m trying to discredit other people’s arguments and say how they don’t know what they are talking about, etc.(as you are), because when you don’t, you simply look like an uneducated fool.
Thirdly, I said I didn’t have a problem with cussing, but you are clearly mistaken if you think that “adults cuss.” You are missing the entire point of a curse word if you are simply using them to sound like “an adult” because if you ask me, whenever you cuss like that, you sound more like an uneducated sixth grader who lacks a vocabulary, therefore he/she must fill in the blanks with “fuck, shit, or damn.” Also, you said arguments were based on content, not structure, well I’m pretty sure that my free writing lessons that I’m giving you here have a lot more valuable content than yours, which simply puts words like “BITCH” in all caps, as seen before.
Also, you need to work on subject-verb agreement if you are going to try and argue with me, and tell me that my writing is trash. Phrases like “the cussing was to shock you and to get the point acrossed” don’t go together. It would be “the cussing was to shock you and get the point across.”
Not only is my writing about this blog meaningful and has a point, it is structured well. Whenever people read what you write, they don’t just read the content, they look at the presentation as well. I could hardly get through your paragraph because I was so distracted by your horrific grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, and I nearly missed the point of your comment.
So, yes, I will argue with an uneducated person like you whenever it comes to things that I happen to know about.
I am fairly certain that most people who read your comment(s) will think the same as I have, that it is uneducated and simply hypocritical (because although you tell us we are calling names and pointing fingers, you called us bitches and claimed that we are the ones who don’t know what we’re talking about, whenever your comments are completely off topic).
Alright now you just being ridiculous.
1st Being a bad speller doesn’t make you stupid. It just means your bad at spelling.
2nd You’re obviously offend at the fact that you are not the best of the best and everyone (or even most people) will not think the same as you.
3rd Your just further prove my point that these posts, comments, and the agguements going on within them are pointless.
4th I never discredited your so called “meaningful points”, you do that yourself. By being defensive and tearing people down in a pointless manor is what destroys your points. Which I,ve now realized is because your angry, self indulged, and like to call names. You are who kills your arguments.
5th I was merely making observations of the behavior going on here. Behavior that I now can see hit to close to home for you. You have obviously taken it to a new extreme, but that doesn’t make your comment anymore meaningful!
6th Adults do cuss when they are either irritated or they’re trying to gain some attention. I seem to have done just that but you missed the relevance completely. Which can be difficult when no ones really listening. You’re a great example actually.
7th This blog, post, or commenting forum is not being sent to Congress or Utah state University. So who cares about “Proper structure”, “proper” grammar, or “PROPER” formula. Its apparent that you think your smarter than you really are. THINKING DOESN’T MAKE IT TRUE!
8th Calling names is childish. Making observations on someones ignorance would be different. However, you jumped straight to cutting me down. That’s just your way and you’re not going to change. So then, whenever you want to have a real discussion in the real world I’ll be there! One that inables you to have to think on your feet instead of being high and mighting about your grammer and superior intelligence with written words. Oh wait, lets be “proper” typed. Maybe then you won’t be so degrading of simple things and not act so much like a child yourself. YOU SHOULD LEARN TO REFLECT INWARD BEFORE STRIKING OUT!
Oh, by the way why don’t you try leaving an actual comment about what I posted. You know one that covers what ways actually in the body of the arguement, or is that to hard for you mighty intelligence to narrow down? So it’s difficult to read get over it!
Prior to this post I had menchend that all that was being done here is bickoring. THAT STILL HOLDS TRUE! What a waste of human existance.
I wilnot post back, but I will read your comment out of curiosity. Just to see if you would real have an actual discussion with me. To see if you would actually read into what I have writen. Also to see if you’ll just do what you do and be erogant, egrorant, and childish.
Good luck with live Because you need it! WE ALL DO!
-TOYA
Oh, Toya.
I have nothing more to say either because like I said before there is nothing intelligent about what you have to say. I am not arguing, I am not being arrogant, I’m simply telling it like it is. If you want to know how I feel about the bumper sticker, then maybe you should read the post above your first one. That is a real life conversation. However, Whenever you begin attacking other people’s arguments and saying that they have nothing worth saying, be ready to accept the same, which is exactly what I did to yours, though I may have done it a little too extensively for your taste.
You clearly are the last person to know how to construct an argument if you think that professionalism isn’t just as important as content. Whenever you cannot spell, or write a sentence that makes since, or curse to the high heavens, it destroys your so-called argument because such flaws distract the reader from what you are trying to say. I’m sorry if you feel that I am being egotistical whenever I go about correcting you, but that is simply what I am going to do whenever you tell me that what I have to say is worthless. I just wanted to inform you that what you had to say was clearly not any better.
And no, Toya, I dont think I am smarter than I already am. I know my limits of intellect and I know my strengths as well. Proper use of the English language just so happens to be a strength, so if my critique is too forward for you, I again offer my apologies because I know not every one can take what they dish out, in your case, criticisms.
And for your claim that bickering is such a waste of human existence:
Why is it that you continue to respond then? You sure do like to make personal attacks and such, but if anyone is to make any response to what you have to say, all the sudden it is a waste of time and life itself. You say that name-calling makes people look like fools and that’s all people are doing here, yet you called me “erogant, egrorant, and childish,” which I believe is to be translated in normal English to “arrogant, ignorant, and childish.” Well what do we have here? The one accusing of such atrocities is the one dealing them out as well.
How about you think about yourself a little more too, rather than simply telling others to. Because honey, I’ve got news for you, you sure are far from perfect, yourself.
As I thought, you have not exceeded my expectations of you. Yes, you are well versed in “PROPER” format but, that’s all. In fact I bet if you hadn’t got so defensive about the comment and began naming calling you might have actually had something slightly interesting to input. However, just like most people do you only saw what you wanted to see. Which was someone attacking your oh so Great Meaningful points. There may have been good points within your arguments. The problem becomes all these meaningless post that are going on between us two. Everyone’s arguments in the end become arbitrary. Yes, I admit that I am included. This is the result of all people. They wind up doing nothing more than bitching at each other back and forth. I am part of this human flaw but, at least I admit it and try to move beyond. I as well do so without claiming that I’m better. Perhaps you didn’t see that the to post directed at you where not attacking you but, defending myself. Of course you wouldn’t have noticed that would you, or maybe you choose to ignore the obvious. It seems the one who can dish it out and not take it would be you! You don’t like being called out for who you are and who you’re trying to frame yourself out to be. That is why I reverted to insulting you. At least I waited tell you showed yourself and your faults. I don’t find spelling and grammar mistakes to be flaws. One can always improve that but, there is no help for you. However, I’m sure that you find no faults at all within yourself. The point of what I was asserting was to try to improve the arguments taking place here and as I thought would happen the problem just redefined itself more boldly. There is no solution! There is no way for settlement! It will just keep going on and on! That is until people, all people, learn to stop fighting with each other and fight the problem.
Tell we meet in real life and have a “real” conversation and one from which people can not hide behind a computer! Maybe untel then we should just AGREE TO DISAGREE!
THE LAST WORD IS FOR YOU, but it doesn’t make it anymore meaning filled.
WHY? We will never change each other! Although people will still try and thats as much positive as it is negative. Have a good life.
-Toya
I came across this looking for the sticker that I’m actually about to put on my car. I don’t see why everyone is arguing over this. It is simply someones opinion that you can agree or disagree with. Whats so wrong with wanting peace? Nothing. If there weren’t peaceful people in this world we would all be hating and killing each other more than we already do. Before you bash a religion, a way of life, a belief, a dream, anything, put yourself in their shoes. Look at the world through their eyes and maybe you could see why other people think differently than you.
These are just my thoughts, and I hope we can all learn to coexist someday, at least at some level.
To Rebecca:
Nothing IS wrong with wanting peace. It’s a dreamer’s world that you inhabit though; you ought to join the pragmatic world – the one where the families of 9/11 live! Have you met personally anyone whose loved one died there? I have. There are those who put their lives on the line for the rest of us every day and they deserve to be respected. To ask those who love, (yet are aware the world of Islam is a violent one) to accept that we can live together – they … rather, WE know better!
They will smile as they kill those you love and think they are going to heaven for it. If you do not understand this, go to ground zero next year and stand and watch those who lost loved ones cry!
We cannot all live in your world; those of you who do … do nothing to protect those who understand and are willing to die to protect you and yours!
“There are those who put their lives on the line for the rest of us every day and they deserve to be respected.”
You think I don’t respect them? My brother died in the Navy for this country after 9/11. I go to his grave standing next to many other families crying over lost loved ones. If we lived in a world of peace I wouldn’t have lost him. Thank you very much but I will keep my opinion that I strongly believe in.
To Rebecca and Josiahe:
Rebecca, I happen to agree with you, a desire for peace is the foundation of importance in this world. Those who simply retaliate do nothing but provoke more violence. I do find it important to look at life through other people’s shoes, examine their beliefs and realize why they think that way. People who are too hard-headed to do that don’t deserve to argue about things anyway. People like Joasiahe just want someone to blame, and the Islam religion gets it here. You notice that the Islam religion is only one small part of this bumper sticker, it’s not even what this sticker is about. This sticker simply promotes coexistence amongst all the different beliefs in the world, yet Josiahe and his group make it appear that this sticker is telling you to conform and follow the Islam religion and make these people your best friends. The key here is tolerance, and some people need a vocabulary lesson.
Josiahe, Rebecca may live in a “dreamer’s world,” but there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you just have to get over the injustices people do to you. Look at slavery and our current coexistence with African Americans. Martin Luther King, Jr. clearly lived in a dreamer’s world at his time, but it paid off. People never thought it possible that one day blacks and whites would be able to mingle, become friends, or get along, but all it takes is just that one step. It’s clear that you won’t be the one to have the initiative to take that first step. Though some say it will be hard, and to think of all the things (Muslims, to fit Josiahe’s argument) have done to us. Well, referring to African Americans again, look at all of the things the white’s did to them. From stripping them naked and auctioning them off like a piece of cattle, to murdering millions of them for disobedience, to forcing them to be the ones to stand at the back of the bus. I believe us white’s have done enough injustices towards African Americans to give them the idea for retaliation, in a “pragmatic world” like Josiahe’s, but these African Americans got over these injustices and gave us a second chance. This is how we are able to intermingle with the different races today, it is because someone took that first step.
I definitely did not read all of the replies, but what I have to say about the few I did is that, the bumper sticker in question means nothing about “coexisting with radical Islamics who want to kill me and my family” The sticker is mostly a pagan thing. The pagan belief basically is the belief not in one set Judaic religion ie. Christianity, Methodist, Catholic, Judaism, Islam; but in one wholistic Judaic religion. It means absoultly nothing about coexisting with radical Islamics. I certainly would not like to die either…
Also, I drive a truck, chevy, not a honda or subaru…
People, can’t we all just get along?!
Ya beat me to it. I came back here only to say this is an inept expression similar to Obama and Rodney King’s “cant we all just get along?”
The only problem with living as a dreamer is that one leaves everyone else to put their lives on the line. There walks among us people who will kill your loved ones for no good reason other than they are evil.
Dreamers become liberals. Pragmatists that understand the nature of evil, and that there are those that are deceived and hating. They think their killing your loved ones will take them to heaven. Concentrate on them, not on us! You cannot coexist with killers!
Obama is dangerous and will bring down America … just look at what he did today!
Okay so the crazy part about this is …..
what this ignorant individual probally fails to realize is just how many simularities there are between Islam ….and Christianity…lol
its hilarious that he could pass judgement on something he knows nothing about.
Have you ever read the Q’uran? most of the teaching are identical to the bibles…just different names/places
there are extremists in ALL religions….
Jim jones killed many people yet there were no wars waged against his family/surviving followers….
so does that mean that its okay for People to kill americans…as long as they are christian americans…….lol
what was Hitler’s Religion?(lmao)
your ignorance kills me
thank you this idiot is ridiculous.
What is funny is that “Islamic Terrorist” is a key term used in the world to justify the killings of Arabs all over the world by Israeli and American groups. How would you feel if someone kicked you out of your home? How would you react? First you would try peaceful talking and imagine then your neighbors house was also taken. Your next reaction would to be violence and to disagree with this statement means you are not a true American because your ancestors fought for the land in which you drive your shitty truck to your shitty job. Sorry that the world in a whole is not run by Americans and sorry that you are naive enough to degrade a call of peace and sorry that your truly miss informed. Did you ever think that your low paying job, cheating wife are a result of karma and maybe just maybe a reason for your hatred. The bumped sticker is a symbol for the exact thing that your are against and that is religious peace.
Religion evolves around a man, man is evil from the birth and in one minute, we can bless someone with our tongue and than cuss, them out the next.
There is only one solution and He IS THE PRINCE OF PEACE, LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS: JESUS CHRIST
Jesus says, “LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVE YOU’, no man has greater love than this, than he lay down his life for another.
I don’t think one has to believe in JESUS to be able to “love one another as he loved us”. The same faith assuring you that such a man actually lived before us could be channeled to believe that accepting without fighting each other’s beliefs sounds like a great way to move toward coexistence. As long as we are not killing each other for it, it should not matter whether we worship Allah, Jesus, Virgin Mary, the Sun, the Moon, or even cows
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As far as the war against terrorism goes, I am honestly not sure whether it can be justified. It’s not that I’m unable to feel the grieve of those who have lost loved ones, but rather, I think there has to be a feasible way to use all that military effort to better protect America at its headquarters instead of going out of our way, and far away, to kill people.
Lastly, a few mind-boosting words:
“Praying a couple our-fathers, the assassin does not revive his dead.”
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Okay..people like you make me sick. not all muslims are “radicals” and blow up planes and buildings. So how dare you say that coexist stands for these types of things? You probably never finished high school..and OBVIOUSLY not college.Did it ever occur to you TOLERANCE and ACCEPTANCE. NOT TERRORISTS! Do me a favor…go back to school and learn something, cause ignorance wont get you far in life.
Katie,
You coexist ….. Try your tolerance with the terrorists ….. as for me and mine ….. See what college education has taught you about life when they begin to kill those you love! First though, maybe you ought to learn sentence structure.
I did not call all Muslims terrosists, do not put words in my mouth. I specifically wrote “radical Muslims” in order to differentiate between radical Muslims and Muslims. I apologize for not dumbing it down enough for you.
ONE part of the article upset me
Gustavo,
It’s obvious you have no life experience with evil people. Until you do, maybe you ought to keep your opinions to yourself ….. at least while our young people are laying down their lives to protect you and your loved ones!
There are ways to better protect America but our leaders are inept and traitorous; they focus on PORK to ensure they are re-elected.
By the way, “grieve” is a verb.
My interest in this, to the extent there is any interest, is that I’ve seen this stupid, naïve, idiotic “COEXIST” bumper sticker from time to time, and was wondering how many others agreed with me as to its stupidity, naivete, and idiocy. Bumper stickers! I’ve seen and been plagued by the them for more than 40 years, since my university days in Berkeley. I wondered then, and wonder still, who the Hell would give a good G damn about these lunatic grunts people want to wear on their bumpers. Even in this long collection of comments, running fifteen months now, covering grammar both good and bad, insults, profanity, and manners and a lack thereof, no one else seems to have brought this subject up. Am I alone in this world????????
When I drive my vehicle, the purpose of such travel is normally to get from where I was to where I want to go. The intent of my travel is not to be educated by fools sporting 4-5-word inanities. While the ability to reduce one’s thoughts to a concise few words may be commendable, these burps convey nothing but the shallowness of the person operating the vehicle. One goes to a bumper sticker store (or wherever one goes for such things), puts his money on the counter, then proudly marches out to put the sticker on his bumper for all the world to see, appreciate, and absorb. How clever this is! How representative of deep, original thought! How profoundly perspicacious! Most of these–in fact probably 99%–lean to the Left. “Bush Lied, People Died” Brilliant! Never thought of it that way before! Guess I’ll reorganize my entire world view! Then there are some which lean to the Right, e.g. “Rush is Right”–enough to sway anyone to Limbaugh, no? Or, “Honk If You Love Jesus”, just what we need–more than half of the population honking all the time! Who needs to visit Italy? And there are those compelled to stick many, many of these on their bumpers, in fact all over the back of their vehicles. The most committed are undoubtedly the drivers of VW buses, who demonstrate their intelligence by applying as many as fifty “messages” on their posteriors.
I wish someone smarter than I could explain what induces people to do this. I’ve heard about “the right of free speech”. OK, so they have the right, which, I suppose, trumps my right to be left in peace. My explanation has always been that these are shallow, arrogant fools, who actually believe they have something to “teach” me, and that I have something to “learn“ from them. I often glance at these people as I pass them (as quickly as I can). To my mind they generally don’t look all that bright, or wise. More often than not, were I to see them denuded of their stickers, I’d think they weren’t all that bright at all–fanatical and humorless, perhaps, but surely not bright. Anyway, just a few passing thoughts……..