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...I want some of whatever you're consuming while posting, because that post made me laugh my ass off, especialy the Johnny Bravo part, CAE.It may be a regional thing, or it depends how pushy certain Jehovah's Witnesses
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@26: thanks The Jihova's Witnesses that show up hereabouts only ever acknowledged my blindness in asking if I had a means of reading the Watchtower magazines they give out. They also might have cited Genesis 1:27-28 as
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@simbaGreat post! I've had experiences like that as well. It seems that when people who are very committed to their faith approach you and want to bless you in some way, they seem to be doing it more to make themselves
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hican't agree more with dark on the lunatics part. speaking of cultural differences, in my country most of the people pray god to cure me of my blindness and ask me to have faith in him at first sight. Some even stare at
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@24: Thanks, I read the first line and thought it was gonna be a serious post. THen the next line had me laughing. Good job @Simba: Ditto, but add Jehovah's Witnesses saying flat out they'll come into my house, without
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Hi.i had it quite often happen that I was approached by religious persons wanting to pray that I could get my sight back.Well great people, so basically you want me to relearn everything?To put it into perspective, I went
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Random Encounter with would-be faith-healers is not too rare in the parts of the US I'm familiar with, but in the since that Random Encounter with a miniboss is not rare: most RE will be "Na, I've got it" grind-sessions,
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I think that hole emphasis on blindness and faith healing thing might be a little more regional or confined to certain groups of Christians, since it isn't something I have ever experienced on this side of the
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Dark has a point on the Christian and Muslim kill the such and such's. that having been said, I think to some extent I do agree with Chris on Christians automatically jumping the gun soon as they hear the newest member of
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@Nocturnus, that is precisely the point, making blindness just a trait of a character rather than a defining feature, and why I tend to applaud when a blind character does a little more than just be well "blind" and wish
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The thing with Islam is there's at least two sects of it, however. Also, since when did you wish you were a salamander, Chris?
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You know what really irritates me? People that think that God will magically cure my blindness. If that was true, my whole body could regenerate. I wouldn't be blind because the retinas would knit themselves together if
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You know what really irritates me? People that think that God will magically cure my blindness. If that was true, my whole body could regenerate. I wouldn't be blind because the retinas would knit themselves together if
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@JaceK, nice use of absolutes vs subjective ridicule in post 15.To compare fiction to reality we have to take truth entirely out of the equation and just make movies for every particular individual in the world in order to
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@Jase, while I agree with you that writing a blind character who is just defined by their blindness is an example of a poorly written character, just as the example of a helpless damsel is a poorly written female
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@Jase, while I agree with you that writing a blind character who is just defined by their blindness is an example of a poorly written character, just as the example of a helpless damsel is a poorly written female
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@3 what I found rather interesting is that islam has a positive outlook on blindness. I don't know much about it but I found when I was in Egypt for example rather than being treeted like i was inferior i was embraced
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eee@Dark:That's more of an issue of crafting a character however. Okay, no, you didn't bring up Daredevil specificially, FOx did that, however...that's an issue of making a character. However.if you really want to
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@Dark:That's more of an issue of crafting a character however. Okay, no, you didn't bring up Daredevil specificially, FOx did that, however...that's an issue of making a character. However.if you really want to
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Actually Jase I never mentioned dare devil. I personally really dislike most superhero fiction precisely for the generic plotting and stupidly invinsible characters you mention quite aside from any representational
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Particular incidents, from http://www.nfbmd.org/aggregator/sources/1:Walmart Sued by Blind Maryland Residents over Self-Service Checkout Kiosks: This is a bit much. A bit ridiculous, even. The woman uses a Kiosk, and the
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Particular incidents, from http://www.nfbmd.org/aggregator/sources/1:Walmart Sued by Blind Maryland Residents over Self-Service Checkout Kiosks: This is a bit much. A bit ridiculous, even. The women uses a Kiosk, and the
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Also @Chris:Cultural, as well. Like I said up there in my first postgo to somewhere like China, or India, or Pakistan or South Africa, and note how blind people are treated there, go to Brazil, or Mexico, or Russia and
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Yes @Chris, but.Education and tact.In other words, don't ram it down their throats, and don't demand stuff and don't threaten them with okay if you don't do X Y Z we'll sue you. That's not education.
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People love those dollar signs! !The problem seems to be purely attitudinal. People don't know, or are scared, or both. I say just keep educating folks. Some people are going to be assholes, and there's not
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People love them dollar signs!The problem seems to be purely attitudinal. People don't know, or are scared, or both. I say just keep educating folks. Some people are going to be assholes, and there's not much we can do
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@Fox:Entertainment, escapism, superheroes. Does that ring a bel? Daredevil was never, ever, EVER meant to be realistic, he's a superhero that can do amazing things. Se my previous post on why that won't change.Actually, I
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@EthinCan you give a few examples that come to mind as far as blind organizations representing us poorly? I'm not disagreeing, I've just heard this said a lot, but I haven't kept up with either one enough to be
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as much as I like daredevil, He's a little, shall we say, rediculous? Of course he has to have a fucking sonar that can reach for miles, and he can here someone being raped a few miles away, even threw the sound of New
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@Nocturnus: Well put. Though that goes for both sides, to. If you got sight and you come off as a lazy SOB.that's not gonna change.@Dark: Rant incomingDaredevil is fiction. Entertainment, made by companies who have
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I still hold with what I said in This topic I'm damnably sick of the vast majority of representations of blind people in fiction being blind! with a capital blind, and either utterly helpless tiny Tim knockoffs, or super
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This is a rather broad subject, though it does fit into the scope Ethin described above in post 2.There are a bunch of other variables; sometimes friends and family will take it and spin it both ways because it's
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It depends.It depends on a whole lot of factors. DO you mean right now, or throughout history, becausethere were, and are religions that view disability as some sort of divine punishment. There'ss cultures that
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I'd say this is a half-and-half kind of situation; there are those who understand us because they know people who have disabilities, and then ther are those (like the government in particular, or some schools, or
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