Some people just looove talking. Like your auntie Betsie who just created a FB account and floods it with posts on chemtrails, or that entitled anti-masker who believes wearing a face covering impinges on their rights. Or many other loud ones on social media who can’t miss a chance to spread some misinformation on drinking bleach to prevent COVID-19.
But the world is the place of karma, and if there’s yin, there’s always yang. That means that if you throw some nonsense out there into the world, it may come back and hit you like a boomerang.
To show you how it works in practice, Bored Panda compiled a mesmerizing collection from the witty subreddit called “Murdered By Words.” It’s a prominent corner of the internet entirely devoted to put-downs, comebacks, and counter-arguments.
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Shots Fired, Two Men Down
I'm Gonna Take The Surgeon's Side On This One
Disabled Parking Should Only Be Valid During Business Hours 9 To 5
Being in an argument, whether voluntarily or not, is one of the most emotionally draining situations you can get yourself into. It raises your blood pressure, and you may feel trapped by the opponent trying to prove their point no matter what.
It gets even more frustrating when the person you’re arguing with is proving a point that, in your eyes, doesn’t make any sense to begin with. Whether it’s anti-maskers, anti-vaxers, flat-earthers, or conspiracy theorists, anyone can have their own opinion, but as such, everyone can stand up for their own beliefs.
Luckily, there’re some tricks you should know to winning an argument. According to Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a professor emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, you should start by knowing your facts.
“How many times have you made a claim about some piece of trivia only to realize, as soon as you’ve made that claim, that you’re completely wrong?” Such a situation doesn’t lead you anywhere and gives your opponent a straight shot to winning.
Now Sit Your Ass Down, Stefan.
Find A Different Career.
Apparently, It's Impossible For Women To Be Smart And Beautiful At The Same Time
Reminds me of a time i went on a speed dating: 4/5 dudes straight up told me that they're intimidated with intelligent women. The only one that did not - was a self sufficient, creative, ambitious and overall impressive guy
Seeing other person’s perspective may also help you in an argument. “You don’t have to agree with a foe in order to see his or her perspective,” says Susan.
“However, if you want to win an argument, you do need to be able to see the world the way your opponent does. Stepping into the mental set of those you argue with allows you to figure out what’s influencing them.”
If you figure out what’s triggering the person you’re arguing with, you can direct your focus there and showing a little empathy never hurt anybody.
The Fact That He Never Removed The Post Surprises Me
That Backfired
Murdered By Kindness.
And the third thing is to remember that “Becoming defensive is one of the worst ways to win an argument.” Letting your opponent see that you've dug into your position with no other alternatives may lift the argument from bad to ugly. Moreover, if you let the other person realize that you’re open-minded, even if you're pretending to be, the argument may resolve itself.
It's Never Just About A Cake
Just Pulled The Lever To The Verbal Guillotine.
It's the same distinction between them being blessed with a fruitful marriage, where immigrants breed like rabbits.
On A Comment Thread About UPS And USPS Workers
People that are condescending about other people's jobs are usually parasites with no job at all.
Well, When You Put It That Way...
This Guy Wants All The Cake.
Wise Advice!
Cut The Shit Lady. You Chose The Bathroom.
She shouldn't have said gender neutral ,if she was gonna make a sexist comment. It's like god can u even read
I Love Arnold's Wholesome Murders
It's funny how it's always the people with fragile egos accusing others of being snowflakes, when they themselves are visibly half melted in outrage.
If He Were Here He'd Consume These Morons With Fireballs From His Eyes And Bolts Of Lightning From His Arse
Yellow Tape Around Her Body It's A Fucking Homicide
Amen. Speaking from NZ and Australia I just laugh at how retarded the Americans are in this topic. Raped by your insurance companies and begging for more
Good Old Meghan Mccain
The Ramsays Has The Best Insults
Don't Defend Corporations, They Will Not Return The Favor
This is a famous old case, still worth bringing up occasionally, as many people never questioned the "scamming from poor corporations" line.
Murdered By The Word Of God.
That's Just How It Is Though, Isn't It?
An Effortless Genocide
A lot of immigrants work in jobs that others don’t want to do, majority have come for a better life and will take what they can, they have to start their lives all over again and they are not picky like many of us westerners (especially the privileged). They often take the lower paying jobs like trolley collectors, taxi/uber drivers, food delivery drivers and fruit pickers etc. What a lot of people don’t seem to understand is that a lot of these immigrants are well educated but their qualifications mean nothing because of where they are from and studied so they have to do it all over again.
Very Strange, Indeed
Yeah who wants to go to have a raging know-it-all bigot at a party. No thanks.
Your “Logic” Deserves A Slap In The Face
Homophobia Is Manmade
Thanks for the Jewish perspective! I have seen the first one so often, but the second one is a very new perspective. Thanks for the share!
That is the perspective of the Reform movement in Judaism, not Judaism overall and as someone Jewish is loaded with errors including the person in both parts of this literally ignorant on Hebrew where very different words than what they claim are uses. I even dealt with it in another post here https://www.boredpanda.com/wrong-translation-of-bible-homophobia/?comment_id=5215484
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I checked this one out and, unsurprisingly, that definition is disputed. There's also other context from elsewhere in the bible to suggest that, unsurprisingly, religious people have always been homophobes. What did Christ think? I don't know and I can't ask him - and neither can anyone else. All I can say is that he 'drank wine with the sinners' So those who were considered sinners under Judaism were people he wanted he befriend and help, my guess is he probably wasn't a homophobe..
It does not translate as child molester. It translates as boy “molester”. Nobody in the Bible gave a s**t about raping girls.
There is in Deuteronomy..something about ..if a man raped an engaged woman only the man is to die for the woman has done nothing to warrant a sin...
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If Jesus came today and we didn’t know it was him, and preached in churches, most so called Christians would chase him out.
Except if you go to that reddit, someone gave a whole history lesson and Hebrew lesson and that outed as being totally ignorant on Judaism. Just because someone is Jewish doesnt mean they know anything.
So if that's the ignorant view, do you have a more accurate view? Not in a mean way, I'm really curious
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And I think it was Sodom where when the mob was banging at the door asking for their men, they tried to give them their women & girls. Nice.
New Testament (not Gospels though) also bans homosexuality. But it was written in an ancient Roman Empire, when the most common homosexual behaviour was old rich men grooming teen boys, as written above. Author of said words couldn't have known that there will be time when real homosexual relationships of equal partners, who knows what would he thinks of those? So I think Christians shouldn't be so strict to gay people. After all, there are many places in the Bible that basically say: mind your own bussiness.
Must be reform because that is not what the other denominations think. Reform is a 230 year old movement, hit its peak 100 years ago and is on the decline. They deny god wrote the bible, support altering translations from the original Hebrew, etc. Speaking as a Jew with a graduate degree and studies Jewish theology for 13 years professionally, I can say most of what he is saying is pure BS.
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12 years of Catholic school, attending Mass every morning during first period, not once did we ever actually read the Bible, though we got tested on memorizing the catechism.
I've never seen a Jewish perspective, and I'm SO happy I did. I will take this as the Gospel and spread it to my church. Thank you for this, whoever posted it.
The first is wrong, since Leviticus is most likely to have been mostly composed during the Babylonian Exile, when Greece was a bunch of city states, battling the Persian Empire, and the Jews in Babylon would have had little to no contact with Greeks. So that explanation cannot stand. Moreover, it says not to sleep with a male (זָכָר) as with a woman, not a boy (terms such as נָעַר). The reasons behind the prohibition are obscure, and run from a prohibition on breaking gender roles (cross-dressing is also prohibited), to prohibition of specific non-Hebrew religious rituals, to the possibility that the text had been changed much later to fit later religious ideas, and actually was either added or even changed from a different prohibition.
As for the second, all that the Bible says is that the people were very evil and sinners. The main sin that is being shown is the mistreatment of guests. In fact, the Jewish mythology states that their main evil was not helping the poor and passing laws prohibiting the feeding and hosting of travelers and the poor. A city reacting with outrage and sexual violence to three guest at one house does imply that the treatment of travelers was not normally pleasant.
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that thing about greeks being ok with older men having sexual relationships with younger boys is a load of bullshit. In ancient greece one who did that was called a kinedos (κιναιδος) and it was considered a crime. In Athens in particular laws were passed that schools were not to open before sunrise and close after sundown, and that visitors in gymnasiums (where young people worked out naked) was very limited. Don't forget that Greece and particularly athens was a wealthy and powerful state, and propaganda of this kind was used against them.
Reminds me of the Cyanide and Happiness comic, where the gay couple says "Only God can judge us!" And God's sitting nearby, holding up a "10."
Look, look, look. You can downvote me if you want, but I’m only saying this: I am all for homosexual rights and anti homophobia, but it’s only fair that there are multiple translations of the Bible. You might be right, you might be wrong. However, if you’re wrong, you’ve used religious text to back up your ideas, which is tacky and blasphemous. If you’re right, I’d recommend not taking the internet as your theology (study of the Bible), but actually going in-depth and reading books if you want to understand more. That’s all, thanks.
i hate it when people use their religon to add there hate to gay, vaccine, etc. im christan but i dont care if your black, white, gay, etc just shut up if you say that god disproves this it makes you loook like a stupid idiot and a horrible person cause you are
Aw I'm glad my best friend has supporters and being pan so do I <3
man made bibles they sell on the street ,I was given they one copied most of the bible a little extra added
This showed up in an earlier Bored Panda (just a week or two ago). Nothing in the original post or in the response is true.
HAHA! I knew it! I figured that line was about the greeks, and boys, but never actually googled it. Thank you for that confirmation!
I am Jewish and this is so important to me. Like Amy Pattie said, thanks for the share!
Pretty sure one of the other “homosexuality” mentions in the Bible is speaking out against student-teacher relationships.
Now I maybe miss-remembering this but didn't the Greeks separate the genders for a good portion of their history? To the point where your first sexual experience was with your own gender and you didn't really have contact with the other gender until you married. It wasn't until the Romans came into the picture that sex with your own gender was considered dirty/wrong/morally corrupt? (To be clear I'm not saying that being LGTBQ2+ is dirty/wrong/morally corrupt but that it was the view of the Romans historically) Also wasn't Sodom destroyed because the men of the city found out the angelic messengers where coming and planned to rape them. So the angels destroyed Sodom for attempted rape?
U know what would even be better? NOT getting advice from a book written by an archaic society. As he said:“deeply rooted in the time and place“. That time and place is long gone. And by the way: having sex with a 17year old is not pedophilia! And last but not least:I find it highly unlikely that a 17 year old was considered a boy or a child tow millenia ago
Taken To School.
Murdered By Laws
Trump wouldn’t know what ethics was even if it slapped him in the face.
A Better Headline
I mean I am happily married even though we both lost our job in corona and now live in a church community house. Screw the idea of having kids though, they’d have to sleep on the floor of the games room or something, and I wouldn’t want anyone’s life to start out like that.
Short And To The Point
Murdered By Numbers?
Maybe Not The First, But Definitely The Most Famous
More specifically, first Innocent brown man killed publicly by a police state while his homies could only stand powerlessly and watched.
Kill Theirs Or Educate Ours?
It's the same boring song that Republicans sing every time. Why invest 50 billion in education when we need that money to buy tanks and develop nuclear bombs? Because obviously having the power to destroy this entire world 5 times isn't enough....
Does It Make Sense For You Now?
Ain't No Right Way
Same here! Not everything is as suspicious as you people seem to think!
Is It True
Maybe they think it's part of the uniform? Like typical blue/green "medical color" doesn't really do anything but it's part of the image?
The Aunt Looks Like Such A Nice Person
When you have alcohol problems and are in a divorce but still feel entitled enough to lecture people on how they should live their life.
Roll Tide!
I Lol'd Hard
Were they any steel toilets nearby? That would have given them a shock
Holy Hell! Call The Morgue
Yuck, why not just say your room is getting a bit stuffy and whiffy so please air it out. No need to go into such detail.
Say It Like You Mean It
That Moment When An Anti-Vaxx Mom Is Called Out On Facebook By Her Son's Pediatric Nurse
Sadly only the Anti-vaxxer lies will be retweeted, adding some more misinformation to the huge pile of BS that's already on the internet.
Video Games Cause Violence
"No thank you, I'll keep playing chess where I get ahead by sacrificing my own peons to murder their horses bishops peons and queen".
We The People
Why Do Old People Insist On Doing This?
You Can Disagree With An Opinion, But The Math Never Lies
It's this kind of "math" that leads Americans to believe that in "Socialist" European countries people pay about 125% of their income on taxes. And that's why healthcare is free.
Murdered With One Word Almost 3 Years Later
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Friend recently ranted to me, "Dems are going to make us socialist! I don't want any socialism!" so I replied< "Give up your unemployment, your SSDI, your parents' Medicare and social security benefits, and oh yeah, your medicaid." Strangely, she had no reply to that.
That was amazing. I’m going to use that on all of my conservative republican Christian friends
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Friend recently ranted to me, "Dems are going to make us socialist! I don't want any socialism!" so I replied< "Give up your unemployment, your SSDI, your parents' Medicare and social security benefits, and oh yeah, your medicaid." Strangely, she had no reply to that.
That was amazing. I’m going to use that on all of my conservative republican Christian friends
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