Rita J. King - Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds

[jrbkett]

@3rd Were raised with religion? Were you raised in a country? Within the three dimentional world in which we live there are these structures within cultures that evolved over millenia to the state they are today. I'm pretty sure by systems she means systems like values systems, religious systems and any construct within societies that are used to resolve conflicts or just live.I think you ask valid questions, but using offensive language is a nonconstructive approach to express frustration.

[3rdStoneObliterum]

i have heard/watched several interviews by this person King, and it really is just alot of saying loosely-connected ideas while saying almost nothing ..... there was a book a while back called "Psychobabble"......this is what this stuff she says is like. Alot of hot air, throwing around concepts that have no logical relation between them, etc. Things anyone could say or connect using a very small amount of logic. But its presented like its some earth-shattering innovative approach.

[3rdStoneObliterum]

for example at 3:25 "to study these overlapping interests...." what interests? we weren't discussing interests, we were discussing bridging the gap bewtween the west and Islam. then "how real people are affected"..wtf??? "real people"??? as opposed to whom, "fake people"?? and affected by what?? then "creatively work within and around systems"....wtf??? name these so-called systems in a way that is universally-accepted terminology.