'I am not asking you to believe that something paranormal ocurred at my grandmother's house. Most people, as you say, require some kind of proof, and proof is not easy to come by. I have jost provided my experiences as an opening to discussion.' Touché. I can’t argue with that!
You had me going there. I thought this was quite an interesting and provocative article ... until I got to the last three lines and realised that it was just a preamble to your sales pitch. (Which, incidentally, is completely at odds with the two paragraphs immediately preceding it.) Sorry, but whether or not this 'effective product' is physically a pill is not the issue. As long as unscrupulous people go on selling miracle cures, and gullible
'Meanwhile, they are taking every drug, woman, man, and drink in sight. ' Too true. And nobody more enthusiastically than Courtney Love!
'Which is the more rational explaination: that there are things that are currently beyond human understanding, or denying what your senses are telling you?' But these are not mutually exclusive, Danny. And there are many more everyday examples of our senses getting it 'wrong' than you could poke a stick at; eg. optical / kinetic illusions, individual expectations, the effects of certain narcotics / illnesses. Actually, what amazes me is not that ou
My favourite (passed on from a fellow teacher), from a child's essay on the colonial history of this country: 'Captain Cook circumcised Australia with a 200 foot clipper.'
That was a quote from a newspaper article. I didn't claim that it makes you a racist. But I bet you don't even know the names, let alone the circumstances, of the three OTHER Australians currently facing much more serious sentences overseas for drug offences. 'Diplomacy doesnt work in these countries ...' - as I said before, to my mind betrays a racist attitude. What do you mean by 'these countries'? What single scrap of evidence do you have
Tony Benn may be too left for you, Gideon! He has certainly been too left for the UK Labour Party for much of their recent incarnation. That said, he is I believe a politician of unusual integrity. His early parliamentary career is a case in point; upon the death of his father, he was forced to go to court in order to renounce a hereditary peerage so as to keep his place in the House of Co
'Maybe the 10 books previous to the last read by these men were written by women.' Why would there be a trend for the last book men read to be atypical of their reading habits? I agree that we have to be careful about interpreting statistics, but I don't believe this specific complaint is valid. As for Cordelia's suggestion that they did not interview any women, however, if this is true then yes - that seriously limits the nature of the conclusion
Tony Benn, a UK politician I have quite some time for, once said something to the effect that if we hold the law as a concept in any regard whatsoever, then we have a right - nay, a DUTY - to oppose vigorously any laws that we believe to be bad. The popular uprising against the poll tax in the UK in 1990 was a fine example of this in action. A national campaign of resistance led to a huge swing against the ruling Thatcher government in by-elec
From the Guardian Weekly, June 3-9 2005: 'Some commentators have remarked that it is curious that Corby has won so much sympathy, while three other Australians who are on death row for drug offences in Singapore and Vietnam have won so little. The three are male and of Vietnamese origin.'
'I hope everyone gets a little taste of what deep anger really lies inside of me. Does that give you second thoughts about calling me psycho now?' Quite the opposite, I should imagine. Still, revealing post - now I think I begin to glimpse the source (if not the cause) of much of that strangely unprovoked and unfocused anger on some of your other threads ...
'No matter how "accepting" we get as a society, I remain convinced that there are SOME things we were never meant to do.' I agree. Free-fall parachuting, that's another one that gets my goat. Who the hell do these freaks think they are?
Well then, as there appears to be absolutely no way of corroborating any of what you say, nothing has been or can be 'proven'. ie. It is no more than an urban myth.
'SECOND of all, as to your snivelling, condescending attitude towards semi-vegetarians, you would know what I'm talking about if your reading extended beyond blogs and the latest Harlequin Romance. Because it obviously does not, I won't waste my time explaining myself. ' Heaven help us, it was a JOKE Gideon! That's why I put a little laughing face after it. Lighten up, man. It seems that 'only a shadow' isn't the only one around here looking
'From what I can see, it is a very unhealthy “belief”.' I am a vegan of 14 years standing, and a vegetarian from 15 years before that. I am very active, healthy, happy, not overweight, have a low cholesterol level ... so what exactly do you purport to be 'unhealthy' about veganism, just-a-shadow? You are certainly extremely angry about something, but it's difficult to see quite what. Incidentally, I note that you haven't contributed to this thread
Not that I am necessarily rejecting any of what you say, spiffydude, but it does beg a few basic questions: 1. Where did you 'hear' it? 2. Who are 'they'? 3. Where can the hard evidence be found? (Word of mouth is no good, or we'd have to conclude - for example - that thousands of people get abducted and subjected to anal probes by aliens every day of the week!) 4. What are the 'simple chemicals'? They can't be 'pretty easy to pick
'Sure believe in a cause but dont go doing stupid things in order to prove it.' Well said and fair enough, PB. '... people smuggling drugs into Bali just doesnt make sense.' This view has been banded about a lot recently, but apparently - as dynamaso suggests above - it is a long way from the truth. This is just one of the issues that was effectively debunked on this week's 'MediaWatch'. One journalist was quoted as saying that she
'How vain can you get? Your OWN website!!!' Top marks for putting this brave post on your own website, JFJ!
I agree Champas, particularly re. the Schappelle Corby business, which I have found particularly disturbing. Today's 'Australian' featured a number of opinion pieces on this affair: 1. A critical review of the Indonesian and Australian judicial systems - by Ronald Sackville (Federal Court justice and chairman of the Judicial Conference of Australia), 2. A surprisingly unflippant (for the most part) summary of the flimsy nature of Corby's defe
' Hey furry... come down off your high, noble horse! It does not become you.' Well, that moves the debate along in leaps and bounds.
On Monday, on your first blog in this subject, I asked you 'how long before 'Honk if you h8 Bali?' escalates into acts of violence against Indonesians in Australia?' You replied: 'Well hopefully it won't come to that.' Today's top item on the evening news was the closure of the Indonesian embassy in Canberra and the enforced isolation of its 22 staff, after a package containing what authorities confirmed to be a 'biological agent' was delive
'I am not racist and resent you calling me one!' Not your call. Deny it all you like, but your sentiments above tell a different story.
'I think you really need to stop attacking me personally ...' No personal insult intended. But if you really want to rail against miscarriages of justice, I see many infinitely more convincing causes around at the moment, and much closer to home. '... and start looking at the facts here Furry!' As for facts, there are very few hard and fast ones in evidence here. This is why I choose to keep an open mind, rather than leading the ho
'why cause you dont see that corruption is rife?' No because this comment betrays your fundamental racism. Shame on you.
'of course he will be tried and he will be found guilty cause he has already admitted that he did it' Yes, in all probability - although an admission doesn't necessarily equate to a conviction. But the point is that even he is entitled to a TRIAL. 'Do you think Schapelles trial was fair and just?' On the basis of the media beat-up to date, I really couldn't say. (And I am not a lawyer, let alone a lawyer versed in Indonesian law.)
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