And no, Jesus would be seen as too soft on crime. Excellent point! I've often wondered for example why American evangelical protestants are so often pro-death penalty (sometimes also catholics, although their church has basically decided that it's a no-no). Is it through a belief that Jesus' teaching is real
#10 Let it be known that any terrorist attack on this country could result in swift and total inhalation of the host country. So, that was what was wrong with Clinton. He didn't inhale!
If people who wash their hands too much are sick, what do you call people who want to cut off their penis... Happy. At least sometimes the surgery seems to work. First of all there was real distress, then hormones. After that I believe a candidate has to live for a certain amount of time in the new ge
Transexualism is a mental health issue. most have no physical problem at all. This may be true, but how do you know? I certainly know very little about this subject and I'm not convinced that yo
#14 by UBoB Now, you're just taking the piss!
This is not an issue that I ever thought much about until a friend of mine who I had known for years as a man told me of his other life, dominated by a desire to eventually live as a woman. This is still not a thing that I understand, but I don't feel that I need to. More important was getting to know through her other people who had gone through the change or were about to, and hearing their stories. Of one thing I did become convinced: no-one could go through the painful procedure (pa
Pissed: American English - very angry ; British (& Commonwealth English) - very drunk . Pissed off: British & Commonwealth English (and Harlem ) - very angry .
Most socialist thought in the 20th century has been corrupted by people like Lenin, Stalin and Mao, and the Soviet Union. Perhaps, but not Marxist thought. Marxism was always supposed to be about violent class conflict and the suppression of the old ruling order after their assets are seized. It is difficult to see how you can do this without then de
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not true at all def. SOME bush haters are Saddams friend, but not all bush haters. ok? Now that's a 'Go'. And a good call. The title is wrong - not all 'Bush haters' are 'Saddam's friends'. It's fairly typical of the rhetoric of the American far right, to try and paint all who opposed th
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My question is why England isn't the one putting this guy on the rack for his oil-for-food stuff. Good question. Well, he was kicked out of the ruling Labour Party. However he then went on and stood for election for 'Respect' - a hard left anti-Iraq war grouping - for the parliamentary seat of Bethnal Green and Bow, and took it from Labour at the last
Para, one thing that I have noticed is that your contributions in these debates seem to focus very heavily on the area of sexually transmitted disease, which I suppose is related to your medical background. I can understand why you might see this as as much a moral as a medical problem, but for a moment look at it this way: if we did not have a notion of sex in our culture as an essentially shameful thing (body=bad, spirit=good as a gnostic might put i
Or am I misunderstanding your meaning? Yes, you are. Certainly here in Korea the traditional Confucian culture has very strong ideas about what is and is not permissible sexually. However, one thing that I noticed was that Koreans are also very frank in talking about sexual matters. This at first seemed surp
Great to see you seem to feeling better PB. Love and blessings. Seems we're back in the realm of sex and religion again. They seem to go together like apple pie and ice cream, inevitable bedfellows. You have to ask why there is so much moral energy generated by sexual condemnation. Why some people find it reasonable to distinguish between 'innocent' victims of disease and 'others'. Of course there are communicable diseases present in food, but
YOu ask a question and confuse the answer. My religion is right for me because I believe the core tenets. It is not right for Moderateman as he does not beleive all of them, but he does beleive the non Catholic ones. So he is as likely to get to heaven as I (probably more so in his case). Thanks for the comment, but I think you misunderstood me (my fa
While I probably don't share his religious views, these two posts are the first coherent ones in this thread. Yes, that was my problem with them too.
Because they each think theirs is the best; the only true religion. This is a possible intellectual objection to religion, but hardly a coherent reason for 'eliminating' it (sinister word!) but how does that effect you
What's really funny is that if people really wanted to kill off christianity they should be arguing for a state religion. It's worked in Britain where about 2% of the population regularly attend church as opposed to about 40% of Americans who claim to regularly attend.
As long as he's alive, he could find some way to influence people. If he's dead, he can't do that. Maybe. But in some quarters a pathetic old man spending his remaining days shuffling around a dank cell is far less 'influential' than a 'martyr' slain by the 'Great Satan'. I'd go for life imprisonmen
They take the liberal hand-wringing and self-loathing and Bush-bashing; they see it as signs of weakness and chinks in our armor of resolve. They probably do; dissent and multiple points of view don't really figure in their vision of the future. However, there are probably just as many in the middle east an
Did anyone ever wonder why there were no Nuremberg trials for Japan after the war? There were. The Tokyo trials. A number of leading Japanese military and politicians were executed. Hirohito was spared. Not entirely sure why.
I wouldn't get tied up in Notts with bad puns if I were you, but I'm probably nott the best person to tell you that. More vignettes please! Glad that it's going so well. Very interesting to hear what you say about getting intellectually stimulated again, as someone still stuck at the coalface of 'teaching' here (although currently having another shot at the much-prized 'uni jobs'). Being in the middle of making multiple copies of CVs
You are still more likely to get a job for having an in-depth knowledge of the history of politics than for having an in-depth knowledge of the history of sport. It really depends what job. This may be true for certain kinds of elite white collar work which recruits on the basis of an expected shared educational background, but for most jobs it
You are still more likely to get a job for having an in-depth knowledge of the history of politics than for having an in-depth knowledge of the history of sport. It really depends what job. This may be true for certain kinds of elite white collar work which recruits on the basis of an expected shared educati
Which one is your strongest Multiple Intelligence? Linguistic Gets a lot out of just reading text. Expresses in both speech and
Reading your very interesting article and Baker's replies I've come to the conclusion that what you're describing isn't really liberalism, or capitalism or even 'post-modernism', but the current state of the British class system whose values, give or take a bit of outback blokeishness, seem to also hold sway 'down under'. The one thing I have to take most exception to is the assertion that only "1%" of people in advanced capitalist nations ach