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Arwon Bazu                  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I move that people who confuse "Weather" with "Climate" be banned from opinions. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I really want to launch into an anti-Proddy tirade to counter Alastor's absurd contention that the Catholics are to blame for the things people have problems with in Christianity but I really don't have the wherewithal right now. Sufficed to say though, that the Catholics are the victims of some fairly blatant double standards and it ain't the Papists who tend to be frothing crypto-fascist nutcases these days. When talking about Catholicism it's VERY important to distinguish the often reactionary heirarchy and its crazy doctrines from the actual nature of actual Catholics. Otherwise you might as well be holding every Protestant to, say, salvation through "faith alone" or Predestination of the 144 000, or the sinfulness of masturbation and drinking, or whatever other lunacies that various protestant churches officially state in their dogma but no-one actually believes. I mean there's churches that say God doesn't want us to drink and you think CATHOLICS have it wrong!?
Just as one small example of the gulf between doctrine and lay believers: Catholics in Australia are the least homophobic religious group aside from those with no religion according to a study called "Mapping Homophobia" done a year or two ago. Honestly, I reckon that aside from the fact that I don't believe in God, most Australian (and probably Western) Catholics have more in common with ME than they do with, say, their local Archbishop. I would point out though, that in very Catholic countries like Peru and Ireland, there's a GREAT DEAL of direct ire and disdain for the heirarchy of the Catholic Church with sometimes extends to general anti-religiousness and sometimes doesn't. To add to SS's list, I'd add in problems with things like hypocrisy, preachiness and judgementalness to the list of problems people have with christianity, all of which the Catholic Church has in spaces. But then, so do most Proddy groups too (and, one assumes, Orthodox Church). |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by Ragenule Most of that's just reporting bias. You don't hear about the thousands of thousands of times people don't act like bastards. People are people. We're tiny little creatures stumbling around in a world we mostly don't understand and can barely handle. We're selfish, irrational and short-sighted, but we';re also capable of amazing things. The trick is to have no expectations, and maintain a healthy sense of fatalism and the absurd. Personally I think it's a wonderous blessing that we aren't all just bashing each other's heads in for the hell of it. It is a mere thin veneer of civility and order that keeps us from this, and this veneer is basically imaginary, solely the product of human thought. I for one think it's pretty cool that these imagined and constructed rules and norms that we call "society" manage to hold things together so well. Of course, once the ecological crisis starts to bite and things start to unravel economically and socially, we'll see how much the norms of civilization still hold. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Alright, fine.
FUCK THE PRODDIES. |
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I disagree with SS that it's got anything to do with sex-drive intensity. Plenty of girls get plenty horny, and I think SS is very exactly putting the horse before the cart. Girls are seen as wanting less sex because that's what they're conditioned to act like (note the word "act" as opposed to "actually feel"). It's a feedback loop as much as anything.
This double standard can, I think, get traced back down to the continuing entrenched nature of traditional sexual roles. The conquest/domination paradigm is still strong and has essentially survived the sexual revolution in tact*, and as a result we still have this tension between what we theoretically believe (equality and sexual liberation) and what we instinctively feel. The result is the general mass of society treating women who fuck a lot and men who fuck a lot quite differently and this even extends to most more enlightened, otherwise liberal and egalitarian males and even some feminists. There's still something there, which says women having lots of sex is bad. I think the reason for this is actually related to the accepted "normal" sexual paradigm of the dominant male and the submissive female. The male endeavouring to conquer females, to own and dominate... the females in turn seen as being passively or willingly conquered, penetrated, etc. Truly sexually aggressive women, existing outside this paradigm (as opposed to the merely submissive but promiscuous variety) still scare a LOT of people, and it still sounds weird to talk of women using men for sexual gratification, and hyper-sexual musical artists like Peaches just confuse the fuck out of people with their overt sexuality... and this is part of why. So what that means, essentially, is that a woman who sleeps around will still be seen as "conquered" and "soiled" and "spoiled goods" because they've allowed themselves to be penetrated and "used" and so forth. Whereas no equivalent situation can be imagined for men... at most they're indiscriminate, they're aggressive, and these are far lesser offenses. The unfortunate thing is that given that it goes very deeply into sexual roles and stuff, it's pretty damn difficult to alter. Even for those who recognise the way these sex roles are distorting things and maintaining inequalities in society, it's difficult to go against the entire grain of the society you're raised in. Hell, we aren't even really linguistically capable of exp *Note that I'm not saying this dominant male/submissive female sexual roles are in any way natural or ingrained. They're very much a socially constructed thing... I mean, ever stop to wonder why we think of sex as penetration of the woman by the man, rather than reversing the agency and thinking of women enveloping the man? (edited by Arwon on 12-11-06 04:29 AM) (edited by Arwon on 12-11-06 04:34 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| The fact that Augie March's Moo You Bloody Choir got beaten by this for the J Award makes me very sad and disdainful.
Also, I doubt anyone outside Australia has heard our hip-hop because I doubt anyone's that interested in what a bunch of middle-class Australians have to say which might possibly add to the genre. (edited by Arwon on 12-11-06 04:46 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Well excuuuuuuuuse me, but I don't like it when people snidely dismiss my perfectly legitimate (and lets face it, insightful and wonderful) posts purely because they relate to a tangental (but less dumb) issue of discussion and a post other than the one directly preceeding it.
*wanders off mumbling about the Orange bastards, practices some Popery* (edited by Arwon on 12-11-06 04:51 AM) (edited by Arwon on 12-11-06 04:53 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I think it should be noted here that *I* didn't derail the thread and if my post were simply granted the levity it deserves and ignored, none of this would have happened. The lesson, of course, is that the more you try and impose order, the more you proliferate CHAOS.
I for one call shenanigans. (edited by Arwon on 12-11-06 04:57 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I lost most of my friends from high school to the fact that I don't really like them or have much in common with. The other 3 I go to university with.
The sad fact is lives change and people drift apart and you can never go back home. The trick is to be open to new friendships, but it's surprisingly easy to just forget to bother being receptive to letting new people get close to you. I understand this gets worse as you age and most people barely make friends after about 30. Another possibility I've heard is that friends are something young people have and as we get older we shift towards a) romantic relationships and b) fewer but deeper connections. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| OK, aside from the recentness and falsifiability of the constructing origin myths, which are mostly just window-dressing which separates different religions... what *are* the differences between the two in terms of their precepts and impacts on believers and so forth? Does one offer more inner peace? Is faith in one less genuine or real than the other? Can one save you from depression and loneliness and the other can't? (edited by Arwon on 12-11-06 05:21 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| No, see that's the thing. Scientology is basically an evil scam and a destructive cult. It's just that it's really really tricky to separate it from regular religions through any actual rational or logical delineation. It checks all the boxes needed for it to be a religion, but something just feels different. Creepy. Wrong. Although, that *something* could be merely the way Scientology reflects poorly on the nature of other religions and makes them all look kinda bad.
Even the criteria of harm through opposing medical practices you've just provided could apply equally to Jehovah's Witnesses, not to mention the fact that "directly opposing medicine" is also what's happening (rightly or wrongly) when people oppose stem-cell research or abortions. The money thing's *kinda* valid but the only real difference there is that Scientology's more efficient at collecting money. Plus, you know, Buddhism and Islam are also pretty effective money-gathering rackets and Christianity used to be. (edited by Arwon on 12-11-06 05:56 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| PROVINCES WHICH, WERE HYRULE A DEMOCRACY, WOULD HAVE VIRTUALLY NO REGISTERED VOTERS OR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES
Peak: 2 voters. Faron: 1 voter. Desert: Zero voters. Of course, this all hinges on the question of Moblin suffrage, but I doubt they'd be given the vote since their INFINITE NUMBERS would f*ck up the counting. THAT IS ALL. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I's wondering. Would flipping the graphics have been easy and quick, or would there have been someone going through every object and code in the game changing one value OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
I suspect, and hope, that its the latter. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| The differences between the two are basically differences of degree, not type, but they're definitely there. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| When you get told something like "I'm not ready for a relationship" or "I don't have time/I'm too busy for a relationship" or anything like that, if you mentally add in the phrase with you it can often be much closer to the truth. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| South Dakota's not a state which has special elections to replace casual vacancies, is it?
Now, as I understand it there's no rules about automatically replacing senators being too infirm to serve unless they resign (who was it who served out their last term in a hospital bed?), and senators are allowed to take time off for things like surgery, so I guess one possible outcome is a 50-49 majority for a while instead of 51-49... I bet there's gonna be ugly court battles up the wazoo if the guy should happen to not recover (though at the moment he's being reported responsive and awake, which means he should make a decent recovery). At any rate, I for one am amused by the idea of all those culture-of-lifers secretly hoping a dude dies. (edited by Arwon on 12-15-06 08:38 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by Dr_Death16Originally posted by ArwonAnd I'm amused at the liberals who would make such a ruckus and cry themselves to sleep at night if they were to lose their slim majority... point being, that while you make the some of the conservatives sound 'inhumane', one could easily say that liberals only care about the guy's health if it costs their party some power. Well duh, that's politics. The only reason ANYONE is concerned about his health is that control of the senate apparently hinges on it. That's the absurd dark humour of the whole situation. At any rate, you're talking to someone who has openly wished his Prime Minister would die because his successor would be more likely to lose the next election, so don't try and be all OMG HYPOCRITE at me, sir. The point is, "culture-of-lifers" wanting someone to die is funny because apparently life is less valuable when it's elderly and Democrat as opposed to being a clump of foetal matter or a vegetable being kept alive on a tube. Also, I'm not a liberal, I'm a social democrat. Big difference. (edited by Arwon on 12-15-06 10:49 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I'm pretty sure that REM's Automatic For The People is the best album ever.
Discuss. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Well, Time's just consigned a decades-old tradition to utter irrelevance. |
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It'd make quite an story if this were to happen though, CNN and such would have a field day...