Posts by andin
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Sacha,
+1
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We all got indoctrinated with the hero archetype as kids…
And we all out grew them... well most of us.
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Speaker: An attempt at demystifying Sharia, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Hexit sounds a tad ominous
No I was thinking it will bear more resemblance to the farce that has become brexit. A comedy of errors for some intergalactic traveler to decipher, if such an entity did exist and could be bothered. It would inspire more a mirthless chuckle I imagine.
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Speaker: An attempt at demystifying Sharia, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Our imaginary friends.
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Speaker: An attempt at demystifying Sharia, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
‘fictions’
And that kind of the problem because they are easily disprovable, and in the case of our inherited religious beliefs, fanciful and open to weird and frightening interpretations, there will never be anyway of uniting them unless we abandon them.
But we, everyone, have got to do it in unison. A utopian fantasy and likely to remain that way. A grand scale Human exit is more likely.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to nzlemming,
Generating outrage
Stoking a dying fire of narrow mindedness with the odd bit of voyeurism and scaremongering thrown in. No wonder people are looking elsewhere.
Hell of a basis for an information/entertainment service too!
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to nzlemming,
Im thinking back wondering when the race to the bottom kicked off. Sometime round the early to mid 80's I guessing. There are just some people in the media who need to be put out of a job Garner, Plunket and Hosking are at the top of the list AFAIC. Tho' they are only the public face and they seem to have friends in high places. TVNZ and RNZ boards are littered with people who adhere to rotten ideologies and questionable ethics from what I hear. Is it too late to stop the rot? And if they were put out and left to their own devices would they just fester and erupt somewhere else?
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Philip Matthews,
and Will Harvie presents Karl Popper’s views
Go Stuff..
Saw a well researched article on Stuff about the crusades too. -
the Prophet seeing a woman’s uncovered hair and clearly not being offended.
Just as god sitting, as he apparently does, up there above us looking down wouldnt be offended by the sight as he would by other not so attractive heads of hair or lack thereof.
to payday lenders advertising on television.
And in todays society with mental compartmentalization virtually de rigueur, these arseholes can go to church on sundays and fool themselves into believing they will end up in an other worldly paradise just like everyone else, all that dreadful stuff they had to do back in that earthly hateful place all forgiven now, no harm done. All fluffy clouds and wings for everyone.
Forgive my bleak humour, but these early belief systems, based as they are on the imagined existence of some overseeing deity, are showing their age rather badly. Not that I expect them to be given up any time soon. Large swathes of the global population have gotten somewhat attached to them and convinced themselves they cant do without them. We are rather good at fooling ourselves it would seem.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Such an incredibly one eyed reading of history, pathetic swill. What did he get a degree in? It certainly wasnt history, maybe propaganda!