Posts by mark taslov
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Haha, sweet! Christianity as a dog chasing its tail
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Cool post Emma. I've been playing 'Attack' on facebook lately (Risk®). They have an ultra conservative bot mod, tuned to censor danger like 'sex','homosexual', even 'homophobia'. If you keep on with the expletives, they bump you off, when you come back there are small glitches, i.e. not being able to see your cards, random troop placement etc. Damn well works too.
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growl...
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That same prison inhabited by many. Those who never earned enough money to invest anything for retirement. Who likewise shed sweat and tears throughout their working lives. The employers retirement may now bear comparison to that of their employees.
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The prison of poverty? in a welfare state?
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"Prue Hyman, a feminist economist and adjunct professor at Victoria University, hadn't read the book but was aware of the debate and was concerned at the idea of men or women having sex just to keep their partner happy."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2315570/Just-do-it-sex-call-sparks-womens-fury
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Been around for a while, that one.
Yes, and despite all technological, ideological and social advances, it persists. It draws it's bow furthest in times of fear. Exploiting that fear, to subjugate followers, according to it's continually rejigged mandate. And with every election the christians win, their mandate to impose the christian morality is reinvigorated, Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama, John Key, Stephen Harper, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel are all christians. As long as the democratic support for the christians remains, and as long as they're continue to be re-elected, then the nations responsible will continue to bare the brunt of staid, unscientific, illogically paranoid, and morally arbitrary edicts. Basically it's the election of christians, but ultimately christianity itself that is behind it in terms of funding and moral capital. Helen Clark's lack of religious distincition was one of the reasons she was such a good leader.
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what's behind this growth in moralism when we're supposed to be becoming more liberal
christianity.
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I watched this last week. Sapolsky is a brilliant guy; I loved his books, and it was nice to see that he's a good speaker too
I was relieved when he stopped stepping between those two safety 'fixed positions' at the beginnng. Enjoyed that Stephen. Thanks.
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I know there are studies that show that individuals who view large amounts of porn (ie more than six hours a week, which is about four movies) are more likely... to have poor attitudes to women,
So Paul Henry...