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I haven't had loadsa time to blog and keep up with general internet activities lately cuz school just started.
I spent the whole day animated a sausage. It's quite funny. I'll load it on You Tube and post it in a mo.
In the meantime. I posted the following blog on my other (more local) site and it got hacked into today. It's just So annoying. these $%$^%^.
****Lets play the Discrimination Game.
August 12th, 2006
I get really mad when people try to be politically correct and say Islam is ok. Of course it isnt ok, neither is any other religion that doesnt make any rational sense whatsoever. The human mind works on logic, not on leaps of faith based on unproven miracles. Indoctrinating it into working the wrong way is not healthy. At best it obscures certain truths of the joy and purpose of life, at worst, it insidiously brain-washes you into thinking that killing yourself, and others, is a good thing to do.
I just came back from London, via Heathrow airport of course, and there had been enough ridiculous checks already, as it was. Some of it I dont mind, but after the foiled attempts to blow up the American planes, some of it is really getting extremely stupid. Now, would a middle class white lady from Essex with a baby, disguise bomb fuel as baby milk? Would regular Christians/Hindus/Buddhists etc. hide time bombs in books for the sake of blowing people up? No. Course not.
Now I can see the problem if people start discriminating by skin colour. I mean, yeah, most of the Terrorist so far happen to have dark skin mostly of a certain kind of dark, but that doesnt mean the next guy with skin the colour of a cafe au liat will most certainly be a terrorist, think matyrdom is a title worth aspiring to, or even that there is one God and that some people are more special than others. Because that is what those people think, and clearly all those people on the plane they were going to go on, werent special. If theyre gonna discriminate, then we should discriminate too. In natual selection, the species that are pacifist Die Out. And were not pacifist, oh hell no human beings aint. Try to be as politically correct as we might, but oh yeah, in our heads aversion, pity and the fear of being politically incorrect, wrestle when we think about the Middle East, Islam and headscarves.
On the one hand, we feel as if the average Muslim (and most Muslims are just like you and me, only that I dont believe in a God and they do. Which I feel can make a very big difference or no difference at all, depending on how that affects the way you behave in this life, and the way you feel about other people -whether or not that are as special as you.) is probably a decent chap and a productive member of society. On the other, we see all this shit on the news, and little girls being made to wear head-scarves in blistering hot weather, and stories of honour killings, and, man, do we hate that shit. Whenever I see a little girl sweating in a headscarve, I think, fuck, how could her parents do this to her? I dont think her parents are evil, just confused. And I know exactly what to blame for that confusion -the intrinsic love for imitation and blind following that is imprinted into our genes. This makes it a hell lot easier for myths to be passed down and for them to be taken in without question, believed and acted upon, however irrational.
Fact: Some beliefs are irrational, and they must be discriminated against.
Ideally, airport staff should be sensitive enough to discriminate between different groups of people. But how do you discriminate between the suicidal Muslim and the average bloke who just so happens to believe that God really did write a book and although that book is the word to live by, other people should not be killed just because they are infidels (I would find this a hard position to take, if i really believed in the Koran, and statistics taken throughout the Middle East have proven that although most Muslims are not likely to kill infidels they agree with or condone Jihad.)
You cant give ALL Muslims special treatment either, because thats like saying, Youre Muslim, youre evil, you must be scrutinized. Thats not being politically incorrect, thats just plain wrong.
Instinctively, I am thinking, if this is a war of beliefs, than we must get these so called extremist to denouce their destructive beliefs out loud at airports. Get Islamic scholars to sturcture the sentences such that there is no way around it. The people that say Islam is a religion of Peace and believe that life should be in the hands onf god and wholly in the hands of god wouldnt have a problem.
If they can use the bible in court as a measure of making sure they got the truth out of people who believed in its intrinsic worth (there must be a reason why that practice is prevaliant. I know today its nothing but an antiquated ritual, and that people still lied anyway. But clearly at some point, some people must believe that breakin gan oath on the bible would send them to hell) if they can do that, why not do the same now?
But anyway. Its kinda silly, I know. It will not work and will probably make things worse its just the solution I came up with, instinctively. I doubt itll make things any better at airports. I just think that the people doing the checks should be more emotionally sensitive to the vibes they get from people, and if someone looks like they really aint gonna be a terrorist, theres really no need to get her to sample her babys milk formula to make sure its not fuel.
I haven't had loadsa time to blog and keep up with general internet activities lately cuz school just started.
I spent the whole day animated a sausage. It's quite funny. I'll load it on You Tube and post it in a mo.
In the meantime. I posted the following blog on my other (more local) site and it got hacked into today. It's just So annoying. these $%$^%^.
****Lets play the Discrimination Game.
August 12th, 2006
I get really mad when people try to be politically correct and say Islam is ok. Of course it isnt ok, neither is any other religion that doesnt make any rational sense whatsoever. The human mind works on logic, not on leaps of faith based on unproven miracles. Indoctrinating it into working the wrong way is not healthy. At best it obscures certain truths of the joy and purpose of life, at worst, it insidiously brain-washes you into thinking that killing yourself, and others, is a good thing to do.
I just came back from London, via Heathrow airport of course, and there had been enough ridiculous checks already, as it was. Some of it I dont mind, but after the foiled attempts to blow up the American planes, some of it is really getting extremely stupid. Now, would a middle class white lady from Essex with a baby, disguise bomb fuel as baby milk? Would regular Christians/Hindus/Buddhists etc. hide time bombs in books for the sake of blowing people up? No. Course not.
Now I can see the problem if people start discriminating by skin colour. I mean, yeah, most of the Terrorist so far happen to have dark skin mostly of a certain kind of dark, but that doesnt mean the next guy with skin the colour of a cafe au liat will most certainly be a terrorist, think matyrdom is a title worth aspiring to, or even that there is one God and that some people are more special than others. Because that is what those people think, and clearly all those people on the plane they were going to go on, werent special. If theyre gonna discriminate, then we should discriminate too. In natual selection, the species that are pacifist Die Out. And were not pacifist, oh hell no human beings aint. Try to be as politically correct as we might, but oh yeah, in our heads aversion, pity and the fear of being politically incorrect, wrestle when we think about the Middle East, Islam and headscarves.
On the one hand, we feel as if the average Muslim (and most Muslims are just like you and me, only that I dont believe in a God and they do. Which I feel can make a very big difference or no difference at all, depending on how that affects the way you behave in this life, and the way you feel about other people -whether or not that are as special as you.) is probably a decent chap and a productive member of society. On the other, we see all this shit on the news, and little girls being made to wear head-scarves in blistering hot weather, and stories of honour killings, and, man, do we hate that shit. Whenever I see a little girl sweating in a headscarve, I think, fuck, how could her parents do this to her? I dont think her parents are evil, just confused. And I know exactly what to blame for that confusion -the intrinsic love for imitation and blind following that is imprinted into our genes. This makes it a hell lot easier for myths to be passed down and for them to be taken in without question, believed and acted upon, however irrational.
Fact: Some beliefs are irrational, and they must be discriminated against.
Ideally, airport staff should be sensitive enough to discriminate between different groups of people. But how do you discriminate between the suicidal Muslim and the average bloke who just so happens to believe that God really did write a book and although that book is the word to live by, other people should not be killed just because they are infidels (I would find this a hard position to take, if i really believed in the Koran, and statistics taken throughout the Middle East have proven that although most Muslims are not likely to kill infidels they agree with or condone Jihad.)
You cant give ALL Muslims special treatment either, because thats like saying, Youre Muslim, youre evil, you must be scrutinized. Thats not being politically incorrect, thats just plain wrong.
Instinctively, I am thinking, if this is a war of beliefs, than we must get these so called extremist to denouce their destructive beliefs out loud at airports. Get Islamic scholars to sturcture the sentences such that there is no way around it. The people that say Islam is a religion of Peace and believe that life should be in the hands onf god and wholly in the hands of god wouldnt have a problem.
If they can use the bible in court as a measure of making sure they got the truth out of people who believed in its intrinsic worth (there must be a reason why that practice is prevaliant. I know today its nothing but an antiquated ritual, and that people still lied anyway. But clearly at some point, some people must believe that breakin gan oath on the bible would send them to hell) if they can do that, why not do the same now?
But anyway. Its kinda silly, I know. It will not work and will probably make things worse its just the solution I came up with, instinctively. I doubt itll make things any better at airports. I just think that the people doing the checks should be more emotionally sensitive to the vibes they get from people, and if someone looks like they really aint gonna be a terrorist, theres really no need to get her to sample her babys milk formula to make sure its not fuel.
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But what I think is ironic... is that religion is supposed to teach us compasion & respect. Yet most of the advances in human freedom come from secular sources. Woman's rights, childrens rights, racial equality & animal welfare have usually been championed by secularists or religious renegades. But the religious institutions have always stood in the way of this progress, often using (or misusing)their doctines to enforce inequality & oppression. Further, it is my impression that these institutions create environments of poverty & dispair in order for them to display "compassion" for the unfortunate. If there were no poverty & hunger, how could they have an opportunity to display their compassion?
If I were tempted to endorse one true religion, it would be sex. Whoever doesn't believe that, simply isn't doing it right. Archeology shows that sex is both the first act & object of worship. It cultivates bonding & tenderness, an intuitional communion with our partner(s) & can take us to heights of ecstacy that is considered the religious experience. It opens us to naked experience & exploration, encouraging a childlike spirit of play. But you see, sex is the path of direct experience & is as natural as breathing, which is why it scares religion so much. If we can access this experience, this ecstasy independently... well then what use is religion, what use are clergy? If we all find our connection with life on our own, then all these proffessional religious "leaders" will have to get real jobs... instead of making a living bilking ignorant believers out of their hard earned money in a pathetic attempt to buy that stairway to heaven.