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|2010-09-04, 22:40
|Link #2601
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Australia
Age: 26
|2010-09-05, 13:28
|Link #2602
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
"marriage" is basically announcing to your community that you're making a go of it - and swearing oaths of fealty to each other in *public* view is *supposed* to count for something as your value is in the honor of your word.
The religions just hop on the bandwagon since asserting control of sex and other important aspects of life makes them more indispensable.
|2010-09-05, 13:45
|Link #2603
One King One Legend
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Outer Heaven
Age: 36
|2010-09-05, 18:12
|Link #2604
I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 32
|2010-09-05, 23:03
|Link #2605
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
|2010-09-06, 05:01
|Link #2606
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
It discovered nothing. It is simply a presentation of perspective. No offense though, with that guy wielding his "magical" sword and slaying enemies by the pound makes it seem very much like a wuxia novel.
P.S I read the translated version, FYI.
|2010-09-06, 05:30
|Link #2608
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
Muhammed DID NOT write the book, contrary to popular opinion. He dictated most of it, and the rest are historical add-ons.
Seriously speaking, I pity Muhammed. The Muslim community he worked so hard to build was taken apart by his wives and followers, and that Zulfiqar-wielding guy, who's supposedly his "designated" successor, got his head split open by a poisoned sword.
|2010-09-06, 07:12
|Link #2610
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
Small note : I am not a Muslim.
|2010-09-06, 08:02
|Link #2612
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: InterWebs
Still, though it's a shame how religion has stained the earth with the blood of our brothers. Wasn't religion supposed to bring peace of heart? Yet look at the world now. The Moslems are terrorizing the planet, the Christians priests are getting increasingly gay, and the Jews are fucking racists. Nowadays religion looks like a mere tool to justify every act of infidelity that ethics were unable to justify.
*sigh* Though I wont deny that not few people's were really saved because of religious peace of heart, I wonder what went wrong with the rest of the world...
|2010-09-06, 11:57
|Link #2613
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 27
Well anyway, I think the significance of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) being illiterate was when he was meditating in the cave of Mount Hira and Angel Jibreel (Gabriel) commanded him to read the first revelations despite him being illiterate.
|2010-09-06, 12:08
|Link #2614
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
It is a funny world we live in. Sometimes the bigger things in life look like shit, but on a micro scale it makes differences to lives.
People are lazy to understand others by nature. They won't bother, unless they are forced or there is a benefit.
You'd be surprised at how the rest of the world treated them for their eccentric culture. This is the reason why the international Jews consider each other to be blood relations.
You'd be surprised that your judgement is completely skewed.
So, who's the racist in the end?
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
Commanding a person to obey your whims because you feel that he's doing contrary to something "God" preaches is making wrongful use of his name - you are judging in his/her stead and dispensing justice as you see fit, not him/her.
Conclusively, we shouldn't bother about whether we are going up or down afterlife. Life is short and everyone lives only once, so why don't we live our lives to the fullest by showing some compassion to others, and just follow the Golden Rule?
|2010-09-06, 13:27
|Link #2615
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
I also read it referred to him at the time of his first marriage. Before he took an interest in the whole creating a religion thing.
|2010-09-13, 14:37
|Link #2616
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Well the reason people are are fags, trying to use religion as a cover for greed or selfish means, or commiting terrorism is because of one simple reason. the way we grow up. everyone is different, mostly their personality is from how they grew up, how they were taught, and their enviroment. MANY people are ignorant, and not knowing the answers to life which are in front of you. and they dont even start to think about why thing are the way they are now.
i see middle schoolers paying each other just so they can use each others computers -.-. i see people cussing others and beating others up. thats why we need to teach the younger generations whats wrong and whats right. universal morals and laws areant in our head to begin with. and as people grow they begin to learn from their surroundings... The us has really become corrupt. EVERYWHERE you go there are people who use sex jokes for humor, who cuss, and who find pleasure in annoying and bullying others. in the beginning we are all just emptey dolls that need programming.
and as i said before in the huge collasal paragraph , its your personality and experience that chooses whether you would believe in a god. i dont believe in a all knowing sentient life form who created humans just to be his slaves. and the belief theres a eternal paradise a eternal firey hell is just messed up. im a realist and a humantarian. Religion.... ''god'' made it so there would be enough evidence to understand who they are worshipping and at the same time its made so you can never truly prove whether a god exists or not. thats why its called Faith.
The only good use i find in religion is that it helps the normal ones to become nicer people through the use of a lie. though i resent the fools who are blind and are completly consumed by religion and cause trouble for others who believe in something else. and i find the fact that people are forcing others to become a certain religion. you CANNOT force people to believe. like i said before, its based on our personality. due to this factor, its impossible to make everyone in the world believe in a religion or religion as a whole. and i doubt their god would even want their followers to force others and kill to make them believe...
like many christians do. its best to be nice and courtious to others and gain their trust. a person wouldnt want to believe in a god where their followers threaten you with a weapon. and the things i hear about religious people who commit sins saying its for their god is just sad. i once heeard a story about muslims(i think) who in a sense kidnapped a family and raped the women shouting FOR ALLAH. <-- that makes me sad... i know enough that allah wouldnt want that... So many people in the world are SO ignorant and foolish. sigh...
one last thing, never say a religious person is blind or an athiest is foolish. Never. their viewpoints are both not wrong. As i said before since the tendacy to believe in a religion is based on personality, you shouldnt condemn a innocent. and also... they areant wrong because the belief that a god exists is their viewpoint, their worldview. since religion can never be proved in this world, neither can be considered right or wrong. its all about viewpoint. whether i choose to believe a god doesnt exists or does exisit, you should respect others opinions. so never say another person is right or wrong. both of your believes are only opinions/viewpoints. and dont even start to say your religion is real. if its not provable, its not real. and since its ''faith'', its only your mind saying its real. Which means you just have alot of conviction. also.. just because muhammad or jejus lived in the past doesnt prove their religion exists. remember that.
|2010-09-13, 15:34
|Link #2617
Do you CHOSE to watch anime? Do you force yourself to watch it? Or is it something you just stumbled across and found that you really liked it?
Same goes for gay people. They don't chose to like boys instead of girls, that's just how they are.
|2010-09-13, 16:41
|Link #2618
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
And going back to the idea of respect, it means acknowledging that other people might say their religion is real even if you disagree with their viewpoint (i.e. you think that they are wrong).
So for example, here's where respect comes in my life:
As a Christian, I do not believe that Mohammed is a prophet of God. Therefore, I think that people who say that he is are wrong.
However, if I respect other people, then I wouldn't persecute Muslims for believing that Mohammed is a prophet of God.
So again, respecting other people has little or nothing to do with agreeing/disagreeing with them. And consequently, it has nothing to do with whether or not you can say that someone else is right/wrong based on their viewpoint.
|2010-09-13, 21:54
|Link #2619
Hardcore meets Casual
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Age: 30
|2010-09-14, 00:37
|Link #2620
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Everyone is entitled to have an opinion - no one else is obliged to defer to it. Opinions that are unsubstantiated assertions are as worthless as they come The recent media debacle of fringe idiot zealot versus other idiot zealots should have resulted in severe garbage pelting at the preacher, his flock, the protesters, and their "mob instigators".
This holds true for any sort of belief. Now pardon me while I go placate the air conditioning faeries and pixies...
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Guest Post: Uncovering A Passionate Friendship
Love letters come in many varieties, but there's a resonant familiarity about the language of longing.
Alice Bache Gould and Henrietta Child came of age as neighbors on Kirkland Street in Cambridge. The young women shared a keen love of books, and enjoyed discussing their ideas and projects. Literary accomplishments marked the male and female lines of both of their families; Alice's relatives included poet Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, and author Catharine Sedgwick was Henrietta's great-aunt.
Henrietta continued her studies informally while Alice's ambitions took her away from New England: to Bryn Mawr for a bachelor's degree and eventually to the University of Chicago for doctoral work in mathematics. Alice hoped for a career as a scholar and university teacher while Henrietta felt an obligation to her family at home. In 1896, both young women lost their brilliant fathers, astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould and Harvard professor Francis James Child. Alice continued to travel in ever wider circles, from Cambridge to Chicago to the Caribbean. She could not land the kind of teaching positions she wanted and she found it increasingly hard to work on her dissertation.
Through those restless years, Alice stayed bound to Henrietta through letters. They wrote lengthily and often, sometimes daily. Advice, observations, jokes, recipes, and frivolities, all have their place on the pages exchanged. The two women even continued their serious studies together through their correspondence, taking up the History of Mathematics written in 1758 by French author Jean Étienne Montucla (1725-1799). Alice visited Henrietta in October 1902 before embarking for Puerto Rico with another friend and neighbor, Susie Preble. "I see the Navy has followed you to have a sight of those low-necked dresses you took with you," teased Henrietta.
Alice and Henrietta's affection and intimacy are always in evidence, but their long separation in 1902-1903 led Henrietta to chafe against her "duty" to stay with her mother and sister. (Alice Bache Gould Papers, MsN-1309, Box 14, Folder 9) She confessed to Alice,
I have been indulging in thoughts, or dreams perhaps, about you, thinking how it would be if we could go off together, how we should get along -- whether you would not be almost as depressed with me as without me, but still that I would risk it gladly if it were right to leave home -- because I did not like to have you go off by yourself & I thought in some ways it would be a change that I could put to use. I could study & cheer you up a bit & together -- Well the rest was sentiment & not over wise, not according to the real way of life I suppose.
I am going to Montucla now, & be sensible.
Your loving friend,
I think of you a lot.
Don't be discouraged, my little girl. Keep up brave heart, & try to make the best of things just as they are, then they will not be so bad. I should like to be beside you to night when the lights were out & then we could have a talk.
Henrietta's language is so passionate, and seems so un-self-conscious. What should we make of it? In the 1970s, women's historians like Carroll Smith-Rosenberg began to study the "romantic friendships" that blossomed between women in nineteenth-century America. These intense relationships often began at school and were nurtured within the "female world" of the domestic sphere, wherein women were supposed to be the affectionate, sentimental, innocent sex. In adulthood, such relationships could co-exist alongside a woman's conventional male-female courtships and marriage, or they could become her primary commitments. When the women in question lived together, they might be called a "Boston marriage." Whether they were lovers in a physical sense is usually impossible to prove either way, and scholars differ on whether the sexual aspects even matter. Are the erotic possibilities essential or a prurient distraction?
They never lived together, as Henrietta fantasized doing; but Henrietta Child and Alice Bache Gould fit the quintessential profile of romantic friends. They were well educated women of a certain social class who addressed one another with deep love and intimacy. They expressed their feelings for one another in the language of courtship, welcomed physical closeness, and used playful, maternal endearments ("my little girl"). They never married. If anything is surprising to the historian in their letters, it is their timing. Henrietta wrote her letter a decade after the sensationalized trial of Alice Mitchell, who said she murdered her dear friend Freda Ward "because she loved her" and could not be with her. The court and the press accused Mitchell of "unnatural affection," sexual perversion, and insanity. By then, the theories of Richard von Krafft-Ebing and other pioneers of sexology had begun to classify "homosexuality" as a psychiatric disorder. Publicity cast new suspicion on intense same-sex friendships, making unseemly what had no one had objected to before. Yet in early 1900s Cambridge, proper young women could still "indulge" in feelings of love for one another.
Alice's search for fulfillment eventually took her to Simancas, Spain, where she conducted ground-breaking archival research on Columbus' first voyage and worked for the U.S. embassy during World War I. Henrietta ended up on an adventure of her own. In 1911, after her mother's death, she left New England to teach at the Hindman Settlement School in rural Berea, Kentucky. She spent the rest of her life there, as an inspiring storyteller in the local school system.
An increasingly hostile climate and the pressures of family may have kept them from "going off together;" but their loving friendships helped give Henrietta and Alice the strength to pursue meaningful lives, on their own terms.
Feb 11, 2012, 12:20 pm
Susan Raidy-Klein
It's interesting, isn't it, that female friendship such as the proverbial "Boston marriages," flourished in an era of such inhibition and masculine domination. Marget Fuller's letters illustrate a similar ambiguity that opened her to an excessive amount of contemporary and scholarly scrutiny.
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Radiology 101
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- X-ray imaging sends ionized radiation through the body. Dense structures in the body (such as bones) block these particles and appear white in the final image.
- A CT scanner uses X-rays to take cross-section pictures of the inside of the body in "slices."
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses powerful magnets and radio waves to create images.
- Ultrasound uses no ionizing radiation but rather a device called a transducer to send out sound waves that bounce off the organs and tissues and are captured as images. These sound waves are completely harmless.
MRI and ultrasound are safer alternatives to X-rays and CT scans, but are not always the most appropriate tools. St. Louis Children's Hospital has protocols in place to ensure doctors always choose the imaging procedure that uses the least amount of radiation.
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In game one, with the score dead locked at three apiece in the bottom of the sixth, Coker's Amanda Shelton leadoff the inning with a walk, putting the go ahead run on base for the Cobras. After Whitney Watts came on as a pinch runner for
Coker pitcher Somer Bigham (10-4) held off the Bulldogs in the seventh sitting them down in order and preserving the win for the Cobras, 4-3.
Bigham threw seven innings, allowing three runs on nine hits, with 13 strikeouts, while Barton's Claire Severt took the loss going five and a third innings, allowing four runs on seven hits, with nine strikeouts.
Leading the Coker offense was Marie Mascio, going 1-for-4 with two RBIs, while three Barton hitters went 2-for-4; Jenna Gregory, Emily Sale and Christina Gurley, with
Game two, saw Coker pick up right were they left off, scoring a run in the first for an early 1-0 lead. Barton held the Cobras scoreless for the next four innings, until Somer Bigham hit her first home run of the season giving for a 2-0 lead. The Cobras added three more runs in the sixth, as Kimberly Atkinson dropped a three-run bomb on the Bulldogs and secured the Coker victory, 5-0.
Amanda Shelton (8-4) earned the win tossing a complete game shut-out, allowing only three hits, while striking out eight.
Barton's Jessica Mitchell took the loss, going six strong innings, allowing five runs on seven hits with six strike outs.
Offensively for the Cobras, Bigham was 1-for-3 with a home run, an RBI and a run scored, while Atkinson was also 1-for-3 with a homer, three RBIs and a run scored. Marie Mascio finished 2-for-3 with an RBI for Coker as well.
For Barton, Jennifer Chambers, Jenna Gregory and Courtney Bunch each collected one hit.
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25 U.S. Code § 3601 - Findings
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§ 3601.
FindingsThe Congress finds and declares that—
there is a government-to-government relationship between the United States and each Indian tribe;
the United States has a trust responsibility to each tribal government that includes the protection of the sovereignty of each tribal government;
Congress, through statutes, treaties, and the exercise of administrative authorities, has recognized the self-determination, self-reliance, and inherent sovereignty of Indian tribes;
Indian tribes possess the inherent authority to establish their own form of government, including tribal justice systems;
tribal justice systems are an essential part of tribal governments and serve as important forums for ensuring public health and safety and the political integrity of tribal governments;
Congress and the Federal courts have repeatedly recognized tribal justice systems as the appropriate forums for the adjudication of disputes affecting personal and property rights;
traditional tribal justice practices are essential to the maintenance of the culture and identity of Indian tribes and to the goals of this chapter;
tribal justice systems are inadequately funded, and the lack of adequate funding impairs their operation; and
tribal government involvement in and commitment to improving tribal justice systems is essential to the accomplishment of the goals of this chapter.
(Pub. L. 103–176, § 2, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2004.)
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Pub. L. 103–176, § 1, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2004, provided that:
"This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the 'Indian Tribal Justice Act'."
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