wow...hard to believe anyone would openly make this kind of comment.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003#slide=989667.
Controversy is always good just before a book release, as there's no such thing as bad press.
He is clearly being inflammatory. Despite all the jokes about private schools in the UK over the decades, I would imagine if this teacher had been outed for playing with little boy's penises in the 1950's he would have had a bleak (and limited) future. And of course what pedo stops at this stage of grooming? I'm sure there were dozens of poor kids who copped worse.
i'm still determined not to vote - just to write something unpleasant about pollies on the ballot paper.
if i lived in victoria, i just may, as an act of sheer bastardry, vote for julian assange (of wikileaks fame), but i don't live in vic, so i cant.. my objection to voting is that the political choice offers two self-perpetuating oligarchies (who are something like the governing body).
they make up a slate of candidates and election advertising consists of attempting to persuade swinging voters to vote for their slate of candidates.. anyway, i noted that k.rudd has made a video in chinese, aimed apparently at mainland china.
It's Labor party not Labour party . Geez....
i'm still determined not to vote - just to write something unpleasant about pollies on the ballot paper.
if i lived in victoria, i just may, as an act of sheer bastardry, vote for julian assange (of wikileaks fame), but i don't live in vic, so i cant.. my objection to voting is that the political choice offers two self-perpetuating oligarchies (who are something like the governing body).
they make up a slate of candidates and election advertising consists of attempting to persuade swinging voters to vote for their slate of candidates.. anyway, i noted that k.rudd has made a video in chinese, aimed apparently at mainland china.
Jeffro covers my opinion.
Funny FTS, you won't vote but you have a clear political stance against KRudd.
one of my specific interests (when i started at university) was the interconnectiveness of the ancient world.
and the more i've learned in the past 6 years, the more i've seen that the ancient euro/asian world was connected.
a network of trading routes and markets exchanged goods and wealth, and along with the traded items went traded ideas and concepts.
While wandering through a museum in Bangkok, I was stunned to see a Roman oil lamp! It was still being used for lighting in a Buddhist temple up to a hundred years ago. It is believed to have been traded along the Silk Road over the centuries.
i was just wondering.
so, what do you look for in a woman?.
lilacs.
Yeah it's funny as I had forgotten so much. Now I thought about it, we had a jw connection. Her mother (when they came to Australia) became a jw! She studied and was close to baptism. Imagine our shock when we finally spoke of this! It's a small world sometimes.
Geez now I want to look her up.
i was just wondering.
so, what do you look for in a woman?.
lilacs.
I went out with a woman who looked like JayLo's lost twin and yes she was rich as well. The funny thing was the reaction of other people. People would stare and whisper, women would throw daggers eyes as their men ogled. Then they would look at me and their faces showed WTF? LOL Well the women did, the men faces were you lucky lucky bastard. When we went out she would wear these massive, flashing diamond earrings she inherited from her grandmother who lived in South America. This just added to the mystic. To answer Diana Netherton, yes I felt intimidated by the attention we got sometimes but never by her sharp intelligence. I'm sure that's why she was attracted to me (not intimidated by her).
have you ever come across words that resonate with you?
it doesn't have to be a great gem of wisdom, just something that is meaningful to you.. please share, and if you want to, tell us why it's meaningful to you.. here is something that made me nod when i first read it.... .
"fortunate are those who have learned to see, in the wild things of nature, something to be loved, something to be wondered at, something to be reverenced, for they have found the key to a never-failing source of recreation and refreshment".
“When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?” This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!"
The great George Carlin.
anyone recall (tried to locate/failed) a very interesting topic within past 6 mos about latest research determining hereditary patterns in individuals but more than the usual that had been determined thru mental/brain studies previously - or something?
sorry, i tried to locate but didn't find.. appreciate.
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Ta LV101!
A quick google search brought this up but it's not the (direct) study that referred to twins and differing life outcomes e.e. one twin having depression and the other no illness but never the less a great read which leads to even more research...
anyone recall (tried to locate/failed) a very interesting topic within past 6 mos about latest research determining hereditary patterns in individuals but more than the usual that had been determined thru mental/brain studies previously - or something?
sorry, i tried to locate but didn't find.. appreciate.
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There was a thread a few weeks ago about the latest research on twins and how they are (obviously) born with the same DNA but as they grew older and their life attitudes became different their genes changed!! The power of the mind. Well that's the assumption, further research required...
said the elder who came to our door this morning.
last time he came we weren't in a position to give him one because we were doing a big cleanup.
today- well, i was in my pyjamas!.
Ha @ Snare. I went surfing at Byron Bay as a teen and never left. Currently old, so will prob die here....
