Yes Biahi, quite barbaric - but the perpetrators were 'faithful' christians zealous in insisting on obedience to what they saw as commands from Jesus.
Footnote: This was a talk (lecture, if you want) NOT a film.
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European Christian Involvement In Using Mutilation as a Punishment
by fulltimestudent inthis is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.. mutilation as gendered punishment: state violence and sexual transgression in medieval europe - keynote lecture by ruth mazo karras .
ruth karras is a professor of history at trinity college dublin.
her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality.
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European Christian Involvement In Using Mutilation as a Punishment
by fulltimestudent inthis is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.. mutilation as gendered punishment: state violence and sexual transgression in medieval europe - keynote lecture by ruth mazo karras .
ruth karras is a professor of history at trinity college dublin.
her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality.
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This is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.
Mutilation as Gendered Punishment: State Violence and Sexual Transgression in Medieval Europe - Keynote lecture by Ruth Mazo Karras
Ruth Karras is a Professor Of History at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality. Click here to visit Ruth’s university web page or follow her on Twitter @rmkarras
Ruth Karras spoke at at the Women’s History Association of Ireland Annual Conference, University College Dublin, on March 21, 2021
Excerpt: It probably won’t come as news to anyone that mutilation was used as a judicial punishment in various societies across the globe, and it can serve several different purposes. Sometimes it’s just a punishment short of death. Sometimes it’s retributive justice – an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, or the loss of the limb – with which a crime was committed such as chopping off a hand for theft, which can also be a symbolic inscription of the crime on the body. I want to talk today particularly about the use of mutilation as punishment for sexual offenses and particularly those involving same-sex activity in medieval Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PfiRscu8g&t=27s
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Covid / India
by stan livedeath inits been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.
the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..
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This post references PistolPete's first post on this thread, (That's post 4 from the start) with a al jazeera video examining the lack of toilets (both private and public) in India.
That video was posted on YT in 2010. I did back there sometime post quite a lot of information about that situation. It was (and still is) a huge problem. Neither the British Colonial government, nor subsequent Indian government's had ever tried to do anything about.
It was and is a huge health problem, to what extent open defecation plays in the spread of the coid19 has not been analysed (as far as I know) but it likely does. But it is also a safety problem for women in particular, has having to both piss and shit in public, often leads to rape.
So when I saw the al jazeera video that PP posted my curiousity was aroused, because i knew that the Modi government had started a program in 2014 to build toilets for everyone in India ( the Swachh Bharat - Clean India Program) and in 2019 had declared victory - so was it still true that lots of people still had no access to working toilets?
Sadly, it appears that the Modi goverments claims are another kind of SHIT- (i.e. bullshit). The situation is better, but it is still a big problem.
I found this article, published by a media groups named C/net, with the Headline:
India spent $30 billion to fix its broken sanitation. It ended up with more problems
The Swachh Bharat mission, launched in 2014, was an ambitious effort to stop open defecation. It's far from reaching that goal.
and this video, made by a community action group called Video Volunteers* that posts videos on public problems in India>
Link: (the video was posted in 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elEkUFtTrII
* Video Volunteers (VV) is working to create an alternative media landscape in which thousands of people around the world, living in slums and villages, are producing high quality video content that brings awareness to communities and empowers them to take action. - We create models of sustainable, locally owned media, and devise training programs that give communities the journalism, critical thinking and creative skills to run them.
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Covid / India
by stan livedeath inits been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.
the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..
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iXav: i doubt that the situation is as cold-blooded as that. If we need to know that India is class ridden by the caste system.
Quote: (from a BBC article) "The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. Many believe that the groups originated from Brahma, the Hindu God of creation" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616#:~:text=The%20caste%20system%20divides%20Hindus,the%20Hindu%20God%20of%20creation.
and, "The main castes were further divided into about 3,000 castes and 25,000 sub-castes, each based on their specific occupation. - Outside of this Hindu caste system were the achhoots - the Dalits or the untouchables."
So the upper castes think they become unclean if they touch the untouchable and generally are not paticularly interested in any group below their status.
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Covid / India
by stan livedeath inits been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.
the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..
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The Hongkong based Asia Times, now owned by a former New York based financier (who claims to have voted for Trump in 2016) provides fairly unbiased views of contemporary Asia recently published two articles on the Indian Covid debacle:
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https://asiatimes.com/2021/04/indias-super-rich-flee-unimaginable-horror-in-private-jets/
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Covid / India
by stan livedeath inits been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.
the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..
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For the people affected, India must have the worst Corona-Sars-2 epidemic on the globe. The Modi government has badly mishandled the epidemic.
In a country where millions are day labourers, Modi's first lockdown was announced with less than 24 hours notice.
People at work, suddenly found themselves without money, food etc. Hundred's of thousands then had to try and get home (without transport) to their home villages.
This latest plague shows even more clearly the way India is faar behind the rest of Asia,
The latest shortage > Wood to cremate the dead.
Also see this report in Singapore's Straits Times;
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/families-allowed-to-bury-dead-in-their-backyard-with-crematoriums-overwhelmed-by?utm_campaign=stfb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR37z56F98wdcdHe8DR3prgKuXCVnxIs8wdX4iVtsMJC0aSYu7uLqC-c2DM
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The absolute insanity that religion breeds
by LoveUniHateExams inhowever good certain religious principles may or may not be, there seems to be complete insanity that only religion breeds.. a buddhist monk in thailand has apparently chopped off his own head to give himself 'good luck' in the afterlife.. .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9488127/buddhist-monk-chops-head-guillotine-buddha.html.
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How will dyed-in-the-wool christians get their heads around quantum physics???
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The absolute insanity that religion breeds
by LoveUniHateExams inhowever good certain religious principles may or may not be, there seems to be complete insanity that only religion breeds.. a buddhist monk in thailand has apparently chopped off his own head to give himself 'good luck' in the afterlife.. .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9488127/buddhist-monk-chops-head-guillotine-buddha.html.
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From this morning's web grab bag of information (grin).
A strange thing about this illustration is that the woman is portrayed as having 1 lost hand already. Is that meant to imply that this is the second time she's had to grab a man's dik in order to save her husband's life? If so, if I was an elder back then I believe I would have to consider counselling her to find a new husband
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The absolute insanity that religion breeds
by LoveUniHateExams inhowever good certain religious principles may or may not be, there seems to be complete insanity that only religion breeds.. a buddhist monk in thailand has apparently chopped off his own head to give himself 'good luck' in the afterlife.. .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9488127/buddhist-monk-chops-head-guillotine-buddha.html.
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Hmm! Since we are (in this thread) discussing divinities, may I add:
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Social Trends - Male underwear as hot fashion
by fulltimestudent induring australia's lockdowns and other reactions to the batty virus.
i've been spending more time studying my history interests via the internet and its many possibilities.
one area is quite interesting.
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DesirousOfChange: "Are straight guys really all that concerned about underwear fashions these days? Or is this just something trending in the gay community"
Well. DOC. if you want change, then these videos seem to be evidence of change. I have little doubt that they attract Same Sex Attracted Guys, but some of the videos seem to marketing exercises (by the manufacturers) aimed at so called 'str8' guys and their women folk.
It may be evidence of cultural changes in attitudes toward sexuality. Perhaps the attitudes that can be perceived in some Asian areas is filtering through into western nations.