Bungi Bill

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  Japanese torture of American prisoners in WW2 revealed

  by fulltimestudent in

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  this is not a new story.

  the japanese military in ww2 were barbaric in the way they treated captured servicemen.

  i was about ten when my father's best friend came home from a japanese prison camp.

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  Bungi Bill

  unreasonable cruelty is not confined to one particular race or military.

  So very true!

  In the suppressing the Indian Mutiny, Britain carried out numerous atrocities, and not only against the mutineers, either:

  - indiscriminate slaughter of the civilian population also featured prominently in the punitive measures that were handed out.

  All this occurred in the year 1857, well after the "Age of Enlightenment" had taken place, and we of the West had taken to thinking we were a cut above everybody else when it came to humanity and civilisation.

  Bill.
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  Japanese torture of American prisoners in WW2 revealed

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  this is not a new story.

  the japanese military in ww2 were barbaric in the way they treated captured servicemen.

  i was about ten when my father's best friend came home from a japanese prison camp.

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  Bungi Bill

  Your experiences may be different from mine, but I have seen very little in the way of forgiveness. My father in law certainly never did!

  Bill.
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  Japanese torture of American prisoners in WW2 revealed

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  this is not a new story.

  the japanese military in ww2 were barbaric in the way they treated captured servicemen.

  i was about ten when my father's best friend came home from a japanese prison camp.

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  Bungi Bill

  With a grandfather who was a prisoner of the Japanese in Singapore's Changi Prison, and a father in law who (somehow) survived the Burma Railway, none of this comes as any surprise. Yet again more evidence that the human species is a cruel, violent creature!

  Bill.
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  Active posters: What education have you had, what degrees do you possess?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  from so many posts and conversations on here, you'd think over 1/2 the posters here possess doctorates in theology, physics, biology, etc.

  i'm curious aside from the books and research people have done here, what degrees they have.

  to start, i just got an aa and going straight through full time to an mba.

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  Bungi Bill

  Though I think credentials are important and add weight to a person's argument, I also think a well read person with life experience is just as qualified

  The problem I see more and more of is the insistence on formal qualifications ahead of outright practical experience and ability. As an example, in my field, just about every position now stipulates that applicants must have dual qualifications - Electrical and Instrumentation; whereas previously most such positions were filled by persons like myself, i.e. licensed electricians with extensive instrument experience.

  Despite having decades of experience in instrument work (including having managed a NATA registered Calibration Laboratory), someone like myself is now ruled out through not having that magic "Certificate IV" in instrumentation.

  So........ having just completed the Advanced Diploma course in Electrical, the next one is going to have to be (at least) Cert. IV in Instrumentation!

  Bill.

  
  

  
  
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  Active posters: What education have you had, what degrees do you possess?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from so many posts and conversations on here, you'd think over 1/2 the posters here possess doctorates in theology, physics, biology, etc.

  i'm curious aside from the books and research people have done here, what degrees they have.

  to start, i just got an aa and going straight through full time to an mba.

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  Bungi Bill

  I have just completed the Advanced Diploma course in Electrical Engineering, which is about the most a busted-@$$ electrician of over sixty years of age can aspire to do!

  Bill.
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  How do you feel about religion as a whole?

  by FatherFirst in

  1. watchtower
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  it just seems to me religion in general primarily makes truly bad people worse, not genuinly good people better; and in many cases has even made good people do bad things in the name of their religion.

  just curious, a personal poll if you will.

  what are you guys' current views on religion as a whole?

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  Bungi Bill

  How do I feel about religion as a whole?

  I couldn't tell you that, as it is unprintable!

  Bill
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  Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of independent Singapore died this morning, aged 91.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  overview of his life, from china central tv america:.

  http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/03/22/singapores-founding-pm-lee-kuan-yew-dies-at-91.

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  Bungi Bill

  He ran a very tight ship but the streets of Singapore are safe to walk.

  It is almost hard now to credit, but pre-independence, Singapore has a serious gang problem. However, Lee Kuan Yew quickly put a stop to that:

  - admittedly, by using drastic measures deeply disapproved of by Human Rights advocates and such!

  If ever there was a classic example of the "Benevolent Despot", it would have to be Lee Kuan Yew.

  Bill.
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  So, Who Controls Your Mind Now?

  by Night Owl in

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  well?.

  nightowl.

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  Bungi Bill

  Were I to learn that Night Owl is a close cousin to something that lives under a bridge, I would be not at all surprised!

  Bill.
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  Those of you that born in the Borg in the late 60;s and early 70's

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  was life that bad for you?

  we are really sorry...

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  Bungi Bill

  Bung bill:"mad people and of mad times" It was that bad?

  Bloody oath it was!

  PS: Are you hankering for "The Good Old Days" or something"? As the Australian country singer, Tex Morton, once said in one of his songs about the "Good Old Days" (to quote) "I only hope we don't see them again!

  Bill.
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  Those of you that born in the Borg in the late 60;s and early 70's

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  was life that bad for you?

  we are really sorry...

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  Bungi Bill

  Like Bluesbrother, I was a teenager during the late 1960s, and a young adult in the 1970s. My memories from those years are predominantly of mad people and of mad times. Now, I am left with a feeling of just wanting to put as much distance as possible between now and back then!

  Bill.