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February 27 Religion is nothing less than a form of child abuse."I agree with Richard Dawkins that religious instruction and indoctrination of young children is nothing less than child abuse, as he explained in The God Delusion. To tell children that there is a creator god who will guard over them, without giving them the evidence, is nothing less than a lie".
The ‘mixed economy of faith and secular schools in England and Wales is widely accepted and only locally controversial. The legitimacy of the government’s policy is evidenced by recent and repeated new legislation in Parliament, confirming and enhancing the provision of maintained faith schools. The power of religion is something that governments cannot control and the best way for the government (any UK government) to obtain and retain a broad consensus across the innate conflicts between religion and state is to reach a compromise which keeps all of the relevant forces content. That is the essence of social inclusion and modern multiculturalism. For all these reasons, in a multi-faith and no-faith society, the selective funding of faith schools is a legitimate exercise of state power." Curb, Religion in Schools. NUT. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/apr/07/schools.faithschools
"I would say that my children have been, or are bullied, or are being bullied today; as we all stand by and watch"! The religionists let down the majority of our teachers, parents, and children, and also - with the current abuses that they are involuntarily involved in, with an existing endemic "target culture" in our education programme promoted by the UK's Government. Most teachers try their hardest to teach what is very self-evident in 2008 and most will do this to the best of their wonderful caring ability. It is very shocking and extremely embarrassing to most of our teachers that this appalling situation still exists in the UK!
Professor Amartya Sen. Nobel Prize Winner. Power of the Guardians. “Never has so much power been in the hands of so few” An extreme danger coming from the Education Policy in the UK, and where we all waste time (parents and children's education time) and suffer our freedom's for a small minority belief or faith in the UK! RealPlayer: The only way to thwart the Power of Religion in our Schools is from the 'bottom up'. Membership of Secular Organisations; Parents and Children; Teachers to Administration, and so on...
Propaganda, alive and well in Dorset. dorsetforyou.com.
And, "Spiritualism, cultism, complicated and dangerous time wasting ridiculous piffle". http://www.dorsetforyou.com/media/pdf/k/l/yllabus_1.pdf
"In time, it is true, experience teaches him that magic formulas and ceremonial gestures do not give him what he wants. But until experience has taught him - and he takes a surprisingly long time to learn - man’s behaviour is in many respects far sillier than that of the animal". Huxley.
Not only just that see, above. "Religion should be taught and examined in the same way as science is; after being examined by the children and their class and being commensurate with their development (Sigmund Freud) - it should be allocated the very short amount of time that the class thinks that it deserves and then to proceed on to the subject of Philosophy".
"The truths contained in religious doctrines are after all so distorted and systematically disguised," writes Sigmund Freud, "that the mass of humanity cannot recognize them as truth. The case is similar to what happens when we tell a child that new born babies are brought by the stork. Here, too, we are telling truth in symbolic clothing, for we know what a large bird signifies. But the child does not know it. He hears only the distorted part of what we say, and feels that he has been deceived; and we know how often his distrust of the grown-ups and his refractoriness actually take their start from this impression. We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level".
"When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt". Robert Pirsig.
Philosophy (it lies somewhere between religion and science)
"It deals with assumptions on which a great many normal and everyday beliefs rest. These assumptions when examined critically often turn out to be insecure, and sometimes: nonsensical. People do not like having their assumptions and beliefs examined, it irritates them". Ref, 'Lecture on Philosophy' AW.
It is now 2008!
Come on, grow up world! (Suggestion for lunch time Grace - if there has to be one, "For what we are about to receive may we be very thankful". The days of some obscure (being) Lord, and, at last, are over now for any public authority to indoctrinate to children. They will just have to catch up with life in 2008 and not rely on an outdated census (2001) or its misinterpretation for their power trip and propaganda purposes! At home, and, of course, this would be a very different and a totally individual private matter.
The Law, Schools and Local Authorities that should be acting within the 'spirit' of the law to set an example for all. Especially our children!
The Equality Act 2006. Part 2: Discrimination on Grounds of Religion or Belief. Guidance for Schools.
"Religion" will include for example all the major faith groups and "belief" will include non-religious worldviews such as humanism.
"Lack of religion or belief is also included in the definition of "religion and belief". This means that it will be unlawful to discriminate against someone on the grounds that they do not adhere or sufficiently adhere to a particular religion or belief (even one shared by the discriminator), or indeed any religion or belief at all - such as, for example an atheist".
I hope that in all our Schools this is being adhered to, but I don't think behind the 'closed doors' of the schools that I know of that this is very true! For all the propaganda of moralizing, and in the proselytising of myths and virtuousness; they are no better than behaving in an appalling charlatan-istic manner.
In my experience, limited as it is: just ask the children!
Evidence - from the words of 5 to 8 year old's. Ref, Education in the UK 2008.
"You can't be a member of my class unless you believe in God and Jesus." A Threat of Exclusion. Freedom of Thought and Religion.
"The Lords Prayer is repeated so much that it rings in my head". Brainwashing and Freedom of Thought.
Everyday, a repetitive and same format, for the lunch time religious Grace. The Carrot and Stick Format i.e., don't say it, you are then not thankful to a particular God or being. Therefore, you don't deserve the food, and so on...so on...a degradation of your Human Rights as a Child?
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Treat The Earth Well http://kids.direct.gov.uk/main.aspx?firstObject=parents_area You Can Think And Believe What You Want. It is your Right!
And, SIB + Poole General Hospital - Children and Young Adults Self-Harming
February 24 BBC Radio 4. Archive Hour.Putting It SimplySaturday 23 February 2008 20:00-21:00 (Radio 4 FM) Kathy Sykes charts the way that science has been seen and heard on radio and television, from the postwar lectures on the Third Programme to the animation of Walking with Dinosaurs. "Understanding science in the UK is now part of our culture". February 23 BBC2. Later...with Jools HollandFri 22 Feb, 11:35 pm - 12:35 am 60minsWebsite: http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/ Jools Holland presents a mixture of live music. Featuring Alicia Keys, We Are Scientists, Steve Earle and Alison Moorer, Nigerian singer Asa and Martina Topley Bird. [S] Duffy replaces Alicia Keys: stunning performance. Wow! The kind of line up you just wouldn't get anywhere else! February 20 Bridgend mass suicides. Wales. UK. Children and Vulnerable Adults Self-Harming.Chat rooms - networking, 'change our brains' - for the better? Something, may be, an awful lot better than nothing!http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!2959.entry
Not, belief in the irrational? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8180115.stm
Latest - 'sexting' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8043490.stm 'artificially magnified emotional embarrassment and shock in some adolescents and the vulnerable'
Updated - at the end, or :- 'How Bridgend was damned by distortion' http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/01/bridgend-wales-youth-suicide-media-ethics
Young People http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3578980.ece
(Much more work to do on this! Notes: - Mind mapping - the knowledge of our Universe and our 'biological place in it' + 'personal coincidences' - the relationship to all the nonsense that is taught at schools about 'spirituality' and its relationship to chance events. Mostly, relating to our 'ordinary' everyday social life. The 'ordinary common sense knowledge' that has been thwarted or complicated - 'befogged', for our young by an 'human 'endemic disease' or 'madness' in the UK - with the: prevalence, and privilege, of Faith and Church Schools: with their own 'particular and quite unfathomable aims' - self-downing and depression (everyday and 'normal' sadness's) . Note, an MP, "Urges people not to go 'online' to discover facts, but rely on the (so-called) experts and their opinions, as to what has gone wrong" - The (hysterical) Popular Press - The (populist) Mental Health Messiahs (quackery). Anyone can tell them, surely that - 'The Proper (Scientific) Structuralized View of the World' - or any form of a 'structural world-view is missing', muddled and befogged, by all the educational 'experts' with their 'psycho-babble' and (law) consultants and most of the 'counsellors' - weak-spot, caused by some form of educational - nurturing - deficiency, ref, causing a 'bubble' - 'lemming type - effect')"Teaching is a vocation and not a profession. The child was not invented for educational systems (tests), but educational systems invented for the child. If you would encourage the pupil to increased growth by your knowledge, you must both love it and know it well, and your pupils will love both the knowledge and yourself, and you will benefit them. But if you yourself do not love it, then, no matter by what means you force them to learn, your knowledge will have no educative influence at all". Tolstoy - 'Education and Culture'.Sounds like BBC website; search "Religion in Schools. UK. REBT and Disconnection". See, links, "Poole General Hospital " Children and Self-Harming" "Irrational beliefs are at the core of emotional disturbance". Article removed 1/15/09 a copy is to be found on this blog, but this may do @ http://www.thesite.org/community/reallife/rants/nofaithnomorals and http://selfharm.atticmedia.com/Article.aspa?PageId=255&NodeId=249
Search, Google - Schools Bridgend Wales and check out their Ethos's. So on..., but I'm not an expert and I have not spent any time on this in Wales. I am far too busy, but trying hard to unscramble the propaganda that is in the brains of my own children and we live in Dorset. And, Ref... http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Self-injury,+sexual+self-concept,+and+a+conservative+Christian...-a0178218780
One parent or teacher and there are many of those on this particular subject is going to be worth more than 10,000 (nine to five, highly paid by us) civil servants or the so called experts!
Of course, you won't find anything wrong in Wales or Dorset! Depressed children (worst) in Britain http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7363332.stm
Toxic Family Breakdown in UK http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7303003.stm
September 11th 2001. Something has been revealed to us, but what?
Smacking, Beating, and Drugging, Children. Private Schools and Sexual Abuse. Church Schools, Faith Schools, Childcare Institutions. UK.
http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!726.entry
'The Making Of Them' Nick Duffell (Starvation with Kaolin and Morphine) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jRNVLgfJHKkC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=Preparatory+School.+Kaolin+and+Morphine.&source=bl&ots=tVpRMR9mQj&sig=mqIWTBRqnfzXcvj7xq_sHXLv_KY&hl=en&ei=zffaSZeIM4GUjAf52YG-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Very difficult to remember, only the blank and comforting moments! Hundreds of girls heavily sedated in UK care homes during the 1970s and 1980s may be at risk of having children with birth defects, the BBC has found. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7985912.stm What else went on? In the name of something or other - the mind boggles! http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A19693867 and My First Mind Map https://www.mindmeister.com/13207398
Why? Average age 19 approx, one as old as 26 and the youngest 15. Formative years 3 to 6 years old, some say, very much younger. Go to the social conditions in that area. Bridgend, or any other area, for that matter, and the social and economic changes happening now or in the past. Ref, Robert Fisk, Reporter; what can cause the most upset to a community; Historian, Neil Ferguson, plus, the many other experts in this particular field. "Eventually, my rejection of authority spilled into self self-indulgence and self-destructiveness, and by the time I enrolled in College, I'd begun to see how any challenge to convention harbored within it the possibility of its own excesses and its own orthodoxy". Barack Obama 'The Audacity of Hope'. (poss, 'the stronger the orthodoxy, the stronger the rebellion')
The UK and USA connection, as bravely said, and so very true. Mediocrity. Both our nations have become cowardly, "Nations of Tutters" (the tut-tuters). Ref, The Sun Newspaper. UK. Jane Moore, "76-year old former soldier Richard Fitzmaurice is led away in handcuffs for non-payment of council tax". British people actually stood by and watched this episode at Kings Lynn Magistrates Court. The authorities can be excused, of course: as they did with the 17-year old Iraqi girl being stoned to death for half an hour because she liked a boy from another religion, or in the parks in Germany pre-World War 2 where British aristocracy, and 'others', walked past whilst serious atrocities, in full view of everyone were taking place!
"On the one hand you have the current media driven agenda of lawless youths and ASBO culture. If you believe the millionaire press you would expect every ‘hoodie’ you meet to be tooled up just waiting for the next drive-by! Of course the reality is very different. Over 10 years of a ‘New’ Labour Government, driven in my view by the same commercial interests as in the US, has evidently offered nothing for young people. Ambition has been completely driven out of the disenfranchised youth from an early age and you have to seriously question where all this could lead. What if those unfortunate young people in Bridgend, sadly lost in very tragic circumstances, had access to cheap weaponry at the local supermarkets? In both the UK and the US, conditions determine consciousness. Until we see a fundamental change in a society that allows extreme poverty on the one side and obscene wealth on the other we will see an escalation and deepening of the social crisis that the class divide permits. Gradual slow change to address it has failed".
(Interesting - severe prolonged stress (childhood 'abuse' a UK's government policy of the 'working (single) mother' [labour of mother and ethos for a 'socialist labour child' for the future] - the 'child to nursery policy' and the government's child poverty - inaction and low support level: well below the poverty line (UK). Low Cortisol levels caused by prolonged high levels of 'high stress' Cortisol in childhood - leading to many problems later in life). Ref, 'The Story of Childhood: Growing Up In Modern Britain' 2006.
Sovereign Funds or the 'equivalents': http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=429714&in_page_id=3
Talking now about - early 1990's approx. The start of socially accepted spin doctoring; the fascination with educational psycho babble; misinterpreted and uncertainty on the type of punishment that schools or parents should give to unruly children; often being a harsher and badly thought out psychological one that does avoid the shorter and easily applied measured corporal one. Not that I agree with corporal punishment, but that it may be and so much better, than a badly applied and the longer lasting psychological one.
Of course the Education Policy and School Ethos, prevalent at that particular time, and now, and to some degree; a propagandist psychological (it does not have to be scientific or anyway true for men to believe in the popular propaganda of the time) overbearing misinterpreted indoctrinational approach for spiritual and religious emotional conviction, or even its fervor and purpose: in the many religious 'matters' or dogmas. Then this all given to a captive and vulnerable audience, which is bullied, as my children were in 2004-5. Letting this get into all subjects other than RE and the School Assembly is sometimes bad enough, but it has somehow become fixed statutorily! Causing, an all encompassing suicidal sadness with the their lives and a much greater sadness with the overall state of the world, now, or at some future date; undermining the child's or vulnerable adults real or factual sense of any possible future reality in their lives. Part of that, could be, the fact they have been lied to by highly respected peers or some very respected authority, notably the educational psychologists who should know better than to let this happen. A tipping point to suicide in any child's or any adults life. Ref, Religion in Schools REBT and Disconnection.
In the 1950's and 1960's. Religion or the sub-culture term, spirituality, and the very suspect, sophistical / philodoxical virtuousness of it. It was not, psychologically produced propaganda, it was just told to you! You could pick it up, put it down, or even: leave it out. There wasn't the ghastly spin doctor in our nanny state propaganda machine within our government, causing a terrible harm to our individuality with the mach of Utopian totalitarianism! See, School Inspections, School Inspectorate + nonsense - spirituality. Ofsted http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/ Ref, "the fight for the minds of our children". The power of parents and the power of the State. Parents hopefully are winning at this game in the UK, with a majority being secular and science becoming more and more as an integral part of our own culture. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16312-shocking-study-reveals-people-still-willing-to-torture.html
Ref, 'Evil and Ideology' : 'Power of the Sub-group' (quite irresistible and by all people, 'no way out' - happens, when socially confined into the room/indoctrination area, religious place, center or chamber, of the sub-group; a 1960's group torture - within a group psychological experiment) Abu Qatada http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459773.stm - very familiar and terrifying combination, with a massively destructive force that is in all our human behaviour and has no specific cure (possibly, a special drug ..., or an equivalent: an instant cure). Excepting for mass education, not indoctrination, as in the UK, and many to a particular sectarian sub-group - and that education of the 'correct type' - we find this: a quite impossible task to achieve or for many of us to fully contemplate, it is a project that is far too 'long in term' and we all are, on mass : very short term - selfish, comfort seeking creatures (members of our own irrational sub-group) - so all the horrors and tragedies will continue. 'Barbara Ward' who was an advisor/mentor to Presidents and Prime Ministers, 'The overgrown ape with only a vicinal fossilised intelligence', so on...Desmond Morris 'The Naked Ape'. Scientists point of view is 'The species that we belong to, and often forget, called Homo sapien', so on... Sir David Attenborough 'Man's Biblical dominion or domination over the Earth is a dangerous fallacy', so on... And, "There is no right 'to not be' offended"! Ref, Stanley Milgram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
"Human misery is so great and so widespread that one of the principal functions of religion has been that of consolation, and one of the most typical religious doctrines is that of future compensatory states". Ref, Huxley. "Social and Political Propaganda" - 'The Artistic Substitute'. Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide. In thy most need to go by thy side.
Sigmund Freud is a bit outdated, but he feels pretty good to me - today!
"The truths contained in religious doctrines are after all so distorted and systematically disguised," writes Sigmund Freud, "that the mass of humanity cannot recognize them as truth. The case is similar to what happens when we tell a child that new born babies are brought by the stork. Here, too, we are telling truth in symbolic clothing, for we know what a large bird signifies. But the child does not know it. He hears only the distorted part of what we say, and feels that he has been deceived; and we know how often his distrust of the grown-ups and his refractoriness actually take their start from this impression. We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level".
Police say, "The Children all had 'big issues' to deal with". First comes to mind sex and it's orientation. Secondly something to do with the above, were they told a pack of nonsense in their formative years (just like my captive children have been by 'authority', and which, as a loving parent, I have had to unscramble, "You can't be a member of my Class unless you believe in God and Jesus" at 4 and 5 years old. The teachers doing this have now left the School). Have they been trained and taught enough in 'positive individuality awareness'. The power of the sub-group, 1960's experiment in group behaviour - the one that ups unwittingly the degrees of torture. The experiment is not PC today to carry out, as it is so real. Actors play the part of the sub-group and there is one who is not acting, the one not acting is led astray easily by the others. All children could be made 'very realistically' aware of this important experiment.
Or, is it, "We are so bored out of our brains in Bridgend that this (a, or many, suicides by hanging) gives us some excitement in life, everything (entertainment) has been made for us". A sixteen year old boy's interview in Bridgend. Wales. Ref, sadness and boredom. PC of Authority; Risk Liability and Assessment; the popular media. 'Boredom of the Dependant Mind', Martin Amis 'The Second Plane'.
Nihilism. To say that all the children were nihilistic, is the now, the 'topical religionists cranky whinge' or an the effort to degrade secularism for hankering (wishing) to some form of backtracking to a mass past national medieval-ism that was within the mythical golden ages of the era of pre-enlightenment Britain. This is quite a potty idea, but does find great favour amongst the modern Luddites, who are by their rejection of modern technology, such as, the easy access to knowledge and communication systems that show up the faults with their belief systems. They are often sexless, lonely, and frightened people themselves; who are reliant on gaining evangelical points in the game of selling myth and superstition to a captive and vulnerable audience, such as our children, and doing this all with an overwhelming authority - dressing up in powerfully (frightening to some) outlandish clothing. Points can then be gained for their entry into the wonderful after-life by good works, the after life for the suicide victims will be (publicly denied - some of the graphic paintings that demonstrate this to their more visually gullible audience) denied. These people, therefore, believe themselves to be on the same route, but do in their imagination get there a little slower. We are all on some route or other, but the best thing to believe in, and have great faith in, is that 'there is nothing at all at the end of it', so we had better jolly well make the best of it now and look after planet Earth and ourselves for the future generations: of hopefully, some very sensible people.
Seriously annoy your school with the suggestion, I did, and for some of the Teachers go on a Philosophy Course: strongly rejected at our school, except by one or two of the parents backing me up, they knew or had a feeling of a popular endemic ignorance! Blaming the external machinery such as Bebo, Face Book, Myspace, and Cults, of one sort or another is not an option, it may be a catalyst, but that is where Education Policy should be effective. If there is a co-ordinated Education Policy, which is put about presently by the "Department for Education, Children and Families" or whatever organisation is next thought up: it cannot use the children as pawns individually and on mass, in the bullying 'environment of competitive education policy'. It also cannot use parents as pawns in the insidious bullying game of competing with one another for School Admissions, or to encourage them to engage in any other ghastly form of tyrannical behaviour. Schools are competing against one another and spurred on by very narrow government inspections.
Margaret Singer Ph.D. "Six Conditions for Thought Reform" "Keep the person unaware of what is going on and how she or he is being changed a step at a time. Potential new members are led, step by step, through a behavioural-change program without being aware of the final agenda or full content of the group. The goal may be to make them deployable agents for the leadership, to get them to buy more courses, or get them to make a deeper commitment, depending on the leader's aim and desires. Control the person's social and/or physical environment; especially control the person's time. Through various methods, newer members are kept busy and led to think about the group and its content during as much of their waking time as possible. Systematically create a sense of powerlessness in the person. This is accomplished by getting members away from the normal social support group for a period of time and into an environment where the majority of people are already group members. The members serve as models of the attitudes and behaviours of the group and speak an in-group language. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments and experiences in such a way as to inhibit behaviour that reflects the person's former social identity. Manipulation of experiences can be accomplished through various methods of trance induction, including leaders using such techniques as paced speaking patterns, guided imagery, chanting, long prayer sessions or lectures, and lengthy meditation sessions. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments, and experiences in order to promote learning the group's ideology or belief system and group-approved behaviours. Good behaviour, demonstrating an understanding and acceptance of the group's beliefs, and compliance are rewarded while questioning, expressing doubts or criticizing are met with disapproval, redress and possible rejection. If one expresses a question, he or she is made to feel that there is something inherently wrong with them to be questioning. Put forth a closed system of logic and an authoritarian structure that permits no feedback and refuses to be modified except by leadership approval or executive order. The group has a top-down, pyramid structure. The leaders must have verbal ways of never losing. Ref, Stanley Milgram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment (all their policies and ethos-es can be seen as worse than any "happy-slapping" or the "happy-slappers" that a very few kids maybe involved in - many more deaths could be the result)
Bridgend has two schools, competing strongly with one another. What was this like in the late 80's early 90's and what is it like today? How did it effect the children and were they used as 'captive little pawns by those authoritative (authorised) bullies'. I.e. Churches and Religions, State and Private Schools, and so on... The reality of this is fully apparent in my area and to firstly use children in this juvenile game of the adult world, not fully realizing its consequences and in the name of education is appalling. Secondly, to involve the parents in this easily rectified mess is none other than totally very wicked, but maybe, it this is all we have to accept and as parents we will have to waste our time to get around these things, when we are paying so much to other people to get on and sort it all out!
Philosophy - it lies somewhere between religion and science.
And
"It deals with assumptions on which a great many normal and everyday beliefs rest. These assumptions when examined critically often turn out to be insecure, and sometimes: nonsensical. People do not like having their assumptions and beliefs examined, it irritates them". Ref, 'Lecture on Philosophy' AW. And,
And,
Matthew Lipman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Transformers - Socrates for Six Year Olds | Teachers' TVhttp://www.teachers.tv/video/19027 Socrates for self-confidence!
School for Discovery http://howardgardnerschool.com/home.html
"So what is the key to self-confidence? Do not be swayed by the opinions of others. Do not be a sheep; do not believe the one in front knows what they are doing and do not be horrified at the thought of breaking free from the group. Alain goes on to offer Socrates' five-step process to developing your own self-beliefs. To finally break free from the flock, Socrates compares great thinking to making pots: If you succeed in following the rules of confidence, just like a good pot, your beliefs will be trustworthy and watertight". Also Plato - History for Kids!I do notice that the School Prospectus for our school, and its very advanced ethos, has recently been changed to a more traditional one. This, of course, would be backward thinking!
On Education: A Critique Of Pure ReasonInteresting!
And, of course, SEX! Which some religionists, and some parents, try to hide from at our schools and in our homes.
Take the Sex Test.
I got 30 out of 45, which is pretty bad. (Educated in the 1950's and 60's)
In Britain we are near the bottom of the 'league table' in the modern industrialised societies for 'childhood well-being' and the amount of (unwanted) teenage pregnancies. What an appalling indictment and I do wonder why? This is not something we should be proud of!
I hope that our "School" is doing a 'bit more' (National Guidelines - obviously - quite inadequate) for the education of our children, even at a young age, and are we 'laying in the groundwork' for their complete healthy, kind, and respectful future enlightenment. Our government does seem very cowardly compared to the many other countries in this area!
http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/L/lifestuff/content/up_close/letstalksex/index.html Misdirected censorship in schools that are frightened by being accused of smuttiness or worse, by the smuttiness that sells some of our newspapers in the popular media, is something in the UK that we will all have to grow out of. Censorship is the cause of smuttiness, in the past inhibited, combined with an uneducated population who are ignorant, and sometimes, very frightened of their own natural sexual behaviour. I have the feeling, the only party in government able to handle this situation is the 'New' Labour Party for all its misgivings, so we will have to work with what we have got. It has brought us the Equality Act and many other social reforms, which I doubt any other party would have had the guts to do! The other parties seem to have a problem in their young leaders. They may not be able to take on the experience of a party that has enjoyed such a lengthy time in power. "You must have seen how youngsters, when they get their first taste of it, treat argument as a form of sport solely for the purpose of contradiction. When someone has proved them wrong, they copy his methods to confute others, delighting like puppies in tugging and tearing at anyone who comes near them. And so, after a long course of proving others wrong and being proved wrong themselves, they rush to the conclusion that all they once believed is false; and the result is that in the eyes of the world they discredit, not themselves only, but the whole business of philosophy. An older man will not share this craze for making sport of contradiction. He will prefer to take for his model the conversation of one who is bent on seeking truth, and his own reasonableness will bring credit on the pursuit". Plato. Below. Ref, 'Sadness' and 'Indoctrinating Gullibility' at a young age. The best way of making a fast buck is to start a 'cult' or 'religious school' in the UK) Demand grows for Biblical teachingMay 24 2005 Rhodri Clark, Western Mail PARENTS eager for their children to receive a moral grounding are fuelling growth in US-style Christian schools that teach creationism. Research shows teenagers in independent Christian schools in Wales and England feel better about life and are more likely to condemn under-age sex than those in state secondary schools. But the research by the University of Wales, Bangor, also shows such pupils are less happy in school than comprehensive school students. There are 14 independent Christian schools in Wales and demand for places is growing as parents fear ordinary schools are turning their backs on Christianity. A spokesman for Christian Education Europe, which provides the curriculum for schools in Bridgend, Crosskeys and Mold, said, "There certainly has been growth in demand in the last few years (in Britain)." He said fees per pupil ranged from £2,500 to £5,000 a year. The schools teach curriculum's where many subjects are imported from the US. Everything is related to the Bible, including the theory God created the world in six days. Professor Leslie Francis, director of the Welsh National Centre of Religious Education, organised the survey. He analysed answers by boys aged 13 to 15 of whom 136 were in independent Christian schools and 12,823 in non-denominational state schools. He said the Christian-school pupils held more positive attitudes towards the Church, and were less likely to believe in superstitions such as horoscopes. "Pupils attending the Christian schools are more likely to be protected from boys who hold liberal attitudes toward alcohol, tobacco and sex," he said. "They are less likely to be troubled by bullying and more likely to respect their teachers. They are much more likely to feel good about life and about themselves. "Many Christian parents may feel that this is precisely what they are purchasing for their 13 to 15-year-old boys when they elect to send them to an independent Christian school." But he warned of "clear challenges" for the Christian schools movement and boys educated in it. "What happens when school life is over and these pupils are released from their highly specialised environment into the wider world of tertiary education and work?" he asked. "How well will they have been equipped to handle the dialogue between the faith in which they have been educated and the values environment of their secular host society?" Lisa Hearne, acting head teacher at Carmarthen Christian School, said pupils were equipped to deal with life's problems by referring to the Bible. "We want the children to be so grounded in how to make the right choices that when they leave school they will be able to think Biblically," she said. Her school opened in September 2003 and saw pupil numbers more than double for its second year. She said it was not difficult to teach science according to the creation theory, and the Bible showed human beings and dinosaurs had been around at the same time. Welsh scientist Sir John Maddox of the Sense About Science campaign, said he would be concerned if more young people were being taught creationism. "It's scandalous that grown-up people should tell kids a pack of lies like this," said Sir John from Swansea, who once edited Nature magazine. He said the Christian schools could divert young people from scientific careers. "There's a certain amount of hostility to science as things are, without the intervention of these religious schools." Northern Ireland - The most recent death was Friday night. However, a local clergyman said he did not believe such a pact existed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6761965.stm See, Admiration (in my photo album) - Celebrity Worship. BBC Education and Celebrity Worship. Website bullying suicide http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7471412.stm 24/6/2008 Attitudes - Wales - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7514423.stm
The Promised Land. The Poison Of Holiness. Sadness.
(Ref, The Self Harm Of Our Children (1in10!) Irrational Beliefs - Depression and Sadness, Meme(tic) Transmutation)
"However, my job demanded that I live in Jerusalem, and thus to suffer those periodic bouts of depression to which its citizens seemed to be prone - I called it the Jerusalem Sadness: Jerusalem Sadness is a local disease, like Baghdad Boils, due to the combined effect of the tragic beauty and inhuman atmosphere of the city. It is the haughty, desolate beauty of a walled-in mountain fortress in the desert. The angry face of Yahveh is brooding over the hot rocks, which have seen more holy murder, rape and plunder than any other place on this earth. Its inhabitants are poisoned by holiness. Josephus Flavius, who was a priest in the city and suffered from Jerusalem Sadness, has this strange phrase: "The union of what is divine and what is mortal is disagreeable." The population of the city is a mosaic; but every portion of it is disagreeable. Perhaps the most disagreeable are the clergy, Muslim, Christian and Jewish alike. The Muslim clergy in my time used to call on the average twice a year for a holy blood bath. A peaceful Arab landlord would joke with the family of his Jewish tenants some Friday morning during the Ramadan, go to the Mosque, listen to the Imam, run home and slaughter tenant, wife and children with a kitchen knife. The Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian and other Christian clergy would come to blows over such questions as to "whether the Greeks had a right to place a ladder on the floor of the Armenian chapel for the purpose of cleaning the upper part of the chapel above the cornice in the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem"; and "whether the Greeks must attach their curtain tight or in natural folds to the lower Nail No.2 at the foot of the pillar which lies south-east of the left-hand set of steps leading to the manger" (both examples are authentic, and I may add to them the regulation "that the Latins should have their curtain fall naturally down the same pillar, leaving a space of sixteen centimetres between it and that of the Greek Orthodox").
The Jewish clergy was engaged in feuds with the Muslims about rights of way to the Wailing Wall, and among themselves about the correct method of ritual slaughter; they also encouraged their orthodox disciples to protect the sanctity of the Sabbath by beating up the godless who smoked cigarettes in the streets and by throwing bricks at passing motor cars. The political atmosphere was just as poisoned. The Husseini clan murdered members of the Nashashibi clan; during the riot season they both murdered Jews; the Jewish Parties hated each other, the British, and the Arabs, in that order; the British sahibs, here called hawadjas, behaved as British sahibs used to do. There were no cafes or night clubs, no cocktail parties, and no night-life of any kind in Jerusalem. People kept to themselves, their church, clan or party. It was an austere, pharisaic town, full of hatred, distrust and phoney relics. I lived at No. 29, Street of the Prophets, at five minutes distance from the Via Dolorosa, another five from the Mosque of Omar where for a shilling you are shown the Archangel Gabriel's footprints on the rock. I have never lived at such close quarters with divinity, and never farther removed from it. The whole unholy history of the city, from David to Herod, from Pilate to the Crusaders, from Titus to Glubb, is an illustration of the destructive power of faith, and the resulting unpleasantness of the union of the mortal and the divine. It is this awareness of defeat, driven home by the haughty silence of the desert, of dry watercourse and arid rock, which causes the Jerusalem Sadness. Sadness apart, I grew increasingly tired of Palestine. Zionism in 1929 had come to a standstill. Immigration had been reduced to a mere trickle. Nazism, which was to turn it into a flood, was still a monster being hatched in the womb of the future. I had gone to Palestine as a young enthusiast, driven by a romantic impulse. Instead of Utopia, I had found an extremely complex reality which both attracted and repelled me, but where the repellent effect, for a simple reason, gradually gained the upper hand. The reason was the Hebrew language. It was a petrified language which had been abandoned by the Jews long before the Christian era-in the days of Christ, they spoke Aramaic - and had now been revived by a tour de force. By making Hebrew its official language, the small Jewish community of Palestine seemed to have turned its back on Western civilisation. I felt that to undergo the same process would be spiritual suicide. I was a romantic fool, in love with unreason; but I knew that in a Hebrew-language environment I would always remain a stranger; and at the same time gradually lose touch with European culture. I had left Europe at the age of twenty. Now I was twentythree and had had my fill of both Arab romantics and Jewish mystique. I was longing for Europe, thirsting for Europe, pining for Europe. *Arrow in the Blue, ch. xxii. I asked the Ullsteins for a transfer, and had the good luck to be assigned to Paris. In subsequent years my interest in Zionism faded; it was reawakened, with a vengeance, thirteen years later, when the gas chambers went into action". I will not cease from Mental Flight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem, In England's green & pleasant Land. Joseph Rowntree Foundation http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/0375.asp Multicultural (govt- quangos, spin-word) or the 'inclusive' Multiracialism - you choose! Ref, Martin Amis 'The Second Plane'.
Condemnation of Children in Britain http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7732290.stm 23/11/08 Chilling! Ghetto - United Kingdom ('warnings of the past' and 'social conditions of ghetto creation', mainly in other countries, go unheeded by authority - planning and control) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto 23/11/08 Gangs getting 'more violent' http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx?cp-documentid=12077260 20/12/2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2000/oct/15/schools.features/print 'We live in a country of prudery and pornography,' says Jo Adams. 'We are struggling with a tabloid culture. The very people who are really trying to develop a strategy for helping young people are peddled as the people who are irresponsible, and who are blamed for adolescent behaviour. Why should we expect young people to be responsible, when they've got us as role models? Sex isn't scandalous or dirty. Take it out from behind the bike sheds. Take it out from under the proscriptions of religious leaders.' Warning over children's mental health http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7810902.stm 5/01/2008 De-mystifying sex http://picasaweb.google.com/mdanielmorgan/LondonEngland2007#5062708558853340818 From the 'British Natural History Museum' Reproduction (for the 'smut-hounds' and 'taking the smut out of sex') Selfish adults 'damage childhood' From Blog 2/2/09The aggressive pursuit of personal success by adults is now the greatest threat to British children, a major independent report on childhood says.
Damage to children, and the vulnerable, by (parents) 'irrational beliefs': Church Schools and Faith Schools - UK.
Wonderful! David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before?
David starts his journey in Darwin's home at Down House in Kent, where Darwin worried and puzzled over the origins of life. David goes back to his roots in Leicestershire, where he hunted for fossils as a child, and where another schoolboy unearthed a significant find in the 1950s. And he revisits Cambridge University, where both he and Darwin studied, and where many years later the DNA double helix was discovered, providing the foundations for genetics. At the end of his journey in the Natural History Museum in London, David concludes that Darwin's great insight revolutionised the way in which we see the world. We now understand why there are so many different species, and why they are distributed in the way they are. But above all, Darwin has shown us that we are not set apart from the natural world, and do not have dominion over it. We are subject to its laws and processes, as are all other animals on earth to which, indeed, we are related. Uganda Humanist Schools Trusthttp://www.ugandahumanistschoolstrust.org/ Ref, Church Schools and Faith Schools UK - Learning a palatable school 'Ethos' from Africa.
Amsterdam Declaration 2002 http://www.iheu.org/amsterdamdeclaration
Chat rooms - networking 'change our brains'
February 19 BBC4 on BBC2 The Dodo's Guide to Surviving ExtinctionMon 18 Feb, 11:20 pm - 12:20 am 60mins
BBC FOUR on BBC TWO. Documentary looking at the different causes of species extinction and whether mankind is solely responsible for the current crisis of decreasing animal species. [S] 'The Sixth Extinction' Richard Leakey. "I believe we face a crisis - one of our own making - and if we fail to negotiate it with vision, we will lay a curse of unimaginable magnitude on future generations"
The horror has yet to arrive in some parts of our World. 150 species go into extinction every day and we are living in a time when 99% of life that has ever existed has become extinct: we are the 1%. When it arrives in our backyard all our imaginings and bickering's will be even more worthless than they have always been. We will be back in our natural and primitive state, fighting for daily survival and against all the odds.
Unless, you believe in God and Heaven - the chances of this being real are zilch! Our 'know all schools', some 'know all' teachers, and 'know all' government, in the UK; persists in wasting our children's time with utter nonsense - when they should be learning how to help (out) in the current Crisis, to survive it; and learning about the many other useful and important subjects that are neglected. Those subjects, being a thousand times more exciting than the learning of 'dangerous primitive nonsense' i.e., the learning about; primitive speculations of barbaric ancient cultures as a reality within our 'present' world. And, of course, you must have a belief in the latest form of accepted myth, superstition, putrid and charlatistic - charlatanry of school ethos - ethos-es or ethos's (polytheistic, sophistical and sophistry, philodoxical, forced virtu {virtuousity - check, Aldous Huxley. moral, moralist} - collective or group mentality, when we all should be concentrating on individuality), ism, and nationhood (native modesty and a quiet nationality) - not nationalism. All of which has been banded about as some cure. Ref, medicine men.
Otherwise, you will be excluded!
Ref, Google "School Ethos" captive and vulnerable children.
Adults.
"To have a society of labourers, it is of course not necessary that every member actually be a labourer or worker, not even emancipation of the working class and its enormous potential power, which majority rule accords to is decisive here, but only that all members consider whatever they do primarily as a way to sustain their own lives and those of their families". Hannah Arendt 'The Human Condition'.
Most Religions.
A Trip To India 1926"Being stupid and having no imagination, animals often behave far more sensibly than men. Efficiently, and by instinct, they do the right appropriate thing at the right moment - eat when they are hungry, look for water when they feel thirst, make love in the mating season, rest or play when they have leisure. Men are intelligent and imaginative; they look backwards and ahead; they invent ingenious explanation for observed phenomena; they devise elaborate and roundabout means for the achievement of remote ends. Their intelligence, which has made them the masters of the world, often causes them to act like imbeciles. No animal, for example, is clever and imaginative enough to suppose that an eclipse is the work of a serpent devouring the sun. That is the sort of explanation that could occur only to the human mind. And only a human being would dream of making ritual gestures in the hope of influencing, for his own benefit, the outside world. While the animal, obedient to its instinct, goes quietly about its business, man, being endowed with reason and imagination, wastes half his time and energy in doing things that are completely idiotic. In time, it is true, experience teaches him that magic formulas and ceremonial gestures do not give him what he wants. But until experience has taught him - and he takes a surprisingly long time to learn - man’s behaviour is in many respects far sillier than that of the animal. Ref, "Becoming human is a process not some event". So I reflected, as I watched the sacred bull lick up the rice from the dozing beggar’s bowl. While a million people undertake long journeys, suffer fatigue, hunger, and discomfort in order to perform, in a certain stretch of very dirty water, certain antics for the benefit of a fixed star ninety million miles away, the bull goes about looking for food and fills its belly with whatever it can find. In this case, it is obvious, the bull’s brainlessness causes it to act much more rationally than its masters. To save the sun (which might, one feels, very safely be left to look after itself) a million of Hindus will assemble on the banks of the Ganges. How many, I wonder, would assemble to save India? An immense energy which, if it could be turned into political channels, might liberate and transform the country, is wasted in the name of imbecile superstitions. Religion is a luxury which India, in its present condition, cannot possibly afford. India will never be free until the Hindus and the Muslims are as tepidly enthusiastic about their religion as we are about the Church of England. If I were an Indian millionaire, I would leave all my money for the endowment of an Atheist Mission". Aldous Huxley from 'Jesting Pilate'.1926. February 16 Ornitheology. Hornitheology. Sharia Law Debate. Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury.Youth Behaviour Debate. UK.
What and who is responsible?
The Multinational Alcoholic Drinks Industry!
Or
The Anglican Church. The Church of England (not the Church of some backwater) http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=7553476
The collapse (hopefully) at long last, but they are still educating our children; influencing them - they do own many of our Schools. With the Roman Catholic's who are totally obsessed by their own sexuality and behaviourism with all the 'Others' who may be entrenched medievalist's!
A cocktail for total disaster! Except for the 'ideological charitable money' that is put into Youth Projects!
Mountain Wingsuit
See, below for Ornitheology and Hornitheology. February 14 BBC News. Matt Frei and Bush Interview.George W Bush's BBC interview.
"Teflon Man". Stunning! And, worth a lot of respect! (for his viewpoint)
"Respect for authority is always bad and violence is sometimes right". In a time of war (terror), maybe; some respect is required?
Why didn't he talk to all of us like this before (to get it out of him) and that it takes a Brit to do it?
The American Presidential Problem
Saying, "All is fair in love and war". The American problem, "All has not really been very fair to them in sex or war". They shouldn't worry about it.
BBC. Have your say. 500 spaces only.
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Matt Frei and Bush. "Teflon Man". Stunning! And, worth a lot of respect! (for his viewpoint)
"Respect for authority is always bad and violence is sometimes right". In a time of war (terror), maybe; some respect is required? Why didn't he talk to all of us like this before and that it takes a Brit to do this? "All is fair in love and war". The American problem, "All has not really been very fair in sex and war". The UN and Europe should get its act together, if we need to fight medievalism! COMMENT STATUS:
Awaiting moderation http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/default.stm And, "Does God Exist" Prof Dawkins. E-Petitions. 10 Downing Street. London. England.We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Abolish all faith schools and prohibit the teaching of creationism and other religious mythology in all UK schools. http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14536.asp
£60,000 spent to rehome 4 newts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7244395.stm Ref, 'The Westminster Money Planet'. BBC2 Horizon: How to Make Better Decisions.Precognition or 'precog' (foreknowledge- deja-vu) - how important is it? 4% of fighter pilots account for 40% of kills. 4% doing lots of killing and 96% getting a kill, or so, occasionally.
What makes them so much better or so much more aware than all the rest?
Misdirected imagination, superstition, and the myth's about their own situation that 'blocs' out all the other 96% of pilots: muddling these pilots up within a fraction of a second. I notice that some of our Sunday drivers are quite appalling and I do wonder where some of their brains have been to, or are going to.
"Yeah man, 'far out' and 'blocked out'". "Living in cloud cuckoo land". "Up with the fairies". "Land of Nod" "Totally blinded by conviction" and so on... Without this 'blocking out' - "lighten up" "don't be so heavy" "follow your instincts" and so on... that is fairly new, pre 50,000 years approx in evolutionary terms, they were much closer to the atomic/minutiae of the biological/electrical world in the mind ie., without the distractions. Ref, 'pinball wizard'
The Quantum World - a 'real' unfathomable (so far) multi-dimensional world of a fairly new and tested reality in our Science and could this have anything to do with some of our brain functions. Tests for this are fully underway at "Precog".
Knowledge of Prehistory and Prehistoric Man gets very much more important every day. The 19th Century 'Grand Tour'. See, Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury (he's a drag). Anglican Church. Church of England. Synod Address. Prehistory. Prehistoric man had sex for fun! Ref, BBC report, Prehistoric man had no 'teenage years' and sex 'outside' and in...the mind boggles! Ref, Synesthesia 'The Emerging Mind' Vilayanur Ramachandran.
Anglicans in Gay Row Boycott http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=7553476 February 13 Dr Rowan Williams. Synod Address. Anglican Church. Church of England.Desperation!
Uniting the gullible of his flock and uniting with all other religions. A united front being formed against what they (all) are most scared about i.e., the humanists, secularists, secularism, and (mostly in the UK) you and your ('enlightenment') knowledge - the first step, for some or most people in any country is to realize (properly) and fully understand in personal Revelation - "The sheer antiquity of humankind" Colin Renfrew (Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn). http://www.secularism.org.uk/whyisthegovernmentscaredofsackin.html
And, "Prehistoric man had sex for fun". http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002367.html Prehistory. Have sex 'outside' to add to your feeling for the knowledge of prehistory (or anywhere - private) and take on the ever increasing Muslim population! Ref, the decline of population in Western countries as against that of the (Muslim) East.
Including within it all (waffle of the speech) some elements of Sharia Law designed to placate a (small and noisy) Muslim population in the UK - most could think of nothing worse and are so very pleased that they have escaped the ghastly brutality of Sharia Law. The thin end of the wedge; doing this, at all the costs to our own culture, and then attempting to save his ridiculous business from collapse.
February 12 Herefordshire Comes Together for Massive Rally. DfCSF. Herefordshire Against Closing Schools Family and Community Rally 13th February 2008 Schools, communities, business and individuals are all banding together in a massive show of defiance against the LEA school closure proposals culminating in a rally to be held in Hereford city centre on the 13th February, organised by Herefordshire Against Closing Schools (HACS). Co-founders of HACS, Jane Ward and Eugene Gooch, said : "It is just as important to hold the Rally now as it was when the proposals were first issued. The Council are saying that the proposals have been withdrawn, when in fact, HACS knows that Council officials are ALREADY IMPLEMENTING them by refusing places at schools on the closure list to parents who request them. Other parents have started to withdraw children from schools marked for closure, and this just leads to the Council's plans winning through the back door. Therefore parents must not be dissuaded from their choice of school by these reprehensible and underhand tactics. Everyone responsible for these plans must be left in no doubt that the people of Herefordshire simply will not accept any proposal that means the decimation of education in Hereford". "Regardless of what happens at the Council meeting on the 8th February, the Rally will still go ahead. HACS encourages any member of the public who cares about their local area and community to join the thousands that are expected to attend and to bury these plans once and for all". 'The Children Left Behind' TV Channel4
Children and Widgets http://news.bbcco.uk/1/hi/education/6626277.stm
To reverse the 'damage' that has already done to our children and to our society can be found on this blog! If it is not far too late!
Educationally Damaged children and adults in the UK. ADULTS WHO ARE NOW HAVING CHILDREN - "THERE WERE NO 'TEENAGE YEARS' IN PREHISTORIC TIMES".
Department for Children, Schools and Families. http://www.dfes.gov.uk/ February 11 Dr Rowan Williams. Archbishop of Canterbury. Anglican Church. Sharia Law Debate. UK.Indictment:
Scaring the Hell out of his own 'Flock' and many other people - most are not religious (see, In Search of Mr Average, believes in - "Some 'sort' of a God" and lives in Swindon. He is, what is called, "The Lowest Common Denominator" i.e., "The greatest amount of people sharing...'The Road to Serfdom' F. A. Hayek") in the UK.
'Disturbing the Peace' by potentially causing (massive and long term) racial tension, and wasting everybody else's (non-religious / secularists) time!
His own (we hope), expert and (ghastly) 'religionist' PsyOp's (shock and awe - sudden announcement) agenda! The Sun, Talibrum psyops http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article786803.ece
Or, "Just plain ignorance"?
Link and fly to "Ornitheology". Brain size: nine times larger than the average mammal!
Stay with me and study "Hornitheology" The study of sexual inhibitions and taboos in the last 50,000 years amongst civilized man!
Or... www.venganza.org
And, link to HORROR!
On YouTube. You must sign and be over 18!
A large crowd watched as eight or nine men stormed the house and dragged Miss Aswad into the street. There they hurled stones at her for half an hour until she was dead. Watched over by Police and Officials.
MSN Quote of the Day.
February 09 Total rejection of 'Sharia Law' by UK. Archbishop Rowan Williams. Church of England.Total rejection of Islamic Law in the UK.
"We are all waiting for the 'Muslim Civil Revolution' as 'becoming human' (evolutionary and in a lifetime) is undoubtably a (lengthy) process". CW. English Civil War 1640-1660. February 08 Sharia Law Debate. UK. Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury. MP House of Lords.Sharia Law comments trigger criticismThe Archbishop of Canterbury faces widespread criticism after saying some Sharia law in the UK is "unavoidable".
Why the separation of Church and State is so very important! Remove Bishops from the House of Lords!
"The trouble is with these people is that they are educating our children"
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Becoming 'human' is a process (evolutionary and in a lifetime) not some event. Unfortunately, many people have not travelled far enough along in the process element and feel very strongly, by 'superstition' and 'magic', they will have some authority over others. The BBC, by making the words of a 'religionist' so very important to be Headline News shows a lack of discernment. Multiculturalism is unpalatable to most by its very nature. Multi-racialism - loving and welcoming is so easy, but not PC for MP's.
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67% of the country do not want Faith or Church Schools and 82% think that religion does more harm than good. Ref, Guardian/ICM Poll Dec 2006.
"The West has the ordeal of desire and the East the ordeal of privation". Saul Bellow.
"They preferred the ancient light of divinely blessed authority to the distant glimmer of democracy. "God saith, 'Touch not mine anointed' ", wrote a Cavalier knight as he reluctantly girded on his sword for the battle". 1640-1660 English Civil War. Sir Winston Churchill.
"We are all waiting for the 'Muslim Civil Revolution' when their society will fully progress, as becoming 'human' is undoubtably a lengthy process". CW.
Another Comment on BBC 'Have Your Say' (heart-rending)
"I was born in the UK 63 years ago. I had no choice in my country, faith or law. However I came to accept them all,with conviction and enthusiasm. Why should those who choose to come to our country not accept OUR ways and laws? It is their choice to come and not ours!
Dr Rowan Williams I now feel totally let down by the head of my church. I am publically renouncing my membership in the Church of England. You have so let me down I have no words to describe it and feel desolate." Name withheld (by me) for privacy.
"Religion has given great comfort and moral guidance to many". 'The Blank Slate' Steven Pinker.
BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | NI children still divided: studyRuth Kelly MP and the religionists below (in the blog) think that RE, belonging, and spiritual 'knowledge/awareness' (there is such a thing - we are told by authority) adds to social cohesion. On which particular planet? I know, it must be the Westminster Money Planet!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6761765.stm Educating our children in the art of Wof MR. WMR. Weapon of Mass Religion. 15 year old boy, trained suicide bomber explains, "We go straight to Heaven and have everything we want". Afghanistan. Report BBC Radio 4. February 07 Cycle SafetyFebruary 05 Sunninghill Preparatory School. Thomas Hardye School. Dorchester. UK.
February 01 Government response to petition 'end faith schools'Sent: 01 February 2008 16:21
Subject: Government response to petition 'end faith schools' You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "cease the creation of more faith schools, take existing public-funded faith schools from the control of religious bodies and convert them to unbiased schools for all."
The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here: http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14465.asp Prime Minister's Office Petition information - http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/endfaithschools/ Ref, further study: Derek Gillard 'Never mind the evidence: Blair's obsession with faith schools' http://www.dg.dial.pipex.com/articles/educ29.shtml
Derek Gillard May 2007 Gillard D., (2001) Glass in their snowballs: the faith schools debate http://www.dg.dial.pipex.com/articles/educ22.shtml |
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