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I'm not condoning or condemning anything here. Just pointing things out. For instance, during times in ancient Greece, infanticide was practiced. Today, abortion is legal. Perhaps, one day this present-day practice will be considered just as abhorrent. Read the Old Testament or the Bhagavad Gita sometime for some good ole time massacre, warfare, etc.

Didja hear the computer makers are doin' away with the floppy access to the harddrive.

Judged from today's 'enlightened' worldview, this is truly sad and injust. But judged from the values of a different time, then this seemed to be rather the norm than the exception. I have a hard time grasping the idea of genocide.

No. Massacres are a symptom of the breakdown of lawfulness, the type of lawfulness characteristic of a civil society. Vigilantism, that falls into this category of unlawfulness. Seems we're (US) really 'blessed' that given a population of 300 million people that we don't see these kinds of things today (but with the uncommon exceptions).

Never been to Africa but parts of the continent come across as a violent place. This is certainly a misconception in my mind. I don't necessarily believe it's a cultural thing either. Maybe it's time, as in development. For example, somewhat similar massacres have been reported here in the States also. Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas 1856

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Snip from article: I think some people get confused here when they consider 'adaptive evolution' to be Lamarkian evolution, e.g., the elementary school idea of how the giraffe got it's long neck. That latter idea is not how natural selection and consequently evolution works. Now...SEXUAL SELECTION, that works.

Link to what?

Kevbone is a CASE unto himself.

Yeah, don't know if the title claim is warranted. Consider, for example, the genetic mutation for lactose digestion (really, shouldn't cow milk be only for calves?). Lactose tolerance in East Africa points to a surprisingly recent moment in human evolution UMd-Led Team Discovers Gene Mutation for Milk Tolerance in Africans

I think a chimp could prolly do it. LiveCDs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCD File Recovery program if it boots. Convar If you can't boot and you have the bucks, they can do it for you. http://www.datarecovery-europe.com/default.htm

Squirrels are evil.--Notre Dame, The Observer Online

Whew... that took a while to parse. Let’s see if I understand correctly. Intelligent Design implies that a directed consciousness underlies the biotic changes that have occurred since the dawn of life on earth. It is a form of teleology. And that is a sort of metanarrative, so there’s some linearity inherent. In contrast, we take an orthodox view of evolution that says that there is no linearity with respect to design. There is in the sense of contingency in that the eye developed from primitive photoreceptors, not ex nihilo. But, even though plants also respond to light, they will not develop eyes. So, you have to have suitable precursors for it to evolve into something more complex. The ear, for example, it evolved from the modification of the jaw bones. Evolution is not forward-looking; rather it is backward-looking. It does not have an end-design in mind. It cannot even be said to have ‘mind’. Intelligent Design differs in that it postulates that an end-design informs everything. The disbelief in metanarratives characterizes the postmodern view of history. But wait, conspiracy theory implies specifically that a human agency is the director, and often, in that view, a human agency strives to disproportionately acquire power at the expense of the masses, I mean, with respect to a grand conspiracy. I’d have a hard time believing as Philip K. Dick said once, “The Empire never died.”. But in more recent history there is a sense of the formation of political blocs much as in the way outlined by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, etc. Add technological advances into the mixture and one can imagine the very real possibility of a ‘total control state’. How 'bout some potential paranoia with your morning coffee, eh? I don’t know about anyone else but I tend to lump things such as political machinations, cover-ups, covert operations, etc. into the conspiracy category. There are very real examples of the preceding, but one would be hard-pressed to claim that there was some ‘evil’ intent behind the actions. I’ll try to make a list now…Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the MkUltra Project, Gulf of Tonkin incident, … Here’s one you may be familiar with…when the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market in the ‘80s. Shit, the metals market is replete with scandals…does anyone want to buy some Indonesian gold? Anyway, back to your statement. Yes, I agree in the general case. I disagree in particulars.

Well, that specific example shows perhaps an erosion of confidence in media as authority. Debunking, that's another story. For instance, remember the incubator story in the leadup to Gulf War I? When contemplating war, beware of babies in incubators Seems that PR firm, Hill & Knowlton was instrumental in planting this story in the press in order to arouse public sentiment against the Iraqis. Talking about persuasion, look at all the effort going into presenting Iran as a pariah state bent on formenting trouble. So the UN Security Council votes today on greater sanctions against Iran. The major members of the Council are united in their resolve but some of the lesser, and temporary, members such Qatar are trying to shift the focus from one that is strictly aimed at Iran to one that looks to the greater region. There is talk that the entire region should be non-nuclear and that means bringing Israel into this. It is strongly suspected that Israel has nukes and it definitely has the capacity to field such weapons and the resolve to use them against aggressors. Does the fact that the Holocaust occurred, absolve the Israelis of abiding to a common framework for peace in the Middle East? Ok, I may be talking out of my ass here but shouldn't everything be on the table? Oh, BTW, you'll find the Clif notes version of The Big Lebowski here: http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=15&l=161&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF%2F%2FP%5FLxP92A42lCRCHXnCEjXRXAS%2Fc

one man's sum-total is evidently quite different than another's; selectivity is often the hallmark of theories of conspiracy. There are conspiracy theories and there are conspiracy theories. There are some like David Icke who make a solitary living by pushing these ideas, basically the idea that there is something hidden going on behind the scenes, a sort of Gnostic belief. Then, there are the conspiracy ideas such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident. [gvideo]6860946590182985661[/gvideo] The fact that there are absurd or paranoid conspiracies but by having enough truth interspersed within that unsophisticated people would be duped does not negate the existence of real conspiracies. Perception and selection are intimately related. There is a whole industry committed to managing perception. The public relations business acts as a filter to affect your perception, consequently, your worldview. Some people call it magic. It's really interesting to delve into the psychology of magic. I'm not talking about the supernatural but about how the mind works. --http://authorsbusinessplan.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-are-you-willing-to-make-happen-pt.html Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth. --William Blake

As far as nihilism, the rightwing also has that goal at times. Witness the Nazis intellectuals who took the words of Nietzsche to heart: "...‘The man who breaks… tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker;...he is the creator’...". On the leftwing, the French Revolution: a break with the old order (the Ancien Regime), a new calendar, regicide (the end of the Divine Rights of Kings), etc. Left. Right. Left. Marching to the future...? Transhumanism: The World’s Most Dangerous Idea?

Fuckin' long haired, hippy freaks xtqy4DTHGqg

Contrast that with this. yi3erdgVVTw

It's like some kind of magical ritual designed to give these powerless people something they so desperately crave. And the mob intensifies this effect. I have found a site ( http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/about-situationism/ ) that offers much insight into like subjects. Not about magic but human behavior. For magic, one might want to delve into Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough (1922).