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    International events

    in General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by TheLastWolf

    10 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

    So… you would empower the State to impose criminal sanction upon parents who teach their kids about their faith?  Look I don’t think all parents are perfect but that seems like… a lot… of power in the hands of the State.

    Of course not. Hell, I've been called all kinds of shit from anarchist to more colourful nouns but never something even remotely resembling your accusation. I just can't stomach innocent kids' minds being polluted that's all. It is personal, for I had a few choices and fortuitous turn of events leading to the barest of an escape from leading a similarly biased existence.

    International events

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    Posted · Edited by TheLastWolf

    Hitler Modi Youth

    ETA

    If I ever fall under Big Brother's radar, hope some of you can bear harbouring future refugee-immigrant-exile me...:dunno: if they don't slap me with sedition or some other colonial crap and throw away the key first 

    ETAA

    @Ran pls be sure to delete all my activity here (*sniff*) when the tyrants inevitably no longer bother to mask their intentions and begin weeding out dissenters along with the minorities. I'd probably tick all the boxes of the keywords they look for lol

    International events

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    Posted · Edited by TheLastWolf
    not dolorous edd

    3 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

    Where are you going with that?  Would you prohibit parents from teaching their children about their faith?

    Not all parents turn out to be Terrence Mallick sadly. In fact, the vast majority- Ugh. I mean, I do encounter their children on a daily basis, don't I? Most people are someone's children (raised is what I mean, not the Tyrion kind sarcasm "...mother. Some woman, most usually are"). And their upbringing disgusts me when it comes to social divisions of all kinds. Just look around the globe, am not responsible if you have a relatively better environment, the world is still burning for many.

    When even most parents pass on undesirable acquired knowledge, what hope does an institution have, free from monitoring and prone to all sorts of nefarious interference.

    The poor kid had no choice in his birth (consent ahem), is asking to not impose the shittier of the average moronic adult's prejudices and biases too much?

    Watch, Watched, Watching: Anybody but Superman

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    9 hours ago, Deadlines? What Deadlines? said:

    World War Z is a great movie. The only problem with it is they called it "World War Z". 

    I'm all for adaptations that take liberties or that use that source material more as "inspiration" than "canon", but this thing was something else. I think the only thing they kept from the book was "North Korea is doing something weird". 

    Troubled production. Didn't make any money. It's a shame we didn't get a sequel. 

    My uncle who watches only regional movies opened to international films after this. Wierd lol, considering a lot of way better Hollywood flicks didn't move him.

    International events

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    Posted · Edited by TheLastWolf

    7 hours ago, The Anti-Targ said:

    That is not  concern limited only to religion of course your / our / my "kind" can be for anything from left/right handedness, eye colour and skull shape to ethnicity, ideology, language, sport, gender etc.

    I just felt it most pervasive and damaging from the history we know.

    7 hours ago, The Anti-Targ said:

    Singling out religion, to me, is putting the blame on a symptom rather than a cause. To be sure not much excites one's passions like religion (even among some anti-religionists curiously enough), though country, racial and ideological identity follow closely behind. The root cause is what appears to be a deep primitive tribal instinct. Some kind of need to identify oneself with a subset of humanity in preference to the rest of humanity instead of recognising humanity as one family and the earth as one home and meaningfully acting upon that recognition.

    I acknowledge this cause, but if positive conditioning from birth can overcome redundant lizard brain vestiges in our relatively advanced era of civilization for you and me, why can't we hope the same for less fortunate souls and move towards that.

    7 hours ago, The Anti-Targ said:

    Lots of people accept intellectually that we're one species and the earth is one big ecosystem, but they actively resist these truths having a meaningful influence on their lives, choices and attitudes.

    Unless aliens attack or shit, separate nations spending resources individually for overlapping necessities shall continue to contribute to gross human waste.

    International events

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    Posted · Edited by TheLastWolf
    sry not panama

    Curious that 

    On 4/2/2024 at 9:15 PM, Zorral said:
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    Also:

     

    both the ship that crashed into the Baltimore Bridge (me sed coz The Wire's my fave show oat) and the Ever Given that got stuck in the Suez canal 2 or 3 yrs ago were manned nearly totally by fellow Indians. Lmao realising this as my drunk af schoolmate videocalled in the middle of the night after failing a couple'a courses in his merchant navy training program. 

    Watch, Watched, Watching: Anybody but Superman

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    Is Fanny and Alexander Director's Cut worth the runtime? Bergman has never quite struck a chord with me as much as, say Tarkovsky. Funny, since I prefer the harsh thorns of truth piercing to the cushioning feathers of faith reassuring. Dostoevesky over Tolstoy anyday. If I was any wiser I'd have fun with Chekov and get good sleep. Barring Wild Strawberries and maybe The Seventh Seal everything else of his was disturbing in ways inexplicable. 

    I've loved every long film from Kill Bill and Gangs of Wasseypur to Satantango and Dekalog. Scenes from a Marriage and Das Boot not so much, still all these in single sittings.

    So can I take the 312min plunge?

    International events

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    Posted · Edited by TheLastWolf

    3 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said:

    Regarding India's Madrasa ban, I thought the controversy stemmed from the double standard with a branch of Hindu schools that are sort of a Madrasa equivalent only for Hinduism and they arent being subjected to the ban?

    On 4/1/2024 at 3:28 PM, The Anti-Targ said:

    but when one blatantly moves against it for ulterior/malign motives while harbouring intents to start their own,

    Yep, you are right. 

    3 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said:

    We may need clarification from our posters from India to unpack the issue better?

    Minority persecution here has reached levels akin to the tensions prevailing at the time of Partition. So if you get your hands on such news, needless to say, the severity is far more when and where it occurs.

    But regards religious education, I, as a rationally inclined adult, prefer my country, if it calls itself secular, to allow a healthy environment for anyone to practice their faith by choice/birth. But where I draw the line is in institutionalizing of kids by any religion, which has led only to indoctrination, zealotry and far worser and wide ranging problems. How can there be a harmonious coexistence in society if a child from birth is exposed/allowed interaction only with his so called 'kind' and thus easily prepared to ha- better left unsaid for dramatic effect.

    Has GRRM ever addressed the notion of time zones?

    in General (ASoIaF)

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    Interesting. With the fantasy element in play, we can't rule out anything. There are the glass candles and the Red Rahloo thingies, Euron godknowswwhat and that freak Maester from the Citadel and the FM, Quaithe, Beyond the Wall unexplicables etc. 

    If he writes sth like a character sensing the death of another somehow at the instance of occurrence, half a continent away, let's look out for any indication of time at their respective locations. That's just one of the many possibilities from the fantasy aspect I could think of

    International events

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    On 3/25/2024 at 8:42 PM, DireWolfSpirit said:

    Court ruling effectively outlaws Islamic schools in India’s most populous state

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/24/india/india-madrasa-court-ruling-uttar-pradesh-intl-hnk

    To be fair religious education has no place in a secular democracy, but when one blatantly moves against it for ulterior/malign motives while harbouring intents to start their own, ugh. As a first time voter my choices are dogshit horseshit bullshit and no shit.

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