Comments anyone?

[sasguru]

No joy over the weekend so Mrs Lucifer is going in tonight to be induced. All being well, evil incarnate should be with us sometime tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

Thanks for asking - much appreciated.

Just received an e-mail from a friend who has recently had their first child. It made me laugh so I've quoted it below:

"To tell truth however the baby thing isn't working out too badly and the little man is growing on me. I'd once heard "having a baby" described as "like inviting an unemployed, selfish, incontinent, pyschopathic dwarf to come and live in your house" but so far it hasn't been too bad.

...My research so far indicates that…

1) The expression "sleeping like a baby" is completely misleading. Unless you mean, "wakes up every 2 hours screaming for nourishment"

2) The expression "smooth as a baby's arse" does stand up to empirical tests although, given the usual state of baby's nether regions it's not the sort of place you want to inspect and make comparisons with too often.

3) It really is easy to take candy from a baby. "

[Lucifer Box]

My favourite is:


Mothers are aware of all their childrens' hopes, dreams, fears and anxieties.

Fathers are vaguely aware that there are some small people living in the same house as them.

[Churchill]

My favourite is:


Mothers are aware of all their childrens' hopes, dreams, fears and anxieties.

Fathers are vaguely aware that there are some small people living in the same house as them.

[Phoenix]

The caption for the photo reads:

"In the town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, a father comforts his crying baby after slashing the child on the head."

This is supposed to be a ritual of self-mutilation as a display of faith.

I don't think this one needs a caption:



Sorry, forgot to add source: Daily mail website http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811

So if a nice kind young British soldier kicks one of these gentlemen in the head (With the same result)
wh ere is the harm?

[Not So Wise]

So if a nice kind young British soldier kicks one of these gentlemen in the head (With the same result)
wh ere is the harm?

Easy, He has to do it on the right day of the year

[Fungus]

Some of those religious freaks are sick gets. I suppose it's the result of poor education and ignorance. Some Catholics seem to revel in the image of a man being crucified. Nice.

[Nicky G]

Cultural relativism, anyone?

Moral absolutes? Cultural relativism is nothing but tolerance. The modern notion of tolerance is indifference. Indifference to primitive and barbaric practices in this case. It’s a shame we don’t have the moral backbone or convictions in our own (superior) culture to drag certain people out of the Stone Age, as we would have done in the past.

This is barbarity pure and simple and has no place in the modern world.

[Joe Black]

Sorry, forgot to add source: Daily mail website http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811

Direct link here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/gal...n_page_id=1055

"In the town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, a father comforts his crying baby after slashing the child on the head."

As I've said before, when I see such things it's like looking back at something from the dark ages...at times I just can not imagine that people still believe/do such things because of some stupid faith/belief, or because some stupid book/priest/imam told them to.

Seeing this for me also raises the question of whether it's not so silly an idea after all that people from such, or any similar culture, be expected to do more than pass a simple language/history test to show that they can integrate into a modern society...especially when they consider wilfully cutting a childs head to be part of everyday life...

[sasguru]

Moral absolutes? Cultural relativism is nothing but tolerance. The modern notion of tolerance is indifference. Indifference to primitive and barbaric practices in this case. It’s a shame we don’t have the moral backbone or convictions in our own (superior) culture to drag certain people out of the Stone Age, as we would have done in the past.

This is barbarity pure and simple and has no place in the modern world.

I was being ironic

[Fungus]

Moral absolutes? Cultural relativism is nothing but tolerance. The modern notion of tolerance is indifference. Indifference to primitive and barbaric practices in this case. It’s a shame we don’t have the moral backbone or convictions in our own (superior) culture to drag certain people out of the Stone Age, as we would have done in the past.

This is barbarity pure and simple and has no place in the modern world.

I see we pretty much agree. In fact I suspect most people on the forum would agree.

"Cultural relativism is nothing but tolerance."

At its extreme it says that all cultures are equal. But they're not. It's taken us centuries to create a sophisticated legal, social and political system which is superior to the degenerate authoritarian regimes we see in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere.

I do worry that in a few decades power - i.e. fuel - wars will start, and our civilisation will break down, with anarchy ruling. Especially if global warming turns out to be real, and the UK suffers an extreme cooling.

Fungus