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  1. [Hidden Content] With religious chastity under scrutiny, a new book throws light on Gandhi's practice of sleeping next to naked girls. In fact, he was sex-mad, writes biographer Jad Adams Monday 2 January 2012 As he grew older (and following Kasturba's death) he was to have more women around him and would oblige women to sleep with him whom – according to his segregated ashram rules – were forbidden to sleep with their own husbands. Gandhi would have women in his bed, engaging in his "experiments" which seem to have been, from a reading of his letters, an exercise in strip-tease or other non-contact sexual activity. Much explicit material has been destroyed but tantalising remarks in Gandhi's letters remain such as: "Vina's sleeping with me might be called an accident. All that can be said is that she slept close to me." One might assume, then, that getting into the spirit of the Gandhian experiment meant something more than just sleeping close to him.
  2. The Vegas shootings went from loud noise to to crickets chirping in a hurry, and gives great credence to conspiracy theory.
  3. May 31, 2018 Wallace Garneau Leave a comment Virtually all societies are built on a patriarchy, which is reflected in most of our earliest stories. In Genesis, when God sends Adam and Eve out of paradise, God puts Adam in charge. In the story of Noah’s Ark, Noah is the leader of his family. In the Gilgamesh, the central figure is a man. Abraham was the patriarchal leader who began the Judaeo-Christian (and Islamic) traditions. In The Iliad, and the Odyssey, Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, and all of the other heroes (as well as all of the kings) are men. Beowulf is a man. When we look at the role of women in these stories, Eve is the one Satan tricks into eating the apple, Helen (and the desire for her) causes the Trojan war, most of the challenges Odysseus runs into on his trek home are against women, and Grendel (the monster in Beowulf) is a woman. Noah and Gilgamesh don’t battle women directly, but they battle Mother Nature, which is called ‘mother’ for a reason, with man being the eternal symbol of the known and controlled world, and woman being the eternal symbol of the unknown, uncontrolled, world of nature. This is no accident, and there are many reasons for it, not the least of which is that women give birth to children whereas men do not. The world can be a brutal place, and a pregnant woman is particularly vulnerable to that brutality, placing men in a position where to have a family, they must be protective, and, conversely, placing women in a position where to have children, they must be protected. Jordan Peterson and Will Durant both show how this backdrop goes back much further than does our ability to measure it. Even ancient interpretations of religion show this pattern, with the Earth being depicted as some kind of mother-god, and the Sun as a male-god. Generally it is the male-god plunging into the female-god each evening that is used to explain the rebirth of crops in the spring, as well as the rebirth of the Sun each morning, and when the woman dominates the landscape (the Sun having fallen out of the sky), the Earth is in darkness. Also note that in these stories, it is neither the man nor the woman who dominates, but the pattern of struggle and cooperation that exists between the two. When men and women struggle, darkness and chaos ensue, and when they cooperate, fertility and rebirth emerge. These stories were not considered universally oppressive, but they were considered universally true. Archetypes are everywhere, and in all of them there is a battle between the known and the unknown world. The known world is constantly under attack by external forces from the unknown, and though the known generally wins those confrontations, it only does so by transforming itself in ways that overcome the new challenge, evolving to each new challenge from the unknown. To the degree that the known world (represented by men) tries to ‘conquer’ the unknown world (represented by women), ‘conquering’ symbolizes understanding. These stories are not about men controlling women so much as about men understanding women, and that is a struggle that continues today. Knowledge is gained by understanding the previously unknown. Many call the general nature of society to be patriarchal ‘oppressive’, but is it? In it’s earliest manifestations, the patriarchy appears cooperative, with men and women working together to allow one another to survive, and we have lived in this manner for our entire evolutionary history, going back at least as far as the Cambrian Explosion (541 million years ago). We live in a roughly patriarchal society even in today’s modern democracies, where more than half the voting population are female, and where women have the political power to reverse things anytime they collectively desire. Hillary Clinton lost the Presidency not because men did not want her as President, but because women did not. If women had wanted Hillary Clinton, men could not have stopped them. And power is illusory. Men, for example, do not control the economy, when 85% of the purchasing decisions are made by women. We are not a patriarchy today by force, but by choice, with no artificial barriers holding women back. Claims of oppression are easily discounted through multi-variate analysis, in which sexism can be shown to be a very small cause for those differences. Economists have known for decades, for example, that the gender wage gap is a myth, caused not by oppression, but by the different choices men and women make after they get married and begin to build families. People often note that most politicians are men, and yet when women run for office, they are at least as likely as men to win, making the difference between men and women in politics one of choice rather than oppression. Attempts to eliminate these differences are invariably also attempts to eliminate the choices causing them, which is by definition oppressive. The central question regarding the patriarchy is not one of how to destroy it, but of why it exists. Is the patriarchy something that was cast upon women through oppression, or something that men and women collectively built, and collectively maintain? More to the point, if the patriarchy exists by choice, with no artificial barriers preventing women from changing it, then is truly a ‘patriarchy’ at all? I think we can all agree that true oppression against women is bad, which is why there is so much anger against such figures as Harvey Weinstein, and against others who have used power, or money, to gain sexual favors. We pretend that the problem is one of ‘toxic masculinity,’ but should we not also entertain the possibility that power, rather than masculinity, is at the core, and that the reason the narrative is one of men exploiting women is only because men are more apt to seek positions of power? Should the discussion be about how ‘masculinity’ is bad, or about how power corrupts? Should the discussion be about overcoming ‘masculinity,’ or of overcoming corruption? We talk about the abuse involved in forcing women to take feminine societal roles, while ignoring the equally troubling abuse imposed upon men, who are told their nature is evil. Is it not child abuse to tell a boy that there is something inherently wrong with him? And what about women who are feminine? My wife is feminine, and enjoys being feminine, but I can assure you that she is not weak. We need to stop criticizing those who choose to take traditional roles. There is no question that the word ‘patriarchy’ is descriptive of essentially every society that has ever existed (including our own), and there is no question that patriarchies can be oppressive, such as was the case under the Taliban in Afghanistan, but we have to ask ourselves if living in what looks like a patriarchy is inherently oppressive when we live in it by choice, and when we can change it any time we collectively wish to do so. To me, oppression is not something that arises by mutual choice, but something that arises when mutual choice is denied, and by that definition (which I think fits in well with the dictionary definition of ‘the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control’), it is not the nature of society that it oppressive so much as the attempts by the left to change society by force. There is nothing in our society that prevents women from being whatever they want to become. Why should we concern ourselves with what that ends up looking like? I do not view the Western patriarchy as either positive nor negative. I simply view it as descriptive. There is no underlying structure supporting this patriarchy, other than the choices men, and women, freely make. I don’t want to ‘preserve the patriarchy,’ but I do want to preserve personal liberty, and if that leads to what looks like a patriarchal society, I’m OK with that, and you should be OK with that as well. As long as we are all free to pursue our own personal dreams and aspirations, we have equality in the only way that matters. [Hidden Content]
  4. Are saying it happened in December of 16 and the school found out in January of 17? I strongly doubt your assertion because in my 10 plus years of teaching, if something like that happens like that at school, the school is notified through the grapevine rather quickly.
  5. Crazy to think if it would have been on the other foot.
  6. Maybe Enterprise car rental....I rented a car one time and the guy I was talking to used to be a coach/teacher, and said he had better money, better hours and less headaches.
  7. Colmesneil has this as a plus. Thanksgiving, christmas, winter break, spring break In other words the kids don't show up over the breaks so don't worry about it as you get your head kicked in.
  8. ....Last year, a fellow student told me I was a victim. Yale is the only place where someone has said this to me. I responded that if someone had told me I was a victim when I was a kid, I would never have made it to the Air Force, where I served for eight years, or to Yale. I would have given up. When I was 10, a teacher told me that if I applied myself, I could alter my future. This advice changed my life.... click on the link to learn more [Hidden Content]
  9. The last school shooter was a minor...whats your point?
  10. So what about the age of the victim? Does that matter?
  11. The Nation Of Islam has at its root, hate. So while if a preacher ever said something like this ( regardless of his color) they would get pointed back to the Bible to show how they are wrong. In the Nation Of Islam one can not not say hey your wrong based on your holy book.
  12. Thanks I am usually just scary looking...
  13. They closed the mental hospital down?
  14. So with these schools shootings, people are calling for more armed officers at school, more metal detectors, more mental health awareness. Does anybody else not see that if you need armed police officers, metal detectors, mental health professionals at school the problem is within the schools and not the guns. The problem is there is no discipline in schools. How dare a a teacher use corporal punishment on your kid, because your kid never does wrong. Its the other kids fault, it's the teachers fault, we discourage personal responsibility and we act dumbfounded when a kid just continues to make decisions based on the sad fact that they have never faced real consequences for their actions. The problem is we think kids are innocent of evil desires but they are not. We act like the music they listen to, the books they read, or the media they use has no influence over their actions. Then we got teachers and administrators who find their worth as people based on if the kids like them, instead of making them learn, we got teachers and administrators with no backbone and just do what they are told without worrying about the implications of their spineless decision making. We got teachers who agree with the absurdity of boys and girls should use the same bathrooms and locker rooms. We have boys winning girls sporting events in the name of tolerance for the LGBT perversion. Well people we tolerate a lot of bogus political correctness ideology in schools up to this point, so we might just have to tolerate school shootings now. Sadly nothing happens overnight and neither was this travesty we built, called modern public education. So the finger needs to be pointed at the people who said " Corporal punishment is wrong" the people who say "kids with mental health issues should be allowed in schools", those who think its ok for kids with gang affiliation to be in a school to start with, blame people who say "we should think based on our feelings not on what is true", blame those who say " George Washington is bad ,but Che Guevara is good" and we should blame those who hate God so much that the mere reference to God in schools or to pray in Jesus name is ,in these progressive minded people, the downfall of a western society. Blame the guns if you want, but whatever you do, never blame the evil that lies in each of our own hearts, and never demand from yourself and your children any type of moral excellence. High schools are just a microcosm of the problem in society and the real problem is that our society is immoral, hedonistic, narcissistic and godless. Our culture believes nothing is wrong so don't you dare judge me, and that God will never judge us for our sins, but our conscience tells us that there is moral truths that
  15. women be talking, women be full of hot air....boom!! Climate change
  16. great men do not kill millions of people or call for the death of the same people that Hitler tried to kill.
  17. So tell me about the civilization of mudhuts, and stone age living of the black culture you came from? Please tell me about the type of great leader such as a Charlemagne that ruled Africa in 800? Tell me of the great thinkers like a Thomas of Aquinas that lived in Africa in 1225? Did they forget to write it down or was it that there was no uniformed written language. Tell me of the Universities, Hospitals and Orphanages that your culture helped to start, and I am talking sub-Saharan Africa, since African-American does not refer to those people of Northern Africa along the Mediterranean Sea. Speaking of writing let us read the great plays of the "Black culture" Shakespeare from the 1600's. Be careful about taking about culture and history, for you may find out that hard truth that multiculturalism is a lie and some cultures are better then others. Please tell me how the breakdown of the black family in America is due to racism of the past, but during the past when there was racism the black family was still intact. Yes, please tell me how its racism that young blacks are unemployed, but not do to the fact that each time the minimum wage is raised it requires business to hire less unskilled workers. Please tell me about your culture and how the cultural icons of snoop dogg and Dr. Dre filled their music with lyrics that are counterintuitive of being a productive member of society. Please tell me how Jesse Jackson is the leader of african american community but lives in a house bigger then a fortune 500 executive, yet has never worked a day in his life. Please tell me how the systematic placement of Planned Parenthood abortion mills are supported by the black community, but yet "white culture" is to blame.
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