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Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
I myself wear the headscarf and I do so because it's something I believe is mandated in my religion. No one is forcing me and it has no political significance (I have no idea why people keep thinking it does)....
Commented on Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
And I'm just noticing that Byrne just a released an EP of live tracks from the tour! http://everythingthathappens.com Everything That Happens Will Happen On This Tour David Byrne On Tour Songs of David Byrne And Brian Eno 4 live tracks...
Commented on Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
I saw David Byrne June 1st in Shelburne, VT. it was fantastic. He did a live rendition of the angry preacher in Help Me Somebody, from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The set list was limited to his...
Commented on LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
It's important to have accurate ingredient labels on products. I think veganism is noble, but kind of irrational. But if I finished a meal and the host said "by the way, you just ate KITTEN" I would be pretty upset....
Commented on Ghosts reacting violently to holy water
The gobbledygook is the best part. The video itself is kind of creepy and sad. Did they do a control test with tap water?...
Commented on The "super-villain transparencies" brain-teaser
Polarized transparencies. I heard once that if you look through two pairs of polarized sunglasses, they're opaque... but if you add a THIRD pair, you can see through them again. Assuming I'm remember correctly, it'd be easy to divide the...
Commented on Video of Champ the lake monster
I live in Burlington. I'm pretty sure nobody here actually believes in Champ. The lake is, uh, not exactly secluded, and if there was a large sea monster living in it, we would know. This video is obviously a large...
Commented on Everything Is Alive
I assumed the "everything is alive" bit was metaphor. I don't know what this can even mean. A rock is not alive. There are places where the boundary is blurry, but come on, rocks? One problem which remains to be...
Commented on World's most flushingest toilet
The hypnotic money-flushing scene from The Seventh Continent is on youtube here, at around the 6:30 mark....
Commented on World's most flushingest toilet
Will It Flush? Brings to mind a scene in The Seventh Continent....
Commented on Re-Engineering Fundamentalism
I finally registered an account just so I could say: wtf, dude....

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Antinous / Moderator commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
So....you want people to only wear things that don't make you feel guilty? Sounds like you feel guilty already and you're trying to transfer it to women who wear traditional headgear. I don't see how that mindset is much different than telling women to veil because men feel horny....
cuvtixo commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
Compare and contrast to the Ralph Lauren Ad and the threatened lawsuits against BoingBoing and PhotoshopDisaster blog. In comparison the hijab seems quite sensible....
dewywater commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
Quoted from above: “It's MY choice to obey His commands, it's MY choice to try to gain Paradise and escape Hell. I don't see why you're trying to stop me from getting good. Oh, and yes, we do have a freedom of choice. We have the freedom to obey or disobey God. But those who take the hated path will have to pay the consequences in the Hereafter“ Man this is just SO SAD. Someone who's mind is so controlled by a mental virus that they can't make sense of the most basic definitions. Religions always come with a threat....
Antinous / Moderator commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
Someone who's mind is so controlled by a mental virus that they can't make sense of the most basic definitions. Religions always come with a threat. It's the way a religious idea defends itself from competing ideas. Nothing that you've said can't be applied to any aspect of anyone's life in any society - political and economic systems just as much as religious beliefs. It's easy to see when other people are brainwashed, but nearly impossible to see it in oneself....
dewywater commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
Yes. This is not just a muslim issue. Take me for example. I'm a fat guy. On a hot day in florida it hurts no one if I walk the streets naked. But I don't do it, because I fear the social blowback which would include public humiliation and possible jail time. So yes. I am oppressed, and that's why I don't go around spouting all sorts of drivel about how wearing clothes is a personal life-style choice. It is not. I am simply afraid of the social consequences of doing otherwise. And I'm honest about that. See? It was...

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