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While there are obviously dangers to meeting up with people you get to know on the net, this is just another way of meeting people and the same dangers exist elsewhere, like if you meet someone in a pub or club or through the dating ads in the local paper.
Thats the point though, it can be very damaging to men. Men can be vulnerable too and some men can be damaged beyond repair by female internet “nut jobs”.
The main female weapon is the false accusation, or even the threat of a false accuastion.
I’m glad they were saved – a sad story with a happy ending. Of course they are just 6 animals and loads of other rescue cats and dogs aren’t so lucky, unfortunately.
We have three rescue cats, all 6 years old now. In our case, I imagine that if we hadn’t had them, someone else would have done.
I wish the kittens and their new owners well. I wish their sofas and curtains well too, although that might be a little unrealistic.
How do you put controls on faith, it isn’t possible and wheres the harm in the belief in an after life… prove it isn’t so, because if you’re wrong you’re in big trouble.
There’s nothing wrong in believing in an after-life, although there’s absolutely no evidence there is one. But there is a lot of harm if that belief in an after life adversely affects the way you behave in this life and the way you treat others. The prime example of this is the 9/11 hijackers, the leader of whom believed that he was taking himself and his accomplices on a short cut to Paradise.
It’s true science doesn’t have all the answers. But just because we don’t know the exact nature of gravity (only its observed effects), that doesn’t mean that it’s caused by angelic baby hippos beating their wings!
Bible’s just as much b/s as the Koran.
As a hardline atheist I’d agree with that. Although there are Christian fundamentalists and people have used the bible to justify doing terrible things, in the modern world there is a much bigger problem with people using the koran to do justify doing bad things than is the case with the bible. But we have to remember that a few centuries ago, people were being executed for going against the rules of Christianity.
Religion isn’t necessarily evil, Christianity and islam have done a lot of good over history too, since they both replaced more barbaric earlier religions. But for me as an atheist, I can’t get past the fact that religions are based on pure myths that cannot be verified and in some cases go against science and common sense.
I think it’s time we introduced tighter controls on the claims made by religions, a bit like advertising standards. For instance, it’s illegal for quack medics to claim a product is a cure for cancer, and yet it’s perfectly legal to claim that going to church and praying might increase your chance of a happy after-life.
As for Sharia Law. It should have no legal status in this country. What should be allowed is ‘Sharia Rules’, whereby individuals can choose to lead their own lives according to Sharia as long as that doesn’t harm anyone else, and people can elect to settle disputes under Sharia rules if all parties are willing to do so and the result is not in conflict with our national laws.
I also think that the heaviest penalty any religion should be allowed to impose should be expulsion from the religion.
Thoose-thaar Glasweejins’ll cert’ly need th’ol translairter dew they ever come round Cromer wuy, bor! Goo’t Hell bor, they speak a whool differt language up in Scotland, don’t tha? Tell ya ‘nother thing for nothin’ – I reck’n they don’t hev seven differt wuds for lobster pot up there, bor!
I don’t like the fact that my hair is going grey. But then I am over 50 so I should be thankful I haven’t gone bald.
What we need to do is to encourage more people to buy cigarettes but not smoke them. That way it helps the economy without harming the nation’s health! :lol: :lol:
Hasn’t someone tried to get Ickworth House in Suffolk back from the National Trust because he claims his uncle, who owned it, was an alcoholic and was habitually drunk during the period when he made his will leaving the place to the NT?
In the case of this woman, the strange circumstances of the will make me feel that she was right to contest the will and deserves to get the inheritance.
I use the bus company analogy here.
If a bus driver working for a large group like First or Stagecoach knocks over and kills a pedestrian, should the chief executive of the company resign?
It depends on the circumstances – if it was generally known that the driver in question was unsafe and the management had been alerted but had done nothing, then there should be resignations or sackings. If the accident was an out-of-the-blue incident, even if it was the driver’s fault, then the buck probably stops with the driver.
Statistically, in a large organisation, bad things will happen. Given the size od these bus companies, it’s inevitable that one or two pedestrians will be killed by one of their buses from time to time. In a large social services organisation, it’s inevitable that a child is going to be abused by someone known to the authorites – particularly since the abuses will do all the can to conceal what’s going on.
I wonder about all those pop artists who used the term ‘little girl’ as a term of enderment in their songs up to about the 1970’s. They wouldn’t get away with it now!
