10 Things About Yourself

[En_Route]

I've no doubt that some cultures have healthier attitudes to sex. Though I must say that for the most part in the UK and Ireland a lot of the old taboos have been abandoned and homophobia has greatly abated.

[technolud]

All things being equal aside, I agree with this:

I'm not a fan of cultural relativism. Some cultures are barbarous and their mores and values create  far more unneccessary pain and suffering than liberal, democratic cultures. So it is not a matter for lamenting if they are displaced. Of course how they are displaced is another issue and that has to be weighed in the balance. I'm simply saying that all other things being equal the disappearance of some cultures should be a cause of celebration.

Morality may be relativistic, but unnecessary pain should be avoided when possible.

[Recusant]

7. Feel uncomfortable around jews.

Care to elaborate here?

Everyone keeps trying to kill them, but there still here ....it's awkward is all I'm saying

I see that DeterminedJuliet has already asked you about this. I also will ask you to clarify your position. What exactly is awkward for you personally about the history of the oppression of the Jews, and the fact that they still exist as a distinct people? Your cryptic response to Firebird, as you can see, only raised another question.

[harte.beest]

7. Feel uncomfortable around jews.

Care to elaborate here?

Everyone keeps trying to kill them, but there still here ....it's awkward is all I'm saying

I see that DeterminedJuliet has already asked you about this. I also will ask you to clarify your position. What exactly is awkward for you personally about the history of the oppression of the Jews, and the fact that they still exist as a distinct people? Your cryptic response to Firebird, as you can see, only raised another question.

They hold the record for the most attempted genocides. Alot of successful genocides (filled with child rape, slavery, torture) have occured, and many races are now extinct. But everytime someone tries to kill the Jews they never succeed.

The Native Americans are very jealous

[DeterminedJuliet]

Doesn't really explain the awkwardness

[Firebird]

7. Feel uncomfortable around jews.

Care to elaborate here?

Everyone keeps trying to kill them, but there still here ....it's awkward is all I'm saying

I see that DeterminedJuliet has already asked you about this. I also will ask you to clarify your position. What exactly is awkward for you personally about the history of the oppression of the Jews, and the fact that they still exist as a distinct people? Your cryptic response to Firebird, as you can see, only raised another question.

They hold the record for the most attempted genocides. Alot of successful genocides (filled with child rape, slavery, torture) have occured, and many races are now extinct. But everytime someone tries to kill the Jews they never succeed.

The Native Americans are very jealous

I'm not sure I know what you're trying to imply here. Personally it sounds like you're trying to make an indirect anti-semitic comment while trying to cloud it with some sarcasm or irony. Deny it all you want, but I've seen too much crap like that before. So please cease and desist. I'd say more, but luckily I don't have to considering the great job that the moderators do. I say that with absolutely no sarcasm or irony.

[Firebird]

All things being equal aside, I agree with this:

I'm not a fan of cultural relativism. Some cultures are barbarous and their mores and values create  far more unneccessary pain and suffering than liberal, democratic cultures. So it is not a matter for lamenting if they are displaced. Of course how they are displaced is another issue and that has to be weighed in the balance. I'm simply saying that all other things being equal the disappearance of some cultures should be a cause of celebration.

Morality may be relativistic, but unnecessary pain should be avoided when possible.

Yeah, I sympathize with this view more as well. Ayaan Hirsi Ali talked about this in her book "Infidel" about how Holland tried to form a multicultural society with the Islamists who were coming from Africa and the Middle East. Instead of integrating, they simply set up their own ghettos with their own schools and own rules, etc. Which was not good for the women, or people like Theo Van Gogh who were merely trying to express themselves in their Western country.
It does sound a little weird to be saying this. I am not a right-winger by any means, and have no issues with someone practicing their own religion/culture. But they need to respect the values of the country and culture they have chosen to live in, including rights of women, voting, respecting the court system, etc.

[Tom62]

I don't like the way this thread is going. HAF is not the place to make "jokes" about murder, genocide or racial superiority. That borders on hate speech. We are a forum with happy [a]theists as members, so let's keep it that way.

[kitty]

I like teenagers, including my own
I like gardening
I like cars
I can fix almost anything.  Its a curse.  Sometimes I get mad and say bad words while I do it.
I almost never get bored.
I'm totally comfortable with being an atheist.  Just seems so right.
I'm really glad I found the Happy Atheist Forum, but it is a little scary.  
I was born without the sports chromosome
My wife keeps me sane.
Everyone in my family, including Laszlo the dog, is smarter then me.  But I try harder

love it. i'm the simple one in the family, everyone else is academic (ish) and i'm the arty one (which is a nice way of saying, yr simple but you can do stuff with yr hands) lol.
i'm never bored coz i always have a bundle of projects going on, so i can pick and choose which one to work on at any time (does mean my house is a frickin mess lol).
and i too fix everything at least 3 times before it eventually goes in the bin (i have two boys that break stuff constantly grrrr).
nice to meet you sir, it that yr dog laszlo?

[technolud]

I lack the art gene as well as the sports one.  World needs more art me thinks.

Funny thing how being able to fix things can have a down side.  Its a struggle to (necessarily) let them go sometimes.

Laszlo shares my house but he's not really "mine".   I believe he views me as another Beta dog.  He's not very rules oriented.

[kitty]

I lack the art gene as well as the sports one.  World needs more art me thinks.

Funny thing how being able to fix things can have a down side.  Its a struggle to (necessarily) let them go sometimes.

Laszlo shares my house but he's not really "mine".   I believe he views me as another Beta dog.  He's not very rules oriented.

haha. my terrier knows i'm boss & wouldnt dare step out of line (so far as i know. but she could be dreaming up extensive plans to take over the world).
i find it hard to throw things away too.
worse thing about being able to fix things, is that i can pretty much make anything too (usually with a sewing machine), so when someone wants something, they always come to me. thankfully, i dont have the 'cant say no' gene (unlike my husband), so i dont run myself completely ragged. but i have made some marvellous things, including a massive bedroom for a caravan awning.

[Ali]

7. Feel uncomfortable around jews.

Care to elaborate here?

Everyone keeps trying to kill them, but there still here ....it's awkward is all I'm saying

I see that DeterminedJuliet has already asked you about this. I also will ask you to clarify your position. What exactly is awkward for you personally about the history of the oppression of the Jews, and the fact that they still exist as a distinct people? Your cryptic response to Firebird, as you can see, only raised another question.

They hold the record for the most attempted genocides. Alot of successful genocides (filled with child rape, slavery, torture) have occured, and many races are now extinct. But everytime someone tries to kill the Jews they never succeed.

The Native Americans are very jealous

I'm not sure I know what you're trying to imply here. Personally it sounds like you're trying to make an indirect anti-semitic comment while trying to cloud it with some sarcasm or irony. Deny it all you want, but I've seen too much crap like that before. So please cease and desist. I'd say more, but luckily I don't have to considering the great job that the moderators do. I say that with absolutely no sarcasm or irony.

Seconded. I suspect you may be trying for edgy and funny, but if so, you're failing. Miserably. Cut it.

[kitty]

7. Feel uncomfortable around jews.

Care to elaborate here?

Everyone keeps trying to kill them, but there still here ....it's awkward is all I'm saying

I see that DeterminedJuliet has already asked you about this. I also will ask you to clarify your position. What exactly is awkward for you personally about the history of the oppression of the Jews, and the fact that they still exist as a distinct people? Your cryptic response to Firebird, as you can see, only raised another question.

They hold the record for the most attempted genocides. Alot of successful genocides (filled with child rape, slavery, torture) have occured, and many races are now extinct. But everytime someone tries to kill the Jews they never succeed.

The Native Americans are very jealous

I'm not sure I know what you're trying to imply here. Personally it sounds like you're trying to make an indirect anti-semitic comment while trying to cloud it with some sarcasm or irony. Deny it all you want, but I've seen too much crap like that before. So please cease and desist. I'd say more, but luckily I don't have to considering the great job that the moderators do. I say that with absolutely no sarcasm or irony.

Seconded. I suspect you may be trying for edgy and funny, but if so, you're failing. Miserably. Cut it.

thirded, as it were.

[OldGit]

Fourthed

[The Magic Pudding]

Ye well cut it or say what you mean.  If you're going to enter an area where the worst of humanity wallow I think it best to make your meaning clear, there's too much dog whistling that goes on.

They hold the record for the most attempted genocides. Alot of successful genocides (filled with child rape, slavery, torture) have occured, and many races are now extinct. But everytime someone tries to kill the Jews they never succeed.

Gypsies are still about.

I'm not aware of many indigenous peoples who have been totally wiped out.  It was claimed the Tasmanian Aborigines were all gone but their descendants beg to differ.

diaspora: 1) The body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
              2)The dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized

It is no wonder that a widespread population can't be wiped out by a few hostile regimes.

The Native Americans are very jealous

That sounds kind of fatuous, in the absence of anything else I'm inclined to dismiss it as such.
I suppose native peoples could learn from the Jews, how to maintain their culture within another.  The problem of others resenting your success is a tricky one, I don't know if anyone has resolved that.