Letters to the Editor
dogu44
Published Letters: 156 Editor's Choice: 7
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Very interesting...
[Read the article: Judge: 10-year-old "probably agreed" to sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So the judge, a woman, recognizes that even a 10 year old adolscent might have been developementally precoscious in her sexuality. Why is it we're interested in recognizing talent in all sorts of other aspects of life...and rewarding it...but when it comes to sex we must all mature at the state sanctioned rate. Should we not also keep little geniuses in lock step with their cohorts or is it just about sex that it upsets us...and by "us" I mean those who know what they know based on common knowledge. I pity the poor person who innocently finds that common knowledge works against the specifics of their situations.
As for the "adults"...what is that? They were 18 years and a day? And what would you do to punnish these "adults" and other consensual sex partners?
I suggest that modern women and anyone else consumed by this, would do well to study our primate cousins if they wish to more fully understand the range of sexuality in our fellow apes and in the mean time see to it that whatever course one takes when it comes to controlling sexual behavior, that it acknowledges the pathetically ill-informed laws which we evidently had handed down to us by the figment of an intoxicated monomaniac's imagination several thousand years ago and the logical, but since proven false, notions of sexual identify as handed down by a tight group of theorizing psychiatrists and social workers generations (and several revolutions in technology) ago.
Good gravey.
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Ignorance is good.
[Read the article: Throw the bums out of baseball's Hall of Fame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's admittedly a rare thing, but here we have a big problem, based on the degreee of consternation it's provoked, that will simply "go away" as soon as we stop paying any attention to it.
Corruption in professional sports, as in any human endeavor where prestige, power and wealth are at stake, is a sure thing. That our halls of congress are spending time (and our tax dollars) on a pointless issue regarding a bunch of overpaid infantile jerks is bad enough, but to hide behind the notion that our "youth" look up to these guys. Have they all been watching too many old Ronald Raygun movies, confusing 'em with reality? Kids look up to Pro Wrestlers and animate characters on TV too...should congress forego the problems of the war on drugs, the inept execution of the preposterous war on terror in order to use it's laser keen powers of perception to address problems in these areas too? Ha. Her'e a big problem, our public free museums are hurting for money and selling out to corporate sponsors, undermining the objective reality that museums present as part of our collective patrimony, but we only have enough money for congression security underground passageways. Insulate congress people from the anger of their people and you can be sure our problems will not go away thanks to their efforts. They will need a deeper underground tunnel soon enough.I'd like to grab the doofus Mitchell by his scrawny neck and rub his nose in crap until he felt embarrased just to see if he could...because if he isn't embarrased by this superficial sham than he and his collegues know no lower limit as to how far down they'll go, they know no shame.
Dupes.
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Just another attempt to sell books
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love reading and so a blatant attempt to get people to buy books is one that I will tolerate for almost any reason. Here's an example of one: with yet another explanation of why the questions asked by religionists need to be held in as high a regard as the questions asked by objective realists. I guess those who have reason to doubt but not the courage to abandon old concepts need this sort of security blanket...and if you have to burn a book or two, maybe these would be a good place to start, saving the ones with original ideas and factual info that we'd find usefull and relevant to our history worth preserving.
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Funny stuff here.
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the funniest things about religion, once you get over the human tragedy of stupidity leading the small minded to slaughter their neighbors, is that they consistently try to frame the discussion about them, since how can anyone who doesn't believe in the mystical being I do have any understanding of what it is I believe.
Does he actually think that the great aethiests of the past were any different from the aethiests of today? Would Nietzche have ignored the fossil record and cosmology in order to maintain the ignorance of biblical literalists?
Maybe this arguement will sharpen this theologicians mind to the sharpness required to burst the bubble of ignorance he claims he must bring into every room and discussion that he runs across. Seeing how religion and spiritual belief is being seen for what it is, a neuro-psychological after effect of the brain's structure, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting.