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Monthly Archives: June 2002

Glossary of Islamic terms


Darwinís great insight was that

Darwinís great insight was that you need only three things; heredity, variation and selection - and then evolution is inevitable. - Susan Blackmore

Calculations suggest that the world

Calculations suggest that the world gross domestic product could be increased three times over with the workforce responding to the location of jobs.
{ This takes not toll of social, political cultural and medical costs that the mass immigration of unskilled workers would entail. It assumes that economic benefits are the only consideration. [...]

Immigartion debate a la BBC

Environment editor of The Times Anthony Browne argues against large-scale immigration but Professor Nigel Harris of University College London disagrees and says all immigration controls should be abolished.
Anthony Browne
“I’m not anti-immigration, I’m in favour of balance and sustainable immigration and what we have in Britain is completely unbalanced. About 500,000 people arrived in the UK [...]

Paranoid about being forced to be sane? Well spotted…

Tough new mental health laws proposed - BBC
“Hundreds of people with mental illness could find themselves locked up under the biggest shake-up of mental health services for decades. “

“I grew cynical when belching slabs of female swineflesh insisted that I was the pig”

Jim Goad, legendary creator of ANSWER Me! zine, author of The Redneck Manifesto and victim of false allegations of brutality, is out of prison. He also ha a new book out - Shit Magnet - and by all accounts it is superb.
The title quote comes from a profile by the New York Press.
Jim [...]

Johns prefer blondes

Extraordinary and terrifying article about the train of young white mid western girls into big city prostitution and sexual abuse. Here are some excerpts:
“The emerald-eyed prostitute from Kansas just escaped from two New York johns who kidnapped her, bound her naked in their basement, assaulted her and chopped off her strawberry blond locks while shouting [...]

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped - Liberian Proverb


Christian sins

Pride is excessive belief in one’s own abilities, that interferes with the individual’s recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.
Envy is the desire for others’ traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that [...]

Christian virtues

The Cardinal Virtues:
prudence, temperance, courage, justice
Classical Greek philosophers considered the foremost virtues to be prudence, temperance, courage, and justice. Early Christian Church theologians adopted these virtues and considered them to be equally important to all people, whether they were Christian or not.
The Theological Virtues:
love, hope, faith
St. Paul defined the three chief virtues as love, which [...]