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From: Ken Smith on 28 Jan 2007 13:01 In article <TtudnWGN-8n7bSbYRVnyuAA(a)pipex.net>, T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: [....] >While this is purely anecdotal evidence (and I am fully aware of how >valuable that makes it...), the research which says "watching violence makes >you violent" is shaky at best. Some time back they did a study with children. IIRC they were about 10 years old. They divided them into three groups and shown a video and then allowed to play with an assortment of toys. Group 1: These children were shown a video on some completely bland subject and acted as a control group. Their selection of toys was used as the basis for comparison. Group 2: These children were told that they were watching a part of a TV drama and that they may see some actors they know in it. These children selected toys that were little different from group one's selections. Group 3: These children were shown the exact same video as group 2. The difference is that they were told that it was police footage of a real situation. The group 3 children more often selected the guns and other violent toys and engaged in violence related play. It seems that most children know the difference between real and imaginary violence and react differently to the two. This may be part of why studies on the effects of violence on TV are so hard to repeat. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 28 Jan 2007 13:11 In article <pan.2007.01.28.13.38.31.131504(a)hell.corn>, The Demon Prince of Absurdity <absurd_number_of_nicks(a)hell.corn> wrote: [.....] >Xians who advocate the killing of gays or abortion doctors are precisely >as crazy as Muslims who advocate the killing of Westerners, and just as >dangerous to civilisation. No, they are more dangerous. They are more embedded within the civilisation they are attempting to destroy. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 28 Jan 2007 13:15 In article <45BBC61A.51BF754C(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Ken Smith wrote: > >> T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >> >I don't recall anyone saying fundamentalist Muslims were not insane. >> >> I did question what we mean by "insane". > >Both T Wake and I consider it crazy to believe in a 'God' or divine/ultimate >being. > >Does that make all Christians, Muslims, Hindus etc insane ? No, because your opinion doesn't matter to God. :) -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Eeyore on 28 Jan 2007 13:16 unsettled wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > unsettled wrote: > >>Eeyore wrote: > >>>The Demon Prince of Absurdity wrote: > >>>>unsettled did the cha-cha, and screamed: > >>>> > >>>>>Most fags are zealots of a sort. > >>>> > >>>>So, what leads you to believe that dehumanising people for their > >>>>sexuality is in any way rational? > >>> > >>>Who said "unsettled" was rational ? > >>> > >>>He/she seems to be full of bigotry and prejudice. > >> > >>That's one way to justify your stupidities. > >> > >>"Absurdity" wasn't clever enough to understand what I > >>wrote. Clearly you're not either. That's fine, you're > >>both still on the bell curve. > >> > >>Speaking about zealousness, read what you wrote in the > >>context of being zealous regarding political correctness. > > > > > > I have said nothing about politically correct zealots. You must have read some > > meaning into what I wrote that wasn't actually there. > > You wrote nothing about politically correct zealots. The point I > made, which you didn't understand, is that that you are one. > > Is that plain enough for you? It's plain enough to me in that case that you're an idiot who can't even see what's in front of your nose. Graham
From: Ken Smith on 28 Jan 2007 13:20
In article <17ednWsKKpGEfibYnZ2dnUVZ8surnZ2d(a)pipex.net>, T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: [.....] >> Some Christian cults won't even accept blood transfusions. How insane is >> that if >> you're condeming someone to die for a belief when life-saving treatment is >> readily available ? > >I hope that if their god does actually exist, they are all sent to hell. That is a completely repugnant suggestion. They believe something, they may be wrong but the only person they harm as a result is themselves. The fact that they had no evil intent makes them merely mistaken. The fact that they harm themselves only with this belief should not mean a trip to hell. > > -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge |