tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28704538345726584552012-02-16T09:51:22.029-08:00If the unexamined life is not worth living... then let's examine it.Voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08685125376038245332noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870453834572658455.post-43448880354596853122010-08-30T18:12:00.000-07:002010-08-30T18:12:52.505-07:00

Immigration is a very complicated issue, with there being little consensus amongst the politicians on how to approach it. It is also a delicate issue one that gets certain approaches called racist, right-winged and compared to the 3rd Reich. On the other side there are approaches that have been seen as being too relaxed and allowing anyone to trample over the original citizenry of the country.

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Recently the go ahead has been given to building a Mosque near ground zero, the place were extremist Muslims bombed the World Trade Centre Towers killing around 3000 people on the 11th of September, 2001. Responses to this have been largely “YOU CANNOT BUILD THIS HERE!” and others such as this cartoon. I am not sure what the cartoon is supposed to convey cause no amount of being assholes in the

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We could benefit from the use of this organ, hopefully it is not completely atrophied Most of humans regardless of political and religious orientation are essentially the same. They are the same in regards to their unwavering belief in the dogma and agenda of their preferred religion and/or political organisation. We blindly follow the peers in our like-minded groups and support other members of

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At the start of the year in university when in residence everyone was getting to know each other, we would break the ice with a “Hey, what are you studying?” and hopefully kick off a good conversation and a friendship. Studying history and political science is something that is not seen as having so much of a great future, but nonetheless I was surprised to hear, “What job can you even get with

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Twenty of the world's most pathetic clowns arrived in Toronto last weekend for a clown convention that was widely protested. Being around the region, I got the chance to witness how the downtown core was turned into a police state in order to protect the lives of the world leaders and essentially harass and abuse the normal citizens (you know the people they are SUPPOSED to protect and serve!). I

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I am currently away on official relaxation business, I should have posted this sooner but I shall return to blogging by the end of the month. Until then the place might be like a ghost town.

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Society... it's like this haircut on a much grander scale In Western society a war has been declared, no this is not the war on terror which in itself is a recent war, this is a different war, it is rather a war where the casualty is far greater. The casualty of this war is in itself Western culture, the future of the West and considering the power of that is currently concentrated in the West,

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This part 1 of 5 of a series on Consumerism, Economics and Global Politics.Our existence summed up in shopping, the results of when consumerism prevented us from making time to higher level thinking Consumerism has been around in one form or another for a very long time, but the key difference is that buying beyond one’s needs has been for most of that time reserved for the rich and powerful. The

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The year is 1938; the heads of France and Britain meet with Hitler, writing off the Czechoslvak state from the maps. It was one of the greatest acts of appeasement in history, an act that convinced Hitler that he had real power against the Western European states. And he exercised that power in 1939 again, but this time he met with a no from the Poles over the Gdańsk (Danzig) Corridor.

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Do many people take the time anymore to just for a few moments of their day to turn off technology and just be enveloped in nature or in the company of other people? Are too many people connected to the world via the new and rapidly expanding technology network to even care about the world we live in? Well here is a challenge to you, and it is a challenge to everyone that cares to take it up.

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The majority of posts on this blog have been of a serious nature it is time to lighten the mood. Recalling an older post, the review of Dinesh D'Souza's book What's So Great About Christianity, I made a response to his attempts at attacking atheist morality, or secular morality. But yet what about Christian morality? The great moral force of Christianity is the sole morality that is worth

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Picture: An insecure man with low self-esteem that boosts it by making stuff up that he can exclusively control This article in the BBC, details the lengths that women in particularly African and Asian countries go to restore their virginity. A concept that is completely man made, in this sense actually dreamed up by men. The loss of virginity outside of marriage is such a taboo that these women

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The word “Islam” has many different connotations in our modern day world; however, they are mostly negative. One thing that we can say with certainty is that Islam is a religion, an ideological construct, true one that claims to have a divine overseer, but an idea or meme nonetheless. In no way does that include the definition that Islam (which is a religion) is a race, it would be akin to saying

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Democracy – the rule of the people stemming from ancient Greek words of demos meaning people and kratos meaning power. Democracy is held so dearly that for its sake we fought fascism and continued the ideological war against communism, while in more recent times democracy has been invoked to wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The democratic ideal has become so entrenched in society that it is

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So as we go about our daily lives we do not devote much time to introspection or self reflection. When most people hear of this their minds immediately shift to something like Hinduism or Buddhism with their emphases on meditation, but this is also a forgotten part of Western tradition. Various ancient philosophers espoused this idea and some even died defending it, in the face of incredible

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There is great familiarity surrounding the genocides in Rwanda or the Holocaust, possibly because of their suddenness and the huge death tolls that were left in their wake. There is another form of genocide that is far worse than those two notable examples. It may not take so many lives in the span of a month or a few years, but it takes lives nonetheless. This type of genocide is odd as well,

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Aveda: Goddess of Nature apparently There is no real doubt that we, particularly in the West, live in an extremely materialistic culture dominated by consumerism. If there is any doubt for this, I urge you to flip through a magazine and just look at the number of ads, on television, or on billboards on your way around the city today. Also walk through a shopping mall on a busy day and observe the

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The Good -          An introductory book to the Christian Arguments-          Does not outright reject scientific evidence like creationists do-          Does make some interesting points The Bad -          Weak Arguments (too little space given to the amount of his arguments)-          Huge misuse of evidence (as long it supports his position it is true if not then it is false)-          Straw

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With the advent of the internet, cell phones, mp3 players etc. we have become increasingly disconnected from nature. By nature, I do not mean to say only forests, rivers, mountains and that lot, but by a larger extent connections with other humans. True, we have Twitter and Facebook, a few years ago it was MySpace all serve to help us to better connect with other humans, we can send an email,

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Today during an attempt to land at Smolensk Airport, the Polish Presidential Airplane crashed killing all 96 people on board. The deaths included 7 crew members and 89 officials and representatives of the Polish Government. Among the dead was the President and his wife. An event that single handedly wiped out a sizeable chunk of Poland's political elite as well as the military command. They were

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When apathy strikes its effects are felt throughout the world, these are effects that lead to governments and corporations to do as they see fit, and the public’s silence is taken to mean consent. Even the occasional voices that do say ‘no’ are trampled over, as they are too few to make a difference. Rape is rape if no consent has been given or if the advances were rejected, but yet when applied

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Katyń, 1940, 22 000 Polish officers were executed by the USSR on Stalin's orders. It is a particularly significant event for Poles as the officers killed here were not only career soldiers, but most of them were engineers, doctors, scientists and the intelligentsia. In effect it was killing the top tiers of society that were necessary to keep the administration running in a future post-war

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This is an earlier article that I wrote that served as an inspiration for this blog. "It's been so much easier since we did away with actually educating the students!" The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. -Socrates This quote, attributed to Socrates through the works of Plato, is one of the most enduring quotes from this renowned man. Socrates was a man who died for his

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America has long been known as the great defender of democracy and a bastion of freedom, but the center of the democratic world is also the heart of illusion. America has long been in opposition to the single party states of the world such as the USSR, but behind the democratic name it is no different from the very enemies it fought. Welcome to the world of the American single-party state. In

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For Europeans it is unavoidable that the current landscape of the continent is largely a result of a single religion, though the religion has undergone many schisms, it can still be viewed as the central driving force in the history of Europe. It is a continent with a cultural landscape that has been reinvented and solidified through Christianity, though nations may stretch to the time of the

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So here is a light image to start off this blog: Ah, Lil jon, a great contemporary thinker, pushing the envelope of thought ever further with his deep questions.

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