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sees all other religions as false and worshiping the Devil, Satan, Shaitan, Beelzebub, Lord of the flies etc, etc.
© of Winslie Gomez
Would you believe it! Fundamentalist US Christians are funding, for our UK Gov’t to be lo be lobbied by deeply committed Christians who are no different from Enoch Powell.
Islam and the babies they produce is the the enemy!
In this instance it’s the embryo bill
Didn’t Herod try that trick of killing all the babies, yet, it didn’t work so why won’t we learn.
Is either completely bonkers or very astute.
Fayed seeks judicial review in Diana inquest.
Mohamed Al Fayed will today seek permission for a judicial review to force Prince Philip to give evidence into the deaths of his son, Dodi, and of Diana, Princess of Wales.
He also wants the Queen to be asked questions arising from the evidence, although he does not want her to appear in person.
Fayed has accused Philip of being “a Nazi”. He has alleged that Dodi and Diana were murdered in a conspiracy initiated by the royal family, authorised by Tony Blair and executed by the security services and photographers. As reported in the Guardian
I could be rushing around a busy shopping centre (mall) minding my own business and I catch a glimpse of one of those people from a cult or the portly female with a beaming smile, trying to flog a home shopping catalogue.
So, why oh why! do they make a beeline for me. I have done my best to avoid eye-contact, I keep my eyes fixed to some far away asteroid, walked as far away as possible to the furthest available, opposite side. Even try to blend in with the slowly gliding Goths. All to no avail!
Do I have some kind of beacon on my head with flashing invisible neon sign that blinks “Get this mug?”
My friend was telling me that this was a reality in the on-line marketing world where if you purchase or sign-up for a newsletter, your details are passed around to other firms that bombard you with junk emails. He reckons that thousands of names of such “mugs” are traded as a commodity. I have no idea if this is true but can accept the possibility.
Attraction, chemistry, call it what you may, is a subject that haunts me:
a) I’m rubbish at it.
b) I seem to attract all the wrong types of people.
I also recall reading an article that claimed people pick dogs that resemble themselves so was astounded to read this theory of CONVERGENCE
On People and their dogs
There are two basic mechanisms that could create an actual similarity between people and their dogs. People might select dogs that are like them, or the features of people and their dogs might converge over time.
There is some evidence that the facial appearance of married couples converges over time (Zajonc, Adelmann, Murphy, & Niedenthal, 1987); judges have rated couples physically more similar after 25 years of marriage than as newlyweds. If a similar process were to occur with people and their pets, then one might find that the ability to match them grows with the length of ownership. In contrast, if owners resemble their dogs because of selection rather than convergence, then there should be no correlation between the degree of resemblance and the time spent together.
The conclusion of the study was;
We also cannot know from these data if people can tell whether a particular person is an owner of a dog, as opposed to, say, a weasel. However, it does appear that, as in the case of selecting a spouse (Berscheid & Reis, 1998), people want a creature like themselves.
Perfectly understandable! So I put it to the test and was surprised to find that couples young and old do have similar features.
There are many theories that explain interpersonal attraction:
the proximity effect (Berscheid & Reis, 1998, Byrne 1997),
the similarity theory (Klohnen & Luo, 2003, Berscheid, 1985),
the reciprocal linking (Kenny, 1994, Murray & col., 1998),
the physical attraction (Berscheid & Reis, 1998).
the social exchange theory (Rusbult, Martz & Agnew, 1998),
the equality theory (Clark, 1984),
the evolutionist theory (Buss, 1996) and
the socio-cultural perspective of couple’s relationship (Archer, 1996).
The Chemistry of attraction is not purely on a physical level. Humans communicate in other subliminal ways.
Ask yourself, if you are looking for someone who looks like you?
Maybe you didn’t even consider it. Any thoughts?
If words were all it took, to say how I feel.
I LOVE YOU, with a loving look
would do, to show it’s real.
But actions speak louder than words.
Roses, perfume, gifts galore.
Sold by zillions across the world to herds
Just to prove you still have that allure.
It’s too easy, almost cheap cheat
Some countries even boycott the heat.
Is one day enough, a week, a fortnight or more?
To show the one I adore – so why am I a bore?
Lost the lure. Need a cure – for sure
To grow, mature, make you feel secure, pure and demure.
Love is an eternal gift to find, treasure, ensure.
Never obscure.
Happy Valentines Day
Photo: Thanks to WisDoc
What happened to good old tolerance?
Surely, it is not dead!
Bit pushed for time, so - May I point to Daniel Pipes of the New York Sun, August 29, 2007
Non-Muslims occasionally raise the idea of banning the Koran, Islam, and Muslims. Examples this month include calls by a political leader in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, to ban the Koran — which he compares to Hitler’s Mein Kampf — and two Australian politicians, Pauline Hanson and Paul Green, demanding a moratorium on Muslim immigration.
What is one to make of these initiatives? First, some history. Precedents exist from an earlier era, when intolerant Christian governments forced Muslims to convert, notably in 16th-century Spain, and others strongly encouraged conversions, especially of the elite, as in 16th- and 17th-century Russia. In modern times, however, with freedom of expression and religion established as basic human rights, efforts to protect against intolerance by banning the Koran, Islam, or Muslims have failed.
Read the rest for yourself and my advice would be, take your time and become acquainted with the various efforts throughout our human history to ban anything that does not sit confrotably with our value sytems.
