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The pain is caused by damage to your finger (probably visible on a cellular if not tissue level), which results in a rapid reaction through your CNS (also visible with the right equipment) to create the appropriate response; reflex action to remove it from the source of pain if necessary, sucking it, massaging it etc. "Pain" is a neurological communication between the brain and the rest of the body to alert you to something being wrong. Can't be put in a test tube, but can be clearly identified.They are an EYESORES!!!!0
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lemonjelly wrote: »I've had debates with friends for some time now about how men are percieved within society now.
One thing that has particularly struck me is how they are portrayed in adverts. Some examples of the top of my head, the young chap in the washing powder advert who needs his shirt, hasn't got a clue how to use a washing machine, spills powder all over the floor, ends up wearing another shirt.
Another one that struck me is how families are portrayed. A lot of ads have a young(ish) family. The dad figure generally has a belly, may be balding a little, & is generally a useless bumbling clumsy figure, falling over, tripping up, incapable of basic tasks. Meanwhile they have a phenomenally gorgeous wife/partner, who multitasks about 10 jobs at once, & looks impeccable (& in my opinion, wouldn't touch the guy she's with in the ad in a million years!)
It strikes me as a little wierd...
it's because women make most of the purchasing decisions in the home and this is how many women (possibly the ones more susceptible to advertising) like to see themselves. have you ever seen mumsnet (puke).Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
i don't think we should have state funded faith schools. i don't think it is right to teach minors that there is a hell with fires that are real and eternal (as the pope reasserted recently), or that you are one of a 'chosen' people or that it is sinful to allow men to see your hair, or that homosexuality is sinful, or that contraception is sinful. all of these things are currently taught in state funded faith schools in the uk.
They may well be currently taught in state funded religious schools, but not I'm sure at all of them. I went to (amoung others) private religious schools, not only were we given wht sounds like the best education ever in birth control, but when I felt that I needed to make some sort of statement bout my own lack of faith I was supported and loved through my ''rebellion''.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »You can't see truth in more than 1 way. It either is true, or it isn't.
Religious believers & atheists have beliefs, & these may be mistaken, misguided or affected by their presuppositions.
However truth is truth, whatever way you look at it. Looking at it from a different angle won't make it untrue, or different. It is still true.
Conversely, no matter how hard you examine something false, it remains false.
Who knows which truth is true.....
the only thing I am 100% sure of is fallibility....but I may be wrong....0 -
atheism is not a belief. it is the absence of a belief. all babies are atheist.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0
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lostinrates wrote: »They may well be currently taught in state funded religious schools, but not I'm sure at all of them. I went to (amoung others) private religious schools, not only were we given wht sounds like the best education ever in birth control, but when I felt that I needed to make some sort of statement bout my own lack of faith I was supported and loved through my ''rebellion''.
it doesn't matter how many of them lir. it shouldn't be taught in ANY of them. unfortunately i don't think any of the major parties has the guts to stand up and say faith teaching has no place in schools. they've just let themselves be bullied into agreeing to the demands of the catholics.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23808956-ed-balls-to-let-faith-schools-teach-homosexuality-is-wrong.doThose who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »IIRC Stephen Hawking also believes in a god, but I'm less sure that he's defined what actual religion he leans towards.
Hawking is famously reluctant to talk about God.
I suspect that is because he finds it impossible to make any logically coherent statement about what existed before the Big Bang (in fact since time is a property of the Universe, even saying before the Big Bang is incoherent). Logic is a property of our Universe, and cannot be used to imagine things outside the Universe.
This is my opinion which is why I have no opinion either way on the existence of God, because there is no concept to believe or disbelieve. I find militant atheists to be just as misguided and annoying as evangelicals.Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith0 -
it doesn't matter how many of them lir. it shouldn't be taught in ANY of them. unfortunately i don't think any of the major parties has the guts to stand up and say faith teaching has no place in schools. they've just let themselves be bullied into agreeing to the demands of the catholics.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23808956-ed-balls-to-let-faith-schools-teach-homosexuality-is-wrong.do
Actually, I agree that faith should be kept out of state schools, but for me that includes allowing access to opinion other than mainstream scientific one. I also think there is a caveat in my agreement that faith should be kept out, in that I think faithS shouldn't. Understanding the people we live with is part of social education IMO. Parents are not always the best people to teach this. I find the bigotry equal in those who think one truth should be taught...what ever the ''truth'' they know to be.0 -
what makes someone a "militant atheist"? is it the desire to convert?Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0
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lemonjelly wrote: »By the way, I just thought I'd mention that I only started this thread for a giggle!
Seems to have got very deep & meaningful!:eek:
Who'dathunkit?:cool:
Me. Its a good thread, though provoking and giggle inducing both.0
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