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Roark
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 Posted: Fri 16 Jan 2009 7:21 Post subject: World News-Controversial stories welcome. |
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Alright this is where you talk about interesting events going on around you.
Here is mine.
Okay at a local shoprite a family walked in to get a cake for their son's 3rd
Birthday. But the deli clerk would not put the son's name on the cake.
Why because his name was Adolf Hitler Cambell. This family named all there children after Aryan related history. Now this is a huge controversy in my school right now. First thing that came to my mind. Why would you name your kid after a man like that. I don't care if it is just Adolf. Leave Hitler out of it, I tell yah some strange parents out there. Now I understand it is their culture but still. Why would you label your kid like that. How much is he going to go through cause of that.
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Jaden
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HA! Haven't heard (or read) someone talk about ShopRite in years! I agree, it is a little strange to do something like that, especially given the world's attitude toward Hitler and what he did.
Here is one from a class I am taking in college right now.
Imagine that you are in a class on Comparative Religions and your professor argues that all religious experience is false. It is nothing more than a projection of childhood fears (Freud). How would you answer your professor?
This was part of our discussion last week.
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Hyraxylos
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| Jaden wrote: |
| How would you answer your professor? |
I'd tell him that a lot of people must have been having some straaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange childhoods. 
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Ragnarok
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| Posted: Fri 16 Jan 2009 12:31 Post subject: Re: World News-Controversial stories welcome. |
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| dragonwriterX wrote: |
| Okay at a local shoprite a family walked in to get a cake for their son's 3rd Birthday. But the deli clerk would not put the son's name on the cake. Why because his name was Adolf Hitler Cambell. This family named all there children after Aryan related history. Now this is a huge controversy in my school right now. First thing that came to my mind. Why would you name your kid after a man like that. I don't care if it is just Adolf. Leave Hitler out of it, I tell yah some strange parents out there. Now I understand it is their culture but still. Why would you label your kid like that. How much is he going to go through cause of that. |
It's gotten worse: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6648877&page=1
Police have now removed all three children from their home.
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| Police, DYFS officials and a court spokeswoman declined to reveal the exact reasons the children were removed from their home, citing confidentiality, but a child protection official indicated it was not because of the children's names. |
So they say, but I have a very hard time believing it.
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Raven
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| Posted: Fri 16 Jan 2009 12:31 Post subject: |
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| Jaden wrote: |
Imagine that you are in a class on Comparative Religions and your professor argues that all religious experience is false. It is nothing more than a projection of childhood fears (Freud). How would you answer your professor?
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As a religious studies major, such an argument had validity. Of course, personally I think Freud was an idiot. But the true "origin" of religion is unknown. It is entirely possible religion is a projection of childhood fears, but such a conclusion ignores a lot of the evidence.
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SkieFireYokana
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First of all, about the kid named Adolf Hitler Cambell. From a legal perspective, the clerk and the store had every right to refuse service. You are legally permitted to refuse service to anyone for any reason at your discretion. So let them name the kid what they want, but don't get angry when people don't want to write "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler" on his cake. Some people care about the lives he shattered and the world he almost conquered. Make your own cake.
As for the comment that all religions are false and just a projection of childhood fears... well, okay. I can live with that. So what if I am afraid of the dark and have been, though? Does that mean that my childhood fear of the dark somehow makes me religious? I am afraid of many things. Some of them are irrational fears. And as a child I was afraid of more. So I ought to be religious in some way? I think I actually got the long end of that stick, because I'm spiritual without being religious. As far as I can tell, everything I "believe" in has been confirmed for practical purposes or else is not of terrible consequence. And it's not even a religion, per se... I think there's some kind of requirements like dogma and inclusion of ethics and something like that. I don't have any of those. The only laws pertaining to moral behavior I am obligated to follow are the ones governing whatever patch of land I happen to live on. And even then, if I can get around that and want/need to, I will. That's because I'm evil. :3 But, I had lots of fears. And I am not any sort of religion. I've got a bit of a belief system going on, but it's based mostly upon experience, personal and otherwise, and reproducable conclusions. Don't you love the scientific method?
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Ragnarok
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Here's one that I stumbled across today.
"No vampires here!"
Or so says the Boston Latin School, in one of the strangest news stories I've seen in quite a while.
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Boston Latin School headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta issued a notice to parents and students yesterday quashing rumors of vampires at the school. An odd move for the head of a historic elite preparatory school, but Teta and Boston public school officials declined to elaborate on what triggered the unusual message.
They did, however, adamantly offer assurances that no one at the school has been hurt, arrested - or bitten. |
 
Seriously, though...what? And having been in high school once, I can just see all the kids there getting a kick out of the official denial. "See? They're trying to hide it. The faculty's been turned!"
...Or at least, that's what I (and probably a fair number of my friends...we were an odd bunch) would have been saying, right after getting through a long bout of roaring laughter at how bizarre the whole thing is.
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Jasriella
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Makes me wonder what they'd do with us dragon-kin once they decided to take note  . Better be careful or we'll let the school on fire with our breath .
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