h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

yes, that's true. The above article is pure anecdote. But intersting nonetheless.

I will have to give it a butchers down the line.

I think problems occur when we are given a label that we disagree with.

For example I would react very strongly if accused of racism - unless it was by a french person, where I'd probably have to hang my head in shame.

However I admit to being anti-homosexual, in another thread someone pulled me up for my assumption that homosexuality and monogamy were exclusive. I didn't say it, but it was clear from my post that I thought it.

Whilst I am unable to understand the certainty expressed by fanatics, I understand some of the need they have for this belief. I cannot understand the attraction for a member of ones own sex. This enables me to lay the automatic response of those generally accused of racism - I have homosexual friends, this does not make me any less anti-homosexual, it just means that like most members of the human race I'm capable of choosing what I 'see' in any given situation.

We are infinitely capable of adapting our minds to fit the impractical and impossible, paradoxes we mentally dissemble daily.

"We are infintely capable of adapting our minds to fit the impractical and impossible, paradoxes we mentally dissemble daily"

and that may be our saving grace.

William Blake flags-up the dangers of holding firm and fixed opinions:

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water
and breeds reptiles of the mind."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28106900

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil - the niqab.



Remember when we used to have fun and lively conversations?

Ah yes, that was before PC. As Robert Crais said: The wimps are running the world.

Ah yes. But surely it is up to the perspective of the individual? Anyone can believe anything they want when it comes to religion and should do so without mockery, ridicule or disrepect. As long as they don't try to force their beliefs onto some one else, or sneer at another persons religion, then ok, let them believe what they want. Whatever relgion.Voltaire said something along the lines of : "I don't have to agree to what you are saying, but I'll defend to the death your rtight to say it."