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Originally posted by crmanager
This is a perfect example of what I was expecting.
No, I don't care if Jimmy is in the classroom. I care that his parents BOB and TOm are trying to convince my kids that BOB and TOM is equal to a straight marriage.
You CAN NOT go down the road of "All things are equal." Can't. Won't happen. Look at Rome. Look at the Greeks.
Affluence breeds the fight out of people. We are so wealthy that we are no discussing if BOB and TOM deserve public acknowledgemenent of their relationship. If animals deserve the same rights as people. If Parents have no say over their children. If Christianity is deserving of respect. If the U.S should even exist.
Originally posted by Demetre
Personally I think we should have a female based govt running our country, maybe the world. Men have over time proven theirselves lacking in the abilty, hence the state of our world
Originally posted by andy1033
reply to post by Nightchild
I personally think we will be 1 gender one day. That is not to say either gender, but i think mankind will decide to go that way. Obviously science will come along that says that most things are possible.
I am not sure if then we will be religious still or spiritual, but i think humans needs some sort of sprital experience. Also factually proving other dimensions may also help this.
Foucault begins his history in the Middle Ages, noting the social and physical exclusion of lepers. He argues that with the gradual disappearance of leprosy, madness came to occupy this excluded position. The ship of fools in the 15th century is a literary version of one such exclusionary practice, the practice of sending mad people away in ships. However, during the Renaissance, madness was regarded as an all-abundant phenomenon because humans could not come close to the Reason of God. As Cervantes' Don Quixote, all humans are weak to desires and dissimulation. Therefore, the insane, understood as those who had come too close to God's Reason, were accepted in the middle of society. It is not before the 17th century, in a movement which Foucault famously describes as the Great Confinement, that "unreasonable" members of the population systematically were locked away and institutionalized. In the 18th century, madness came to be seen as the obverse of Reason, that is, as having lost what made them human and become animal-like and therefore treated as such. It is not before 19th century that madness was regarded as a mental illness that should be cured, e.g. Philippe Pinel, Freud.
Originally posted by gift0fpr0phecy
On ATS, what is considered insanity to the majority of the world is actually welcomed. If you don't become insane they will repel you away from this website.
Originally posted by Clark Savage Jr.
In my view, it's intensified in recent years, the main culprit being that o' so great 'bastion of free speech' we call the internet in specific and pop culture in general.
Originally posted by Clark Savage Jr.
Or is the term 'archaic' not just as much of a label as insane?
Archaic: of, relating to, or characteristic of an earlier or more primitive time :
Sadly, the mechanism that drives one viewpoint is the same that drives the opposite. And to have the same driving force and to expect different results?
Christianity is good. So is Islam and Paganism. Let's play it all out and see who is there at the end