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Bronski
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| flotsam wrote: |
Oh, that's absolute cheap-shot balls, no? What exacerbated the same problem among the men?  Such a random bit of inflammatory crap shot in amongst data. |
Maybe. In all honesty I wasn't intending to bash Muslim culture in any way. I'm not on a crusade here. I was mostly interested in the bit about why Inuits have darker skin when they live so far north. In any case, is it entirely unreasonable to suggest that veiled women in Saudi Arabia, for example, aren't getting enough vitamin D? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Bronski wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
Oh, that's absolute cheap-shot balls, no? What exacerbated the same problem among the men? Such a random bit of inflammatory crap shot in amongst data. |
Maybe. In all honesty I wasn't intending to bash Muslim culture in any way. I'm not on a crusade here. I was mostly interested in the bit about why Inuits have darker skin when they live so far north. In any case, is it entirely unreasonable to suggest that veiled women in Saudi Arabia, for example, aren't getting enough vitamin D? |
Oh, no. Didn't mean you.
It's just many, many ostensibly objective academics resort to throwing in this kind of subjective arseity amongst all the facts and rubrics. Pisses me off it does. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not particularly concerned about the Discovery Institute's history or political agenda. There are good conservatives and bad conservatives. Bright ones and dull ones. Should we reject Yale as an institution of higher learning because George W. Bush turned out to be as much a deceiver as he is a decider? And, if one discovers gold in a filthy place, should he reject it?... |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
| There are good conservatives and bad conservatives. Bright ones and dull ones. |
Intelligence doesn't connote intelligent engagement with the world.
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| Should we reject Yale as an institution of higher learning because George W. Bush turned out to be as much a deceiver as he is a decider? |
Yes. Or for many other reasons, Skull and Bones for example. Yale pisses me off.
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| And, if one discovers gold in a filthy place, should he reject it?... |
This is why people who resort to aphorisms come off as schmucks. No, fruitmeister, a filthy location doesn't ruin the metal, but I think you'll find those "gold" earrings you just picked up turn your lobes green. (Or your nipples, you are a wild one, Rteacher.) But then again, if you acquire all your trinkets off the ground, you're bound to be adorned in alloy.
But then again, you lost any credibility whatsoever with this statement:
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| I'm not particularly concerned about the Discovery Institute's history or political agenda. |
And a big shout-out for you.
P.S. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I should have expressed my thought more clearly by adding "I'm not particularly concerned about the Discovery Institute's history and political agenda in my own assessment of the ideas presented in the evolution theory debate ... |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Still. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, it's very still - like a lamp in a windless room... |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
| Yeah, it's very still - like a lamp in a windless room... |
Illuminating. |
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