civilisationReview

“   Our Consciousness of an atrocious act determines the degree to which it conflicts with our Conscience. The less explicit the act, the less conscious we are of it, and the less it conflicts with our conscience. What a beautifully mephistophelean equation. Ask yourself, "How do I feel after seeing the above?"  What if you were given just statistics instead of all of the above?  How would you feel then? I have to admit, reading these accounts really got my stomach turned. The word, 'Terrible', isn't enough to appreciate these horrendous atrocities in Paris. But, that's the problem isn't it. When i read about how US-UK embargoes killed half a million children in Iraq via embargoes, or this or that drone attack, or invasion, etc, I am just given the information, and statistics. “   This is what I term, 'the 3 dimensionalising' of such deaths in the west, whilst others are just a uni-dimensional statistical print on paper. But when it comes to 9/...

Ed: When you are pregnant, your body belongs to the child as well. The woman's ' choice' is only half as relevant or significant. In the case of triplets.... Well, you do the arithmetic. Ed: How is it that people here care more about goddamn dogs then unborn babies?!?! Lyndsay: Hmm perhaps because dogs are breathing on their own as a fully formed being in the world not inside anyones stomach? They arent just a clump of cells in someone elses bodily organ that would cease to be if anything happened to that host. Elizabeth: Dogs think and feel and communicate on some level. Kai Meiling: They also taste better Ed: You guys are missing the point. What is a dog's potential? Will it one day become a talking, voting, loving, creative, intelligent, empathetic, multicultural, philosophic, religious, insightful, wise....person? Every baby you kill in the womb has the potential for all of that. Do you toss out a seed because it has yet to bloom? In potential, a dog pales in ...