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Railway Failed to Promote Woman to Yardmaster Position, Federal Agency Charges
BALTIMORE – One of the nation's premier transportation companies engaged in unlawful sex discrimination when it refused to provide a female employee with training necessary to obtain a promotion to a yardmaster position, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.
The railroad removed Kathryn Class from yardmaster training and replaced her with a less qualified male employee, the EEOC said in its lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway Company (Civil Action No. 1:09-cv-02566-RDB), filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The company claims it removed her from the training class based on its policy prohibiting individuals from directly or indirectly supervising, or being supervised by, a relative. The EEOC charged this reason was but a ruse for sex discrimination because, despite this policy, the railroad has employed male employees who were supervised by a relative, or who supervised a relative.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964prohibits discrimination in training and promotions based on sex. The EEOC attempted to reach a voluntary settlement before filing its lawsuit. The EEOC seeks injunctive relief, including policies, procedures and training to prevent future workplace discrimination. The EEOC also seeks to have the company compensate Class for her monetary losses and emotional pain and humiliation.
"Everyone deserves the freedom to compete in the workplace on a fair and level playing field, without discriminatory barriers to advancement," said EEOC Acting Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence. "Title VII protects women as they attempt to move into traditionally male-dominated occupations."
In Fiscal Year 2008, sex-based filings with the EEOC jumped to 28,372, an increase of 14% from the prior fiscal year.
According to Norfolk Southern Corporation's web site, www.nscorp.com, its subsidiary Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates approximately 21,000 route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia. Norfolk Southern is North America's largest rail carrier of metals and automotive products.
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Phoenix Am 2014 recap
Aled Midler, B/S noseblunt
Another Phoenix Am has come and gone, and with it came a whole gaggle of young shredders pouring their heart and soul into what they hoped would be the best three minutes of skating they had ever done. Some left with cash prizes and high accolade, while some left with shattered dreams and a burning fire inside to climb higher on the leader board next year. Here, little Alex Midler is growing into some serious man tricks. Backside noseblunts are usually reserved for people with a driver's license.
Boo Johnson, noseblunt
Boo Johnson was speeding through these nosegrinds and popping out so nice he was almost landing on the next obstacle.
Chase Webb, B/S 360 kickflip
Chase Webb killed it with these backside 360 kickflips on the big bank, and he was the only person to do them all weekend.
David Loy, ollie up lipslide
David Loy has been skating in the Phoenix Am for years now. Hopefully with tricks like this gap up to lipslide, he wont be in the am ranks by next year.
Dom Walker, kickflip F/S 5-0
Dom Walker could flip into anything on this hubba, on any given try, but on this particular descent he chose to kickflip into a 5-0.
Jon Nguyen, switch heel
Jon Nguyen isnt much for contest skating, if you ask him. If you ask anyone else they will tell you that this switch heelflip was smooth.
Matt Berger, B/S Smith
Matt Berger skated with power and finesse all the way to first place. This waist-high back Smith from flat was one of the most impressive moves of the weekend.
Mickey Papa, nollie heelflip krook
Mickey Papa can do tricks that most people have only seen in video games, so it makes sense that a nolle heel krook would be a go to trick in his lines.
Patrick Ryan, Indy air
Patrick Ryan flew higher than anyone else this weekend, and gave the crowd a stiff neck from looking up at this Indy air.
Tristan Funkhouser, nosegrind tailgrab
T- Funk skated with the cool, laid back demeanor of someone twice his age, and even pulled out tricks out of the old guy bag too, like this nosegrind tailgrab.
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Shark says of LGF: "LGF is an indispensible resource for all things related to the intertwined evils of militant Islamism, Arab fascism, anti-Semitism, and their apologists in the western world. You will find far more timely news and honest information about the dangers emanating from the Middle East over at LGF than you will in the mainstream American media. And not only does Charles defend America and Israel with passion and good sense but he also has a wonderful sense of humor. (See for example, the ongoing series of 'What's on Arafat's Desk?'.)"
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Shark himself deserves recognition today. From him we learn the following: "In 1998, the voters of Washington State passed ballot measure I-200, which stated: 'The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting…'[this explicitly applies to school districts within the state].
"I-200 passed with 58% of the vote. On Thursday, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the Seattle School District may use race as a factor in assigning students to public schools. The majority opinion is a marvel of sophistry and word play that flagrantly mocks the clear intent of I-200, that the state shall not 'discriminate against' anybody on the basis of race, ethnicity, etc.
"'The meaning of 'discriminate against' is less clear.' I guess that depends on what your definition of 'is' is. But I think that the parents of any child who doesn't get into her first-choice school because she is the wrong color will understand exactly what 'discriminate against' means, as did the 1.1 million people who voted for I-200."
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More than a billion kilometers from here, a city-bus-sized robot has just rounded the corner on a close looping flight around Saturn. I'm talking about Cassini, a huge autonomous spacecraft that is now on the outbound leg of its 166th elliptical orbit of Saturn. It might seem pointless to count orbits, like counting up the school days in a year; but in fact it's extremely important to count up Cassini's orbits, because certain orbits, including the 166th, are special.
Cassini orbits Saturn, but it's not the only thing circling out there; there are also Saturn's rings, on their own circular orbits, as well as seven moons that are large enough to be somewhat spherical. Cassini's orbit crosses the moons', but most of the time, the moons are nowhere near Cassini when it crosses their orbits. Most of the time. Sometimes, though, a Cassini orbit is planned and timed just exactly so that Cassini and one of the moons wind up in very nearly (but not exactly) the same place at the same time. One of these encounters happened on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, when Cassini's navigators placed it within 74 kilometers of the little moon Enceladus. That's a pretty amazing accomplishment, when you realize that Enceladus' orbital speed around Saturn is about 13 kilometers per second, and Cassini's speed past Enceladus was about 7.5 kilometers per second. Miss the timing by just a few seconds, and you miss the close-encounter data collection, or worse, you crash into a moon.
Anyway, when Cassini flies close by Saturn's moons, it can get very pretty photos like this one. This was taken after Cassini's closest approach, when it had receded to a distance of 140,000 kilometers away. This is a color view of a skinny crescent Enceladus that shows why this particular little moon is so cool. It's a tiny world with enormous geysers erupting from its south pole. These geysers have been erupting continuously, as far as we know, since Cassini first saw them in 2004, and probably for a great deal longer than that.
I want to point out how incredibly cool it is, not only that Cassini flies close enough to Saturn's moons to take pictures like this, but that I, as a member of the unwashed public (and not a member of the Cassini mission team) can get my grubby hands on the images just hours after Cassini is done radioing them across 1,300,000,000 kilometers of empty space to a gigantic dish here on Earth.
You can get to these pictures, too. The Cassini mission is one of two right now that post their pictures directly to the Internet, as soon as they are received on Earth. (The other is the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.) For Cassini's pictures, go to the Cassini Raw Images Website, and click the arrow to browse the most recent pictures, or select Saturn or one of its moons from the little dropdown menu, and browse data fresh from Saturn to your heart's content.
Just a decade ago, you would have had to wait for months or years for these data, and even then there'd be a steep learning curve to figuring out how to even open the files, and probably a drive to some NASA library to get your hands on the data in the first place. Now, you can just sit at home and see views of Saturn and its moons that are just hours old. Depending on the time of day that you hit JPL's website, you could even be among the first people in the world to see these brand-new images.
Cassini followed its stunt-flight past Enceladus with a close encounter with a larger moon, Dione. Here's one pretty picture from that encounter. To see more, and an explanation of how I make pretty pictures like this from the raw image data, visit my blog at The Planetary Society's website!


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Olympus has decided to rely on a format that so far has been a flop outside Japan. The company on Tuesday announced eleased the "OM-D E-M1", a mirrorless model Olympus says is the first of its kind to compete on quality with traditional SLR cameras.
The company's new flagship camera is the successor to the Olympus E-5 DSLR. The E-M1 is packed with speed and image quality that rivals full-frame DSLRs, in a portable yet lightweight body, Olumpus claims.
The Olympus OM-D E-M1 now works with all ZUIKO Digital lenses, in addition to working with M.ZUIKO Digital lenses. This is possible due to DUAL FAST AF system that combines both Contrast AF and On-Chip Phase Detection AF. The camera also featuers an electronic viewfinder (EVF) that is as large as a full-frame DSLR viewfinder and has added creative control.
Olympus also announced today the development of two new high-performance lenses: the ZUIKO Digital ED 12?40mm f2.8 PRO lens (24?80mm, 35mm equivalent) and the ZUIKO Digital ED 40?150mm f2.8 PRO (80?300mm, 35mm equivalent).
The OM-D E-M1 uses a new 16.3 megapixel Live MOS sensor, a new TruePic VII image processor, and its M.ZUIKO lenses. The TruePic VII image processor reduces noise and color fading at high ISOs for improved image reproduction. New Fine Detail Processing II technology configures the appropriate sharpness processing for each individual lens for high-quality resolution, as well as reducing compression artifacts when recording movies.
The newly developed DUAL FAST AF selects the ideal method, depending on lens type and settings: either 37-point On-Chip Phase Detection AF or 81-point Contrast Detection AF to maximize the performance of both ZUIKO and M.ZUIKO lenses. Both systems work together to improve continuous autofocus tracking performance when a Micro Four Thirds lens is attached and C-AF is selected. Users can select Group Target AF for a variety of situations, Small Target AF for pinpoint shooting, or Super Spot AF for capturing even smaller subjects and specifying a small area focus location during macro shooting.
The TruePic VII engine supports 10 frames-per-second shooting with a 41-picture RAW buffer in single autofocus (S-AF) mode and 6.5 frames-per-second shooting with a 50-picture RAW buffer in continuous autofocus (C-AF) mode. The 1/8000th of a second mechanical shutter freezes fast-moving subjects like a hummingbird and works in bright conditions to create pictures with dramatic blur.
The E-M1's built-in Interactive Electronic Viewfinder features a 1.48x (35mm equivalent of .74x) magnification factor that rivals full-frame DSLR cameras. The high-resolution 2.36 million-dot LCD panel provides a large image that is on a par with optical viewfinders. Tracking moving subjects is natural with a display time lag of only 0.029 seconds. Users can experiment with aspect ratio, magnification, color, and highlight and shadow, and the effects of camera settings on subjects are viewable prior to capturing the finished image. Adaptive Brightness Control raises the brightness when shooting in bright outdoor conditions and lowers the brightness in dark indoor conditions.
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DETROIT (AP) — A lawyer for Kwame Kilpatrick attacked the credibility of three key witnesses who testified at the former Detroit mayor's corruption trial, telling jurors Tuesday that they were "bought and paid for" through plea deals with the government.
James Thomas urged the jury during his closing argument to find reasonable doubt in the government's case, which included weeks of testimony about Kilpatrick's alleged misdeeds during his nearly seven years in office, including bribery, extortion, conspiracy and fraud.
He said Kilpatrick's access to large amounts of cash was due to savings and gifts from city workers and allies in the community. Thomas was deeply skeptical about very successful Detroit-area businessmen being portrayed as extortion victims who were muscled into hiring Kilpatrick buddy Bobby Ferguson on multimillion-dollar city water contracts.
"It sticks in my craw," the attorney said in an argument that lasted all morning.
Ferguson "works in the cold and digs in the dirt," Thomas said. "He has to pull up sewers that no one wants to touch. That's hard work."
Kilpatrick, his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, and Ferguson are charged with conspiring to rake in cash through rigged contracts, bribes and other criminal acts. Prosecutors gave their closing argument Monday, accusing Kwame Kilpatrick of turning city hall into a "private profit machine" where he spent more than $800,000 beyond his mayoral salary.
Thomas had a lot of ground to cover in his final remarks because Kilpatrick, 42, is charged with 30 crimes. Thomas zeroed in on three critical witnesses: political fundraiser Emma Bell, convention center contractor Karl Kado and Derrick Miller, Kilpatrick's high school pal who became a top aide. All have pleaded guilty in the corruption probe.
Bell said she gave Kilpatrick a cut of donations, pulling money from her bra during their private meetings. Kado said he delivered $10,000 payments to Kilpatrick in brown bags. Miller said he often was the middle man, passing bribes to his boss from Kado and others.
"They had a heavy motivation to implicate Kwame Kilpatrick. There's very little corroboration for what they say," Thomas said. They're "bought and paid for witnesses" with "hope of freedom and the hope that they can trade their troubles for Kwame Kilpatrick."
He said Bell had a chronic gambling problem, the 72-year-old Kado was "demented" and Miller was a crafty liar.
Another witness, Mahlon Clift, testified in September that Ferguson gave him $90,000 to deliver to Kilpatrick in 2008. He said he flew to Chicago from Detroit with money stuffed in his pants.
"Incredible. ... It doesn't make sense," Thomas told jurors. "Are you going to walk in that (airport security) line knowing you've got 90 grand of somebody's money?"
Kilpatrick's wife and three children live near Dallas. They attended the trial for the first time, along with his mother, former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit. On Facebook, Kilpatrick said he was "blessed" to have his "squad" in the courtroom for "victory day."
"Let Mr. Kilpatrick go home to his wife and kids," Thomas pleaded with the jury.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds suddenly stopped the afternoon session because of ill jurors. Wednesday is an off day. Lawyers for Ferguson and Bernard Kilpatrick will give closing arguments Thursday, followed by a rebuttal from prosecutors and more jury instructions from the judge. It's unclear whether deliberations will begin Thursday or Friday.
Kilpatrick resigned as mayor in 2008 in another scandal. He pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by lying in a civil case about whether he had had sex with a top aide. He subsequently served 14 months in prison for violating his probation in that case.
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vir litterarum wrote:A key for Bradley's Arnold's Latin Prose Composition is listed on Amazon.com, but it is currently unavailable. Does anyone know where I could purchase one of these?
Interaxus wrote:In the same thread Didymus (great Bradley fan!) floats the idea of forming a group of Bradley fans to compare solutions.
He was also thinking of posting online his personal macron-marked version (when he 'felt energetic'). That would be nice too!
Kyneto Valesio wrote:I spent a few minutes looking over the composition keys. The problem for me is that I cannot imagine that I would personally wish to say such things. I don't suppose composition manuals were ever written for persons not wishing to rewrite Caesar's account of the Gallic wars. Is this why Latin lies prostrate among the arts? Have any modern professors written composition manuals for persons wishing to write about relationships, scientific discoveries, the economy, healthcare reform etc.


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Board of Regents Meeting
August 14-16, 1996
Valdez Civic Center
Valdez, Alaska
Meeting Schedule and Activities
Times for standing committee and full board meetings are subject to reordering by the Board within the August 14-16, 1996 timeframe.
Wednesday, August 14, 1996
1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Board of Regents will meet in an informal retreat to discuss issues of concern to the University of Alaska. 7:30 p.m. Sakhalin International Theatrical Chekhov Center will present "True West" by Sam Shepard at the Valdez Civic Center.
A welcoming reception will follow the play hosted by Prince William Sound Community College in honor of the Board of Regents, Arthur Miller and Inge Morath at the Valdez Museum, 217 Egan.
Thursday, August 15, 1996
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Academic & Student Affairs Committee will meet. 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Finance, Facilities and Land Management Committee will meet. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. The Human Resources Committee will meet. 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. TheCommittee of the Whole will meet. Lunch will be served at 12 noon to Board members and participating staff. 7:30 p.m. Eccentric Theatre Company will present "Zoo Story" by Edward Albee at the Valdez Civic Center.
After theater cocktails will follow the play in the Civic Center Ballroom with special entertainment by Kaitlin Hopkins.
Friday, August 16, 1996
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Full Board will meet. The Board of Regents will hear public comment at 8:00 a.m. An Executive Session will start at 12 noon and is expected to last 2 hours. 7:30 p.m. TOAST Theater will present "The Last Yankee" and "I Can't Remember Anything" by Arthur Miller at the Valdez Civic Center.
After theater cocktails will follow the play at the home of Bill and Paula Newbold, 1217 Mineral Creek Place.
Saturday, August 17, 1996
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Theater workshops and a Stan Stephens Cruise are offered for Board member and staff enjoyment. 6:30 p.m. The Governor's Reception and Gala will be held in the Valdez Civic Center. BP Exploration presents "An Evening with Arthur Miller" and "A Walk Around Broadway," a musical presentation by Connie Barron. This event includes dinner.
An After Gala Reception will be held at the home of Joy and Burney Martin, 429 West Nabesna Street.
Messages can be left at the Valdez Civic Center: (907) 835-4440; fax (907) 835-2472.


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The PGA Tour swings into Los Angeles for the Northern Trust Open and the season steps up a gear with some notable names coming out of winter hibernation.
World No. 3 Luke Donald will dust off the clubs for the first time this season at Riviera, as will Adam Scott and Graeme McDowell - while the likes of Sergio Garcia and Ernie Els will make their first appearances of the year on the PGA Tour.
Donald went close to winning at Riviera in 2010, being denied by Steve Stricker, but he has struggled in the past couple of years - finishing outside of the top 50 last year and missing the cut in 2011 - and we do not feel he is any value at 20/1 this year.
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- Sergio Garcia - 20/1 E/W at bet365
Adam Scott - 25/1 E/W
The enigma that is Phil Mickelson is the bookmakers' favourite at 12/1, but he's too unpredictable to recommend with any confidence. If the Mickelson that turned up and went wire-to-wire at TPC Scottsdale turns up, he would be a fantastic bet. He also has a great record on the course having won in 2008 and 2009 and been runner-up in 2012. But he followed up his Scottsdale effort with a mixed display at Pebble Beach and we're happy to keep a watching brief as far as Lefty is concerned.
Riviera is one of the toughest tracks on the roster and as such ball striking is at a premium. With that in mind, Sergio Garcia looks good value at 20/1. The Spaniard is long off the tee and if he can find enough fairways, his brilliance with his irons will present him with enough opportunities on the greens. He looked in decent form in the Dubai Desert Classic a couple of weeks ago, despite being hindered by a shoulder problem. If the fortnight's break has enabled his medical team to remedy the problem he could well improve on his fourth place 12 months ago.
It can be a lottery when selecting a player who is making his seasonal debut, given there is no knowledge of how much work has gone in on the range. But given the standard of professionalism now, it's unlikely any player will enter an event undercooked. And in the belief that he has been working his way into form, Adam Scott looks a good bet at 25/1.
Scott is a past winner at Hogan's Alley, in 2005, and has a 17th-place finish to his name 12 months ago. This could be a big year for Scott, who has to prove he can shake off his Open meltdown, and it is worth chancing that he will make a statement of intent on his first outing of the year.
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Lakers Bros are fun, but too slick and manufactured in some Hollywood studio. This guy is real. The denim jacket. The fucked-up hair. The total exhaustion of overwhelming satisfaction.
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Indiana Jones: Top 20 Moments
Scott McKenzie picks out his favourite moments from the original Indy movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Let's not muck about: Raiders is the best of the bunch. It has a perfect balance of action and comedy, but the critical success factor is surely Harrison Ford. Indiana Jones is the type of person Han Solo would be if he had a doctorate—intelligent and thrill-seeking—which makes him a character that appeals to pretty much everyone. It's well documented that he wasn't the first choice for the role, but can you seriously imagine Tom Selleck as Indy? I could easily have picked out twenty top moments from this movie alone but in the interest of balancing out this article I've attempted to split them evenly across the movies.
1. Leg it!
The perfect opening to a perfect action movie. As Indy inches his way into the caves, the suspense builds along with the severity of the booby traps he has to overcome. Often imitated and referenced but never bettered, Indy's narrow escape from a massive rolling boulder sets the tone for the rest of the series. His failed attempt to grab the statue without setting off the traps also shows us a man who can't always rely on his intellect to get past the obstacles in his way.
2. Toht's ouch #1
Poor old Toht. He might be a Nazi but he really gets the wrong end of the stick injury-wise. He already walks with a limp and following the introduction of Marion Ravenwood he attempts to retrieve a headpiece that belonged to her father. Predictably the showdown doesn't end well, with Marion's bar going up in flames, leaving her no choice but to tag along with Indy, who recovers the headpiece after Toht gets an imprint of it burned into his hand.
3. Indy vs. the swordsman
George Lucas may have fiddled with Star Wars so much that he reduced Han Solo to the type of wuss that waits for the bad guy to shoot first, but there's never any doubt about Indy's ruthlessness. Of course, it's well-known that a long fight scene had been scripted, but with Harrison Ford suffering from dysentery, he came up with a shorter solution that would allow him to quickly get back into his trailer. He may not have enjoyed it at the time, but Ford's bout of the squits and the look of sheer desperation on his face resulted in one of the series' funniest moments.
4. 'Their staff's too long'
In Raiders and Last Crusade Indy starts off on a trail to beat those evil Nazis to an artefact of religious significance. The path is never easy, with many puzzles to solve along the way so it's up to him to outsmart the bad guys and get to the treasure first. This is the scene where the pieces start to fall into place and Doctor Jones gets a head start in the search for the Ark of the Covenant.
5. Snakes!
Who would have thought that our hero could be such a scaredy-cat? Up to this point we've had nothing but heroics and derring-do from Indy, but when he's thrown into the Well of Souls we're introduced to a new side of him, one with a phobia of snakes. Tapping into the fears of the audience, we're encouraged to empathise with Indy even more and we'll never forget this character trait that comes back to haunt him again in the series.
6. Toht's ouch #2
Occasional moments of genuine horror give the Indiana Jones series an edge that wannabe-Indy movies like National Treasure lack. Probably the most memorable of all of these moments is when the Nazis buy it in the stickiest way. The melting head shots look quite primitive by today's CGI standards, but back in the 80s I can remember this being a true 'eeewww' moment. With Spielberg stating that he wanted to keep digital effects to a minimum in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I wonder if we have more of this kind of quaintly horrific effect to look forward to.
7. Closing shot
With the Nazis all melted away and the Ark of the Covenant safely under lock and key, this is the shot that really gave audiences an idea of the potential of the Indiana Jones movies. If the Ark can be packed into a crate and hidden away among thousands of others, how many more treasures are locked away in that warehouse? It's a very effective closing shot, hinting that there's more to come, and was obviously taken as inspiration for the closing shot of the pilot episode of The X-Files.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Temple of Doom can get a bit of a bad rap from time to time, whether it's because of the darker tone of ritual sacrifice and enslaved children, or the inclusion of the kid-friendly Scrappy-Doo, erm... I mean Short Round. As Gabe stated in his review of the trilogy, it also has very few ties to the other two movies and even though it's a prequel to Raiders, Indy's motivation of 'fortune and glory' is even more akin to Han Solo than Doctor Jones. That aside, there are still many moments that contribute to making Temple of Doom an exciting movie, even if it isn't the best-loved entry in the series.
8. The antidote/diamond farce
With Kate Capshaw's song and dance routine (that looks like it takes place backstage where no one in the restaurant can see it) out of the way, we join Indy for the obligatory opening action sequence. After he drinks champagne laced with poison and the death of his partner (who Short Round never seems to mourn, even though he must have known him), Indy chases after the antidote and Capshaw's Willie Scott chases after the diamond Indy was trying to get his hands on. It's all a little bit Carry On and there seems to be hundreds of people running around without ever getting anywhere, but the action is pure Indiana Jones and the scene ends with a cameo appearance from Dan Aykroyd and a great pay-off as they board their getaway plane.
9. Dinner at the palace
Another slight Carry On type moment but this scene is a perfect exercise in escalation. As Indy's conversation with the royal advisor becomes heated, Short Round and Willie's disgust grows as more and more stomach-churning dishes are brought to the dinner table. Even though from the outside everything appears fine, with the serving of eyeball soup and chilled monkey brains we're encouraged to think that all is not well at the palace.
10. Hat not optional
The genuine excitement of the scene comes before this blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, with Indy and Short Round trapped inside a chamber where the roof is falling in on them. However, when Indy reaches under the closing door to grab his hat, risking losing his arm in the process, it's a moment of classic comedy action that would never happen in the real world and is all the more entertaining for it.
11. Sacrifice
To achieve a PG rating (rather than 15) in the UK, just over a minute of footage was trimmed from the original theatrical version upon its release. Once of the major cuts was during this scene, where Mola Ram rips the heart out of his sacrificial victim and lowers him into a pit of molten lava. Temple of Doom may contain some of the broadest humour in the series, but it also contains some of the most horrific moments.
12. Evil Indy
Superhero franchises usually wait until the third instalment until giving the audience an evil version of the central character, but in just the second Indy movie we see what happens when Doctor Jones drinks a potion and enters the 'black sleep of Kali Ma'. We all know he's going to snap out of it eventually (remember, this is a prequel to Raiders) but the combination of a bad good guy and a damsel in distress make this one of the key moments of the movie. Not sure why Mola Ram bottled it instead of ripping Willie's heart out though...
13. Mine car chase
Ah, the scene that inspired a rollercoaster at every theme park around the world. For those who aren't massive Indiana Jones fans and don't know their Temple of Doom from their Last Crusade, all you need to do is say 'it's the one with the mine car chase'. 'Ah yes, of course' will be the reply. The blue screen work looks a little dodgy to twenty-first century eyes but thankfully Willie takes a back seat and can any other action sequence in the series compare for pure entertainment?
14. 'Hold on lady, we're going for a ride'
Looking back at Temple of Doom, there are plenty of great moments and many of them are pretty brutal, not least the final showdown with Mola Ram and his buddies on the rope bridge. This is classic adventure-serial action, only with a budget large enough to realise the director's vision. Who would have thought it was co-written by the same guy who directed Howard the Duck? Short Round and Willie may not have fallen to their death, but you can breathe a sigh of relief—it's the last time you'll see them (unless Mr Spielberg puts his missus in the mooted Indy V of course...).
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Whether or not Spielberg and Lucas had intended Last Crusade to be the final chapter in the series, the third part of the original trilogy definitely has an air of introspection and finality about it. With themes of life and death, we also learn out about what made Indy the way he is and then there's the introduction of a certain Henry Jones Senior...
15. The birth of Indy
It may be one of the most contrived sequences in the whole series, but it is still essential to understand what made Indy the way he is and it's one of my favourite moments across all three movies. If you wanted to know where Indy got his name, his dress sense and fear of snakes from, it's all here. In a very nice touch, we're also shown where the boy who grows up to be Harrison Ford got the scar on his chin.
16. Rats and a flammable sewer
Coming soon after one of the lesser comedic moments in the movie, the sequence in the sewer with bad-girl-to-be Doctor Schneider is everything that we love about Indy movies. Ancient artefacts? Check. Bad guys on their tail? Check. Claustrophobic conditions and swarms of beasties? Check and check. Originality isn't the order of the day where this scene is concerned, but it's the first time Harrison Ford's Indy gets his hands dirty on the trail that will lead him to...
17. Joneses junior and senior
... his father. In an inspired piece of casting, Sean Connery (just twelve years older than Harrison Ford) is a welcome addition to the series as Henry Jones Senior. There are many verbal toings and froings between the Joneses but I've picked out this moment at a physical and metaphorical crossroads as the pick of the bunch. Incidentally, the relationship with Short Round aside, this is the first time Spielberg touched on the theme of father-son relationships in this series, which is a strong motif in almost all of his movies, going right back to Jaws.
18. Farewell, Indy
Given that the Indiana Jones movies were based on the cliff-hanger serials of the 1930s, it makes sense to give a nod to a moment where our hero seems to go over the end of a cliff, only to come back from the dead. The sight of Indy stumbling into his own impromptu wake is both funny and moving, with his father offering some sentiment of reconciliation. From a film appreciation perspective, widesceen also allows Spielberg to frame four great actors (and favourites of the series) all on screen at the same time.
19. Penitent men pray
After literally seeing Nazi heads roll, Indy is given all the reason he needs to venture into the caves when his father is shot and faces death unless he can be revived by drinking from the Holy Grail. To get to the Grail, Indy must get past three traps but he has the one thing the Nazis didn't—his father's diary. One thing always troubles me about this scene though—penitent may pray, but when did they have to do forward rolls to get out of the way of spinning blades as well?
20. Riding off into the sunset
And so the saga ends... for nineteen years at least. In an homage to the great Westerns, the Joneses, Sallah and Brody all ride off into the sunset, drawing the curtain on a great series of adventure movies that have seen many pretenders down the years but never any true challengers. Maybe it was intentional or not, but looking back at the closing shot of Last Crusade you expect to see 'The End' written across the screen, but it never appears. Maybe a fourth part in the saga was part of the plan all along.
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NewsCorp executive Rebekah Brooks, forced to resign from her post after her division's 'News of the World' phone hacking scandal, has been treated to internet fame thanks to readily-available streams of her testimonies in London's parliament. And since Brooks resigned on a Friday (June 15), the trolls couldn't help but give her the Rebecca Black treatment.
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Respect for Religion
RE: Respect for Religion
Hi Matt I have read your post and I think I did understand what you wanted to say. I have highlighted the Parts of your post that I would like to show you how I understand it.
(04-12-2012 07:19 AM)Ghost Wrote: There is a popular notion that evolution is heading somewhere. That there's a destination. This is not at all true. There is no destination, there is no ultimate pinnacle. So it is with culture. You may not agree with another culture, you may not find it sensical, but it is what all cultures are; an expression of humanity's attempt at understanding of and relationship with the world.To the first one, I tried so say in my last post that scientific truth is not part of any culture. You can have an "christian" culture with Jesus and Christmas and so on fine, but the fact that the earth is 4.54 billion years old is not debatable. If you say it is 6000 years old I have to say you are wrong.
You say yourself that all cultures are an attempt to understand nature, if you want to say that if they come to the wrong conclusion I cannot tell them they are wrong then I think I would be really cruel. If you want me to simply accept what they believes because they believe it, then I am sorry, that I cannot do that. Even if we don't count the enormous amount of ethical failures of especially the three monotheistic religions, they make very big claims about the real world. Things I can test and verify.
You seem to say that there are other ways to see the world than science. Sorry there is not if you want to see the real world. Of curs you can put on your Jesus glasses and life in bunny land, but then I have to say, sorry you behave like a child.
To this thing you call an "atheist" culture I have to say that there is no such thing as an atheist culture. There can, however be an secular culture. If you say I give primacy to science then what is wrong with this? It is the best thing we humans ever had! It gave us cool things like oh medicine, technology and an understanding of the world no other human ever had. The things the average kid in school learns today is knowledge no human in any other time could even have imagined.
If we had never learned of this great way of understanding the world we would live on average not for longer than maybe 30 Years, would die of diseases like oh polio. Think of your relatives and friends and then count the ones who would life today when there would be no modern medicine, think of the ones older than 30 or 40, they would be most probable dead, would you be here? Seriously would you want to life in a world without this? Even the religious ( well the really crazy ones don't ) trust science when they drive a car, fly a plane or are ill. Why do they accept it there but if it tells them something which contradicts a 2000 Years old book about an illiterate crazy prophet they go totally nuts?
And please don't assume that a culture without god would automatically be like the Vulkans. I am as atheist as one can probably be and I am full of wonder about the universe, the great vastness of the space. The marvelous formations of stars, to wonder about a black hole, how does it work? To understand how life works, does it exist on other planets, how do I get there, know how the cells of my body actually work. All of this is so full of wonder and there is so much to explore and wonder about, so many books to read, I fell so sad when I think about people who don't know this kind of awe, who have only one book.
I hope I was able to show you what I meant.
RE: Respect for Religion
Hey Marcus, I think it is important to state that all Christians are not "equal". Is it absolutely unreasonable to believe that the universe was started by an unmoved mover. And Religion and science are not polar opposites. The Catholic church loves science. The Catholic church considered science second only to theology. The reason being that science is the the study of God's creation.
Not only is there a huge body of Catholic teaching in terms of it being reasonable. You also have to consider that some people have personal experiences. Alexis Carrel was a Nobel prize winning doctor, and when he witnessed what he thought was a miracle there, he converted. He was a Doctor and he fully could not see any explanation as to how this occurred. Incidentally this miracle has been rejected as an official miracle by the Catholic church.
I'm homophobic in the same way that I'm arachnophobic. I'm not scared of gay people but I'm going to scream if I find one in my bath.
I'm. Also homophobic in the same way I'm arachnophobic. I'm scared of spiders but I'd still fuck'em.
- my friend Marc
RE: Respect for Religion
Hey, Marcus.
Quote:To the first one, I tried so say in my last post that scientific truth is not part of any culture.
Unfortunately that's demonstrably false. Science is very much a cultural trait. And so is the truth that it discovers. I'm pretty sure that I know where you're coming from, and I know why it seems self-evident to you that what you are saying is right. I simply ask you to revisit that notion. Like I said, if you cannot, then you aren't going to get very far in your quest.
Quote:You say yourself that all cultures are an attempt to understand nature...
I did not say that. That's what you heard. Humans have a need to have a relationship with the world around them. What has been demonstrated for thousands of years is that that relationship does not have to be the relationship that you yourself have.
Quote:...if you want to say that if they come to the wrong conclusion I cannot
You make the assumption that there is such thing as right and wrong. Before you counter my statement with, of course there is, see if you can understand what I mean.
Think on this. What if right and wrong are not what are important? What if meaning is the important part?
Quote:If you want me to simply accept what they believes because they believe it, then I am sorry, that I cannot do that.
You are the one who asked how to respect the religious. Obviously, you're doing something that prevents that, otherwise you wouldn't be having that dilemma. So you have to assume that whatever solution anyone offers you will involve an abandoning of some, if not all, of your current beliefs and practices. Think about that before you dig in your heels and shield yourself with what you think is right. That's an automatic reaction. Move beyond that.
I am not asking you to adopt their beliefs. You have yours, they have theirs. That is a fact. Right now, their different world view is a sticking point for you. You cannot see beyond it. I'm suggesting that you do not have to fight it. Instead, I'm asking you to accept, not their beliefs, but that the world is filled with different world views, ones that do not resemble yours, and that that is perfectly fine. Like I said, if you can't keep yourself from dismissing them, then you'll never respect them.
Quote:Even if we don't count the enormous amount of ethical failures of
All cultures have failings, yours included. People in glass houses...
I know that you can test things and verify things and within the context of your culture, those are important things. The question is, are they important to everyone? Should they be important to everyone? Are there other world views?
Quote:You seem to say that there are other ways to see the world than science.
Do you feel better? Does it make you feel good to mock them? Do you gain something, is your life made better from behaving that way? Do you need to speak of them so dismissively?
Is there another way?
If your question, how do I respect the religious, is rhetorical, then you're wasting everyone's time (and if that's the case, you'd also be acting rather childishly). If it is not, if it's an honest question from an Atheist who has never been exposed to them and wants to learn, then don't speak about them in such a disrespectful manner. That's step one.
Quote:To this thing you call an "atheist" culture I have to say that there is no such thing as an atheist culture.
You are the one that said that East Germany has a huge Atheist community and that you were raised Atheist. So your culture, you, you personally, your culture is Atheist. If you must call it secular, go right ahead (even though that's not actually accurate), but you know what I mean so don't argue semantics for no good reason. We're here for a purpose. Focus.
Quote:If you say I give primacy to science then what is wrong with this?
Absolutely nothing.
Quote:If we had never learned of this great way of understanding the world we
Enough with the snark. It's not needed. I'm trying to help you and I'm giving you a considerable amount of my time. So back off a few steps.
This is not an exercise in masturbation. We don't need to look at why your culture is so great. We're trying to figure out how you can respect people from another culture. If you can't get past your superiority complex, you'll never respect them.
Quote:And please don't assume that a culture without god would automatically be like the Vulkans.
Focus. And stop being so defensive.
I never said that or anything that resembles that. I offered them as an illustration of my point. My point was that a purely logical, purely scientific society, lacks many of the traits that make us human. There are no such societies that I know of which is why I offered a fictional one. But the warning is, if we close ourselves off, we lose as much as we gain.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-William Shakespeare
Watch the following videos and think of two things:
1 - The idea that your culture isn't THE culture
2 - The idea that other ways, vastly different ways, ways that are anathema to your own, have value for those people (the example of the Australian Aborigines in particular)
Peace and Love and Empathy,
RE: Respect for Religion
Thanks for the huge reply Matt. Sadly today I have only the time To read it and a lot of work. So if I do not reply today or tomorrow I will do so on the weekend.
RE: Respect for Religion
I personally have no respect for religion at all anymore. I find that it is the root of all that is wrong with this world... it's stupid.. and I pity the people that blindly follow that crap.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
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RE: Respect for Religion
Hi Matt,
Quote: Unfortunately that's demonstrably false. Science is very much a cultural trait. And so is the truth that it discovers.I have no Idea what you are talking about, could you specify what you mean when you say that the facts science discovers are a cultural trait? It seems we are not speaking from the same thing, another culture can choose to value knowledge or not. But the fact that the earth for example goes around the sun wont change whatever culture you life in. If you say science can be applied by a culture or not then yes this is possible, the truth that we learn of is not part of a culture. And I would ask you again please, to explain how that is demonstrably false.
Quote:Think on this. What if right and wrong are not what are important? What if meaning is the important part?What could be more important than what is right? How do you see the Aztekes? They had a culture which sacrificed people to they're gods, by burning them, skinning them or stabbing them with arrows. There was even ritualized cannibalism. I will not tell any numbers because there are very different numbers you can find but the important question is, are they wrong? Is what they were doing a good way to maximize human happiness? So it seems to me that I can criticize their culture and say there is a better way. So where is the difference when I criticize people who kill for their religion today, who scare their children with hell and let them die because they think prayer will help them?
Quote:I am not asking you to adopt their beliefs. You have yours, they haveFirst I would like to distant myself from your claim that I have beliefs just as they have. The way you are writing it you compare two things that are not the same. They only assumption I have to make for my worldview is that the universe operates on a set of laws which are testable and reproducibly. The worldview that the believer believes in is a completely different matter, one which is not a topic here and I don't have to explain.
I can accept that the world is full of different cultures and I never said that this is wrong but what has the acceptance of the existence of religion to do with respecting them? Can I accept that there are suicide bombers, obliviously I have to there is plenty of evidence for them but I am not compelled to respect them.
Quote: Do you feel better? Does it make you feel good to mock them? Do you gainDo I feel better? No. Do I feel good mocking them? No. Do I gain something? No. Do I need to speak of their believes believes dismissively? Yes.
Is there another way? No. I would have to tell them otherwise they would never have their believes challenged.
And no the question is in no way rhetorical. It is a honest question I had not the possibility to discuss really. So I came to this forum specifically to ask it. Does anything of my previous posts indicate that this is a prank, that I just want to toss mud at people who are probably even not reading it?
We are now in an argument over a subject and I can enjoy a good debate. If you cannot do this please don't feel forced to do it. I have no intention of wasting your time.
The thing I wanted to know of asking this question was if there is a reasonable way to respect people with specific believes. There are differences in the systems so I have to evaluate every case separately. But if I come to the conclusion that there is no way of respecting them for their believes, then I cannot do it, even if I do not like it. My worldview is not limited to the things that are comforting to me, if my conclusion brings me to the point where I have to dismiss a great part of the human race as irrational then I have to do this. And this does not mean that I dislike them or think they are bad people.
I wanted to see if there where points I had not thought of before.
To the rest of your post and the two videos. I don't really see what you want to show with the videos? He showed a lot of cultures and it was kind of pretty to see then I thought wait a minute.
In the end of the first one he really compares the knowledge of the ocean from people in boats made of wood with the achievement to bring people to the moon! They don't even have the ability to dive deeper than a human can go without compressed air. So they don't even have access to the biggest part of the ocean, so from definition they cannot even have the knowledge we have of the ocean.
And to the second one, the biggest impression I had was this. There was a woman who did 55 Years nothing other than reciting a single mantra!!! What should I take from this? Seriously do you can see anything than a waste of time here? In 55 Years the only thing this poor woman came up with is to tell the monks "sorry you are wrong, the only thing that is important is this mantra". Which is kind of funny, I am not an expert on Buddhism but there are a lot of mantras right? So how convenient do you find it that surprisingly the one she choose 55 years before is the right one and not another one?
And to this last statement he made of the dalai lama, well at least we have photos and stones from the moon. What evidence is there to the supernatural claims of Buddhism?
Well you will probably be very upset with this but this is what I make of this.
And something else especially in the last part of your post I found your tone was really informatory. I am here for a discussion and not for you to lecture me. You are not at the finish line that I have to arrive at. I do not have a superiority complex, and frankly I find this accusation rather insulting. I am an educated adult and I would like you to deal with me like one.
And again if this feels like a waste of time for you than please do not do it.
I wish you a nice weekend and a happy Advent.
RE: Respect for Religion
Hey, Marcus.
Quote:I wanted to see if there where points I had not thought of before.
There are many. They are legion. But you have to open yourself up to them. Right now, you're not trying very hard. Your reaction to everything is NO. You're falling back on what you know, which is normal, but it just so happens that that is the problem. You cannot do something right now. So you have to learn something new. That's how it works with everything. Can't cook? Learn to cook. Can't drive? Learn to drive. Can't forgive? Learn to forgive. Can't respect the religious? Learn to respect the religious. I'm a very patient man. I truly am. And I will give you as much of my energy and time as you need to expand your understanding and I'll do it happily, but if you aren't going to try at all, well... there's a saying. You can't want more for someone than they want for themselves. You've told me that you want this. I believe you. I honestly do. And right now I'm telling you that you have to try harder if you wish to succeed. Right now, you're like the student walking into the karate dojo for the first time telling the sensei that you want to learn karate but that you already have a black belt. It can't be both. What you're reading as insulting and inflammatory is me telling you that you're approaching this the wrong way. If you want to take that as an insult, then so be it. But it's not. So, since you've already said that your wish is to learn, then learn. Open up. If you feel yourself saying no, ask a question instead. I too am an educated man. I respect the religious. I know how to do what you're looking to learn. I can impart that but only if you allow yourself to learn something new.
Let's begin again.
Quote:Quote:Quote: Unfortunately that's demonstrably false. Science is very much a cultural trait. And so is the truth that it discovers.I have no Idea what you are talking about, could you specify what you
Human cognition functions in a very specific way. When you look at something, when you think about something, you are not seeing or thinking about that thing. If you've studied Plato you might know where I am going with this. Your brain interprets light reflected off of objects. Your nervous system uses signal transduction to take the information gathered by your five senses and convert it into a signal that your brain can interpret. Interpret is the operative word there. The way cognition works is intimately linked to our use of language. We take these signal inputs and when we interpret them, we abstract them, we break them into manageable chunks, and we assign symbols to represent those chunks. For example, cow is not a cow. It's the word we use to represent cow (in semiotics this is called the sign/signifier/signified relationship). When you think, you think about these representations, not the actual thing. If we thought about the actual thing, we'd need vastly more computing power that even our brains, impressive as they are, are capable of. You, like the rest of us, are utterly incapable of thinking about the world without the intermediary of language. Everything that you have ever seen, heard or understood is a heavily mediated version of the real. Reality is not some objective thing, but is instead the result of the relationship between the real and culture. Reality is not fixed, it is a mental construction. As it is reliant on language, the single most important cultural trait there is, it is a shared construction, but a construction nonetheless. The statistician George EP Box once said, "All models are wrong but some are useful." The model of reality that we use is wrong (because a 100% accurate model of a thing IS that thing) but it is useful. But what we cannot do is assume that it is reality itself. We cannot assume that useful is a synonym for correct. As the proverb goes, we cannot mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself.
All of the things that we have discovered with science are culturally contingent. They make sense ONLY within the realm of our construction of reality. Gravity, physics, mathematics, they are all constructions, models of what is. All of the scientific knowledge in the world is a construction. It is not in and of itself objective truth, but a representation that is not the truth itself.
This is what is meant by demonstrably false. Everything that we know about the brain points to this. This is what Wade Davis meant in the first video when he spoke of the central revelation of anthropology.
When you say that a culture can choose to value knowledge or not, you're misspeaking. All cultures have knowledge and all cultures value it. But all knowledge is culturally contingent. If another culture doesn't share your knowledge, they are not objectively wrong. They are wrong only relative to your culture. There is no objective truth that the human mind is capable of comprehending.
Knowledge can become ideological and beyond that, it can become hegemonic. Our understandings are thought of as the common sense view. They seem self-evidently true. It seems like there can be no other truth. But that is an illusion of the mind that can result from the confusion of the actual relationship between discourse, ideology, hegemony and interpolation.
You and I both think the earth goes around the sun. And that makes perfect sense to both of us within the scope of our cultural understanding. In other cultures, alien to our own, it might be meaningless. Still other cultures might have an entirely spiritual relationship to the sun. It's difficult for me to imagine others because, like you, what my culture thinks makes sense to me. But I have the sense to know that there are different understandings, not just ones that contradict our own, but ones that are fundamentally different. As it is said, it's not the same league, it's not even the same sport.
Quote:Quote:Quote:Think on this. What if right and wrong are not what are important? What if meaning is the important part?What could be more important than what is right? How do you see the
What is your standard for judging what is right? That is the central problem of the notion of universal right and wrong. I'm gonna leave that at that because I was talking about correct/incorrect, rather than some moral concern.
Just to take a moment to speak to your point however, to paraphrase Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, "If we compare the best of ourselves to the worst of the other, what are we actually accomplishing?
Quote:First I would like to distant myself from your claim that I have beliefs
You, like the rest of us, were taught everything you know. You have beliefs. We all do. It isn't a question of content, it's a question of how human beings function.
Quote:I can accept that the world is full of different cultures and I never
It has everything to do with respecting them. Other cultures can only be considered other cultures because they are different from your own. Difference is the dividing line. Understanding and accepting difference, and the value of difference is key to respecting other cultures.
Quote:Can I accept that there are suicide
There's a long list of military men in my family. I'm actually the only one to join the army. Most of them were in the RCAF. My grandfather was a wing commander. Flew Lancaster bombers. My grandmother's brother was a tailgunner. A sergeant. He was shot down over Berlin on a bombing run. You're a German. Do I expect you to apologise for the Nazi war machine that killed my grandmother's brother? No. So why on earth do you expect all Muslims to apologise for every suicide bomber?
There isn't a culture on earth that doesn't have a long list of atrocities on their ledger. For all I know, my great uncle, the tailgunner, razed Hamburg and Frankfurt to the ground with firebombs that created firestorms that killed thousands. That's right. Canadians. Murdering thousands. We don't seem so innocent all of a sudden.
No one is expecting you to condone every act of violence or every atrocity in the history books. But just as I understand that you are an individual, not that thing, I expect you to see individuals. Islam is not suicide bombing. Muslims are not suicide bombers. They are people. That's who you are being asked to respect.
Or perhaps I'm wrong and I should dismiss you as a Nazi and be on my way? What say you?
Quote:Do I feel better? No. Do I feel good mocking them? No. Do I gain
Why are you in charge of challenging other people's beliefs?
More importantly, why is it important to be dismissive?
Quote:But if I come to the conclusion that there is no way of respecting them
How do you arrive at that conclusion?
Quote:To the rest of your post and the two videos. I don't really see what you
What do you think I wanted to show with the videos? I'm simply curious.
To answer your question, the Polynesian navigators developed a technology that allowed them to navigate the Pacific ocean in canoes. But it was not born of some scientific experiment, it was a profound relationship. It was deeply spiritual. The canoe was sacred. It was not purely rational as we understand it. When the European explorer Cooke discovered them, he refused abjectly to believe that they were navigating the Pacific in canoes when he was having difficulty doing it in his large ocean-going vessel. Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia; they were all the same people, but to this day, we consider them seperate because one man refused to believe that their so-called primitive ways could allow them to accomplish such an incredible feat.
Again. All models are wrong, but some are useful.
The use of this deeply spiritual relationship with the ocean was incredibly useful. But it was devalued entirely by our culture because they went about it the "wrong" way. We look at something like space flight and call it a triumph, but we look at what they did and consider it quaint. Davis' point was that our rubric for valuation is way off, biased to the Nth degree. His point is that people do exactly what you are doing now. They look at an absolute triumph of humanity and dismiss it out of hand. His point is that these people that we look at and call primitive are not failed attempts at modernity, they are not failed attempts at being like us. They are unique, valid, vital answers to the central question of all humanity, what does it mean to be human and alive.
Quote:And to the second one, the biggest impression I had was this. There was a
What I hoped you would take away is this. The good life is not defined as narrowly as you have defined it. You see this woman's life and you dismiss it and you pity her. You call it a waste. She doesn't need or want your pity. But your dismissal is what prevents you from respecting her, even celebrating her life.
I asked you to pay attention to the story of the Australian Aboriginies. Their entire culture is the antithesis of our way of life. Where we value progress, they value stasis. Their culture is a wondrous accomplishment, not a tragic failure.
You also misinterpreted. She didn't say anyone was wrong. She dedicated her life to something, something you might find silly or worthless, and lived a fulfilling life in conditions that make no sense to us.
I had more to say, but I was interrupted quite significantly and I lost my train of thought. So I hope that you gain something from this for now and that it ignights your curiosity. In closing I just want to say that it is important not to conflate criticism with dismissal. I can look at religons and religious people and be critical and offere analysis and constructive criticism. But that is entirely different than dismissing or devaluing them. Entirely different.
Peace and Love and Empathy,
RE: Respect for Religion
Hi Matt,
I am not really into philosophy or the science of the mind. And I simply do not see how this gives a satisfying answer to my question.
Quote: You and I both think the earth goes around the sun. And that makesFirst we both Know that the earth goes around the sun. And everyone who says it is the other way around gets normally funny locks. Yes in other cultures they might think it is not so, but this has no impact on the fact that the earth still orbits the sun. Sorry but I really think that is just a play with words. Because when you think about it for the fact, like you say it, that all cultures have different models in mind when they speak about a topic. International space missions seem the succeed pretty often so it seem different cultures are quite capable to convey what they are talking about.
Quote:What is your standard for judging what is right? That is the centralI made the point with the aztekes to show that there are cultures who are not maximizing human happiness. Basically what Sam Harris talks about in the video below. Killing people because you think the sun will not shine otherwise is bad, it is simply mad. Because we know how the mechanics work and there is no variable for human sacrifice. If you are willing to accept such a culture as good as any other one simply because they exist, I am simply at a loss of words.
Quote:It has everything to do with respecting them. Other cultures can only beAs I said I have no difficulty accepting other cultures and even admiring them. For example I really like Japan, I train traditional Japanese Swordsmanship and there are things in Japan I think are better than the ones in my culture of birth. Does that mean I have to respect and admire their believe systems like Shinto or Buddhism? No they are different things.
Let me ask you do you respect all cultures and religions? I think I have to give no examples for anyone here of such thinks as bad cultures or mad religions. So let us construct a different culture.
Let us say for example there was a culture in which red haired blue eyed people are considered a sign of bad luck and get killed at birth. A culture whose religion tells them that they are the only people worth living and anyone other has to die and you cannot convert into this religion, you have to be born into it.
I guess we can agree that this would be a really evil culture or not? So are there only two extreme? Good cultures and bad cultures? What would be for example in our constructed culture you can convert to their religion. Would this make it less evil?
Would you respect this constructed culture? And if your answer is no then on what arguments do you base your judgement that this culture deserves no respect.
Quote:So why on earth do you expect all Muslims to apologise for every suicide bomber?I did not mean it that way. What I wanted to say is just because something exists it does not automatically deserve respect. The muslim bombers simply came to my mind first, it could have been the Nazis it would be the same point.
Quote:Why are you in charge of challenging other people's beliefs?Because I think that religious believes kill many people. I think the world would be a better place without religion. You can say I am an Antitheist. I think not only are they are wrong in their assertions but that most of the religions are also highly immoral.
Quote:Actually quite simple, the church of the flying spaghetti monster is considered stupid by the "Real religions". In the same way I consider the "real religions" stupid. If someone who has access to the same information's that I have still comes to the conclusion that stories like genesis are more likely true than what we learned in cosmology. I have no way of admiring their mental capacity. And the question really was how do I respect a religious person who has demonstrated that they are capable to understand the arguments of scientific discourse which contradict their believe system.Quote:Quote:But if I come to the conclusion that there is no way of respecting themHow do you arrive at that conclusion?
To be precise here , I do not say they are bad people. If for example they work in charity because of their religion. I would applaud them for their work but question their motivation.
Quote:To answer your question, the Polynesian navigators developed aI think it would be more likely to say the ones who came back lived. So it was probably more a Darwinian selection of the boats that swim and the navigation that does not lead you to the open ocean. We have seen these things in many cultures. The Egyptians had no idea of civil engineering so the first pyramids they have build actually collapsed. We know that to be true, they had the wrong angle. So they tried another one until they did not collapse. Does that make their accomplishment insignificant? Of course not.
The fact that they can navigate is something I greatly admire, but you said so yourself it was not science. The Apollo missions were science, so I simply said he cannot compare the two things.
How you value the whole thing is a personal matter. For me personally I think the jurney to the moon was way more impressive. But I am an mechanical engineer so my opinion is quite probable biased.
Quote:What I hoped you would take away is this. The good life is not definedSorry, I tried to think about what you wanted to say with this, but I cannot come to your position. I know what you say and I understand that my inability to value her motivation leads me to pity her. Maybe my mind has blinders it cannot lock around, but I still think this lady missed so much.
And the same thing goes for the Australian Aborigines. I think living in primitive hunter and gatherer culture is not the maximum you can achieve. They may very well have been happy. But their kids could have lived longer and much healthier lives. Even if you do not count things like knowledge, healthier and longer lives make a better live. In what way is not achieving this for their kids not a failure?
I appreciate the time you invested already in this discussion thanks,
RE: Respect for Religion
Hey, Marcus.
I find your response disappointing. Quite clearly you do not want my help. Such is life. I wish you the best of luck in your quest. My parting wisdom is this: don't trust in Sam Harris for he will lead you astray.
Peace and Love and Empathy,
RE: Respect for Religion
Astray from what?
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