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Byron confronts a pedophile on BBC television
2008-05-09 18:26:00 On May 5, 2008, the BBC broadcast an edition of ?Am I normal?? on the subject of sex, presented by the media-friendly clinical psychologist Tanya Byron. It included an interview with a pedophile; an ?out? (but non-practising) girl-lover, who has been bravely campaigning for wider acceptance of child-love and for the abolition of age-of-consent laws ...
By: Uncommon Sense
The Dangers of Sex Abuse Therapy
2008-04-29 05:53:00 The standard ?therapy? for ?sexually abused? children and adolescents is not only pointless, but positively harmful when applied to those who have been involved in consensual relationships. Try to put yourself into the mind of a child or adolescent who has been willingly involved in sex acts with an adult. You may already have been worrying ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Finkelhor?s Flaws: Why David Finkelhor is misguided on child-adult sex
2008-04-26 23:49:00 At http://www.ipce.info/library_3/-files/fink_baus_91.htm David Finkelhor says this: Ultimately, I do continue to believe that the prohibition on adult-child sexual contact is primarily a moral issue. While empirical findings have some relevance they are not the final arbiter. The social judgment that slavery is reprehensible would not have been challenged by empirical findings that some slaves felt positively ...
By: Uncommon Sense
The Words They Are A-Changin?
2008-04-08 21:52:00 Our ‘culture’ consists of the knowledge and values transmitted by our language. In the process of learning language, we learn the meanings that other people have ascribed to particular words and phrases. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean ? neither ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Secularism, Absolutism and the Far Right
2008-04-06 11:58:00 Terry Sanderson’s latest missive on the National Secular Society’s web site states that “‘Aggressive secularists’ must start to live up to their name”. It’s a brief piece but it makes a useful jumping-off point to discuss the current stance of self-styled “rationalist” groups.
By: Big Ideas
To Be Of Service: Your Political ?Duty?, as a Sexual Deviant?
2008-03-19 01:15:00 So many of the problems surrounding our modern, “sex is abuse” approach, spring forward from our action of trying to box the entire issue up into a, “sex is this” and “sex is not that” kind of indoctrination. …Does someone, somewhere “own” the patent on the entire idea of sex?… …Apparently, some people have fooled themselves into ...
By: Uncommon Sense
The nature of human attraction
2008-02-20 11:42:00 The following is a revised argument for Debate Guide. I would appreciate feedback on how it compares to the previous version (sexual character of humanity), and any possible improvements to be made. We, as humans are highly capable of separating the act of mating from sexuality itself. With our long life cycles and complex ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Puzzles Of The Mind: Just What Are They After?
2008-01-30 06:42:00 “The Rind Report”… …Do you know what it was about?… It was published in the highly prestigious Psychological Bulletin (a publication of the American Psychological Association)…All published research, must go through comprehensive peer review, and be cleared as sound, before it goes to the press… …so, there must have been something honest, and of value, in it…else, it ...
By: Uncommon Sense
A Short Blurb About B.L.M.W.
2007-12-18 05:36:00 Greetings This is just a reminder that Boy-love Media Watch (B.L.M.W.) does not seem to be sending out e-mails as in the past or noting stories where comments are required. Still it is important to refute the lies that are a part of the propaganda machine that is fueled through hate and shame. There are many ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Absolutely Bad?
2007-12-10 01:05:00 “Absolutism breeds elitism and prejudice” - The Infidel Guy (http://www.infidelguy.com/) This quote is so beautifully spot on…and it states so eloquently what is so critically wrong with absolutism. Absolutism in practice disallows anything but broad generalizations about entire groups of people, all activities of a certain style, all mental interpretations and motivations (incentives)… Absolutism is a logical flaw, ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Pseudo ?discrediting?
2007-12-01 18:33:00 “This evidence is, on its own merits, enough to discredit anything Rind et al actually concluded”. (cut/paste http://absolutezerounited.blogs-pot.com/2006/09/rind-introducti-on.html) The original paper can be found here. I cited this blogging post because it encapsulates quite well, one of the basic methods of upholding sacred consensus dogmas; the false claim of active discrediting, where in fact the real reasons for ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Walking a Million Miles?
2007-11-13 04:37:00 Doctor Edward Brongersma once noted, the abrupt dismissal of his work (his research, books, etc) by a reporter… …The grounds, upon which this hasty dismissal was based, you might be wondering…was the simple fact that Dr. Brongersma, himself, was a passionately engaged member of the very class of people, who he was advocating (some would say, ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Failure to discriminate?
2007-10-23 16:18:00 “The victimologist?s pedophile barrel needs to be upended on the laboratory bench and its contents carefully identified and sorted by impartial examiners. Those items lacking scientific credibility need to be discarded, and new containers found for some others. A few, such as the first of the above described scenarios, can be correctly placed back in ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Fallacies of Reasoning - Absolutisms
2007-07-22 18:49:00 This is a strange time , Mister. No man may longer doubt the powers of the dark are gathered in monstrous attack upon this village. - The Crucible, by Arthur Miller.As mentioned in my last post, after my disillusioning experience with class group think, I resolved to sharpen the focus of the language unit. This meant going beyond one of the core essays, Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” and including the "Knowing How to Think” Royal Bank newsletter. The latter opened the door to explore, in detail, fallacies of reasoning. Three of the fallacies I think my students most benefited from were “absolutisms,” “ad hominems” and “appealing to popular passions.” Coincidentally, these seem to be the three most commonly practiced by governments when communicating with their citizens, so there was no dearth of examples to be found for classroom illustration.Absolutisms: This fallacy is perhaps the easiest to spot. It suggests that there is only one right and wrong...
(Letter 32) Superimposed absolutism
2007-07-13 12:49:00 Dear Dad, ALL I KNEW when I got up from bed this morning was that I would have a good day. Yes, good day. Since then everything went well except when someone asked me about something. Let me explain. There was this chubby man in his late thirties. He was talking to someone who happened to be my friend. And he is her classmate in a graduate school. When I entered the school's cafeteria to have
Anglican Absolutism
2007-07-02 16:29:00 Chris at The Eternal Pursuit notes with sadness that the conservative breakaway parishes and clergy within the U.S. Episcopal Church, who seek to put themselves under the authority of foreign bishops who oppose homosexuality, are asking for more than freedom to follow their own conscience. It's an all-or-nothing strategy that would delegitimize the existing Episcopal Church in America, thus undermining two mainstays of our 400-year-old Communion: the authority of bishops and the ideal of fellowship among Christians with different views. Chris writes: There are certainly real issues that lead people of faith to disagree. Some of these issues, particularly those around human sexuality, are especially difficult. Some find the scriptures to be very clear on these issues. Some argue that the overarching message of the Bible seems in conflict with a few particular passages. On all fronts, some argue that the Bible alone is the sole authority, and others seek a me...
By: Reiter's Block
Absolutism
2007-06-24 20:09:00 The Library of Congress has an online exhibit called Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliotèque Nationale de France. This exhibit runs from the Middle Ages to the present. Two sections deal with absolutism: The Path to Royal Absolutism: The Renaissance and Early 17th Century and The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy: Grand Siècle and Enlightenment.Various documents are available at the Internet Modern History Sourcebook's listings for absolutism.The Constitution Society offers the full text of Six Books of the Commenwealth by Jean Bodin. See the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for more information on Bodin's thought.© 2007 Mark R. Stoneman |
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