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Servetus
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Joined: 04 April 2001 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 2097 |
![]() Posted: 09 February 2007 at 10:01am |
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Hanan, It’s nice to see you back at your controls (like the voyages of the star ship, By the way, Peter, here is a good, working definition of anarchy: “self-control.” I do sometimes need to exercise a bit more of it myself. Also, this is the hadith, or saying of Muhammad, that I was trying to recall. To my view, it is best and arguably read within the context of either the Toynbee or Ortega y Gasset quotations above (page one and two respectively). Chapter 3: FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE JEWS AND THE CHRISTIANS Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: You would tread the same path as was trodden by those before you inch by inch and step by step so much so that if they had entered into the hole of the lizard, you would follow them in this also. We said: Allah's Messenger, do you mean Jews and Christians (by your words)" those before you"? He said: Who else (than those two religious groups)? Source: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim /034.smt.html Serv Edited by Servetus |
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Servetus
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Joined: 04 April 2001 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 2097 |
![]() Posted: 16 February 2007 at 9:37am |
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All of my playmates are gone and I am in the sandbox alone, once more, even though I was all geared up and prepared to discuss things ranging from repressed libido to the partitioning of Now read this! Speaking of “exporting” American values: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16961761/site/newsweek/ I think it is safe to say that plenty of those values managed to be successfully imported to the house of the late Anna Nicole Smith. I don’t know which was sadder to me, really, the fact of the circumstances of her death or that I learned of it by overhearing two young people in a restaurant laughing about it, as if she was nothing more than a cartoon character. Here is how the Associated Press reported the matter:
Except for the “tabloid” and “tragic” parts, I should think that all, or at least most of the above is something to which most American girls should be aspiring. Playboy centerfold, fashion model, billionaire, reality-show subject -wow!- that sounds like the pinnacle.
What’s an over-the-top revealing outfit?
Enough said. Serv ref: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17050167/ Edited by Servetus |
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Al-kafir
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Joined: 21 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 34 |
![]() Posted: 20 February 2007 at 4:11pm |
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Originally posted by Servetus
Q: If you [Servetus] despise A: Because I am home, working on home improvement projects.
__________________________________________ Well, I’m not exactly home at the moment. I just had to venture out to the mega grocery store and had to walk through that cultural mine field which is otherwise known as the check-out line. In the words of Ignatius Reiley (Confederacy of Dunces), what an egregious affront to good taste and decency that place is! Speaking again of mines, I think I might have detonated one and have yet to fully recover. I might be burning with fever and hallucinating, but … Have you ever noticed that there doesn’t seem to be a grocery store in the entire union that doesn’t sublet its most highly-prized piece of real-estate, the area right there at the check-out stand, to the publishers of tabloids, the soft-core pornographers and the cannibalistic marketers of (visual) celebrity carrion? Every single magazine, or periodical, on that stand is a reminder to primarily American women of their weight and thus of their physical inadequacy. The ever-liberating and liberated Cosmopolitan unknowingly (I suspect) and rather funnily parodied itself with a caption “Sexiest thing to do after Sex” and even the otherwise innocuous Reader’s Digest is all weight and diet obsessed. Ok, America, answer this: how many pounds (or kilos) did Oprah Winfrey lose last week and is one of those two girls with three names, Mary, Kate and Ashley suffering from an eating disorder or once again strung out on blow (cocaine)? What is even more disgusting and therefore in a way attractive, the appeal, after all, of a carnival side-show, and forget the mystery celebrity cellulite guest on the cover which is a mere enticement to look into the paper, is National Enquirer’s gratuitous cover photograph of, among others, the dangerously suctioned, or liposucked, Star Jones. Thanks for that tasty morsel, National Enquirer (and God help those people who want off that treadmill to find a graceful way off)! Compare, for instance, People (or what I more accurately call Peeple) magazine to National Enquirer. People, as I see it, of course, and maybe only until I recover from my present condition, essentially promotes the cults of youth (Adonis) and beauty (Aphrodite). In it, between its covers, those primarily (and, in the end, as we shall see, pitiable) Hollywood clones, or dupes, who have lined up, in mass, to reduce themselves, at a sizeable price and salary, to being little more than life-support systems for porcelain (capped teeth) and silicone (enhanced breasts) are all aglow in the spotlight, all glorious and glamorous in the particulars and held up as models to be emulated. But notice later, that night, after the party, under the ubiquitous, watchful telephoto lens, or eye, of National Enquirer, those same aspiring idols, on their way down from the altar, are publicly stripped of their façade and are fed, as either live prey or carrion, to the American masses -myself in this case included- who might otherwise prefer to ignore the photographs (but don’t, and instead actually pull my 3.5-strength magnifying reading glasses out for a better look at the details) were they not quite so strategically placed right there at the grocery store check-out line. Now, then, we see People magazine and National Enquirer together, as they are. They work as two hands of the same cultural (and tutelary) demigod (so to speak). I am reminded of the old Biblical proverb, but its meaning in this case becomes a bit inverted: “with one hand he giveth and with the other he taketh away.” Signed: The (maybe fever-stricken) Serv, arguably on the mend
_____________________________ Support our troops (dismiss their Commander in Chief)! Gee whiz. This thread is a veritable potpourri of self haters and mewling malcontents.
For the self haters, it’s the cool, pseudo intellectual thing to do nowadays to wring your hands and pay service to the idea that you are consumed with self hate and self pity for yourself and revulsion for your country. More often than not though, the actions of the haters are displayed otherwise in indisputable tones. So we understand. You need to feel accepted - in |
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Servetus
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Joined: 04 April 2001 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 2097 |
![]() Posted: 20 February 2007 at 4:44pm |
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Hi Al-Kafir,
Glad you’re enjoying it and make yourself right at home. You could have opted for Howard Stern, of course, but you’ve gone lo fi on Radio Free Serv.
What is pseudo intellectual and shouldn’t it be hyphenated? I hate Cannibal Corpse. Got a problem with that –take a hike. Want to hear more from Robert Bork and others -stick around.
Who’s the “we?” Are you the Queen of England?
I know. I’ve just been reporting on some of those successful people, as did President Bush above. By the way, has your twelve-year-old daughter been singing Snoop Dog’s “Doggy Style” lately?
I know. I had a French girlfriend once. She always stole my Prozac.
You should consider taking a job with National Enquirer. Your reports suck. Please do consider improving them with some photographs of celebrity cellulite. Serv Edited by Servetus |
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Al-kafir
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![]() Posted: 20 February 2007 at 5:10pm |
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You just lost a brilliant opportunity to shut up.
No. But I look absolutely stunning in a clingy red number.
I shall magnanimously ascribe your boorish behavior and ethical lackings to a cave dwelling childhood rather than deliberate ignorance.
Let's be honest, she was only your girlfriend after the hormone treatments and gender change surgery. You should consider taking a job with National Enquirer. Your reports suck and they don’t even include any photographs of celebrity cellulite. Serv Thanks, but I'd prefer to take advise from thinking humans. |
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Servetus
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![]() Posted: 20 February 2007 at 5:30pm |
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Spot on. Those are my call letters.
Now see who is being boorish?
And you sound all the better, even charmingly officious, when you speak in the first person, plural, and say “we” instead of “I.”
I appreciate your magnanimity, but you would be better advised to ascribe my boorish behavior to the fact that, as I said in my opening post, I listened to a rather nasty program on f.m. radio and I have yet to fully recover. It's called life in a swirling, cultural toilet.
Well, I must admit, that did in fact help.
Ouch. You remind me of my long lost, old friend RuggedTouch. She had generally bad manners and used great words like “mewling” also. Have you, by any chance, any extra Prozac? Serv Edited by Servetus |
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hat2010
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Joined: 10 October 2006 Location: Neutral Zone Online Status: Offline Posts: 562 |
![]() Posted: 21 February 2007 at 2:31am |
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Peace Serv,
A second amen on the return of Hanan. And I am sorry for barfing on your thread earlier. Moving on - the solution in Morocco for dealing with over-the-top violent porn is to censor it in the major media outlets. I think when you and your family visit, you'll find it works in a way to your liking. If one is committed to the hard stuff, it's all here to be found - like Stork Beer and Meknes wines and huge drug caches - but it's just not anywhere near the mainstream, and certainly not promoted as a way of life to kids. Your commitment to your child (and I'm guessing all children) is inspiring - one of America's top producers had told me at my graduation from NYFA that his objective, his dream-goal, was to rid the country of child abuse (in all it's forms) A student friend piped in, "And to make assloads of money." He responded, "I don't know anyone whose clearing what I am in a year with money as their ideal. It's always got to be something bigger than that." Hopefully, I've understood the spirit of your original post - if not, my apologies... Jam |
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Servetus
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![]() Posted: 21 February 2007 at 5:34pm |
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Salaam, Jam,
I am glad that you did. This, my blog, was made for barfing and other types of purgation.
I am rather fond of the First Amendment to the Constitution, at least in theory, but do get annoyed when it seems that the only ones “pushing the envelope” in the main-stream media are the well-paid pornographers, including, in this case, the batallions of trash-talking Howard Stern imitators and the record companies behind such stellar acts as Snoop Dog, Cannibal Corpse and (less mainstream now) Brutal Attack and other emerging hatecore.
Well, I don’t really like CNS-depressants, so much, so that kind of rules out alcohol, but as for some of those huge drug caches (just joking) …
Speaking of promoting things as a way of life to kids, especially, in this case, to young girls, here, in a single instance, is what a group of female correspondents wrote and published in that periodical notoriously dedicated, to steal some poetic expressions, to self-hatred and mewling malcontents, Newsweek:
That’s a noble goal. I do think that one of the forms of abuse of women in general is this “constant bombardment” with reminders of (often the inadequacies of) their physique and the hypersexualization, to coin a term, of adolescents. I don't really know how to stop it, though, and I think those who promote it cash in big time.
Did anyone spank his donkey for saying that?
It seems to me that it is the artists, more than the financiers, who are remembered by posterity.
You have understood and, even if you hadn’t, there would be no need for you to apologize. I enjoy talking to you. Thanks for stopping by, or for calling in. Best regards, Radio Free Serv Edited by Servetus |
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