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@Greyparrot
he can celebrate Biden's defeat anywhere thanks to his clueless supporters
Well, Trump's supporters are clueless. We know that.
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@John_C_87
all babies who rest in the womb of their ambassador
Ah, you are a poet.
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@FLRW
Fetus depends upon woman's body. Woman's body does not depend upon a fetus. Woman created the fetus. The only reason why fetus exists is due to woman's action of creating it. Woman has a right to remove fetus from her body to prevent further expense of her body. Fetus exists at the expense of woman's body. Fetus does not have autonomy of its own, as it exists due to the expense of someone else, while someone else does not exist due to the expense of a fetus. Fetus does not support anyone's existence, but others support it's existence. This support is not mandatory, as no one has duty to support the existence of someone else at own expense. There is no autonomy if we have obligation to serve others. Fetus only exists due to woman creating it. To say that woman has obligation to serve it even more than that is a violation of woman's autonomy. Woman owns her own body. Fetus has no right to woman's body for the purpose of creating human life, any more than a rapist would have a right to woman's body for the purpose of impregnating her.
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@FLRW
Christians like to meddle in other people's private lives.
If "woman's body" doesnt belong to her, then why is it called "woman's body"?
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@Greyparrot
I recently did a test, and I only have about 60% of democrat values.
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@FLRW
I mean, there are plenty of people who want to leave civilization, no? I dont understand why are they called beautiful ones, but I appreciate the compliment.
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@Greyparrot
And I am not a democrat.
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@Greyparrot
Why do you defend my views? I am a democrat. You are a republican. We are not supposed to help each other.
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@Stephen
And what is the punishment for apostates in Islam?
"Conversion from Islam to another religion is grounds for the charge of apostasy, which is legally punishable by death, although courts have not carried out a death sentence for apostasy in recent years. The Basic Law states the duty of every citizen is to defend Islam, society, and the homeland."
"A Saudi court sentenced a Yemeni man to 15 years in prison for apostasy on October 21, 2021, based on comments made via two anonymous Twitter accounts, Human Rights Watch said today. The court found that the tweets were promoting “apostasy, unbelief, and atheism.”"
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@Greyparrot
Still dreaming the impossible dream of abolishing the government?
Do you know why it is impossible? Because world is all about power and government is the most powerful thing in the world.
Even if you abolished one government, you would merely be creating space for new one to grow.
Its something that Karl Marx knew and Mikhail Bakunin didnt.
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@FLRW
Yes. I am good now. The complaining was temporary.
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@Greyparrot
I guess his supporters must believe in forgiveness and redemption.
They believe in forgiveness sometimes. You know, when it suits their side.
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@Greyparrot
Actually, we owe them. We were trying to defeat Russia for hundred years. They did it in one year, at practically no cost.
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"A 16-year-old who made headlines in early October, after she entered a subway car in Iran with her hair uncovered, only to be removed from the car unconscious a short while later, has died, per reports from state media.
Armita Geravand, who collapsed in Tehran on Oct. 1, has spent the past few weeks in a coma, with doctors monitoring her condition. In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) New York's Center for Human Rights in Iran commented: "We are profoundly saddened to report the passing of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, after she slipped into a coma following a reported assault by forced-hijab enforcers in the Tehran metro.""
Armita Geravand, who collapsed in Tehran on Oct. 1, has spent the past few weeks in a coma, with doctors monitoring her condition. In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) New York's Center for Human Rights in Iran commented: "We are profoundly saddened to report the passing of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, after she slipped into a coma following a reported assault by forced-hijab enforcers in the Tehran metro.""
""Armita's untimely death has left numerous unanswered questions in its wake. According to eyewitness accounts reported in the media, she was attacked by enforcers of the state's mandatory hijab law. Notably, moments before the incident, Armita was observed without a hijab."
Authorities have continued to deny the allegations against them, saying that Geravand fainted after her blood pressure dropped because she skipped breakfast, the New York Times reported.
Geravand's death comes just over a year after that of Masha Amini—a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran in September 2022, after she was arrested by the morality police for allegedly not following the country's strict hijab laws. Her death sparked protests worldwide, and triggered a national uprising that became Iran’s longest protest since the late ‘70s."
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@Sidewalker
Intolerance is the real enemy.
Yes. If only muslims were more tolerant and didnt throw gays off buildings.
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@Greyparrot
Ukraine is already great. It defeated Russia in 1 year.
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@n8nrgim
you ignored the point that your life is actually probably better than the vast majority of humans that existed.
Yeah, because thats a lie. Or its irrelevant.
try to make friends given relationships are the biggest determinant of happiness.
Thats a lie. I had friends. They dont make you happy.
try to embrace looking at the positive side of things
Yeah, thats called junk science. Scientists, in their infinite wisdom, use statistics to show that those who look at positive side of things are happier. However, statistics can always be understood in two ways. Apparently, those who are happy tend to look at positive side of things. It does nothing for those who arent happy.
try to choose to be happy
So, get drunk?
use your priveleged role as a modern human, and get some help for your mental help.
Oh, I see where the problem is. You think I can be fixed. Oh well, people and their assumptions.
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@sadolite
People arguing about what a man or woman is, you just cant make this shit up.
Like most of shit human kind has made up, the definition of a woman is arbitrary. So yes, I am afraid we can make up anything.
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"Non-therapeutic infant male circumcision is “the most commonly performed surgery in the United States” [1] . It is most often performed for cultural or religious reasons, although it is also frequently performed in hospital settings as a routine procedure, at least in the United States (in contrast to other developed nations) [2] , where it was adopted by the medical establishment in the late 1800s as a “cure” for masturbation, along with other perceived physical and/or spiritual ailments [3] [4] . In recent decades, the circumcision of infants and other young boys in the absence of disease or deformity has increasingly been recognized as being in conflict with well-establish- ed principles of medical ethics [5] -[7] and even human rights [8] -[10] . As Dekkers et al. (p. 180) [11] noted, both male and female circumcision constitute “an invasive intervention in the external genital organs” without valid medical indication.
According to Peterson (2001, p. 285), “no person has the right to surgically inflict their religious, sexual, or cosmetic preferences on another person… Parents have a duty to protect their children from harmful practices, and no tradition should be enforced by the permanent alteration or disfigurement of the body of an individual who is legally incapable of providing informed consent.” [12]
Indeed, as several authors have argued, such an extreme interference with a child’s genitals would ordinarily be viewed as a form of child sexual abuse―Bigelow (1995, p. 97) [13] -[15] . The irreversible cutting and removal of part of a child’s sexual organ is a very serious interference [16] ."
According to Peterson (2001, p. 285), “no person has the right to surgically inflict their religious, sexual, or cosmetic preferences on another person… Parents have a duty to protect their children from harmful practices, and no tradition should be enforced by the permanent alteration or disfigurement of the body of an individual who is legally incapable of providing informed consent.” [12]
Indeed, as several authors have argued, such an extreme interference with a child’s genitals would ordinarily be viewed as a form of child sexual abuse―Bigelow (1995, p. 97) [13] -[15] . The irreversible cutting and removal of part of a child’s sexual organ is a very serious interference [16] ."
Circumcision is mandatory in islam.
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Here are some stories from muslim country Afghanistan:
"Forced and underage marriages have been a longstanding issue in Afghanistan, yet the stories of victims, particularly those in remote areas, often remain untold.
In an effort to shed light on this tragic reality, Amu interviewed a number of women who have fallen victim to forced and underage marriages in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, revealing the heartbreaking narratives they carry.
Zarafshan, an alias, was only 13 years old when she was forced into marriage, thrust into a role for which she was unprepared. The weight of household responsibilities now rests heavily on her young shoulders.
“I am one of the girls who have fallen victim to forced marriages. I was coerced into marriage at the age of 13, an age when I should have been busy playing like other children. Instead, I was burdened with washing my husband’s clothes and carrying the responsibilities of running a household. I always longed to play with other children,” Zarafshan shared.
Tragically, these narratives persist. Sharifa, another victim, reveals that poverty and hardship forced her family to arrange a marriage for her without her consent.
“My father decided to force me into marriage after failing to provide for the family’s needs,” Sharifa explained.
In an effort to shed light on this tragic reality, Amu interviewed a number of women who have fallen victim to forced and underage marriages in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, revealing the heartbreaking narratives they carry.
Zarafshan, an alias, was only 13 years old when she was forced into marriage, thrust into a role for which she was unprepared. The weight of household responsibilities now rests heavily on her young shoulders.
“I am one of the girls who have fallen victim to forced marriages. I was coerced into marriage at the age of 13, an age when I should have been busy playing like other children. Instead, I was burdened with washing my husband’s clothes and carrying the responsibilities of running a household. I always longed to play with other children,” Zarafshan shared.
Tragically, these narratives persist. Sharifa, another victim, reveals that poverty and hardship forced her family to arrange a marriage for her without her consent.
“My father decided to force me into marriage after failing to provide for the family’s needs,” Sharifa explained.
According to Shaqayiq, a resident of Badakhshan, “From the perspective of Islam and Sharia, a marriage would be considered invalid when a man and a woman do not give their consent to the union.”
Meanwhile, a girl from the Shighnan district of Badakhshan recounted her escape from a Taliban member who was attempting to force her into marriage. Farida, an alias, who is still underage, has sought refuge in Mazar-e-Sharif city in northern Balkh province. She refused to surrender to a life she never chose.
“Taliban members, who were much older, were forcibly marrying underage girls. That is why my parents sent me to Mazar-e-Sharif,” she claimed.
“In the society I live in, women’s voices are silenced, and women are oppressed every day. Girls are deprived of their fundamental human rights. We have even been denied the right to education, which is the basic right of every human being,” expressed Kaynat, another victim of forced marriage.
These stories offer just a glimpse into the pervasive issue of forced and underage marriages in Afghanistan. Countless incidents occur in villages across the country, often unnoticed by the media, and the dreams of these young girls remain buried and unfulfilled.
Recent UN reports have exposed a distressing reality in Afghanistan, bringing to the forefront the alarming prevalence of forced and early marriages within the country. These reports offer a stark reminder that behind closed doors, countless women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected to a life marked by coercion, robbed of their freedom, rights, and futures.
Meanwhile, a girl from the Shighnan district of Badakhshan recounted her escape from a Taliban member who was attempting to force her into marriage. Farida, an alias, who is still underage, has sought refuge in Mazar-e-Sharif city in northern Balkh province. She refused to surrender to a life she never chose.
“Taliban members, who were much older, were forcibly marrying underage girls. That is why my parents sent me to Mazar-e-Sharif,” she claimed.
“In the society I live in, women’s voices are silenced, and women are oppressed every day. Girls are deprived of their fundamental human rights. We have even been denied the right to education, which is the basic right of every human being,” expressed Kaynat, another victim of forced marriage.
These stories offer just a glimpse into the pervasive issue of forced and underage marriages in Afghanistan. Countless incidents occur in villages across the country, often unnoticed by the media, and the dreams of these young girls remain buried and unfulfilled.
Recent UN reports have exposed a distressing reality in Afghanistan, bringing to the forefront the alarming prevalence of forced and early marriages within the country. These reports offer a stark reminder that behind closed doors, countless women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected to a life marked by coercion, robbed of their freedom, rights, and futures.
According to the United Nations, forced and early marriages continue to plague Afghanistan, particularly in remote and marginalized communities where poverty, cultural norms, and conflict exacerbate the issue. Disturbingly, girls as young as nine to 13 years old are often married off without their consent, stripped of their childhood and subjected to a lifetime of hardships.
UNICEF in a report in November 2021 said that they have received credible reports of families offering daughters as young as 20 days old up for future marriage in return for a dowry.
Even before the latest political instability, UNICEF’s partners registered 183 child marriages and 10 cases of selling of children over 2018 and 2019 in Herat and Baghdis provinces alone, said the organization, adding that the children were between 6 months and 17 years of age.
UNICEF estimates that 28 percent of Afghan women aged 15–49 years were married before the age of 18."
UNICEF in a report in November 2021 said that they have received credible reports of families offering daughters as young as 20 days old up for future marriage in return for a dowry.
Even before the latest political instability, UNICEF’s partners registered 183 child marriages and 10 cases of selling of children over 2018 and 2019 in Herat and Baghdis provinces alone, said the organization, adding that the children were between 6 months and 17 years of age.
UNICEF estimates that 28 percent of Afghan women aged 15–49 years were married before the age of 18."
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@IlDiavolo
I don’t know. Try meditation.
Fine. I will.
You're a MAP, you don’t need a big cock. 😁
Everyone needs a big cock. But mine is 2 inches, 3 at most. Its disgusting. Its not even average.
To add insult to the injury, or injury to the insult, its bent downwards.
It looks like a small banana.
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@IlDiavolo
The theory states that this is a virtual reality simulation and there is only one player playing all the characters
Well, how do I switch to different character?
So, instead of playing the victim card and complaining all the time, I suggest you to try at least to change your life if you don't like what you're doing
Are you suggesting me to get penis surgery?
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Here is a story from muslim country Egypt about what they do to women.
“When my husband and mother told me that my girl should undergo FGM, I refused,” shared Amal Ahmed*, a FGM survivor and now a mother from the Cairo governate, in an interview with UN Women. She was only 10 years old when Amal and her sister were forced to undergo FGM. The trauma of the experience never left her. Today, Amal has a 11-year-old daughter whom she protects fiercely. “I told my mother: ‘You did it to me, but I’m not doing it to my daughter. I’m not going to destroy my girl’s life.”
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@Mall
Do you mean one at one time and another at another time?
Thats one possibility.
But I can be both at same time. My brain has trillions of parts, and can have different views stored at different locations.
Kinda like how two persons can be one atheist one polytheist.
But my brain can be two persons.
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"“Gawaz salonat” (living room marriages) is the popular name for arranged marriages in Egypt. The name is derived from the tradition of couples meeting for the first time in the sitting room of the bride's house, under the supervision of her family."
"Egyptian girls and women have very few rights in marriage and limited protection within the legal system. Marriage in Egypt is governed by various mainly religious-based laws, with the Muslim majority (and certain other groups) subject to Egyptian Personal Law, based on Shari’ah.4 Women cannot freely marry without the permission of a male guardian, and are often excluded from marriage negotiations.5 In 2008, the age of consent was raised to 18 by an amendment to Egypt’s child protection laws.6 In spite of this law, this age requirement is often not followed,7 and NGO and government agencies report high rates of underage marriage, from 17-38%, across different regions of the country.8 Enforcement of the laws against underage marriage declined in tandem with the general decline in law enforcement capacity after the January 2011 revolution. There are no laws criminalizing forced marriage.
It is much more difficult for women than men to dissolve a marriage in Egypt. Women must navigate a complex, burdensome, discriminatory, and costly system to end their marriages, and ultimately choose between a protracted fault-based divorce that allows them to retain their financial rights (including access to alimony and child-support payments) or a swifter divorce predicated on the abandonment of these rights. A woman seeking divorce, even for reasons of domestic violence, must first submit to compulsory mediation in the name of family preservation."
It is much more difficult for women than men to dissolve a marriage in Egypt. Women must navigate a complex, burdensome, discriminatory, and costly system to end their marriages, and ultimately choose between a protracted fault-based divorce that allows them to retain their financial rights (including access to alimony and child-support payments) or a swifter divorce predicated on the abandonment of these rights. A woman seeking divorce, even for reasons of domestic violence, must first submit to compulsory mediation in the name of family preservation."
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Egypt for a long time had female genital mutilation forced on little girls. Egypt is muslim.
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@Mall
is that right?
Yeah, thats about right, but I am not pagan. I am a polytheist and an atheist.
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@IlDiavolo
it's a bliss to have been born in the West
Yes. I would say that the best countries to live in are Sweden, Switzerland and Japan, but most of the west is moving forward rapidly in making their countries better. Circumcision is decreasing in USA, and freedom is increasing.
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@Swagnarok
The vast majority of humans who've ever lived would think this an unfathomable privilege.
Yes. Its called "the grass is always greener" effect. Apparently, people just assume that they would like existing as me, while ignoring that I hate existing as me.
enjoy a surplus of leisure time
I never said I enjoy it.
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I am pretty sure that if life was a game, I would choose to play as Trump: rich, corrupt, has money, has girls and isnt limited or bothered by morality or even basic human decency.
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Okay, so there has been a theory that life is just a game that you chose to play and that when you were born, you entered the game and the game started and when you die the game will end and you will exit the game.
Here is what I dont understand about that theory.
I usually prefer easy games.
But my life seems to be a game played on hardest possible difficulty.
I have autism, depression. I am anti social. I am map. I was circumcised. I have tiny dick that is also bent downwards. I dont look good. I am also rather poor.
So if life is a game, why did I choose to play as this character?
It makes no sense. Did I do it to test my gaming skills? Well, my gaming skills are pretty bad in this life, so I am not really sure why would real me outside of the game choose hardest difficulty?
Did I do it on a dare?
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@TheUnderdog
If pedophilia was legal and your 8 year old partner cheated on you, you may be fine with it.
You keep roasting me on that topic. This is why its hard to be map. People keep roasting you. Its enough to just say that you are map and everyone already hates you. Being a map is really difficult. Its like I am playing a game on hardest difficulty.
However, adultery being legal means even if the other spouse isn't fine with it, then it's legal.
Well, unless they are married and marriage contract bans adultery, I dont see whats the problem. People dont own people. Unless they sign a contract. Then they do.
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I am a polytheist, but I know that religion is utter nonsense.
Its just that sometimes I feel a need to believe in fairy tales.
I can pray to Jesus, but at the same time recognize that he is a cruel madman because under his power most people go to Hell to burn alive.
There is no way to justify his cruelty.
Now, pascal's wager is based on fear, but Pascal's wager favors polytheism over monotheism.
One could even say that Pascal's wager favors atheism, as the most logical God would favor logical atheists over religious people.
Most religious people are crazy, and to think a logical God would prefer crazy people over logical people is nonsense.
Further, to think that logical God would prefer religious people is nonsense, as religious people demonized God and turned God into a monster.
Religious people turned God into a monster who tortures people eternally with disproportional cruel punishments. They made God in their own cruel twisted image, because they themselves are cruel twisted monsters.
They made God into a servant who solves their personal issues, serves them, gives them free gifts, works for them to make them eternally happy and tortures their enemies with greatest pain for all eternity.
In other words, they turned image of God into an image of an idiot that doesnt make sense from God's perspective in any way, as God would have no reason to do any of what religious people think and hope he would do.
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@Ilyas06
Hey, you said that islam is good.
There dont seem to be many active muslims on this site anymore.
The ratio of christians and muslims is terribly disproportional here.
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@TheUnderdog
The left generally thinks prostitution and adultury should be legal
Well, I guess I do think prostitution should be legal.
Adultery should be legal too.
But the problem is not in my views.
The problem is in Trump's views.
Trump claims to be christian who stands for family values.
How is that not funny?
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@Stephen
Don't expect the Reverend to join this thread, BK.
I was kinda hoping he will join, although the ratio of christians and muslims is already bad as it is.
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@YouFound_Lxam
I am kinda getting drunk, so its best if we just agree to disagree for now. I feel like I am derailing the thread, when I should just be letting christian and muslim guy fight each other while I watch and do nothing.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Yeah, and he gave us Free Will. What about free will is confusing?
Free will is irrelevant. Even with free will, it still stands that God created evil people. Thats what your Bible says. And because of omniscience, God knew that people will be evil and he still created them causing great majority of them to go to Hell.
The punishment for action is not proportional to the action.
If you think its normal for people to burn alive for all eternity because they had gay sex or because they didnt believe in God, then thats the disproportional punishment which makes you and your God draconian.
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@YouFound_Lxam
God does not control who goes to Hell.
Well, thats an interesting thought that makes no sense, since God dictates who wont go to hell. He made the rules, remember?
You see hundreds of people purpousfully walking off of a cliff. Then you see a man walking through the crowd trying to convince people to walk the other way.
Except that God created evil people, as I already explained.
So it would be more like God causing people to walk off of a cliff.
But even if neither of these was case, God would still be unjust for letting people be burned alive for all eternity when he could have stopped it easily with no effort.
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@Stephen
But they have these rights here in the West.
If West followed the Bible, they wouldnt have them. Thats why I cannot be a follower of the Bible.
So I can never understand why people are still banging on about these rights.
Well, there are many places in the world where those rights are denied. Plus, LGBT children often get bullied.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Hell is separation from God. It is not a place God created.
Even if we accept this assumption as correct, it is God who controls who goes to Hell. It is God who decides who gets punished with Hell.
God, being all powerful, could have easily created place for sinners that gives proportional punishments. That would be justice.
But God choosing to have people in Hell eternally is a disproportional punishment in great majority of cases.
It is God who causes people to go to hell, irrelevant if by creating Hell or just putting people in Hell.
So, God does not send us to Hell, we send ourselves to Hell.
This is an incorrect assumption, as it was already explained that God decides who goes to Hell. Therefore, it is God who sends people to Hell.
But even if your assumption was correct, it would still make your God unjust, as he, by denying non-believers of suitable place, condemns them to be punished disproportionally.
Remember that he created non-believers, so when they go to hell, it is a consequence of God's action, not the lack of God's action. So God does send people to hell.
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@Stephen
What are "gay rights"?
Gay marriage, and not being punished for consensual gayness.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Because the God of the Bible is substantially greater in moral justice, than the God of the Qur'an is.
Actually, both Jesus and Allah are Gods of disproportional revenge.
Justice implies eye for eye, not "you burn alive eternally because you didnt believe in me".
The word justice has nothing to do with either of your Gods's morality.
Your Gods are draconians.
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I cannot even be a complete christian, since they too are commanded to judge gays. They just do it a little less violently.
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I support gay rights. So I cannot be a complete muslim. Complete muslim must judge gays.
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So muslims support child marriage and kill gays,
While christians tolerate gays but kill those who engage in child marriage.
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