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My Apologetics - September 2007

Threats given to children to make them study hard

Study is such an important factor that varies from subculture to subculture. Note I did not say culture to culture as that would be too stereotypical. You humans like monkeys are tribal beasts that want to be part of our group. Fortunately in Australia the endemic class and racial divisions that have cursed the much of rest of the world, so the real divisions are actually in education. Forget the mega rich as they are the fantasy life that is unattainable to us normal folk it is education that determines the amount of control you will have over your future. Damn it. Our parents believed this and the teachers believed this and so inevitably do I. It is not my fault that I believe this I have been coached and threatened (mostly threatened) to study hard or something bad will happen. “You will end up like that man….”

Looking back I am thinking that some of these threats worked and other may seem pointless yet here are so examples.

It is a Jungle Out There!
The age of high unemployment may have pass for now but there was a time when it was the biggest problem young people had to face. Usually a worried looking teacher who had chosen the only job that he could not be sacked from would give this advice. “How are you suppose to survive in the real world it you don’t know the periodic table. It is Jungle out there, a real jungle and if you don’t know that they will eat you alive.” Teenagers are not very impressionable and any hint of a hostile world equates to a possible rumble and thus seems more attractive.

See what happen to your uncle
“See what happened to your uncle. He had everything and he threw it all away. He was top of his year 9 class and in the last few years of school he just loafed off. He went to parties, smoked dope, drank cheap cask wine and hung around the bad (code for really Hot) girls. Now look at him.” The last I heard of this uncle was that he was still going to parties, smoking dope, drinking cheap wine and hanging around hot women. So what is down side of this?

Seriously, you owe it to your people to study hard.
Now this one is a bit complicated and I often wonder why it matters. So if I get a good pass on my English exam all the people from my great grandfathers country will be so proud that they will personally write me a letter of thanks. “Dear Damo, we all thank you for achieving this great honour of getting an education. We thank you on behalf of the whole country/religion/town/race and on behalf of the generations of dead people wait for you to do this.” Thanks for the thought.

Why can’t you be like your brother Bob? (not his real name)
This is the “Get a haircut and get a real job,” talk that ever parent knows that they should not give but gives anyway. From experience I have noticed that parenthood entails many examples of saying and doing things that you promised you would never do. Mostly because you see them as the mistakes your parents made and you expect that you will be better than them. Yet half way through seeing poor tests results and that dreaded parent teacher meeting you find that the ghosts of the past come back to haunt another generation. Don’t feel bad because you kid will grow up expecting to be better and failing just as you did. Hehehehe. The revenge of time.

Without a good education you will end up working in a factory
Kids have dreams for their future and the types of careers that they will have. Constantly they are being asked what they will do when they grow up. Rock Star, Policeman, Firefighter, Doctor. I have never heard anyone say that they wanted to grow up and work on the production line at a sprocket factory. The whole concept of work is sold to children like a life sentence that starts one day after graduation. Yet the sentence was passed in childhood as soon as the child does not pass an exam in spelling. If you can’t spell mauve then it is off to be a human robot for you. You will be free after you become sixty five.
The horror does not end there as every person that happens to be on the road is pointed out as a case study. “See that drunk there. He is living on the street because he could not do long division.” Fair enough but he seemed happy to me and even offered me something from his battle of metho.

dunny man
A real 'Dunny Man' would put the can on his head to carry it.
Yet it is the self induced fear of failure that springs the mind to work and the hand to write down the outdated facts of Social Studies Classes. The man who sweeps the street makes you wonder how this person ended up in this position in life. Just like the fellow who was put to maintain the public toilets and does so with radio constantly fixed to the horse racing. This was the failed to study horror story thrown up in everyone’s faces.
Many years ago there were still some homes that did not have sewage connected. The local council provided the service of large can for human waste. The truck was once called the ‘night wagon’ and drove from home to home every fortnight to exchange the cans. Yes this was the pinnacle of someone’s career as they closed the lid and carried the heavy can on their hat back to the waiting truck. These were always middle aged men. So the pure terror of not having enough education to avoid this job was enough to make even the laziest person study harder.

Hence I say that it is fear of failure that makes people study as much as enthusiasm for learning.


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Why do posts written with the least effort draw the biggest response?
I have no idea and really want to know.
I call this the glass is half assed theory.

Link to some crap

Put a link to story helps too.

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random image
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Image of the Day: Burma in Crisis

September 27th 2007 00:05
Reports about the military crackdown on protesting monk indictae that 4 may have been killed.

Monks protesting in defience of the military rulers.

burma
The crackdown
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How to sound wise without actually being wise 101

wiseone
I feel better already
The basic lessons in life are often too hard to learn and require patience. Who has time for patience these days? Why spend time learning all the great thoughts from so called great minds when all you really want is the meat in the intellectual sandwich. Show me the beef and move on. Wisdom is hard path to follow, or so I am told and I just cannot be bothered with anything hard. In the choice between a plasma television and the virtues of poverty the answer is: where is the remote for this? We just don’t have time to gain wisdom anymore so I guess we only have two choices. Either give upon any sign of respectability or create a façade. In commercial terms the facade is just as good if not better. So rather than get deep and almighty about it I will cut the chase and offer the easy path to looking wise even if you are not


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What is Hate?

September 24th 2007 06:28
What is Hate?

Often described in its results it is rarely defined ‘Hate’ is almost instantly recognizable. Why is something that we can barely find words to explain is so well know and understood? Anger can be understood, rage and bitterness but pure unadulterated hate is an alien that visits where it does the most harm. Grief is understandable and so too is confusion but the bitter desire to destroy and trample another person is beyond comprehension. Hate is like a rat gnawing at the soul as lead people to do what cannot otherwise be done. Hate if nurtured, can kill any sympathy and worse even the ability to feel empathy. Humans without empathy are capable of anything. Hate is the very opposite to empathy


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What is there that makes us think that we are special?

We live in a sea of confusions trying to make sense of what we have done, who we are and where we are going. Not sure that anything that we do makes any difference we may lash out and put effort only to find that the ocean of indifference may drown out everything. The sand on the beach is washed over and your footsteps are erased. It is as if you never walked this way, did those things and lived that life. Yet in the hollows of memory you know that you did these things and in memories of others they do matter


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Okay who are the real traitors and cowards here?

The term Blind Faith is often an overused expression. Why ruin a perfectly good discussion with a radical ideologue by pointing out the bleeding obvious. Yes we are so clever at casting aspersion and making accusations that no one is above being condemned. If the Pope can be condemned for not being Catholic enough then why not the innocent be found guilty of any crime that we invent. This fraudulent claim is easy to make and difficult to defend because the entire testing process is a fraud. The entire testing process is designed to have the outcome that the accuser had demanded because it is a circular argument


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From Sad Little Pumpkin to Police full of Bumpkin: And still no warrant.
pumpkin
The unhappy family

Many people many have been following the story of the small girl nicknamed Pumpkin left abandoned at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station six days ago. The toddler was captured on video being abandoned by her New Zealand resident father before he took an international flight to the US


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Signs of Anti-Intellectualism: From One Extreme to the Other

polpot
Anti-intellectualism was Pol Pot's tactic. He aimed to kill as many educated people as possible.
So we look at the world from the most recent problem and find that the cause comes from a particular camp; that camp belongs to a particular group; that group comes from either the Left or Right of Politics and there you have it. The answer is simply based upon which side of the coin you happen to be on. The problem is the coin gets flipped every so often and the mistakes of the world are then lumped on the other side. There may be a few minor concessions to give the devil a little credit but the overall thesis is that one ideological stand can fix it all


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Comparisons of style between Howard and Rudd

First lets look at the Howard Image


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An Open Letter to Anonymous

September 18th 2007 01:30
An Open Letter to Anonymous

Dear Anon


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Art of Blog by Sun Tsu Damo: The secrets of saving the world and your fragile ego

flame me
It is like a treadmill. Fascinating to watch but never actually goes anywhere.
The ‘Art of Blog’ is an ancient text written over 2000 years ago by the person used to listen to second hand quotes from ‘Art of War’ by Sun Tsu. Thus he was both a master of collecting accurate knowledge and accepting it to be true on face value. This is secret knowledge intended only for a select few who learn the Art of Blog in order to win battles and thereby save the world and civilization as we know it. As is self evident civilization stands or falls on the opinions of a Blog. Ask any self righteous blogger and they will act as if this is true. Now the ancient and obviously authentic text has been interpreted so all may learn its secrets


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Accusations and Slippery Slope Arguments: Are they a valid form of reasoning?

In comparing two alternatives would it not be wise to size up the evidence, consider all the consequences, check historical records and then make your decision? Would it not be prudent to consider the possibility of making a mistake or succumbing to short sightedness, prejudice and hubris? What about an answer that can be tainted due to a desire to find a comfortable solution? When I say comfortable I do mean an answer provides you with the prescribed answer that you had lobbied for


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All the Blog's a stage

September 15th 2007 05:41
All the Blog's a stage

liver
The Gall Bladder is here. So it takes a lot of effort to spite bile on people.
In many ways Blogs are a performance not much difference than a stage performance. The uneducated clown who said that the whole world is stage was right, despite the fact that he should have gone to school and learned English. There is nothing like a stage to sort out whether someone can please a crowd or not. Writing on a blog is no longer the lonely solitary confinement of an author but a village square. Here the soap boxes are dragged in and each person stand to belt out their chance to win over a crowd. In the case of a blog site everyone has their own soap box and they are all trying to find an audience


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Made you look.
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Types of lies from Pinocchio to Modern Times

"How do you know I am lying?"
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14 Sept 2007: Myapologetics is One Year Old. Has it been a year already?

Officially Damo has been on Orble for longer but Myapologetics.com has only been alive since 14 September 2006. So what has it been like writing for blog site for one year


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Performance Enhancing Drug testing for Artists

flyod
Pink Floyod: They are sus
Drug cheats really have an unfair advantage over the rest of us in sport. It is really frustrating to go to a gym and see some Jim with bulging veins on his torso and sometime on his face. The Olympian who has the world record in the bag just next to his nasal delivery treatment is a fraud. The cyclist who can do all his business on his bike but can only urinate crystallized testosterone is making it hard for the rest of us. Some say that urinating crystals would be enough punishment but not sporting governing bodies. They have drug testing to stamp out the drug cheats and help create a level playing field. This is a good thing and stops the unfair advantage but what about the Arts


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Reminder: Chasers War on Everything is on tonight
This will be the episode that screnes the fake Osama going through to APEC security.

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Man arrested for robbing woman and licking her feet

News Just in


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LaRouche la-talk-ada Crap: A special place where LaRouche fans can sing his praises.

The biggest name in the anti-global warming campaign has been Lyndon LaRouche and his many front organizations. They are the people who like us to believe that Global Warming is in fact an attempt to reintroduce Eugenics and therefore must be an evil conspiracy. The local Australian front for LaRouch is a small but noisy bunch called the Citizens Electoral Council (CEC). Australian would remember how they stacked the audience of a television debate about the now discredited documentary called ‘The Great Global Warm Swindle.’ Generally they asked leading questions trying to link the science of global warming to an evil conspiracy. Enough said about that as you can search the ABC.com.au website for the transcript and videos yourself


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Will John Howard resign before the next election?

meto
Hands up if you want to be PM
This one can possibly be written off as the rumour mill if not for the fact that his long term supporters in the media have made similar pronounce. This was the background noise over what should have been a triumphant APEC summit. It was rumoured that the noise was indeed coming from Peter Costello supporter from the backbench. Whether this call for Jonny to step down or not was just a figment of journalistic imagination may never be known. However it has forced Howard to confirm that he will be the leader to take the Liberal Party to the next election. Why react unless there is reason to do so


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Sober Reflection of 9-11 six years on

September 9th 2007 03:13
Sober Reflection of 9-11 six years on

Difficult as it may be the anniversary of the September 11 attacks have come around again and we will be shown the usual documentaries of the event and analysis of why it happened. What has been learned from this disaster and what should have been learned may be two different things


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hansonism
Wrap the flag around and feel its rightousness telling you that you are always right because you are Right


Firstly it is not easy to be a Redneck if you have anything more than a high school education. Rednecks need to live in the myth that they are one of the common folk and have earned the right to speak for their silent majority. Studying too hard and reading hard book makes you too educated and therefore suspiciously intellectual. Suspiciously intellectual is bad because then you are not one of the common folk and not one of the us that needs defending from the them. So how do we become Redneck? Here are the simple rules in life to follow


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