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Thread: TS in Duabi(UAE)?
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12-22-2008 #51
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12-22-2008 #52
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12-22-2008 #53Originally Posted by Angel17TS
If anything the founding fathers went to HUGE lengths to keep religion out of our country's major founding documents. The articles, the constitution, the Federalist essays are all based on logic and logistics almost without exception.
and the same as Christianity is used as the basis for law in the US,
The issue with abortion & gay marriage does make it sound like our legal system is based on religious principles, but that is a misleading scenario. The problem is our system is based on representative government and therego if enough people want something, there is little in place to prevent them from getting it. This speaks nothing to why they want something, it could be for any or no reason at all (including religious views). Federalist #10 explains this better than I ever could though, and it does indicate that as usual, Hobbs was right on the money in saying that people really shouldn't have enough political power to enact changes... because the masses are often their own worst enemy (slavery had popular approval here for quite a long time, just because the majority want something does not make it right).
Sadly this point is lost on ourselves to such a point that our foreign policy "experts" think democracy is the solution to all that is wrong with the world... nothing is further from the truth. Democracy does nothing to help the realities of this world if all the people in a given land elect are officials of the likes of Jerry Falwell, or Hezbollah.
And maybe its easier to withdraw from life
With all of its misery and wretched lies
If we're dead when tomorrow's gone
The Big Machine will just move on
Still we cling afraid we'll fall
Clinging like the memory which haunts us all
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12-22-2008 #54Originally Posted by Angel17TS
If anything the founding fathers went to HUGE lengths to keep religion out of our country's major founding documents. The articles, the constitution, the Federalist essays are all based on logic and logistics almost without exception.
and the same as Christianity is used as the basis for law in the US,
The issue with abortion & gay marriage does make it sound like our legal system is based on religious principles, but that is a misleading scenario. The problem is our system is based on representative government and therego if enough people want something, there is little in place to prevent them from getting it. This speaks nothing to why they want something, it could be for any or no reason at all (including religious views). Federalist #10 explains this better than I ever could though, and it does indicate that as usual, Hobbs was right on the money in saying that people really shouldn't have enough political power to enact changes... because the masses are often their own worst enemy (slavery had popular approval here for quite a long time, just because the majority want something does not make it right).
Sadly this point is lost on ourselves to such a point that our foreign policy "experts" think democracy is the solution to all that is wrong with the world... nothing is further from the truth. Democracy does nothing to help the realities of this world if all the people in a given land elect are officials of the likes of Jerry Falwell, or Hezbollah.
And maybe its easier to withdraw from life
With all of its misery and wretched lies
If we're dead when tomorrow's gone
The Big Machine will just move on
Still we cling afraid we'll fall
Clinging like the memory which haunts us all
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12-22-2008 #55
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Originally Posted by SarahG
الليالي بدونك اشهد انها تعوف
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12-25-2008 #56
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a...hoe/article.do
sounds like a barbaric place to me.
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12-25-2008 #57Originally Posted by whatislove
A search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g - so small it would be invisible to the naked eye and weighing less than a grain of sugar - on the tread of one of his shoes.
Dubai International Airport is a major hub for the Middle East and thousands of Britons pass through it every year to holiday in the glamorous beach and shopping haven.
But many of those tourists and business travellers are likely to be unaware of the strict zero-tolerance drugs policy in the UAE.
One man has even been jailed for possession of three poppy seeds left over from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow Airport. Painkiller codeine is also banned.
And maybe its easier to withdraw from life
With all of its misery and wretched lies
If we're dead when tomorrow's gone
The Big Machine will just move on
Still we cling afraid we'll fall
Clinging like the memory which haunts us all
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12-25-2008 #58
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angelts, since you live in Dubai, are you muslim? isn't it difficult being a TS in a muslim family? i only ask because i know of such a situation and it was hell for the girl to transition.
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12-26-2008 #59
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[quote="whatislove"]http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23436226-details/Briton+jailed+in+Dubai+after+officials+find+cannab is+weighing+less+than+a+grain+of+sugar+under+his+s hoe/article.do
sounds like a barbaric place to me.[/quote
Hey wow look at what I found.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-..._b_145020.html
"Williams is serving a 25-year-to-life sentence for a "mickey mouse" drug offense that occurred in Albany County back in 1991. Anthony has already served more than 17 years of that sentence, dragged in chains from one maximum-security prison to the next."
Sounds like a BARBARIC place to me.
Fortunately Im smart enough to know a newspaper article doesnt sum up a nation. The day you can actually afford to come here let me know. You can then comment on the society and whether its barbaric or not.
الليالي بدونك اشهد انها تعوف
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12-28-2008 #60Originally Posted by Angel17TS
How about being able to choose one's own religion or not as one desires? That's not the case in the UAE and some other places that you listed either.
But my best is being to cruise up and down well maintained roadways in whaetver car i want without being stopped arbitrarily by the national police. You can even drive on the beach in FL!
Dubai is taking a serious hit with oil prices - just wait until they have to pay off those notes!