(OT) You are kidding, runner.

>>As no fan of the Catholic church I see no evidence of this prinicple being invoked despite the fact that they set up the first schools, hospitals etc.<<

There were nationally-accredited schools in China more than a thousand years before Christ. Athens and Rome had school-based education five hundred years BC.

The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Sri Lankans all had formally-established locations for healing, i.e. hospitals, hundreds of years BC. There was even a hospital chain, established by King Asoka in Hindustan around 230BC.

Your knowledge of history is as faulty as your reasoning.

Art and sexual deviancy go hand in hand but I think a lot of people would see a contradiction in the chattering classes encouraging Bill Henson to exhibit his photos of children while urging the banning or erasing Rolf Harris'works.
We are to presume or infer nothing about Henson's character when we look at his pictures of naked, dirt besmirched children yet we are supposed to be mortified or shamed by the sight of one of Rolf's completely innocuous cartoons or landscapes?
There's something very wrong with such a mindset.

Jay of Melbourne

u r likely to be howled down for stating the obvious.

'Your knowledge of history is as faulty as your reasoning.'
Your abilty to twist and distort is amazing Pericles. Just try reading a little of Australias history instead of grabbing at straws to enable you to stay in denial

SO MANY THINGS/are so/BLEEDING OBVIOUS
as obvious as/bleedING so to be clear to something/
devience/inteligence and most of lifes skills are awaoken
[many dont concieve what that means/their inspire driven/to be liked

some do things as expected/some talk when exited
but every skill needs be awoken/and the awakening comes via many roots[routes/and even brutes

to quote joe<<~Art and sexual deviancy go hand in hand!"

IS~not an understatement/AS WE MELD/with the others of liKEPASSION
[im reminded of a thing called a school estedford/where these innocent/school chldren/became madonas in sexyness/on stage

hour after hour of nubiles lving out their teacers fantasies
i cant watch it/i see the demon urges stired up/and not love demons[but wholy abusive face in the dunny type perversion

recall i love naked/porn/its great
but so much is abusive/demeaning fantasy porn/only real in picure/type porn/but that yet drags the vieuwinng of it to the lower hells

joe<<but I think a lot of people/would see a contradiction in the chattering classes encouraging Bill Henson to exhibit his photos of children while urging the banning or erasing Rolf Harris'works.>>>

i would add/in things like child beauty pageNTS/
kids modeling underwear/or dressed as sluts/by slutty mothers serving peverted fathers

its a fine line/chldren looking sexy/thats a real presnt danger

joe/is right/to say<<We are to presume or infer nothing about Henson's character when we look at his pictures of naked, dirt besmirched children yet we are supposed to be mortified or shamed by the sight of one of Rolf's completely innocuous cartoons or landscapes?~

yes joe<<There's something very wrong with such a mindset.
by the fruits of teir works will we know then

Errrr... what, runner?

>>Your abilty to twist and distort is amazing Pericles<<

Are you suggesting that my comments on your post are wrong? Are you saying that you are in fact right, and "the Catholic church... set up the first schools, hospitals etc."?

In which universe can my observations be regarded as twisting and distorting anything? I was simply setting the facts straight.

In your rush to slag off yet another poster - a highly familiar stance of yours, by the way - you made a mistake.

And are not big enough to admit it.