Wrong thread right response to childlike posts

I'd like to respond to the remark made about this
being a forum to which people contribute only because
they have nothing better to do and so on. This forum
is not only a forum for old men, although their
knowledge, experience and views certainly do at times
add value to the discussions. It also attracts man
people of all ages who contribute to the forum - and
they do so not simply because they have nothing better
to do but because they're quite often able to both
contribute to the forum as well as find the time to
contribute to their communities as well.

For me personally - the forum is a diversion from
thinking about how rotten I feel at times - health-wise.
It gives me something else other than myself to focus on.
Right or wrong - there it is.

Dear Belly,

Well stated - and I for one am glad that you are back and
posting and providing us with a required balance. Thank-You.

How come nobody ever thinks of left-handers being behind a lot of the problems of today ? I've seen a figure in relation to traffic congestion in Sydney, that if there was only 12 % less traffic at peak-hours, it would flow about 20 % faster. And isn't it a bit more than coincidental that about 12 % of the population are left-handers ? So who's causing the problems, ay ? And that's not all, by any means.

No, butter wouldn't melt in their mouths, but check out who's behind the world's problems: Osama bin Laden was left-handed, Charles Manson too, Putin, Maduro, Mugabe - it's just too common to be coincidence. Check out drawings of Chenghiz Khan and even Pontius Pilate.

The evidence is just building up. But how to control this scourge ? There's probably a gene for it, so how can that be eradicated before it's too late to protect the next generations ?

Bugger, I just realised, I'm left-handed :(

Joe

I've found the next 'Dumbest Thing In The Country'.

As for needing someone to dislike I figure this purple haired lesbian weirdo instructing people on how to raise their kids will fit the bill, for today.

http://www.lifezette.com/2018/05/expert-says-we-must-ask-babys-permission-to-change-diaper/

Whilst it maybe true that "We Need Some one to hate" as Belly opines, its also probably true that we need to feel superior to someone or be part of group that feels superior to some other group.

Here we see Belly and Foxy and others proclaiming that indeed we do need to hate someone or some group, while they just as rapidly, despite using words like 'we' and 'us', exempt themselves from these haters. They aren't hateful like those other 'us' and those other 'we', thus demonstrating their superiority to the unthinking haters.

They use the term 'hate' because it provides them the way to decree their lack of hatred and therefore their greater moral position as compared the people they determine do hate.

But is hate the right word? It is an instinctive survival trait to distrust the 'other'. When we lived in small groups, the other was almost certainly a real or potential enemy. For example, in Australian aboriginal groups, warfare among the tribes was endemic. A many as 30% of all men died in warfare. And up to 50% of women were married to men who'd kidnapped them during periods of warfare - this also helped mix the gene pool.

So do we hate the other or merely instinctively distrust the other? And is the distrust amplified when the other has very different cultural values and wants to impose those values on us?

We don't actually hate the other, but we do distrust the other. Whatismore, we need to feel superior to the other. Otherwise we'd abandon our values and adopt his.

I'd postulate that all humans in all periods have felt the need to and indeed have felt superior to others. This is not something limited to those dastardly whites but covers all nations and races at all times.

So while you spend time glorifying in your lack of hatred as compared to those lesser beings, ponder why you have the need to feel superior to those you arbitrarily assume to be less virtuous.

LM,

As a cackie-hander I have to say sorry but you are very wrong. Putin isn't a leftie. But Einstein, da Vinci, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Darwin, Michelangelo and Rubens were. And the closest thing we have to the divine on earth at the moment, Paul McCartney is a leftie.

Lefties solve problems, not create them. And as Foxy, Paul et al will happily (and constantly) tell you, right is the new Satan.

Finally, on Pontius Pilate, he "washed his hands in front of the crowd" (Matthew 27:24). Note :hands. Both hands. He was clearly and indisputably ambidextrous. I've seen the photos to prove it.