Posted on 05/13/2007 9:47:18 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
Rescuers cut through a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western Massachusetts farm.
(Excerpt) Read more at firstcoastnews.com ...
How can he smile when he’s the lowest of the low?
It’s really a sad question. Because he’s never known anything else.
I could not get the StarryBlue.gif or Starry.gif (black BG) to show up as (Table BGs here - no black BG image showed up at - had to fall back on StarzBlack.gif - It’s fine
I’ve never had that happen before
The MSN plugins allow clickable Flash audio buttons without requiring the JS codes to be on the page
I’ll have to ask MSFT what they have done to do that
I can’t view a Mother’s Day card my daughter sent so I downloaded a new flash and still can’t see it. Frustrating!!
Perhaps. It is a society which is difficult to understand unless you’re one of them.
In the US, he’s be laughed at and then lawsuits would ensue.
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The worst use of religious authority to subjugate people is the caste system of India and the Hindu tenet of reincarnation. The idea of reincarnation has entered US beliefs along with other elements of Eastern religion, such as Zen and Tantra. It also appears in Plato's myth of Er. But the idea of reincarnation has had its biggest effect in India. There, the point of reincarnation is to support Hinduism's oppressive caste system. The Brahmins may not have been the worst priests ever. The Aztec priests, with their bloodthirsty sacrifices, may take that honor. But the Aztec priests ruled a small number of people for a short period of time compared to the Brahmins. In terms of scope, if not intensity, the Brahmins have been the worst. Aryans imposed the caste system on the native Indians when they invaded and conquered the subcontinent. The caste system divided the social superiors into the three classes typical of Aryan culture: priests, warriors, and commoners. (You see the same divisions in medieval Europe.) The natives, however, make up a fourth caste, the darker-skinned shudras, born into lives of servitude. These four groups are known as varnas, each composed of numerous castes. A fifth group, outcasts, has it even worse. To lock down the caste system, the priests foisted the idea of reincarnation on the populace. Reincarnation bolsters caste oppression in two ways. It justifies injustice, and it deflects hopes for progress from this life to an imaginary next life. For the people on top of the caste system, the brahmins, reincarnation justifies why they should enjoy privileges of high-class birth. They must have earned those privileges through virtuous behavior in past lives. A privileged birth proves that one deserves privilege. For the people on the bottom, the shudras and untouchables, reincarnation justifies why they should suffer for their low birth. They must have earned their suffering through sinful acts in past lives. Reincarnation provides an oppressive caste structure with the trappings of a meritocracy. The idea of reincarnation also tricks low-born Hindus into supporting rather than opposing their own oppression. Hinduism teaches low-caste people that the way to improve their lot in the next life is by leading a virtuous life this time around. Conveniently for those who invented these beliefs, virtue for a low-born Hindu means serving the high-born. The connection between reincarnation and the caste system shows up in the negative in the attitudes of the Charvakas. The Charvakas were materialist, atheist contemporaries of ancient Hindus and Buddhists. The Charvaka school of thought rejected what the adherents couldn't perceive, which made them immune to the inventions of the priests. They believed in the four material elements (air, earth, fire, and water), but not the fifth (empty space or ether). They discounted both reincarnation and the caste system. It may be that the Charvaka philosophy represents the indigenous belief system, present before the Aryans invaded. Another term for Charvakas is Lokayata, which is translated either as "worldly" or "prevalent among people." The pre-Aryan Harappa culture had no temples, which probably means no priests to tell people to believe something other than what they perceive for themselves. |
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You sicktheoproctologist , you...
Do you know what a cranioproctologist does?
I think both those guys just passed the entry exam for law school.
Two jobs always rated near the bottom are County Roadkill Janitor and the guy who works for the Arizona State Highway Department placing Bott's Dots on the freeways during the middle of summer.
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Snicker, you love it!
This looks great, you have a brand new, perhaps ‘double’ background moving and the logo and music are perfect now.
You’ve been hard at work!!
I have 2 animated BGs on the Elvis page now
(Body BG & (Table BG layer over it
Then the Javascript gifs over them
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I just added a black BG as the ChockLogoBlack.gif as another version to see if you can see it
I animated it earlier using an overlay composite to slide it under the graphic text
Yes, I can see the two BG’s on your post. The small star sky and the larger white stars come up and down.
Believe I already saw it on your Elvis page but will look again.
Lol, you are trying to get too fancy and it is causing you problems.
When they graduate from law school they have to do the breast stroke through shark Schlitz.
Do you think he has to do that act every night..
Dude, get a real job.
“Massachusetts”
...while manly Ted Kennedy wouldn’t go back into clear water to save a damsel in the distress HE put her in.
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Yes, I’m trying to hijack this thread.
At least it's a horse and not a Democrat.
Remember their sewer leak a few years ago? Not only are they low, lower than IT they're full of it!
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