Sun, 31 May 2009
Shared Items for Sun, 31 May 2009
- Coercion and abuse at a dominionist church – a Singaporean account
- I’m putting this link up not to spread hatred, but to share knowledge.
- I don’t know how true this story is; for all I know, it could be a faked account. But beyond a certain point, we can learn to read critically and look for inconsistencies in the writing.
- Last but not least, not all religions are like that. This is just an account of an experience that was extremely unpleasant. But if you have been placed in a similar situation before, I would urge you to make an effort to leave. No human being should be subject to this kind of treatment.
- Gay nuptials: suing, voting and feasting.
“It was the following Qing dynasty, gradually influenced by an encroaching West, that enacted a law against homosexuality, though it didn’t seem to have been used, according to records.” – Which is my point about the whole Asian values jazz, y’know: it’s a scam! These so-called ‘Asian’ values come from a Victorian age, which mean they are ‘Western’ values. So a lot of people have been blindly following a rhetoric which has been meant to enslave their minds.
- On how the decline of ‘traditional moral values’ results in a society with fewer social ills.
- The Brown Band: Fall 1998 Show Scripts
- Call me Ishmael. The end.
- FBI terrorist interrogator on the uselessness of torture and the efficacy of cookies
- Alex Pang on Tinkering
- Sorry I’m Late: stop-motion film
‘Traditional moral values’ in inverted commas because we must remember that these are traditions and values that came to us rather late in life i.e. during the colonial period.
This is kinda funny.
“The new, post-print literary media are certainly amenable to brevity,” observed the New York Times in a recent piece about fiction and the zeitgeist. “And the short story may provide a timely antidote to the cultural bloat of the past decade, when it often seemed that every novel needed to be 500 pages long …”
How about tales 500 words long?
“But tinkering also taps into human psychology. Tinkering is an amazingly powerful way to learn. It is not about mastering dry, arcane bodies of knowledge: it is about learning how to use your hands, materials, and tools, scrounging stuff and ideas, learning from others and your own mistakes. Educational theorists call this active learning and they love it.”
This is really good!
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