Undo's Super Gripe

[undo11]

I am not going to pick up the little challenge that was thrown down just then because I KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT DOING IT...... ARE YOU??  And if not.... WHY did you choose to say that?  Linda

that makes no sense at all.  what challenge? i didn't put a challenge down, i just showed you what my research showed me.  i was reading about female infanticide and found out that the ancient greeks had a pederastic society in which female children were often killed at birth because males were so highly revered. at the time, i didn't even know what pederasty was, so i read up on it.   then one day while reading ats, i noticed a guy complaining about pedophile priests and it dawned on me that maybe some priests in the original catholic church had inherited it generationally and it just kept going in the ones who didn't quit doing it.

where are you reading this "other" thing from? are you suggesting i'm possessed?

[undo11]

here's some of the data that started my research on the subject

"Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females." (Marina Porras, "Female Infanticide and Foeticide".) It should be seen as a subset of the broader phenomenon of infanticide, which has also targeted the physically or mentally handicapped, and infant males (alongside infant females or, occasionally, on a gender-selective basis). As with maternal mortality, some would dispute the assigning of infanticide or female infanticide to the category of "genocide" or, as here, "gendercide." Nonetheless, the argument advanced in the maternal mortality case-study holds true in this case as well: governments and other actors can be just as guilty of mass killing by neglect or tacit encouragement, as by direct murder. R.J. Rummel buttresses this view, referring to infanticide as

    another type of government killing whose victims may total millions ... In many cultures, government permitted, if not encouraged, the killing of handicapped or female infants or otherwise unwanted children. In the Greece of 200 B.C., for example, the murder of female infants was so common that among 6,000 families living in Delphi no more than 1 percent had two daughters. Among 79 families, nearly as many had one child as two. Among all there were only 28 daughters to 118 sons. ... But classical Greece was not unusual. In eighty-four societies spanning the Renaissance to our time, "defective" children have been killed in one-third of them. In India, for example, because of Hindu beliefs and the rigid caste system, young girls were murdered as a matter of course. When demographic statistics were first collected in the nineteenth century, it was discovered that in "some villages, no girl babies were found at all; in a total of thirty others, there were 343 boys to 54 girls. ... n Bombay, the number of girls alive in 1834 was 603."

Rummel adds: "Instances of infanticide ... are usually singular events; they do not happen en masse. But the accumulation of such officially sanctioned or demanded murders comprises, in effect, serial massacre. Since such practices were so pervasive in some cultures, I suspect that the death toll from infanticide must exceed that from mass sacrifice and perhaps even outright mass murder." (Rummel, Death by Government, pp. 65-66.)

http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html

[undo11]

does anybody want to enlighten me as to what linda is trying to say since she won't elaborate on it?

[sky otter]

Undo

i really shouldn't step in here..but she's been all over the place insinuating that someone is trying to take over our little febble brains , that we are being influeneced and this big bad influence
will ruin this awesome forum ..just like he did her's when it was the hut

personally i have a strong belief and knowledge that what you think about most shows up in your life...
and who is drawing this negetive energy to here...
well it ain't me babe
i'm rockin


'nuff said

[undo11]

personally i have a strong belief and knowledge that what you think about most shows up in your life...
and who is drawing this negetive energy to here...

eek. no i mostly think about how i'm gonna need to buy an extra stack of mana potions on the video game auction house so i don't run of mana while healing a dungeon group run. 0r that i need more honor points so i can get that extra piece of socketed armor for the next level bracket.

  just when i encounter negative stuff about christians on either a constant or near constant basis, does it start to get to me.

[undo11]

Undo

.but she's been all over the place insinuating that someone is trying to take over our little febble brains , that we are being influeneced and this big bad influence
will ruin this awesome forum ..just like he did her's when it was the hut

oh dear. i think i'll just avoid negative subjects, for linda's sake.  she's probably shell shocked from that experience.

[undo11]

linda,

you have my apology for freaking you out. 
i'll try to avoid making any more comments about what bugs me about life, while posting in the forum, for your sake, as i think you need some time to heal from your past experiences. 
sorry for being a source of concern.  you have to admit though if all the negative press was focused only on people who own horses, or  dentures or whatever,  you'd be freaking out too.  what we got here, is 2 womens freaking out simultaneously for different reasons.  my bad. 

[Linda Brown]

For someone who has been doing a whole lot of talking here on these posts and expecting others to do a whole lot of listening and understanding.... you really have no concept of what is going on here, do you?
"you have my apology for freaking you out. 
i'll try to avoid making any more comments about what bugs me about life, while posting in the forum, for your sake, as i think you need some time to heal from your past experiences. 
sorry for being a source of concern.  you have to admit though if all the negative press was focused only on people who own horses, or  dentures or whatever,  you'd be freaking out too.  what we got here, is 2 womens freaking out simultaneously for different reasons.  my bad.  « Last Edit: Today at 06:59:50 PM by undo11 » Report

Not a clue.   Linda

[undo11]

care to elaborate?  only if you think talking about it, will make you feel better.   i've promised not to talk about anything negative, so if it turns negative i will try to make positive comments in response.

[Linda Brown]

It would make me feel a whole lot better.

Undo you said......

care to elaborate?  only if you think talking about it, will make you feel better.   i've promised not to talk about anything negative, so if it turns negative i will try to make positive comments in response.

I thank you VERY much for that. All I could ask of you.
A single candle in the darkness makes it impossible for the darkness to take over. You may think I am being overly dramatic. At this point I don't care what some think.... I will take you at your word that you will guard against the negative side of conversations. Thats all I needed to hear from you. You are a POWERFUL force for good Undo......Please do not let powers unseen take that away from you.

Linda

[undo11]

np! and you're welcome.
it suddenly dawned on me that i wasn't the only person wounded in the room. lol 
eh, i chalk it up to old age.  that's my excuse and i'm trying not to stick with it but it just keeps popping up saying "you're old, nah nah nah nah boo boo."

[Linda Brown]

Thank you Undo. No..... you are not the only one wounded in the room.... and you are not alone either.

Hey.... getting old is awful.....but we are here.... and we can make the time we have count!

Thanks again.   Linda

[undo11]

Thank you Undo. No..... you are not the only one wounded in the room.... and you are not alone either.

Hey.... getting old is awful.....but we are here.... and we can make the time we have count!

Thanks again.   Linda

well here's a happy shopper i painted, that makes me laugh every time i see it for some reason.  she's an intergalactic antique shopper who has just discovered a rare antique on Tatooine (planet in the star wars universe). i imagine that somewhere out there, the technology is advanced enough that people can shop all over the universe and find rare items that tickle their fancy.  i know i know, an earth-based concept but ya never know!

see attached

[Linda Brown]

Made me laugh right out loud.

When in pain............. SHOP.................

Got my vote!!!!! and thanks...... Linda

[rdunk]

well here's a happy shopper i painted, that makes me laugh every time i see it for some reason.  she's an intergalactic antique shopper who has just discovered a rare antique on Tatooine (planet in the star wars universe). i imagine that somewhere out there, the technology is advanced enough that people can shop all over the universe and find rare items that tickle their fancy.  i know i know, an earth-based concept but ya never know!

see attached

I know why you laugh everytime you see you see this painting! It is obviously a very well done "self-image"! And, she is probably doing what you like to do!

Nice painting!