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Monthly Archive: January 2013
Jan 14 2013
‘Provocative clothing’ doesn’t provoke good men to rape
The 12th Annual No Pants Subway Ride took place yesterday in NYC. Many cities participated in the global No Pants Subway Ride. Here is the list. – Adelaide – Amsterdam – Ann Arbor – Århus – Atlanta – Austin
Jan 14 2013
Madness 2
David Jennings’s description of Kumbha Mela sounds like it’s a hippie gathering. Over the bridges by the tens of thousands, shouting, chanting, singing, thrusting spears and tridents into the air, some painted orange, some wrapped in pink or saffron robes, some naked, some wearing crowns and capes, some bearded, some with swords, some with long …
Jan 14 2013
Madness 1
Millions of Muslims gather in Bangladesh for biswa ijtema, the world’s second largest Muslim congregation after the hajj. 50 years ago you could hardly get 500 people to attend such a meeting , now faith is reaching dangerous levels, more than 5 million people come to pray the same prayer every year, ‘oh god, the …
Jan 13 2013
Women are not allowed to……………
They are not allowed to use mobile phones, because they are women.
Jan 13 2013
Why not gender neutral clothes?
Dressed in colourful skirts, a group of men pledging support to women and their rights in India today.
Jan 11 2013
Beheading!
Once upon a time almost every society used to behead ‘sinners’ and criminals. But they stopped beheading as they evolved. Like the countries stop having death penalty as they become civilized. What is the difference between hanging, beheading and lethal injection? Probably lethal injection is the least painless method for execution. Beheading looks scary. It …
Jan 11 2013
The mental health of religious people is better than spiritual people but not better than atheists.
A new study by Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London Medical School says, spiritual people are more likely to develop a mental disorder, become dependent on drugs and have eating disorders.
Jan 10 2013
Stupid questions, brilliant answers.
”Q: Why are you not a Christian? Bertrand Russell: Because I see no evidence whatever for any of the Christian dogmas. I’ve examined all the stock arguments in favour of the existence of God, and none of them seem to me to be logically valid.
Jan 08 2013
The Gods are anti-women, so are the Godmen!
There are thousands of godmen in India. They fool people using their little magic tricks. They walk across hot coals, burp out gold eggs, make ash out of thin air, turn water into blood etc. These charlatans are called ‘baba’. Baba business flourishes in India because a large number of people are ignorant and idiot. …
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