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Banned in Jerusalem?
Wired has a follow-up on religious leaders in Jerusalem banning the use of the internet for their followers. Includes some great quotes from a woman who's inflicted nine children on the world but who apparently has no ability to control them.
Might I reccommend the newsgroup soc.culture.jewish.parenting as a potentially invaluable forum for your troubles.
Please don't feel the need to thank me.
In other news, ultra-Orthodox Rabbis have stated that thinking for yourself is a crime punishable by death and eternal damnation. When we asked a few ultra-Orthodox Jews, they all said "I do what the Rabbi says," except for the one who was dying of asphyxiation because a Rabbi told her that breathing was a bad thing for her and she stopped doing it.
The world changes. Pretending it's not happening and trying to ignore it isn't going to work, at least not for most people. (There are always people out there who will do anything authority tells them to) Let's just hope those kind of people don't get into governments.
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"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
Since when is Porn the #1 use of the internet? Either the Rabbi is misinformed or he is lying. While I am loathe to call a Rabbi a liar, what choice do I have? He certainly has enough education to make a concrete decision based on the facts, and the facts say otherwise.
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Move to Holland, Michigan!!
She said herself that her kids go to the library to access the Net - what better place to live than in Holland, Michigan: a city where mandatory filtering software is about to be installed on the library's computers (if Wildmon and his minions have their way)?
Of course, the ultra-Orthodox Rabbis are going to have to learn how to code their own porn filter; I would imagine that Jews have different takes on what is and isn't acceptable content than do fundamentalist Christians.
Of course, if the edict is to be taken seriously, that might be a real simple blacklist:
*.*
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The antidote to bad speech is not censorship, but more speech.
So this just shows fundamental jews are as rabidly asinine as fundamental christians.
Oh what fun to watch the sons of Abraham fuck up the good word.
Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap! Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap! Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!
They've already outlawed television. While this isn't the same as the Internet, it proves they are somewhat reactionist. Let time's natural forward flow reintroduce them to reality.. Although it will be more jarring if they hadn't decided to live in the old ways.
Note: The old ways are bad because they stop people from building up a global picture, and a developing an understanding of how they themselves relate to it. This leads to nasty xenophobia and racial/religous intollerance, among other things.
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Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
i have been brought up in an atheistic culture, believing that devoutly religious people are superstitious cranks. now, having had experience with so called ultra-orthodox jews, as well as very devout christians and muslims, i believe that nothing could be further from the truth. religious people are very smart. anybody who believes otherwise is really bigoted. and personally, i am affronted by anyone who says that a mother 'inflicted children onto the world'. i would call anyone who says such garbage a miserable son of a bitch and wish that he would save the world from himself.
this needs to be moderated up a notch!
HA! i'm an atheist too, and let me tell you that i've met very many smart devout people. But when it came right down too it, they couldn't get over the stumbling blocks of their religion. And as for the comment on "inflicting 9 children on the world", he could have been referring to the fact that this world is getting way to overpopulated. The fact that there are families starving in Africa seems to get constantly ignored by most very religious people who seem to want to overpopulate the world with their ilk.
So, why get mad at them? They aren't taking anything from you. They're not trying, they don't want to. Do you realize how morally egotistical it is to suggest that they shouldn't adhere to their own religious beliefs?
Profound Revelation : If you want to keep reading slashdot, Don't Become (Stay) an Ultra-Orthodox Jew!
Jack Valenti and the MPAA are to technology as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone
Includes some great quotes from a woman who's inflicted nine children on the world but who apparently has no ability to control them.
Beyond the fact that this comment is offensive, ethnocentric and asinine, it also indicates why I can't take the Peacefire/EFF/Your rights online party line seriously. When libraries use filters, you guys are screaming that parents should take responsibility for their children. Now a mother does exactly that, and you're still complaining. At least be up front about the fact that what you really want is for everyone to be able to do anything they damn please, as long as there's a computer involved.