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Last login: 23 hours agoSexualizingsanta: Megan is a 26 year old woman from Los Angeles, California, USA.; Likes 2,434 pages, 58 videos, 552 photos • 267 fans • Received 38 reviews; Member since Aug 08, 2007

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THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide: May 9, 9:55pm 1 review history, genocide, holocaust, nazis, auschwitz •http://www.holocaust-history.org/lift...; From the page: "The choice of killing substance and the injection technique had a specific development in Auschwitz. There was considerable experimentation with other substances -- benzine, gasoline, hydrogen peroxide, evipan, prussic acid (cyanide), and air -- all injected into the vein."

Swimmers Ear Remedies - Health 911: May 9, 9:25pm 1 review health, medicine, herbalism, homeopathy, swimmers-ear •http://www.health911.com/remedies/rem...; From the page: "If you notice water stopping up your ears, put three or four drops, diluted in equal parts with water or alcohol, in your ear after showering or swimming. This is a good preventive measure against future infection.

Vinegar (distilled white) Put 2-3 drops of full strength white vinegar into the ear every two hours. This will be effective against any bacterial or fungal infection."

Acne Remedies - Health 911: May 9, 9:17pm 2 reviews health, medicine, skin, acne, rosacea •http://www.health911.com/remedies/rem...; Almost all of this is complete BS -- and most dermatologists get it wrong, too - so both East and West are clueless when it comes to adult acne.

Hello people -- ROSACEA. THAT is what most adult acne is from - and EVERYTHING listed is guaranteed to make your rosacea worse.

Morons.

Colds and Flu Remedies - Health 911: May 9, 9:14pm 2 reviews health, medicine, herbalism, homeopathy, colds •http://www.health911.com/remedies/rem...; From the page: "To increase the effectiveness even more, add some extract of echinacea and goldenseal to the H2O2. The anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, and anti-bacterial action of these herbs is well documented in clinical literature. This combination has worked for some people who didn't have success using only the H2O2."

Introduction to RSS: WebRef and the Future of RSS - WebReference.com: May 7, 7:14pm 1 review internet, journalism, news, web-development, rss •http://www.webreference.com/authoring...; From the page: "With thousands of sites now RSS-enabled and more on the way, RSS has become perhaps the most visible XML success story to date. RSS democratizes news distribution by making everyone a potential news provider. It leverages the Web's most valuable asset, content, and makes displaying high-quality relevant news on your site easy."

Dinesh DSouza: May 6, 6:28pm 1 review education, politics, psychology, self-esteem, intelligence •http://www.dineshdsouza.com/articles/...; From the page: "Self-esteem is a democratic idea. In a hierarchical society one's self-image is determined by one's role: as patriarch, as brahmin, as elder, and so on. Aristocratic societies do not speak of self-esteem but of honor.

In a democratic society, self-esteem is regarded as an entitlement. Unlike honor it doesn't have to be earned. Self-esteem in the West is largely a product of the romantic movement, which exalts feelings over reason, the subjective over the objective. Self-esteem is based on the wisdom that Polonius imparted to Laertes: to thine own self be true. We are encouraged to discover and then affirm our inner selves.

But does a stronger self-esteem make students learn better? I am not so sure. I'm the product of a Jesuit education, and I know that institutions like the Jesuits and the Marines have for generations produced impressive results by first undermining the self-esteem of recruits, and then seeking to reconstruct it on a new physical, mental and spiritual foundation.

A few years ago something called the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem (yes, there really is such a group) did a study. It found, to its own evident disappointment, that self-esteem does not improve academic results. Indeed one of the findings was that American students consistently have higher self-esteem but lower reading and math scores than students from other industrialized countries. What we have here is self-esteem unsubstantiated by intellectual achievement.

In the last couple of years there have been several studies exploring the relationship between self-esteem and academic performance. What they find is that it is not self-esteem that produces enhanced achievement. Rather, it is achievement that produces enhanced self-esteem."

God knows why faith is thriving: May 6, 6:21pm 9 reviews evolution, philosophy, religion, science, atheism •http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article...; From the page: "...imagine two groups of people -- let's call them the Secular Tribe and the Religious Tribe -- who subscribe to one of these two views. Which of the two is more likely to survive, prosper and multiply? The religious tribe is made up of people who have an animating sense of purpose. The secular tribe is made up of people who are not sure why they exist at all. The religious tribe is composed of individuals who view their every thought and action as consequential. The secular tribe is made up of matter that cannot explain why it is able to think at all.

...atheist conventions only draw a handful of embittered souls, and the atheist lifestyle seems to produce listless tribes that cannot even reproduce themselves. Russia is one of the most atheist countries in the world, and there abortions outnumber live births 2 to 1.

Traditionally, scholars have tried to give an economic explanation for these trends. The general idea is that population was a function of affluence. Sociologists noted that as people and countries became richer, they had fewer children. Presumably, primitive societies needed children to help in the fields, and more-prosperous societies no longer did. From this perspective, religion was explained as a phenomenon of poverty, insecurity and fear, and many pundits predicted that with the spread of modernity and prosperity, religion would fade away.

The economic explanation is now being questioned. It was never all that plausible anyway. Undoubtedly, poor people are more economically dependent on their children, but on the other hand, rich people can afford more children. Wealthy people in America today tend to have one child or none, but wealthy families in the past tended to have three or more children. The real difference is not merely in the level of income. The real difference is that in the past, children were valued as gifts from God, and now they are viewed by many people as instruments of self-gratification. The old principle was, "Be fruitful and multiply." The new one is, "Have as many children as enhance your lifestyle."

My conclusion is that it is not religion but atheism that requires a Darwinian explanation. It seems perplexing why nature would breed a group of people who see no purpose to life or the universe, indeed whose only moral drive seems to be sneering at their fellow human beings who do have a sense of purpose. Here is where the biological expertise of Dawkins and his friends could prove illuminating. Maybe they can turn their Darwinian lens on themselves and help us understand how atheism, like the human tailbone and the panda's thumb, somehow survived as an evolutionary leftover of our primitive past."

Might Is Right - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: May 6, 6:00pm 1 review evolution, literature, philosophy, science, moralism •http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_is...; From the page: "Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest, is a book by apparently pseudonymous author Ragnar Redbeard. It is considered to either advocate social Darwinism or satirize it, and was first published in 1896.

Some, such as S.E. Parker, suspect Ragnar was a pen name for radical New Zealander Arthur Desmond, a prominent advocate of Henry George's Single Tax. Some see it as hard to reconcile the difference in their politics. Most who believe that Desmond was Redbeard believe the book to have been a work of satire."

Looking for Nietzsches Last Man - News Bloggers: Apr 17, 6:45pm 1 review philosophy, religion, science, spirituality, secularism •http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2008...; From the page: "I turned on the television in my hotel room Monday night, and sure enough, there was Richard Dawkins on the Bill Maher show. With those two atheist know-it-alls, I knew I was in for something especially dark and perverted, and I wasn't disappointed. Dawkins--speaking from England and wearing his trademark scowl--remarked to Maher's great amusement that he was going to have witnesses and camera crews to record his death. Why? Because apparently religious types keep saying that atheists convert on their deathbed. Dawkins wants people and film crews there to verify that he isn't going to convert. What bravery! What intellectual panache!

Lab-trained atheists like Dawkins, who have hardly any knowledge of history, seem to think that transcendence--the notion of something eternal, something "higher" than this life--is an invention of revealed religion. This is pure ignorance. An ethical code like Confucianism preserves transcendence without recourse to the gods. We also find this concept in Indian philosophy, quite apart from Hinduism. Even the Greek philosophers, such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, who were hardly religious in the sense that we understand the term, resolutely affirmed the idea of eternal truths and transcendent realities. And here is the romantic poet Wordsworth, hardly a Christian, writing that "our destiny, our nature, and our home is with Infinitude--and only there."

In his latest book A Secular Age, philosopher Charles Taylor discusses how transcendence is not merely about the afterlife or the next world. The idea has for two thousand years given depth to our terrestrial existence. For instance, transcendence implies that life has meaning beyond our everyday ups and downs. Transcendence also affirms cosmic justice: there is a final reckoning in which earthly wrongs will be corrected and everything will be turned right-side-up. In life, we know that this is not always the case. So transcendence gives us what Kant called "a reason to hope."

What happens when you get rid of transcendence? Nietzsche worried that you get petty, narrow, selfish and grasping human beings, what he termed the "last men." The last man has no higher aspirations but only thinks of his own comfort, lust and acquisitions. His morality is largely a pose, designed to make himself feel good. He cheats on his wife and enriches himself under the table while making exhibitionistic donations to the United Way. He is fiercely defensive about his vices and pathologies, and responds very angrily when they are pointed out. No, I'm not naming names here and so you shouldn't think "Bill Clinton." I am thinking of a social type that Camus regarded as modern European man. Camus described modern man as one who thinks no higher thoughts but merely "fornicates and reads the newspapers.""

The Outdoors: Apr 14, 1:52pm 17 reviews bizarre •http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepreside...; I am sooooo disturbed by this. Whose brilliant idea was to put this on the White House's official government site?

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