AnaBBarrosFan Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. The death of axioms then? There goes 3000 years of science. EDIT: I made the dumbest comment in the history of this thread. May all who saw it forever hound me, because I deserved it. :shrug: My revised comment is as follows: Axioms are still the scientific and philosophical equivalent of an assumption. You never know if the next 3,000 years of science will do away with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k_dub Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Let's not forget. all the glory goes to God when good things happen to people, but when bad things happen to people, we have that person or persons to blame. That's what you religious people tend to believe, right? So, no credit to the individual when it comes to good things and good people, but when bad things happen, it all about the individual. <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Where's the proof of this assertion? The death of axioms then? There goes 3000 years of science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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k_dub Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Nearly a year after Morocco was shocked by the suicide of a 16-year-old girl who was forced to marry her alleged rapist, the government has announced plans to change the penal code to outlaw the traditional practice.Women's rights activists on Tuesday welcomed Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid's announcement, but said it was only a first step in reforming a penal code that doesn't do enough to stop violence against women in this North African kingdom.A paragraph in Article 475 of the penal code allows those convicted of "corruption" or "kidnapping" of a minor to go free if they marry their victim and the practice was encouraged by judges to spare family shame.Last March, 16-year-old Amina al-Filali poisoned herself to get out of a seven-month-old abusive marriage to a 23-year-old she said had raped her. Her parents and a judge had pushed the marriage to protect the family honor. The incident sparked calls for the law to be changed.The traditional practice can be found across the Middle East and in places like India and Afghanistan where the loss of a woman's virginity out of wedlock is a huge stain on the honor of the family or tribe.While the marriage age is officially 18, judges routinely approve much younger unions in this deeply traditional country of 32 million with high illiteracy and poverty."Changing this article is a good thing but it doesn't meet all of our demands," said Khadija Ryadi, president of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights. "The penal code has to be totally reformed because it contains many provisions that discriminate against women and doesn't protect women against violence."She singled out in particular outmoded parts of the law that distinguish between "rape resulting in deflowering and just plain rape." The new article proposed Monday, for instance, gives a 10-year penalty for consensual sex following the corruption of a minor but doubles the sentence if the sex results in "deflowering."Fouzia Assouli, president of the Democratic League for Women's Rights, echoed Ryadi's concerns, explaining that the code only penalizes violence against women from a moral standpoint "and not because it is just violence.""The law doesn't recognize certain forms of violence against women, such as conjugal rape, while it still penalizes other normal behavior like sex outside of marriage between adults," she added. Recent government statistics reported that 50 percent of attacks against women occur within conjugal relations.The change to the penal code has been a long time in coming and follows nearly a year of the Islamist-dominated government balking at reforming the law.The Justice Ministry at the time argued that al-Filali hadn't been raped and the sex, which took place when she was 15, had been consensual. The prime minister later argued in front of parliament that the marriage provision in the article was, in any case, rarely used."In 550 cases of the corruption of minors between 2009 and 2010, only seven were married under Article 475 of the penal code, the rest were pursued by justice," Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane said on Dec. 24.While Morocco updated its family code in 2004, a comprehensive law combating violence against women has been languishing in Parliament for the past eight years.Social Development Minister Bassima Hakkaoui, the sole female minister in Cabinet, said in September she would try to get the law out of Parliament and passed.http://search.yahoo....-tts-701&fr2=ps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PinkCouture Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I don't think it condones all those horrific things. More like it's followers condone it by making excuses and twisting the content Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PinkCouture Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Saw this and made me this of this thread (I am totally going to Hell )... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k_dub Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Saw this and made me this of this thread (I am totally going to Hell )... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Parisienne Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Jean-Paul Sartre: "Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamss Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Mary was a flawless woman... Muslims know that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SympathysSilhouette Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 The most hilarious creationist video I remember seeing: It's not just that these people don't have the faintest grasp of the scientific method, they are so far removed from it that I wonder if they have the mental acuity to use cutlery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILUVAdrianaLima Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamss Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 It doesn't say we evolved from dust though. It says we were created from it. Also, Islam doesn't say dust; clay and water. As we know, clay makes your skin smoother when you apply it on your body. And water.... *trails off* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PinkCouture Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 ^ Well, God IS a DJ. I guess the The Pope is trying to follow suit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02BUCVBHSKw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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