| philipoc comments archive | by Philip O'Carroll. last updated: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
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| Name of comment Animal equation
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| Comment added by:Elester, Sunday, November 07, 2004, 20:10
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| Comments:Phillip, I have a few comments regarding what you are TRYing to put across. First of all, you are equating yourself/humanity to an animal. Is your belief based on the theory of evolution, or is it based on religion. If, its the former, then which came first, the chicken or the egg. If, its the later, then "IN THE BEGINNING" man was vegetarian, where Adam and Eve lived with animal which later came to be know as wild. As one of the writers in this forum put it, that, each civilization has its own culture, and as time goes by, dilution sets in, and certian acts/rituals, unacceptable by all, comes to a stop. This is a process and cant stop overnight.
So, please stop being naive and snobbish about other cultures and start accepting things in a broader sense. Its always not hard for people to point out flaws/faults in any culture.
BTW, I am no Korean or Aussie. I am looking at things from an un-biased perspective.
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| Koreans Eating Dogs (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Westerners are Hypocrites
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| Comment added by:Marc Yip, Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 10:52
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| Comments:Unless a person is vegan or vegetarian, how can a person complain about other cultures eating dogs? Is it not equally sickening to Asian Indians when Westerners eat beef? Well, some people keep fish as pets, should everyone not be eating fish either?
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| Rebel Children (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment charlotte
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| Comment added by:charlotte, Sunday, February 01, 2004, 00:33
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| Comments:I read what you wrote and it didn't give me much information on rebel children. Could you email me and tell me what you know please.
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| Captive Customer (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Vested Interests
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| Comment added by:philip, Sunday, September 14, 2003, 04:05
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| Comments:There are certain parties who profit from the way things are. $21b is collected from the Australian taxpayer each year for schooling. Under the present funding system, the vast majority of this goes into the state-school sector (call it 100% per student). All other sectors receive less per student. The Catholic sector receives about 70% per student. The Independent schools on average 35% per student.
A lot of people can live well by creaming off millions from those billions, people who dwell within the hierarchy which controls the state school system.
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| Koreans Eating Dogs (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Logic
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| Comment added by:Philip, Saturday, August 23, 2003, 23:03
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| Comments:Dear Moonhuskygirl,
Cannibalism is eating your own kind. We are talking about one species eating another. We've been doing it for thousands of years. Lions eat deer, dogs eat rabbits, poeple eat pigs, etc, etc etc. If it is barbaric to eat dogs, why is it not barbaric to eat pigs or cows or sheep or horses or goats? If you say that eating any of these animals is barbaric, then you are being a hard-case vegetarian. If you're not taking that position, then you have to give me a reason why dogs are different from other creatures.
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| Koreans Eating Dogs (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Disgusted, lame excuses
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| Comment added by:Moonhuskygirl, Sunday, August 17, 2003, 20:06
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| Comments:Let's see, does that mean we shouldn't condem cannibals (belief of eating the enemy empowers oneself and no "harm" done, headhunters, mutilatation of genatalia and other "traditional practices of different civilizations? POINT is there are many horrific traditions from the past that have finally been put to rest because we are not beasts but people with a supposed conscience and awraeness in living among other creatures not conquering them. Ironic that we and other nations are trying to help Korea move into the future, help with progression, education and ecomony and yet dog eating is still acceptable?
BTW I have some Korean heritage and this disgusts me.
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| The Fascism of Socialism (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment By their Deeds
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| Comment added by:philip, Sunday, August 03, 2003, 04:23
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| Comments:When I was at uni my head was filled with talk of left wing and right wing. But I could not help noticing that when one such faction gained complete power, the style of government was exactly the same. A cruel and self-serving bureaucracy, a new party-based aristocracy, secret police, intimidation, imprisonment without trial and worse. Then I realised that the elaborate theories and jargon of each ideology - left or right - merely camouflaged the desire of one group or another to take control of other peoples lives. Bullying power was after all the ultimate aim of political extremists of every colour.
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| Amazon Jungle (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Re Car fuels
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| Comment added by:philip, Saturday, August 02, 2003, 16:12
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| Comments:I would certainly like to see more work put into alternative fuels. Long before we entirely run out of fossil fuels, we will be facing profiteering and possibly wars over oil. Be great if we could say we don't need it - to have something cleaner and inexhaustible.
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| Name of comment HELLO
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| Comment added by:SADDAM HUSSEIN, Sunday, July 27, 2003, 19:11
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| Comments:do you drive a car to your work? because if you do your dumb YOUR DESTROYING THE ENVIROMENT AND YOU NEED MORE INFO ABOUT THE AMAZON.
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| Misleading By Omission (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment damned statistics
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| Comment added by:dave theo, Thursday, July 24, 2003, 23:52
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| Comments:Yes. When they print just one figure, saying school X got 1 million dollars, what will the public reaction be? Well, it depends only on what illusions the public already has. Do they say "All that!" or do they say "Is that all?" This kind of reporting is really propaganda. If the journalists really wanted to acquaint the public with reality, they would say school X gets $1000 per student while most schools get $6000 per student.
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| The Fascism of Socialism (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Left and Right Wings
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| Comment added by:robowen, Thursday, July 24, 2003, 19:49
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| Comments:Don't you know that socialism is LEFT WING and fascism is RIGHT WING? You don't seem to know Politics 101.
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| Female Sex Organ (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment unconscious
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| Comment added by:philip, Thursday, July 24, 2003, 03:42
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| Comments:I quite believe that you have no thought of anybody's sex organs when using this curse. But it is no accident that this is the word which packs the greatest punch. This phenomenon is a pretty neat demonstration of the existence of the unconscious.
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| Name of comment not me
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| Comment added by:robowen, Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 23:06
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| Comments:When I use this offensive word, I am not thinking about anybody's sex organs.
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| Cultural Death (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Change too fast
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| Comment added by:philip, Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 00:29
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| Comments:This could be true for the first wave. But because of the speed of the demographic change, after only a few decades, there will be such a proportion of immigrants from the same sources, that further immigrants will not be exposed to cultural pressure to change. They will be able to live within an exotic cultural enclave. Thus it seems inevitable that our descendants will eventually come under an imported theocracy.
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| Suicide bombers (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment What God would not be
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| Comment added by:philipoc, Friday, July 04, 2003, 00:24
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| Comments:You could just as easily ask, "How then can the militaristic priests speak for God?"
No, we are all guessing. But it is not much of a guess to say that if God is anything like all the great religions say, then tribal and denominational bloodbaths are definitely something that humankind is meant to rise above.
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| Envy is a Vice (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment justifying inequality
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| Comment added by:robert olsen, Friday, July 04, 2003, 00:20
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| Comments:Are you saying you can just ignore inequities?
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| Cultural Death (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Immigrant Adaptation
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| Comment added by:Robert, Wednesday, July 02, 2003, 18:53
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| Comments:You are assuming that immigrants won't take up the positive aspects of Australian life. But the children of immigrants quickly adapt to local conditions. Your precious Australian values should be safe, even if your European race is not.
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| Right to Coffee (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Pretend Christians
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| Comment added by:philipoc, Wednesday, July 02, 2003, 18:26
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| Comments:The bracks Labor government is not closing down shops at easter because they are christians. if that were so, they'd close down all coffee shops - not just the american ones. Bracksy did this to gratify his America-hating left wing. It is a direct attack on free trade.
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| Suicide bombers (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment Speaking for God?
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| Comment added by:Robert Olsen, Wednesday, July 02, 2003, 18:23
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| Comments:Who do you think you are speaking for God? How would you know what God thinks on these matters?
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| Right to Coffee (click to view letter)
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| Name of comment a christian feast
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| Comment added by:karl friedrich, Wednesday, July 02, 2003, 01:01
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| Comments:why are you so fussed about closing shops down at easter, a time of religious ceremony?
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