The God Delusion

#2 Posted by TaureanKhan:
If you are located in Greater Toronto (Canada), there is a forum called, "Family of the Heart", where you will feel at home, regarding all what you say your expectations are.

www.familyofheart.com

Najeeb Kazmi

Mr. Hamid Bilal,

Your studies on performance was a pleasure to read.

Your obedient student,

GT

Re: # 255

masadi mian,

..... i am not trying to be obtuse or obstinate - i really don't get it .... you can call me stupid but i would appreciate an explanation - what is it that you are trying to say ? ...... i am a powerpointologist - not a sociologist or anthropologist - so please restrict your explanation to four or five or less bullets that will fit on one page ......

having said that, i believe that if, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to `normalize' formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality ......

Hamid sahib, you totally lost it in the Nacirema article. Your rant sounds even more pathetic everytime you repeat it. I think we should say your namaz e janaza on Chowk and move on from there...

Have a nice day,
TNI Masadi

Sociology is justified by the belief that it is better to be conscious than unconscious and that consciousness is a condition of freedom. To attain a greater measure of awareness, and with it of freedom, entails a certain amount of suffering and even risk. An educational process that would avoid this becomes simple technical training and ceases to have any relationship to the civilizing of the mind...

Peter Berger, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective

majumdar bhai#253 it would appear so. after all, to every new advancement in weapons technology the enemy comes up with a way to neutralize its affect.

Tahmed sahib,

the next time I see a Talib on my land I am going to screw him as hard I can

I suppose any Talib landing up at Lakki Marwat shud carry a bottle of vaseline with him.

Regards

hamidm: to cheer you up, let me switch from the financial section to international news. Here is good news from the War on Terror as innovative new battlefield tactics are adopted by the Allies against the Taliban:

In Lakki Marwat, home to Pakistan’s second-biggest Pushtun clan, a florid-faced hereditary ruler called Anwar Kamal has maintained a firm and secular grip. By way of explanation, he said: “I told the Taliban, in traditional language, that the next time I see a Talib on my land I am going to screw him as hard I can.� B
(reported by the Economist)

hamidm #250 you are the one worrying about your retirement income, not me. so what makes you think i could benefit from investment lessons from you?

Re: # 249

tahmed mian,

.... it is called diversification ..... the way i see it, social security is part of your portfolio and there is nothing wrong with having a certain percentage in government backed securities ...... and to be honest i don't mind subsidizing the dumb asses who did not diversify - after all, i am my brother's keeper even if my brother happens to be tahmed .....

#248 hamdim: you mean you are a smart dumb ass? One who cheers Texas George and Matchstick Coulter, but at the same time understand that they are out to screw "little guys" like you who actually have to pay taxes and worry about retirement funds??

Now you have me as confused as your offspring who thought a speeding ticket was a Certificate of Aryan Descent and stuck it on the fridge!!

Re: # 245

tahmed,

.... this might surprise you but i have always been against privatizing social security because and believe that government has a responsibility to take care of the dumb asses who can't take care of themselves ..... it is a hedge against social turmoil and has nothing to do with morality and all that other nonsense ......

hamidm
[.. people like bedouins and hindoos ...]

Don't you dare mix bedouins and hanoods together - last time that happened, we got pakis as result, some fine garbage that created... :)

hamidm #244 you also need a good history teacher.

Hamidm:

Thought for the day - Thank God and the Democrats for your Social Security. If the Texas George, Matchstick Coulter and Bridge Palin had had their way, your Social Security would have been "invested" by Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros, and backed by kindly old AIG. And gone the way of the rest of their "investments" - in foreclosures and sky-high salaries to their CEOs.

But then..you could have blamed your washed up state to the "unwashed masses" of the third world, thus taking another giant step towards achieving your ambition of becoming a redneck Coulter fan...

Re: # 243

hp.

... sorry .... i read all that stuff on wiki a long time ago and read it again to see if i missed something, but i still don't get it ...... to me there has never been any doubt that western civilization - which is the result of thousands of years of man's struggle for perfection - is much much superior to the 'culture' of papua new gunieans and other primitive people like bedouins and hindoos who still haven't discovered eating utensils ......... is there any doubt about that ?

..... and i certainly don't understand what sarah palin has to do with it ? ...... she is one heck of a fine women and like everyone else i love those glasses .... she makes my heart go pitter patter and i can't wait for her to get into the white house if and when mcain croaks .....

Hamidm (various posts in the state of redneck clueless-ness!)

Even before the article, this little intro would have helped you!

“Most cultures exhibit a particular configuration or style. A single value or pattern of perceiving the world often leaves its stamp on several institutions in the society. Examples are "machismo" in Spanish-influenced cultures, "face" in Japanese culture, and "pollution by females" in some highland New Guinea cultures. Here Horace Miner demonstrates that "attitudes about the body" have a pervasive influence on many institutions in Nacirema society.�

Wiki has the answer at the top. Read the complete article here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema
Various sociologists have used the term Nacirema to examine (with a degree/pretense of anthropological self-distancing) aspects of the behavior and society of American people — citizens of North America. Nacirema offers a form of word play by spelling "American" backwards.

Now do you see the relevance? Or you need help from Sarah Palin!




#235 Posted by tahmed32 on September 18, 2008 6:15:04 pm
"HP: I am not sure how the hair salons came in - but I did get a haircut only yesterday."

Remember this post Tahmed? That is where the hair salon came in!

#183 Posted by tahmed32 on September 17, 2008 8:08:37 pm
Distinguished and Most Gracious Mr. Masadi: i never heard of women baking their heads in small ovens. is this a spa of some kind?