Posts by Stephen Judd
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You don't need to tap into the flax roots to see that there might be more than meets the eye here. Marry out of your area and culture and leave town? It'd be surprising if there wasn't a lot of family friction as a result.
Anyway, sure the guy should have made funeral instructions and warned his wife. But he didn't, and now he's dead, the question is who deserves to suffer for that mistake? I don't think it's obvious that it's his wife.
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If they get to keep Israel powerful, maybe it's not such a big price to pay. Only the Jews that don't want Israel (or at least not at the cost it currently incurs) get annoyed.
My reading is that that alliance is a highly contentious issue in the community, for that reason and others.
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... or peasants and indentured labourers all over Europe.
On righteousness: the world is divided into two groups, the righteous and the un-righteous. And the righteous do the dividing. (I wish I knew who came up with that, it's not mine).
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I think that's the origin. But more generally, it sounds historical, impressive, and more inclusive.
Personally I'd like to know how "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" fits into the Christian political programme.
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Perhaps the Good Bishop T*m*k* has been reading Novels of the 18th Century, and imbib'd their Elixir of Typographickal Excess.
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Does anyone know what "Judeo-Christian values" are?
Yes, they are a rhetorical strategy for the American fundamentalist Christian right to disarm the Jews, who historically have been active in insisting on enforcing the constitutional separation of church and state.
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The Voltaire position? Isn't that the one about being happy when the last politician is strangled with the guts of the last priest?
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And yes, this was just all over too fast, I barely had time to enjoy it.
Well, in some political relationships, when the partners are young and over-eager, they can suffer from premature disintegration.
This in turn is related to organisational schism, or org-schism. With time and practice parties can withhold disintegration for some time, prolonging events until they end with a more satisfying, perhaps even multiple org-schism for all concerned.
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It's a sort of horrible serendipity that I read the Pandagon thread this weekend just before this story blew up.
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Most of what they discovered violates cultural assumptions, but only some of it will surprise feminists. The biggest non-surprise (to feminists) is that the mythological wife-killer—a man who is generally a good husband but snaps when he discovers an infidelity—is a myth in every sense of the word. To the last one, the murders and attempted murders were the finale of a long history of increasingly violent domestic violence. In pretty much every situation, the man was attempting to control his wife or girlfriend through violence. Since it was an attempt to control, the violence escalated when the victim showed resistance, so unsurprisingly, most of the murders or attempted murders occurred after the victim left her abuser, made plans to leave him, or threatened to leave him. There were a few infidelities, but they were never the direct cause of the crime—most of the jealous killers made up the infidelity in their minds (some even accused their wives of having sex with male relatives like uncles or fathers, they were so out of their minds with paranoia) or attacked their ex-wives after the women terminated the relationship and moved on. Some of the killers were not jealous, but just killed or tried to kill because they were irate at losing their wives and the services/money they saw provided by their wives, but regardless of the nuances, across the board Adams paints a picture of men who feel that women are their property and who try to control their property through violence. Only one man seemed sincerely sorry at all that he’d objectified his wife repeatedly throughout their marriage in such a way.
Adams was interested in seeing how men who make the move to murder differ from the majority of abusers who don’t, and his research mostly points to the conclusion that the difference is in degree more than kind. Murder-minded abusers take the beliefs that they are entitled to control women further than most abusers, and they tend to be more violent than most and abuse more often than most. There are some surprising differences, but on the whole, men who try to kill their wives after a long period of abusiveness are just what you’d expect.