I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
1. When Used to make one suffer: In Isaiah 13:15-18 Isaiah shares his Prophecy telling us that God is going to make the Babylonians suffer by having their wives raped. Having their children dashed to pieces before their eyes and destroying their city is apparently not enough to torture them.
2. When they are young girls and you’ve conquered their city: In Numbers 31:17-18 during a battle directed by God, Moses tells his soldiers to kill all the men, boys, and women but to take the all the girls, that are still virgins, for themselves. The only reason lonely soldiers would need girls that are both young and virgins is to use them as sex slaves. Remember that Moses was still seen as a good person in the eyes of the Lord at this point, even after ordering rape and child molestation.
3. When it’s a female sex slave: Leviticus 19:20-22 talks about what you must do if you rape or sleep a slave girl. The girl will not punished by death, but only because she is the property of someone else. The rapist however must present the owner of the girl with a gift such as a ram and then everything will be considered ok in the eyes of the Lord.
4. When avoiding homosexuality: According to Judges 19:24 men being raped by men is not ok, for it is an act of homosexuality; but offering your daughter or wife to be raped as a means to avoid an act of homosexuality is ok.
5. When punishing your neighbor: In 2 Samuel 12:11-14 God punishes David by giving his wife to his neighbor to be raped in broad daylight.
6. When attacking Jerusalem: According to Zechariah 14:1-2 there will come a day when God will cause a battle against Jerusalem and have all the women raped.
Isn’t rape immoral?
Thankfully the Bible has an answer for that too. According to the bible women were created for man and they are actually just the property of man.
Johnson & Johnson is expected to announce Monday, December 19, whether it intends to license its patents on three lifesaving HIV/AIDS drugs to the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism designed to lower prices of HIV medicines and increase access to them for people in the developing world.
Over the past two years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been urging Johnson & Johnson to take this critical step.
Johnson & Johnson has so far refused to join discussions on licensing these patents to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Pool has been set up to increase access to more affordable versions of HIV drugs, including fixed-dose combinations that include multiple medicines in one pill, and to develop much-needed pediatric HIV drugs.
The Pool would license patents on HIV drugs to other manufacturers and the resulting competition would dramatically reduce prices, making them much more affordable in the developing world. However, since the Pool is voluntary it will only work if patent holders like Johnson & Johnson choose to participate.
Atheists are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it, especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this: when you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where the rain came from. This is not very reassuring if you’re trying to argue from a position of moral superiority.
My Physics teacher finally put zeros in for all my missing assignments. It dropped my grade 7%. I’m pretty sure once I turn them in— which I will! It’s just that he never enforces the due dates and I got behind by always helping my friend with a learning disability in that class— he’ll take them…
Dude. Run. Get out. Because eventually you’ll just end up like me, a person who constantly invalidates the feelings of others in order to protect herself from their disapproval. RUN. ha?
with interpersonal relationships, particularly of the romantic variety. My boy will probably just up and leave one of these days. I’ve told him to. Been dealing with ADHD/depression/anxiety ever since moving in with him. He seems to think he deserves better, and of course that hurts. But perhaps he truly does. I feel like he complains about me a lot, really dislikes me. I’ve told him to go, find someone better, I don’t care. I’m alright though: smart, accomplished, funny, pretty cute. I’m just very callous. I do not take care of his feelings enough. I feel like his dissatisfaction with me has had a hugely negative effect on my already floundering self-esteem. The way things have been this semester, I’m not writing, I’m not accomplishing enough. I’m barely keeping my head above water. So, go. I know it’s not quite rock bottom, because I still sometimes feel like I deserve love and kindness, but it’s pretty bad when I’ve really stopped giving a fuck about the relationship as an entity. It’s just. So. Broken.
I think it’s odd that you can’t joke about rape, when people joke about murder all the time. A lot more people are dying than getting raped. I think it’s a comedian’s job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.
If anyone’s wondering, here’s the reasoning we’re fighting against rape jokes, specifically.
Everybody pretty much agrees that murder is bad, and that even when walking alone at night, people aren’t asking to be murdered. When people get murdered, we go “oh shit, did they find the murderer? how is their family holding up?” When women get raped, we go “what was she wearing are you sure she didnt lead the guy on maybe she liked it maybe the guy didnt hear her say no why are you automatically siding against the guy maybe hes the actual innocent party here OMG U FEMINAZIS”.
Rape isn’t taken seriously as a crime, and women who report their rapes aren’t taken seriously as victims. Even under the “best” circumstances, these women undergo incredible amounts of victim blaming and slut shaming, something really only specific to rape victims, certainly not murder victims.
So when the people who overwhelmingly commit rapes (practically with impunity, given the way we treat rape victims) are *same* guys want to joke about rape? Yeah, no, that is fucked the fuck up.
