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2006-09-23 India-Pakistan

Two women elected despite opposition from jirga, clerics

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Posted by Fred 2006-09-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Brave they are. Bless them.

Posted by newc">newc 2006-09-23 00:50|| 2006-09-23 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Start gathering stones. Some small act will soon merit the stoning of the both of them.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-23 01:51|| 2006-09-23 01:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Thirty years ago Afhani women didn't wear veils if they didn't want. They were doctors and lawyers.

Hard to imagine isn't it.

Societies don't always evolve, sometimes they devolve. We should be aware of this, it could be happening here.

So many things seem not to work as well as they used to.

Once we put a man on the moon: we'd have trouble doing it today.

We may be hitting an evolutionary wall.
Kind of like the Star Trek conundrum.
In the Star Trek version of the future, everyone would be in the holodeck having the time of their lives, nobody would want to do anything else, so they would devolve in a couple of generations.

We have too many technological helpers: we use calculators, we don't bother exercising the brain to add up. Our brains are getting mushy I think. We are getting stupider than our parents and grandparents' generations.

Posted by anon1 2006-09-23 22:44|| 2006-09-23 22:44|| Front Page Top

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