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Oxychick
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posted August 29, 2003 08:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
just curious

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juniperb
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posted August 29, 2003 09:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey there I read it online. I just love it. Odd, I just was reading this afternoon about plants that smell like rotton meat. Giant plants!!! Probably can smell em for miles.

Also a sickening story about feral dogs in the cities then a heartwarming story on dogs used to help the war on terrorism.

Yup, I read it & love it.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/index.html

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Oxychick
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posted August 31, 2003 10:47 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cool, I never thought to read it online. I had just fnished reading a really disturbing story about human trafficing and wondered if anyone had read it.

plants that smell like rotten meat? I assume these are not in your garden!

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QueenofSheeba
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posted August 31, 2003 11:31 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I read the recent story on India's Untouchables and was appalled that India could claim to be a forward-moving country and yet tolerate such wanton abuse. It gave me the feeling that I would someday end up as an Untouchable myself. Something to look forward to.

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Randall
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posted September 01, 2003 07:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Methinks I need to start subscribing.

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juniperb
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posted September 01, 2003 09:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Randall, Issues are online, for free

I read that too QOS, frightening isn`t it? I can`t comprehend an untouchable. It goes directly against what the Masters have taught us.

No Oxy, I strive for the most pleasant fragrances. If you get a chance,

go look at the plant, it`s gigantic.

juniperb

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QueenofSheeba
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posted September 03, 2003 12:19 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The caste system goes against everything anyone has ever taught me about humane treatment of other people. The idea that, because someone was born to certain parents, one has the duty to mistreat them, is so unfair. ''Untouchables have bad Karma; why else would they be born into the caste doomed to waste-removal jobs?''. I wonder how Indians, the discoverers of Karmic theory, could get it so backward.

Especially sick were the pictures of the people who had been deformed by acid thrown on them. [Randall, when do we get a barfing smilie?] Afterwards, I looked for reports from human rights organizations on Untouchables, but I couldn't find anything.

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lioneye68
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posted September 03, 2003 12:43 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What's that? If someone's born to certain parents, they're considered society's whipping mule? What kind of parents would they be born to? Ex criminals or something? Sheesh, why would they even want to have children if that's the fate they would be doomed to?

India's a country that is supposedly made up of mostly old souls. If you buy into the whole "we chose our charts, our parents, our time and place, and social circumstances" theory, then maybe there's something to it, that we can't grasp. Our first response is to reject it as wrong, but where else can one pay back bad karma in such an organized fashion?
I'm not saying I condone it. I'm just saying...there are more things under the moon and stars than we can ever know in this life.

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posted September 04, 2003 01:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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Oxychick
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posted September 08, 2003 09:00 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yep, Lioneye68, The Untouchables are thought to have bad Karma, which is why they are thought to have been born as "Untouchables." This class is the lowest of the Inidan Caste system and it's pretty much impossible to get out of it. As is true with many societies (though certainly not to the same extent), lower classes are left to do the menial and very often pitiful jobs. That's the case with them-the upper castes don;t believe in certain work that needs to be done (I think I remember the article saying something about dealing with animal skin, touching the dead and touching blood-which means delivering children and performing infanticide), the lower castes are left to do these jobs.

QoS, did you see this month's issue? There are some amazing pictures of Baghdad.

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lioneye68
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posted September 10, 2003 07:11 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Delivery a baby is considered a lowly job?
Sure, I mean of course.. why it's only ushering in a new soul into the world. It ranks right down there with scrubbing the toilet I guess.

I guess it's that perception which leads to so many 3rd world woman and babies dieing during the birthing process. It's just not regarded as an important event, and the woman and child are considered second class citizens. Expendable.

GRRRR. Don't get me started on that rant. Quick! Change the subject!

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juniperb
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posted September 10, 2003 07:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Quick, pop some fudge in your mouth .

I hear you tho Lioneye So sad....

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Oxychick
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posted September 10, 2003 08:35 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was so going to reply with soemthing about food!

Mmm..fudge...

Randall, can we get a drooling smiley?

I agree though, Lioneye68.

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