Members Keith Kampen

May 30 2011: Abid
In the Quran wearing a veil, as far as i know is not a face covering veil. If it covers the hair and shoulders and cleavage is that a bad thing, as long as men wear something to cover their hair also, and if their standard dress is loose fitted and prevents people from seeing the shape of their privates?
That should be clear enough, and i was also asking you if in the Quran it says to the believing man to lower their gaze and guard their modesty.

May 30 2011: Abid
does it also "say to the believing man that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that will make for greater purity for them; and Allah is well acquainted with all that they do?" And does the Quran say veil or head covering because the veil can be defined as a "headdress that frames the face and falls over the shoulders." Or "A length of cloth worn by women over the head, shoulders, and often the face." "Often over the face" is not the word of Muhammed who told a girl not to cover her face. If a veil is then used to hide cleavage, but still covers hair then is that really a bad thing, when pious muslim men also wear something covering their hair and wear long loose fitted clothing? I'd also like to ask you the question of what it is that is valuable to our culture with regards to the right to flaunt ones chest or a mans private parts? Is a culture where both men and women cover their hair for a reason significant to them, and where both genders are have equal expectations to dress modestly a bad culture?

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May 1 2011: Winston
I can't believe you just said Jews could recover because of their high IQ and compared them to the Aborigines. a lot of Jews were already living in Germany or around Germany since like basically 500 ad meaning the would have assimilated, to some degree, into the Germanic culture of the time. Being an immigrant is not having your land taken and your culture senselessly destroyed.
As the nazis started gaining momentum Jews were not supposed to do common labour, so as not to take work away from the average "proper" German, resulting in more jewish Doctors and teachers. I can imagine tht would have an effect on certain cognitive functions.

Apr 29 2011: I think the question is more along the lines of whether we will progress. aside from medical issues dealing with things such as diabetes, do we really get satisfaction from a lack of challenge, such as would be the case in a world where we are artificially stronger of faster. Who looks good if everyone is beautiful, and is it known whether altercation of our genes can improve our ability to think abstractly. I would assume abstract thinking is kinda important when it comes to creativity and intelligence, or at least the sort of intelligence that moves society forward. If it cannot improve our ability to think abstractly then does it move society forward by enhancing trivial things, for lack of a better word. Also, if the mentioned procedure became a common thing for some societies what gap is created both with the lower income classes or societies in which poverty is prevalent, when prevalence of poverty is not related to valued human characteristics.
Does this idea progress us towards a new aristocracy?

Apr 7 2011: "We live in a society where everyone wants to have it all their way or no way" and is that why we, well your country, constantly make our/your courageous men and woman "...deal with (things that) would make most people fall apart" and put them in situations where "they have to be trained to be able to withstand some of the harshest and horrific situations"?