Blast Kills Dozens of Shiite Worshipers in Southern Iraq
New York Times – 2 hours ago
BAGHDAD – Insurgents mounted another attack against Iraq’s Shiites on Saturday, as an explosion in the southern city of Basra ripped through a group of pilgrims headed to a mosque to commemorate one of the holiest Shiite holidays…
I pulled this headline off Google news. It’s a damn good thing someone did put those crazy fookers out of their misery. My mom TOLD ME – there’d be all kinds. I’ve met a lot of wacky groups and individuals… but, knowing there were once dozens of SHITE WORSHIPPERS in Southern Iraq, takes the fucking cake.
What are they thinking man?
My mom, a devout Christian – born again at 39, told me there are cults out there that you would NOT believe… and now mom, I’ve seen just what you’re talking about.
These sick Shite Pilgrims are better off dead than worshipping feces. I’m sure their families have mixed feelings about the whole idea, but, they’ll come to see the light if they open their hearts to the lord. I do know that…
You know what? This world is only going to be as good for kids as the adults make it. With fucknuts like this – putting little Thailand school girls in a boxing ring to fight against each other – it’s like handing them a ticket straight to a life of hell.
“Here kids, want to see what the world is all about when adults can’t figure out anything better to do? Yeah, we’ll put your ass in the boxing ring and call it entertainment for all us clowns, and we’ll tell you you’re learning about life’s hard knocks.”
Fucking nuts… you know, there are adults with their heads up their ass, and then there are other adults that put their heads up their own ass and then roll up inside someone else’s ass as well. That’s on par with the level of ridiculousness I see here. Pure idiocy and a complete lack of caring about the social welfare of kids that are being brainwashed with the idea that, and will come to believe that, fighting is a normal child and adult activity.
Know how many teen or adult girls I know fighting Muay Thai in Thailand?
None.
Know how many adult women I know fighting Muay Thai?
None.
Know how many girls I ever saw fight together in Thailand?
Maybe 5 different fights – in bars, in Pattaya and Patong Beach. Bargirls fight – regular Thai girls – don’t.
What is going to happen as 7 year old girls grow up? Made to fight their whole lives? They hit 15-16 and then what? At 18, they graduate school – and then what? Maybe their parents will have pushed them to go all the way with it. Maybe the parents have never achieved what they want – so they push the kid to do something to be a superstar in their country.
The conversation might go something like this…
“Listen Bambi, get in the ring and knock that boy out so we can show Thailand that we’ve got something here… wait no, EVEN BETTER honey, let’s show THE WORLD that we are the best at something…”
Why daddy?
“Why? Because I haven’t accomplished fuckall with my life and now I’m going to give you a this amazing chance to pull my dumbass out of the gutter. That’s why honey! Now go knock the hell out of that kid, just like I told you.”
“I will daddy, but I’m not having fun anymore…” she says.
“Yeah, but look at this big boxing ring full of adult losers – we’re all having a blast!”
“OK, daddy.”
Things like this can happen when you are born to a family that puts pride in front of the welfare of even your own children. It can also happen when adults don’t know any fucking better. Some parents ruin the lives of kids that should have had the chance at a peaceful life with all the positive options on the table. Things like this sometime happen when dads are born with daughters and can’t deal with it, insisting on turning them into men. Things like this can happen when misfits suddenly become fathers.
You know when things like this happen most often? When one or both of the parents used to or presently engages in the activity – and then pushes it on their kids to take part as well. I’ve seen it with soccer coaches in the states. Running coaches. Football coaches. Academics. Doctors & dentists. Happens all over the world – right?
To me – I make a clear distinction between someone forcing a kid to study science… and someone forcing a kid to take part in Muay Thai training, AND worse yet – in all out fights without any protective gear except gloves. WTF?
I’m not saying forcing a kid to study science is right either – but, it’s clearly many levels of innocence below what these poor kids are suffering through.
I worked with kids in the states that were physically and sexually abused by degenerate dads, moms, uncles, and cousins. This is on par with that… psychological and physical torment at the hands of someone that is supposed to be loving them and taking care of them – giving them the best in life – not showing them the worst.
Kids as young as these two little girls fighting martial arts in front of an audience for adults’ enjoyment is a bit like throwing people to the lions in Rome. The audience is having a blast. The people in there with the lions are scared and don’t want to be there. You think either of these two girls, without brainwashing by some jackass that wants them to fight, would choose to fight each other and call it fun? Enjoyable? Do you think as they get older they’re going to really count this as one of life’s great pleasures? A well-worth-it life lesson?
Kids are under a psychological pressure to obey their parents. I’ve seen guys in their forties, smoking, follow young boys around on a motorbike as they run around town. All the way around town – about 10 kilometers. Why? To ensure they don’t slow down, or worse, take a break. He’s training them – like horses.
Similarly, these girls are being made to fight. Only adults can make up their mind to choose to fight or not. You can’t make up YOUR mind FOR a child. You cannot coerce a child into doing something that is dangerous and that scares the hell out of them, or you’re wrong in my opinion.
Martial arts training so she can protect herself as she gets older?
Sure, I’m all for that. Despite the fact that she’ll likely never have a physical fight with a classmate at school. She could very well have a tussle with her husband or boyfriend, and I’ve seen MANY examples of that in southeast Asia. Thing is – a girl doesn’t fight back during that – or she’ll really get beat up.
Is it right to make children fight other children in front of a group of cheering idiots for sport?
Exploitation of kids by adults – parents, trainers, anybody – is a sign of a sick person… a sick society… a sick world we live in.
What is the right age at which a child should be able to choose whether or not to get hit in the face?
I don’t know the answer. It isn’t 5. It isn’t 7. It isn’t 13. Maybe 15-16? And then, only without parents or other adults being influential in the decision.
I am pissed purple as I write this… when I’m angry I say things in the worst way I know how. Feel free to let your own opinion be known here – pro, or con.
Two rants in a row, I must be on to something. Rage.
Bird owners run rampant in Thailand, and it’s one thing that pisses me off to no end. Who in hell’s name can throw a bird in a cage where it sits it’s entire god damned life, instead of flying around the globe?
Who?
Right – idiots, all of them.
Free your god damn birds or I’m coming to your house – in your dreams… where you think your safe. I’ll Fookfect your mind (like infect, you know?) and haunt you when you sleep.
I guess that’s what you’d call it, sexual impulsivity.
I was at a mall here in Thailand. It had just opened up and there weren’t many people inside. I had to “boo-ut chee” – or “ching-chong” during the whole ride getting there so I promptly made my way to the restroom on the first floor. There was a tall thin Thai kid that was about 16 years old standing in the hallway area and when he saw me going to the rest room he turned and went in before me. As I came into the room he was at the sink fixing his hair.
Already my gaydar – like radar is going off, alerting me to the possibility that this guy was up to something since he timed his entrance to the restroom to coincide exactly with mine.
I couldn’t tell if there were other people in the stalls with the doors – but one was open so I went in that one. I was doing my business when I saw a shadow above me and to the left. I looked up in time to see his head duck down out of site. Ahhh, a peeper eh?
I quickly finished and stepped outside the stall and waited for him to come out. I didn’t say anything to alert him that I was out there waiting for him. I ran some water and washed my hands.
He wasn’t coming out. I stepped back from the stall to see if I could see him above the wall again. YEP! There he was, spying on someone else in the stall on the other side of him!
I realized I had my camera with me and hurried to get it ready. Once ready I stood beside the sinks and waited for him to come out. In 20 seconds he did come out, thinking the restroom empty I guess. I snapped two pictures of him and asked him what he was doing – in English – I was too pissed to speak Thai.
He just shook his head and said, “No. No.” in English. I said, “Why were you looking over the wall?” and pointed to the wall over the stalls. He just said, “No, no…” over and over.
I said, “YES, YOU DID look at me over the stall!”
I realized speaking in English wasn’t going anywhere and I didn’t want to beat the kid up, just scare him. I can’t believe this young kid would be so daring as to try that in the mall where anyone could beat the hell out of him. My little sister could have beat the slop out of this kid.
So, I walked out and told my girlfriend. The kid quickly walked out and went into a Levi’s store. I think he worked there since he was dressed like he might.
And that was that. A little excitement on a Sunday morning in Thailand.
Sexual urges are ridiculously strong. I’d say that for a man that isn’t ‘getting any’ it would rank higher than the urge for food at times. The urge to have sex is so strong that 16 year olds risk getting beat up over it by spying on strangers at the mall. Yesterday I read that a taxi driver was caught at a mall in Pattaya shooting upskirt video with his mobile phone of teenagers on the escalators.
Sexual urge is there from the beginning. Two year olds are rubbing themselves because it feels good. They know nothing of the social taboos and are rubbing themselves because it feels good like eating a good meal. What’s the difference to them?
By the time we get older and testosterone kicks in guys can be half crazy (I know from experience) about sex. It occupies 80% of all thought-time in a teenagers mind. Even as an adult I’ll bet I thought of sex more than any other subject – even food. This all changed after I came to Thailand – and I’ve entered a sex-less period for some reason. I’ve had sex, it feels great, but you know what? It’s not something that has any magical hold on me anymore. Of course it took 40 years for this to happen.
Why do we have this insatiable desire to have sex? Animals too, when they feel it – they just rape each other. There’s little affection and social context necessary – they just do it.
Sexual urges put us in direct conflict with other people on a serious scale. Socially sex is a major hurdle to get over. Not only are you in conflict with the opposite sex that you want to have sex with – but, you are in conflict with members of her family, her friends and maybe her boyfriend or husband. You’re in conflict with religion if you are in America because those that call themselves Christian take sex very seriously. It’s not just a physical act. It has to be justified morally before you do it. You can’t even touch YOURSELF because it’s not OK according to a lot of people in America!
Why do we need such a strong drive? What good is it? Is there any lasting good in having sex? I don’t see it. Is it good to procreate? I don’t think it’s good or bad… it’s just a fact. It happens as a result of sex. Is it wise to bring a baby into this farked world? In my view – not at all. It’s downright stupid. I’ve done it. You’ve probably done it. How do you feel about bringing a helpless human being into this world to face all the shite you had to face (and maybe more)?
I don’t feel good about it. I think life is a struggle… it’s a penance for something maybe? Who knows? Nobody gave us any clue. Old Christian writing doesn’t cut it. Somebody dreaming something doesn’t do it for me, sorry (Mormonism). Buddhism doesn’t even attempt to explain the why of life - they just say that everything in life is suffering. Life is suffering. The mind is suffering from the time it is enabled. We can escape from suffering by stopping the mind… by stopping thought. When we do this the usual pain doesn’t affect us anymore. We’re free – in a sense. As free as we’d ever be… But, the body is still going through pain just to continue ‘living’. We need to eat. We need to sleep. We need to talk to others. We need to feel safety. We still seek pleasure and avoid pain – at least physically – even if we’re a Buddha.
Buddha couldn’t sit on a hot tin roof for 3 days in strong India sun. He had a physical body – that is still our curse. It goes away at death – but what else goes? What continues? Anything? I’m not at all sure. I tend to believe it all just stops. I want to believe it all does anyway. The game stops. Game over. Nothing more. No recollection of the past life on earth. No future. Not even a present. Must be OK.
Billions have gone before us. You probably know some that have gone on…
In the South American Rain forest between Paraguay and Nicaragua there exists an ant with a poison sting that packs a punch. These ants are 1 inch long. Yes, you read that correctly – an ant that is 1″ long. This ant lives in the trees where it has it’s nest. Before it attacks you for messing with it – and you might not even know you’re messing with it because you might be just walking through the jungle… it SHRIEKS! Yah, it has a war-cry before it attacks you. Is that nuts? Hold on, that isn’t the point of this post… it gets worse. Much worse.
The name of this huge ant is, “Bullet Ant”. That’s a funny name, but for an unfunny reason. The sting feels like you’ve been shot with a bullet. In fact, in the entire Arthropoda Kingdom this 1″ ant ranks number one on the Schmidt Sting Index as having THE MOST PAINFUL sting on the planet.
But wait, I’m building up to something especially farked here…
Some indigenous people in the area have an initiation ceremony for celebrating the passage of a boy into manhood. You know, like a “Sweet 16″ party or something? But these misguided Neanderthals put the kids through hell in order to “become a man”.
They spend a day or so weaving these “leaf sleeves” for the kid to wear. Inside the sleeve are hundreds of these bullet ants woven into the sleeve, stingers inward and facing the arms of the unlucky boy about to “become a man”. They put the sleeve on the kid and immediately he’s stung by these things over and over for 10 minutes. If he makes it 10 minutes, that’s the ‘goal’. When they pull the sleeve off him he is a twitching, convulsing mass of farked humanity. Is he a man? What do you think?Apparently they don’t think he’s a man yet because in order to become a real man, not a girly-man, he’ll need to go through this 20 times – over and over and over before they decide -
“OK, yeah, maybe he’s a man.”
I wonder how many boys turned ladyboy there are in that culture!
In Brazil they make mits (glove type coverings) filled with these bullet ants. The kids endure what the Schmidt sting index calls, “waves of burning, throbbing, all-consuming pain that continues unabated for up to 24 hours.” NUTS!
They do it for 10 minutes at a time. They do it 20 times!
Traditions in a culture of people can be seriously twisted. Is there any logical reason a kid would need to go through this? Doesn’t a boy become a man anyway after time? Doesn’t a boy, when left alone just spontaneously become a man? It’s so bizarre that some cultures have these pain-inflicting, debilitating initiations into manhood. Military units or secret societies don’t even go through this much bull-shite. This is a young boy reaching a certain age. His life is farked from the start. Knowing this is how they turn a boy into a man it’s likely they have other horrifying practices that are wholly unnecessary…
Who set them up as fighters? Who created the farked existence of all of this mess? If it wasn’t a God, and it may not be at all, then what was it? What the hell conspired to make life on earth so F-A-R-K-E-D for us and the animals that spend time here? It’s like God’s own torture playground.
Who set this culture up? Who creates culture? Ultimately man was created with certain predispositions. What happens in each culture across the world is because of those predispositions. We are born into the world seeing that the strong survive. For some cultures that is more apparent – or more valid than in others. In the case of these South American people, they must really believe that men must be strong mentally to withstand great amounts of pain. To them, that is something very important in life because their lives must be filled with physical pain from fighting or other reasons. Are they ignorant for doing this – we say “Hell YES”. In reality, are they just doing something that is the natural result of the environment and human predispositions they were ‘given’ from the start?Yes. That’s true too. So, this kind of thing goes on.
Bizarre initiations for kids like a girl having her clitoris cut out by some African tribes continues because of ignorance… on one hand, but because they just developed that way as a natural consequence of where they live, how they’ve lived for thousands of years, and what is important to them in life. Every culture creates things that are important, in the past there have been some really outrageously disgusting practices go on… out of ignorance, but really – out of a natural progression of life based on all the predetermined variables that we’ve been given from the start. Nobody develops anything outside of those already given variables – impossible. We develop as we do because we have the possibility to. It’s natural. It’s life as we know it.
It’s such a FARKED LIFE, isn’t it?
For your viewing pleasure a portion of the Schmidt pain index for stinging insects is below, along with someone’s colorful commentary to elucidate the type of pain accompanying the sting:
1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm. 1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch. 1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek. 2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door. 2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue. 2.x Honey bee and European hornet: Like a matchhead that flips off and burns on your skin. 3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail. 3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut. 4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath (if you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream). 4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail in your heel.
Want to read the Wikipedia entry on Bullet Ants? >
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