Soft to the Bone

The Death of Peaceful Protest

Krissie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:44:46 +0000

The G20 summit recently started, and finished, and along with it the protests. What there is to say here is not a new and revolutionary pattern of behaviour from the police, but rather, what seems as though it may well be one of the final nails in the coffin of peaceful protest - time will tell. This is, after all, a pattern of behaviour that has been present at major protests and events from long ago. The Battle of the Beanfield, or the Miners strike are examples, but perhaps the best example is that of the Southall Race Riots, which I'll leave you to look up for yourself. Particularly notable in that last example of course is the death of one Blair Peach, 33 years old, whome 11 witnesses saw struck by police, but to this day no police officer has been charged, no public investigation has occured (in spite of a continuing campaign for one, with no less than 79 MP's calling for one at the time.

Well, recently it… Continue reading

What is Money?

Krissie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:46:16 +0000

This is perhaps an unusual article for The Bone, for the fact that one of its main features is a piece of work created other than by the person who wrote it. There is however a good reason - it concerns a subject so simple that almost nobody on the street understands it, yet the majority of such people worship it with no idea of what it's about. Forget Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Paganism, Judaism, Hinduism or in fact any other "ism", it's the biggest God the world has ever known (albeit a false god in the view of most other religions), and it comes by many Names - Finance, Economics, Capital, Profit, ... You probably know it best as "Money".

You may well be thinking at this point that this may be some kind of rant against the greedy aquisition of material wealth, but you'd be mistaken. It's not: It's quite the opposite. You see, Money has no value, and that's not about spiritual value or how our souls could be clouded in darkness by it's worship. It's about the fact that Money… Continue reading

Where is that, again?

Krissie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:27:56 +0000

Some brief and lighthearted humour here.

Not long ago, in a deep and philosophical moment, I decided that I might like to have a Tshirt printed that said "Could somebody please point to Abroad on a map for me?". Well, I just stumbled across a lovely little edition of the webcomic at XKCD.com entitled "Terminology", which makes the point nicely (Gawd bless you America!)...

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Liberation doesn’t come cheap

Jeff — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:26:29 +0000

It should be written into the Geneva Convention that any country that wages war on another country should be held accountable for maimed and killed civilians. This accountability would include top quality medical care and financial compensation.

The coalition forces could say that the Iraqi military are using civilians as human shields and are placing weaponry in residential areas as an excuse to avoid compensation. It’s called passing the buck, but when the coalition forces attack first and without support from the UN then any excuse for civilian causalities, whether true or false, will always go against them, and because of this, all civilian causalities (dead & maimed) during the war are the responsibility of the acting force. They have no argument to support their claim of innocence if they started the onslaught, and so must take responsibility for their actions.

I have suddenly realised that there are flaws with my thinking on this matter. If the opposing forces knew that compensation… Continue reading

Traveling

Vanessa — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:50:02 +0000

Modification if you’ve got a disability is perhaps the way to still go on the type of holiday you like. My backpackers trip to Thailand certainly proved that.

my sense of adventure hasn’t left me, even though I cant possibly do all the things I want to or do the others the way I want to. still I refuse to behave like a wheelchair bound person and take typical disable holiday. so I went to koh chang in Thailand, a island by the Cambodian border, stayed in a bungalow by the sea with no facilities to make life easier. I wanted to come to koh chang 8 years ago, but missed my minibus, so went to koh samet instead.

I've was fortunate to come over to the island care of my dads driver (my dad lives in Bangkok, but I hadn’t seen him for 16 years - another story with lots of moralising about the role of parents) I would of been hard pushed to come any other way. I was able to bring my electric… Continue reading

Education: Kids in the system

Bariane — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:20:47 +0000

I have for a long time been aware of our schooling systems being a form of manipulation and control that grips our children as early as it can under the pretext of education and preparation for adulthood. The gifts we think we bestow upon our children is a mass lie and something most of us are not even aware of and those that are, feel unable to do anything about it. This article stands as no more than my own thoughts and views; I am not a scholar but I was once a child and have raised a child which means I have been through the education system twice, three times if I count that I actually put myself back into it as an adult.

The summer before school begins for the first time is one of excitement: uniforms and their attachments, new friends, packed lunch or the uncharted world of canteens and conversations of painting and playing with sand, of learning to read, sport, days out; endless lists of twaddle consume us all. Adults… Continue reading

Thoughts for today

Bariane — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:09:08 +0000

Here's an alternative text just for all you cynics out there who hate email circulars about divine happiness and growth:

Thoughts for today

Maybe we need to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person we know how to be grateful for the gift: and when we've finally pissed them off enough so much that they leave, we are fully aware of what dickheads we truly are.

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has just been opened for us: nor the bus load of people who just shot past us and got their first and slammed it shut firmly behind them right in our faces.

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on the porch and swing with and never… Continue reading

The Logic Of Failure

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:09 +0000

J.B.Suconik

Vivisection The practice of subjecting live animals to cutting operations and torturous procedures, with and without anesthesia. September - Section 1 That every failure may be a step to success, may account in some cryptic way for the unabated opposition to the brutal abuse of animals by venerable science. The defense of such use is based on discoveries, which when considered in isolation seem to render a conclusion affirming the efficacy of vivisection. On the other hand, when the discoveries are considered in relation to eclipsed evidence, the conclusion reached is a negation of vivisection. A negation because the argument for vivisection now includes the true premises and germane evidence, the whole of which constitute an inductive fallacy. Fallacy because in logical terms it is an induction with true premises and a false conclusion, false because it fails the “requirement of total evidence.” ¹ Thus hope and expectations of progress of medicine is based on a mere excerpt from the whole story entailing true premises and the false conclusion that vivisection is an effective method apropos of the need. Those to whom… Continue reading