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Comment on Are We Really Just Animals? by John de Melville

John de Melville — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:30:36 +0000

It is of course well known that Heinrich Himmler was a chicken farmer. Did he take his agricultural methods of dealing with animals to dealing with humans? I think so. And I think that voters who allow the farmers to get away with battery farming or mass production where it is clearly cruel and unusual, or unnatural to the state of health of the animal, must be very disconnected to where their food comes from. This brings me to the tragedy of the commons. We are all hard cases because we ‘know not what we do’. That’s my theory anyway.

This also means we have to think about religion. The Bible is full of rubbish about humans having dominion over animals. This is clearly not true if evolution and natural selection are correct. Even the RC believe that the case for E&NS is okay.

Personally I think that that God is the product of human souls… this would make a lot more sense that God being the Creator of the universe. In fact the universe probably needed very little energy to start up and is probably self perpetuating and almost infinite.

As for people who think they are Christians I have only one thing for them: in the Bible Jesus clearly stated: ‘Sell all you have and follow me’. He also continually preached that ‘the higest should be as your slave’. Also that Lazarus the beggar would go to heaven whilst the rich man would go to hell. He also said: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle [gate] than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven”. All the Christians I meet, and including myself, all have wealth and thus will never go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Find me a Christian and I’ll find you a hypocrite I think one of the French Philosophes once wrote. That’s as true today it was back in the 18th century. No-one can really be anything but a hypocritical follower of Christ.

Comment on Are We Really Just Animals? by John de Melville

John de Melville — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:19:15 +0000

After all if you don’t understand intelligence and emotional intelligence they you can have little humanity in you. As for Calvert’s statement she is just stating an offhand remark. I’m sure that she is very humane and human, and understands both intelligence and emotional intelligence.

Comment on Are We Really Just Animals? by John de Melville

John de Melville — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:11:20 +0000

I think the Green Party position on this is absolutely correct. To be human is to be humane. Killing animals to survive in nature is okay, because that is when humans are not humane. Tribal people kill to eat. They expend energy, thought, resources, and time and effort on the kill. But to kill in a mass produced manner, is unnatural. It is a consequence of our industrial world, with its reliance on fossil fuels to survive. Forcing poor birds to live in cages their whole existence just so some dumb human can have an egg at a very low cost is capitalism out of hand. The fact is we are all prepared to pay a bit more for a free range egg if we are humane, and thus truly human. Intelligence and emotional intelligence is what matters. People who are devoid of understanding these points are generally hard cases, who cannot show empathy with other species and thus cannot properly judge such matters objectively.

Comment on Adding Retweets to Twitter Widget Pro by Mark

Mark — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:31:01 +0000

Good to hear! Thanks for the +ve feedback.

Comment on Adding Retweets to Twitter Widget Pro by Kane

Kane — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:24:00 +0000

2012 and this post is still helping out. Thanks, and thanks for the link to the updated wp-twitter-widget.php file. Retweets are now showing up. :)

Comment on Using WP-Syntax with a Twenty-Ten Child Theme by Syntax Highlighting in WordPress | David Clifton's Blog

Syntax Highlighting in WordPress | David Clifton's Blog — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:38:45 +0000

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Comment on Adding Retweets to Twitter Widget Pro by Mark

Mark — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:51:13 +0000

Glad I could help Will. I did send a note to Aaron at xavisys, but didn’t get a response. However I am getting a fair bit of traffic to this page, so hopefully others are making use of the fix.

Comment on Adding Retweets to Twitter Widget Pro by Will

Will — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:23:48 +0000

That is a great fix you have found! I was quite baffled by this at first, only I didn’t dig into it. I more or less shrugged it off and hopes that there would be an update soon.

I do hope this gets passed along to Xavisys, it would be a shame to see their plugin fade into obscurity.

Comment on Adding Retweets to Twitter Widget Pro by Jack Kern

Jack Kern — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:40:13 +0000

Thanks for posting this! This works great. I just commented out the old function and replaced it with yours. I’m surprised they haven’t taken your patch yet!?

Comment on Adding Retweets to Twitter Widget Pro by Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:02:35 +0000

Update: somehow in the process of editing, the line numbers got deleted – I suspect again to do with opening it in wordpress visual mode. Hopefully everything is fixed now.