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Being a living goddess has its advantages for 10-year-old girl
Chicago Trubune ^ | June 27, 2007 | Neela Banerjee

Posted on 06/29/2007 10:25:55 AM PDT by rochester

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To: Joe 6-pack
Tough time finding a date for your senior prom?

LOL. Nope. Just many decades of dispassionate observation :).

Girls are much easier than boys before puberty. After that, parents pay for those easy years in spades. It would be best for all were they just put into hibernation from 12 to about 17, when they start to become wonderful humans again :)

41 posted on 06/29/2007 12:51:50 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: L98Fiero

I wanted to be a Lama, but the best I could do is to be an Alpaca.


42 posted on 06/29/2007 12:54:28 PM PDT by 70times7 (Sense... some don't make any, some don't have any - or so the former would appear to the latter.)
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To: Cailleach

they’re talking about us.


43 posted on 06/29/2007 12:56:03 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: ModelBreaker
I'm glad you saw the (intended) humor in my remark...some folks here would have got defensive (the one's who had getting dates to their proms, anyways.) I agree wholeheartedly with this...

"It would be best for all were they just put into hibernation from 12 to about 17..."

...although I might add a few years to that upper limit.

44 posted on 06/29/2007 1:03:29 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: VfB Stuttgart
So she’s from a place where the dominant religoin dictates that they treat certain rare children with special reverence during childhood.

She's from the upper West Side?

45 posted on 06/29/2007 1:04:42 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Polybius
...don't be surprised when atheist liberals start claiming that Christians have no place in American society.

You mean they don't?!? I thought that was their mantra!

46 posted on 06/29/2007 1:08:32 PM PDT by grellis (Femininists for Fred!)
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To: 70times7

“I wanted to be a Lama, but the best I could do is to be an Alpaca.”

LOL. Well, we all have our place in life.


47 posted on 06/29/2007 1:08:46 PM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: ModelBreaker
12 to about 17, when they start to become wonderful humans again :)

They do? Then why hasn't my 17 yr old ...

Hmmmmmmm.

48 posted on 06/29/2007 1:09:25 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (The Immigration Hoax: "Subject to the Availability of Appropriations.")
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To: TonyRo76

Wow!

I’ve never before had a post deleted on FR!

I left to get some work done and returned to see that my heartfelt comments stirred up some politically correct anger.

Not taking it back. I meant what I said.

Thanks, TR, for speaking the truth. It can be dangerous.


49 posted on 06/29/2007 2:05:05 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

Chin up. It was around 22 for mine. There’s hope yet ;-)


50 posted on 06/29/2007 2:06:12 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
They do? Then why hasn't my 17 yr old ...

She wasn't in hibernation. Duh. :)

51 posted on 06/29/2007 3:02:36 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Joe 6-pack
I'm glad you saw the (intended) humor in my remark...some folks here would have got defensive (the one's who had getting dates to their proms, anyways.) I agree wholeheartedly with this...

Thin skinned on FR is a surefire way to have no fun at all.

53 posted on 06/29/2007 9:21:23 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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I’m not sure what the tone of Jeddidah’s remarks were but I will say that Hinduism is a sick, twisted and brutal religion that shares much of the blame for the caste system in India.

“40 million people in India, most of them Dalits, are bonded workers, many working to pay off debts that were incurred generations ago. These people work under slave-like conditions. The majority of Dalits live in segregation and experience violence, murder, rape and atrocities to the scale of 110,000 registered cases a year according to 2005 statistics. No one believes these numbers are anywhere close to the reality of crimes committed against Dalits. Most crimes go unreported.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit

If my comments are not PC - too bad.

54 posted on 06/29/2007 10:06:23 PM PDT by bluetone006 (Peace - or I guess war if given no other option)
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To: rochester

Living Goddess? No wonder they win all those spelling bee’s!


55 posted on 06/29/2007 10:19:07 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (You "abort" bad missile launches and carrier landings. Not babies.)
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To: bluetone006
I’m not sure what the tone of Jeddidah’s remarks were but I will say that Hinduism is a sick, twisted and brutal religion that shares much of the blame for the caste system in India.

And I'll say that if you're going to make such claims about Hinduism, you must feel even worse about Christianity and Islam, which have long histories of condoning and approving slavery as practiced by their followers.

“40 million people in India, most of them Dalits, are bonded workers, many working to pay off debts that were incurred generations ago. These people work under slave-like conditions. The majority of Dalits live in segregation and experience violence, murder, rape and atrocities to the scale of 110,000 registered cases a year according to 2005 statistics. No one believes these numbers are anywhere close to the reality of crimes committed against Dalits. Most crimes go unreported.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit

The part you omitted from your Wikipedia clip:

"Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable."

There's no doubt that casteism and debt bondage are very real and very serious problems in Indian society, despite one of the most wide-reaching and intrusive affirmative action programs in the world. Debt bondage continues to be a problem for members of every religion in India.

But you're attempting to slur one particular religion because of the evils practiced by some of it's followers, based on old religious teachings which are no longer upheld or supported. No religion comes out looking any better than Hinduism by that standard - including yours. Many come off looking considerably worse.
56 posted on 06/30/2007 11:30:48 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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