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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
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 Here's something...
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I have no money, I am a failure, my leaders have led me to ruin, and I welcome the absolving embrace of death.
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verbal
Too much time on my hands
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Thommy H
Linda McMahon
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- lots and lots of short fiction, written by me, regularly updated.
- it's a space opera novel I wrote.
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Freya
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- Updated 25th July
R.I.P Wild Pegasus and Black Tiger II
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." DOUGLAS ADAMS (1952-2001)
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Thommy H
Linda McMahon
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Well there's two sides to that argument. On the one hand, would you deny a child raised in a stone-age environment access to the modern world's art, science, technology and medicine? On the other they're obviously not children, but a human culture with just as much right to exist on their own terms as our own - this isn't the 19th Century, where we wander around the globe assuming our way of life is the pinnacle of human civilisation and everyone should want to join in. So, in theory, they ought to get a choice...but as soon as they're presented with that choice, you're changing their worldview, and imposing our completely alien world on them. There's no way to contact them without really making it impossible for them to not experience the rest of the world - but by not giving them the choice, isn't that another form of colonialism by acting like protective parents over the odd little natives?
It's a thorny issue with some very important implications.
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- lots and lots of short fiction, written by me, regularly updated.
- it's a space opera novel I wrote.
I have some shit on Kindle too: ,
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Dante LIVES!
in a cardboard box
Joined: Fri Jan 03, 2003 9:14 pm
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As I see it Thommy, there is a thorny issue indeed. Their world view has already been changed by the outside world, they saw (as seen in the photos) the planes that photographed them, that has already by accident or by choice changed their world view and taken it one step closer to ours.
I always forget what this rule or theory is called but it goes along the lines that it is impossible to observe something without chaninging it.
So in fact the choice has already been made by the "discovery" of this tribe. After all they have to adapt their traditions and their ideas to take these "things in the air" into account.
This is by no means me saying that we or anyone should force them into our world, waht I am saying is that byu discovering them the first step in that process has already been taken.
I wonder why people can't just live in bleeding caves so we can manage to leave them alone.
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Updated on January 7th 2007.
"HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools"
- Ambrose Birce, The Devil's Dictionary
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Rikishi's Thong
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Thommy H
Linda McMahon
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- lots and lots of short fiction, written by me, regularly updated.
- it's a space opera novel I wrote.
I have some shit on Kindle too: ,
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Bluescreen
Rikishi's Thong
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Dante LIVES!
in a cardboard box
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It sure did, and just like the Vietnamese you have absolutely no connection to these guys either 
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Updated on January 7th 2007.
"HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools"
- Ambrose Birce, The Devil's Dictionary
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Bluescreen
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Too much time on my hands
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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
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I don't think that makes it a hoax...
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Too much time on my hands
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