It’s no secret that the United States was a very racist country towards blacks. Back in the first half of the 20th century, it was common (at least in the South) to have segregated bathrooms and water fountains for blacks and whites. Blacks were rightfully upset over the division and it took a national civil rights movement to correct these discriminatory acts. But that was then and this is now.
Fast-forward to today and very thought of segregated washrooms is preposterous, let alone desired. That is of course unless you attend La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia. Muslim students in La Trobe have been granted exclusive Muslim-only washrooms that require a secret pass code to access. But why is this necessary?
The segregated washrooms were seen as a benefit to both the Muslim and non-Muslim students. Confused yet? Muslim students are required to pray several times a day. Now as part of the ritual, Muslims are apparently required to wash their feet. In the past, Muslim students would literally stick their feet in the sink to get a good scrubbing, much to the dismay of non-Muslim students.
Both school officials and Muslim leaders approved of the bathrooms, but many people find the separate facilities divisive. Australian Family Council spokesman Bill Muehlenberg said concerns over the new facilities are valid:
“Do we have a Christian washroom or an atheist washroom? The whole thing is madness.”
Now this is a very interesting matter in my opinion. On one hand we have the whole Muslim integration issue, but on the other we have the special needs of a people being catered to. This is nothing new. Disabled people have had their own special ramps and entrances for years. Is this the same?
Mohamed, if you’re reading this, please enlighten us on the whole washing of the feet ritual. Do you wash your feet at work prior to your daily prayers? Do you even perform your daily prayers? I also invite our new hacker guests to participate in this discussion. That is of course if you can find the time. I know you’ve been busy attacking my server the last several days ;)
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I wonder, if is it valid to say?
1. Left handed are more predisposed to be open thinkers (atheists, agnostics, etc.).
2. Right handed are more predisposed to be faithful (religious freaks).
Does any one have a statistical data on this one?
Might be leads to some here??
http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/neuropsy/Publikationen/PDF/jancke-laterality2000.pdf
Left and right brains are different at the cellular level – “left handed” right brain has longer and faster interconnects, “right handed” left brain has more cells in total and more numerous shorter connections.
Left handed brain seems to deal better with stimulus in the 0.05 to 0.15 second range, and right handed brain deals better with longer stimulus. Might explain my attention span :)
We seriously need a poll on this site to find out who’s what. I have gone from not even thinking about which hand I use to worrying if it’ll determine the day of my death…
Wow, I think that was my third post on the site ever and I’ve inadvertently started a rather sinister (ha, ha…) storm of controversy.
I don’t know too much about the purported differences between right and left brain hemispheres etc, but it is interesting.
@Recovered Catholic: I didn’t know that, but it probably explains why my 17 trains of thought are continually de-railing into each other.
I think a poll on this would be interesting. Now I’m curious too.
And where do ambidextrous people like me fit into all this?
sidfaiwu Says:
“What places me in solidarity with atheists is that rationality, logic, and skepticism form the foundations of thoughts and beliefs.”
Ooo, I get to have a pick-on-sidfaiwu day; this is truly the greatest of Friday’s.
Rationality, logic, and skepticism form the “basis” for “free” thought; but I’ll be damned if I’ll let you sneak “belief” in there. In fact, Rationality and Logic are the pure “opposite” of “believing” in anything. (ie. conclusion without evidence) The term belief, as it’s been widely described on this site; explicitly requires the subject to reject the law of change.
There is nothing worth believing in our short existence on this planet; only never ending questions.
By the way, I’m also ambidextrous Taylor (Hockey, Mousing, Shooting and Fencing); but everyone is always more dominant on one side.
Hello Shaze,
I’m glad I made your Friday. I thought faith is defined as “a conclusion without evidence”. I have no faith (well, everyone has some faith, but that is a different discussion). Belief, on the other hand, is simply anything that one accepts as true. One may have rational beliefs and one may have irrational beliefs. I strive to make sure all my beliefs are rational.
hmmm, good question. I suggest we call the two-handers evil incarnate :P
Nah, that’s the three-handers :P
So I’m reading my political philosophy textbook about natural law and I come across this:
“…They consider homosexuality to be in this regard like left-handedness. Left-handedness is not the statistical norm, and left-handed people were once viewed with suspicion. ‘Somtimes people linked left-handedness with witchcraft and amputated the offending limb,’ Jung and Smith wrote.” (Wenz, 2007)
So yeah, I think that settles it. Burn the lefties!
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People seriously, get over it. if you lead your life analysing and criticising everything then your really not living your life. if your stressed over as something like a bathroom cant imagine how you all handle your real life.
surely there are a million other things you can all devote your time debating about?? seriously!
and if religion makes people happy and gives them peace and a sense of directions then let them be. Who are we to take that away from them. just because we’re miserable (not saying you all are)with no direction doesn’t mean they have to be.
born and brought up in London, I’m around muslims all the time. and yes i’ve seen the very bad Muslims(7/7 bombing) but ive also seen a lot of remarkably amazing good Muslim people.
Eczema is really so itchy and i cant help but scratch it. Corticosteroid is a heaven sent because it can relieve the itchiness and redness. .
Archery is an age old game that requires lots of practice and focus if you want to excel on it. ‘*-
i used to play archery but quit this sport after i got some elbow surgery.`.~
we are the Islamic Jihad will never stop fighting you guys Christians and Jews until the end came
So I have a question for you, m. Why do you need to do jihad, if your specific god really exists and is all-powerful? If your god (Allah, apparently) was really an all-powerful thing as your religion claims, then why does it need you to do its apparent work for it? Doesn’t sound like much of a god to me.
Please think about this and answer my question.
BTW, I’m not religious and I think every religion you mention is just silly but harmful.
it is actually hard to master archery, it took me 2 long years to be a master of archery .
my sister is very skillful in archery and i envy her“-
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