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The questioning mind - by Milly

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The questioning mind - October 2006

Would you want to know when your time's up?

October 28th 2006 12:24

Someone asked me recently if I would want to know when I was going to die. My immediate response was no. However, then I started thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad, because at least you could do all of the things that you wanted to accomplish.

I think I'd draw the line though when it comes to knowing how. My friend said that if you knew that you were going to fall off a cliff, for example, you could just avoid them. Maybe then it would be like Final Destination and death would somehow find you. Maybe a psycho killer would break into your house, drag you off to a mountain and hurl you over the edge.

So friends, what's it going to be? To know or not to know, that is the question....

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Female Circumcision... will it ever cease?

October 27th 2006 03:51

Can you imagine having your vagina ripped apart and sown up again, without so much as a swig of alcohol to num the pain?

This week I went to a UNIFEM talk on female circumcision, otherwise known as Female Genital Mutilation and was horrified by what I heard. I am ashamed to say that though I had previously heard snippets of what the process involved, I was vastly ignorant about the horrific ordeals these women endure.

According to the spokesperson, FGM occurs widely around the world, not just in backward places like I had originally thought. It is especially prevalent in the hub of Africa, where girls as young as FIVE YEARS OLD are operated on, without anaesthetics. It is not associated with one religion. Though it was banned in Australia, many women here are circumcised too.

There are a variety of different torturous operations...some of which involve massacring the clitoris and labia, while others involve sewing up the vagina. The latter makes urinating (can take 20 mins) and menstruation particularly difficult. If the woman falls pregnant, the vagina is sewn back up afterwards. Apparently doctors in Australia do this too.

The thing that really surprised me was that these women continue doing this to themselves. It is immensely ingrained in their lifestyle and culture. My questions are 1) Do you think westernised countries should try to interfere? 2) What can be done to overcome the cycle?

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Should sport be on the front page of the newspaper?

October 4th 2006 13:22

Do you think sport should be on page one of the newspaper? I personally want to scream every day when I see it there. Sport is a recreational passtime. It is not news, it is not life or death and it does not affect all readers, so why oh why do these News Limited newspapers have this affinity with sport? I suppose it has something to do with the fact that Rupert Murduch owns a number of the sporting teams in Australia.

I guess the sad reality is that ever since Pulitzer (US) and Northcliffe (UK), newspapers have resorted to sensationalised trash in order to attract readers. I, for one, do not think sport attracts readers, and it should be kept at the back of the newspaper where it belongs.

Do you agree? Or do you die hard sports fans beg to differ and think the papers is all the more appealing with the Broncos or whoever on the front page?

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Dream Interpreter... can you remember your strangest dream?

October 4th 2006 12:55

Have you ever woken up after a crazy dream and thought what the f*** was that all about? The worst ones are those nightmares that go on and on for hours. You wake up shivering in a sweat, but when you go back to sleep you're back in the psycho killer's dungeon.

I've always wondered about the meaning behind my dreams. Last night I had a weird one, where I was flying through outer space from planet to planet and swirling past stars. I was attached to the Earth by a white cord and there was someone way down below me, but I'm stuffed if I know who it was. It was surreal, to say the least.
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Has education deteriorated in Australia?

October 4th 2006 01:21

Did any of you read yesterday's front page story of the Courier Mail entitled "Brilliant Minds, if only they could write"? For those of you who didn't, it was about these scientists from one of Australia's best science research institutes who had enrolled in English classes because of their poor ability in the area. These were PhD students. I stated to think about education and whether it has deteriorated in this country.

My first thought was should these science students be proficient in English? At school, I remember there was always a clear division between the gifted students. They were either nerdy mathematicians/ science students or they were eccentric humanities lovers, and rarely was a kid exceptional in both areas. Perhaps this relates to the left and right hemispheres of the brain? I wouldn't know, I was always a humanities kid. So, with this in mind, should these science students be condemned for their poor spelling and grammar

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