I love and value education. This sort of thing really makes me sad.
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Me too, and me three (about it making me sad)....
me twelve and a half
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That's pretty darn sad! 8-(
900 days = nearly 2 and 1/2 years.
1.4m Afghan girls may not be able to perform that calculation.
I was watching the news when USA left Afghanistan and the media was interviewing random people on the streets. There was one Taliban soldier who said the Taliban would still allow girls in education and jobs.
He was obviously wrong. For a brief moment it was a little hope that the population had accepted girls to be schooled, but at the same time it's also sad that they had no idea of what they were fighting for.
People just aren't critical enough of the institutions they live and work within. It's a sickness of the human condition that people struggle to question and to even entertain the idea of going against authority and their social groups. It's called loyalty and it should be eradicated.
Mental death is the goal of religion.
Religion is nothing but institutionalized slavery, which breaks the backs of the poor and ignorant and shakes out their pockets for what little money they can fork over. The use of religion as an excuse for the utterly perverse treatment of women is proof that humankind is not going anywhere but to hell, for there is no true possible salvation for any of us.
we must destroy religion
For myself I try to stay 500 yards away from religion at all times, but living in Utah that just isn't possible. When I told my mormon neighbors I wasnt' religious (Despite my forefathers being prominent founders of the Mormon church) they just said, "well we all come to god in different ways."
It was like they hadn't even heard or considered the idea I was expressing. It just isn't possible in their minds to even conceive of not building your life around religious beliefs.
We should occupy that place and fix things
Ban, ban T-Taliban. (that's for the Shakespeare fans out there). What more proof do we need that men have not evolved beyond primitive beasts than that there is such an organization alive and well in our midst.
But then again, I live in Utah where we still haven't entered the 20th century (let alone the 21st, I've given up hope on that). Here women aren't allowed to make their own choices and women who do are considered heathens. So we're not so unlike the middle east here.
I'll never know the sheer indescribable horror of being a woman in a man-centric ignorant-based universe such as ours, but I'm sure there aren't words capable of describing such agony. I can only hope we nuke ourselves out of existence, for mankind truly has been nothing but a sick and wretched exercise in perversion from day one.
Don't worry, that's just the multipolar world kicking in. It's for your own best interest.
This isn't going to stop in Afghanistan.
After WWII the Hungarians were pretty much stuck in the eastern block as human shields against a NATO attack against the USSR. So they were not provided with much rebuilding as the West did for other countries. They picked up pencil and paper and are now known as a country that produces mathematical and scientific geniuses. e.g. Paul Erdős Erdős published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed
My Point, for ding-dongs: Afghans , Palestinians or any poor country should encourage math skills because the raw infrastructure is pencil and paper + a mind. Most minds can do math if they try.
Wow, so impressive.
Sucks that mathematics can’t save you from electing a populist idiot.
so you offer nothing, that's your answer?