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Barney   
14 Sep 2010
Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]

The secularist state destroys creativity: Why do anything for yourself when the state will do it for you? Why take care of others when the state will do it for you? Why have ambition when the state is there to ensure that few or no individuals are rewarded more than others?

The idea of no big government is working well for Somalia.

The issues that preoccupy most Europeans are material ones: How many hours per week will I have to work? How much annual vacation time will I have? How many social benefits can I garner? How can my country avoid fighting against anyone or for anyone?

And Americans offer every suffering to God as some kind of penance? no complaints about working conditions holidays or pay.

(I dont get the last bit surely you are not suggesting that militarism is some form of religious duty)

He spoke of the "revolting invasion of publicity...TV stupor ...intolerable music."

Unbridled consumerism the inevitable result of an unbridled free market.
(Keep this ideology quiet, it almost bankrupted us but we like it.)
Barney   
12 Sep 2010
Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]

There is a great wee article by Nick Cohen (not someone I always agree with) that addresses this topic.
guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/12/pope-benedict-atheism-secularism
nickcohen.net

But the notion that in free countries atheism promotes intolerance and immorality is demonstrably false. Last year, Californian sociologist Phil Zuckerman responded with facts rather than witless abuseto claims from Christian psychologists and theologians that atheists were "selfish and pusillanimous curmudgeons", "unnatural" or "just damn angry". He pulled together the available evidenceand found that the more atheists or agnostics a free society has the more moral it becomes.

for example

A study in the 1990s found that a meagre 0.2% of the US prison population were atheists. In America, the states with the highest murder rates tend to be highly religious, such as Louisiana and Alabama, but the states with the lowest murder rates are among the least religious in the country, such as Vermont and Oregon.

There is no point pasting the article here just read it if you wish.
Barney   
20 Aug 2010
History / Pole who burned himself to protest the 1968 Soviet invasion [81]

Other Soviet-bloc armed forces, including Poland's military, were also forced by their Soviet masters to participate in the invasion.

There is an interesting discussion Polish historical myths - to break or not to break them?about this.

I feel for his family more than I do for him

Yes, the poor guy is dead and his family have to struggle to survive, what good is a Wiki page to them?

The Christian idea of blood sacrifice has been used in the west many times, after all Christ started it.

There's no free media, there is censorship so you can't just go to a TV station and speak your mind.

That also existed in the west.
Barney   
8 Aug 2010
Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

Cows are stupid animals, nearly as dumb as chickens.

No excuse to abuse them.

Why would anyone that owns animals, especially when that animal presents a considerable amount of value to the family, want to do harm to them. They are farming them. Grow them, harvest them. Done deal.

Most farmers who view their animals solely as a cash equivalent dont make good farmers either as businessmen or animal husbands.
Barney   
8 Aug 2010
Food / Polish Eating Habits [87]

Seriously, I would be interested.......What time do polish people eat. It's too early isnt it?

I like to eat late about 9 or 10 pm, my polish friends get home then eat immediately, it seems, most northern Europeans do that. I like to have a bite when I get in then do stuff, eating dinner later without interruptions during cooking and actual dinner.
Barney   
6 Aug 2010
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]

That image has been released into the public domain ie devoid of copyright and as such became very famous. For example it's found on sites discussing child soldiers with no direct interest in Polish history.

The subjects were members of the Szare Szeregi briefly, a mutated form of scouts.

"The structure of the Szare Szeregi was based on the prewar structure of the ZHP, modified to suit the new circumstances of occupation and persecution. The basic unit of ZHP was a drużyna (troop), consisting of 20 boys or girls."

The image comes from the archives of Audiovisual Documentation Archiwum Dokumentacji Audiowizualnej and is clearly labled "Young boy and girl scouts fighting in the Warsaw uprising, Author unknown"

The young girl and two boys were about 17 years old and its almost impossible to identify the individuals (Archiwum Dokumentacji Audiowizualnej couldnt) I can say that the individual at the front looks like a young woman to me. If you have additional information I and others would be grateful for identification.

isthatu2It appears that you are correct. My apologies

Tadeusz Rajszczak is the name of the young boy (aged 15) wearing the helmet.
He fought with Batalion Miotła
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalion_Miot%C5%82a

The picture was taken on the 2nd September 1944 by Jerzy Tomaszewski.

featuring Tadeusz Rajszczak.

I posted this last night but there appears to have been a restore at some point before now.
Barney   
5 Aug 2010
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]

Franz Kutschera
Was a particularly nasty individual, He joined the NSDAP in late 1930 and the SS in late 1931.

He distinguished himself in the fight against the Resistance with his fanaticism and skill. Hence, he was appointed SS and Police Leader, first from April 1943 in the Mogilev district of the Soviet Union and then as of September 1943, and until his death on 1 February 1944, the Police leader of the District of Warsaw in the occupied Poland.

Zofia Franio

Was head of the elite Armia Krajowa DYSK unit (Women's Diversion and Sabotage), they provided the intelligence for the removal of this man. The DYSK also sourced and manufactured explosives and other armaments during the Warsaw rising. They were active in sabotaging rail lines, bridges, eliminating Gestapo and gathering intelligence.


  • Zofia Franio
Barney   
31 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

the ones compiled by Fiebert

You have still not posted the article!

I recall a male client who was scared to death of his female spouse. He had scars on his face, from objects she had previously thrown at him.

This is a real problem widely reported in the press but just not talked about.
Barney   
31 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

Just with you but not with Aphrodisiac because she has no shame.

Aphro is one of the many fine posters here.

It is pathetic that you pose in such an obvious way, no self confident person needs to pose.
Barney   
31 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

objective truth is too raw

I asked you to post "objective truth" several times and you failed (what you did post you hadn’t read) preferring instead to post opinion.

Calling me a liberal is not an argument but says rather more about your inability to rationally justify your stance.

Zimmy you dont know how to approach this subject in an unemotional way. For the last time I ask you again to provide solid evidence for what you claim.

This has become tedious.
Barney   
30 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

You asked me the questions and I gave you examples. It's noticeable that you failed to disprove my media comments which are obvious even to the most casual observer

You posted an opinion ignoring the vast majority of the media. Differing views of the same image (commonly known as the male vs female gaze) is necessary for a basic understanding of any visual medium this seems beyond your myopic view.

As demonstrated above your hobbyhorse is based upon a predetermined view which does a disservice to this issue.
Barney   
30 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

Zimmy
So you cannot produce evidence :(

Two of your random points caught my eye:

As to books, the latest estimate is that since Betty Freidans groundbreaking book in 1963, there have been some 30,000 plus books on feminism not to mention many more articles and specialty pieces in magazines. General people-type magazines are also dominated by women and womens' articles.

All the rest are not.

Even Fox News hires too many blond reporters

Now that was funny, and smart of you not to "genderdise"(sic) the issue.
Barney   
29 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

you know it is not gonna happen:)

It would be a surprise but something tells my you are right:)
It did fill a slow day at work.

Never listen to them

Ah..........you are missing a lot :(
Barney   
29 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

I believe he wrote that in the 1970's and has since augmented it.

From your link

Submitted 27 September 2007;revised10 August 2008; accepted 27 January 2009

So Straus believed in 2008 that:
"There is one important and consistently reported gender difference in PV:although women engage in both minor and severe violence as often as men, the adverse effects on victims are much greater for women."

And He believed, again in 2008, that:

"Attacks by men cause more injury (both physical and psychological), more deaths, and more fear. In addition, women are more often economically trapped in a violent relationship than men because women continue to earn less than men, and because when a marriage ends women have custodial responsibility for children at least 80% of the time. The greater adverse effect on women is an extremely important difference, and it indicates the need to

continue to provide more services for female victims of PV than for male
victims."

So stop trying to refract the authors words, after all you supplied them, though indirectly.

You must have missed the part...

I read the whole paper and took nothing out of context; in fact the extreme position of others that you have adopted is in no way supported by the said paper or any of the others that I have read that your link led too. It appears that by blindly following a proscribed path your reasoning went out the window.

Again I repeat, can you provide evidence for your position that a Feminist agenda dominates society in general and the Media in particular. Any links you have posted have been to Blogs or "opinion sites" or on previous occasions to "Crank" sites.

I am interested.
Barney   
29 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

my book recommendation was a sufficient response to you

You were offering to post better links and couldn't, so no it's not sufficient.

You are probably unaware that I've posted this interesting link among several others 4 previous times (as posters here will attest).

I dont doubt that you have repeatedly posted the same thing;)

Now that we have a link it has proved almost useless as it's a bibliography.

Your second link is to an organisation that displays a similar bias to those that you have repeatedly accused others of.
Links from this website (I have read some) do not promote what you claim; that there is a feminist template generally adopted by society and the media. One particular author, Murray A Straus of the University of New Hampshire states this:

There is one important and consistently reported gender difference in PV:
although women engage in both minor and severe violence as often as
men, the adverse effects on victims are much greater for women.

And this:

Attacks by men cause more injury (both physical and psychological), more deaths, and more fear. In addition, women are more often economically trapped in a
violent relationship than men because women continue to earn less than
men, and because when a marriage ends women have custodial responsibility
for children at least 80% of the time. The greater adverse effect on
women is an extremely important difference, and it indicates the need to
continue to provide more services for female victims of PV than for male
victims.

pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V75-Straus-09.pdf

I chose to read Straus's work as He is quoted liberally by others in all the links you provided.

Posting these links demonstrates that you haven't read them and you rely upon someone else telling you what they say to fit a manufactured agenda. That invalidates your position and as I said above cheapens the issue.
Barney   
28 Jul 2010
Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

Several times I have presented in these forums dozens of links including hundreds of studies which of course female apologists prefer to ignore.

You have not, I asked you directly to post such links in this thread "End of Marriage" and you responded with this

Instead of posting a bunch of linksI'll just suggest that you purchase "Red Communism" authored by feminist historian Kate Weigand.

Truth is Zimmy all you have posted is links to blogs and such there by cheapening the issue.
Barney   
24 Jul 2010
Language / Why 'działka'? [10]

As far as I am aware (My friends sold two plots last week) when you buy a działka there are restrictions on what you can erect on them (as Magda said). And as NMP said you own the land including all mineral rights etc and not the lease to the land which is the case in the UK.

Building permits restrict any structure to single story buildings of limited size and so on. As działkas are located outside the towns families often spend large parts of the summer there so they can tend their fruit and veg before and after work.

The restrictions allow for a degree of comfort during the summer but make them impossible to inhabit in wintertime. A year or two back there was a proposal to relax the building law allowing permanently inhabitable buildings to be constructed but I think this proposal was shelved cos my friends would not have sold if the potential for development (and increased value) was still there.
Barney   
23 Jul 2010
UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]

interesting article about the Irish economy forcing Irish to immigrate again

It was like reading something from the past very sad:(

A lot of what M-G says is true

if they weren't so freaking greedy and tried to rip off with just about anything, this probably wouldn't have turned out so bad as it does. But they failed to invest in structural things as the only thing they were thinking about is making money and more money.

That is pretty much how it was and is.
The Celtic Tiger was always unsustainable and the Gov rode the wave and did sweet FA to build for the future.

We are a nation of 4m who have yet to reach our centenary of freedom. We have never colonised anyone to create our wealth, don't have vast natural resources and aren't lucky enough to be strategically located.

This is also true but when there was money it was wasted and trousered.

I cant help but remember what James Connolly wrote:

If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain......It would be tantamount to a public declaration that our oppressors had so far succeeded in inoculating us with their perverted conceptions of justice and morality that we had finally decided to accept those conceptions as our own, and no longer needed an alien army to force them upon us.

The country is reverting because we swallowed the worst ideas of the free market and tried to build an economy on quicksand.
Barney   
17 Jul 2010
Food / Polish Preserves, any recipes? [14]

elderberry and apple

Luckily I have access to both so will give the combo a go in autumn thanks. I haven’t tried these together as the elderberries usually go into wine. Apples and pears make a better wine a lot less acidic.

powidlo

Plum Butter? I may try this in autumn with Damsons.

Thank you:)

yummy stuff

Yeah, I'm looking forward to trying it we dont have anything like that here.
I grow a lot of stuff and give lots away, its nice how a few jars of jam or chutney always makes people smile:)
Barney   
16 Jul 2010
Food / Polish Preserves, any recipes? [14]

polishmeknob
I make a lot of jam for myself and also to give when visiting. Are there any combinations that you would recommend?

squash/cordial

This sounds good.

Thank you
Barney   
16 Jul 2010
Food / Polish Preserves, any recipes? [14]

I have a lot of summer fruit at the moment and was wondering if anyone had any recipes for preserves. After eating to excess we always make jam but I'm interested in Kompot recipes or any other ways to save fruit.

Anything involving Gooseberries would be greatly welcome.

Here’s hoping and thank you.
Barney   
9 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Not the best side you are showing, Barney.

I don’t do Merry-go-Round arguments, as I said above arguments about preferences are essentially a box ticking exercise.

Trolling up an old thread to crow over a supposed toasting doesn’t strike me as logical.
Asking the same question umpteen times is not logical its pathological.
Barney   
8 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

I think

Not the strong point of a box ticker.

There is no blocking mechanism other than the Mods who could merge those threads. If more people used the search facility then I wouldn't need to make my point again and again. It's actually a rule of the forum to check that nobody else has a thread of a highly similar nature.

You are not and never will be a mod no matter how hard you try.
Barney   
8 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

University taught me many things, the first of which was to argue critically and discuss while being open to the opinion of others.

You are not doing that, you have decided to troll up several threads about religion to force a debate and in doing so demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of belief systems for example asking for concrete differences between two sects.

In order for you to argue critically in this area you need to understand at least one basic idea; Religious arguments need to be translated into secular terms not just for people to understand the jargon but to place them at one step remove from the belief system otherwise its an argument about preferences (I like blue you like red).

This may seem like a trainspotting point but it is critical in understanding the pointlessness of the attempted debate.

There is a certain degree of vanity attached to most posts so feel free to type away like a latter day pamphleteer but you will be indulging in a solo occupation.
Barney   
8 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Seanus
Can you please calm down, take a deep breath, count to ten.

It's possible to disagree without attempting to be nasty or didnt you learn that at university. There has got to be an online video you could watch that could demonstrate the dangers of being overly competitive.

OK readers back to the point:)

Seanus you have wanted to discuss this "idea" of yours for a long time and as with everything you keep changing terms making it impossible to know what you want.

You cannot reduce something as beautiful as a belief system to bullet points but if that is how you comprehend the world you should become a train spotter.

"Krok za krokiem" to you too

Stay focused it will do you good.
Barney   
8 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Barney, it was YOU that attached that quality to it.

But you typed this...

I am Catholic and not Protestant because:

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

and this...

What does it mean in concrete terms?

and I answered as above attaching nothing to your posts.

We then had yer man effectively marking my posts with a less than satisfactory level of reading comprehension.

Strong-form empiricism is for the chartered accountants of ideas.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them.
Rupert Hart-Davis
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

of course that (concrete, measurable phenomenon) is not what we're looking for.

I know, Seanus is looking for at least five empirical reasons of why one would favour one religion over another. I'm pointing out that you cannot answer in those terms. By asking for a value based answer the terms of the question changed.