History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [73]


I'm glad to hear it.........................Bring to the boil the king of the soil as a very good friend of mine says when cooking.

It’s hard to underestimate the negative view the general public were encouraged to hold. In Ireland the brainwashing wasn’t quite as bad as it was in other countries.

History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [73]

"Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland
The general view was that Poland was a land of perpetual winter where everyone ate potatoes and queued for bread. There was no night life and you all watched films about blocks of flats and the production of Iron. There was nothing in the popular press or media about culture history or music.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


I would count myself among the pro choice people, its such a difficult area. I dont believe there are hard and fast rules that can apply in any individual situation let alone all situations.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


I think we all have our doubts and a very nice post.

The moment of conception is the exact opposite to the moment of death? Its not a process but a big bang.

The morality of ending a life (or potential life) is in the gift of the person charged with bringing the new life into the world with limitations. Not having the pro choice option is just not right. You can only tie yourself in knots trying to think it out...

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

I don’t like making definite statements about abortion as it’s different for each person and situation.

Life begins at conception statistically it’s usually not successful but that is what the process dictates, life must begin at conception

Where does personhood begin? Not sure if I would say it’s when a foetus can exist without the mother but that is certainly when abortion should be outlawed. Perhaps personhood begins with the mother’s perception about the life growing within her

I believe in the right to life that’s why I oppose the death penalty under all circumstances yet I am not a pacifist and broadly pro choice.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Perhaps process and ethics may be a better way of explaining what I'm trying to say.

Some may describe what they view as an unethical process as unnatural.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


I suppose its a bit of chicken and egg situation.... they evolved together.


Discussing the rights and wrongs (morality) of opinions because they are all part of nature.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Everything can be a factor in evolution.
If we accept morality as part of nature which I think it is the discussion about natural and unnatural is valid and we are back at square one.

By saying that "Nature doesn't have morality" I meant that there in not a "moral force" guiding evolution.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

There's the flaw.......
If everything from nature is natural as we are part of nature that includes morality nature doesn't have morality.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


I'm not anti choice by a long shot. I am against those wherever they come from seeking to demean women.
It’s very easy to talk in the abstract at the same time reducing the individual woman's experience to that of having a crap, in fact it’s incredibly insulting.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


In a hell of a lot of countries including countries that allow a woman the right to choose it is treated as a separate being in some instances.

There is an offence called child destruction in Britain but it’s a law preventing feticide.

People describing a foetus as a parasite or blood sucker are just unaware of how the law views a foetus and they also demean the mental anguish that women go through if they have opted for a termination.


This always comes up in any of these discussions involving British and American people something missing in the debating style of those of the reformed faith from other countries. The assumption being that reformed and other faiths are in favour of unrestricted abortion, at will divorce, gay marriage and so on. This is simply not the case but never miss a chance to unfairly bash the Catholic Church. Next the conspiracy theories about having to bow the knee to Rome and nonsense about two masters and so on.

I personally would never make any concrete statement about abortion except to say that I would rather live in a place that allows it than not. I would be as opposed to abortion being used as a first line contraceptive as I would be to a total ban on it.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]


Yes I've been saying the same for a long time.

Family history is very interesting and a worthwhile thing to research.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]


Yes and cabbage genes, grass genes, mouse genes and so on.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


When will 4th July be abolished?

Travel / Collection of dress codes in Poland - what to wear? [96]


Yeah I do that as well T shirt, jeans and DMs tried and tested since 1978 no reason to change now.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


You really dont understand what you are saying, people can have the same markers but look completely different, eye and hair colour for example.


hum.utah.edu/~bbenham/2510%20Spring%2009/race%20and%20population%20genetics/Frudakis-LegitAncestryTests_Science2008.pdf

You have no evidence that you are a Khazar person you may well be but its very unlikely.


Not my opinion but the opinion of the scientific community.

You asked for support for my post I went out of my way to find something without numbers and symbols that everyone could read otherwise you would get a load of links to scientific journals.

Claiming ginger hair and almond eyes as some sort of proof of ancestry demonstrates a misunderstanding of the subject. Believe what you want just don't claim a scientific basis for that belief.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


For the purposes that 99.9% of people use it the answer is yes it is rubbish.

Two quotes
(read the full statement)


And


ashg.org/pdf/ASHGAncestryTestingStatement_FINAL.pdf

In short these tests are a racket with a "race to the bottom" in terms of price leading to reduced accuracy with no explanation of what the results mean cos they were probably written by the guy who wrote the last Sunny D advertisement.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

It took you a bit longer than normal to get onto the anti Israeli stuff with this Khazar fantasy. Your story, at a stretch is just about believable, once the Anti Israel stuff (plus dark skin etc) came in then I'm convinced it's just made up.

I wouldn't be Israel's biggest fan but I don't need a fantasy and invented history to have legitimate criticisms of the place.

Travel / Fortune Tellers/ Astrologers in Warsaw [27]

I do online astrology.

You will soon experience a dark period followed quickly by a lightening, you will be able to see things clearly. Make the most of this period because it wont last, don't be disheartened the light will return.

I can also reveal that you will soon be separated from your money

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

One million people....with all that mixing and begettin going on you choose to be a Khazar rather than something less exotic. Reminds me of the people who have that hypnotism thing and turn out to be Cleopatra not the local bottle washer.

If I were half the man my father was and so on backwards, I would be descended from giants but I'm not just bottle washers

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


This may be true but how many people are there with a royal lineage?
dgmweb.net/Ancillary/OnE/NumberAncestors.html

Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]

Some sites do offer that
A friend opened the door to have a large American straight from central casting offering his hand saying "Hi, I'm Chuck Turtle your 3rd cousin" (or some such).

I have about 50 first cousins with a shed load of kids, 90% live within a mile of two of me some live in America and England. Add in all the ones I dont know about, Da's uncles etc and I have 1000s of direct relatives. A test will tell me that I have DNA markers common to here not who I'm related to. The same markers are common all over Europe so they can only tell me that I'm probably from NW Europe not that I'm definitely from here

The point is that your family told you that you were Polish and you have some family history and stories, you would be better following a paper trail if one exists.

Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]

Pat save your money these tests cannot tell you anything significant about your family history, its not going to be CSI PF.

I can tell you now that you will have a number of markers that are common to people with your family history. They may throw in a percentage of some native North American just to spice the picture up.

What will happen is that you will be plagued by "genetic cousins" who have been given your details by the company.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


Very cleaver people created the internet and some others have made a mockery of that endeavour.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

I never heard of this Khazar crowd till I started posting here. I must be honest I’ve put it (the Idea of Jews etc) into one of the bonkers spaces of my mind.

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]


That’s bad, a good teacher is easily worth their weight in gold however you were taught after the national curriculum was brought in (that’s sort of a designated way to teach and what to teach). My history teacher just taught what he felt like or so it seemed, later it all made sense the same with most of my other teachers.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


Ah man don’t be so touchy.

Bio fuels are fuels made from any plant material, one of the biofuels called bio mass is made from woody stuff and is ideal for Poland to generate electricity. That crop you mentioned is used as is a lot of others. The impact on food prices has been negative for people mainly because of the subsidies paid see the US and Maze.

The problem with land rights in the developing world particularly Africa and SE Asia is huge as the institutionalised development agencies (World Bank for eg) are pressing for this strategy. It deprives people of their traditional land and ability to develop agriculture for local needs among other things.

Large scale monocultures are bad at almost all levels but the big developers love big projects.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


Care to explain this agenda that has griped the scientific community and who controls it?

You are arguing yourself round in ever decreasing circles by attempting to deny man made global warming.

The arguments are all well known the albedo effect, the interplay between atmosphere and oceans, tectonic events and astrological orientation all these have been delt with as part of a dynamic open system, you are just tinkering around the edges with shady talk of agendas and brainwashing. If you have a conspiracy to reveal lets hear it.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


The battle to demonstrate that the earth is warming was a long and difficult thing to do as I'm sure you know, the factors involved and their interdependencies are extremely complex.

The battle to demonstrate that it is caused by human activity has also triumphed it’s only a few who don’t accept the science. Discussing with them is like trying to get religious converts, almost pointless except that they are very well funded and fundamentally dishonest polluting the media with junk conclusions.

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The Carbon cycle is taught to children.....nothing new there

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


Care to demonstrate the conspiracy? I haven't heard of any such thing that mesmerises the scientific community as you suggest.


All agree that the earth is warming mainstream and cranks (that battle was lost), experimentation shows the warming theory to be reliable so the argument is if this warming is man made or not. Grasping at straws and tripping your self up with half truths is doing no good.

for eg, suggesting that the environment self regulates (Oceans sucking up CO2 spewed out by Volcanoes) in the way you hope is just wishful thinking. That neat idea though elegant is directly contradicted by the data so a conspiracy is the only way to explain the logical flaw.