Dave's Wibblings

Dear Patrons,

I realise that most of you are sad and desperate human beings, with so little hope of sincere human contact that you have to bribe the lowest paid workers in Hong Kong to touch you in your special place.

I realise that many of you justify that with some bullshit about how you're "liberating the repressed domestic helpers", but really you're just like this: Chainsawsuit, June 30, 2009, except that you're being taken advantage of because you're paying to have your weiner touched.

I'm sure the Indonesian ladies don't mind too much: after all, they probably get a few hundred bucks out of you for little more than two minutes work for them. It's a bit more distasteful than their normal line of work, but they generally have a very solid work ethic.

Still, One of you useless fuckwits attempted to stub out his cigarette on my wife tonight and refused to apologise. An Indian or Pakistani person. And to this person I say: You will be found, photographed and humiliated in public. This process will continue until you are dead. I will find you, take humiliating photographs of you and publish them without your consent.

I am more than willing to go into that cesspool and photograph any of the desperate man and publish them on the internet. I do not care if you consider this as destructive to your marriage. If you cared about your relationship, why are you snogging domestic helpers in Laguna?

"Alan Alanson" writes in the SCMP:

The made-up debate is whether or not "God did it" ought to form part of the biology syllabus in high schools. Obviously no one really thinks that this long-abandoned medieval explanation for natural phenomena has any place beside the massive volume of actual science in a science class. But thanks to "balanced" reporting, you could be forgiven for thinking that there is a real debate on the question.

I think he's got the wrong side of the issue here as regards creationism. (He's spot on the financial reporting issue, and the whole issue of "balanced journalism".)

There is of course no real scientific debate on the merits of creationism as a science: it's little more than the ravings of religious fundamentalists trying to explain everything through their holy book. Every culture has some sort of creation myth. Even us musicians have our myths:

"First there was the Word and the Word was: ha-One-Two, ha-One-Two Three-Four: *GDANG!*"

One of my Roadie colleagues just crawled out of his dungeon and told me that his creation myth starts like:

"First there was the Word and the Word was: Testing-One-Two, Testing..."

But *ahem*, back to my rant. The issue is not that there's no serious scientific debate on this issue, but that these fundamentalists are teaching this rubbish to our children while we're laughing at their stupidity.

Creationist CD Beling a professor of Physics at HKU(!) is indoctrinating his students in secret with "Intelligent Design" (a Pseudo-scientific version of Creationism) having been banned by HKU from teaching it in class. (How the heck can someone get degrees in physics from... wait, he's got a Master of *Arts* from Oxford, but his Ph.D is from some school in London which isn't specified. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?)

Many of the "Christian" Schools (i.e. fundamentalist Protestant Schools, like the Church of Christ in China) teach creationism in their *science* classes, probably the best reason I can see to avoid them like the plague.

See, the issue here is not religion. I have no problem with people having whatever religious beliefs they want. Even missionary work is OK, as long as you are only trying to convert consenting adults who have agreed to listen to your pitch. (Going around to someone's home at dinner time and telling them they're going to Hell is just a basic lack of manners in my opinion. Also, baptising people's ancestors is fundamentally disrepectful to their memories. But I'll hold my anti-Mormon rant for another day.)

The issue here is indoctrinating children with cultish beliefs before they have a chance to develop critical thinking skills. And what teaching this nonsense does is to stunt the growth of those critical thinking skills by constant regurgitation of the following mantra:

This is too difficult to figure out. Just accept that God did it.

There are questions that science can't answer. I accept that. They may be unanswerable questions, or just things beyond our grasp until we get better tech. But if we stop asking the questions in the first place because we just accept that God did it, we will never find out the real answers.

The endpoint of Creationism is a compliant and unquestioning populace. It's an authoritarian strategy designed to crush the natural human need to question everything. It's fundamentally opposed to individual liberty and freedom and has no place in modern society. Proponents of it don't want a modern society. They want a monocultural society with no liberty. They must be opposed at all costs.