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🔗 Religion, agnostics, and the cure for baldness | The Smirking Chimp

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But this sort of thinking is exactly what most agnostics find ridiculous about religion and religious people, who seem incapable of looking at the world unless it’s through the prism of some kind of belief system. They seem to think that if one doesn’t believe in God, one must believe in something else, because to live without answers would be intolerable. And maybe that’s true of the humorless Richard Dawkins, who does seem actually to have tried to turn atheism into a kind of religion unto itself. But there are plenty of other people who are simply comfortable not knowing the answers. It always seemed weird to me that this quality of not needing an explanation and just being cool with what few answers we …

🔗 Egyptian Journalist experiences police state first hand at May 4 anti-Mubarak demo | Menassat

The rest of the time we listened to a bored police station employee (his exact job was unclear) hold forth on the press (“I read all the papers but trust [independent daily] El-Masry El-Youm most”) and press criticism of police violations (“Nobody is above criticism. Even doctors make mistakes and should be held to account”).

🔗 Inanities: Obscenity

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Every new crisis, every new tragedy in Egypt is a reprieve, a fresh start, another chance to put things right. It's never taken. Things are always and inevitably ballsed up, and back we are dragged to zero.

🔗 بعد أن خلعته شاهندة .. صورة جديدة بدون الحجاب - بوابة الشروق

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فى الأيام الأولى، فكرت شاهندة أن تعاود ارتداء الحجاب لتتجنب ردود الأفعال تلك، ولكنها الآن تقول إنها لا يمكن أبدا أن تندم على هذا القرار، هى تشعر الآن أنها متسقة مع نفسها. وما واجهته كانت ستواجهه على أى حال، وكانت بالفعل تواجه بعضه من قبل؛ لأنها اختارت ألا تكون مطيعة لذلك «النظام» الذى يفرض على المرأة إما الخضوع التام أو التحايل والتواؤم والحلول الوسط.