| Topic: Implanted Accessories |
KingLeo
Replies: 7
Views: 7556 |
Forum: Technology
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:59 am Subject: Implanted Accessories |
Have you ever wondered how it would feel like to have a bionic eye attached? How would it feel to have an artificial arm that would not be there because of losing the original in some accident, bu ... |
| Topic: Trends in Religion |
KingLeo
Replies: 9
Views: 9008 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:52 am Subject: Trends in Religion |
| While don’t disagree to your saying that people are being shamelessly used in the name of religion, I do think that labeling all religion as useless is just as big a mistake as playing into the hands ... |
| Topic: Cultural takeover |
KingLeo
Replies: 8
Views: 7431 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:17 pm Subject: Cultural takeover |
No I don’t mean that at all. I am sorry if you misunderstand me. The odious practices such as sati (burning the wife with the dead husband) and stoning are not the things to defend.
The values have ... |
| Topic: Cultural takeover |
KingLeo
Replies: 8
Views: 7431 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:13 pm Subject: Cultural takeover |
| It is a shame that they are giving up their culture for that of the West, keeping in mind that the West does not have the same rich culture as the Asian countries…I’m not talking of tradition, culture ... |
| Topic: VIOLENCE in our kids |
KingLeo
Replies: 17
Views: 15638 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:50 am Subject: VIOLENCE in our kids |
| You stop a child from playing a game in your house and he’ll probably go a play it at his friend’s house. What needs to be done is that parents should watch that the child doesn’t buy games that are n ... |
| Topic: VIOLENCE in our kids |
KingLeo
Replies: 17
Views: 15638 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:36 am Subject: VIOLENCE in our kids |
| In the past few days, I have seen a couple of TV programms targeted to show the steady increase in VIOLENCE in kids and teen-agers. The reason, as they put it, was that the increased exposure of child ... |
| Topic: Media...a means to spread hatred?? |
KingLeo
Replies: 3
Views: 5052 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:00 am Subject: Media...a means to spread hatred?? |
| Had it been just about making people go for your Coke rather than the other it would be acceptable, however, unfortunately media is also being used to spread hatred against other nations, communities ... |
| Topic: World Disarming? |
KingLeo
Replies: 5
Views: 5295 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:52 am Subject: World Disarming? |
| I agree that it’s not going to be an easy job, and it probably won’t happen at all, but to rule it out entirely is pessimism. Maybe in the next ten years or so when the world is more inclined towards ... |
| Topic: Genetic Engineering |
KingLeo
Replies: 8
Views: 7918 |
Forum: Technology
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:17 am Subject: Genetic Engineering |
| Assuming that such a situation arises that genetic engineering goes to such an extent, I think the only thing that can stop the takeover of such designing is Religion. People with religious values wil ... |
| Topic: Media War |
KingLeo
Replies: 6
Views: 6757 |
Forum: Movies and Books
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:39 pm Subject: Media War |
| To be very sure it is a valid point that today’s media is being used to wage a war right in the middle of our TV lounge! They feed people the news they WANT them to know and not what is really going o ... |
| Topic: Oily Economy |
KingLeo
Replies: 0
Views: 3043 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:05 pm Subject: Oily Economy |
America uses up a quarter of the World’s oil production, and (before Iraq War) possessed just 3% reserves of its own . Keeping in mind the shaky state of affairs on the Oil producing countries in t ... |
| Topic: Terrorism and Islam? |
KingLeo
Replies: 0
Views: 3223 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:02 pm Subject: Terrorism and Islam? |
| It’s a real pity that people have taken liberties with a religion like Islam, and gone on to link it with the wave of terrorism engulfing our world. To show the irony of it all, the word ‘Islam’ origi ... |
| Topic: Terrorism |
KingLeo
Replies: 5
Views: 4998 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 6:58 pm Subject: Terrorism |
| First of all I would like to clarify that it is an Islamic teaching to obey the laws of the country you live in (be it the land of your origin, or otherwise). To be involved in illegal activities or a ... |
| Topic: Equality of Sexes |
KingLeo
Replies: 0
Views: 3330 |
Forum: Society
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 6:55 pm Subject: Equality of Sexes |
In the new Millennium, the women’s role being restricted to that of a slave is something to be looked into.
It is considered a practice in the East that women are supposedly inferior to men. Hindu re ... |