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Reply to Darwin vs. Creationism in Religion JoeUser Forums

"Isn't God a theory? What's wrong with stating that?" No, God is not a theory. It is a hypothesis , which tries to explain the world just like relativity was initially a hypotheisis attempting to explain the nature of space & time. However, the crucial difference is that relativity has stood the test of scientific rigor. Its predictions have been confirmed by experiments to an amazing degree of accuracy and thats why it has been accepted as a

Black- Triumph of mind over matter in Misc JoeUser Forums

Black, the color of darkness, is the story of a girl whose life is defined by darkness. The main protagonist in this latest masterpiece from the very gifted indian director Sanjay Bhansali is a deaf and blind girl, Michelle, who is struggling to establish an identity for herself in a world which is not built for her strengths. Helping her in this struggle is an eccent

Reply to Promiscuity does NOT equal independence. in Misc JoeUser Forums

"Advertisers wouldn't use it so much if it didn't work so well. So that means the consumer has some complicity here. " It works well because there is a built-in audience for such stuff and that audience happens to be the hormone charged young male or female(like some people in this forum).. It is just like a built-in audience for the sequel to a successful movie. Whoever liked the movie will sure go for a sequel even though the sequel is ve

Reply to Promiscuity does NOT equal independence. in Misc JoeUser Forums

Nothing sells better than Sex. You want to sell an ice-cream, show half-clad women eating ice-cream and dancing suggestively on TV. More likely than not you will sell more ice-cream. Mags like Cosmo are following this simple principal, nothing more. You are naive if you think they are serving any high social or moral goal by publishing their mag. Their sole purpose is to get their mags out of the shelf and they will do anything within the fuzzy boundar

Racial slurs by american RJs in Misc JoeUser Forums

Has american airwaves gone to the dogs? Seriously, what is happening over here? Just when I thought american popular media has hit its nadir, it manages to dig deeper and find another low. Following closely on the heels of a racial abuse towards an indian call-centre worker by a "very popular" RJ, Star and Bucwild, there comes an even worse example of racial abuse b

PhD blues in Misc JoeUser Forums

After 3 years of toiling for a PhD degree I have begun to question the worth of all the investments & sacrifices I have made. I had decided to pursue a PhD in the hope of doing something exciting and intellectually fulfilling, but have realized that an academic job is, most of the time , just like any other job. Most of the work you do is just for staying in the job.