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What the Fark 3: The Strange and Unusual

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joecct said:
Isn't prison about punishment and feeling shame.
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Partly. Also about preventing a public menace from hurting others. Also it's supposed to be about rehabilitation, but I'm guessing this jackwagon will take his "philosophy" to his grave.

None of those things preclude prisoner rights. Prison is not "you hurt people so now we get to hurt you." That's retribution, not law.

Still tormented by the Erinyes, after killing his mother, Orestes finds temporary refuge at the new temple of Apollo in Delphi. As the play begins, the Pythia, Apollo's priestess, enters the temple and is shocked by a scene of horror and wonder when she finds the exhausted Orestes in the suppliant's chair, surrounded by the sleeping Furies. Although Apollo cannot protect him from the Erinyes, he has managed to at least delay them with a sleeping spell, so that Orestes can continue on to Athens under the protection of Hermes.

However, Clytemnestra’s ghost rouses the sleeping Erinyes, and urges them to continue hunting Orestes. In a haunting sequence, the Erinyes track down Orestes by following the scent of his slain mother’s blood through the forest and then through the streets of Athens. When they see him, they can even see rivulets of blood soaking the earth beneath his footsteps.

Finally surrounded again by the threatening Furies, Orestes begs Athena for help. The goddess of justice intervenes and brings in a jury of twelve Athenians to judge Orestes. Athena herself presides over the trial, instructing her citizens to watch and learn how a trial should be conducted. Apollo speaks on behalf of Orestes, while the Erinyes act as advocates for the dead Clytemnestra. When the trial votes are counted, the voting is equal, but Athena persuades the Erinyes to accept her own decision in favour of Orestes as the casting vote.

Vindicated, Orestes thanks Athena and the people of Athens, and leaves to go home to Argos, a free man and the rightful king. Athena then placates the furious Erinyes, renaming them “The Eumenides” (or “The Kindly Ones”), and ruling that they will now be honoured by the citizens of Athens.
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a.k.a., the birth of justice over vengeance

We've been fighting this part of our monkey brains for 2500 years and very s l o w l y our humanity is winning.
 
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joecct said:
Isn't prison about punishment and feeling shame.
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Yes to one, no to the other. And even in this country, you still can't be forced to endure cruel or unusual punishment, which would apply to things like extended solitary confinement.
 
Re: What the Fark 3: The Strange and Unusual

If you had a choice between
Robert E. Lee Elementary School or
Donald J. Trump Elementary School

You would pick??
 
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joecct said:
If you had a choice between
Robert E. Lee Elementary School or
Donald J. Trump Elementary School

You would pick??
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Robert E. Lee, hands down. Have you ever read about how he came to hold the post he did? He wasn't a slavers' rights supporter, more of support to the state in which he was born and raised. He commanded the South's army as a torn man, not wanting to turn from the Union and yet allied with his home state. And when the South finally lost, he called on his fellow Southerners to retire the Confederate flag to the trash heap of history. Unlike Drumpf, Lee did what he could to live as an honorable man as best he could.
 
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Meetup supposedly analyzes your existing memberships and sends notices when a group you might like is formed.

Why does Meetup think I want to play mah jong at the assisted living facility?
 
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Kepler said:
Meetup supposedly analyzes your existing memberships and sends notices when a group you might like is formed.

Why does Meetup think I want to play mah jong at the assisted living facility?
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Are you old and have a thing for NYC? Check and check.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I like Mah Jong. In fact, an ivory set in my family has been handed down to the first born for a couple generations.
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I play the solitaire version of Mah Jong that comes pre-loaded on Windows PCs. Beyond that, I've never seen a physical set.
 
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St. Clown said:
I play the solitaire version of Mah Jong that comes pre-loaded on Windows PCs. Beyond that, I've never seen a physical set.
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That's not real Mah Jong. The real version is more like Gin Rummy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong

Most sets are plastic, maybe bone if old enough. Ivory, being outlawed currently, cannot be sold or bought. But can be handed down (in the case of my family; it's a grandfathered law, from my understanding).

Real Mah Jong is a blast.
 
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