Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Now thats What I call Qatar 48: Hijacked by the Green Conspiracy

Dear All,


I am starting to get settled back in to the qatari way of doing things. I am in the process of trying to lease a car, I have my eyes set on a renault clio, I like small cars and their alot easier to drive and park, Its cool having a Hummer or a Range but practicality wise the clio does it for me! So im in negotions with the company and hopefully they will agree to my price, i can be a hard bastard when bargaining and its something i really pride myself on. I accept in most eastern countires ill never get local rate however I always try to play the lowest western rate possible!

The draw for the champions league was made the other day and it looks promising for Man Utd, we have Roma which are my 2nd favourite team in Italy after Inter Milan, however the way Man utd are playing this season it will be hard for any team to beat them. I think Man utd must win at least 2 of the 3 tropies that are left, its going to be a REAL tense finish to the end of the year..not only in football but also fantasty football.
I am so pissed with myself, as one of the biggest gameweeks in history and I didnt make any subsitutions coupled with the fact that Arsenal and Chelsea play twice and I have all my Arsenal and Chelsea players on the subbench because they didnt play the previous week. I got so fcuked over its not funny, and basically all my hardwork for the last 7 months went down the hill over one week, its so heartwrenching.

Now about the previous entry regarding the women in Saudi, someone responded to me and because I felt it was very interesting, I will share it with you guys,

part of me, though i hate to admit is, is angered by the way the woman was dealt with. And, due to my lack of islamic education still believes to some extent that women are wrongly treated as inferior to ment eventho they are supposed to be the foundation of the future and all that, which in itself contradicts itself.. but anyway what one of the women said in your quote about islam not being modern enough and needs to update itself, she angered me so much. I dont understand how a religion, which implies divine intervention, can remain a religion if if it is meddled with and men allow themselves to make amendents as and when they please. such carelessness and arrogance defeats the purpose of religion as the words and instructions of God do not remain and this, in turn, leads to the religion being desolved to have just another theology to replace it. in such cases there is no point in religion as it will not serve its purpose.

I know im going on but I just cant put into words how rediculously preposterous i think what these ignorant people say.

Though it is hard to accept, Inequality between the sexes is inevitable despite how we try to get around it in the western world. i dont mean to sound ice aged but men and women do serve different purposed (though there are the few men who serve no purpose at all...but thats another story). if people want to adapt religion then they might as well not follow it because that means that they dont really have the faith that is required anyway. they might as well look into another religion or bocome an aitheist and live a good life anyway.

but how dare she say... All men have a Penis and our lives are pretty much ruled by it. Take away women from the equation and what happens, well Saudi happens, that's what. ? How dare she?? who is this lady and what is her position that enables her to make such sweeping judgements? she's so stupid!





Then the person decided to speak about a programe she saw the other day which was posing an alternative view of the reasons behind global warming and rise in carbon in the atmosphere. aparently, its all natural and the contributions that man makes to the levels of carbon in the atmosphere is next to nothing as the oceans produce vasts amounts of it and if we stopped emitting our carbon tomorrow there would be no impact. the world and the universe follows a certain cycle and we are scientifically at a point where the wordl is naturally getting warmer and ice caps are naturally melting and carbon levels are naturally rising. flooding and other changes in the climate has always happened and is inevitable despite our actions and things will get back to 'normal' in another few hundred years.

The reasons why politicians emphasise on us being more greener is that it is politically and economically more advantageous for the west and when they form alliances and create international laws to firstly curb fossil fuel useage and then to stop it their ulterior motive is to cripple the economies of the countries who have oil resources and make themselves, the countries who do not have an abundance of sources of oil and gas, richer. by making its population more greener they create another field in the economy where they can make profit. by advancing in green energy and solar power generation they cripple oil rich countries as they will not have to buy oil from them and force them not to sell or use it but instead buy their 'green' products. this is why they are producing all these stats to prove how the world is being ruined and pushed to and end.

And it made her convinced me that this whole go green thing might be just one big farce and me being the ultimate conspiracy lover, will always be quick to point the finger and I do think that their is a element of truth but it seems a little like its jumping on the anti-western goverment consiprircay bandwagon.

1 comment:

RV said...

Hmm, really interesting post and the last couple of ones. I would disagree with the whole religion thing, but then I'm more inclined to belive in people having things they believe in themselves and not taking somebody else's opinions and fixing them as their own.

Apart from that, all I have to say is HA! Knutsford Knights are mine! You just wait... Damn Henry for getting injured though...

Back to the more serious issues, I think the whole thing is pretty much fair enough. I don't really understand sharia law, but I think law's are really the ethical code which binds people together and is agreed upon by those who hold the power in a country (whether it be a democracy, theocracy, oligarchy or dictatorship). I don't think there is any 'right' and 'wrong' about it.

Also, I'd like to also say to the person who commented that religion implies divine intervention that it isn't strictly true: basically you either believe in an active god or passive god. An active god (ie. divine intervention) will mend the word according to his will; while a passive god will let his will be carried out through his subjects. It's only then that you get into the difficult problems of how can any god be 'ours' or 'theirs' and also whether laws are necessary if god is able to mend the world through divine intervention. But then that's the job of professional theologians and not mine.

As regards the carbon emmissions thing, it's pretty much a media issue. I wouldn't think it's a western conspiracy. I'd agree that if America didn't need the oil so much, then it wouldn't bother with the middle east as much as it does, but then you have to remember that the best way to try and stop consumption of petrol is by hiking up the prices. That's what's going on in europe, and if this was a us-conspiracy, then the taxes wouldd not be so low as they are there.