First post of 2005!
As anyone would notice, this blog is often a new article posting site rather than commentary. With each moment, with so many words produced mostly from a broadcasting or columnist's mandate to fill the scheduled release of material and from blogs and other ways that we now have to publish, I am mostly resigned to not adding more to the ocean of words, other than drawing attention to source materials, and hopefully bringing attention to the most fascinating analysis.
Moreover, seeing this report of state sanctioned beheading in Saudi Arabia seems to jump out at me. It seems necessary to take a sober look at the way our world twirls (think I should credit Meria Heller www.meria.net for the world twirls phrase), with it's ability to find ways back to the most dubious of approaches of society's attempts to enforce moral codes and punishments. Rather than reacting in horror, I would ask the reader to remember the French revolution or the hangings of the old American West.
Here's a web site somewhat randomly found by google about the history of beheading in Western Civilization:
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I don't have a whole thought here, but I think it is interesting to consider that most of us experience knowledge of human death as we live our lives. When does one accept it as natural, or purposeful, or alternatively, as barbarism? It is our intellect and emotions, that make those designations. What's the truth behind it all? Is there any?
Pakistani, Iraqi Beheaded for Drug Trafficking - from TBO.com
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