Qlogged

Nage No Waza

2009-08-04T10:33:00.000-07:00

A listing of throws with demonstrations.

Dai Ikkyo (1st Group)

1. Deashi Harai (Advancing Foot Sweep)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePA98nRc3c
2. Hiza Guruma (Knee Wheel)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrSEH0tt-w
3. Sasae Tsurikomi Ashi (Blocking Lifting Pulling Foot)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVeE2mcOin0
4. Uki Goshi (Floating Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFXK9plNIss
5. Osoto Gari (Large Outer Reap)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEuH_zk9k9o
6. O Goshi (Large Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmSML5kb65w
7. Ouchi Gari (Large Inner Reap)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VTtPSlkHVo
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-3tluVAbvA
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA33Fn9M4Rs
8. Seoi Nage (Shoulder Throw)
      Ippon Seoi Nage (One Shoulder Throw)
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhn5O59JCJc
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Akf5zcgmzA (Setup)
      Morote Seoi Nage (Both Hand Shoulder Throw)
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_oOqgaUjbw
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mTydPEm6Nc
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQQh8U6Nl_8 (Drop)

Dai Nikkyo (2nd Group)
1. Kosoto Gari (Small Outside Reap)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQh71BOdY5Y
2. Kouchi Gari (Small Inner Reap)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAofkme1XB8
3. Koshi Guruma (Hip Wheel)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPKYU0bvyEk
4: Tsurikomi Goshi (Lifting Pulling Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoipL2RjF6I
5. Okuriashi Harai (Sliding Foot Sweep)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drxYBZCFXRs
6. Tai Otoshi (Body Drop)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ9EGSkcXnE
7. Harai Goshi (Sweeping Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDrQA1Z0EgQ
8. Uchi Mata (Inside Thigh)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4T5rXyCQvs
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMl8Ic0p3Lk

Sankyo (3rd Group)
1. Kosoto Gake (Small Outer Hook)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Qx_Z_-iLg
2. Tsuri Goshi (Lifting Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWr-davxQs8
3. Yoko Otoshi (Side Drop)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PELgzOt-Dus
4. Ashi Guruma (Leg Wheel)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaPWAj5aLDs
5. Hane Goshi (Springing Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_slrZpNgQg
6. Harai Tsurikomi Ashi (Sweeping Lifting Pulling Foot)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqTWxrHzaWI
7. Tomoe Nage (Circle Throw)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccuY_XG9hpo
8. Kata Guruma (Shoulder Wheel)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oim0dI0mSw

Yonkyo (4th Group)
1. Sumi Gaeshi (Corner Reversal)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoicO7gv0XM
2. Tani Otoshi (Valley Drop)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5fkuulayXI
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqXZJ-xj6t4
3. Hane Makikomi (Springing Wraparound)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3JqEvlSmaA
4. Sukui Nage (Scooping Throw)
      Traditional: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_pDUcoxIyU
      Frontal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pva9gBV0Edo
5. Utsuri Goshi (Changing Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDEBNz1hAHA
6. Oguruma (Large Wheel)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDMhpsubSWU
7. Soto Makikomi (Outer Wraparound)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DElPEub1YE
8. Uki Otoshi (Floating Drop)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n0obBnZlOQ

Gokyo (5th Group)
1. Osoto Guruma (Large Outer Wheel)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhaS_7sIhc
2. Uki Waza (Floating Technique)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_h4_Ds8-nI
3. Yoko Wakare (Side Separation)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAmqqkhC4T0
4. Yoko Guruma (Side Wheel)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-YIkRYxvU
5. Ushiro Goshi (Rear Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJkLrQMEpQ
6. Ura Nage (Back Throw)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji8Lp7V5tlA
7. Sumi Otoshi (Corner Drop)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD_coPjh5m8
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXwN34tGpjA
8. Yoko Gake (Side Hook)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvlsuwt7G74

Habukareta Waza (1895 Gokyo no Waza Techniques)
1. Obi Otoshi (Belt Drop)
      http://judoinfo.com/images/animations/blue/obiotoshi.htm
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbMxPiETYEM
2. Seoi Otoshi (Shoulder Drop)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zdMTWvF37w
3. Yama Arashi (Mountain Storm)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHePzoviPaE
4. Osoto Otoshi (Large Outside Drop)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqiktaCePNM
5. Daki Wakare (High Separation)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVyUa0nBKk8
6. Hikikome Gaeshi (Pulling-in Reversal)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wng6z6dsvTs
7. Tawara Gaeshi (Rice-bag Reversal)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0Y0SOU9fs
8. Uchi Makikomi (Inside Wraparound)
      http://judoinfo.com/images/animations/blue/uchimakikomi.htm

Shinmeisho No Waza (Newly Accepted Techniques)
Morote Gari (Both Hand Reap)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVA9o4IXN5U
Kibisu Gaeshi (Heel Reversal)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtoJ9lx0hR4
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIRwdkf6XJ8
Daki Age (High Lift)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToI7sxt4DnY
Kouchi Gaeshi (Small Inner Reversal)
      http://judoinfo.com/images/animations/KOUCHI-GAESHI.gif
Osoto Gaeshi (Large Outer Reversal)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pEriF8OHlI
Uchi Mata Gaeshi (Inside Thigh Reversal)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvEbBC9569I
Kani Basami (Crab Scissors)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ikof1hzBMY
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdgORVpaYs
Kawazu Gake (Frog Hook)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkltS70yzg
Uchi Mata Makikomi (Inside Thigh Wraparound)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGzHiHNPQI
Kuchiki Taoshi (Dead Tree Drop)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8KARTa5ot0
Uchi Mata Sukashi (Inner Thigh Avoidance)
      http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdr6_uchimatasukashi
Tsubame Gaeshi (Swallow Reversal)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKHkAryT-Do
Ouchi Gaeshi (Large Inner Reversal)
      http://judoinfo.com/images/animations/ouchigaeshi.gif
Harai Goshi Gaeshi (Sweeping Hip Reversal)
      http://www.greenbankjudoclub.co.uk/Harai-goshi-gaeshi.html
Hane Goshi Gaeshi (Springing Hip Reversal)
      http://www.tenrijudo.com/jjrs/Techniques/Counters/For%20Hane-Goshi/Hane-Goshi-Gaeshi.htm
Osoto Makikomi (Large Outer Wraparound)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPFq3cRKCe0
Harai Makikomi (Sweeping Wraparound)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZAhBDHUkvQ
Sode Tsurikomi Goshi (Sleeve Lifting Pulling Hip)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDIM87lBME
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCKaJMIjmA

Additional Techniques and Links
Kouchi (Gake) Makikomi (Small Inner Hook Wraparound)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag5XNh8JbYE
Osoto Gari into Ouchi Gari
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri9TLbU6W3E
Kouchi Gari into Harai Goshi:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vlG3co49HM
26 Quick Techniques Displayed
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnM6WCMjekc
67 Throws of the Kodokan
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSwW7YRwvRk (Part 1)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geFk9opS_q8 (Part 2)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOYKwp5HzQ (Part 3)

Nage No Kata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ABcOMjKF1U

Eugenics?

2009-02-02T11:15:00.000-08:00

First, wash that bitter taste out of your mouth that the mere mention of that word seems to instill in everyone.

Not only are we ALREADY doing it, we've been doing it for thousands of years with arranged marriages, culling unwanted or undesirable children and parents, and imprisoning people we don't want to breed anymore because they are criminals.

Sure we haven't called it eugenics, but it has had the same effect. Countless numbers of daughters, sons unfit to work hard, mentally damaged children, physically undesirable children, or simply unwanted children have been terminated as infants over the last few thousand years. At the most basic level we are all participating in eugenics if we are able to choose our own mate. Consciously or subconsciously choices are being made that will affect the genetic disposition of any offspring.

In more modern times, however, we have more advanced techniques available. Clearly there is a certain point where almost everyone will draw a philosophical line and say, "That's not right." Where is that line?

Just for curiosity, consider a few scenarios listed below and see what you think.

1. Jill and Bob discover that Jill is infertile but they still want to have a baby and they have plenty of money and access to medical facilities. They put out several advertisements that they are seeking an egg donor, including,

"Seeking egg donor, must be at least 5'10", athletic, attractive, and have at least a 1400 score on SAT."

They're happy to pay for anyone who meets these qualifications to obtain the egg they want. Is this acceptable? Would it be acceptable to request the same sort of qualifications if it was a sperm donor?

Is it also okay for them to also request that the donor be blonde and white skinned?

2. Dan and Liz discover that Dan is infertile and still wanting to have children decide to use a sperm donor. Dan and Liz are African American and would very much prefer to have a black sperm donor over any other ethnicity. Is this preference acceptable?

3. Another infertile couple, Lucy and Bill are in need of a sperm donor. Both Lucy and Bill are deaf and they are proud of it and don't see it as a disability. Is it okay for them to request a deaf donor and then choose from amongst the donated genetic material to guarantee that they have a deaf offspring?

4. Lily and Gene both have achondroplasia, both are under 4 feet in height. They are both fertile and will have no problem producing children, but there is no guarantee that their children will share a similar stature. They are proud of their culture and do not feel that their height is in any way a disability and want to share this with any children they have. With medical selection of donated genetic material from each of them, they can choose to create an embryo that will share their stature. Should we use medical technology to make this possible?

5. Niobh and Jeff really want to have a boy, clearly we have the technology to make this happen, we don't even have to sort through embryos, sperm can simply be sorted into X and Y batches by weight avoiding the entire issue of choosing one embryo and discarding others. Is it appropriate to allow this sort of selection?

6. Judith is married to Dan and they want to have a baby. Judith's brother has Down Syndrome and growing up with her brother she felt was one of the sweetest and most enriching experiences of her life. She also felt that raising a special needs child really helped her parents to grow as people and she had run it by Dan and they both think it would be a great experience to raise a special needs child of their own. Should they be allowed to intentionally have a Down Syndrome child?

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Clearly some people will find these scenarios bizarre or even offensive, I have submitted them to be thought provoking, not to cause offense to anyone. However, if you are offended, tough shit, get a thicker skin, I'm more interested in philosophy than in pandering to peoples' tender sensibilities, just keep in mind that my goal was never to intentionally offend anyone.

Newest Greatest Thing Ever

2009-01-22T09:15:00.000-08:00

This doll is the meaning of "Shock and Awe". Now we need a few terrorist dolls for Obama to carve up with his lightsaber.

Think of the possibilities if you had one of these! You could dress it up as Jesus for a nativity scene, put it all in green for Saint Patrick's Day and bill him as O'bama the Irish president, or even turn him into secret agent 001 ObamaBond!

Needless to say, if this isn't the toy of election year 2009, it should be.

Alaska's Vote!

2008-11-06T15:15:00.001-08:00

I liked this

2008-10-07T16:49:00.001-07:00

So much, that I'm linking it here, even though it isn't my work, just stolen off the internet.

The NATO Alphabet

2008-07-17T15:13:00.000-07:00

I was thinking that someone surely must already have made a NATO Alphabet poster with correlated pictures, and I would just grab it from the internet and print it out for entertainment.

Strangely, I couldn't immediately find one on the internet, and thus thought to myself, this sounds like a good topic for another weird blog post!

So...here is my attempt at a NATO Alphabet poster. This was for the most part generated by simply typing in the word in question into google and choosing the most interesting or ironic image that came up.

If you want a somewhat sharper image, click the poster to expand it to full size.

The Genius of Günther

2008-07-09T12:19:00.000-07:00

I feel that the genius of the swedish artist Günther isn't fully appreciated by many, and thusly I will propose for your consideration, the following Günther videos.
I want you to listen very closely to the lyrics contained therein for his secret wisdom and observe the environs in which he constantly finds himself.

The man must be doing something right (with the possible exception of the xmas special). The xmas special I really only post for Toki, and likely, if she weren't already unspeakably revolted by the content of my blog it would reduce her opinion of it.

Just as a first warning, it isn't always prudent to try to assimilate all of the wisdom of Günther in one sitting, it might be best to enjoy one of his videos, sit back, digest its deeper meaning, and then return later when you are ready to add a fresh pearl of wisdom to your necklace.

His most famous video, is probably this one, and it has spawned an entire generation of internet imitators and thieves:

While I wasn't sure the of the perfection of this next one at first, since the tagline is ola ola, rata rata ra, which simply didn't seem catchy enough to me, it clearly is a pearl of sacred wisdom after watching it:

Anyone who can get Samantha Fox to sing along with them has to be doing something right, the original is remastered here with Günther in what may be the apotheosis of his career, only time will tell.

This next one is pretty special, I think it really captures the modern xmas spirit and will be a particular favorite of Toki, if she hasn't already closed this browser window and deleted my blog from her list:

I like this one because it is about fruit, and fruit is good, it keeps you healthy and tastes nice.

Finally, this video is a masterpiece of synchronized, choreographic dancing accompanied by the usual deep and powerful lyrics that really bring meaning to our lives.

That's it for this Günther roundup, maybe I'll stylize myself as Günther for Halloween this year!

I feel as if I have somehow cheated people on this post, since I'm mostly just linking stuff that is already out there and available instead of creating something that is my own work, but I felt the need to share the incredible phenomenon that is Günther with everyone.

P.S. Covering your face with vaseline is excellent weather protection in addition to making you look startlingly attractive and Günther-like!

Quotes of the Bizarre

2008-06-03T10:04:00.001-07:00

I don't want to precede these quotes with too much explanation, as it takes away from their power of bizarreness. All I will say is that none of them actually meant what they seem to mean when taken out of context like this. These all come from a coworker speaking without thinking of the double entendre present in his statements about our work.

♠ I'm going to stretch a bit, then we'll change genders.

♣ This stripper is really aggravating me.

♦ These females aren't working right, they aren't accommodating enough.

♥ I don't like fancy strippers, I prefer the old fashioned kind.

♀ We need to get these five females taken care of first.

♂ No, this isn't right, someone used a male here instead of a female.

☺ Thankfully, this is the last female, I need to get up and stretch.

☻ I've accidentally made it halfway through some females before.

۞ Do not slit nipples, use lubricant.

∩ Look at this thing and flip up the female, when you mate them up, they go like this.

► Should I make sure you have a female body before I go?

◄ If you look at a female, it would be the backside of a male right?

▼ You're about to lose your strippers!

♪ I brought these because they take the lube off.

▲ The way they did it was...they put a nipple through the wall.

┼ I'm going to walk over and get the females we need. I need two...

♫ I stripped down Susie yesterday.

People say the strangest things.

P.S. It can be hard to tell on the small pictures, but I did mosaic out nipples to protect the innocent! Honest. Although I of course had to look at them closely during this process.

Hello Kitty Online

2008-03-20T10:16:00.000-07:00

I am completely unable to fathom why anyone would want to play this game.

Hello Kitty Online

However, I have been informed by a friend that it in fact has a broad appeal, even among older women.

The average MMO has a demographic that includes 50% males playing male characters, 35% males playing female characters, and 15% females playing female characters, and some insignificant percentage of females playing male characters (apparently it is a gross betrayal of their gender to play an in-game character of the opposite gender *shrug*).

Hello Kitty Online, however, stands at the ready to break this mold with a demographic apparently including 60% adolescent girls playing female characters, 35% older women playing adolescent female characters, and 5% male pedophiles playing adolescent female or male characters. I can't even imagine the horror of voice-chat in such a game, an armada of giggling teenage girls, giggle women pretending to be girls, and giggling pedophiles claiming their microphone doesn't work...

Incidentally, the friend I have who will be playing this game is neither a pedophile (that I know of, although she does look at photos of her husband when he was REALLY young *muses*), nor a adolescent girl.

All of this being said, I hope the fans of Hello Kitty Online who have been waiting impatiently for its release have a delightful time playing the game and that it measures up to all of their expectations.

I think I'll wait for Warhammer Online.

Hopefully she'll still speak to me after this post.

The Merry Marmot Festival

2008-03-14T10:47:00.000-07:00

Someone I know is going to the Merry Marmot Festival (don't ask me what this is, I don't know), but it inspired me to put this on his cubicle until his return.

A friend of mine had never seen the Anabuki.co.jp commercial. Thusly, I'm including that here for those of you who have missed out on this treasure of japanese culture. This may or may not be related to the Merry Marmot festival, since I don't know what makes the marmots merry or how they behave at the festival, perhaps they have enlarged genitals and dance?

No Improvement Possible

2008-02-12T10:29:00.001-08:00

I submit the following link without any additional frippery or mocking required. These products speak for themselves I think.

Lookin Good for Jesus

I need some Jesus Sparkle Cream.

Anypoems

2008-02-07T07:47:00.000-08:00

Likely you have all heard this poem before. I recalled it recently when someone asked me a question and I quoted a line of it resulting in a blank stare from the recipient of my declamation.

Searching for the poem online I discovered that there were several versions of this poem, and I also found another very like it.

The only way I felt these classic poems could be improved in this day and age was to festoon them with tasteless animated graphics and spice them up with color!

Most people seem to agree that Charles Osgood was the progenitor of this poem about four people, Anybody, Everybody, Somebody and Nobody.

There was a most important job that needed to be done,
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly will it be who'll carry out the task?

Anybody could have told you that everybody knew
That this was something somebody would surely have to do.
Nobody was unwilling; anybody had the ability.
But nobody believed that it was their responsibility.

It seemed to be a job that anybody could have done,
If anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since everybody recognised that anybody could,
Everybody took for granted that somebody would.

But nobody told anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And nobody took it on himself to follow through,
And do what everybody thought that somebody would do.

When what everybody needed so did not get done at all,
Everybody was complaining that somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And everybody looked around for somebody to blame.

Somebody should have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.

The other one I recalled while searching for the above gem was this one by Edward Estlin Cummings.

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

Ethics

2008-01-25T10:19:00.000-08:00

Some of you have probably seen questions similar to these before, they're not an uncommon field in psychology, but still a curiousity. Likely some of the few people who come to this site will never come again after this list of questions.

Question 1
A. You and a team of five other laborers are doing maintenance work on an old, narrow subway track junction. You are teamed up with Fat Bob down tunnel number 1, working on the magneto-electric switch mechanism that toggles incoming trains between the tracks. The other workers are in tunnel number 2.

Although the track is supposed to be shut down you look up and see a bright light accompanied by the rumbling sound of an approaching train.

Currently, the tracks are switched to send the train down tunnel number 2, which will kill the other four laborers (the track is too narrow for them to evade the train).

You can toggle the lever and switch the train to track number 1, however, the tunnel is narrow enough it will almost certainly kill Fat Bob as he won't be able to hug the wall like you can to survive.

Do you flip the lever?

B. If you decided to flip the lever, you have discovered that the lever doesn't work. However, you know the tracks are switched by a connecting electric current between them, and if you push Fat Bob (who is paralyzed with fear currently) onto the track, he will bridge the circuit and toggle the track over to tunnel 1. Of course, if he isn't killed by the electric current, the subway will surely get him, but the other laborers would be saved.

Do you push Fat Bob onto the track?

C. There isn't enough room for you to squeeze against the wall and survive, switching the train will kill both you and Fat Bob.

Would you switch the train to save four others?

D. The group of 4 laborers who are down Tunnel 2 are all violent, degenerate criminals, you and Fat Bob are here supervising their work and keeping track of the chain-gang.

Would this change any of your decisions?

Question 2
A. Jill is a college senior who decides she wants to take a trip to Amsterdam for Spring Break to meet up with her one-year older brother Bob (not Fat Bob) whom she hasn't seen since she was 12.

They visit together and have a great time catching up on everything that has happened to both of them in the intervening 10 years.

When it's time to call it a night Jill asks Bob if he wants to come up to her Hotel room instead of heading home across town; Bob accepts.

Jill and Bob decide they want to have sex, Jill is on birth control, but just to be safe, Bob also uses a condom.

Is this wrong? Why?

B. You are Jill's friend from college and are taking the trip to Amsterdam with her. You sit through the dinner at the restaurant, which is strangely uncomfortable, and towards the end you hear Jill and Bob discussing what sounds like plans for a sexual tryst.

What do you do about it? If anything?

Question 2.5
A. Jill and Bob are a happily married couple with a healthy 5 year old son. You are Jill's friend back from her college days and you still visit every couple of months. While preparing a present for Jill's mother (you work in the genealogy field) you have discovered that Jill and Bob, unbeknownst to them, are brother and sister, separated at birth.

What do you do?

B. Jill and Bob have no children, Jill had to have a hysterectomy just after high school and can never have children. You make the same discovery as scenario 2.5-A.

What do you do?

Question 3
A. The Munji family lives in somewhat rural Nebraska, and has a fine, large, healthy dog named Biscuit. There are two sons and a daughter in the family, ages 12, 10, and 8 years old. The family isn't wealthy, but they do have a somewhat prosperous small farm that they operate together and they don't really ever have to do without.

One day Biscuit offends the farm's bull overmuch and is kicked in the head and killed.

The family is very saddened by the loss of Biscuit.

Is it okay for them to safely prepare and eat the remains of Biscuit?

B. The Munji family remains the same, except they live in a turbulent and impoverished part of Africa and frequently must go weeks at a time with little or no food. Their belief system precludes them from killing their one scrawny cow or their dog Biscuit (in their native language).

One day the cow steps on Biscuit while Biscuit is sleeping and kills Biscuit.

Is it okay for this Munji family to eat Biscuit?

C. The same Munji family as B is no longer precluded from killing their livestock by a belief system. The cow, although scrawny, still produces some milk while Biscuit doesn't really do much of anything besides provide companionship.

Should the Munji family kill and eat the cow, Biscuit, or neither?

Anyone else have any good ethical brain twisters?

How did?

2007-10-10T08:54:00.000-07:00

I've seen the topic of science versus religion or evolution versus creation discussed more times than I could shake a giraffe at.

So many people like to dichotomize this discussion between only two choices, when there are really so many postulated explanations that it probably would be impossible to list them all.

I've listed somewhat in order of popularity, some of the possible options proposed by other humans and have still left out a nearly countless number, almost all of which disagree with each other.

1) A great and omnipotent sky-god created everything we know in a few days, placed two people of opposite gender in a magical garden and warned them, "Whatever you do, don't be naughty!" (this works very well on teenage boys and girls placed together by themselves, naked, in a garden, try it).

2) A great and omnipotent sky-god created everything we know in a few days, but NOT YOUR sky-god number 1, and if you suggest they are the same I'll $#&^ing KILL YOu!!! At first, everything was like smoke, but that sucked, so he turned it all into what we have today and created a bunch of critters and other celestial objects to make things more interesting. Then he put the same naked coeds as sky-god from number 1, BUT DON'T SUGGEST THEY ARE THE SAME GOD OR I'LL KILL YOU! into the garden again and warned them, "Don't be naughty!"

3) A god of three aspects, the creator, the sustainer, and the destroyer has both created and is within all of his creations in the entire universe which was generated from a golden embryo or golden womb (presumably a giant one). Some also believe that this may have been accomplished through the sacrifice of the primaeval cosmic male. Perhaps it's a combination of both.

4) No observable beginning, continue examining hard evidence available, such as subatomic particles, light, galactic spin, etc, and try to form some reasonable conjectures about the perceived beginning. Life as we know it, has slowly evolved over many billions of years as demonstrated by observable and linkable fossil record where no system is irreducibly complex, including humans themselves.

5) An ultra-powerful dictator of a galactic conferederacy brought billions of his people to earth 75 million years ago in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes, and killed them using hydrogen bombs. The essences of these spirits remain and drive humans to do everything they do today. We must purge ourselves of these vile alien spirits that drive us to do bizarre things! Oh...and psychologists need to all %&*#ing die.

6) In a universe full of chaos the earth as a female entity was given birth from the chaos, as were The Underworld, Desire, and Darkness. The female earth entity then brought forth an equal in the form of the sky to keep her company and cover her, as well as the seas. From the union of this great female and the sky creature sprung forth all the other things that have come into being.

(I love this left picture, I need to find out where it came from!)

7) A very tricky raven stole light and water from a rich man (where did he exist?) which was used to fuel the moon and stars and heavens and rivers. He then made the winds, the races, and dogs, who are humans cursed to walk on all fours.

Clearly, I have my own preferences on which explanation I'm most satisfied with, but to each's own.

The blue car zoomed through the neighborhood, probably faster than it needed to and nearly knocked over the "Garage Sale" sign posted by the side of the road.

"Sweet mother of buttermilk!" exclaimed Jim, "Oompa Loompas must yet again be at work distributing those "Garage Sale" signs all over town!"

"Why would you think it was Oompa Loompas?" queried Jane.

"Well, have you ever seen anyone actually out there putting out a sign? They just mysteriously appear and disappear each day, only Oompa Loompas could accomplish such a feat" explained Jim.

"Hmmm...I don't think it was Oompa Loompas, I think it was one of the people in the neighborhood, we just didn't see it happen. I've seen people posting other signs before, just not "Garage Sale" ones." postulated Jane.

"Well, if you've never seen anyone actually putting one up, you cannot prove it WASN'T Oompa Loompas, and that sign certainly didn't just spring up out of the ground on it's own! Therefore, it must have been Oompa Loompas. Besides, lot's of other people believe it was the Oompa Loompas."

"Like who?" asked Jane.

"Like Peter! He read a book once that suggested that since time before time Oompa Loompas have been stalking the earth and putting up "Garage Sale" signs to trick humans into putting out quantities of junk for other humans to paw through. He also met a man who tells such stories once a week, in the mornings, in a special building where people gather JUST to listen to Oompa Loompa stories."

"Oh." said Jane.

Illegal Immigrants

2007-09-26T08:58:00.000-07:00

So much concern over illegal immigration and hidden tunnels in Arizona these days! We wouldn't have to worry about finding all these hidden immigration and drug trafficking tunnels if modern illegal immigrants weren't such cowards!

The Evil of Toki Knows Few Bounds

2007-06-29T08:39:00.000-07:00

My roommate and I once
Cut icicles off of the roof of my house with a two-handed
broadsword.

Never in my life have I
What kind of question is this!? Fine...never in my life have I manually electrocuted two unicorns engaged in the act of sodomy. You could answer almost anything to this question!

When I'm nervous:
I'm silent.

My Hair

When I was 5
I fed my little girl friend a fresh, ripe cayenne pepper from a bush by telling her it was a baby carrot.

When I turn my head left
Random_Deity_01 kills a kitten.

I should be:
In charge, just picture how interesting that would be.

By this time next year:

My favorite ant is:
The trapjaw ant, they're very nifty!

I have a hard time understanding:

Religion, and the people who follow/espouse it.

"Faith" means the will to avoid knowing what is true. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You know I like you if: I bother to argue with you about something.

My ideal breakfast is:
Bangers and Mash!

If you visit my home town:
If this is where I was born, you'll probably drive through it and hardly even notice there is a town there. It's about 500 people on 400 square miles.

If you spend the night at my house:
You would probably be happiest sleeping in the boat, so the crying children don't awaken you (Catalina 22).

My favorite blonde is:

My blood elf paladin.

My favorite brunette is: Zhang Ziyi

The animal I would like to see flying besides birds:
Whales! Although don't stand under them.

I shouldn't have been:
So mean to other people in high school whose flaws I probably perceived as greater than they really were (maybe).

Last night I:
Was tired and hungry from my bike ride home but played warcraft anyway.
A better name for me would be:
Θoatwarbler Ωgrove Λerioφteryx Totanrωtbearüng LCXXVII
Maybe I'll stick with just Q.

If I could have any car, it would be:
A 3 or 4 person recumbent bicycle tandem contained within the shape of a convertible, carbon fiber framed volkswagon bug.

The Power of Lemon!

2007-06-22T15:05:00.000-07:00

Nobody ever said my posts had to make sense.

Donkey Kill Points

2007-06-06T07:49:00.001-07:00

Sometimes it's more fun to kill off the donkeys on your own team than the dragons of the world.

Completely unrelated but also of interest for those who are followers of The Golden Compass:

Transmogrification Inc.

2007-05-09T11:08:00.000-07:00

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(clearly all quotes are complete fabrications, should anyone have questioned otherwise)

Smells Like Angel

2007-05-02T09:54:00.000-07:00

So, yesterday whilst in her normal daily travels, my wife took our month old daughter with her. She encountered a stranger, who informed her that our daughter was still so recently birthed that she could, "Still smell the Angel on her!"

It's fortunate I wasn't there, I wouldn't have been able to resist saying, "Angels smell like vagina!?"

Perhaps I would have been able to resist, but having just witnessed the birth, I have to say, when a baby pops out, the materials it is covered with do not immediately remind me of Angels, unless of course Angels are actually somehow connected to birthing fluids.

Perhaps Angels only guard vaginas, protect them from danger, and cover babies with their scent when the baby emerges?

Concupiscence

2007-04-25T16:08:00.000-07:00

A friend of ours is constantly threatening her significant other with the dire sentence of Sleeping On The Couch With The Cats. While the true horror of this may not be at first comprehended, it is indeed an unspeakable fate, as evinced by the prurient cats that dwell within their household.

2007-04-25T09:19:00.000-07:00

And lo' on the barren surface of the shattered moon Rodephagia IV, Darth Sciurus Vulgaris met his nemesis and brother Knight Sciurus Carolinensis, whom he had betrayed on his path to the dark side.

The fighting was unspeakable, hissing blows of their sabers exchanged over and over as fizzling sparks sprayed into the soft, grey dust and tracks of their footprints bore witness to the fury of their exchange.

Finally with a sudden rush of his evil power, Vulgaris hurled Carolinensis to the ground and plunged his carmine blade through the furry chest of the warrior he had once called brother whilst squealing his exultation to the stars.