Alexander Aan (born 1981) is an
Indonesian atheist and ex-Muslim of Minang descent. He was
imprisoned in 2012 for posting comments and images to Facebook
that were judged to be "disseminating information aimed at
inciting religious hatred or hostility" by the Muaro Sijunjung
district court. The sentence sparked national debate and caused
Amnesty International to designate him a prisoner of conscience.
Contents
Prior to his arrest, Alexander was a
civil servant in the Pulau Punjung sub district of West Sumatra
province. Though he had been raised as a Muslim, Alexander raised
doubts about God by age 11,and stopped participating in religious
rituals in 2008.
In January 2012, he posted to an atheist Facebook group he had
joined, stating that God did not exist. His post asked, "If God
exists, why do bad things happen? ... There should only be good
things if God is merciful."
He declared heaven, hell, angels, and devils to be "myths".
He also posted an article describing Mohammad as "attracted to his
daughter-in-law".
The posts were seen by the
Indonesian Council of Ulema, who reported him to the police for
blasphemy. On 18 January, an angry mob attacked Alexander on his
way to work, causing police to take him into protective custody.
Two days later, he was charged with
"disseminating information aimed at inciting religious hatred or
hostility", "religious blasphemy", and "calling for others to
embrace atheism".
The district police chief also stated that Alexander had lied on
his application for his government job, claiming to be Muslim.
On 14 June, the Muaro Sijunjung district court found Alexander
guilty of "disseminating information aimed at inciting religious
hatred or hostility" and sentenced him to two and a half years'
imprisonment and a fine of 100 million rupiah (US$10,600). The
charges of religious blasphemy and "calling for others to embrace
atheism" were dropped.
During the sentencing, the presiding judge described
Alexander's actions as having "caused anxiety to the community and
tarnished Islam".] On 31 January 2014, Aan was released from
prison.
Reactions
Alexander's arrest caused "outrage" among
both domestic and international religious freedom activists, and
several petitions were circulated calling for his release.
Setara Institute director Hendardi described the requested
sentence as "excessive", a demonstration of "the arbitrariness of
the law and law enforcement officials", and a violation of the
International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, to which Indonesia is a signatory.
Amnesty International responded by designating Alexander a
prisoner of conscience, describing the sentence as "a serious
setback for freedom of expression in Indonesia". The organization
called for Alexander's immediate release.
Human Rights Watch stated that Alexander's sentence suggested "a
threat to Indonesia's religious minorities" in light of recent
attacks by extremists.
The Asian Human Rights Commission also called for Alexander's
release, stating that his actions did not "pose a threat to public
order" and were covered by freedom of religion.
Atheist Alliance International began a campaign on Alexander's
behalf, stating that his case "highlights the fundamental
principles of freedom of expression and freedom of conscience and
the discrimination faced by atheists, particularly in Islamic
countries."
An opinion column in The Jakarta Globe described the charges as "a
blight on Indonesia's democratic credentials" and a threat to
Indonesia's attractiveness to foreign investors.
The Islamic Society Forum, a coalition of Islamist groups,
stated that the potential five-year sentence was not enough, and
that Alexander should be executed.
The organization's secretary-general stated, "What he has done
cannot be tolerated... it is important to prevent this group from
spreading atheism in this country."
THE birth on January 11, 1850, of British atheist George William
Foote – founder of the Freethinker – means a lot to me personally.
When I was just 16, growing up in South Africa, an atheist
neighbor, the father of my best friend, gave me my first copy of the
Freethinker, and I was so impressed that, whenever a new issue came
out, it was handed to me by Colin McKenzie, who warned me that, by
possessing copies, I was committing a criminal act, as the
publication had been banned in the country (he received his copies
in the mail direct from London).
Possession of banned material carried a heavy fine in those days of
apartheid and draconian censorship.
One day, in my English class, our teacher asked individual pupils
what careers they would like to pursue after leaving school. I
replied that I would like nothing more than to become editor of the
Freethinker. Horror gripped her and most of my classmates when I
explained the nature of the publication – and from that day on I was
I was branded a communist.
What was then a pipe dream turned to reality 22 years ago when I was
appointed to replace Peter Brearey, who died in the same year. I am
now the Freethinker’s third-longest serving editor.
Foote, who launched the Freethinker in 1881, edited it between its
launch and his death in 1915 – only taking an enforced one-year
break in 1883 to serve a jail sentence for blasphemy.
He was succeeded by Chapman Cohen who served as editor until 1951.
Cohen was named as an “undesirable” by the Nazi regime which
compiled a list of British citizens marked for arrest when Hitler
invaded the UK. That list was known as The Black Book.
To equal Cohen’s 36-year tenure as editor, I will need to continue
the job for another 14 years until I’m 86!
Here’s hoping …
What's wrong with
speechful people?
Erkki Hartikainen Jan 10, 2020
Unfortunately, this issue has not been bothered to investigate.
The plethora of talking heads on television is due to the fact that
it provides cheap programming that those with a different kind of
fault watch.
man runs a company that has heavily messed with the installation
of the world's most used programming language in the world's
craziest operating system.
My grandson at primary school decided to study the
well-functioning Python programming language in Windows, which
unfortunately has been changed unnecessarily. Fortunately,
up-to-date material, apparently intended for high school students,
is available on the Internet.
In fact, I tested the study material and it worked except for the
last few programs.
The bug was not in the handouts, but in the authors of Python.
What
does a person mean when he says he is an agnostic
Erkki Hartikainen 28.12.2019
I know the meaning of the word agnostic
I am suitable person to convert for god
believers.
Questions
of divinity
Erkki Hartikainen 26.12.2019
Why does the devil have horns and him but Yahweh does not?
What
Christians Do at Christmas
Erkki Hartikainen 26.12.2019
Today, they broke one balcony window by throwing it at a rock, and
throughout Christmas they have disturbed my data communications,
which unfortunately remain on Saunalahti's server, whose
communications are unprotected. Of the pages themselves, they have
entered only one other.
I wouldn't write anything about the job if I hadn't received an
explicit email in the past.
Why
are Christmas Songs are bad Compositions?
Erkki Hartikainen 25.12.2015
Today I shaved my
badly grayed beard
Erkki Hartikainen 24.12.2019
Long live Braun!
Piano
and guitar are the most harmful instruments
Erkki Hartikainen 24.12.2019
If you play music that is in .mid format on the Internet, you will
find that almost all traditional dance music has been "modernized"
with these two instruments into a formidable noise.
Not even solo instruments are found. Often, all instruments are
pianos and occasionally also guitars.
I own a bunch of guitars myself, but not a plank monster.
The only player I can still use is this computer. Unfortunately,
the computer has made harmful "music" possible
Corruption
Corrupt rotten religion
Ancient estate inheritance system
Life
after death is possible
Only the memory dies
December 23, 2019
Two identical dogs. They're clones. It's not an uncommon sight in
China where a booming pet market has led breeders to start
cloning.
The company keeps a number of dogs it
refers to as "surrogate mothers." They give birth to clone puppies
ordered by clients. Most are beagles whose mild character is
considered to make it the ideal mother.
The firm has a lab where it cultures the cells needed to create
clones. The process involves removing the nucleus from a dog's egg, and then transplanting the nucleus
of a cell from another dog. These eggs are placed in the wombs of
the surrogate mothers.
Cloning a dog costs about $55,000. This may sound steep but
SINOGENE says it gets inquiries from across China.
Zhao Jianping, the company's deputy general manager,
says the firm is targeting 100 to 200 orders this year, and 300 to
500 annually in a few years. He says demand for the service is
already high and, given the thriving pet industry, it will start
soaring once more people learn about the option.
Xiao Bing and her mother, from the city of Chongqing, where among
the firm's first clients. Their dog, Kandou, is now 10 years old
and has been showing signs of age.
Xiao says the thought of losing Kandou is too much to bear. She
says a clone would make things better.
She and her mother took Kandou to an animal clinic partnered with
SINOGENE. The dog underwent a procedure where it had a few millimeters of skin cut off around its rear
groin. It only took a few minutes. Cells were sent to the firm's
lab in Beijing and Xiao will receive Kandou's
clone in ten months.
Leaders
are always a trouble
12/21/2019
but female managers are a more difficult problem for male
employees than male managers.
I've been part of Putin's opponents all the time. I am
particularly annoyed by Putin's support for the Orthodox Church.
Already at the beginning of Finland's independence, attention was
drawn to the drunkenness and decay of the Orthodox priests.
Putin has been a spy for the then Soviet Union in East Germany. He
therefore has the qualifications required of a CIA agent.
Although professors are laughing to the Putin's studies in the law
school at St. Petersburg State University, he does have a
knowledge base for sabotaging Russia.
Putin stays in power because he has put his bureaucracy improve
the standard of living of ordinary citizens.
Russia has one vast region which, once it has become independent,
would be the richest country in the world: Siberia. Strictly, only
one person has been expelled from Siberia, a politician who began
to gain support for Siberian independence.
Putin's best practices are manifested where his power is more
limited. The Communists have not disappeared from Russia anywhere.
They are found especially in Siberia. There is little awareness in
Finland that if a communist is elected to a prominent position in
any corner of the country, Putin will cancel the election and will
not even allow re-election.
Putin is working hard to bring all the wealth of rich Siberia to
his oligarch friends. In Siberia, privatization is under way
through Putin's atrocities.
Who else would act in his own country except an agent of a foreign
state.
In my youth, both Gallup Finland and Taloustutkimus strive for
objective research.
Now, Taloustutkimus is asking the reason for Antti Rinne's
resignation from the Finnish people, when Antti Rinne, who
personally submitted his resignation to Sauli Niinisto. Antti
Rinne were the correct answerer.
Microsoft
is the richest virus in the world
Erkki Hartikainen 8/8/2019
Yesterday I had to buy Reimage to clean Windows on a single
Windows machine from malware.
I have a Windows only for daughter's of boys' game machines, but
for some reason I have made a mistake to make music with Windows.
In a paper recently published in the Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin, they looked at 83 studies about
religion and IQ — updating their data set with newer
information — and found that religiosity and
intelligence still have a negative correlation.
The U.S. Military
Has More Atheists Than Ever
11/17/2019
Pope’s new
clerical abuse investigator allegedly abused an altar boy
11/16/219
An Iraqi man
returned from Finland was killed in Baghdad
Finland violated
the ECHR, the European Court of Human Rights stated
11/15/2019
For the first time, Finland was convicted of violating articles
of this Convention. For example, Norway, considered a
model country, was convicted long ago.
The treaty protects everyone's life and prohibits torture and
inhuman treatment.
My complaint to another human rights court, the UN
Commission on Human Rights, led to the gradual introduction of a
neutral teaching of the outlook to Finland for non-religious
students.
The then Minister of Education Per Stenbäck amended the decree
the day after the decision.
A Virginia
School’s Cafeteria Sign Urges Students to Thank God for Their
Food
November 14, 2019
‘Dire’ figures
show Americans are increasingly rejecting God
November 13, 2019 By Barry Duke
IN 1993, according research from the General Social
Survey, 65 percent of Americans said they were, ‘without a
doubt’ convinced of God’s existence. That figure dropped
to 53 percent in 2018.
Bass to Glory!
Erkki Hartikainen 12.11.2019
Yesterday and today I listened Reijo Taipale's commemorative
concert. The positive thing was that only a couple of performers
were bad vocalists. Also an accordionist, one of the violin
players and one of the guitarists played well.
Unfortunately, the orchestra was completely lacking in double
bass. The other guitarist had compensated the lack using
electric bass, which he had unfortunately only with a four
strings (not five strings), but he didn't.
I actually have composed a large number of tangos, and at least
almost all have electric bass with five strings. I publish my
tangos as .mid files, from which you can copy music notes and
play them directly with the musescore software.
Hopefully at least the next tango market will use double bass.
Ubuntu 19.04 is
a a very good operating system
Erkki Hartikainen 11.11.2019
It's on this machine. This machine was the only one of the four
that I got to fix the clutter caused by unplugging the router
from the wall (do not use double sided sticker). Now the router
and my entire data communication system are working properly
again.
Deposition:
Financial Guru Dave Ramsey Pulled Out a Gun During Staff
Meeting
By Sarahbeth Caplin
November 10, 2019
Dave Ramsey, best known for his faith-based financial advice
(that includes wildly misunderstanding poverty), isn’t a fan of
getting mocked online. Nothing weird about that.
But in a 2014 Daily Beast piece highlighting Ramsey’s obsession
with silencing his critics, there was an anecdote that seemed
out of place even for him:
The seeming paranoia of Ramsey’s outburst in the May 12 staff
meeting startled some Lampo employees, but many said they had
come to expect explosive behavior from the boss.
“This is the guy who once pulled a loaded pistol out of a
gift bag to teach us a lesson about gossip,” said one former
employee. “It was bizarre, even for Ramsey.”
The employee who said that wasn’t identified. However, it was
recently confirmed thanks to a lawsuit involving Ramsey suing
another one of his critics.
In that lawsuit, Ramsey is going after another one of his
critics, real estate agent Kevin Paffrath. It led to a
deposition of Jack Boone Galloway Jr., who worked for Ramsey’s
company for nearly two decades.
During the questioning, Galloway was asked if there was any
truth to the anecdote about the pistol. Despite an objection
from the lawyer representing Ramsey’s company, Galloway was
allowed to answer the question: “Yes.”
We’re used to seeing crazy stunts from Christian celebrities to
the point where you have to wonder if they’re all in some
unspoken competition to outdo each other. But a man who pulls
out a weapon, even if as a joke, to speak with employees about
something that upsets him, isn’t someone with good judgment. He
can’t be trusted to manage an office; why would anyone taking
his advice on managing their money?
Still, knowing how evangelical Christians operate, Ramsey will
likely do damage control by issuing a half-hearted apology that
says he’s working on his anger issues, and that he’s putting
his faith in God, and he’ll inevitably be forgiven and
booking speaking engagements with church groups before long.
Church That
Claims to Save Ex-Gang Members is Actually Stealing From Them
November 9, 2919
Wisconsin Church
Plans to Use $10,000 Taxpayer-Funded Grant to Convert People
November 8, 2019
LGBT humanist
group in the UK donates £1,000 to ex-Muslims
November 7, 2019
Catholic Church
Investigating Nuns Who Got Pregnant on Missionary Trip
This is how the
grasshopper brexit - hiiop and headland into the lake
November 4, 2019
Worlds most
Christian country kills aboriginals
Brazil: Amazon
land defender killed by illegal loggers
November 3, 2019
A young indigenous land defender has been shot dead and
another wounded by illegal loggers in Brazil's Amazon.
Paulo Paulino Guajajara was reportedly attacked and shot in the
head while hunting on Friday inside the Arariboia reservation in
Maranhao state.
He was a member of Guardians of the Forest, a group formed to
combat logging gangs in the area.
The killing increases concerns about escalating violence against
Amazon forest protectors.
Non-profit group Survival International, which advocates for
isolated communities, says at least three Guardians have
previously been killed, along with many of their relatives.
In September, an official who had worked to protect indigenous
people was murdered in the city of Tabatinga.
The Ubuntu 19.10
installation file may be a virus or trojan
Erkki Hartikainen 2/11/2019
It crashes the installation and destroys the partition where the
installation was attempted.
I'm writing this on another machine, Ubuntu 19.04.
If you have LTS version 18.04, do not replace it with anything.
Finnish politician
equated Prophet Muhammad with pedophilia, verdict on
breach of the peace of the religion
01/11/2019
According to him, it was only a
matter of demonstrating the repetition of the writings of
Jussi Halla-aho (ps) from the Supreme Court.
Down all belief
matters!
Erkki Hartikainen 31.10.2109
Belief comes from the world of our ancestors' apes. Don't
believe in anything!
Just days after he got Sen. Elizabeth Warren to say she’d
consider hiring a Secular Outreach Director for her presidential
campaign, Justin Scott, the Iowa State Director for American
Atheists, had a chance to speak to former Obama Cabinet member
and current presidential candidate Julián Castro during a
meeting at the University of Northern Iowa.
He asked Castro what he would say to Hispanic Americans who are
atheists, how he might bring atheists into his administration,
and how he planned to work with or against the Religious Right.
As with any politician, Castro was careful not to alienate
potential voters, but he made it clear that atheism wasn’t going
to be taboo in his White House.
Sweden was one of the last countries in Europe to abolish
slavery, 14 years after Britain and the other colonial powers.
After year-long investigations and tough debates in the
parliament, in the summer of 1846, a state commission arrived at
the last Swedish colony, Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean, to
free the last Swedish slaves.
The colony then had 2,497 inhabitants of which 595 were slaves.
The slaves applied to laws other than to other inhabitants. A
slave who committed quite small crimes would be whipped by the
crown's executioner for punishment in a professional manner.
Pregnant women who were whipped lying on their backs would have
a pit for their stomachs, not because they cared about the woman
so much, as if it was so valuable to the slave owner in her
stomach. Slaves were valuable.
After all, Swedish traders were quite modest in the
international slave market. Serious American scientists have
identified a total of 34,941 slave shipments across the
Atlantic. In that base were ten purely Swedish ships. If Swedish
merchants had slaves on a total of about 50 ships, then the
Swedish share was 0.14 percent of all shipments. If ten of them
were Swedish-built, the Swedish part of world trade with slaves
was 0.2 per thousand.
Although the slave ships were not Swedish, the slave trade was
allowed on the Swedish colony until 1846. The Swedes' attitude
to the black slaves was no different from that of other
Europeans at this time.
They are sending missionaries to eastern Germany. A recent study
called Beliefs About God Across Time and Countries found that
52.1% of people asked whether they believed in God identified
themselves as atheists.
This compared with only 10.3% in western Germany. Indeed, the
survey was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 in
eastern Germany who believed in God.
God vs Physics
October 6, 2019 By Bill Flavell
We live on an unstable giant rock hurtling around a humongous
nuclear-powered furnace at 67,000 miles per hour. The rock is
simultaneously spinning on its own axis so we are all subject to
rotational velocities up to 1,000 miles per hour. The rock
itself has a thin crust of solid matter resting on a molten core
of rock, iron and other metals that are always in motion and at
temperatures up to 6,000° Celsius (that’s hotter than the
surface of the sun).
The rock is surrounded by a 300-mile deep layer of gasses
constantly being heated by the nuclear furnace and cooled when
facing away from it. This causes the gasses to move
continuously. Evaporation from large bodies of water means the
gases contain some 40,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water.
The surprising thing is how tranquil this raging, dynamic system
feels to us most of the time. But the tranquility is punctuated
at intervals by enormous violence. It comes in the form of
floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and more.
When these events occur some of us may perish, sometimes
thousands of us perish.
These deaths are not meted out by God, but by physics. We cannot
stop these events by holding our hands together and
praying—there are no gods able to cause these disasters and none
able to prevent them. The Earth kills Christians, Muslims, Jews,
Hindus and atheists with equal indifference.
What we can do, is learn how to predict when such horrors will
occur and find a way to escape them. With the help of
super-computers, we are already quite good at predicting the
course of hurricanes and can often give reasonable warning of
tsunamis. But there is a lot more to learn.
Prosecutors:
Police officer in Paris had links with Islamic extremism,
worked in the police department for jihadists
The suspect sent religious messages to his wife before attacking
the police.
Conservative
Mouthpiece Todd Starnes Has Been Fired from FOX News
By Hemant Mehta
October 3, 2019
Todd Starnes, the FOX News mouthpiece whose down-home folksy
demeanor never made up for his bigotry and constant outrage, has
been fired. TheWrap says that his contract will not be renewed
by FOX News, FOX Nation (a subscription service), or FOX News
Radio.
This news comes just days after Starnes suggested Democrats
didn’t really pray to the Christian God in response to Nancy
Pelosi asking Americans to pray for the nation. (Pastor Robert
Jeffress responded by saying Democrats prayed to the
child-sacrificing demon-God Moloch.)
When my former students
have already the gray hair
Born-Again
Christian Missionaries Are Setting Fire to Sacred Aboriginal
Objects
By David Gee
September 26, 2019
A group of Christian missionaries who believe traditional
Aboriginal culture is the same as worshiping the devil is
burning sacred objects in the Australian Outback.
Trumpjerk
09/25/2019
is a new word to American English.
The world's most
believing people burn the lungs of the earth
09/24/2019
This is, of course, Brazil.
Census Results
Show That Nearly Half of New Zealand Has No Religious
Affiliation
How to make a
completely false television program of lies
Erkki Hartikainen September 20, 2019
Yesterday, Prisma (on Finnish Television) presented "a
documentary" with a lies about lies.
Doing so is not at all difficult, on the contrary, quite easy.
The authors of the program interview their acquaintances, who
did not understand anything about it.
Blending art with the program made it a cultural program.
The program succeeded in not interviewing any researchers in the
field. Even not being without such interviews is easy.
One thing left me bothered. How can Finnish television present
such a program at prime time on the number one channel.
Antidepressants
Erkki Hartikainen September 19, 2019
The HS website has a story about antidepressants. Editors should
not be forced to do such things. Reporters should not just ask
only one antidepressant researcher.
I am an antidepressant patient of the doctor who has studied all
antidepressants. Ancient amitriptyline has proven to be most
effective. For me, it works.
Tramadol would be an even more effective antidepressant, but as
a weak opiate it is classified as a drug and its use, even as an
analgesic, has decreased.
I ate it a year before my back surgery, and it was even sharper
than the amitriptyline I eat today.
Portland Bans
Discrimination Against Atheists And Agnostics
Oregon’s biggest city is the second in the U.S. to extend
nondiscrimination protections to nonreligious people.
For a long time, I watched a new science fiction movie that
(regular) movie critics had praised.
In addition to the usual crazy memes, what was known as the
so-called the sciences fiction memes are crazy.
Science writers usually know Einstein's narrower theory of
relativity, which even modern physicists find contradictory
nonsense.
As for gravity theory of relativity, it is even crazier than
special relativity. Einstein removes the gravity we all know by
beginning to call it the curvature of space.
There is no such thing as space, but space is a basic set of
mathematics that is really only needed to eliminate the apparent
contradictions of mathematics.
There are many kinds of geometries in mathematics, but no real
mathematician claims that geometries represent true reality.
Many concepts in mathematics can be used especially in physics,
but for example, points and lines are not really real.
Mathematics is not a picture of reality but a way for the human
brain to structure concepts.
I will not go any further, because science has strongly confused
reality with the way the human brain works to structure reality.
Evolution has created a way of structuring reality that has
hitherto been sufficient for human existence for about one
million years. Crocodiles have been around for a very long time.
The stupidity of
politicians
Erkki Hartikainen 9/13/2019
probably due to the disappearance of
ideas.
Centenary Plan
for Atheists
Erkki Hartikainen September 12, 2019
There are no religions in Finland.
High-school swimmer disqualified over
'modesty rule' reinstated after backlash
Referee ruled swimsuit exposed too much of student’s
buttocks
Alaskan schools district says decision as ‘heavy
handed’
Billie
Jean King attacked the decision to disqualify the
student-athlete.
The
decision to disqualify an Alaskan high school swimmer for
wearing a swimsuit that exposed too much of her buttocks
has been reversed after coming under heavy criticism.
Lauren Langford, a swimming coach in Anchorage, published
an online account of the disqualification over the
weekend. “The rest of her team was wearing the same
uniform, and she was the only one disqualified,” Langford
said. “It is my opinion that she has been targeted and
singled out over the course of the last year.”
I compose music that is just played, without even trying to
invent words.
I accidentally reconciled religious songs in bars, although the
rhythm is changed frequently so that they are no longer be able
to sing the words of the former. "Worm Traveler of the Earth"
has been transformed into bold music.
In my opinion, nothing but music played is religious. If a hymn
is played as slowly as usual, atheists can use MuseScore to make
it twice as fast with a single button press.
The lamp had stopped working because one of the numerous LEDs
had flown (black dot). Had the LEDs been capable of any system
other than the series, the lamp would have continued to operate
at slightly lower luminous intensity.
What kind of
cellulose should be made into a bicycle?
Erkki Hartikainen September 4, 2019
The news is boasting of a bicycle made of nanocellulose that
dissolves in the rain.
In Finland, which is full of trees, a bicycle frame could be
made of wood that does not dissolve in rainwater using current
technology.
happens to fit in with my lifetime. For the first time I saw a
computer while I was studying math at the University of
Helsinki.
The computer was in the possession of the Department of
Mathematics, and the machine cried with the same man who
corrected the Contentsmathematics
students' exams: Jorma Torppa.
As an actuary, I used a fairly basic computer in Fortran, the
first programming language to use English for commands.
Later, I taught a dozen different programming languages, and new
programming languages ??is no longer needed.
Instead, iron is being developed fiercely. In the processor
market, AMD has even outperformed Intel.
I don't write this on any powerhouse because I Contentsdon't
need one anymore. This is a Ryzen 5 machine, and oddly enough,
I'm writing this on Windows 10 with the Bluegriffon WYSIWYG
editor.
The latest MikroBitti introduces computers that cost you several
times the price of this machine.
Expensive machines are not available to the common people, but
computing companies use them for the same purposes as before
when supercomputers were used.
From today's supercomputers, I have not heard any news other
than that the Americans have Contentssucceeded
in developing a computer that is twice as powerful as the most
powerful Chinese machine in the past.
Powerful computers have long been used to make weather
forecasts, and almost everyone has noticed the results as they
follow the weather forecasts.
New technology is also gradually becoming commonplace, thanks to
competition from, for example, AMD and Intel for cheap
processors.Contents
Where society
uses the abilities of its citizens
Erkki Hartikainen 29.8.019
One of my late friends said that there is an oversupply of
geniuses in the world.
Personally, I do not use that saying because there are no
geniuses, but the message is clear: societies use the abilities
of their citizens very selectively. The basics of selection are
complex, but the tendencies of a monkey falling from the tree
and the memes of the community have a strong influence.
One of my (female) bosses said I could do almost anything.
However, I do not worry about the fact that most of my jobs were
unfit for me. Society can get what orders, and it
does not bother me at all, that I have taken care of many tasks
assigned poorly.
In addition to those in power, the dopamine that flows in
people's head affects almost everything the people want.
Fortunately, as I live, our country has become so-called. a
welfare state where basic material needs such as food and
housing are quite well protected. Even the clothing required by
our climate is oversupplied.
If you want to dress the way I was in my youth, it is best to
head to the flea market.
The troubles of old age have led me to sit in front of a
computer and compose some days. I put my compositions as
printable and playable files (midi) on the Internet.
Since I am reconciled among a large number of folk music, my
site is considered, but I do not have a clue as to whether
people are interested of my music.
It does not matter to me whether people are interested in my
music. It's enough for me to like making music myself. The
pension I earn on junk jobs is enough for my livelihood.
Actually, part of composing better to paint pictures, but I have
painted them exclusively for the needs of our families. The
paintings have been made into bitcoins which, by selling to each
other, the rich and the influential are trying to enrich.
The music business sells noise as music because noise is more
commercial than music.
Actually, the only art I use is Swedish criminal literature.
People don't bother to read anything and apparently criminal
reading is a lot of other texts to read.
As my readers know, I can write. However, I have never bothered
to start writing fiction. As one acquaintance (who was trying to
write poems) said, human diversity makes it difficult, in
particular, for emotional products such as poems to succeed.
For this topic I have written before, and then I will continue
writing when I can think of anything else to write about.
The world's most
Christian country is destroying our planet
Erkki Hartikainen August 28, 2019
According to studies, the most Christian country in the world is
Brazil.
The Pope ordered America to the Spanish and Portuguese.
Fortunately, the non-Pope Britons occupied the northernmost part
of the continent, even though they committed a major genocide of
indigenous people.
The world's most Christian country has destroyed the world's
lungs of the Amazon and is using any extinguishing money to
light new fires.
You can see on television that the fires are concentrated on the
edges of former fields, ie they are mainly ignited by farmers.
When farmers do not have enough time to set fire to their jobs,
Brazil hires professional fire-fighters.
My own theory of
gravity
August 28, 2019
My own theory of gravity (which, unlike Tenkanen's theory) is
not Einsteinian, can be found in my long article
Not. We have attraction and repulsion when we are speaking of
electrons and protons and the physics is using words positive
and negative but it is not good language.
Somebody has written that dark matter can have negative
gravitation but this is wrong explanation for the expansion of
the our local universe.
It is not sure that there exists dark matter.
We do not know if the dark matter (if it exists) has
elementary particles.
Is the light
waves in the dark matter?
Erkki Hartikainen August 26, 2019
We do not know that the dark matter exists.
Tommi Tenkanen
August 25, 2019
In Finnish part of this publication we will tell some
thoughts of Dr. Tommi Tenkanen.
Tommi Tenkanen thinks that there is dark matter and that the
dark matter explains the history of our local part of the
universe.
How to get Putin
to accept demonstrations against Putin?
Erkki Hartikainen August 21, 2019
A small Duma -approved entry fee would be charged for attending
a demonstration. The bigger the demonstration, the more it would
produce, it would not be worth collecting fees for too small a
demonstration.
The importance
of memory in writing
Erkki Hartikainen August 21, 2019
When I'm already 77 - years old, I have trouble remembering what
I have recently written. The worst part is, I don't remember to
throw old notes to the trash.
The importance of memory in writing, in movies, etc. is
important in many ways. A Finn, whose name I don't remember,
said that there should not be too many people in a book or
movie. Otherwise people will not be able to read or follow them.
On the other hand, being entertained by heroes and villains
doesn't appeal to me. There are very few heroes and bad villains
in the real world.
If the prevalence of these preferences could be measured by
statistics, their distributions would be in some very common
form (I oppose the normalization of all distributions, instead).
It is known that excessive dopamine in the brain causes hero
worship on the one hand and even schizophrenia on the other.
When I recently due to the expensive foot injury prone position
in bed and read a new Swedish crime novels, to me has come again
to mind the fact that sociology has enough work. For the
schools, I suggest a subject called Social Life.
In crime books, murders are committed on completely different
grounds than in real life.
Ordinary readers are very happy to read books that are not
realistic. On the other hand, readers do not understand the
flight of imagination.
Even the so-called science fiction mainly reproduces itself.
Standing or
sitting
Erkki Hartikainen August 20, 2019
Both are in bad positions. Standing is the worst.
It wasn't until I was 77 that I realized this, because I was
banned from both.
The cause is very common: there are wounds between the toes.
Unfortunately, they do not heal except that I have to lie on my
bed and raise my sore leg.
The gravity pushes the fluid into the wounds and they will not
heal unless the gravity is reduced.
The reason is unknown. The fact that instruction of religions
in UK in sot functioning well is not a news item.
Domains are
malfunctioning
Erkki Hartikainen August 17, 2019
The publication of this magazine has been greatly hampered by
the slow, malfunctioning or non-existent transmission of domain
hosted data.
Unfortunately, all companies selling domain names to businesses
have stopped selling to associations and individuals.
Automatic operation does not
depress you
Erkki Hartikainen August 16, 2019
As a person ages like me, I may have to
think of things that could previously be done
automatically.
At least thinking about me depresses me.
I also know people who are very different
from me.
The problem of crime and
punishment
Erkki Hartikainen 15.9.2019
This
problem is bad especially
In religious countries
In conservative countries.
Crime and Punishment Officers
generally have no training in the philosophy of this
issue.
To make matters worse, some
philosophers become from extreme conservatives or
true believers.
So-called
medicine and pain management
Erkki Hartikainen August 14, 2019
I've been writing medical pain treatments for
irregularity so much that I list here only a few gaps in
training of medical doctors.
But for the first time, a few events in my life.
My big back surgery was done at a time when I was getting
some good painkiller while I was waiting for the surgery
for about a year. Weak opiate tramadol did not cause me
any addiction.
I have no tendency to addiction. I do not use tobacco and
alcohol at all. Other types of patients should be able to
wean from tramadol. Let them give amitriptyline as an
anti-depressant.
Ordinary doctors become more qualified as the professors
of medicine rise in education.
Doctoral education should be given to doctors free of
charge (including salary for the training period) and the
school period should be extended by one year, during which
doctoral students will receive thorough knowledge of
philosophy of science and statistics.
It is necessary to test whether they have learned two
important things during their training:
thinking
must not be based on memes
individual
cases may not be generalized.
After that, speeches about the information gained in
practical work will decrease.
Thirteenth day
Erkki Hartikainen August 13, 2019
is an old Christian mythic day.Superstition is based on the fact that
when the numbers of day 31 are changed, the day changes
to its opposite.
It has been concluded that we have to wait
14 day of the month before undertaking major projects.
So many wars have started on July
14th.Fortunately, it is
too late to start this year's wars.
Beasts number
08/12/2019
The New Testament writer did not
know how 666 is counted.
Nowadays, almost everyone who
knows how to calculate knows that it is a sum
1 + 2 + 3 + ... 35 + 36.
It will take time
to put my pages to order
Erkki Hartikainen August 11, 2010
Sorry.
The clutter
listed below
Erkki Hartikainen August 10, 2010
The tools I use have used become cumbersome, so I make
corrections with the Bluefish editor, which does not put home
directories to everywhere.
Repairs are expected to be completed tomorrow.
Also, splitting files into smaller files should be done.
This file has
been destroyed by an outsider
Erkki Hartikainen 8/8/2019
Christian hacker (one of
many).
The image name extension (eg jpg) in this file has been
changed to htm.
Because there are tens of thousands of images, it is impossible
to restore them by repairing this file.
I'll keep trying to solve the problem.
Files are lost
from Internet servers
Erkki Hartikainen 7/7/2019
They have even disappeared from Saunalahti's Big G. The
service is about to end.
Unfortunately, different Domains are no better.
In the old days, servers made backups every night, at least at
my workstations.
Your own backups will also be destroyed.
What to do? For example, should compositions to be hacked to
stones?
When the coals
were out and the needles were not made
Erkki Hartikainen August 5, 2019
Russian hell was cold.
Fortunately, Putin became President of Russia.
Abolishing the
Big G of Saunalahti was malicious
Erkki Hartikainen August 4, 2019
Now I have to use two of my own domains www.ateismi.fi
and a ateistiuutiset.fi .
They both need the index.html file and I do the same for both
domains.
I have not found my wifi modem. I will write more in August.
The dentist did
not give a good painkiller
Erkki Hartikainen July 23, 2019
She did not even repair all teeths, but gave the time to the
root treatment in an another place by mid-August. Nor did she
give any painkillers. She was a young woman.
Unfortunately, all the familiar dentists and doctors are the
same kind of retired seniors as I am.
Pain medication
in Finland
Erkki Hartikainen 22.7.2019
As I waited an year as sick waiting for a spine surgery, a
specialist doctor Orthoped dared to prescribe me tramadol, which
is a weak opiate. I I did not become addicted, but my sick leave
life was somewhat humane.
My brother, who had a back surgery, had the same history.
Now I have had a few difficult days. The bad toothache surprised
me. When it's bad, painkillers sold at the pharmacy don't help.
Tomorrow I'll go to the dentist.
Hopefully the cause of the pain can be eliminated. If not,
hopefully I'll get a prescription for tramadol. Tomorrow I'll
tell you what happened.
An all-creator'
creates millions of stil-borns world-wide each
year
This makes such
an alleged "God" the biggest abortionist by far and of
all times
Chris Aable Professor of Psychology and Anthropology
(And singer/songwriter)
By definition an alleged "all-creator" thus "creates"
itself out of nothing, floats around for ions before becoming to
bored or lonely and then "creates" mere mortals to toy with as
if millions of dinosaurs that devoured each other alive isn't
sadistic enough.
Some believers attempt to rationalize this by saying it's our
fault for "sinning" when their alleged "All-knower" not only
knew we would "sin" but millions of other animals have millions
of still-borns each year.
Here again I've heard many "believers" rationalize this
as "population control", which still makes it an unnecessary and
sadistic approach to the problem of "excessive population"
already "created" by their alleged "God".
A seven-year-old child could do a better, more loving
job if given the attributes of "all-knowing, all-loving and
all-powerful.
Racist Women
Kicked Off Plane After Complaining About Muslim Men On Flight
July 16, 2019
Poverty
Erkki Hartikainen, July 15, 2019
I was born during World War II in a remote Northern - Savo. I
remember the cough of that time well, and I also got special
information about it because my father was fifteen years in the
social welfare board.
A member of the social welfare board practiced the work of the
local social official, and he was only paid of the official
meeting days.
As far as I know, the poor in Sweden were once treated worse
than in Finland. As a result, the Social Democrats dominated
Sweden for quite a long time. The other parties were able to
control Sweden only after the Social Democrats had made Sweden a
welfare state.
Even worse than in Sweden and Finland they were in Åland. I
ordered Sally Salminen's book Katrina from Ad Libris. The work
is a description of the toughest poverty ever.
It was good that HS raised the writer. Schools should read
Salminen's books, not of Kianto's and Sillapää's.
Realistic
simulations of galaxy formation in f(R) modified gravity
Christian Arnold, Matteo Leo & Baojiu Li
Nature Astronomy (2019)
Abstract
Future astronomical surveys will gather information that will
allow gravity to be tested on cosmological scales, where general
relativity is currently poorly constrained.
We present a set of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
that follow galaxy formation in f(R) modified gravity models
and are dedicated to finding observational signatures to
help distinguish general relativity from alternatives using
this information.
The simulations employ the IllustrisTNG model and a new
modified gravity solver in AREPO, allowing the interplay of
baryonic feedback and modified gravity to be studied in the same
simulation, and the degeneracy between them in the matter power
spectrum to be resolved.
We find that the neutral hydrogen power spectrum is
suppressed substantially in f(R) gravity, which allows this
model to be constrained using upcoming data from the Square
Kilometre Array.
Disk galaxies can form in our f(R) gravity simulations, even
in the partially screened regime, and their galaxy stellar
properties are only mildly affected.
We conclude that modified gravity allows the formation of
realistic galaxies and leaves observable signatures on large
scales.
The world's
second most lucrative film series
Erkki Hartikainen, July 13, 2016
is a junk in the eyes of an expert.
Of course I mean Star Wars. I looked the trilogy and one extra
part again.
On the other hand, I was watching movies because they annoyed
me.
Of course, movies may have events that are impossible, but the
space heroes, who are modifications of the heroes of wild west
movies annoy a friend of real movies.
As in the wild western films, in these space operas some
individuals lead the course of the events. In the western,
however, there are no wars against the US federal state (which
at the time of the Wild West was not as big as now). The space
operas are fighting against the Milky Way Empire.
This kind of warfare requires spaceships that go much faster
than light. Physics does not know any power that would produce
the energy required.
In the series in the human head is a force that can move
anything. Heroes and heroines are some sort of little gods.
Fortunately, the series is not religious.
The wisdom is to
use Linux
Christians have murdered millions of
people
Erkki Hartikainen, July 12, 2016
Hackers and various deliberate damage makers have taken over
Windows 10. Even any kind of combat programs no longer help.
Hopefully this will overwhelm Microsoft.
Almost everything I can do with Linux. Some things are
complicated to do with Linux, but I can help other things with
some complexity.
It has even been forced to give up Elisa when the disturbances
break into it.
Of course, I'm a special case, because I belong to this planet's
leading atheists. The Christian Bible tells us to kill atheists.
Finnish Christians avoid murdering their opponents, but they do
do a lot of mischief.
If I wrote my memo, it would become a thick book. However, I
will not waste my last years in such a way that there would be
no help for the world.
people during their history than any other group, but today
Christians have a monopoly capitalism, so they can destroy their
opponents using other means.
Ontological materialism defines that substance means
matter. The energy is a fundamental property of the matter.
For the ontological materialism anything immaterial must
be the product of the material. In principle all immaterial
phenomena must be reducible to (explicable by) natural
laws.
Our conscience is a very complicated material structure
mainly in our brains.
Ontological materialism is not using word soul.
Spiritus fortis in ordinary alcohol, and other meaning of the
spirit is mood. There is no spiritual substance.
The old pages had been broken and the removal of the
break-through pages was followed by the collapse of all the
material on Elisa's pages. This caused only occasional pieces
to appear there.
Breaking into new pages is now very difficult.
The reason for this was Elisa's announcement that Big G would
be emptied at the end of August. A huge site needs to create a
new site.
The problem is that a huge number of links have to be renewed.
I'll do this for a few months, and I think everything will be
fine by the end of the year.
Signs of justice
July 4, 2019
In the United States, a large number of people have been
executed. The evidence given by the DNA has declared that it
is innocent.
Fortunately, people are not executed in Finland. during peace.
The innocent does not have to present evidence of his
innocence. In principle, no one should be condemned even on a
harsh basis.
The Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 thatthe
Blandensburg “Peace Cross” is constitutional, though
that resolution comes with a variety of caveats. OnlyJustices
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayordissented
fully with the majority.
It is now at 6.06 and the thermometer shows the same fever as
yesterday morning. Paracetamol did not prevent fever yesterday,
but somehow the memory began to function moderately.
The majority of
Finnish politicians are in favor of passive euthanasia
Erkki Hartikainen June 15, 2016
Passive euthanasia means, for example, that the elderly are
allowed to die for a lack of care for saving on pension funds.
This is especially true for the elderly. I have not written
about this as young age, because until now I'm the old man.
My mother died about three years older than I am now a
university hospital for the reason that he was transferred from
intensive care unit to ward plain. The next morning she was
dead.
Now I have the same illness and it would be totally useless to
go to a regular health station.
I tried on the Internet to find out if I had the gauges I needed
in the metropolitan area. Not. Everything has gone online and
for some reason these devices are only available in Oulu.
I'll write more if I wake up tomorrow morning.
Video meetings can stop
useless flying around the world
Erkki
Hartikainen on June 14, 2016
I've beenretiredmore than ten years.
When I was working, video meetings were held
long before I retired.
With current equipment and technology,
meetings can be held with a global audience.
In video meetings, it is only
necessary to deal with the issues sent to the participants
in a timely manner so that there is enough time for the
jigsaw.
In my opinion, meetings do not have to be an
entertainment event.They have
sometimes been also entertainment events.For
example, Catholic Church congregations are told to have
transferred a large number of prostitutes to the city of
meeting.
Those who are interested in entertainment
events will travel at their own expense.
Perhaps even the "greens" are not in
favor of my proposal.
According to the law in force, if you publicly "mock God" or
"slander or abhor what is otherwise considered sacred by the
Church or religious community within the meaning of the Freedom
of Religion Act". The law first violates the mutual equality of
religions by raising separately the "God" who refers to God of
Christianity.
Secondly, the law restricts freedom of expression and religion.
The part of religious freedom is also the freedom to critically
criticize other views. What one thinks of criticism is, in the
opinion of another, ridiculous.
Thirdly, it is difficult to intervene in some states, especially
in blasphemy against Christians, if there is a similar remark in
our country's law.
It is justified by social peace. The reason is strange: on the
contrary, at least any belief that, as a result of ridicule,
would endanger public security must be resisted. It is enough to
protect the person from the mockery, the protection of beliefs
should not be granted.
In Europe, development has progressed elsewhere towards the
abolition of blasphemy laws. A recent example is Ireland, where,
in 2018, a clear majority was abolished for the Constitution.
The initiative does not interfere with the violation of the
peace of religion, for example, in a noisy worship. There is a
separate question whether this should be prohibited by a
separate legal act, or whether a general law on public peace
would be sufficient.
Representative
democracy
05/10/2019
is a system of society in which the people can make fraud or
embezzlement through their representatives.
Saudis deciding
to execute 13 years old Shia boy
09/05/2019
Fear arising after Saudis deciding to execute 13 years
old Shia boy Murtaja Qureiris in few days. He is accused
of participating in the bicycle rallies for asking rights for
Shias in the country. How can this heinous crime will justified?
Please raise your voice.
Massacres
08/06/2019
Savon Sanomat: The number of children baptized has
fallen drastically
07/06/2019
According to the researcher, the reduction of baptisms has a
direct connection with the thinning of people's church
relationship.
In Finland, children are now baptized less than once before
the Church's statistics, ie since 1965, says Savon Sanomat.
According to the magazine, the proportion of those baptized
has declined, especially since the turn of the millennium, as
did the proportion of those who belong to the Church. Before
2000, the proportion of baptisms throughout the country
remained at nearly 90% for a long time and has then fallen by
more than 20 percentage points in less than 20 years.
Researcher Veli-Matti Salminen from the Church Research Center
says that diminishing baptism has a direct connection with the
thinning of people's church relationship and the fact that
membership of the Church is considered to be a purely personal
solution.
For the first time in 2014, the proportion of baptized people
fell below that of the Church, and has since fallen faster
than the membership of the Church.
Puerto Ricans:
Act now to oppose dangerous religious exceptions!
May 24, 2019
Legislators in Puerto Rico will soon vote on two bills that
create new religious exceptions. First, PS. 1253 will allow
religious organizations to receive public funds while engaging
in religious proselytizing and discriminating against people who
do not share their beliefs.
It is unfair to give money from taxpayers to groups that refuse
to serve all Puerto Ricans.
Providing funds from taxpayers to religious groups and at the
same time creating special privileges to allow them to
discriminate against others is incorrect. These laws will have
unpredictable and far-reaching negative consequences for the
health, education and social services of Puerto Ricans.
Please act now! Tell members of the Senate Commission on
Federal, Political, and Economic Relations to oppose efforts to
create new and broad religious exceptions!
Second, the legislature is also considering PS. 1254, which
claims to prohibit repair therapies for young people by licensed
professionals, but in turn creates exceptions for churches and
clergy that allow these harmful practices to continue.
Repair therapies are dangerous and discredited practices that
take advantage of families and put the health and safety of
children at risk.
No young Puerto Rican should be subject to this abusive
behavior, and no one should be exempt from the law solely
because of their religious beliefs.
Please, take action now! We urgently need your help to stop
these dangerous laws!
Ron Reagan Jr,
Atheist
Added 21/5/2019
The other night late on television there was a brief ad with
President Reagan’s son touting the Freedom from Religion
Foundation (FRF), the “nation’s largest, most effective
association of atheists and agnostics,” it boasts.
“I’m Ron Reagan, unabashed atheist,” he explained. “And I’m
alarmed by the intrusion by religion into our secular
government.” He urged keeping church and state separate “just as
the Founding Fathers intended.” Then he signed off as a
“lifelong atheist. Not afraid of burning in hell.”
Ten years ago Reagan Jr. got the annual “Emperor Has No Clothes
Award” award from FRF and explained his life journey away from
his parents’ Christianity, which apparently wasn’t fully
lifelong but began in later childhood. He didn’t like spending
much of every Sunday driving a half hour each way to two-hour
worship services at Bel Air Presbyterian Church.
The nation is
prospering as religion decreases - and women's rights improve
Troll is an internet slang, meaning a message or
a person whose primary purpose is to annoy people, create
contradictions, write unnecessary messages, and get
responses to flames (passionate or otherwise emotional
responses) or predictable messages, or cover up the
writer's deficiencies in the knowledge of the matter.
I have not noticed trolls elsewhere
than in YLE's news and Helsingin Sanomat.
Even Facebook gives more important
information.
Man, jailed for 5 days for a
Ramandan violation, is freed 6 years on
In 2013 , Jamshed Iqbal was found guilty by a
special magistrate of breaching a law – the
Ehtram-e-Ramazan Ordinance – for selling paan
during Ramadan. He
received a five day prison sentence.
A
clever series of "ghost battles" was unveiled ten years
ago in Bolivia
-
Now local leaders want to let go of the authors
05/20/2019
Women living in the Protestant Moononite Transplant
had wondered over the years that rubbish happens at night.
There was a series of rape, and there were at least 130
victims.
Children in the Manitoba settlement in Bolivia in 2009. The
Mennonites live in secluded communities that cultivate land
and do not use electricity.
Something is badly wrong.
Such a feeling had long been with many of the people in the
Manitoba colony in Bolivia.
Women living in the Protestant Mongolian community had
wondered for years that rubbish was happening at night. They
could wake up from bed sheets in blood and semen, or rope
around their wrists.
One had dreamed of being raped in the field and getting out
of her bed with her straw in her hair, another remembering
the feeling of helplessness overnight. In the mornings it
was dull.
When the mystery began to settle ten years ago, a huge
series of "ghost battles" was revealed. Nine men were
sentenced to imprisonment, but now some local leaders
would like to release them.
I'm not looking for
Eurovision Songs
Posted on May 19, 2019
but I would look at their notes if
someone put them in midi format on the internet.
The United States is flushing the
anti-abortion wave.The
States impose restrictions even if they are
unconstitutional.
Swedish court
jails Spanish doctor for child sex abuse
14/5/2019
A Swedish court on Tuesday jailed a Spanish doctor for ten
years for the sexual assault and rape of around 50 children
aged two to 12.
Cristian Carretero, 29, was convicted of four rapes and 46
sexual assaults of minors, mainly young girls, as well as for
inciting adults to fondle their children and possession of
child pornography.
A primary care physician who studied at the University of
Barcelona, Carretero faces expulsion from Sweden once he has
served his sentence.
The court found that between 2015-2017, he committed the
crimes at several Swedish medical centres and during online
consultations.
He was arrested in December 2017 after children who were
brought to him for minor ailments were subjected to needless
genital examinations.
In online consultations, Carretero convinced parents to
examine their children's genitals, while he filmed the act.
The court found him guilty of rape with aggravating
circumstances "owing to the fact that he used his position as
a doctor and abused a specific trust, well as the victim's
ages."
Astrology in
US
13/5/2019
Almost 80 people registered as plaintiffs in the case, of
which 55 were children.
More than half of young adults in the U.S. believe
astrology is a science. compared to less than 8% of the
Chinese public.
The psychic services industry — which includes astrology,
aura reading, mediumship, tarot-card reading and palmistry,
among other metaphysical services — grew 2% between 2011 and
2016. It is now worth $2 billion annually, according to
industry analysis firm IBIS World.
Eva,
29, terrible story about Finland: Abandoned the veil,
extreme honor violence began immediately
11/5/2019
A 20-year-old Afghan-based woman living in Finland
believed that suicide would be the only way to get rid of
the mental hell caused by honor violence and forced marriage
in the near future. Experts suspect that murders have
already been committed in Finland in the name of honor
violence.
EVA TAWASOLI had been afraid for years. When
Tawasoli, a female Afghan woman living in Finland at the
time, had not found an escape that she needed, she had
decided to jump. Down the bridge, eyes closed.
“It was certainly a miracle that I did not die,” Tawasoli
tells ‘IS’ in an interview now, barely ten years later.
“After the event, I had some time to realize, and then, for
a long time in rehabilitation, I was fully happy with my
former self.
HONOR VIOLENCE has risen in recent times, as the police
reported an attempted double murder in Helsinki in northern
Haaga as an honour violence referring to the company’s
motive. The Iraqi man still on the road is suspected of
stabbing his former wife and her friend that was
life-threatening.
– Honorary violence is a silenced truth in Finland. It
occurs much more than you dare to talk aloud. Fear traps
both the victims and the government, Tawasoli, 29, says.
– When we do not talk about such a serious violation
of human rights related to culture, the threat of murder
permanently remains in the country.
The deputy mayor of HELSINKI, Nasima Razmyar, recently said
to ‘IS’, that “the emergence of the parallel realities in
the capital region, such as the Haaga stabbing incident,
must be taken seriously”.
Parallel-Reality, Razmyar, the communities, factions,
relatives and sects of the immigrant population, which
accept honour violence, and where women are, in particular,
controlled and condemned on the basis of conservative
religious norms.
Honor violence is different from the frequent jealousy that
exists within the population of Finland. Honor violence is
in the family or in the circle of families, and a close
relative also often helps and supports the actual
perpetrators of the honor violence. For example, a woman’s
premarital relationship, a nightclub visit, a violation of
dress codes, infidelity, a petition for divorce, or
homosexuality is known as the motives of the violent
violence.
– There are great cultural differences. When a Finnish man
hits a woman, he is not patted on the back. Instead, when a
man in our culture is beating his women in the name of the
honor of violence, the whole family community praises the
beating. Honor violence often even enhances the male
position in the community, Tawasoli says.
A Record 60% of
Americans Say They Could Vote for an Atheist President
The holy month of
the Muslims increases the crimes because fasting
gets bad
07/05/2019
All the right cryptographers
use a code that cannot be decrypted
Erkki Hartikainen on 6 May 2016
The Finnish Broadcasting Company
is currently representing a film that tells about
code-strippers.
One of the editors of the
Broadcasting Company should be sent to the
cryptography course of the Department of Computer
Science.There they
would learn that unpacked code was already used during
World War II.
Anyone can do that.The use of decryptable cryptography
is due to the difficulty of spreading the keys.
For example, if you take a
snippet of each of my daily writings as a key,
cryptography could not be completely unloaded by any
unpacking program, not to mention people.
The presence of wolves
in Finland has changed
Erkki Hartikainen on 5 May 2016
Earliert the wolves were in the
north.
Now the reindeer herders kill all
the wolves in the north illegally or legally, and the
wolves are only in the south.
Fortunately, wolves still live in
Siberia and Canada.
How can the Pope be
heretical?
Erkki Hartikainen on 5/4/2016
Catholic priests who have accused
the Pope of heresy do not remember that, according to
the official doctrine of the Catholic Church, the Pope
is infallible.
(Helsingin Sanomat, biggest newspaper in Finland) promotes the
monastery and defends the world's worst religion Islam. The
biggest problem in the world is Islam.
Violence in
Jewish religions
04/22/2019
References to destruction and violence in the New Testament
are 2.8 per cent of texts, in the Koran 2.1 per cent. The Old
Testament clearly goes to the top with 5.3 percent.
Crucifixion
fairy tale
Erkki Hartikainen on April 20, 2016
is the disgrace of Roman law. The views were sharply contrary
to Roman law. The Romans understood the meaning of the
tolerance very well. Rome was a multinational state and
different religions were tolerated.
Nusrat Jahan
Rafi: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment
By Mir Sabbir BBC Bengali, Dhaka
19 April 2019
Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and set on fire at
her school in Bangladesh. Less than two weeks earlier, she had
filed a sexual harassment complaint against her headmaster.
Her courage in speaking out against sexual assault, her death
five days after being set alight and everything that happened
in-between has gripped Bangladesh and brought attention to the
vulnerability of sexual harassment victims in this
conservative South Asian country.
Nusrat, who was 19, was from Feni, a small town 100 miles
(160km) south of Dhaka. She was studying at a madrassa, or
Islamic school. On 27 March, she said the headmaster called
her into his office and repeatedly touched her in an
inappropriate manner. Before things could go any further she
ran out.
Many girls and young women in Bangladesh choose to keep their
experiences of sexual harassment or abuse secret for fear of
being shamed by society or their families. What made Nusrat
Jahan different is that she didn't just speak out - she went
to the police with the help of her family on the day the
alleged abuse happened.
At the local police station she gave a statement. She should
have been provided with a safe environment to recall her
traumatic experiences. Instead she was filmed by the officer
in charge on his phone as she described the ordeal.
In the video Nusrat is visibly distressed and tries to hide
her face with her hands. The policeman is heard calling the
complaint "no big deal" and telling her to move her hands from
her face. The video was later leaked to local media.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi was from a small town, came from a
conservative family, and went to a religious school. For a
girl in her position, reporting sexual harassment can come
with consequences. Victims often face judgement from their
communities, harassment, in person and online, and in some
cases violent attacks. Nusrat went on to experience all of
these.
On 27 March, after she went to the police, they arrested the
headmaster. Things then got worse for Nusrat. A group of
people gathered in the streets demanding his release. The
protest had been arranged by two male students and local
politicians were allegedly in attendance. People began to
blame Nusrat. Her family say they started to worry about her
safety.
Nevertheless, on 6 April, 11 days after the alleged sexual
assault, Nusrat went to her school to sit her final exams.
"I tried to take my sister to school and tried to enter the
premises, but I was stopped and wasn't allowed to enter," said
Nusrat's brother, Mahmudul Hasan Noman.
"If I hadn't been stopped, something like this wouldn't have
happened to my sister," he said.
According to a statement given by Nusrat, a fellow female
student took her to the roof of the school, saying one of her
friends was being beaten up. When Nusrat reached the rooftop
four or five people, wearing burqas, surrounded her and
allegedly pressured her to withdraw the case against the
headmaster. When she refused, they set her on fire.
Police Bureau of Investigation chief Banaj Kumar Majumder said
the killers wanted "to make it look like a suicide". Their
plan failed when Nusrat was rescued after they fled the scene.
She was able to give a statement before she died.
"One of the killers was holding her head down with his hands,
so kerosene wasn't poured there and that's why her head wasn't
burned," Mr Majumder told BBC Bengali.
But when Nusrat was taken to a local hospital, doctors found
burns covering 80% of her body. Unable to treat the burns,
they sent her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
In the ambulance, fearing she might not survive, she recorded
a statement on her brother's mobile phone.
"The teacher touched me, I will fight this crime till my last
breath," you can hear her say.
She also identified some of her attackers as students at the
madrassa.
News of Nusrat's health dominated Bangladeshi media. On 10
April, she died. Thousands of people turned out for her
funeral in Feni.
Police have since arrested 15 people, seven of them allegedly
involved in the murder. Among those arrested are the two male
students who organised the protest in support of the
headmaster. The headmaster himself remains in custody. The
policeman who filmed Nusrat's sexual harassment complaint has
been removed from his post and transferred to another
department.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met Nusrat's family in Dhaka and
promised that every person involved in the killing would be
brought to justice. "None of the culprits will be spared from
legal action," she said.
Nusrat's death has sparked protests and thousands have used
social media to express their anger about both her case and
the treatment of sexual assault victims in Bangladesh.
"Many girls don't protest out of fear after such incidents.
Burqas, even dresses made of iron cannot stop rapists," said
Anowar Sheikh on BBC Bengali's Facebook page.
"I wanted a daughter my whole life, but now I am afraid.
Giving birth to a daughter in this country means a life of
fear and worry," wrote Lopa Hossain in her Facebook post.
According to women's rights group Bangladesh Mahila Parishad,
there were 940 incidents of rape in Bangladesh in 2018. But
researchers say the real number is likely to be much higher.
"When a woman tries to get justice for sexual harassment, she
has to face a lot of harassment again. The case lingers for
years, there is shaming in society, a lack of willingness from
police to properly investigate the allegations," said Salma
Ali, a human rights lawyer and former director of the Women
Lawyers' Association.
"It leads the victim to give up on seeking justice. Ultimately
the criminals don't get punished and they do the same crime
again. Others don't fear to do the same because of such
examples."
Now people are asking: Why did Nusrat's case only get
attention after she was attacked? And will her case change the
way people view sexual harassment in Bangla
07/06/2019
