06 Feb 2005
Indonesia plans new morality laws

All the Spanish Inquistion punished was heresy and apostasy - these bozos are interested in other crimes:

Under the proposed draft, offenders caught kissing in the open could be jailed for up to 10 years and fined as much as 300 million rupiah ($33,000), reports the Jakarta Post.

Welcome to the Dark Ages. For real.

Adultery, kissing in public and cohabiting without being married could become crimes in Indonesia.

(link) [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Third-World Sweatshops Producing Virtual Goods

What else can we possibly offshore?

Apparently, some businesses create third-world sweatshops, where low-wage laborers are being paid to play and accumulate enough virtual merchandise, so that an eBay sale of it makes the operation profitable. 'One such business, Blacksnow Interactive, actually sued a virtual world's creator in 2002 for attempting to crack down on the practice. The first of its kind to center on virtual goods, the case was eventually dropped,' MSNBC says."

(link) [Slashdot]

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Crushing the Goddess

Spotted this yesterday, and was immediately struck by it's clarity. But being a 'Classics' piece, the author doesn't take her premise far enough north. The actions of the Christians described below were not limited to the Mediterranean area. Freyja was almost completely eradicated from the Nothern mythos: we are left with only vague echos of what must have been a thriving culture of the feminine in the Germanic areas.

Kathy Gaca, associate professor of classics at Vanderbilt University, delivered the Winslow Classics Lecture on Feb. 3 on the topic of "Eros and Fornication in Ancient Greek Society." Professor Gaca, author of The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity, discussed the emergence of sexuality morality in the early Christian church under the apostle Paul and its relation to both Greek polytheism and philosophy.

(link) [Hamilton College]

via rogueclassicism

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