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Peter
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PostSubject: ISM Schism   ISM Schism EmptyFri 26 Aug 2011, 21:16

This is a prophetic little cartoon from more than 50 years ago. It's not like the sheep weren't warned.

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PostSubject: Re: ISM Schism   ISM Schism EmptySat 27 Aug 2011, 10:26

A challenge to all members and guests. Try to find any word which ends in ism which describes a favorable outcome for the followers of such an ism. Or the victims of said ism.

For the followers there is the undeniable benefit in some cases, of the sense of moral superiority, or of the satisfaction of certain intellectual pretensions. In these cases the victims become marginalized and vilified, usually permanently. The followers simply become insufferable, and boringly repetitive, also permanently.


For openers, here's an article on smokism. Yes Pete that means us!!! It is not good. Twisted Evil

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An excerpt:

THE CRITIQUE OF HEALTH SCARES AND STATE PATERNALISM
by Chris R. Tame and David Botsford

Critics of the anti-smoking movement, like Bernard Levin, Iain Murray and Keith Waterhouse, were scorned when they first warned that that movement was a prelude to similar campaigns on other pleasures or lifestyles. A decade ago, Waterhouse declared:

"The most pernicious thing about smokism is that it is not really about smoking at all. Cigarettes happen to be the product the smokists currently want stamped out. Tomorrow it could be - and will be - white bread, or beer, or junk food, or mashed potatoes. The object of the exercise is to impose the will of those who believe they know best on a supine population which is supposed not to know enough to come in out of the rain." [109]

We have shown that this is precisely what has occurred. We now offer a more detailed critique of the rise of health scares, which increasingly justify the title of "health fascism".
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PostSubject: Re: ISM Schism   ISM Schism EmptySat 27 Aug 2011, 16:47

raqueteer wrote:
A challenge to all members and guests. Try to find any word which ends in ism which describes a favorable outcome for the followers of such an ism. Or the victims (or tangential beneficiaries - added by Dawg) of said ism.

Onanism
Skepticism
Secularism
Texas Secessionism (Favorable outcome for all non-Texans)
Freebootism
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Dawgism
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PostSubject: Re: ISM Schism   ISM Schism EmptySat 27 Aug 2011, 20:09

Hound Dog wrote:
raqueteer wrote:
A challenge to all members and guests. Try to find any word which ends in ism which describes a favorable outcome for the followers of such an ism. Or the victims (or tangential beneficiaries - added by Dawg) of said ism.

Onanism
Skepticism
Secularism
Texas Secessionism (Favorable outcome for all non-Texans)
Freebootism
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Dawgism

Exceptionally good responses. Now of course Dawg, you do realize that onanism once had a particularly bad outcome according to followers of kellogisms, however now that we're older, it's a good thing. Bad eyesight be damned.

You are, at least so far, the winner, and have a very large lead in the race. Twisted Evil
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