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lavender27 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > , do you have a stereo, I'd love to play my vinyls > again. No. Do you have anything to say which is meaningful and related to the subject of cognitive dissonance, perhaps from your own experience?

The below text may help you determine if you suffer from cognitive dissonance. According to Festinger (1957), the author of the theory cognitive dissonance, people hold a variety of beliefs of the world and themselves and when these beliefs are contradicted by observable information it creates an anxiety. However, to resolve this anxiety the habitual response in many people is not to alter their beliefs to confirm to the new information, but rather to alter or deny their observations so they can maintain their beliefs. For example, a single parent who suffered intense emotional turmoil after their only child was killed fighting in the 2003 Iraq war and who holds a belief that their child was fighting courageously for justice, freedom and peace and thus their death was not in vain, will have a tendency, according to the theory, to be dismissive of information which demonstrates the war was fought for oppression and exploitation. Moreover, if you the reader of the above example consider yourself not to confirm to gender based stereotypes, but you presumed that the single parent is a female or that the only child killed in the war was a male may begin to suffer from cognitive dissonance. This is because genders were not assigned in the above example, and thus any imposition of gender will have stemmed from the stereotypes you adhere to. To conclude, if you imposed gender stereotypes to define the characters in the above example yet maintain you do not adhere to such stereotypes it is highly probable you are currently suffering from cognitive dissonance.

I feel members of the Gentrification cult are the most active in West Peckham. They can be easily identified by their continual reference to West Peckham as East Dulwich.

Is it even legitimate to distinguish between genders according to the current social political context in the UK?

It could be the case pigeons have always been what you consider to be smart but you never noticed.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think I just saw about 20 police in riot gear > marching at speed past the Great Exhibition pub. > Was I hallucinating? They may have been preparing to assist the BBC in entering a house as part of a TV license inspection.

It's a violent and cruel environment we live in and I can only imagine it will get worse post Brexit, especially for us of an 'ethnic' appearance.

The EU referendum is all baloney! Voting is not going to change the direction of this ideological freight train, rather all it will do is consolidate power so in a few years when people complain about EU legislation they will be told 'stop complaining you voted to stay in'.

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landsberger Wrote: 'Definitely not indigenous - probably from LEWISHAM (gasp)'. Landsberger, what is the basis for your suggestion that the tea leaf was from Lewisham (that's Blackheath/Greenwich for the gentrifier)? Also, in your definition of 'indigenous', do you consider the recent influx of gentrifiers to be indigenous to the population of East Dulwich (Peckham for the non-gentrifier)?

red devil Wrote: 'Well spotted unc, definitely not indigenous, I reckon there's a bit of Irish about him, 2nd or 3rd generation...sound familiar?' In the absence of any evidence it appears you are applying negative racial stereotypes to reach an assumption that the tea leaf is Irish. However, at this stage there is nothing to rule out he is not a local English gentrifier wanting to fill a financial shortfall by stealing from el_fed.

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Your hyacinths may be flopping due to an acidic environment.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I haven't been around long enough to know all the > characters but I tend to associate the idea of a > clique with recurring themes, behaviour. In my own > case it the accusation of being a troll or another > poster after a handful of first posts. That is a > recurring theme of a small group of people, who > never apologise when shown to be wrong it seems. I think you are on to something here.

Jeremy Wrote: 'Otta is the hipster with the beard and striped shirt'. ---------------- The guy with the striped shirt looks more like the archetypal serial killer than a hipster. Just look at those eyes.

With the glasses and striped shirt or with the big hat?

Could this be a pre-gentrification picture of the 'ED Clique'? http://www.splotchy.com/images/blog/band/hotchocolate.jpg

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Mrs Y Wrote: 'If you've bought a ceramic poppy from the London installations how are you displaying yours? Looking for some ideas?' ------------------------ Why you would buy a poppy? What is it that you think you are supporting?

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Blah Blah Wrote: ?You are not comparing like for like there. The contexts are entirely different and context is extremely important. The former an act of all out war between nations throwing everything at each other. The latter, an act in isolation. A better comparison would be with any battle in Vietnam. Terrorism is so called because it's the method of groups without armies, designed to strike disproportionate fear, hence the term, and also hence why it never succeeds as a method in itself. So an appropriate use of the word for the 7/7 bombers?. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Therefore, according to your description, in a case of ?all out war? would the targeting of civilians on a tube then not be terrorism? Does the context change the categorization of the act? And what and who defines the context? Regardless, it is important to point out the large scale indiscriminate bombing of civilians is a strategy of warfare which ?western liberal democracies? use. For example, during World War Two the aerial bombing of civilians was initiated by the British and continued even after Hitler had threatened if they did not stop he would respond by bombing British cities. The renowned British historian A. J. P. (1961) Taylor argues that, ?After the war they wanted to pin on him [Hitler] the guilt for everything which happened, regardless of the evidence. This is illustrated, for example, by the almost universal belief that Hitler started the indiscriminate bombing of civilians, whereas it was started by the directors of British strategy, as some of the more honest among them have boasted? (pg 16). The aerial attack alone against Hamburg by the British in 1943 yielded the first ?fire-storm? in history and killed in the region of 50000 civilians, whose main cause of death was either burning or asphyxiation. Was this not an act of terrorism for the men, women and children who were burnt alive in their homes? A key to understanding the true nature of terrorism is by firstly defining the term ?terrorism?. Blah Blah how would you define the terms ?terrorism? and ?war?, and do they differ from each other?

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