Bill Gates To Fund $50 Million Circumcision Campaign

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Am I capable of recognizing other people's "realities?" Don't you mean subjective perceptions of reality that become so real to them that they forget that they are mere perceptions and mistake them for reality, which always seems to evade human perceptions, given our limitations?

No.

Of course, I' m sure if you perceived my opinions more in line with your own you might have a different point of view on my ability to perceive other "realities."

Wrong again.

I was not referring to people on this board; I was thinking of a news broadcast where the lady journalist hysterically raged about female circumcision in Africa while nary a word about near-universal male circumcision in the U.S. It's accepted as NORMAL here in the civilized world, to snatch foreskins from male babies for "hygiene" purposes, but we have to liberate Africa from female circumcision.

Are you at all familiar with the work of Laura Knight Jadczyk?

That being said, I am aware that female circumcision is an enti

Bored now.

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i used to think that they cut the end off the sucker...."those poor jews" i would say "must look like lil headless chickens"

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They wouldn't come close if they didn't give some questionable grants. There just aren't enough reputable philanthropic entities doing work in Gates-Foundation mission-compatible fields that have the capacity to use a sum total of one and a half billion dollars a year on the face of the earth for that.

This is kind of astounding to contemplate for me - I mean, no compatible organizations exist to get 'free' money?? But I suspect you are right, which is unfortunate.

Also, when you stop to consider that as a matter of good stewardship, they're obligated to be investing the other 95 percent as profitably as possible, it seems like a pretty sure bet that whatever harm they might do with questionable grant-making decisions is dwarfed by the harm done by what they put in the marketplace.

Yes, but the more I look at this circumcision the more I am convinced that it's more harmful than MS Windows could ever be, and that is saying a lot And I'm circumcised myself, and I think on some level it affected me and I 'remember' the experience.

/end topic, an aside:

c2w, since I got your attention for a second, I've been meaning to ask you about the synchronicity of your initials, c2w, also being a common military acronym

c2w = command control warfare

Is that just a coincidence or a pun just for fun? Irony.

I didn't even know until just now that it was shorthand for anything beyond my full screen-name, which I chose because I happened to be having a short but hot relationship with the funky war-protest sounds of Les McCann's O.D. 1969 live performance of "Compared To What" at the time.

Also: No, no, no, that money's got nothing to do with Microsoft. The foundation has tax-exempt assets that are roughly equal to or greater than the nominal GDP of 100 out of 179 nation-states, as ranked by the IMF in 2008. And barring a minimum of five percent of that sum annually, it can invest that wherever its investment advisors want it invested.

So, you know, the influence of capital, blah, blah, blah, and therefore the impact it has on the world via its marketplace clout as well as the investments themselves is probably much, much greater than the impact it has via the grants that enable the remaining 95 percent of its ginormous endowment to go untaxed.

Was what I meant.

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NOCIRC - National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers