Funeral Strippers

[Sovaal]

Man, what is it with China and controlling the everyday lives of the proles? I mean Eastasia is just so 1948 now.

[Ifreann]

I can see how a few strippers would help people get over the loss of me. Good thinking, China.

[Symir]

That's interesting. I get why it would make people uncomfortable but I don't see the "obscene" part of it. Death is a part of life, and sexuality is how life spreads. Maybe the point is to remind people that although death and grief are inevitable, so is life and its joys, including sensual pleasures.


To paraphrase Chomsky, every new generation reinvents their language, using the old language as the jumping-off point to form something unique to them. Traditions aren't mechanically passed on from generation to generation, but rather are reshaped and repurposed as the circumstances change.

No generation reinvent the language. They modify it, but Shakespeare's English and ours share ontological continuity

That's just semantics. Generations modify languages, and the line between reinvention, modification, renewal, and all those fancy modernisation words, is quite blurry.

[Sovaal]

I can see how a few strippers would help people get over the loss of me. Good thinking, China.

Well, doesn’t look like the CP thinks so.

[The Snazzylands]

That's interesting. I get why it would make people uncomfortable but I don't see the "obscene" part of it. Death is a part of life, and sexuality is how life spreads. Maybe the point is to remind people that although death and grief are inevitable, so is life and its joys, including sensual pleasures.


To paraphrase Chomsky, every new generation reinvents their language, using the old language as the jumping-off point to form something unique to them. Traditions aren't mechanically passed on from generation to generation, but rather are reshaped and repurposed as the circumstances change.

No generation reinvent the language. They modify it, but Shakespeare's English and ours share ontological continuity

I guess it depends at what point "modifying" a language becomes reinventing it. It's hella easy to miss the slight variations that eventually emerge as completely new regional dialects or accents. I'm not talking about creating a completely new language from scratch, but about people taking their existing language into new directions and making it something notably distinct from what their grandparents spoke.
And I'd argue any of the languages English descended from share "ontological continuity" with our English, but that doesn't mean modern English and Old Frisian are the same language.

[Aillyria]

Good on China for crushing degenerative fads that disrespect the dead.

[Sovaal]

Good on China for crushing degenerative fads that disrespect the dead.

Tell me, is letting the dead sit out to be fed upon by wild animals disrepsectful?

[Ifreann]

I can see how a few strippers would help people get over the loss of me. Good thinking, China.

Well, doesn’t look like the CP thinks so.

Bunch of spoilsports.

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Good on China for crushing degenerative fads that disrespect the dead.

I don't think it'd be disrespectful. Remember me as I was in my prime. Surrounded by naked women and preserved in formaldehyde.

[The Snazzylands]

Good on China for crushing degenerative fads that disrespect the dead.

Tell me, is letting the dead sit out to be fed upon by wild animals disrepsectful?

Only if the animals aren't wearing black.

[Aillyria]

Good on China for crushing degenerative fads that disrespect the dead.

Tell me, is letting the dead sit out to be fed upon by wild animals disrepsectful?

Not necessarily, their body is going to decay anyway (i.e eaten by microorganisms).

[Sovaal]

Tell me, is letting the dead sit out to be fed upon by wild animals disrepsectful?

Not necessarily, their body is going to decay anyway (i.e eaten by microorganisms).

I’m not talking about decay in a casket, I’m talking full out leave them out on a rock and scavengers come and eat the corpse. Because many would see that as disrespectful where I come from.

[Petrasylvania]

Not hard to see the logic. They believe the bigger the crowd the better the send off so they attract more people over with a strip show.

[Kanussiya]

A few people are calling this "traditional," but it is actually? Personally I have never heard of it, then again I never do large amounts of research into what even happens in China. I have no idea what the values of Chinese people are, but something makes me doubt that the idea of getting horny while you are also thinking of a dead friend or relative was never absurd. I suppose the government is going a bit far "cracking down" on this, but I do agree: having funeral strippers just sounds like a dumb and out-of-place idea.

I suppose we might as well have car wash drill sergeants, theater-room therapists, or in a more relevant case, we could start having priests in strip clubs!

[Ifreann]

A few people are calling this "traditional," but it is actually? Personally I have never heard of it, then again I never do large amounts of research into what even happens in China. I have no idea what the values of Chinese people are, but something makes me doubt that the idea of getting horny while you are also thinking of a dead friend or relative was never absurd. I suppose the government is going a bit far "cracking down" on this, but I do agree: having funeral strippers just sounds like a dumb and out-of-place idea.

I suppose we might as well have car wash drill sergeants, theater-room therapists, or in a more relevant case, we could start having priests in strip clubs!

You think we don't already have priests in strip clubs?

[Thermodolia]

I can see how a few strippers would help people get over the loss of me. Good thinking, China.

Well, doesn’t look like the CP*C* thinks so.

You forgot the extra “C” otherwise you would be talking about the Canadian Pacific Railroad

[Thermodolia]

A few people are calling this "traditional," but it is actually? Personally I have never heard of it, then again I never do large amounts of research into what even happens in China. I have no idea what the values of Chinese people are, but something makes me doubt that the idea of getting horny while you are also thinking of a dead friend or relative was never absurd. I suppose the government is going a bit far "cracking down" on this, but I do agree: having funeral strippers just sounds like a dumb and out-of-place idea.

I suppose we might as well have car wash drill sergeants, theater-room therapists, or in a more relevant case, we could start having priests in strip clubs!

You think we don't already have priests in strip clubs?

Well they aren’t dancing, well not the real ones

[Petrasylvania]

A few people are calling this "traditional," but it is actually? Personally I have never heard of it, then again I never do large amounts of research into what even happens in China. I have no idea what the values of Chinese people are, but something makes me doubt that the idea of getting horny while you are also thinking of a dead friend or relative was never absurd. I suppose the government is going a bit far "cracking down" on this, but I do agree: having funeral strippers just sounds like a dumb and out-of-place idea.

I suppose we might as well have car wash drill sergeants, theater-room therapists, or in a more relevant case, we could start having priests in strip clubs!

You think we don't already have priests in strip clubs?

Not when the strippers are female.

[Sovaal]

You think we don't already have priests in strip clubs?

Not when the strippers are female.

Or over the age of 18. Hey, you started it.

[Aillyria]

Not necessarily, their body is going to decay anyway (i.e eaten by microorganisms).

I’m not talking about decay in a casket, I’m talking full out leave them out on a rock and scavengers come and eat the corpse. Because many would see that as disrespectful where I come from.

Yes, that'd be disrespectful in my area as well.

[Sovaal]

I’m not talking about decay in a casket, I’m talking full out leave them out on a rock and scavengers come and eat the corpse. Because many would see that as disrespectful where I come from.

Yes, that'd be disrespectful in my area as well.

Problem with that is that Sky Burials are just that and are widely done throughout the Himilayas. But ask them if they’re disrepsectful and they’ll say no. So using our standards of disrespectful for things such as this really doesn’t make any sense.

[Thermodolia]

Yes, that'd be disrespectful in my area as well.

Problem with that is that Sky Burials are just that and are widely done throughout the Himilayas. But ask them if they’re disrepsectful and they’ll say no. So using our standards of disrespectful for things such as this really doesn’t make any sense.

True.

Much like how many people would think that laughing and getting drunk at a funeral is disrespectful but not to my family.

[Washington Resistance Army]

What

[Sovaal]

What

Hey, it would make me go to funerals more often. Bill down the street dead from his millionth visit to Micky D’s? I’d go.

[Aillyria]

Yes, that'd be disrespectful in my area as well.

Problem with that is that Sky Burials are just that and are widely done throughout the Himilayas. But ask them if they’re disrepsectful and they’ll say no. So using our standards of disrespectful for things such as this really doesn’t make any sense.

I don't ascribe to moral relativism.....so that doesn't really matter to me.

[Kramanica]

China has launched its latest crackdown against a phenomenon which just won't seem to die

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