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  IF you believe in evolution, theistic or not.....

  by DATA-DOG in

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  are you more amazed by nature documentaries now, or were they better when "god did it"??.

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  I watch videos on the inner workings of cells and I am gobsmacked - I can totally see why some find it impossible to believe in anything other than design - but I just sit in total wonder now.
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  Are first world countries to blame for the bulk of third world squalor?

  by tootired2care in

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  throughout several past threads various posters have emphatically made the point that countries like great britian, united states, france etc.

  basically countries where white people exist, are to blame for the poverty in many other third world nations.

  some have even went so far as to suggest that the first world is to blame for all third world conditions.. i often see excuses such as these for why a country refuses to provide clean water, some food and basic sanitation for its people:.

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  Do you know what killed most of the Native Americans?
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  Are first world countries to blame for the bulk of third world squalor?

  by tootired2care in

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  throughout several past threads various posters have emphatically made the point that countries like great britian, united states, france etc.

  basically countries where white people exist, are to blame for the poverty in many other third world nations.

  some have even went so far as to suggest that the first world is to blame for all third world conditions.. i often see excuses such as these for why a country refuses to provide clean water, some food and basic sanitation for its people:.

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  Do so - please also show alongside the wars, genocides, plagues, social customs, legal systems, educational attainment rates, infrastructure projects, slavery rates and death rates before and after colonisation over say a 100 year period. I'm interested in your information. Seriously.
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  Are first world countries to blame for the bulk of third world squalor?

  by tootired2care in

  1. social
  2. current

  throughout several past threads various posters have emphatically made the point that countries like great britian, united states, france etc.

  basically countries where white people exist, are to blame for the poverty in many other third world nations.

  some have even went so far as to suggest that the first world is to blame for all third world conditions.. i often see excuses such as these for why a country refuses to provide clean water, some food and basic sanitation for its people:.

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  So you want me to answer for all of the benefits or problems of colonialism with the Congo? No. It is a stupid extreme scenario of course no country does well after it has been bombed colonial or not. Are you able to open up at all and see ANY benefits or are you simply rehearsing an absolute?

  ..and this example of your inability to see what is being said and simply restating as a strawman:

  who gloss over every aspect of history

  NOBODY IS
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  Are first world countries to blame for the bulk of third world squalor?

  by tootired2care in

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  2. current

  throughout several past threads various posters have emphatically made the point that countries like great britian, united states, france etc.

  basically countries where white people exist, are to blame for the poverty in many other third world nations.

  some have even went so far as to suggest that the first world is to blame for all third world conditions.. i often see excuses such as these for why a country refuses to provide clean water, some food and basic sanitation for its people:.

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  Confused - the difference in my viewpoint is that countries are responsible for themselves - we can't keep excusing their failure to progress using victim language. I think people are more empowered than that.

  We also shouldn't pretend that an alternate history that we make up would be better. I have no belief that the violent tribal cultures of the world would be or have been better off without colonialism (and I really have no way to run the clock back and check!) . I'm NOT saying that colonialism was moral or without terrible often genocidal cost ut I am saying that it was incredibaly effective in pushing cultures forward along the path of progress just as Britain benefited from the invasions in her past.
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  Are first world countries to blame for the bulk of third world squalor?

  by tootired2care in

  1. social
  2. current

  throughout several past threads various posters have emphatically made the point that countries like great britian, united states, france etc.

  basically countries where white people exist, are to blame for the poverty in many other third world nations.

  some have even went so far as to suggest that the first world is to blame for all third world conditions.. i often see excuses such as these for why a country refuses to provide clean water, some food and basic sanitation for its people:.

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  Qcmbr

  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_Western_European_colonialism_and_colonisation

  A good set of resources cited here discussing benefits and problems of colonialism.
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  Are first world countries to blame for the bulk of third world squalor?

  by tootired2care in

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  throughout several past threads various posters have emphatically made the point that countries like great britian, united states, france etc.

  basically countries where white people exist, are to blame for the poverty in many other third world nations.

  some have even went so far as to suggest that the first world is to blame for all third world conditions.. i often see excuses such as these for why a country refuses to provide clean water, some food and basic sanitation for its people:.

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  Qcmbr

  No your prejudice means you can't listen or have a dialogue confused.
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  Snowpiercer - anyone seen this creative movie?

  by berrygerry in

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  just saw it.. anyone seen it and felt like the train was the borg?.

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  I saw it and couldn't get past the science goofs to enjoy the movie :( . The announcer woman was played perfectly though, pure educated evil.
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  Love all the people...

  by new hope and happiness in

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  there are a lot of topics about religiouse hatred, so on a personal level why do you find it difficult to love or like individuals?.

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  Some people have social qualities that cause me to have visceral biological responses like dry heaves and headaches. These people generally take more than they give or is a just share arguing that it is a biological response. There is a category of person I loathe - the bully - they intimidate me and elicit a fight or flight response.
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  Love all the people...

  by new hope and happiness in

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  there are a lot of topics about religiouse hatred, so on a personal level why do you find it difficult to love or like individuals?.

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  From an evolutionary point of view I do not have the cranial space to form emotional attachments much beyond a few hundred people and beyond that I am forced to conceptualise people in blocks.

  Plus some people are ars*holes.