There are many factors that breed these modern terrorists, and it can never be pinpointed on any one source. It is irresponsible to deny the American support of Israel and the tol that the fight between Israel and Palestine has taken on both sides. The jihadist muslim world needs something to pinpoint their hatred at, even though a lot of it comes from their own irrational beliefs and a hundred other reasons. There will always be "terrorists" in a world that relies more on blaming than problem solving. The only way to end this is to educate people in the real world. In the meantime it's better to protect our own country rather than step on many other feet to give irrational people something to be mad at. Education is the only means to truly make these numbers smaller, but of course that's terribly hard to do. But in my opinion (this should be taken as a grain of salt), it's better not to step on the snapping turtle's toe, there's already plenty of snakes that we're dealing with.
Posts by Daunt
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44World War III - Has It Started?
by truthseeker inthe enemy is invisible.
there are no rules.
they wear no uniform.
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Answering Techniques
by PopeOfEruke inwhat was your technique for answering at the wt study?.
were you one of the types who waited, sweating silently, till the last or second-last paragraph, then finally put your hand up and hope like crazy they picked someone else?
remember the dry throat??
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Daunt
I have been successful in not answering a question in the meeting for almost a year. But I just wait till the last one and read the paragraph again like ALL of the people in the congregation do. I never remember somebody actually bringing something new to the study in the answers. Just reading the paragraph exactly like it is, but sometimes you might get the treat of somebody mixing up the other yet still reading the exact same thing in the paragraph.
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Re: *PLEASE READ* GOD VS. THE GAVEL: RELIGION & THE RULE OF LAW
by AndersonsInfo inmarci a. hamilton is an internationally recognized constitutional expert specializing in church/state relations.
professor hamilton's new book, god vs. the gavel: religion and the rule of law is one of the brightest lights on the horizon in a difficult time of prosecuting religions that cause harm.
ms. hamilton states -- "while religious conduct provides many benefits to society, it is not always benign.
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Daunt
I saw an interview of this book on The Daily Show a little while ago. She was very intelligent and not afraid to say that religion can be a dangerous force. Didn't know she was religious though. I hope more people read this book, and I hope I can get that book through these doors without getting shunned.
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A Good Escape Plan.
by Daunt ini'm planning on moving out from my jw parents house in about 7 months.
i'm trying to start a job and i already have a little money going into it (bout 2500 dollars little) however, mainly i just wanted to really know if this was the best course of action.
my parents are the usual jw's but i do love them, however, the pressure is just building up from all their jw reasoning and pressure and guilt trips and all that mess.
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Daunt
Ah well I never got baptised so I'm not under those kinds of elder visits. And if they do I'll just tell them to piss off, they have no more control over me than the next person. And about the spending thing, I've always grown up living in lower middle class conditions, I'm use too surviving.
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A Good Escape Plan.
by Daunt ini'm planning on moving out from my jw parents house in about 7 months.
i'm trying to start a job and i already have a little money going into it (bout 2500 dollars little) however, mainly i just wanted to really know if this was the best course of action.
my parents are the usual jw's but i do love them, however, the pressure is just building up from all their jw reasoning and pressure and guilt trips and all that mess.
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Daunt
My parents will not support me in anything unless I'm on the bandwagon to be a JW. I'm planning to move in with a bud for a year and save up money along the way then go to this school in california for art. Very good school. And over the next few years I'm planning to just work with the art for money and enjoy life until I can afford a University college and possibly take psychology or something along those lines.
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A Good Escape Plan.
by Daunt ini'm planning on moving out from my jw parents house in about 7 months.
i'm trying to start a job and i already have a little money going into it (bout 2500 dollars little) however, mainly i just wanted to really know if this was the best course of action.
my parents are the usual jw's but i do love them, however, the pressure is just building up from all their jw reasoning and pressure and guilt trips and all that mess.
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Daunt
I'm planning on moving out from my JW parents house in about 7 months. I'm trying to start a job and I already have a little money going into it (bout 2500 dollars little) however, mainly I just wanted to really know if this was the best course of action. My parents are the usual JW's but I do love them, however, the pressure is just building up from all their JW reasoning and pressure and guilt trips and all that mess. So I was just wondering if anybody else may have been in this situation, and how they went through this. I know it's going to be hard but I'm still pretty unexperienced about "This system of things" (never really got that line) but I know my limits.
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Explaining the hateful passages of the Bible
by Rex inhere is a link to an author whose books may help you:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0060762055/ref=ase_agoramedia-20/103-0623759-2877415
bishop shelby spong is of well repute in liberal theological circles.
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Daunt
I believe (Doesn't take much believing, experience will tell you this) that these universal laws come from nature and how we deal with nature. We do not like to die, so it's only logical to assume that other people do not want to die. If we kill a person that's taking away their right to living, and in the basic primitive human world you would have to worry about the social pressures that will come from killing a person that's benefitting the tribe and the family. In today's world this is the same case pretty much. Anyways all this bunched up together creates these laws, and it's just damaging to humanity to break these.
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Would acceptance of the gospel change the world?
by greendawn inwhat do you think would happen if the world or at least a large powerful nation accepted and practised the gospel as it is without watering it down?
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Daunt
And not all social problems will be solved. You will have to deal with the dampening of our human instincts. I doubt any man will get any woman he wants in this world that follows the gospel. He might get angry, and I doubt telling himself, "Oh I must love my neighbor I must love my neighbor" will keep him in this way for long. If there isn't anything sticking the person to these beliefs they're no more than words floating in a person's head. And thinking that people will just automactically follow the gospel is wishful thinking in itself. We're too human for that.
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Would acceptance of the gospel change the world?
by greendawn inwhat do you think would happen if the world or at least a large powerful nation accepted and practised the gospel as it is without watering it down?
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Daunt
Nice words are just nice words. Humans will never lower the complexity of just a few words. Find something that can harness these complexities and give humans a reason, a focus to benefit themselves and mankind. Only mankind and nature itself can do that. If only mankind comes up with an idea to harness these complexities they will only use their own imperfections and fantasies to base it on. And nature is pitiless and blind like tetra said. Put them both together and you have something that is always changing and always advancing. Our minds and nature itself. Best mix possible.
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Daunt
If there were a concensus of a large number of women that have had an abortion i would doubt that any of them would say it was just a fling abortion and it didn't cause them emotional distress. You can argue for prolife with touching stories about how people were born and had a great life when they didn't opt for abortion, but I garrentee you that there's 10 times more stories of individuals who have died from starvation since their parents couldn't care for them or obtain contraceptive or an abortion.
Another sad aspect of making abortion illegal is all of the individuals who will get illegal abortions. The number of illegal abortion diseases and death rise dramatically without drastically lowering the number of abortions. You are sending thousands of individuals who havea life already for the possibility of a life. It's hard to measure but I feel forcing anybody into this situation shows that they have a great possibility of having very crappy circumstances out of it.