it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
Thanks for the link, PSac. Its intro reads:
The animosity has its roots in religion and history,
Religion and history. Once might wonder what happened first, the religion or the history. As to cultural differences, how could it be otherwise? Religion is a big part of culture, is it not?
Slept in today. Time to get to work.
it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
So what's your theory on the crop circles, Nickolas?
Human ingenuity.
it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
No chance though, that it might be coming from extraterrestrials. Nooooo, that only happens in movies and Battlestar Galactica episodes.
and in the minds of people who believe in extraterrestrials.
good night.
it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
Just back from on the town.
Back to India, PSac, no I guess I really don't believe India would be better off still under the dominion of the UK. I wonder, however, if its independence might have been better orchestrated by someone secular, although I have doubts it would have happened at all if that had been the case. India was and still is a highly religious country and needed someone to look up to in order to coalesce and rise up against the British. Ghandi filled the bill. But it's just too easy to blame human nature alone for horrific violence done in the name of god (or gods, in the Hindus' case). The savagery is of course inate. I won't argue with you there. We are as a species not all that far removed from the other animals, after all. The thing about religion, though, is that it holds us back from advancing our tolerance toward one another. In India we have a vivid example of an indigenous people, all of the same race, some even of the same family, whose only difference was what they believed and for that sole reason they murdered one another. To suppose that the slaughters that happened in 1947 would have happened anyway, even if all Indians were either Hindu or Muslim, is not defensible. Directly or indirectly, religion was the cause, and that cannot be denied.
it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
It almost sounds like you are suggesting that they would have been better off under the British and that Ghandi shoudl have left well enough alone...
I am no fan of British imperialism, but I am less of a fan of the dark side of religion.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since partition in addition to innumerable bloody skirmishes across their shared border. They are now poised to exterminate one another with their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. And how about this:
"Mothers were skewered on swords as their children watched. Young women were stripped and raped in broad daylight, then set on fire. A pregnant woman's belly was slit open, her fetus raised skyward on the tip of sword and then tossed onto one of the fires that blazed across the city." (C. W. Dugger, "Religious Riots Loom over Indian Politics," New York Times, July 27, 2002.)
This was just nine years ago, when a thousand people died in India in one month arguing over each others' religions. This is the legacy of God-inspired faith, PSac. Perhaps the country would have been better off under the Brits.
it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
The hatred that can swell up inside some people.
Let us pray, then, that a man of God-inspired faith like Ghandi does not decide to change the status quo in our country.
it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
A million people dead. That is, indeed, powerful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1icjkwzeee.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azmgkrkj5la.
Ah, but there's stupid and then again there's stupid, SBC. The stuff you say that merely embarasses you is ok. The stuff you say that results in your kids being taken away from you in a custody hearing, or the stuff that keeps you from getting a higher level job, is not ok.
it all comes down to evidence (but funny how we tend not to accept the evidence that indicates that what be actually believe to be true might be wrong).. this is a statement made by nick in previous thread of his.. >>>>>>>>>>.
if the ot 'god' reappeared today, would that be evidence of 'god'?.
jay, .
Ghandi and MLK were to lowly human who showed, by example, that humans can, without violence, make huge changes and yet...here we are...
Ghandi was a man of non-violence whose success wresting India from the British ultimately resulted in the partition of his country and the slaughter of a million people. Religion-inspired slaughter of a million people. Kind of ironic, in a way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1icjkwzeee.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azmgkrkj5la.
Kinda scary in a way. ...
Yes, it is. There are people whose lives have been ruined when what they have posted has come back to haunt them. Even when a site goes down, the data that it contained are still out there to be found somewhere. My very first posts go back to 1986 when I was looking for help solving an Infocom interactive word game I was playing (remember those?) on my PC XT. I think if I made the effort I could find even those posts.
Lesson: be circumspect. You and how you think will change. You will not be the same person tomorrow as you are today. If you think, for example, that it's ok to post nude pics of yourself on the internet (or to have an emotional breakdown and say really stupid things), count to 10, take a deep breath and then don't.
