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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Europe is a bit screwed up right now, morally and otherwise, so I wouldn't look to their trends as something to emulate.

I think that humans were basically hardwired to believe in something, to seek truth in what they see and experience, to ask cosmic questions like why we're here etc. Some people may not appear interested in these things at all times, but I think if push came to shove even the people who are normally uninterested in such things would look for something to believe in, to hope towards. Maybe not everyone, but most people.

No, I don't think that religeon will come to an end. The point about more info being out there made sense, that if people know about lots of theories and religeons they have more choices so we see a wider variety of afiliations.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


But as long as I've known Second, I take him to be the type of person who's never had a good laugh in his life.

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Originally posted by yinyang:
I consider yin and yang to be Chinese philosophical concepts (although, I'll admit, it is a part of some religions). I'm an existential atheist; but, does that mean I can't assimilate religious concepts without being associated with said religion? So, does that make me a Christian Taoist, because I also believe people should "love your neighbor as yourself"? Does it take so little these days to be considered religious, as if everyone must be religious, no exceptions?

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
List of protests by Muslims over this beheading ?

Anyone ?

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Originally posted by piratenews:


Gasoline cost 5-CENTS/gallon in Iraq (FULL SERVICE), until December 2005, when Bushes' "Jewish" neoCONS raised gas prices 1,500% to 65-cents/gallon.

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Originally posted by mincingbeast:
It is worth noting that, according to Fox News, 1/3 of Americans believe in UFOs and ghosts.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
It must be really hard to be a psycho Leftist these days. So many, oh sooooo many perceived micro-agression rages, infinite injustices, and volumes of pc dogma tenets to remember all the time ... how do they do it?

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

The truth is, I don't know there is a god anymore than I know there isn't a god, and I have equal distain for people who are blindly on one side or another. I wish them no offense and, I hope them none on me, but anybody here who's absolutely sure about anything that happened before their born, in my eyes, is a close-minded idiot.

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Originally posted by THG:

Poor comrade signym. On these threads she has been exposed as having zero morals or values.

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Originally posted by second:

They are only trying to survive another day, hoping to maintain unity as long as possible so that when the Republican position collapses, they can capitulate on two issues at once — financing the government and raising the debt ceiling — and head off any internal party backlash against Boehner.

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Originally posted by second:

Honor killing is tightly interwoven with abstract thought and has a cold logic of its own. See Chapter 6, "Hotheads", from the book How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker.

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Originally posted by second:

Until people recognize and admit that all of these are, in fact, “real Islam”, the issues underlying the problem of jihadi militancy cannot be addressed. If the violence is “not real Islam”, the implication is that Islam – as practiced by most Muslims – needs no reform. But that is manifestly not the case. The scourge of violence in the name of Islam will be removed only when Muslims in general come to reject all instances of violence in the name of Islam, including those that are celebrated in scripture and history. When conquerors who killed “infidels” are regarded as heroes of the faith; when the world is seen as divided into the “house of Islam” and the “house of war”

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Originally posted by SIGNYM: if yiu want to destroy a nation you must first destroy its foundational associations:

Family
Neighborhood
Church, or at least ethics
Unions
Language
Nation
Philosophy (eg science/ belief based? rational/ emotional? etc)

And find and expand wedges in society; divide on

Race
Sex
Sexual orientation
Etc.

What better way to program an entire generation than social media! It sucks up inordinate amounts of time, turning its devotees into self- absorbed narcissists who are vastly ignorant that there is a "real world" out there that involves work, learning, joy, pain, doubt, love, confidence, responsibility ...

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Originally posted by SIGNYM: I despair of many women today!

But I think the reason why women are more easily programmed is biological, not cultural. In culture after culture, most men are more aggressive than most women. I see that in many species too. If female reproduction is the rate-limiting step, a species can survive the loss of its males (in many cases actually does better) from male- male competition, risky behavior, extreme physical effort, even defending the herd/ group.

Male mammals are almost always programmed for individual aggression and risk taking.

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