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Reply to The Stone that the Builders Rejected in Religion JoeUser Forums

"faiths of other people should be respected equally" "I'm tired of watching people being descriminated against for their faith." You know , many of the pigrims who first came to this land, did so to escape church persecution. They were of different faiths, and were exasperated that the established Church in Europe, which had a lot of influence in the State, used State power to drive them away. This was considered by our founding fathe

Reply to Distancing myself in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Let's just all sing together. Pass the mike ?

Reply to Peace. in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Happy New Year, Dharma.

Reply to Animals Escaped Tsunami Waves in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

For a time, China reported the same animal behaviour and used it as an earthquake warning procedure for its people. But the Asian Tsunami disaster was an oddball, in the sense that it swept the areas surrounding the Indian Ocean, not the unstable area arround the Pacific Rim which was dotted with volcanoes and earthquake activity, catching Western tourists, Asians and people from different religions off-guard. I remember a Thai tourist guide even e

Reply to String Theory in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

know what? You're not alone with this feeling. I deal with the sciences and I've relied on its logic for most of the issues I faced ,but then comes this blank wall. The nearest description of the feeling I have is best expressed from a quote from an Asian political figure I admired (the late Benigno Aquino) who upon being interviewed on televison said, "If God did not exist, I would have to invent Him."

Reply to Dream A Little Dream of Me in Music JoeUser Forums

Happy New Year to you, Nicky, and thanks!

Reply to Dream A Little Dream of Me in Music JoeUser Forums

Hey, Raven, thanks. Hope to hear more of you in 2005. Have a Great Year!

Reply to Will liberals welcome the troops home? in Politics JoeUser Forums

There are many who believe that it's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time If you're in the military, the aspect of the type of war (conventional/unconventional), the timing of the war and the target priorities all involve strategy, not generalities.

Dream A Little Dream of Me in Music JoeUser Forums

As we approach the start of a New Year, we seem to have more depressing blogs at JU. I don't mean just the private petty quarrels we've read but pretty much just loneliness. It's ironic in a way since,at this time, we've always had celebrations (It's suppose to be a happy event ), but we've also had a spate of depressions, sadly, even suicides. To think that we

Reply to Picture of Me in Misc JoeUser Forums

Yes, you are beautiful. I'm not a lesbian too. (? why does everybody say that here?!) Jeez.. Anyway, i'I'm a Dad and you're picture perfect - just like my daughter.

Reply to Will liberals welcome the troops home? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Nothing could be further from the truth. A lot of Americans,regardless of political affinities have matured enough to know the difference between what it perceives as a wrong administrative policy and the troops that carry out these policies. Whether it be Iraq or Vietnam, it's definitely wrong for anyone to blame the troops who try to fulfill their mission. With the rate American lives are lost on a daily basis in Iraq, the worst thing for anyone to

Reply to Scatter's World-Wide Fearless Forecast '05 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

im surprised by the lack of forecasts (not yours as a specific) involving terrrorists who operate in the so-called 'bormann or eichman triangle' where the anemic borders of uruguay, argentina and brazil provide a wealth of sinister opportunity for those who prefer to do business without a lotta umm...shall we say...government ove

Scatter's World-Wide Fearless Forecast '05 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Okay, so another New Year is in the offing, and here I am ready to fall flat in my face for putting out this blog. I’ve done it before (fell flat on my face after putting out a blog – elsewhere) So since, I’m getting the hang of it, I’ll do it this one last New Year’s time – until I get it right (or until I turn into SpongeBob). As always, the guys responsible for get

Reply to The Ethics of Importance - Reflections on Tsunamis in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

How true. I think the important thing is getting the message in plainspeak to ordinary people and motivate them to be extraordinary for their survival. It's more of an art - something that's quite divorced from assigning the class to read three books about why we should pay attention to books ,continually question and value life.

Reply to A New Theory of Aging in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

I missed this thread, but anyway, regarding your theory of aging, it seems to have been arrived at deductively ,from macro to micro. It also poses a problematic analogy between biological cellular systems and political-structural systems. This you must agree , is a quantum leap which as they say , like comparing apples and coconuts so that we really will have difficulty linking them together. What about focusing on the cellular dynamics? What's this a

Reply to What, exactly, does God want? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I agree with the "insightful" tab. Great article. I guess man, has used God as a crutch in most of his journeys . It's having the faith that God is in everyone and that we don't need the crutch - that's the tricky part that's left for all to discover. If others are slower in realizing that, then it really would be counterproductive to just rush them into this awareness. Imposing one's own learning curve on others leads to a lot more conflict and misu

Reply to If this was burning, what would you do? C vs. S again... in Politics JoeUser Forums

To maintain our freedom we must not play favorites. Exactly. Imagine the confusion, if not strife that we would cause in the classrooms when the teacher announces, "Ok, children, prayer time." The Christian children would do their sign of the crosses, the Muslim children would kneel and prostrate themse

Reply to Where is love? in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

before the stroke of midnight , 31st of January, as you go out to the streets to greet the New Year, as the fireworks fly, you will see his face, looking at you from the driver's seat, saying, "you..you.. stay off the streets and watch from the sidewalk..Jeez!" (Of course, I couldn't quite make out the year from my crystal ball..2006?) Anyway, greet the New Year just the same, just in case it's this year. -no need to put a hex on me, Wux.-just

Reply to How Racial Profiling can Solve All our Problems in Misc JoeUser Forums

Bwaha HahaHaHahaHahaHa,,!! ARE YOU INSANNEE!!?? Ok, don't answer that 'coz most of us here are. ( as a consequence of biological warfare, many are down with Kingbee's disease)

Reply to Understanding Moslems, 0->2004 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Based on this article,many Muslims have indeed been misled. What has evolved is a deliberate distortion of Islam to radicalize it ,particularly on the following points : (1)"Muhammad himself gave ahl al-dhimma to the Jews and Christians when he asserted that he was adding to the former faiths of Moses, Abraham and Jesus and that they (Moslems) had no right to remove what Allah revealed to Muhammad." ("During the golden age of

Reply to Pieces of me in Misc JoeUser Forums

hey, unhappy warrior, sounds like you're talking about most of us (xcept the mom part) here. Just like you, we're real people. We just have varying degrees of hiding it.

Reply to Party! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

this hardly constitutes a present Oh, but it is, Kb. Thanks a lot. It's a significant data source for any student of history and a wealth of background info for anyone who wants to understand where we're at , where we're heading and why.

Reply to God's deliberate design flaw in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

The formula is: Free will is the factor that assures there will be no or ,if temporarily, less fence-sitters. Limbo or Purgatory is conceptually a transient state. If you're an angel, and you stay so because of free will, your nature strengthens autonomously with time. Without free will, your nature, will fail or weakly evolve autonomously since you would be 100% dependent on God's will. So an indecisive angel won't need to be a semi-angel, but a devi

Reply to I'm disappointed in Blogging JoeUser Forums

oooppss double-post!

Reply to I Guess McCain Isn't The Only One... in Politics JoeUser Forums

"... The treaty was signed in Paris, I think (quick history fact: most treaties of war are signed in Paris. It's trez chic to do so, I'd imagine.) .." - Solnac I got the point of your blog, and I don't wish to argue on its merits. Just a small clarification. Most of people know it as the Treaty of Versailles, not to be confused with the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War. Happy Holidays!