JoeUser ForumsTo Little_Whip. You are the one person I can trust to understand me, and defend me, against all others. That's why I married you.
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To Texas Wahine: Me too. And incidentlly, what is a 'Wahine' and what is its connection with Texas?
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To karmagirl: I never understood, before I came here, how precisely the English are divided from America by our common linguistic roots. You are entirely right. We speak languages that sound that same but are fundamentally different. We use the same words, and mean utterly different things. This is only a problem when one moves from one side of the ocean to the other. One of the things I love about America, and Americans, is how di
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To WiseFawn: I'm sure that most Americans will be understanding. But really, there is a reason for the political correctness in our society, don't you think? Certainly there is a reason for it. And the reason is this. There has developed in America a particular idea, the idea that for ever
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To liveletlive: You're such a PC-fascist pussy that you actually called the damned company?? Has no one heard of the word 'dignity'? Has no one heard of being certain enough of who you are that the very idea of some crass form of publicly-dictated 'protection' of the ego is an insult? Listen to me, you moral incompetent. I find the notion of such spineless 'sensitivity' morally abhorrent. Do you go through life expecting the world to
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To dharmagirl: I can't say 'nit-picking' anymore???
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To Gideon MacLeish: And asking for a rubber here is not the same thing as asking for an eraser...
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To Gideon MacLeish: While death is not usually something to celebrate, the death of this man, who long held reign as one of America's most notorious statesman for racial hatred, promises to continue the unravelling of this once powerful white supremacist group that began in 2000, when the group lost its church and 20 acr
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To Peter Maxwell: A man cannot learn to love unless he is capable of hate. This is possibly the only intelligent thing you have ever said in your entire history as a blogger. If an inept fantasist and buffoon such as yourself can post an insightful comment there's hope even for the most serious
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To Gideon MacLeish: Hate is not an abnormality, neither is it some 'fallen' part of ourselves. It's as much a part of human nature as love is, and like love it will never be eradicated from the world. Hate between persons, between nations, between cultures. And at the level of nations and cultures hate has been far more beneficial to mankind that love could ever have been. Hate is the en
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As some of you may know I'm English. As some of you may also know I came to the USA over a year ago, and very shortly now I'll be moving from Ohio to Virginia to begin a new job there. My wife is American, and the degree to which we can use the same words while completely misunderstanding each other has surprised us both. Take the word
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I have long said that religion's primary goal is not to unify but to divide. It's an 'us and them' mentality. Here is my response to that mentality. Link
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~bravo~ *bows* (as they used to say in VP).
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To Gideon MacLeish: I hope this makes some sort of sense. It's late, and it's been a weird day. But I did want to get back to you. It does make sense. It makes sense in the way that people who take a civil and sophisticated response to such matters make sense. But that's the point isn't it
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To Sally jacobs: I'm LWs Husband. I came to America from Britain just over a year ago, my head full of the kinds of suspicions you talk about. Let me tell you something I've learned since then. America can't be comprehended from the other side of an ocean. My wife, before she knew me, thought that Americans and British were essentially similar. We are not. We are divided by more than a common language. We are divided by wealth you lit
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To Bungy32: I was not attempting to 'essentialize all functions of religion'. I was pointing to one primary and fundamentally basic function of religion. That function which, in my opinion, most deeply, truly, and absolutely characterizes religion, which is the function of division. Don't all states (
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To Bungy32: I will answer your comment tonight. This is my last Saturday on the ice cream truck and I have to be on the road early. Oiiiiiiii how I hate that truck. Later.
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To SSG Geezer: Thanks for the insightful. I too have an image of a 'deity' in the room I use for prayer, ritual and meditation. But no one other than LW gets to see it, because it would cause far too much consternation on the part of others. So far as I'm aware, Buddhists don't engage in pogroms, inter-communal violence, or religious terrorism. They turn their violence against themselves, as in the example of the Buddhist Monks and Nu
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To Marco, once more: I understand you when you say that we should not judge against religions by bringing to bear the very standards they espouse, ... sorta like Kurtz in Apocalypse Now amazed that war should be judged by anything other than the standards of war. This i understand, but it is a dangerous thing when we fai
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To Marco: I would have to disagree with your analysis as you assume that violence is religious violence, rather than violence for other ends that uses religion as a viable, and believabe, justification. Perhaps I didn't make myself plain. My only assumption is that religion is inherently an
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To olikara: First, thanks for the apology, it's accepted. That being so, I shan't be as harsh with you as I had originally intended. I dislike being condescended to. That being said... 'I came not to bring peace but a sword' is not a misquote but a contraction. What it means is plain enough - that division will appear in every household because of Christ's message. And in the passage as you quote it there is not the least men
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To Gideon MacLeish: I look forward to the elabortion. Thank you for the interest.
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To Freemark: What is your answer then if not to eliminate religion altogether? Isn't your ultimate answer "Stop believing in any God or I will kill you motherfucker"? Go read this: Link . This is my answer to all re
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To Daiwa: Not too many Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews or whatnots are organizing in such a way as to enable such Holiness on a mass scale Buddhists prefer self-destruction. Jews don't have to organize as the Israelis already have. Hindus have been busy slaughtering Muslims (and the other way around)
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In all of the woolly-minded, hand-wringing, bleeding heart nonsense I've read to date about the nature of religion on JU; in all of the if-only-we-could-be-reasonable-about-this-and-and-just-worship-god-in-our-own-way bullshit that goes on in here, never once have I seen the least sign that any of you people understand what religion actually does .
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