I had a little hissy fit over one of Modman's graceless and unkind "San Francisco is a sewer because it's full of butt fuckers" rants and wondered for awhile if JU was really a 'good match' for me ... Still curiosity drew me (quietly) back and before I knew it my fingers were tapping again ...
though George Washington was the first ever elected head of government in world history.) Not so. If we discount the Papacy, for much of its history a secular monarchy as well as a position of religious leadership, that still leaves the elected Polish monarchy from 1572 until 1795 when the
a collection of degenerates, Homosexuals, lesbians and leather fetish assess. {married homosexuals} a city council know as the bored of stupidvisors {liberal trash} and inhabited by m
Now I've answered your question...is there a reason for yours? Have you been taught otherwise like the doc? Not really. It's just I'm not a christian so I don't really know my Bible as well as you do.
a mindblowingly large set of issues Yes, indeed. I am curious as to the 'issues' that would lead you to 'support' a communist tyranny [China] over one of Asia's youngest democracies [Taiwan] ...
Christ is fallible? The bible clearly states he's without sin. Just out of interest (I'm not a bible scholar) where does it say this?
Interestingly I am most attracted to that religion which actually calls on you to renounce your faith. The 'aim' of Buddhism is to awaken to the reality of things by slowly, patiently cutting through the layers of delusion, greed and hatred that stop us from seeing things as they are. In the Buddha's own teaching 'Buddhism' is simply a kind of boat that allows us to cross over to the other side of the river. Once there, you really don't need that boat anymore... Now, with a non-d
"I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States". King George III "Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom".<BR
You should remember that Pat Robertson's God is " made in [Pat Robertson's] image, according to [his] likeness ". Once you understand that, what he says no longer seems outrageous, merely deluded and sad...
In the end what should emerge is a set of realistic and workable proposals They should but they won't. Interestingly Tony Blair today suffered the first ever Common's defeat in his premiership as MPs voted decisively against plans for 90 day detention. 49 Labour MPs, including 11 former ministers defied the whip to vote against the gov
i think they follow a trend from their pasts...(i.e. raised catholic, end up catholic because thats what they were raised as) This isn't always bad. Granted something that you choose or discover for your self will usually be more meaningful, and many children brought up in a particular faith will end up rebelling against it, just because... Still, som
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These people have not grown from al-Qaeda... they were inspired by al-Qaeda I think this is largely true, and there is an important difference to bear in mind. Al-qaeda is an 'islamist' movement with a clear political agenda, a violent revolutionary strategy and an ideology that draws on, but is not identic
All this church history stuff seems to be about each side trying to justify 'their' church as the original. Catholics claim that they are the main branch that others have separated from, protestants that they are the 'real' church, from which the catholics have wandered off into superstition and error. Both positions are wrong: it is unlikely that the christians of the early church would recognise much of their religion in any of the modern day
As a foreigner I am assuming that Bush was largely re-elected because he was the one more trusted to wage the 'war on terror' which, rightly or wrongly the American electorate selected as the most important issue in the first presidential election since 9/11. While I don't buy into the 'Bush is totally dumb' idea (the fact that he was able to turn his life around from drunk frat boy to successful statesman argues for a certain sort of intelli
Nice! I used to be in Mensa before i got too poor to renew my membership... lol Reminds me of a sign I used to hang in my office years ago (my boss didn't like it too much): "If I'm so smart, why ain't I rich?"
I do shake my head in disbelief when I see Christians of various sects arguing and condemning each other over petty differences in technique, tradition, and ritual. That ought to go without saying, however I was forcibly struck by a reply I received from Dan Kaschel on his thread when he said: <TA
How did Lord Baltimore manage to get a colony? I had to google this as I hadn't realised that Lord Baltimore, the 'Proprietary Governor' of Maryland in the seventeenth century, was a Catholic. Briefly, (so as to not go too far afield), the First Baron Baltimore converted to Catholicism in 1625, whe
Catholic bashing is part of our shared Anglo-American heritage, albeit a rather unpleasant one, as Sir Peter demonstrates humourously (?!) and ziggy rather less so. An interesting historical side note on this. King George III (who lost the 13 colonies) steadfastly refused to allow Catholic Emancipation (the granting of full civil rights to catholics) because he claimed that he would be breaking his coronation oath in doing so. So, emancipation
Ziggy, it's obvious that catholicism didn't 'work' for you. And your new religion seems to. So why not just be happy with what you have now, and leave the hate and resentment behind. Wrap it up in a nice little bundle and drop it in the trash can. I'm sure you'll feel a burden lifted if you do.
In a way when truly democratic governments try to introduce draconian 'security' legislation I never find it that worrying. In the aftermath of genuine terrorist outages when terrorists have demonstated once again the inability of governments to protect 'all of the people, all of the time', politicians are naturally seized by a conviction that 'something must be done'. More often than not they go overboard; after all their basic helplessness in the fac
Hmm, ok... I have a wild idea. Not so wild. It's often referred to as the Perennial Philosophy after a book of that name by Aldous Huxley. Theologians within religions as well as between religions argue fiercely about the 'theory'; mystics of most religions seem to concur more than disagree when talking about their 'experiences'. The Cat
realizing this is way tangented and off-topic, not to mention lengthy, But useful all the same. Espcially to an informationally underprivileged foreigner who is following it all from the outside. The conservatives here on JU seem to be claiming Fitzgerald as a raging leftist out to irresponsibly damage the a
There has been a lot of controversy as to whether or not the 'National Socialists' were actually socialist or not. It can be objected that socialists are internationalists, so nazis can not therefore be socialists. However in 1914 most of the mainstream European socialist parties had no problem in dumping their internationalism in favour of complete support for their various national governments in the ensuing slaughter. It was from the small remnant o
Anyway, if you read it, sorry. It was crap. Well, I didn't think so. I just found it dense , in the sense that an awful lot of ideas were crammed into a few paragraphs (with inevitable over-simplifications), some of which I didn't really agree with. It did, however, make me go away and think about why I didn't agree with them. So, really I'd lik
[SINGS] The Grand old Duke of York He had ten thousand men He marched them up to the top of the hill Then he marched them down again. When they were up, they were up When they were down, they were down When they were only half way up They were neither up nor down.