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The circumstances that led to the creation of the universe could have happened any number of times - theoretically infite, infact. Any number of these attempts could have resulted in failure, but throw some dice enough times and eventually you'll get all 6's, no matter how many you use. What is fun about dice is that you can acually control the out come of a roll! If you know where you start from how the air will effect the throw...

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

some self-defined Satanists, such as Crowley, Mr. Crowley is the founder of Thelema, he is his own savior! Thelema draws on lots of diffrent religions. You should use Anton Lavey, or Lord Byron, or even Ben Franklin (he prolly wasnt a beleiver but he liked the parties!)

Reply to Poverty, An economic necessity? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

If after that you then find an excuse to bleat about how hard it is in your western sanctuary. No bleating here! I prefer to Howl how good it is here. But it is no sanctuary... even our "good" life here can crumble. I d rather find ways to work WITH people who have less than I do. If I always just give them things most of them will just come to expect it.

Reply to anyone cared enough to share the truth of heaven and hell in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

hahaha, the bible doesn't even have the fun gods. Dionysian cult, anyone? or perhaps some worship of Soma, Vedic god of the hallucinogen bearing the same name. The Caanite gods share a lot in common with the Babalyon deities. Procreation ran rampent in the streets! The Phoenicians are the direct decendents of the Caanites. If you look up their dieties you ll get to see what the Caanites were up to!

Reply to anyone cared enough to share the truth of heaven and hell in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Sorry man but if I had to choose a god from the bible I d prolly worship one of the Ba'al's. The Caanites were just more my type of peeps!

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Now you sound like a preacher. Just repeating what your religion has implanted in your mind. I and many others have a very healthy mind, but faith played no part in it. Gravity can be proven to exist, we experience it in every step. It was discovered by an apple, and Mr Newton, it requires no trust. But Mr Newton's apple is something on the mythological side... It was most likely a analogy and not what actually made him think about gravity. You may just

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In the beginning of time, man had no understanding of simple science, so he created a god of the sun , one for the moon one for water and so on and so on. As man's understanding increased he shed most of his gods in favor of one God, although different clans still could not agree on the name of this god. Today we have many religions all claiming to be the master religion. To some he is God, Alla or Jesus. Regardless, we still have a God fugure, because we still need pr

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Well religion is a pretty strightfoward social institution which developed as a coping/explanatory mechanism. I also think that this is a large part of why religion came about... but it will always be debatable. It has pretty much outlived its usefullness (as we learned more about how the world actually works and didn't need to make up stories about ti anymore), Another debatable subject, it just is

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Also, the belief of many people might be Truth but it certainly isn't truth. If truth were a democracy based on belief then, as had been believed for millennia, the earth would be flat and the sun would revolve around the earth. It is good thing that science set that issue straight, and it is too bad the church crispy fried a few deviants to prove their Truth was right. Hydro You have it half right. Yes the Papelcy did kill a few people f

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[quot]"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." --Dan Hirschberg [/quote] But that can be said of many religions too. If one religion believes its gods are killable does it mean its different than one which does not? Nor do all religions have what one can call a god in them. Even the beliefs that Confucius started is often called a religion yet its a closer to philosophy. The thing is Atheist usually believe in science and science can be p

Reply to Memorial Day in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

are we, the U. S. of A., the poor bullied child? not by the way we talk about ourselves bringing democracy to poor, oppressed peoples of the world. no, in this metaphor we set ourselves up as the school authorities, settling others' disputes. a school authority doesn't beat up the offending bully. ideally, he or she tries to counsel him, investigates potential problems at home, etc. even if the bully blows up the authority's office, the authority reacts through bureauc

Reply to Poverty, An economic necessity? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]yes, it is like a game: it's composed of skill and chance. you're not "playing" a lotto because the probability aspect of it happened before you were born. now you're just doing what you need to do to collect your winnings. you might work hard for what you have, but if you take a 1,000-person cross section of people who're all working equally as hard (especially if you include people outside of industrialized countries), most of them won't have nearly as much to show for their work.[quote

Reply to Poverty, An economic necessity? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

so the rest of the company's stockholder secretly worry about which CEO candidate you vote for? you're a "big player" in a fortune 500 company? well, good for you. how many votes to you have, out of how many in the compnay? That is not what I said... I said it counts... thats it... if you want to say a vote only counts if it can control the whole thing that is ok. Its not how I think. I have a say and if I don t like what they do I can take my money els

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fair enough; how about 'atavistic'? That might work for you to discribe me. But "pagan" might work better and not one of those cute pagans either. I am a decentant head hunters! Nor do I think the practice is wrong. Even if I wouldn t want to try to make it legal again! But I wouldn't call myself a throw back no. A throw back prolly would be to

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you're probably looking with eyes clouded by a notion of what it means to be poor. a lot of poor people still work, but often don't make enough to pay all their bills, eat healthy every day, house themeselves or their family safely and cleanly, etc. you don't see all the poor because only the chronically homeless are highly visible, and they're usually also the ones who are not 'able bodied.' just because you don't see the 12 people crammed in a 2-bedroom apartm

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this isn't a school yard, To paraphrase Sun Tzu the diffrence between an Individual and an Army is organization. and we're not talking about lunch money. terrorism isn't grounded in jealousy or covetousness anymore than it's grounded in religion. we let our companies move in and dominate their economy. we send our soldiers in if they try to stop that. we export our popular culture, laden in violence, sex and stupidity.

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turn our backs on the poor who deliver out pizza I have delievered Pizza before. I have not ever been a poor person. Inside the U.S. the only able bodied people I have seen that were poor not because of themselves were children. Mostly folks just call themselves poor cause they are wealthier than their neighbors. Remember, the difference in price goes to the rich shareholders, I own stock and I am i

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In my opinion, every type of violence which is not a direct, immediate response to an attack in order to prevent further harm, is unethical. And even in pure defense, if not absolutely unavoidable, violence has to be kept to a minimum. It doesnt make martial sense to do the minimum. The only way to win a fight is to be more violent then your opponent. In terms of wars, this means that any war that is not fought on a c

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this was a british right we were british cit. at the time Parliament was willing to give us represtation but we demanded more then a English county got.... We were basicly what we call a territory to them. American cits. don t get a vote in congress if they live permantly in Guam, Peurto Rico, Samoa, or the Virgin Islands. They just get delegates. any subs that we attacked in 1940 was self defense they were attacking

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which wars have been criminal Depends on which side your on! You could say the revolutionary war was illegal. Most of the reasons for the war was trumped up. Like no taxation without representation... our leaders asked for more then what was fair, we did it to pick a fight. Most people would scream bloody murder for the real reason to fight the Brits, Manufacturing. We didn t have the right to manufacture much of anything. You can e

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I don't think the American federal government is in controll of the death penalty,,, it is a state issue is it not? The Death penalty is a state right issue yes. which is kinda weird, since you would think that life and death might qualify as being more important than state rights?? I disagree.

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why should people care that the U.S. openly kills more of its own people than any other developed country? oh that's easy, it's called decency. you can call it indecency if ya want.... but I wont..... the only way you can stop someone from ever killing again is to kill that person. There is no such thing as life with out possiblity of parole. you're right, though, to a degree. however, the U.S. has also killed with im

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we also use the death penalty more frequently than China or the Soviet Union ever did. mm even if this is true why should anyone care.... these governments also just made their own people disappear by the millions.... without Trial... who needs a death penalty when you can kill with imputnity!

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[WW I... just a power play among the world elite and bankers attempting to establish Israel. WW II... the second attempt to establish a 'Jewish homeland' on soil that was never theirs, at least not during the twentieth century, and this attempt succeeded. [/quote] The jews had been the majority in "Israel" since the 1800's by purch

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certain pirates did operate in large fleets in history... however those pirates had to operate in cooperation with an emperial fleet and were called 'privateers'. There was at least one pirate that did have (at one time) the most powerful fleet in the Caribean, Blackbeard. Before anyone says he was once a privateer he was most definably a pirate when he had his large armada.