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Reply to Vatican Says Aliens Could Exist in Religion Stardock Forums

This made me laugh.. aliens free from sin - uh huh. I think "sin" is a pretty human concept and doesn't apply to other lifeforms, terran or terrestrial. That sounds alot like tabloid article or a spoof. I think it would get realllllly complicated if you debated what religion aliens theoretically have, should they indeed exist. If you assume that the conditions necessary for a planet to be able to develop and support life (correct distance from the sun, a moon to slow dow rotation, slan

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]Maybe this guys tirade on the merits of suicide bombing at a conference was his "sign". Hindsight or fear of the PC police?[/quote] Yeah. But the really interesting issue here is the freedom of speech and what is allowed and what isn't. His ramblings about the merits of suicide bombings - do they fall under his constitutional rights or are they a reason to arrest him? It's not exactly a new issue, but I suppose the debate will come up sooner or later. Is someone (who is just) ta

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

In all cases of massacres and amok runs that I know of, there were signs that could have been interpreted in a way that would have prevented anything from occuring. Hindsight and all that, right? It stands to reason that even the slightest complaint or doubt about a person's (woman are almost never the perpetrators in such violent crimes) stability or oppinions will have severe consequences from now on and won't be ignored in the future. I am sure the military is already working on ti

Reply to Sugar will shorten your lives…but I’m okay with it in Blogging JoeUser Forums

You're so right about american chocholate, it is horrible. I don't really know belgium chocholate even though they are famous for their pralines. I think the best chocolatebrands are Lindt&Sprüngli, Toblerone and Frey - all swiss. But normal german chocolate isn't so bad either. Sugar isn't a drug. Industrial refined sugar has nothing remotely healthy to it, and there is no doubt that it is taxing for the body to deal with too much sugar. Did you ever experience a littl

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

And what is that? People on every level slipped up and didn't notice the signs or take them seriously enough that there was something seriously wrong with Hasan. Who would have guessed that a psychiatrist treating soldiers for PTSD would end up being a mass murderer? If this were fiction, it would be classic dramatic irony. But what I mentioned earlier is true for every other case were someone you would never have guessed ran amok. Quotes like "he was so nice and friendly, alw

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The article was too jovial in its tone - the joking style about an incident where so many people lost their lives or were injured is very inapropriate. And he didn't really say what he thought about the major. But aside the deficiencies in the article, the critique about generalizing is not wrong.

Reply to Virginity and marriage in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I don't disagree with you at all. But there is a huge difference between "not the optimum and not what God wishes for us" and casting someone out of society, and that difference isn't made in turkey and that's just wrong. The man just wanted a virgin as if that alone defines a woman and that is what makes me angry.

Reply to Sugar will shorten your lives…but I’m okay with it in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Try going cold turkey to find out how badly you are addicted :D The peanut M&M's or the chocolate ones?

Reply to Virginity and marriage in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Exactly. It has to remain a personel choice and not dictated. A woman who is not a virgin has not lost her honour and is thus worth less as a person. Young people falling in love and making love is both natural and beautiful. Even in the old testament, lovers meeting in a orchard, vinyard and waiting anxiously for the other, courting and then doing more than just holding hands.. is discribed in the song of songs. It could be interpreted as an allegory, but I like the

Reply to Sugar will shorten your lives…but I’m okay with it in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Sweet cconspiracy theory.. the sugar industry addicted the gros population to sugar/sweeteners to make a mean profit. Fact is that the sugar industry is making a LOT of money so it stands to reason that they're not really willing to give up their market for a few measly health risks.

Reply to Sugar will shorten your lives…but I’m okay with it in Blogging Stardock Forums

Supposedly, there are good healthy alternatives to sugar that are just as sweet or even sweeter. And yeah.. industrial refined sugar is as unhealthy as you can get, and it is many foods that you'd never figure to have sugar in it. Going sugarless for a day would be quite the challenge (discounting sugar converted from starch).

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]I meant because your mother is likely Catholic.[/quote] Yeah. But that wasn't the sole reason my parents chose biblical names. They wanted good solid names, and names that are international. My brothers are named after the evangelists (except there is no Lukas) and my sisters Anna and Elisabeth. Ruth is the odd one out in that collection lol and I didn't really like my name when I was little. Only old ladies were named Ruth.. but on the other hand I found it really funny that there was

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

My parents picked names that were international, and the bible is a pretty good resource for that. (John, Johannes, Jean, Ivan, Giovanni) alot of names work in alot of languages. The balkan is a interesting topic in itself, but it (sadly) doesn't really fit within this thread. My mother never met an invading turk (duh) but in that regard events are kept alive in an oriental manner. Centuries do not really matter, history is kept alive. I would say that alot of the animosities between

Virginity and marriage in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The highest appeals court in Turkey has ruled that virginity is a prerequisite for marriage. A man had sued and wanted to nullify his marriage because his bride hadn't been a virgin... sheesh! Why doesn't the man have to be a virgin too? What about a widow that remarries? Turks (and arabs) and their sexist ideals about marriage and honour.. thank god I wasn't born there.

Reply to Betrayal in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I see. The trial will be interesting.

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Actually Utemia, I don't know if you know this but Leauki is fluent in German.[/quote] Native speaker if Im not mistaken. Or nearly native. I find islam frightenly expansionistic. My mum is from Croatia and she only has horror stories about the time the turks invaded moe than 500 years ago. It shaped bosnia and albania and the kosovo - people were forced to convert, some did - ancestors of todays muslim, some fled - ancestors of todays croatians in the mountaineous regions - an

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Heh.. because there is a mystery about the vatican, forbidden books and secret archives, secret societies.. and a pretty violent past rife with secrets. It is no wonder that the vatican appears so often in conspiracy theories in books and films. People love a good secret and story, it's entertaining.

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

State serving religion, that concept only leads to dictatorship. It has in the past and does so currently in those countries that apply it that way. People are unfree in such a system and risk their lives if they say anything against those in power.

Reply to Betrayal in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Faith in the middle ages was different than from today. First of all, they didn't believe you could have "Christ in us" independant from the catholic church. If they cast you out, your soul was lost and you couldn't be saved. The comparison is difficult. People knew less, were educated less and were alot more superstitious. Many believed crusading, freeing the holy land, was their holy duty as christians. It is difficult to comprehend from todays perspective.You are correct about the fact tha

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote who="the_Peoples_Party" reply="3" id="2435369"]Bahu, I enjoyed reading your article. I have seen your name posting before but I don't think I've read any of your articles. I totally agree with your comments that American Academia needs to wake up. Most people in Academia feel strongly that Islam is a religion of peace. They've been so fooled to the point to believe that the word Islam itself mean peace. Which is a bunch of donkey poop. Isl

Reply to Betrayal in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote]A Christian WOULD NOT do this. Show me one Christian in scripture who murdered anyone.[/quote] I wanted to point out that religion does not automatically have to be the determining motive, and unstable people of any religion can snap. How easy is love turned into hate..that is true for all people, and also for christians who are mad and unstable and that is what I meant by my statement. K[quote]You're asking a Muslim to take sides with the enemy to fig

Reply to Major Nidal Hasan and the Killing at Fort Hood, Texas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Even if a person is radicalized by events like harrassment and humiliation, it is not the foregone conclusion that such a person will run amok and kill and injure those around him. It can't have primarily to do with religion as not everybody who experiences mobbing for his religious beliefs, culture etc. turns out to be a massmurderer. It would be wrong to politicise Nidals ethnic and cultural background and a slippery slope to say the least.

Reply to Betrayal in Blogging JoeUser Forums

That man was obviously crazy or insane and unstable - a christian with the same condition could have done the same and in fact it has happend before. I don't believe any institution or religion is to blame - what I know about amok killings ( they talked about it alot after the one in Germany that happend in march ) is that they are unpredictable and rare. Political Corr

Reply to Marriage Under Fire in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I wasn't lobbying for gay couples, married or otherwise, to have children or saying that that was the solution. My post was about naming the essential values that make up a good good, committed and loving relationship and parenthood. I stand by my statement that if checked against a catalogue of values, most couples probably do not fit the bill for either good relationship/marriage nor good parenthood. Neither is something restricted to opposite sex couples. But if a gay couple has th

Reply to Marriage Under Fire in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The statement that Chldren need both parents is true, but it is possible for single parents to bring up their children in a decent way (either because they're not married or because they're widdowed) and so the parameters for good parenthood should not be restricted to gender.