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Reply to Wisdom of the Past in Misc JoeUser Forums

I grew up with the chaos surrounding continous donations from people all over the region or picking up complete households. My parents' house resembled a warehouse quite often. We even bought old military field ambulances, unimogs etc from the german army once and took them down there after painting them white. My mom was and is very nationalistic when it comes to croatia and not really happy about former sec of state james baker or Clinton because of their policy regarding croa

Reply to Wisdom of the Past in Misc JoeUser Forums

I grew up with the chaos surrounding continous donations from people all over the region or picking up complete households. My parents' house resembled a warehouse quite often. We even bought old military field ambulances, unimogs etc from the german army once and took them down there after painting them white. My mom was and is very nationalistic when it comes to croatia and not really happy about former sec of state james baker or Clinton because of their policy regarding croa

Reply to Wisdom of the Past in Misc Stardock Forums

The actions of one person does not reflect the general opinion of the vatican towards reform churches. But yea, poland is deepy rooted in catholicism. My mother is from croatia, and everybody there is catholic as well. They are pretty pious there now because itwas forbidden while everything was still yugoslawia. People that went to church risked repercussions. One thing I find good about the RCC is the infrastructure it has with caritas. After the war started in 1990 my parents started organi

Reply to Smokin' in Blogging Stardock Forums

heh I know, like sweet beans [e digicons];P[/e] .. I grew out of that Ketchup Spaghettie thing but when I was a kid I would not have toched spaghetti with meatballs and cheese with a tenfoot pole. choclate chip cookies are awesome, so are brownies and muffins, cinamon rolls and burgers. On a different note, people in Germany don't really go out that often to eat like people seem to do in the states. I don't think there is a difference with pubs and bars - except that we have go

Reply to Smokin' in Blogging Stardock Forums

Ketchup on pizza is disgusting but Ketchup is good on meat, potatoes and grilled veggies; and when I was a kid I loved spaghetti with Ketchup. I have to say though, Americans have some really weird food stuffs anyway and very strange flavours. Cheese whiz, I can't believe its not butter - duh, fatfree yoghurts with about 40gramms sugar or more in them - it would be alot healthier to eat the natural fatamount that milk has, around 3,8% and have no sugar, skimmilk - really... that is very very

Reply to Wisdom of the Past in Misc Stardock Forums

Hmm. I am so not like you, KFC. I never said it is not a good book with good advice in it, just that it is not mean literarry that god and satan sat on a cloud and decided to have a friendly game of chance. You are probably a evangelist? Now im a RC, most of the time not very, but still. The church as a whole does not persecute other churches. Ecumenical relations between protestant and catholic communities are actually quite strong in Germany. You'll love Poland, though.

Reply to Smokin' in Blogging Stardock Forums

haha very funny. I think I would have liked just good ole ketchup.

Reply to Wisdom of the Past in Misc Stardock Forums

My sister has a babyboy, 9months old now. Her husband is an atheist - much to the chagrin of my mom. The difficult issue is baptizing the baby. My sister wants to, her husband doesn't. My mom thinks that if her husband is an atheist and does not believe and finds evereything religious humbug he should not actually care. For him it would just be a silly ritual pouring water of the babies head etc. and nothing more. Now what do you do in such a case? Her husband grew up in communist east german

Reply to Wisdom of the Past in Misc Stardock Forums

Yes my brother is roman catholic. The funny thing is that he found his faith or whatever he has when hew as around 30. Before that he never even knew where the nearest church was. But I disagree with you historically on the account of the OT and the origin of the catholic church. It is true that Constantine declared that christians should not be punished or presecuted, but it was in fact not he who declared christianity a state religion but another emperor after him. There is al

Reply to Wisdom of the Past in Misc JoeUser Forums

I found it very revealing to read through all your posts. I have to admit that I skimmed quite a few though, but I got the general points of view quite clearly. I have my own example of religion in the family. My brother Mark was never very religious, but then he read a book about the devil and became really really scared. It is generally believed between my siblings and me that he just wanted to protect himself by any means necessary - and then he found out that sacraments act so

Reply to Smokin' in Blogging Stardock Forums

What exactly is the difference between sizzling sweet and sweet? Sizzling sweet sounds kinda nauseating for me, sweet and meat doesn't really jive for me, smokin' sounds ok and mild - well, boring sort of nails it. I think I'd have asked the waitresses for more options.

Desertec Initiative in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It is a spectacular vision: European households will be supplied with clean energy from african deserts. The Club of Rome has been busy thinking about this idea for a long time with its Desertec-Initiative, and now 20 corporations want to get down to business in the fight against climate change. In two to three years, these corporations (Siemens and Münchner Rück amongst them) plan to have a technological and economical concept for solarenergy out of Africa. But the hurdles seem to

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

Yea I know. Not disputing anything about that. Direct comparison between technology and cosmic powers like the sun or raw geothermic powers like vulcanos were not what I had intended. But it is undeniable that technology has a noticeable impact on the environment on all different kinds of levels, and it is illogical to argue that because there are so many raw uncontrollable powers in nature that artificial technology pales besides all that by default and to use

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

Where did I say oil was storage anyway? And yes, oil could form during an ice age but only if it had been warmer earlier on for biological matter to exist in the first place. That is what I meant with where does the oil come from? Once upon a time - dont ask which paleontological period exactly, the global climate was so different that the polar regions could support rich life which, over millions of years or how ever long it takes, turned into fossil fuels. Local temperatur

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

It is very hmm let me call it simple minded to just argue that there is no possible way itty bitty little humanity with the all the new technology developed and improved all the time could possibly have any effect on the global ecosystem and thereby mankind can in no way influence the global ecosystem. After all, what is all the technology in the world compared to erupting vulcanos or solar flares? (I would really like to know where the evidence for the theory of a heating up earth core being

The revolution of the giving Hand Part 3 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Even after Marx respectlessly declared the "Expropriation of the Expropriators" as his proclaimed objective - it had different consequences for the future and did by no means mean the compensation for an injustice that happend eons ago. Marx's critique was rather aimed at the elimination of the daily renewed plundering inherent of the capitalsystem. Allegedly, this plundering guarantees that the value of all industrial produ

The revolution of the giving Hand Part 2 in Politics JoeUser Forums

With this backdrop in mind, it is easy to understand why all "critical" economy after Rousseau had to take on the form of a general theory of theft. Where thiefes are in power - even if they have affected a genteel demeanour for a long time - the only possible way for developing a realistic economic science has to be the cleptocracy of the wealthy. This theory tries to explain why the rich have always been the rulers: Those w

The revolution of the giving Hand Part 1 in Politics JoeUser Forums

This a very good article that I found in my papers' Feuilleton on wednesday. It was written by Peter Sloterdijk in german(y), and I'll translate it part for part. It is a good linguistic exercise for me to translate newspaper articles, so if any formulations or phrasings seem off, please let me know. Part 1 Arbitrariness and gullibility were at the beginning of economic relationships - if the cla

Repetetive culture in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Today I worked as a museumguide in a small museum, telling people about the life of a female poet that lived in the first half of the 19th century. It is actually quite interesting, and most people really enjoy their visit because I don't just refer facts but try to make it a interesting narrative. But the truth is that there are only so many ways to tell a story, and as a museumguide you run through them all in short order. Visitors differ greatly from each other as well - which keeps tellin

Reply to The final solution for the energy crisis in Humor Stardock Forums

I like those ideas, they can be all incorporated in a radical new job-creation measure for all those useless lazy people. Lets just NOT call those places gulags - it gives off the wrong idea..

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Yeah, thanks for the correct terminology. Ok so please correct me if I got this totally wrong: 1. There is a greenhouse effect caused be greenhouse gases that causes some of the energy from the sun that reflects from the surface to reflect back. Co2 is one of those gases. Its molecules react in a certain way to heat from the sun. This greenhouse effect theory is generally not disputed, or I haven`t heard it. 2. Theories of global warming (greenhouse effect) link Co2 with t

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

taltamir. Who said when and where that ALL carbonmonoxide all over the world has to be eliminated? Where do you get this idea? Your argument is plainly very very uncomprehensible. When talking about reducing CO2 in the media, it always referres to what is produced by manmade industry - which, it is assumed, accumulates in the atmosphere and could have an asof yet undetermined effect on the climate. As far as I have understood it (which is just in very basic terms) the atmospheric system

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

@ Korwyn: The first argument I tried to make here was just scorned and laughed at because it was a philosophical and ethical one and has nothing to do with citing scientists or proving ones theory - even though I also did that in that and subsequent posts, maybe I should not have. But hey, it IS fun to spout slogans and to polarize.. I couldn't resist and it would hardly be so popular in the US otherwise. Hans Jonas lived in the US and published his work in the US. He was a germa

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

No, you're right. It is of course irresponsible to try to argue based on personal halfknowledge and assumptions, and statistical evidence is just a set of data that says neither nay nor yay. BUT it is fun.. and thank the lord, my oppinion has about as much importance as two joes drunkenly debating whether brown hens can only lay brown eggs or if fishsize determines how deep they can dive.. Your very valid point also negates the being religiously skeptic part, doesn't it though? Shouldn