But I'm not saying take it away from them, I am saying that they should keep it to themselves. Most other people really don't want to hear about their beliefs. If they did, they are perfectly capable of researching and finding out for themselves. As I said, people can waste their time on whatever they want as long as it doesn't affect anyone else around them. But, if someone came up to me spouting what I consider to be religious nonsense they would get a metaphorical backhand and be told were they can put their "faith" >_>
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I pretty much agree with everything that Repliku just said (yes, I read it all ;D). No matter how illogical or just plain stupid I think religious belief is it is still an individuals right (or as Repliku put it, privilege) to waste their time and money on it. My problem comes through when it goes from individual to group. I don't want to hear "the good word". I don't want flyer's through my door, in my library books and bus depots. I want to live my own life with my own set of "beliefs" separate to everyone else's. Religious people should have the same respect for other people. Apparently they do not. There should also be no public funding for any religious organisations. That would be implying that the government (and by extension, the population) are supporting the said religion when most civilised countries are Secular. Instead, people are still able to play the religious trump card and in some cases even get away with murder. There should be no more conversion. No more infant baptisms, or any other religious rituals involving children who have not reached the age to make decisions for themselves. Let people decide on their own what they want. Don't harass them, don't force them to lead a life they might not necessarily want because they were indoctrinated as a child (this is the think that sickens me about religion the most, the outrageous levels of child abuse which go completely unnoticed across the world even today).
Trust me, my dad had seen and heard worse ones from that at work. Highly paid lecturers who tap the light at a podium thinking that its the microphone then phoning to complain it doesn't work >.>
@OP: The idea that a majority of people believing something to be true is complete and utter tripe. Someone could come up with something completely off the top of their head tomorrow, make it sound convincing enough and spread it over the Internet. Half the world could believe it by the end of the week. Doesn't make it true or right. Also, human beings are weak to be blunt. We need to feel fulfilled and that what we do has purpose and meaning. Easiest way to do that is to say that a magic sky-fairy has a big all-encompassing plan with some divine purpose. There is also the control aspect. Organised religion first appeared as a method to control the people. The only educated person in the community was the priest. The only one who to read or write was the priest. Everyone had to pay tithes (religious taxes) to the church (there is a saying that says "the bigger the church the poorer the community). The Church's word was law, and anything against that was blasphemous. Basically, the idea of there being a God is an attempt by inferior minds to make sense of the world and the feeble existence they were eking out way back when. Then some scrupulous people worked out that they could control people and extort money from them if they capitalised on religion. It certainly worked, and look where it has left us. I prefer to use my common sense, logic and powers of reasoning and deduction to decide what I think about the world, not let something else do my thinking for me. Therein lies a problem, if you don't believe in God because you "know" that he is there, then you have no faith in God. There is the saying that "Without faith, God is nothing". Therefore not having faith in God (if he actually does exist, which is a slim to nil chance) reduces his power. And? Harry Potter is one of the best selling books of our time, doesn't mean it is fact. I am SICK of hearing this argument. The government of the United States of America was not based on Christian beliefs or even started by Christians. Though it may be hard to swallow the founding fathers were secularists and humanists, not Christians. Try and get your own heritage right please. LOL. Just because the primitive and not yet developed societies of yesteryear had no explanations for why things happened, didn't mean that science didn't exist. Are you saying that the laws of physics didn't exist before someone wrote them down? Science has existed since the beginning of the universe, it is the closest logical and sane thing that there is to a god/higher being. And on whose authority do you have it that these seashells came from Noah's Ark? Was it some religious organisation? The Vatican perhaps? Even with carbon dating there are hundreds of other ways that seashells could have got on a mountain. For one, the mountain was almost certainly not always a mountain. For all you know it could have started at the bottom of the ocean. ........or because any sufficiently popular idea is gong to live on for a long time? Also if successful empire or civilizations have a certain belief system it will spread and last at least as long as said empire/civilisation.
I straighten my hair all the time, it would be a mess otherwise =/
The great lumbering beast that is Starbucks is dying, jump ship while you can =]
My phone came with free MSN messanger, although I find the 1000 text messages a month easier to use lol I only use MSN if I'm on the bus to work and REALLY bored.
Scaremongers FTL
Does Bookmarks not count as like exactly the same thing?
I like it ;D
Anything as long as it isn't Kingdom Hearts related.
When a Daddy Pikachu loves a Mummy Pikachu very much.......................
Pop-tarts and all associated products are part of an elaborate conspiracy perpetrated by "The Man"
I've never had a poptart in my life
Non-destructive fuel sources basically means those which do not destroy anything in the process of providing energy, or rather cause no permanent damage in doing so. There is a currently theoretical energy source which is unlimited. Zero-point energy. The theory behind this states that a completely empty section of space will still have a certain amount of energy in it, and a square inch of space has enough energy to provide for humanities energy needs for a billion years (I think ._.). This doesn't even break the Law of Conservation of Energy as the energy is already there before we use it, so it is not being created. Of course, this is still theoretical and there is currently no way to tap into this energy source. There are many fuel sources out there which require further technological advances before they can be used, or used to their full potential. So I would go with technological advances.
I see no pictures in the first post >_> Not even X's V_V
I wondered that too :S Also, people couldn't post? xD
I've currently infected all but New Zealand and Madagascar, but people don't die quickly enough D:
It's called cheating
