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  • Lounge, The Re: Post Your Pic Here (4)

    What keeps it running? No-one really know. What actually is it that's running? Again, just don't ask. The only rule of robert's pile of technology is: run if you smell ...

    Oct 5, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    Because in the US, parents have control over their children until they reach a certain age. And teaching them about Jesus, however bent and twisted they make that teaching, does ...

    Oct 5, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    Oh, I see - it was rhetorical, alluding to Qi question whether Buddhists setting themselves on fire hurts people - yes, it does, it hurts society in general and the ...

    Oct 4, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    Furthermore, they are creating an entire generation of people willing to do violence in the name of God. That is why they just as dangerous as the Islamic fundamentals. They ...

    Oct 4, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    yeah but, at least their not hurting others. Keepin it internal. Well, gee, no, it's only a bit of ethnic cleansing. Nothing serious. For that matter, who are the Christians ...

    Oct 4, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: 9/11

    Ad hominem arguments are pointless; they're a recognised logical fallacy. When you're having a debate on an established point, it doesn't matter one jot what the other person's personality or ...

    Oct 4, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    All of them....? find me the radical terrorist buddhists. We're not talking about terrorists. However, radical Buddhists are easy to find: the Buddhist government of Sri Lanka ordered pogroms against ...

    Oct 4, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Breast Implants Save Lives

    ... or at least life. A woman in the northern Bulgarian town of Ruse survived a car crash thanks to her silicon breasts which acted as an airbag, Standart newspaper ...

    Oct 3, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    Oh, well, that's fair enough - in my experience, people are generally positively blinded when it comes to their own religion/group/etc. in comparison to others. That's to be expected.

    Oct 3, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    And alll of a sudden, radicalism is thrown to the wind when its no longer muslims, but christians under fire. Where? Quote me it. Like I said - there are ...

    Oct 3, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    All religions have the extremists. Judging the religion by them is wrong; it's what the religion does about it that matters. Personally, I carry a can of gasoline and a ...

    Oct 3, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: NaNoWriMo

    I'm Robert Rae over there, if anyone's looking :)

    Oct 2, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Jesus Camp

    All Christianity is is a way of life based on solid principles for the betterment of society - how people have interpreted that can be likened to the way the ...

    Oct 2, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Jesus Camp

    Being a Christian, and a Christian who has experience organized religion on either side of the Atlantic, this makes both interesting, frightening and comforting viewing. I was raised in Canada ...

    Oct 1, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Post Your Pic Here (4)

    Friends, countrymen, lend me your lugholes.

    Oct 1, 2006


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