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frako Member (Idle past 306 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
I wonder how many would be surprised that we Canadians export as much military gear per capita as the US. Well yea its kind of hard to imagine a canadian arms dealer. You just push this button here eh, and your enemy will go sleepy by eh. Edited by frako, : No reason given. Edited by frako, : No reason given.Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand What are the Christians gonna do to me ..... Forgive me, good luck with that.
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Phat Member Posts: 18262 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1
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Only Canada understands the concept of Cold War. (Well so does Russia)
Why go fight, eh? Its too cold...stay in the warm house and make love, not war, eh? The people are the greatest. The politicians are statesmen, unlike here...but the capitalist tendency to worship money over people is the problem with every western democracy.(or Monarchy) Dismantling the military industrial complex would change life the way we know it. People will never want to place jobs on the altar.Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.~Proverbs 28:26
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Riggamortis Member (Idle past 2390 days) Posts: 167 From: Australia Joined: |
They love to do pieces on how good we are. An Australian news show recently compared civillian casualties caused by the west with those caused by Russia to demonstrate how we're so much better than them nasty Russians 🙄
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1445 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
It's ideology, not people, and the west historically is "so much better" than any other civilization on earth. Or was.
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ringo Member (Idle past 412 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Faith writes:
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." ... the west historically is "so much better" than any other civilization on earth. Or was.-- unofficial motto of Western Civilization
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1445 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
More fake news.
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ringo Member (Idle past 412 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Faith writes:
Are you saying that the destruction of indigenous cultures in North America is fake news?
More fake news.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1445 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Oh my my my. Every civilization destroyed some indigenous culture or other. Every one of them. And who knows how that "indigenous cujlture" got there in the first place? Warring tribes destroying each other you know.
But no, what I had in mind is that a paraphrase of the Bhagavad Gita by a nuclear scientist seems an odd reference against Western Civilization. And all the more when you introduce the completely irrelevant context of indigenous cultures. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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ringo Member (Idle past 412 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Faith writes:
I was responding to your claim that western civilization is better than any other civilization on earth. Thanks for contradicting yourself.
Every civilization destroyed some indigenous culture or other. Every one of them. Faith writes:
I wasn't quoting Oppenheimer. I was quoting the same source he quoted but with a wider context.
But no, what I had in mind is that a paraphrase of the Bhagavad Gita by a nuclear scientist seems an odd reference against Western Civilization. Faith writes:
I think it's pretty relevant, since much of the the US military budget is still targeted at "inferior" cultures.
And all the more when you introduce the completely irrelevant context of indigenous cultures.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1445 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Ah yes, that old canard. I was trying to avoid it. Sigh. There are different ways civilizations overtook indigenous cultures. America was originally Christian and made friends with them, bought their land, sometimes converted them. Later waves of Europeans weren't so Chrristian. But still in the end they were simply overwhelmed by a superior culture. Morally superior too. I know you've been brainwashed against western civilization of course, bought the revisionist history that has been written in the last century for that purpose. How well it has worked. It's mostly lies but golly gosh it's there in print so it must be true.
I see so you are quoting the Hindu scripture against western civilization. How appropriate of course. Polytheists of course know better than Christians. Oh I don't think we are great any more, thanks to the leftist influence. Except I can't think of any that are better even so.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Faith writes: Oh I don't think we are great any more, thanks to the leftist influence. Except I can't think of any that are better even so. Well Cuba does a better job of providing health care, education, basic living needs like food and clothing even with the US trying so hard to make that impossible. All of Scandinavia does a better job at health care, safety, quality of life, providing basic needs. In fact it's hard to find a civilized country that does do at least as well as the US when it comes to stuff like health care.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1445 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
We may have a chance at good healthcare now that the unaffordable impossible Obamacare is being dismantled. I agree we'd do a lot better with our education if we got rid of the leftist-indoctrinated public schools.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Yes, what we need is a Socialist Single Payer Health Care system like the civilized nations have.
And what we need are more schools that teach facts instead of the jokes called "Christian Schools" that teach only fantasy and falsehoods. We need to set national standards on subject content, put very tight controls on home schooling, require greater certification for teachers. In other words lets actually fund public schools. Take the public schools out of the hands of locally elected boards of education.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1445 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I don't know why you want tighter controls on homeschooling. Kids who are homeschooled do very well at colege. I happen to know four. One's a nurse in Japan, another has a degree in engineering, the third is about to get a degree in math, wants to be a teacher, and the fourth is getting honors but doesn't have a major yet. I also know a little about Christian schools and they too are academically superior.
Of course this has nothing to do with the military budget.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9076 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.7
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Anecdotes are not evidence. I know some home schooled kids that did fairly well and I know others that dont know much other than the bible. Neither of these examples are evidence of anything.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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