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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 9 minutes ago
Simon the deviltry is still beyond my ken. Aint got a legal secretary any longer so i will just respond to some of your thoughts.
2 state solution WAS desired by a lot of Israelis. You are certainly correct about Netanyahu. I emphasize was. Not fuzzy wazzy waz a bear and had no hair. Palestinians are indoctrinated into Jew hatred and river to…[Read more]
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 7 hours, 2 minutes ago
Jews, Christians and Muslims are just variations of the same cult. When the ancient Jews had their temple destroyed (they used it to sacrifice animals to Yahweh), a sect decided to give up on trying to defeat the Roman empire (“give to Ceaser”), and envisioned a spiritual struggle they could win; coupled with a symbolic one-time sacrifice to…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 14 hours, 14 minutes ago
Neither side wants to live and let live.
Having said that, it’s not a two-player game. It’s three or four players at least (Israel, Palestinians, Hamas, Iran).
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 16 hours, 19 minutes ago
But i am more wondering whether the stifling of learning can ultimately cause a reduction of intelligence in the overall population.
I don’t see how it can cause a general reduction in intelligence. But what it must do is to hold back the culture and the economic prosperity of the country (e.g., Iran). Also: you don’t see a l…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 16 hours, 21 minutes ago
If only I was an Ivy League student, I would be better able to figure it out and not have to wonder why Netanyahu said that the price Hamas will pay is its very existence.
I think it’s understandable (never mind right or wrong) given the zero-sum situation they are both in. Hamas wants to wipe out Israel; Netanyahu…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 19 hours, 24 minutes ago
Thanks Simon.
I liked the article about schools but it is a bit misleading in failing to convey the scope of the issue.
It is not just Gaza. It is all over the middle east. It is a cultural/religious obsession. And it is far more hard core than is conveyed. The video i recently linked tells story of a kid who grew up there and it captures the…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day ago
WISH I KNEW HOW TO DO THAT DEVILTRY IN ITALICS.
Use the quote function, or the ” blue button (block quote on/off).
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 1 hour ago
I think they’re all authoritarian in various ways. Religion forms a moral domain – with a goal (worshipping God, enlightenment) and methods of achieving it (religious observance). Morality has a light and a dark side, like the moon. Authoritarianism is the dark, harsh, punishing side of morality and hence, religion.
Islam is currently the mo…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 2 hours ago
Simon says,
Muslim people don’t lose their wits, or common intelligence, just because their religion is oppressive. They have to know how to find how to live some kind of life in that stifling environment. That takes intelligence.
Where’s the reproductive selection pressure, in this situation, against intelligence?
WISH I KNEW HOW TO DO THA…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 3 hours ago
Generations upon generations of mindless devotion, fear, and authoritarian control resulting in retardation of normal curiosity and intellectual exploration might be inheritable in terms of intelligence? It would certainly aid the mind virus of Islam to dumb down its hosts. IDK
Muslim people don’t lose their wits, or common…[Read more]
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