Cornelius

Please elaborate.

I can be quite intolerant given the situation. As far as this situation goes I see nothing wrong with it. Let them clean up and adopt the highway.

Very good Sb, I agree.Those of a christian mindset probably tend to find hope comforting as they expect to be taken care of. Hope, at best imo, is nothing more than wishful thinking. I would much rather have fortitude and resolve rather than hope. As the ancient saying goes "The Gods help them that help themselves" ~Hercules the Strong excellent SB.

In another thread hyper posted a Nietzsche quote. Rather then address it most just decided to attack Nietzsche rather then his argument. A fairly common knee jerk reaction when it comes to Nietzsche. I thought I would post the quote in its original context for discussion. Hope. Pandora brought the jar 25 with the evils and opened it. It was the gods' gift to man, on the outside a beautiful, enticing gift, called the "lucky jar." Then all the evils, those lively, winged beings, flew out of it. Since that time, they roam around and do harm to men by day and night. One single evil had not yet slipped out of the jar. As Zeus had wished, Pandora slammed the top down and it remained inside. So now man has the lucky jar in his house forever and thinks the world of the treasure. It is at his service; he reaches for it when he fancies it. For he does not know that that jar which Pandora brought was the jar of evils, and he takes the remaining evil for the greatest worldly good--it is hope, for Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment. ~Nietszche http://nietzsche.hol...al_Feelings.htm Thoughts?

Freemen should never regulate their conduct by the suggestions or dicta of others, for when they do so, they are no longer free. No man ought to obey any contract, written or implied, except he himself has given his personal and formal adherence thereto, when in a state of mental maturity and unrestrained liberty. It is only slaves that are born into contracts, signed and sealed by their progenitors. The freeman is born free, lives free and dies free. He is (even though living in an artificial civilization) above all laws, all constitutions, all theories of right and wrong. He supports and defends them of course, as long as they suit his own end, but if they don’t, then he annihilates them by the easiest and most direct method. There is no obligation upon any man to passive obedience, when his life, his liberty and his property are threatened by footpad, assassin or statesman. ~Ragnar Redbeard

He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom ~ The Book of Satan 2:7

Numbers 31Thoughts?

Personally I would like to hear your take on the Tanahk and God Rabbi. If you would indulge I would be very grateful and I'm sure the education to all of us would be invaluable.

Such as? I know he had a few businesses and what not but they were failures. According to whom? I'm not sure you understand what my assessment consists of.

He's always seemed to be the democrat's version of Bush to me.

The word God comes from germanic Godan (or proto germanic gudan which wasn't entirely gender specific) a name of the God Odin and specifically used by I believe the Lombards. Technically when you refer to God you are naming another diety of pagan origin and not your own. Your god has a name and it's not God. When ulifas(sp?) translated the bible into Gothic (an alphabet he made and then taught to the Goth's for this purpose, to avoid using the Runic alphabet of the heathens) he used the term God to denote the christian god for the first time. Probably made it easier to convert when the god in this new book bears a version of their chief/creator god's name anyway.

I'm not sure you understoodd what I was saying. You are more then welcome to feel sorry for me

God is a hypothesis.

Won't argue, just do your homework is all I will say

He is based more on pagan god and traditions but I still think it's cool love santa!

How so?

Rereading his post I think your right.

The original did not include god....

See Dorians response

You're not dissapointing me so no need to apologize

and........... this is why we have the 2nd amendment

Good luck. I'm sure you'll do fine.

Congrats