It makes us esmarter!

I think most people have religion because emotional/psychological reasons. If the reason of the belief were 100% logical, i think there would be a more big number of atheist people, because obviously some of the claims made by religion sound completely illogical if you give some thought.

But when comfronted with such questions such as: What happens when i die? How can i be sure that what i am doing is right? How do i face tragedy? Does my life have a purpose? These are big questions that if you give some thought are handled in certain ways by religions and give (although maybe not very thoughtful) answers, and even when science may have some insights regarding these questions, these answers come a little dry and not having too much perspective about human nature.

I, for example, being a very logical person and atheist, have sometimes strugled having something to "replace" the insights and comforts given by most religions. I sometimes have felt very insecure regarding my future, and see that this is sometimes handled by the term of faith in some religions, to give you an example.

I think that if we start to think of spirituality as the wisdom to answer these kind of questions and also as an awareness of the beautifulness of life and the world, quitting all the nonsense and baggage of most religions, we could see that these two terms are not ultimately fought.

Can you get me a job there?

Give them nothing, but take from them everything!!!

Shit! yet another failed try to have a comment be modded up as Funny! :(

What does hate of ras has relevance here?

the last letter in abecedarium.

Link to slashdot post concerning this:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/17/1449219/Up-To-90-Percent-of-US-Money-Has-Traces-of-Cocaine?art_pos=8

Trying to put a little objectivity to this comment i will add this:

Consider the science contests from high school called science olympiads, where big scientists like Grigori Perelman and Terence Tao have competed, contests where things like the ones you mentioned (innovation, creativity, etc.) play a huge part for the results, let's say the two most relevant subjects for computer science (informatics and mathematics):

Historic results for all countries on the IMO (mathematics):

http://imo-official.org/results.aspx

Last results for gold medal on the 2009 IOI (informatics):

http://www.ioi2009.org/index.jsp?id=414&ln=2

As you can see, at least in these competitions, China DOES seem to be better than USA (than all countries in fact), while India seems a more mediocre country like you comment.

Yeah, i know that too, in my case i always get adverts in Facebook like "Do you want to have a girlfriend?" from online dating sites, so i have to say the marketing companies are doing a good job detecting my desperation.

Hey, THAT is my reality, you insensitive clod!

Finally i will be able to type http:///., to access my favorite page :).

You are right, i am trapped in an infinite loop of 2 links!!!

I Albert Walter from Wisconsin, did something similar as you, several years ago, i stole private information from my company (Software Systems, Inc). I, however, didn't make your mistake, i never told anyone or claimed to do it on the internet, because i knew i would be doomed if i did that.

My philosophical version: "Thus spoke a Slashdotter" :)