http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.ca/2014/07/baghdadi-mossad-trained-gulf-daily-news.html
According to documents released by Snowden, "The only solution for the protection of the Jewish state "is to create an enemy near its borders".
I understand that Socialism is your faith
Wrong.
and you don't feel personally bound by any of its sordid history.
Democracy has a body count many orders of magnitude higher than socialism.
It's the same with Christianity
No, it really isn't. We have seen before what rulers do when they wrap their arms around their favorite books of mythology and use them to justify their wishes, twisting them at will.
And yet, people who haven't understood that the Christ is the meaning of life are going to blow all kinds of smoke.
If Christ is the meaning of life then why do you cherry pick only some of his words and deeds when describing things you consider virtuous? Shouldn't you take him in his entirety?
You're going to continue to vary Marx's theme of "the Kingdom of God, hold the God"
Wrong again. While I will continue to point out that Marx's communist ideals have essentially never even come close to being realized for any population over a few hundred anywhere at any time, your continued insistence on confusing communism and socialism is quite simply silly.
I'm going to mock your inevitable failure.
inevitable failure at what, exactly? It's quite arrogant of you to claim that something is a failure because it has never been tried. I've never seen anyone try to setup Shreodinger's Cat as an actual physical experiment, yet I don't know of anyone who calls it a failure.
And some context for the link, if not clear:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/review-only-decent-people-the-netherlands-continued-dehumanization-of-black-people
You realize that there's more difference between your average man and your average woman than between your average NFL linebacker and your average man, right? (seriously, compare the stats some time - height, average bench strength, etc). You do realize how commonly women are raped and abused by men, and how they might happen to be more sensitive to the implicit or explicit threats of violence from someone that they're highly unlikely to be able to fight off?
I'm tall, 182 centimeters, and I still once had a guy literally pick me up and carry me back to his apartment when I tried to walk away from him.
There's a bit of a difference in that one in every four women actually will be raped in their life, and a sizeable percent of those getting those threats already have been.
Yes, men are raped too. About 91% of rape cases are male->female, 8% male->male, 0.8% female->female, and 0.2% female->male. Men are virtually always the perpetrator, but even when the victim is male (not nearly as common, but still way more common than we as a society should accept), the perpetrator is still overwhelmingly likely to be male.
(and if the excuse for the stats is "men aren't as likely to report being raped by a woman because of shame"... so is there no shame for a guy to report being sodomized against his will by a man?)
The basic point is: when you're threatening a violent crime against a person who may well have been a victim of such, and even if they haven't, very likely has friends who have and is more than aware of their vulnerability in this regard, that's taking it to a whole different level.
Oddly in reference:
http://videolinkz.us/mu.php?url=ox60w8tg5plk
Nice being a straight cis white male when a venue is dominated by other straight cis white males, isn't it?
And just to make clear, the problem of insulting people isn't along the lines of "ching chong chow chee" or whatnot. The problem case is along the lines of:
Scenario 1:
Man: "What does that do? Sorry, I don't know perl."
Crowd: "You don't know perl? Geez, you're stupid."
Scenario 2:
Woman: "What does that do? Sorry, I don't know perl."
Crowd: "Geez, women are stupid."
True, but macroscopic species can survive on their own. Viruses need to infect hosts to spread, and many viruses don't remain viable for long outside of a host. From what I can find, it seems like smallpox is such a virus.
one side ready for peaceful coexistence
Yes, it is universally considered *very* peaceful to *steal land* and *build settlements* on the land of the people you're negotiating with.
I suppose that running a years-long economic blockade could be considered "peaceful coexistence" if ghettoizing your declared enemy is part of your world view. (Oh, we know, we know... it's all to prevent rocket-making materiel from entering Gaza. It's just so, so convenient that choking the flow *all* materials but the most basic stops missile-building (which it doesn't).
People believe whatever they want to believe and call it "truth."
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
