I said that druggies were harmful to themselves. The entire intent of getting high is to escape reality, so why are you even arguing the fact that I acknowledge that those who get high are escaping reality?

The Objective universe does exist, even when your brain is too addled to notice. Plenty of people have met their ends while high because of that.

Better than somebody who continually uses illicit substances to specifically blur the line.

"What miniscule fraction write screeds and take up arms"

Approximately 10%. But that's not the reason I say Islam is a fake. The reason I say Islam is a fake is because as a theology, it can be used to justify everything from Sufi to ISIS and everything in between. There is no coherent morality to Islam, because Allah himself, as portrayed in the Koran, is not a faithful God, is not coherent from verse to verse.

A similar problem can be found in the Old Testament, and has inspired an awful lot of fundamentalism and atheism in Christianity and Judaism, perhaps the extreme example that can be found in our time, and a close cousin to the violence of ISIS, is Zionism in Israel.

"Catholicism has the bloody destruction and enslavement of the Americas on it's conquistador hands."

Yes.

"Islam - past and present - has nothing to shade that, by way of comparison."

Have you paid attention to what has been happening in Africa in the last 150 years?

"The "muslims" that you see and read about with violent conversion and conquest? They are created, inflated and supplied by the various trans-national agencies and alliances in Global para-politics."

They've been in existence far longer- the Sunni/Shi'a split happened within a generation of the death of the Prophet.

In being able to tell fantasy from reality, quite possibly.

As in, ordinary "Neurotypical" people are not capable of it.

He wasn't. He was just a Catholic Boy, a foolish young man who thought that Islam was a peaceful religion. He was trying to tell the story of the street both times he was captured.

Islam is a fake.

Somebody who read Stranger in a Strange Land while stoned?

It is the incubator for deciding where we WANT to spend eternity. The only question is where we want to go.

Which is why I despair of America. Last Presidential election, between Hudge and Grudge, 98% of the voting public voted for the lesser evil. And thus still voted for evil.

This was not entirely unexpected, given the nature of the data (floating inventory moving through a factory and a warehouse- sometimes it returns to the same location in three dimensional space, but is unique in four dimensions). But it sure would have been nice if they could have given me a scan sequence number as well; a date time field is nice for reporting but should NEVER be part of a logical primary key.

Good people not only permit it, good people vote for it. They want this to come to pass.

I'm looking at the effects for his base. Oh, not the fake base like the poor people in Ferguson who expected him to stop white cops from shooting their children- but his true base, in New York and Chicago, who expect him to relieve them of certain costs of doing business.

That is to say, the base that will provide campaign funding for decades to come. Getting elected is a side job to the eternal campaign.

What you fail to gasp is that the Tyrant, in his Benevolence, has locked up everybody- and is slowly letting out the people who do NOT accept his Tyranny. You've fallen for the lie that Hell is a punishment, rather than a reward.

Would be by running for city council, mayor, and voting.

The idea that a black town would have a white mayor, a white police chief, and a mostly white police force is very strange indeed.

The real racists in Ferguson are the ones who see this case as being "a white officer shot a black suspect" rather than "a white police captain didn't know enough about racism to have black officers patrolling a black neighborhood" followed by "five shots are enough, if the suspect is on his knees, a sixth shot is not necessary" followed by "when black people are rioting, white people in Vietnam era camo is not going to be a solution" followed by "once trust is lost, not even a black State Police Captain is the answer" followed by "looters, reporters, cops, and the National Guard all invade a town trying to recover from a tragedy of stupidity".