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Comment Re: I love moderates (Score 0) 1318

Of course, you can rarely distangle religion and politics in these things. People have an uncanny knack for concluding that God wants just what they want, and wants them to be the instrument of His will. I suspect religion is often more of an excuse than the actual cause.

Religion is not an excuse it is the weapon. It is what is used to mobilise people and get them to kill and to die. What do you tink is going to be more effective:

"God has revealed to me that we need to cleanse this neighbouring land of these heretics and ungodly people. All those that fall will be martyrs and go to martyrs heaven and be revered for all time."

or

"I would like you to all give your lives so that I can take over this neighbouring land and enrich myself."

The reason religion is so dangerous is that once you accept god and accept that someone speaks for god then you will believe what is said by that person. Religion is a tool for for the powerful to control the masses, it is nothing more. Yes it makes some people feel warm and fuzzy inside "knowing" they will live forever and their enemies will face eternal torment. But that is just the sugar to make the medicine go down.

EDM

Comment Re:Cars (Score 0) 665

I don't know how it work where you are but here is how it works in good old blighty

1. You buy good for a really good price ;)

2. You buy goods for market price

1 you are looking at receiving stolen goods if it is stolen and 2 you are just unlucky. In both cases you are out of pocket. There is of course option 3 you wait out several hundred years in which case it is yours. Doesn't work so well with computers (or with people that last approx 100years) Still a good wheeze if you can pull it off.

Either way no you can not keep stolen property even if you did buy it on ebay/from some guy in a pub.

EDM

Comment Re:Cool ... the possibilities (Score 0) 238

I find your faith in advertisers disturbing. If they see fat people, they will advertise junk food, not diets because impulse sales are so much easier and lucrative.

Actually what they'll do is junk food adds then diet adds after you have eaten. That way they get you twice once on impulse and once on guilt. Don't under estimate the power of guilt. See what it has done for the Catholic church. It is surly no coincidence that church is Sunday and sinning is Friday and Saturday.

-EDM

Comment Re:Stupid double standard (Score 1) 904

Here here. Thanks you saved me the trouble of posting as sensible email. If anyone ever suggested that my daughter should be eating in the toilet (bathroom to you) I may be inclined to treat them to their next meal from there. Hopefully some of these idiots will one day meet a woman and have kids and realise what total idiots they have been. Somehow I doubt it though.

EDM

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