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I say let people believe in whatever they want if they feel it gives some sense of meaning to their lives. Whether it be devout Christian, Muslim, agnostic, Buddhist, atheist, Satanist, Scientologist, etc etc, I am not really in a position to be judgmental re: the affairs of the afterlife...

I subscribe to that age-old adage "the best defense is a good offense..."

"So you can put ONE thing that you would like to see gone from the world forever and a good reason for it." On a global scale... war. I'd like to think that in today's civilized world, we shouldn't have to resort to armed conflict to settle our differences even after exhausting all other means...

What's that age-old adage? "To err is human, to forgive is divine..." or something along those lines. While forgiveness may indeed be a virtue and something one should strive and aspire to, I find some things to be unforgivable. A better man might be able to let go of all the hatred, anger...

Check out this site and download the trailer if you all get a chance. Pretty interesting stuff about a bunch of guys who got handed a raw deal and learned how to cope the only way they knew how: through fierce competition. Not an ounce of self-pity to be found anywhere, heh...

Down with Whitey! :wave: Err... sorry, you lost me after that...

A shame about the loss of your colleague. Hopefully those responsible for this heinous turn of events can and will be brought to justice at some point (a small consolation for the survivors and victim's families...).

Someone's record needle appears to be stuck... 8-p

Vegan is way too severe imho... I'm all about healthy living and a well-balanced diet but sheesh... depriving oneself of some of the things vegans abstain from just doesn't make sense to me. I mean... nowadays, eating food to me is more of a daily function necessary for my survival as opposed...

Re: being a vegetarian Well... I can only speak from personal experience so don't expect me to back up any of my claims with documented evidence, heh. When I was at my heaviest, I weighed approximately 229lbs. Now, for someone who is only 5'8" tall... that's a lot of meat to be carrying...

Looks like the body count is rising... (according to the latest updates around the web) although the British govt. has yet to release anything official. Hopefully we'll have some concrete figures soon in terms of loss of life and re: the extent of the actual damage.

Bet he's pissed that Paris got passed over by the IOC today... saw footage on the news earlier with Blair beaming broadly while Parisians were booing at the announcement, heh.

Speaking of Deep Impact, this story caught my attention: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050705/ap_on_fe_st/russia_comet_case Upset with the recent mission, a Russian astrologer is apparently attempting to sue NASA for "ruining the natural balance of forces in the universe" and also for...

Looking back at this thread I saw Qwertyu raise this point: "However, I am questioning why it is suddenly a salient topic on JRef?" Just an observation... but it seems to me that you're the one going to great lengths to dismiss, downplay, and deflect this topic from every possible angle...

"Kyoto would have wrecked our economy..." Yeah, like the billions we're spending in Iraq isn't detrimental...

What does "family" mean to me? Hmm... My mother is a Saint. She sacrficed everything she had (including her own dreams and personal ambitions) to provide for me and my two brothers. My father was a bum. Not that he didn't have his moments... his own father wasn't much of a role-model so...

Personally (with the exception of Frank and others who have had special training and been in volatile situations like this before), I doubt most ppl would be able to actually think rationally in that kind of situation. It's easy to post what someone *would like to think they would do* but in...

Jarvis is simply content to blame all the evils of the world on Islam. For him, it's easier to have a scapegoat to villify rather than dig any deeper at the issue. Don't bother wasting your breath trying to convince him otherwise. He's obviously inflexible in his beliefs and opinions (which...

I agree, does seem like an awful waste of perfectly good product. A shame some other alternative can't be reached.

I would probably say "no" because after the first few hundred years, chances are the novelty would have probably worn off by then. After travelling abroad and visiting every locale imaginable (from the exotic to the mundane), after having seen or witnessed anything and everything in this world...