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  • in reply to: Types of materialism #246244
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    Well, start threads on them then. They always do well here. Don’t criticise other threads you’ve no interest in.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #246242
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    One’s best thinking is done whilst on the throne.

    Isn’t that the origin of a Privy Chancellor?

    in reply to: Spain’s Jews. #246217
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    If there was a Jesus at all, he was most likely a violent bandit chief from Galilee, along with two other bands, led by a Simon and a Judas, and anything but peaceful. They were dead long before the Christians came along and wrote stories to suit their own agenda, using the names of conveniently dead Galilean chiefs.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #246202
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    in reply to: Types of materialism #246171
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    Indian express.com

    scientists have now discovered that plants do indeed emit screams when they are cut or are dehydrated. And unlike the mandrake’s scream, which was believed to be fatal, the sounds that come out of plants when they suffer can only be heard by some animals and insects.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #246162
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    That was in The Dragons of Eden. It is one of two bizarre things in that book, the other being shaking hands with the left hand is everywhere taboo, because the left hand is used to wipe the anus after defecation.
    Maybe left-handed people wipe their bottoms with the left hand, but I believe most of us use our right hands.

    in reply to: Spain’s Jews. #246088
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    In fact, do not the Jews take their name from Judah, not a religion but a country.

    Kautsky explains all that.

    When the rulers, warriors and officials of Judah were taken by the Babylonians as hostages into Babylonia, they had no longer anyone to rule and no subordinates, no slaves, and no country. All they had was their religion, which we call today Judaism. Which is why the term Jew has been conflated with the religion.
    This became, in exile, a new religion. The Jews left behind in Judah, being the harmless peasantry, were freed by the Babylonians from the slavery their Jewish masters, now in exile, had subjected them to. The religion of these peasants remained that of the monolatrist, semi-polytheist, old form of the religion of the Hebrews.
    When Cyrus freed the Jewish aristocracy, it returned to Judah, and unleashed religious tyranny on the peasantry, subjecting all Jews to the monotheism their exiled priesthood had developed while in exile. The priests took over, further conflating the religion with the nation.
    (See Foundations of Christianity).

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    in reply to: Types of materialism #246033
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    Then open threads that you prefer, rather than castigating another’s.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #246028
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    Leave comments please, to this:

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245984
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    Gibbon on Christianity.

    In his monumental work, Edward Gibbon, in his chapters on Christianity, has to pay lip-service to the “truth” of the mythology, yet his brilliant sarcasm throughout, but thinly veiled, makes reading him a real pleasure.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245982
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    Tribal people are shown Carl Sagan video.

    And yet in the US and UK, where we have all this technology, we are plagued with oafs!

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    in reply to: Types of materialism #245980
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    No, it isn’t idealist.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245978
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    I know. Tell it them then.

    I wrote to Carl Sagan in 1988 about socialism. He didn’t reply, but I wrote, and I think it’s important to do so.

    And what Dawkins should be looking at, rather than at the stupidity of creationists, is WHY are people still choosing such paths.

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