If you remove one thing from the worlds history, as if it never happened.............

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This is why threads like this are totally useless. For one thing, it can never happen, so what's the point of having a discussion on it? Secondly, you always have the "my view is greater than your view" people.

To a person, most people don't give a shit if their next door neighbor has food to eat, so they certainly couldn't care less about the lady in the Congo starving to death.
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So in a post that slams my post for having a "greater than thou" view, you proceed to have a "greater than everyone in this thread" view. I actually think it is a great thought provoking thread, and it has produced some good answers so far. I would not say that my view is greater than anyone else?s view. However, there is a major difference between stupidity and ignorance, and in the case of kneifl, it is just plain down stupid. It really has nothing to do with a view of the world. And in fact, isn't it him, and not me, that said his view was "over our heads"?

So maybe you should have quoted him instead of me. And maybe if you think you are "better" than the whole discussion, and that people really don't care about one another, then you don't have to join in.

Going through and looking at what everyone posted, I think that there is a common theme to most of them. Jord posted two good ones in nation states and religion, and from these and all the posted atrocities, you can see that the main theme is intolerance. Creating borders with nations, apartheid, slavery, and the blind hatred of others with different views and race, and the hate that stems from organized religion all breed intolerance and have been the cause of much of the pain and suffering in the world.
 
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Happy Hippo said:
So in a post that slams my post for having a "greater than thou" view, you proceed to have a "greater than everyone in this thread" view. I actually think it is a great thought provoking thread, and it has produced some good answers so far. I would not say that my view is greater than anyone else?s view. However, there is a major difference between stupidity and ignorance, and in the case of kneifl, it is just plain down stupid. It really has nothing to do with a view of the world. And in fact, isn't it him, and not me, that said his view was "over our heads"?

So maybe you should have quoted him instead of me. And maybe if you think you are "better" than the whole discussion, and that people really don't care about one another, then you don't have to join in.

Going through and looking at what everyone posted, I think that there is a common theme to most of them. Jord posted two good ones in nation states and religion, and from these and all the posted atrocities, you can see that the main theme is intolerance. Creating borders with nations, apartheid, slavery, and the blind hatred of others with different views and race, and the hate that stems from organized religion all breed intolerance and have been the cause of much of the pain and suffering in the world.
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I like religion :shrug:
 
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It's a tie.....

1. The Internet for public use......just reminds me on a daily basis just how stupid some people really are.

1a. Cell phones......same reason.
 
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Going through and looking at what everyone posted, I think that there is a common theme to most of them. Jord posted two good ones in nation states and religion, and from these and all the posted atrocities, you can see that the main theme is intolerance. Creating borders with nations, apartheid, slavery, and the blind hatred of others with different views and race, and the hate that stems from organized religion all breed intolerance and have been the cause of much of the pain and suffering in the world.
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So is your intolerance of apartheid a good thing or a bad thing?
 
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Happy Hippo said:
So in a post that slams my post for having a "greater than thou" view, you proceed to have a "greater than everyone in this thread" view.
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Not even close. If you want to play Dungeons and Dragons, go ahead! It's still fantasy, and not reality.

Oh, and if it's so "thought provoking", why are all the answers thus far, so remedial?

Let's play this game out one peg more: Take the most atrocious event, and remove it from history. Now, by virtue of this "event" having not occurred, re-posing the question makes us go back and delete the "next" atrocity! Extrapolate this out, and you will eventually wipe out every event that has ever taken place in the history of mankind.

Yippitty shit sticks!
 
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yyz said:
Not even close. If you want to play Dungeons and Dragons, go ahead! It's still fantasy, and not reality.

Oh, and if it's so "thought provoking", why are all the answers thus far, so remedial?

Let's play this game out one peg more: Take the most atrocious event, and remove it from history. Now, by virtue of this "event" having not occurred, re-posing the question makes us go back and delete the "next" atrocity! Extrapolate this out, and you will eventually wipe out every event that has ever taken place in the history of mankind.

Yippitty shit sticks!
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GDRC
 
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All organized Religion.
The Federal Reserve. (those who know why, know why.....those who don't, do a little research)
 
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I had several answers that came to mind when I saw the title, but after reading the thread I think that if Armenians were extinguished we would live in a better world.
 
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Out of all the things you could think of- pretty pathetic- A carpenter of no means- Respected by every religion in the word- you pick him- WOW
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Didn't mean it as a offence or provoke anyone. Jesus is main chracter in many religions. That way he also is a cause of conflict between different views.

Maybe different religions would have faded away or at least they would have one more reason not to fight about.

Imo there is no doubt that Jesus kind person has lived.

So pardon my america and no offence here.


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yyz said:
Not even close. If you want to play Dungeons and Dragons,
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don't want to change the topic but i use to love this game! :0074 my favorite "campaign" is dragonlance" anyone ever play it, or read some of the book's? :0corn

just thought about it, sorry,will start a new thread :toast:
 
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