RE: Life after death?
July 6, 2014 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2014 at 3:55 pm by Purplundy.)
If I had to pick a moral for the Genesis story, it would be that the more powerful we become, the more evil we become capable of.
Of course, others choose to interpret it as sufficient reason to be anti-scientific blockheads and hindrances to the human race.
Of course, others choose to interpret it as sufficient reason to be anti-scientific blockheads and hindrances to the human race.
(July 6, 2014 at 3:38 pm)Cinjin Wrote: You omitted a couple key words: starving childrenBecause, you know, I obviously wasn't referring to starving children when I said that people living in Africa were as happy as us.
Quote:Additionally, you yourself wrote "I'd shoot myself" if you had to live in Africa for the rest of your life ... something that seems far more insulting to Africans than anything that you CLAIMED that I said.Am I obliged to want to spend the rest of my life in any place I go to? You yourself assumed that the lives of those in Africa might not be as great as yours because Africa isn't a place you've been born in and have become accustomed to. That still stands with everyone else north of the equator, except I don't go as far to say that my life is objectively better than theirs.
Quote:These two points I've made tend to hold moot the butthurt you seem to have over my remarks.Yeah. If you read the first post, I was clearly crying into the keyboard.