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    Should Great Britain leave the EU?

    in General Discussion

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    Europe needs to work together. The whole is stronger than the parts. Britain should be part of that. Living in splendid isolation is all very well but we live in an age of global problems which require global solutions. If we keep going as we are, letting nationalism and religion divide us, it seems to me that there is a fairly large chance we won't survive the next two centuries. The sooner we can all unite under one government, the better. A united Europe is a stepping stone towards that end. Nuff said.

    Syndicate Press Release: Kangaroo's meat sales increase by 200%!

    in Alliance Affairs

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    You are asking individual members to abandon their alliance mates lets be real.  Why are you guys still hitting them anyways? what do you have left to prove? I am completely out of the loop here, but you guys cant actually be trying to get reps from a war you started?

     

    We're all fed up of hitting them too, but Steve refuses to be reasonable and accept the peace deal we offered. No reps were asked for.

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    Converts?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Ishmael

    When I was growing up I spent a lot of time singing as a chorister. I didn't really have any fixed opinion on God but assumed that adults had good reasons for believing. I chiefly enjoyed the music, traditions and friendly community feel to the church. During this period I slowly started to assume that God existed without ever really having thought clearly about it, simply because everybody else did. Finally I had an argument with my sister about God and the church. I suddenly realised that I felt God existed. That scared me because I wasn't sure why I felt this way. I started thinking about it a lot.

     

    I loved to read and had an extensive knowledge of Greek/Roman/Ancient myths and legends. I slowly started to see that there was no evidence that the Gods of the ancient world existed and that our modern day God was simply a continuation of those ancient traditions, and so, was similarly unfounded. I also began to see how religion was used to control people and prevent them from questioning authority in the past and concluded that the same must be true today. I became very interested in modern day cults and spent time researching the psychological techniques they used to draw and keep intelligent people in their clutches. I could see similar but less extreme techniques employed in my own church (though in this case they were not intentionally employed to exploit people but were simply church tradition). Once I started thinking this way it was like a veil was lifted - I saw the world differently. That which had been mysterious before became clear and bright as day. Like a flash the cobwebs of ritual and mysticism which surround religion were cleared and I could see it as it was in itself. I became a committed agnostic. I have since studied philosophy at 3rd level and everything I've read has only confirmed and made me more sure. I now consider myself an atheist. I still very much enjoy church music but in the same way that one enjoys opera music. I appreciate the passion the composers felt while writing.

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    For you islamophobes

    in General Discussion

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    There are things we don't know about. One of those things is exactly how or if the universe was created (we know about the big bang, but we don't know what caused the big bang).

     

    However, just because we don't know the answer to this question does not mean that we can say God did it. There is no more positive evidence that God created the universe than that a unicorn created the universe. We simply do not know.

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