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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Conversations are one thing. As the bombs are dropping on Gaza, do you see people staying put or leaving in their thousands? Very few people want to die, and they certainly don't invite death. Believe it. Quite. If they all held this lemming mentality people attribute them to possess, their religion would never have got off the ground. The people they talk about are those on the outer fringe of an extreme who are young, impressionable and duped into it by cowards who wouldn't dream of wearing the vest themselves.
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
if you define 'a conversation' as a 50:50 dialogue back and forth with respect, valid points, observations and opinions....then, no. however, i have received many lectures that involved dissing every other religion, especially Christianity, as being wrong and incorrect. Always involving denying the true Divinity of Christ. As an atheist, such blasphemy never really bothered me. But they liked to diss Christianity (and Judaism) as a load of rubbish followed by infidel fools. Normally spoken With a blithe disregard for the hypocrisy of what would happen were i to return the 'complement'. Not often I agree with you PV, but on this I do. Quick to accuse whites as racist, very slow to appreciate their own skin intolerance. However, there are far too many of them to say they all believe this. And South Asian Muslims may be among the slowest to assimilate, but they will. Just in their own way and in their own time.
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Originally posted by Lanzo-Ad
Whether you like it or not that is the belief of the Quran, i am sure more Muslims abide by it, not even the Pope abides by the bible, i am an atheist, the closest thing to god i know is Roy Hodgson Indeed. An anagram of his name is Yor God son (if you forget about the H).
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WWIII Donald Trump giving his opinion this week. And it is difficult to disagree with some of his observations.
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
if you define 'a conversation' as a 50:50 dialogue back and forth with respect, valid points, observations and opinions....then, no. however, i have received many lectures that involved dissing every other religion, especially Christianity, as being wrong and incorrect. Always involving denying the true Divinity of Christ. As an atheist, such blasphemy never really bothered me. But they liked to diss Christianity (and Judaism) as a load of rubbish followed by infidel fools. Normally spoken With a blithe disregard for the hypocrisy of what would happen were i to return the 'complement'. True, but not universal; and pretty much a carbon copy of a conversation you would have with an evangelical Christian in the US Bible Belt. White men dating Muslim women? There I see your angle. Merely saying it and they are reaching for something to kill you with. But we, apparently, are the racists?? BTW, the OP is about WWIII. At present, the most likely protagonists are Russia (not my view -see elsewhere) or China (not yet). The current Middle East crisis will dissolve into an unpleasant but simmering issue over time with careful management and stumbles along the way. It always does.
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
Iran & pakistan have started flinging missiles at each other which I really didn't see on my WW3 bingo card. Given how bold Iran have been recently, I get the feeling they've fallen under a certain umbrella. Israel and Iran are polar enemies but with one thing in common. They both feel surrounded by enemies. To today I honestly had no idea pakistan were one of them?? Cornered rats behave in a certain way and that is worrying. However, there is considerable distance between border skirmishes to send "firm" signals and all out war.
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Originally posted by matthau
its all fake, least the ww3 scare part of it. if you think thats the real biden you need ya heads tested. Mafia Godfather 'Vince the Chin Gigante' pretended to be nuts in order to hoodwink everybody. To get off any accountability for his actions. In reality he was a shrewd genius.....not a bumbling oaf.
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
Mafia Godfather 'Vince the Chin Gigante' pretended to be nuts in order to hoodwink everybody. To get off any accountability for his actions. In reality he was a shrewd genius.....not a bumbling oaf.
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This is what it’s really all about. Follow the money. We are moving over to blockchain. Buy xrp and xlm asap.
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Originally posted by silvertop
Israel and Iran are polar enemies but with one thing in common. They both feel surrounded by enemies. To today I honestly had no idea pakistan were one of them?? Cornered rats behave in a certain way and that is worrying. However, there is considerable distance between border skirmishes to send "firm" signals and all out war. pakistan's policy is to face both ways, similar to Turkey, just less important to the west. However it is just one of many flashpoints.
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
An Indian PM in the UK. Surely pakistan will not be pleased ? pakistan & Afghanistan ....the influence of the World Heroin Trade ? your guess is as good as mine. But certainly Afghanistan seems to be a magnet for superpowers to shoot their weapons. From Alexander the Great, through the British, the Soviets, the US and god knows who else i forgot. Curious when you observe that the whole place doesnt seem to have much natural resources ? Edited by PalazioVecchio (18 Jan 2024 10.31pm) Actually it does, much are untapped (I wonder why?). However, it is primarily a country that suffers from its unfortunate location of lying at the crossroads of major trading routes (the spice route for instance) as well as connecting Central and South Asia. It also serves as an energy bridge where vital pipelines across it carry products crucial to Western economies. I cant think of another country which is as poor and backward but as fought over by bigger nations for the strategic control of trade. Can you?
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Originally posted by silvertop
Actually it does, much are untapped (I wonder why?). However, it is primarily a country that suffers from its unfortunate location of lying at the crossroads of major trading routes (the spice route for instance) as well as connecting Central and South Asia. It also serves as an energy bridge where vital pipelines across it carry products crucial to Western economies. I cant think of another country which is as poor and backward but as fought over by bigger nations for the strategic control of trade. Can you? most impoverished sh1.tholes* are ignored by the Elites. To use the language of Donald Trump. Whereas its a great curse to have your country endowed with a suddenly financially precious resource.....oil, lithium, gold, copper, Cocaine. Rob Newman did a pretty good exposee of how most of the politics in the World stemmed from the need for Oil. In the link below...
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
most impoverished sh1.tholes* are ignored by the Elites. To use the language of Donald Trump. Whereas its a great curse to have your country endowed with a suddenly financially precious resource.....oil, lithium, gold, copper, Cocaine. Rob Newman did a pretty good exposee of how most of the politics in the World stemmed from the need for Oil. In the link below... That Rob Newman performance was simply fantastic. Very eye-opening
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Mr Newman is captivating.
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