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Fellow Americans, there comes a time every mans life when we must give up ourselves before we are worthy to recieve. There comes a time in this war on terror when in order to protect liberty, we have to give it up in the mean time for safty. That's right folks. Today, Americans have forsaken the creator for the creation and have decided that they would value our "civil liberties" than protecting western civilization and rich white people from the tender mercies of radical Islamic terrorists. Selfish liberals insist and whine that Bush has no right to spy on Americans and ban certain undesirables from using our airlines. They demand the right to criticize and blaspheeme the name of our supreme commander and cheef George W Bush while forcing multiculturalism down our throats and praising Bill Clinton. We all know however that it's totally Clintons fult for everything bad in america. Now we are at war and we must make a decision. support the safty of America and defeat terrorists, or support civil liberties and give victory to the enemy. Its all because of Bill Clinton and civil liberties that we are in this war so it is only fair that we give it up. no one said life was supposed to be fair you liberal crybabys. Dont give me that rubbish about equality and diversity. WE ARE AT WAR! If your not for Bush and against civil liberties your a terrorist! Your probably even a Communist and should be detained. Therefore fellow Americans we must throw all of our trust and resources behind George W Bush and behind this war with no ifs ands or buts. Be sure to report any and all detractors and freedom supporters to your local military and never question. Bush knows what hes doing and we will win this war once and for all. Thank you and May God bless America.

"So where are the old human civilizations buried?"

Many of them under volcanic ash, some of them under jungle, a couple under sand, and maybe one or two under water.

Quite a few civilizations don't leave much of a permanent mark, especially after ten thousand years.

When was witchcraft? Is that your question?

My question was, "When was witchcraft big?" It's always been around in one form or another, in most cultures.

Why does someone have to be "wrong" if they differ in points of view? And who is to determine which one is wrong? We're not talking about proven fact, here...just ideas that have not been proved or disproved.

How it is that Westerners have totally lost touch with the Law of Non Contradiction is beyond me. Ok...Something cannot both exist and not exist in the same sense at the same time, right? If someone is making a truth claim, they are either right or wrong. They can have a different perspective, but that doesn't make A non-A. Do you see where I'm going with this?

Let's suppose it's a nice sunny day and you've decided to go for a walk. You pass by your next door neighbor, who for some odd reason is chanting, "Wiggy, wiggy, wiggy! All hail the Aardvark," wearing a hula skirt and bunny slippers out on his front lawn. "Nice day we're having," you say to him. "It isn't THAT great," he replies. That is a relative. To you, it is a nice day; to him it is not. It is possible that it is both a nice day and a not-so-nice day because that is purely based on personal preference. Applying the same to other areas is where Western though has gone dreadfully wrong.

The forum has more options now than it did when I first showed up here.
Heck, back then you had to format everything in html with line breaks and paragraph breaks or you'd end up with a huge massive clutter sigle paragraph.
*Unngh!*

I think George Orwell foresaw the rise of liberals!!

Orwell was himself a devout socialist. However, he had a keen mind for language and its power.

Newspeak = political correctness.

1984 was a good example. I've got an essay of his from the forties which nails it right on the head--long before PC was officially acknowledged.

Yeah, there used to be bumplists, but I never figured out how they worked, and now they've been taken out.
Everything is now simple pinglists, which people keep as a text file on their respective machines.

Or, on their bio page like I do.

Orwell was himself a devout socialist. However, he had a keen mind for language and its power.

I know, but he seemed to gradually renounce certian aspects of socialism as time passed, had he lived a couple more decades, he would surely have been a full blown conservative!!

1984 was a good example. I've got an essay of his from the forties which nails it right on the head--long before PC was officially acknowledged.

True.

To me, the scariest factor in the "Drake Equation," (which is the explanation of sorts for why no aliens visit us), is that factor which considers how long a civilization lasts.

Our culture seems permanent, but if we get to a point where we've used all the oil without having learned how to produce fusion energy, then all of our books may end up being burned for fuel.

And aliens in some other part of the Universe will be saying, "Where are they?"

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