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1 posted on 10/21/2006 8:07:20 AM PDT by tcostell
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Ping for future read

BTTT

2 posted on 10/21/2006 8:19:53 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (If a pug barks and no one is around to hear it... they hold a grudge for a long time!)
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Interesting piece and how true!!!

In reading this one can't help compare this to the liberal way of thinking....


3 posted on 10/21/2006 8:21:15 AM PDT by Kimmers
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Good job. I hope this gets wide circulation.

BTW, a buddy of mine is the Greatest Ditch Digger in the World. He's a genius with a backhoe, and is compensated well for his skill.


4 posted on 10/21/2006 8:24:24 AM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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Islam is not the fastest growing religion. Christianity is. The rate of growth in the West may be high, but in absolute numbers, it is meaningless. Tens of millions are being converted to Christianity in China and millions in Africa. Dozens to Islam in Europe. And don't forget Muslims are converting Christianity all over the world. No comparison.


5 posted on 10/21/2006 8:24:44 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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Well said....and it figures to me that islam converts numbers are rapidly growing. There are so, so many loosers all around, everywhere.

Don't agree? Go sit in on any court session on no particular day. Watch how many screw ups go before the judge for felony offenses...fraud, drugs, assault, multiple DUI, theft, stolen property, and on and on.

What kills me is that the Judge so often hands down a court hearing date and out the door they go, back on the street. You think they'll make thier court date? Pffft.


6 posted on 10/21/2006 8:24:56 AM PDT by clippedwing
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Perhaps so. Large numbers of effectively organized "losers" can do a lot of harm, however, and the self-labeled "winners" should not under-estimate them. I wonder if either classification is quite coherent, and if those who so facilely assign these labels to their neighbors might not be deluding themselves in a personally harmful way.

It does seem clear that inhabitants of the world of Islam are most miserable, unable to fully trust their "brothers" in that there is constant suspicion about who are the "sincere" and "orthodox" and who are the "hypocrites" and heretical, with severe consequences for those who are classified (mistakenly or not) into the latter group , though the incoherence of the definitions makes it problematic to recognize a "mistake" or a "correct decision" when you see one. One sees the predictable result of these incoherent classifications in the incessant in-fighting among the various claimants to Islamic authority, most recently on display in Iraq but also evident to anyone who follows the twisted pathways of current events in the Middle East and in the Asian territories of Islam (e.g., Indonesia, Pakistan, and Malaysia).

Christendom went through a time like this, leading to the current fragmentation of the sects, but has mostly recovered the ability to "disagree without being disagreeable" (though observers of contemporary church splits will laugh at this). Still, one does not see dozens of throats being slit and martyr bombers imolating themselves and neighbors when churches fuss at each other.

Take care in defining this "loser"/"winner" contrast, and avoid a similar fate.





7 posted on 10/21/2006 8:25:23 AM PDT by Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek
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The truth will set you free, free to achieve all that you can.


8 posted on 10/21/2006 8:42:55 AM PDT by mockingbyrd (Good heavens! What women these Christians have-----Libanus)
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Islam,

1% religion
99% social control

a lot like communism


9 posted on 10/21/2006 8:45:20 AM PDT by greasepaint
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See "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer. Fanatics are often people who have nothing good going on in their own lives, so they find a substitute cause to give themselves a sense of significance. In other cases, conservatives and Christians find actual truth and give their lives to spreading it peacefully.
11 posted on 10/21/2006 8:49:20 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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If they aren’t responsible for the bad things that happen to them, then they aren't responsible for the good that comes to them either.

This is a key concept in any area of life, and one that the victimologists conveniently forget. Once people realize this, they can escape the poverty trap.

Once again, it's all about personal reponsibility.

12 posted on 10/21/2006 8:53:11 AM PDT by Disambiguator (If the Democrats were a stock, I would short them.)
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The very core concept of Islam is the unconditional surrender to the will of Allah.

islam (I refuse to capitalize the word) means literally I submit.

Thanks for a great post!

13 posted on 10/21/2006 8:54:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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bttt


14 posted on 10/21/2006 8:57:53 AM PDT by TWfromTEXAS (We are at war - Man up or Shut up.)
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Islam: A religion for Losers

To further support the points made in the article, over forty percent of the Muslim world is illiterate. Muhammad was also illiterate and I have always thought that this was at least partially responsible for his irrational hatred of the Jews.

16 posted on 10/21/2006 9:06:24 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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Friedrich Nietzsche said pretty much the same thing about Christianity. Indeed, Ted Turner said exactly the same thing about Christianity.

Many or most religions have to do with getting help from a "higher power," and some people find all religions suspect for that very reason.

Since so many religions do promise comfort or aid to those who can't cope, it's hard to see that such an accusation disproves or discredits a particular religion.

18 posted on 10/21/2006 9:17:54 AM PDT by x
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Islam: A religion for Losers

And for centuries these losers have been breeding with any other losers they could enslave.

Evolution thrown into reverse.

20 posted on 10/21/2006 9:21:00 AM PDT by joshhiggins (O you who believe! do not take the MUSLIMS for friends)
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In the history of man, no society has so successfully provided each individual with opportunity like the United States.

The ultimate measure of success is the collective survival not the opportunity for the individuals.

If you have more children you win, if you do not have enough children you follow the path of dinosaurs, no matter how big and ferocious you are or how much money you made.

23 posted on 10/21/2006 9:36:03 AM PDT by A. Pole (Evolution has demonstrated that the optimal IQ is the average IQ !)
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"it's a religion which rewards the loser for the very things which make them a loser"
That explains why the left loves it so much.
"encourages its faithful to not take responsibility for the circumstances of their life"
Another beloved belief of the left.

Notice which certain segments of society are attracted by this belief system -
those who have been unwilling to take responsibility for their underachievement
and who make a good living out of blaming their problems on the white Christian majority.

This is an excellent article.


25 posted on 10/21/2006 9:45:31 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Jihadism: destroy Western Civilization and replace it with sharia)
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Very good.

This explains the similarities between Socialists and Muslims. Both are organizations of losers and use similar methods to bring down the successful.

The losers of Islam are just petulent children who would burn down the house just because Mom won't give them ice cream. Nihilists.


26 posted on 10/21/2006 9:50:26 AM PDT by seowulf
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Excellent article.


27 posted on 10/21/2006 9:51:38 AM PDT by ljswisc
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Does anything in particular about 'the meek shall inherit the earth' strike you as an aspect of a religion that appeals to winners?


28 posted on 10/21/2006 9:53:08 AM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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