FIve things that you believe never should have been invented.
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Yes that's pretty much the only thing. Religion ends up causing more harm than good, The crusades anyone? Holy wars in general actually, Religion results in clouding the judgement of an idividual and a mass of people in the long run, for most of us, we are 'Forced' to believe in an entity at birth, which will not affect our future in any way, and yet. We are fed false information, sometimes leading to the point where we choose to 'Force' this information upon others. Leading to extremism, and again, holy wars.
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Yes that's pretty much the only thing. Religion ends up causing more harm than good, The crusades anyone? Holy wars in general actually, Religion results in clouding the judgement of an idividual and a mass of people in the long run, for most of us, we are 'Forced' to believe in an entity at birth, which will not affect our future in any way, and yet. We are fed false information, sometimes leading to the point where we choose to 'Force' this information upon others. Leading to extremism, and again, holy wars.
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Nope, your are either sadly misinformed or completely oblivious. The first code of laws on record is that of Hammurabi which had no connection to their religion (early Mesopotamian religion was fairly weak and did not govern much). Morals such as not stealing and killing one's neighbors have been enforced by society ever since we realized that our survival would be benefited by living together. Again, way before religion. In fact the major religions have shown themselves to be amoral in that they give people a way to justify their theft and murder. All religion does is make people feel more righteous (specifically Abrahamic religions), in that people believe that people they deem evil will be punished in the afterlife. So, the truth is that religion should never have been invented because it is merely a means of controlling the weak-minded to do the bidding of religious leadership. Would the world have been a better place if it were never invented? Maybe. Would there have been less pointless wars? Definitely.teh_pwning_dude said:
1. What is currently cool to hate on right now.
2. Arguable theory
3. Something that slightly annoys me
4. A thing that has never done anything to me but I still think is lame
5. Tolerance
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2. Arguable theory
3. Something that slightly annoys me
4. A thing that has never done anything to me but I still think is lame
5. Tolerance
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I would have to say religion nukes skin color and the mac.
the bad thing about religion is no matter how much good it does all we do is use it as an excuse for killing each other and seperating people, with out religion all we would have is race and if we are taking out skin color I think most of humanities stupidity is under control, other wars over resources and such.
Edit: acutally lets say the wide spread of nukes not the nuke because nukes have savved alot of lives.
the bad thing about religion is no matter how much good it does all we do is use it as an excuse for killing each other and seperating people, with out religion all we would have is race and if we are taking out skin color I think most of humanities stupidity is under control, other wars over resources and such.
Edit: acutally lets say the wide spread of nukes not the nuke because nukes have savved alot of lives.
-Reality TV (except COPS, because COPS is awesome).
-Standardized tests.
-Online job applications (does anybody even read that shit? Also, most of them have a bunch of really dumb personality-quiz questions that seem almost irrelevant to the job one's applying for...)
-Every horrifically ugly fashion shoe from the past ten years, including UGG boots and Croc shoes. What's so wrong with normal, comfy, practical, decently-priced shoes?
-Snuggies (What, are you too stupid to figure out how to operate a damn blanket? Obviously!)
-Standardized tests.
-Online job applications (does anybody even read that shit? Also, most of them have a bunch of really dumb personality-quiz questions that seem almost irrelevant to the job one's applying for...)
-Every horrifically ugly fashion shoe from the past ten years, including UGG boots and Croc shoes. What's so wrong with normal, comfy, practical, decently-priced shoes?
-Snuggies (What, are you too stupid to figure out how to operate a damn blanket? Obviously!)
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Nazi-ism
The 24-hour news cycle (for more reasons than I can count)
facebook
copyright laws that last longer than 5-10 years
nuclear weapons
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Black People.
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Nazi-ism
The 24-hour news cycle (for more reasons than I can count)
copyright laws that last longer than 5-10 years
nuclear weapons
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Black People.
(/jk)
..That isn't an invention.skips said:
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Religion isn't to blame for anything you mentioned. A few select religions are, but to just say all religion is bad and hurts people is just short sighted and ignorant. Your just lumping a huge group of people together based on what the Christians did. Religion by itself just gives people something higher then themselves to believe in. In such an uncertain world some people need this. Even science doesn't know everything and what it does know could change tomorrow based on some new discovery somehow. In a world were us imperfect humans know so little about the universe one cannot disqualify any set of beliefs.ike42 said:
Now, your right that morality does not come from religion. You can be a good person and not follow one. I know I don't have a religion. But to just arbitrarily decide that all religion is evil and does no one any good just shows how little you understand the bigger picture. I agree that there are staggering problems with organized religion (witch is what I think you want to say) in the fact that equally imperfect humans arbitrarily decide the will of a being that is all powerful all present and all knowing and deciding that anyone that doesn't follow their version of "gods will" is doomed to hell or whatever. That kind of thinking pisses me off. But again, thats not all religion. Thats not even all Christian religions.
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Religion is bad (MY OPINION, NOT STATEMENT OF FACT) because it causes people to make decisions based on wishful thinking instead of cold hard reason. This includes both factual decisions and ethical ones.
Not that nothing good has come of religion, but I think it has outstayed it's welcome.
Religion is bad (MY OPINION, NOT STATEMENT OF FACT) because it causes people to make decisions based on wishful thinking instead of cold hard reason. This includes both factual decisions and ethical ones.
Not that nothing good has come of religion, but I think it has outstayed it's welcome.
I don't give a crap about Beiber. When I say Bob Dylan, I mean Bob Dylan. Screw that hideous ear-breaking voice of his.Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath said:
Personally, I think the H-bomb is the one thing that stopped the Cold War from becoming an actual fighting war; it was acting as a deterrent to stop any nuclear-armed nations from ever fighting, and perhaps even ended up saving lives in the long run.CorruptCor3 said:
The last time superpowers engaged in war was WW2, and that was ended with the development of nukes (Well, there was also Russians being awesome), since then, it was just "War On Terror/Communism" through invading third-world countries.
I could be wrong, but that's my theory.
Also:
1.) Cable TV (Just show it on regular channels)
2.) Effin Drugs. I don't care how many chemicals go through your nose, you aren't going to escape reality, it will catch up.
3.) Hot Dogs, or "Let's find a way to sell the stuff left over from when we got the meat from this thing."
4.) Trucks, YOU'RE IN THE WAY OF THE FREEWAY SIGN AND I COULDN'T SEE THE EXIT SO I MISSED IT YOU STUPID, OVERSIZED CRAP!
5.) Porn. Nuff said.
I have a large poster of a nuclear explosion above my television. It is a reminder about perspective. A fighting war is bad, but we can survive it as a planet. Nukes transcend everything else that man has done or can do. They open up the possibility that a madman will destroy everything, no matter how much the rest of us try to ignore them to death. Basically, Dr. Strangelove.
That said, you are absolutely right: Nukes have thus far saved more lives than they have ended.
That said, you are absolutely right: Nukes have thus far saved more lives than they have ended.