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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Two brand new supercarriers ordered by Royal Navy |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2007, 12:34 am
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| I don't understand. How would aircraft carriers make a difference to a terrorist? If you know who and where the terrorists are, the police and the criminal justice system are the best way to deal with the problem. If you don't know who and where the terrorists are, I don't see how an aircraft carri... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: i thought the cold war was over???? |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 10:55 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Oh. Then why start a proselytizing thread where you draw conclusions if you're not sure of your facts? :roll: http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/jimservo/02GoldFinchRelax.jpg so i can poll opinions from the board, gather facts, and generally exercise my inquisitive mind. duuuh. :roll: :P Indeed. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: i thought the cold war was over???? |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 9:09 pm
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| The Cold War is over, it effectively ended during the second term of Ronald Reagan. Russia never, even during the days of Boris Yeltsin, became an all-out "ally" of the United States. The issue with the Strategic Defense Initiative has always been something that has caused friction between the US an... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Matt Damon Blasts James Bond* |
| jimservo |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 8:18 pm
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Replies: 3
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| *Sorry about the overly long title the first time around Bond is “an imperialist and he’s a misogynist. He kills people and laughs and sips martinis and wisecracks about it,” Damon, 36, told The Associated Press in an interview … Paul Greengrass, Damon’s director on Universal’s “Bourne Ultimatum” an... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 6:19 pm
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Replies: 35,371
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Name Your Favorite Saint or Saints! |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 4:39 pm
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Replies: 18
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| St. Maximilian Kolbe Raymond Kolbe (who took the name Maximilian when he became a friar) is known chiefly for the manner of his death, but his life was also noteworthy. He was born in 1894 near Lodz (51:49 N 19:28 E) in a part of Poland then under Russian rule, of parents who worked at home as weave... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Two brand new supercarriers ordered by Royal Navy |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 10:03 am
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Replies: 15
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| I agree. A maritime nation like the UK really needs a better navy then it currently has. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I predict Obama will lose... |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 7:50 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Yes, Reagan talked with the Soviets; he eventually had several summit meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev. But: not right away. Not in his first year. In fact, throughout his entire first term, Reagan had no summit meetings, none, with either Leonid Brezhnev or, after he died, Yuri Andropov or, after h... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fallacies about Pro-Market Viewpoint |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 5:24 pm
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Replies: 17
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| I think that George Lakoff wrote something somewhat similar in his book Moral Politics, I haven't read it though so don't take me as absolutely true on the matter. I think he wrote politics under the metaphor of views of the family, like nurturant parent and strict father. I think that the traits m... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pope: Only Catholics are Christians |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 5:15 pm
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Replies: 125
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| All a matter of definitions. Look, the stage that Islam is in right now, roughly corresponds to Christianity around the time of the discovery of the western hemisphere. Frankly, such people as the followers of Bin Laden seem far more restrained than say, Pizarro. Not precisely (about Christianity a... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Another picture association thread |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 11:55 am
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Replies: 363
Views: 48,038
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: word association game |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 11:50 am
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Replies: 76,431
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pope: Only Catholics are Christians |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 10:34 am
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Replies: 125
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| I was starting to like the catholic faith under the old pope. The catholic churches' standpoint on spiritual truth in all religions was very impressive to me. Nothing turns me more off a religions saying "Hey, if you don't believe in it exactly like we do, you're going to hell." Though I'm fine wit... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fallacies about Pro-Market Viewpoint |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 10:18 am
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| Thank you for breaking down and analysing my comments one by one. How do you feel about them ? Feel In a Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell (if I quote him often it is only because I find him especially enlightening) he attempts to determine why people so often wind up generally agreeing with eac... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I predict Obama will lose... |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 7:25 am
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Replies: 6
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| Barack Obama is now backing off his foreign policy statement, or having foreign policy advisory say he meant something else. Charleston, S.C. — Sen. Barack Obama’s closest political adviser, David Axelrod, wants you to know that Obama did not say what he appeared to say at Monday night’s Democratic ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Another picture association thread |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 7:06 am
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Replies: 363
Views: 48,038
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