Secularization enables the growth of Islam.
Your message implies an actual intent to fundamentally 'change' our society. All I'm saying is that you seem ready to get some hard effort going on changing the national demographic. Your plan seems to be working so far, so I applaud you.
I wish we could dump Obama off on some Asian country like Saudi Arabia and let him fundamentally change their country in the manner he wants to change ours.
Looks as though it will be quite some time before your white flight has no where to fly to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States#Historical_trends
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Sure^, and yet you sit here and rant and rave about Rush Limbaugh, Nazi Skinheads, and basically any individual or group that happens to displease you. You are far more intolerant than I am, my friend. My criticism of minorities pales in comparision to the feral contempt you display towards your right-wing opponents.
Is this the part where you link to revleft?
You merely turn your racism against White people and rabid Christian-bashing into some thin veneer of tolerance. You are no better, less bigoted, or more tolerant than I am.
First of all..... who or what in the devil is"revleft"?
Secondly.....i'm the intolerant one simply because I think the groups and individuals you mentioned are idiotic and bigoted? You're the one who would likely do anything in your power to force Muslims, blacks, etc....to go back to their respective places of origin and i'm intolerant?

That is....the tactic of projection...and it's not going to work with me. I swear...some of you conservatives could fly a swastika in my face and accuse me of being the real racist. I could just see it now:
"We're not racist....we just want blacks to go back to Africa where they belong so we whites can enjoy our nice little "homeland" (

So now i'm the "self-hating" white person praying for the death and/or second-class citizenship of myself and all my fellow white people.
Does that sound like something any half-sane person with an ounce of rational self-interest would support? I mean seriously.....please try to analyze your thoughts a bit better, because it seems as though you're ascribing some rather preposterous motivations to those of us who disagree with you.
If you're wondering why I think so many conservatives are really off their rockers these days... you needn't look any further than this post of yours. Some of things you people say really leaves me with my mouth agape. It's hard to conceive of otherwise rational human brains which can incongruously conjure up so many rank absurdities.
Hey, some Nazi skinheads are lovely people...do a lot of good work for charity and stuff...
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Do any of you people of white European descent feel oppressed in any way, shape, or form BECAUSE you are of white European descent?
To give a European perspective - as someone from what is allegedly the heart of 'Eurabia'.
No. I feel more held back by the district I live in. I come from a pretty deprived area, although there are worse places. Its very ethnically diverse, but it's more the fact that the education system is poor and there aren't a lot of jobs that brings the place down. The crime and the antisocial behaviour is committed by people from all the different communities.
I usually find the immigrant communities are friendlier because they don't have that usual hostility to anything different that you get in some British white working class people. They work harder in school, too.
I grew up around here and still got a good education - no 'ethnics' stopped me going to uni. In fact, they inspired me with their work ethic; if I copied the other white British kids at school, I'd be a single mother living off welfare. I'm moving out as soon as I get a better paid job, and I have lived elsewhere, but I'm still a product of the environment I was raised in. I'll probably live somewhere just as ethnically diverse but with less crime because I like living in a cosmopolitan area.
So no, no discrimination for being a white European. Maybe Britain is more meritocratic than the states, but I doubt it.
I don't know. It's one of my internal monologues on a grandiose topic. I really want to write a sci fi novel one day. I think about how societies develop so I can project them into the future somewhat realistically.
The idea that religions and societies are tools and that they evolve is fairly common amongst sociobiologists (yeah, I know much of that stuff is rubbish) and sociologists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutiona ... _religions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_societies
hey puddingmouse, i was talking to my husband about your ideas, and he said it all sounded really cool too. i hope you don't mind i let him read all of what you wrote in this thread. i wanted him to see it because he has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, and he started a Master of Arts in Philosophy (ran out of funding to finish).
he said it was really neat, and he didn't understand all of it, but he really liked what you had to say. it was fascinating to him too.
just wanted to let you know that your thoughts and ideas are appreciated.
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he said it was really neat, and he didn't understand all of it, but he really liked what you had to say. it was fascinating to him too.
just wanted to let you know that your thoughts and ideas are appreciated.
Thank you.
I did my BA in English Language and Literature. I think I could have got first class honours, but I spent too much time reading off-curricular material from other subjects. My sister got first class honours in History, so I pick her brain a lot. She'd be great at an MA, but it's a money issue, like with your husband.
Besides seeing it on the internet, I've only come across it through reading Dawkins (of his books, I've read the Selfish Gene, The God Delusion and The Ancestor's Tale). I'll admit I'm not overly enamoured with Dawkins as a person (he's kind of the Michael Moore of religion), but his theories should be read. Memetics is interesting and I should probably learn more about it.
The general idea of studying cultural evolution using the same theories as genetic evolution interests me.
I also like the ideas from Dual Inheritance Theory.
I am going to research the ideas of how r/K selection theory pertains to cultural groups. Could you summarise what you know? I'm guessing it's the theory (in a nutshell) that poor people have more kids because they are r-selectors. When it's used in a racial context, it seems erroneous because there isn't enough genetic diversity in humans for it to work. In a sociocultural context, however, it interests me.
Actually, it has less to do with individual reproduction than with how societies or cultures grow and expand: by evangelism, forced conversion through warfare, biological reproduction and indoctrination of the young, etc, vs. how they lose people to other cultures (children of believers becoming atheists, converting to other beliefs, being killed off in genocides, etc). As with biological reproduction, societies where the culture as a whole invests a great deal in each individual's happiness (think iceland or sweeden) often are the least evangelistic in demanding that their way of life be spread by whatever means, wheras societies that do little for the individual (and often are harsh and demanding towards the individual) are often very insistent that their members put a great deal of effort into spreading that way of life. Quality of investment vs. quantity of investment on a cultural level.
this is the essay where I initially encountered the idea:
http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1997/vol1/fog_a.html
while there are obvious problems with meme theory, I am convinced that the model has some important strengths in allowing us to understand the ecology and evolution of cultures.
this is the essay where I initially encountered the idea:
http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1997/vol1/fog_a.html
while there are obvious problems with meme theory, I am convinced that the model has some important strengths in allowing us to understand the ecology and evolution of cultures.
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