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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas?
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 21:18:20 -0400
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"john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in message news:dq976jlhrp1puom0ha9ogpte8aniroj94i@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:25:36 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>"john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in message news:7b176jdajq3co9nosj8qnie8rupdrsfoav@4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 18:02:38 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 6/7/2024 5:26 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>>>>> "Jeroen Belleman" <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in message news:v3vtf6$2824r$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>>> On 6/7/24 22:35, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:53:35 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 6/7/24 16:49, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Actually, Hamas makes sense. They send Jews to hell because they are
>>>>>>>>> heretics, and send Muslims to heaven to be blessed martyrs. So for
>>>>>>>>> Hamas, killing is always win-win.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some kind of sense, given that there is neither heaven, nor hell.
>>>>>>>> Religion, islam in particular, is only pernicious brainwashing.
>>>>>>>> There is no afterlife. There is only this life. Don't waste it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Until you understand the origin of the universe and the nature of
>>>>>>> consciousness, you can't know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Religion is human's reason to have morality. Morality leads to
>>>>>>> enlightment and a kind, just, productive society. Where else would
>>>>>>> morality and justice come from?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One interpretation of religion is our collective feelings about proper
>>>>>>> behavior to others. Obviously, there are different religions with,
>>>>>>> possibly, genetic components.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In my personal experience, religious people are nicer than atheists.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Better cooks too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh! That's nonsense. Religion is a human invention, much like
>>>>>> father Christmas and the tooth fairy. The difference is that
>>>>>> many people never get over it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Religion has no right to claim to be the source of morality!
>>>>>> Morality stems from a desire to cooperate to our mutual benefit.
>>>>>> Religion never even comes into it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see no clear tendency of religious people to be nicer. I've
>>>>>> seen quite a few who were real bastards.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's pretty much my experience too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Come to New England you'll meet a different cut of conservative, who has
>>>>no need for God or the Bible to explain why they think women shouldn't
>>>>vote or homosexuals should be hung. "I just don't like the fuckers."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have lots of relatives in Mass and have spent many months of my life
>>> in NYC and Vermont
>>
>>Would I be correct in thinking that you've never been outside the USA except perhaps for a short vacation?
>
>
> I have spend a few months in France and a month working in Moscow.
> Some weeks working in England, in Oxford, and a few weeks vacatining
> in Ireland. Some time in Hamamatsu.
>
> I guess Alaska and Hawaii don't count.
>
> I have never encountered the sort of nastiness that other people seem
> to have. Most people are friendly and decent.
>

Well your response to my reference to https://russell-j.com/0464NP.HTM was pretty nasty in my view.