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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 22:11:58 -0400
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"john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in message news:fle76jld4pj0rj412uv49jjfe4grpupa44@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 21:18:20 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>"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.
>>
>>
>
> BR is dead, so I didn't offend him.

I don't think he would have been offended even if he were still alive.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bertrand+russell+message+to+future+generations

>
> He sounded smug and nasty to me.

But did you take a moment to take in anything he said? Or did you just let your emotional hormones get the better of your neurones 
like the rest of us are capable of doing at times?

>