Posts by Angus Robertson
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it is to distribute the appetitive object amongst the newly sign-bearing creatures persent around it in such a way that resentment is minimised...
The preacher wants to get more followers/more coins on the collection plate. If this can be managed in any such way the best then religion flourishes, praise the almighty. The way to to advance is situational and resentment is piffle, irrelevent in many situations.
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It's (organised religion) design is to supply answers fast. It's not a vehicle for intellectual rigour although it's possible to make a living pretending it is.
Yes and no.
All the big religions have a large body of sacred text to choose the answer from, but a lot of the text is contradictory. So yes a quick answer is available, but also any answer might theoretically be made the religiously correct answer.
The design of religion is to provide spiritual validity to the correct answer that benefits the church/temple/mosque.
This also explains Marxism.
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Isn't that what organised religion is for?
Amen to that.
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But it doesn't seem that this is going away.
Full disclosure is not on any serious agenda and anyways a commission of inquiry into a previous administration would set an unfortunate precedent circa 2017. The longer it takes for disclosure of Bush-stoopidness to precipitate the better for Obama who gets politically low cost/high benefit from little revelations like this - how Bush got cover photos and took biblical scripture with his intelligence briefings.
Obama is handing out $trillions to rich corporate types (banks, car companies), running a couple of wars, imprisoning people without charge in Bagram and will do more of the same or similar for the next 8 years. Substantive change might not occur, but the briefings will not have pretty cover pages or biblical references.
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Why does god need armour? Being omnipotent you'd have thought she could just dodge?
Everywhere and in everything, can't dodge.
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...a universe where commonsense prevails
Fantasist.
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Actually I would have thought cut and cover would be more expensive.
And a tunnel would shorten commutes considerably, do it right and we might be able to arrive before we depart - relativistically.
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If I can drive past Mt Albert and come out in Switzerland or Chile then I think the benefits of this road have been grossly undersold.
This would explain why the tunnel option costs so much.
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We lefties always think when we expose a bigot that we have won the argument.
Why should the NZ left think that? To benefit would require some point of difference.
This exposure of Melissa Lee took maybe two weeks of a campaign and is being chortled over by the left as a defining gotcha moment. Unfortunately the same left spent the last 3 years in very close proximity to Peter Brown and Winston Peters unable to identify any bigotry expressed to be of a similar gotcha quality.
We fail to notice that opinions like Ms Lee's are heard everyday on talkback radio and are held by many ordinary people.
Not surprising, the NZ left is incapable of noticing similar opinions when cultivated by their own Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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To our American readers, think Sarah Palin's personality crossed with Michelle Malkin's body.
And Joe Biden's oratory skillz.