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Leonard Cohen - The Future
Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
And regarding the "bread thing", it's not illegal to buy it, but it's illegal to sell it, and stores selling bread during Pessah get fined regularly.
Saying it's not a religious law is laughable, almost like saying the Swiss minaret ban is an architectural dispute.
Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
I do have a problem with the state subsidizing students of religion while med students, engineering students and teachers have to struggle to make ends meet.
I never said they were lazy. They spend their lives studying what they choose to study and practice their faith. It's great. But why am I paying their tuition, rent and food expenses? Also, why can't I spend my days in a university doing the same? I promise only to do it for 4 years, not an entire lifetime.
Yeah, I mind not being able to buy bread for 7 days every year, and you thinking I shouldn't because you believe in it, is my entire point. I don't see any irrational hatred flowing from my direction, however.
Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
My cool level-headedness goes away when the other guy tells me I can't buy bread in April because Jews leaving Egypt couldn't make bread millenia ago, so now I can't.
My cool level-headedness goes away when the other guy tells me I have to work hard and pay taxes so that he can live with his wife and 9 children and study Torah all day long.
My cool level-headedness goes away when the other guy tells me that my taxes have to be spent on the military because God said this land is ours and no one else's.
My cool level-headedness goes away when my life is affected on every turn by the other guy's faith, and I've grown so accustomed to it that I don't find it odd anymore.
Google Wave (Geek Talk Post)
Step 1: Ooh, Wave. Cool. Let's do some funky editing and type-at-the-same-time.
Step 2: OK, I've exhausted that. Now what?
Step 3: Heloooooo, anybody else here?
Anyway, I have 19 invites left, and Google seem to keep re-filling my invite ability, so PM me your email and I'll throw you an invite.
Goes to anybody who wants one, actually.
Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
Which Israel is this exactly? It must be a different Israel from the one where the "ultra-orthodox" parties have only 16 out of 120 seats in the parliament.
Oh, the Ultra-Orthodox parties (Shas and Yahadut Ha'tora) "only" have 16 seats, but they're still the fifth and sixth largest parties. Add Mafdal (Habayit Hayehudi they're called now) and parties that define themselves by their religion first and their political agenda second have 19 seats, which make up %16 of the Knesset.
Other interesting stats: Of the last 10 governments (as listed in the official Knesset website), Shas has been a member of 8, Mafdal (National Religious Party) has been a member of 6, and the only government that had no religious parties at all was the 26th, which was only that way because Shas left. It lasted for 8 long months.
This is the Israel I'm talking about.
Unreported World: The Battle for Israel's Soul
Quentin Tarantino Is Turning Japanese
Thanks!
Applying Pressure To People's Religious Beliefs - Sam Harris
Luke Skywalker has OCD
Atheism commercial
>>thinker247 you cannot throw a godwin's grenade into a conversation on purpose. To do so can risk fracturing the entire internet. believe me its scientificy proven with no evidence.
Don't be silly, westy. The only known way to destroy the Internet so far is to type Google into Google.
Some extrapolated that typing Bing into Bing might do the same, but all they got was a BSOD.
Quentin Tarantino Is Turning Japanese
Hey Allan!
Blankie Goes Mainstream (Cinema Talk Post)
Well done, also
Dogs 1 Cats 0
Dog vs. Cat!
Homeless Man Sings Wild World
Atheism commercial
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find evidence in history of a war caused by religion. I've looked (hint: not the Crusades). Athenians fought Spartans, Americans fought Americans, Hutus murdered Tutsis. War does just fine without religion.
Religion is never the obvious cause, but is constantly an underlying current that drives the wars. India/Pakistan, Israel/Palestine, US/Afghanistan/Iraq, to name a few that are recent / ongoing.
Religion is a unifying force, binding the followers of the same faith into one group, but is also a dividing force, separating different groups of believers from one-another. It is a lot easier to kill the "other", which is what someone of a different religion is automatically.
Nationality is second to that, but that is based on a physical fact (land), and not a theoretical one (my invisible sky-daddy is better than yours).