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Maybe your religion requires blind faith. Not all religions do. I'm no theological expert, maybe I'm mistaken. Are there religions that can prove the existence of their god? I'd just think they'd get an awful lot of converts really quickly. At any rate, I'm getting the feeling you're an atheist. No? Buddhism i think is a notable exception, the first one that comes to mind. its (orthodox) tenets certainly never prescribe a "faith" or "belief" in some supranatural being, with the Buddha actually dissuading people from believing in such (as far as my exposure and understanding and conversations etc go). many local beliefs and dogmas have graffed onto buddhism their own particular deist beliefs, but i don't think these should be confused with the core teachings. as far as my own beliefs go, i am an agnostic. how can one reasonably adopt a stance other than this when it is simply impossible to know? maybe there is a form of knowing that i haven't experienced yet, so i must leave this door open....

can you explain the difference as you see it? blind faith to me is believing in something with no factual feed-back, nor even the possibility of that feed-back. perhaps by "garden-variety" you mean the kind of faith that is required to move a rubber tree plant? i think that (healthy) kind of faith is based on an understanding that indeed strong effort can and often does produce results? one is a faith that cannot be substantiated, the other is a faith that has the potential for feed-back. as far as my own position goes regarding the object of "blind-faith", i'm very much an agnostic regarding eschatological issues.

Maybe your religion requires blind faith. Not all religions do. I could not bring myself to "believe" something simply because everyone else does/my family does/the good book tells me to/i'm afraid/nothing else makes sense/etc etc.

-Why must we "believe" anything without evidence?

i've heard stuff floated by israel regarding the use of bunker busting nukes to get at iran's deep installations. i would think israel certainly has them. i think there are people in our administration and certainly in israel who feel so strongly about iran's potential nuke capabilities that they would bomb. what would the domestic legality of a US strike be? international legality they don't care about, nor does israel. my guess would be that israel would pull the trigger.

hehe nice end-around. keep playin', but don't be such a dolt as to wonder why.... you think you can be a certain way somewhere, and not have that follow you around elsewhere?

because it's where you set the bar for yourself. pretty simple really.

The Rwanda version of Samossa. ah i was trying joky but not work good. see you said if you saw "sambussa" again you'd be sick so i said it again and then you were supposta get sick but you didn't kinda like why buy a mattress any place else or something.

hehe the little angry polish man has graced us with a visit! But he brings us lies, lies, nothing but lies, since he lives in a (semi-) socialist country, and extols its virtues.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if kim made visits to crawford, like the taliban used to.

yeah saw that a while ago. cirque du soleil needs him.

yeah you know oil, infrastructure, gw, cheney, etal are holding weekly meetings on this one, with, like you said, perhaps oil being the biggest driver of overall strategy. any idea how much of the actual factual contractual(!) dealimabobs are being discussed/disclosed in any publications? any sources for this that you know of, you know like trade publications etc.

thank you so much for your expert opinion. now piss off.

So wouldn't this be a perfect time to try the Index route, what's-it-called, eve dearborn memorial?

i don't see how a contractual obligation would necessarily survive a collapse of the government? all pre-war contracts with france russia germany became null and void upon removal of hussein (a major reason, perhaps the biggest? for the US invasion?). how could they write contracts that would survive another regime change? and really, what would the enforcement mechanism be, beyond current military occupation.... i don't see the logic of tying the upcoming oil deal to the current build-up. i suppose maliki's signature would tie the hands of future gov's, since power will surely be with iranian oops i mean iraqi shiites?

yes! kinda funny how donkey ecstasy isn't in any way moralized, just excess!

a few centuries and a a single (now) international border separate your guess from the actual author....

good guess, but no. i was kinda surprised by the poem, considering who the author is.

that's some pretty funny shit, man.

The Importance of Gourdcrafting There was a maidservant who had cleverly trained a donkey to perform the services of a man From a gourd, she had carved a flanged device to fit on the donkey's penis, to keep him from going too far into her. She had fashioned it just to the point of her pleasure, and she greatly enjoyed the arrangement, as often as she could! She thrived, but the donkey was getting a little thin and tired looking. The mistress began to investigate. One day she peeked through a crack in the door and saw the animal's marvelous member and the delight of the girl stretched under the donkey. She said nothing. Later, she knocked on the door and called the maid out on an errand, a long and complicated errand. I won't go into details. The servant knew what was happening though. "Ah, my mistress," she thought to herself, "you should not send away the expert. When you begin to work without full knowledge, you risk your life. Your shame keeps you from asking me about the gourd, but you must have that to join with this donkey. There's a trick you don't know!" But the woman was too fascinated with her idea to consider any danger. She led the donkey in and closed the door, thinking, "With no one around I can shout in my pleasure." She was dizzy in anticipation, her vagina glowing and singing like a nightingale. She arranged the chair under the donkey, as she had seen the girl do. She raised her legs and pulled him into her. Her fired kindled more, and the donkey politely pushed as she urged him to, pushed through and into her intestines, and, without a word, she died. The chair fell one way, and she the other. The room was smeared with blood. Reader, have you ever seen anyone martyred for a donkey? Remember what the Qur'an says about the torment of disgracing yourself. Don't sacrifice your life to your animal soul! If you die of what that leads you to do, you are just like this woman on the floor. She is an image of immoderation. Remember her, and keep your balance. The maidservant returns and says, "Yes, you saw my pleasure, but you didn't see the gourd that put a limit on it. You opened your shop before a master taught you the craft."

second cut! celine suffered from a heavy heart....

Ding ding ding! Henry Miller, written wayyyy back in the early '30's. superbly funny and witty and over the top!

The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decorations, it is essential only that the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty which has us by the balls in America, is finished. To fathom the new reality it is first necessary to dismantle the drains, to lay open the gangrened ducts which compose the genito-urinary system that supplies the excreta of art. The odor of the day is permanganate and formaldehyde. The drains are clogged with strangled embryos.

Sambussa?

ah yes, another articulate salvo from the intellectual heartland of the USA. way to make GW proud.