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"23,700 dead, and you tell me theres a god?"

This is tradegy of a phenominal scale. I cannot even contemplate that many human lives ending at once, and on christmas. Its a sick thing.

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127,000 was the final count, although its feared it was somewhere closer to 150,000. All I want to add is not to those who died, but for the survivors, I hope things don't get to hard for you and I wish you the best of luck.

Very_Metal wrote:
> it depends. if you'd convinced them they wanted something they didn't
> need and charged them the £50 in the first place, then it's a
> little immoral to ask for it at all. These countries are in debt
> because people like us convinced them they needed weapons to defend
> themselves

Yeah, but only so we can go and free the people later on, which makes it ok.

hehe...
if we're gonna stomp in and "free" them later, why sell them weapons in the first place?

To make it a more even fight. It's like in the playground when I hit that kid with the glasses. They fell off so I picked them up for him before hitting him again. I'm mean, I have some some sense of decency.

*wipes away a solitary tear*
you're a noble and dying breed... i salute you.

p.s - i have contact lenses now.

I should add that the beady-eyed twonk then kicked the crap out of me.

hehe, so it's true, policemen are just stamping authority to make up for previous experiences :)

*accursed DP*

This has probably already been said 100 times on this thread but... Yes, there is a God. The thing is though, he doesn't work by directly influencing the actions of humans or the environment, or at least not since Noah's Ark. God made the world not so that he could control it, or as a sort of micro management celestial computer game. I am a Christian and I believe in God, but of course this makes us doubt his existence, but not that much.

Some people may notice that I simply ripped most of these from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Independant article.

Surrealguy wrote:
> This has probably already been said 100 times on this thread but...
> Yes, there is a God. The thing is though, he doesn't work by
> directly influencing the actions of humans or the environment, or at
> least not since Noah's Ark. God made the world not so that he could
> control it, or as a sort of micro management celestial computer game.
> I am a Christian and I believe in God, but of course this makes us
> doubt his existence, but not that much.
>
> Some people may notice that I simply ripped most of these from the
> Archbishop of Canterbury's Independant article.

But how can he manipulate narure when he want's to (Noah's arc) and not when he doesn't (the tsunami). Its all a big contradiction. Then again, thats basically all any religion is.

God doesnt exsist, get over it. You thought Santa was real didnt you...now you've grown up and you realised. I put the presents in my bro n sis's stockings (rents are too lazy), im Santa, haha, ha haha.

But seriously, what someone else said in this thread, religion is just manipulating people to the leaders advantage.

Have any of you seen that Simpsons where Homer signs the whole family up to a cult, and they all believe they will be taken to "Blistonia" by "the leader".

Religion is nothing more than that, a smart guy taking advantage over a dumb person/s.