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On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 22:11:58 -0400, "Edward Rawde"q=bertrand+russell+message+to+future+generations
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news:fle76jld4pj0rj412uv49jjfe4grpupa44@4ax.com...On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 21:18:20 -0400, "Edward Rawde">
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>"john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in messageBR is dead, so I didn't offend him.
news:dq976jlhrp1puom0ha9ogpte8aniroj94i@4ax.com...On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:25:36 -0400, "Edward Rawde"Well your response to my reference to https://russell-j.com/0464NP.HTM
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news:7b176jdajq3co9nosj8qnie8rupdrsfoav@4ax.com...On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 18:02:38 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net>>
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>On 6/7/2024 5:26 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:I have lots of relatives in Mass and have spent many months of my"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 BellemanOh! That's nonsense. Religion is a human invention, much like
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>On 6/7/24 16:49, john larkin wrote:>
[...]>Some kind of sense, given that there is neither heaven, nor
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.
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hell.
Religion, islam in particular, is only pernicious
brainwashing. There is no afterlife. There is only this life.
Don't waste it.
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Jeroen Belleman
Until you understand the origin of the universe and the nature
of consciousness, you can't know.
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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?
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One interpretation of religion is our collective feelings
about proper behavior to others. Obviously, there are
different religions with, possibly, genetic components.
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In my personal experience, religious people are nicer than
atheists.
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Better cooks too.
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father Christmas and the tooth fairy. The difference is that
many people never get over it.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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?
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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.
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I guess Alaska and Hawaii don't count.
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I have never encountered the sort of nastiness that other people
seem to have. Most people are friendly and decent.
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was pretty nasty in my view.
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I don't think he would have been offended even if he were still alive.
https://www.google.com/search?
>I read the essay, and some others of his.
>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?
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He did have a good attitude towards women.
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