History constantly repeats itself by following the same path of destruction and decay by parents forcing their children to believe in one religion when they really believe in another, or by a teacher forcing religion upon their students for the sake of self-appeasement. To put it simply, people have a hard time understanding something that they do not want to understand because all men may have been created equal, but they were not created under the same philosophies and should not be expected to have the same dreams and ideas. For the most part, the entire history of this earth, as far as humans go, has been war after war over the base of religion.

And that corresponds not only to religion. If you look back - every single war in the history of mankind except the ones for territory was because of some minor differences - eye color, skin color, religion, beliefs, nationality, tradition, etc. That is quite depressing that we all cannot live together in peace. Why do people have to look for the differences, when there are so many similarities?

you know whats always had me going for a loop are 'war hawks' people, usualy government officials in our day and age' who support war for money. war, being the crazy profitable business it is atracts lots of attention from all sorts of cultures, be it in the vein of buying and selling wepons, to going to another place and takeing what they have.

my old room mate used to say that its part of our survival as humans, even though he himself has never been in a war let alone even a fight in school. which is funny cause i've greatly enjoyed fighting in my life through application of martial arts, a point he often brought up, but that never makes it right or good.

he used to say what you do if you were in the position of our soldiers, out in iraq, what you would you do? and i'd say "i'd kill the f-----ingf---vhrfb---faces" but the real trick is to not have to end up in that position.

you know what thats called, mf-in' wisdom. foresight... to see that if you go down this or that route you'll run the risk of killing some one or being killed, or haveing to be in the position to have to choose.

...all in all, war kills people, which is non benificial for many, and in some case costs more than it earns. if you dont belive me go fight, go fight a person of the street, try to steal a wallet. and see what happens. fighting while fun, isnt cool. thats why soldiers end up with psycho-trauma *BLEEP*.



but back on the topic of the original post... go watch the movie contact... then i suggest going and studying taoism. because even beliving in nothing is still beliving. lol

Replying to foofight48
"well. Yes I DO believe in afterlives as ive taken pictures and found that there was a lady in my pic (that wasnt therre with me when I took the pic) but I however do not belive there is a superior being. Since we only use up like 5% of our brains maybe the "superior being" is acualy the other 95%. For if we could use the rest of our brain could we move objects, create new matter, or think up somthing that would somtime become real? "Praying" could just be summoning the extra 1% making us feel better and cleansed. Maybe the mind is deceving us making us belive that there is somthing extra out there. But I do know that the bible has contradicted itself many times because we have changed the rules. Which is why the religions are reluctant to say anything. I hope it didnt offend anyone but that is what I belive"


Actually, it is a myth that we only use 10% of our brains, when in reality, most of the time we use 90-100% of it daily, it is just that most of the functions of our brain our in our subconsious,

-reply by Typhon

Lies. Most people use about 1% of their brain potential, and maximum brain potential is pretty much limitless. But calculating percentages of infinity is wrong in the first place...

This post has been edited by dre: Apr 3 2008, 12:25 AM