gimli3 wrote: Your friends are Good.

Your enemies are Evil.


That is an EXTREMELY subjective basis. The Allies were Hitler's enemies... did that make them Evil?

<t>Ok, well, mine is quite serious, and I will try to keep it short here because some of it is quite painfull.<br/>
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Kim and I met almost 6 years ago as undergraduates in Baltimore, 2000. We had a fling as freshmen that I ended after a week. I barely had her friendship, but it was there ...

So you all are saying that women are in fact SUPERIOR to men. And therefore all of this "equality" retoric is just crap.

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<t>While the fetus is in the whomb it can not sustain itself. All functions of the organs are fed by the mother. The fetus does and can NOT exist on its own without the mother, or in an extreme case a machine of some sort.<br/>
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The emotional connection a mother may have with the potential ...

<t>MicahLorain wrote: I partially agree the ESA is an ever expanding wrangle of bureaucracy but I dont want to see people shooting eagles aghain or depleting fish stocks. Nature takes care of herself. If she gets mad she'll toss us a tsunami!<br/>
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And what are humans? Some inorganic ...

<t>Lizzie Love wrote: money is an energy and like every other can be used for good or ill, depending upon who has it and how it is used.LL:-4<br/>
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Take away money, or any other exchange of value for value, and there is only one way left to get the things we want, need, and create ...

<t>I don't have time to fully answer you now, but I would like to make a preface.<br/>
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Objectivism is not a cult. In the 60's there were individuals that met and called themselves as such, and out of that came the Libertarian party. However, they are not recognized as Objectivists as they ...

<t>Lizzie Love wrote: It is the greedy ego who wants more and more and is never satisified.<br/>
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Why in the world should we ever be just "satisfied"? What part of the human mind is that natural to? It is not natural. Man is always growing, always curious, unquenchably thirsty to find ...

I believe that there a lot of people here that would participate in discussions on Classical Music. For that matter, I believe that there should be subcategories for most all styles of music. That might concentrate intrests more and encourage more indepth conversation.

<r>I would like to throw out a topic that was presented and argued on another post<br/>
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that you all would probably find very interesting. You need to know a<br/>
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fully. To find out an over view go to <URL ...

<r>I would like to throw out a topic that was presented and argued on another post<br/>
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that you all would probably find very interesting. You need to know a<br/>
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little about Ayn Rand and Objectivism to understand this statement<br/>
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fully. To find out an over view go to <URL ...

<t>spot wrote: It occurs to me, though it may not be altogether relevant, that I'd rather be the beggar starving outside the gate of the rich man, watching the banquet, than the rich man at the feast. The beggar has far more opportunity for doing good than the rich man with his diversions and ...

<t>So, since no one has taken notice to my challenge then I will be more specific:<br/>
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Clint wrote: It isn’t money that is the problem. It is the love of money that gets us into jams. As Lon says, money as a tool to get things done isn’t a problem.<br/>
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<t>I believe that all of you need to think a little more on this subject. Below is the opening quote of a very long speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.<br/>
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"So you think that money is the root of all evil?... Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange ...