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former canadian minister Paul Hellyer is talking about very (very) unusual things and the madness on our planet. really heavy stuff. what do you think of this guy? some of you may know him better than i do he seems at least to be serious, and there are many things i agree with him, but maybe he's just a conspiracy-theory-nut like me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX06nI04j0g

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me, i'm still catholic. mainly cause of my grandfather. i'm living in tirol, exactly between italy and germany, and nearly everybody is catholic here. and i know that cynicism isn't very productive, but i can't help myself most of the time, guess i'm a product of my environment, and i can't be sad all the time. i can imagine jesus coming here, shouting at the people who think if they go to church they'll get their place in heaven, and don't think more about it. but it's also a very difficult time we live in, our slaves aren't our neighbours, they are on the other side of the earth, "invisible". i totally agree with macvirt, that we should use our brains. but i also don't like it when science plays with life like nowadays. hei! put some electrodes in the brain of the mouse, give it a stimulus to go right, left, or straight ahead and then activate the rewards-area of the brain, so that the mouse is happy. such things make me sick argh, sorry for going off-topic again : /

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H.G. Wells

if someone is interested in how money evolved and what it has become nowadays i can recommend the youtube-film "the secret of oz". very interesting and detailed and kind of an eye-opener

that would be great, yes. hope dies last but until there are just words i don't trust the higher hierarchies of the church, they're notoriously known for playing with the hopes of people. and the rumors about corruption and money laundering and generally mafia-stuff, i guess they're as old as the vatican itself. there are also some rumors about johannes paul I. wanting to get rid of these practices, for 33 days. they won't get my trust in advance, never. expect the worst and hope for the best, my father taught me ; )

well, in the pope election 2005 the decision was made between ratzinger and bergoglio, that was made public in 2011 http://derstandard.at/1311802900216/Ein-Diktatoren-Freund-als-Konkurrent-Ratzingers (in german, i hope the google translator can help you : / ) now ratzinger made place for him (voluntarily? i personally don't think so) forget about the vatican as a moral instance, at least since the founding of vatican city they go hand in hand with banking institutions. they're a kind of special economy, selling faith : D nothing is more "scheinheilig" (hypocritical? says googletranslator) than the vatican

yes, i would like to philosophy a bit more about that question, because i think its just about believes. cool, we know about the dna mixing from generation to generation. then we discover that our genetics even change within our lifetime. most possible there's much more to come but to answer the question "intelligent design with a purpose or random evolution" maybe means also to answer the question "am i special or just something random". to think that everything is "random and in fact unimportant", nja, thats a pretty dangerous ideology, i dont like that one. so me, i leave the "christian god" just out of this discussion, because to me this world has its purpose O_o may sound weird to some and if im thinking of ape creatures, and animals in general, i am sure that they have a consciousness pretty similar to mine, regarding things like social behaviour. what makes me different from them is my much bigger ability for imagination. and i think thats also where my morals come from, too but how big is the humans ability for imagination? dont we just mix stuff in our brain that came from outside? its pretty difficult to think of something that we didn't receive from the "outside". thats why its difficult to create an alien image noone has ever thought before, we just mix things we already know ; ) to use a stick or stone, thats nothing special. but the one human in the history that began to calculate, well, i guess he deserves the biggest statue on earth^^ i really don't wanna be unpolite to people who lived in ancient egypt, irak, middle america, japan or elsewhere, my apologies to them. but its just some personal preference of me to imagine "higher" beings who take the smartest animal on earth, and teach them some things if you think that humans gained every knowledge by themselves, well, then you should be interested in those highly advanced ancient civilizations, which all disappeared some thousand years ago, too, i think (but we shouldn't begin to think about that in this thread here, yes, moose) its all about believes, believe what you want, i do that, speculate till nothings left :kitty: cause after all, if all my logic fails, there's still the believe that everything is just imagination ; )

Haven't played Arma, but Operation Flashpoint was the most difficult game I ever played too. to accomplish the mission "after montegnac" in the original game i needed several days, and the two addons were even more difficult

Nintendo World Cup its soundtrack is great, energizes me since 20 years . and the game is funny as hell, got nothing to do with football ; )

Greetings, Simtropians. Haven't read all the 59 pages, just wanted to add my opinion. or my mustard, like germans say. I think Erich von Däniken is right. his praeastronautic theories can explain the missing link in human evolution and some strange things archeologists are wondering about. his theorie in short: Aliens came down to Earth and gave human evolution a push, with their superb genetic engineering skills and stuff : D god? the god jesus was talking about? i think jesus was talking bout live, and how he thinks it's supposed to be or so, smart one sorry forrrr bed Inglisch