Mycroft said:
So if a man attacks you swinging a baseball bat and in self-defense you accidentally knock him down a flight of stairs where he hits his head and dies, that is morally the same as if you had purposefully murdered him?
Nope, What I am saying is that both sides suffer casualties. We need to see both sides and try to avoid our bias from making us blind to that fact. All men has the right to defend their home but nobody has the right to get a gun and enter their's neighbor's home.
Mycroft said:
That may be funny in a dark-humor sort of way. You are on medication, I hope?
You also understand that whatever you’re told by an auditory/visual hallucination, you can’t pass it off as evidence of any kind, right?
Yes, I am on medication. What I am trying to say is that I learned to look for the truth based on reason.
I know that this is not a thread for the paranormal nor conspiracy theory but I will give you a couple of samples.
When the attack on 9/11 happened, I was watching the television. What I heard is that "Any military man would tell you that it is stupid to execute a mission without any military value".
In short, when doing an investigation, you must look at the forensic evidence and the motive. I do not have an answer but I am preety sure that the perpetuators would know that they would be just be hunted like dogs by the mightiest military in the world.
The first statement that I heard way back 1988 said "This is the most important period in man's history, this is the time he is learning about information. Information that will shape the mind and character of his children". We now have this tool that is not hamperred by the boundaries of nations. We can influence our children to use reason in their lives.
The best one is "If there is a God, then the miracle is the power of reasoning that he gave us. Because of this miracle, we can create drugs, go to the moon, etc. But since we cannot see his fingerprint, it would be safe to assume that he expect us to use that power of reasoning. That is why after 16 years of search, I am now an agnostic.
There are a lot of other things that happened to me but instead, just lead me to agnotism.
With regards to "illegal settlement", the international community uses those words because that is what they are, "illegal". Why would Sharon say that he would dismantle some of the settlements, it is because this is where the main problem is.
Why is it called "occupied territories". Because that is what they are, occupied".
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Fix reason in her seat. Call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existance of God for if he exists, he must more approve of homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. _Thomas Jefferson
