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Actually .... If i were at court room ( in whatever situation) I would feel offended by seeing those 10 commandments on the Wall .... I am not RELIGIOUS. And why is it I have to be judged by judge who uses 10 commandments in his Court room?
Gnome please leave Shakespeare's name out of this topic. He deserves a better place to be mentioned in.

I posted this on a similar thread somewhere in the forums but didnt get much attention and i would really like to get some oppinions on this, especially from Americans:

I used to live in a country (not importand which one) that everyone had a right to OWN guns but it was very strictly prohibited to BEAR arms (as in carrying them around with you, in your car etc).

Trust me, i felt perfectly safe in my house with a shotgun locked in the high cupboard of my bedroom and a G3A3 7.62mm automatic army assault riffle oiled and waiting in the other shelf. So did everybody else there.

But if i even tried to carry any of them anywhere, it was immediate jail time.

Footnote: Both of the guns mentioned are more than 2 feet long (ok, they can be dissmantled but it's not the point). Ownership of small handguns, that could be easily be carried around unnoticed, was also strictly prohibited.

Just a thought for all my american friends.

Fair point - I'll stay out of the US restaurant industry

By the way what do you mean you ALLOW foreign investment. You, like most other countries are heavily dependent on foreign investment.

I think a better analogy might be if I owned the restaurant in your country and you ran it for me and I employed some of your fellow citizens in my enterprise I might be concerned if you were borrowing too much against the business, running it into the ground and blaming foreigners for your problems!

I really get tired of that "feel the effects" crap....why not just build up your military to take care of your problems and boot us out of Germany.

I don't follow this. A lot of the American economy is funded by borrowing abroad....those lenders have a big stake in a prosperous America. Yet all I read here is blaming foreigners for taking jobs and doing America down. They have been funding you....they are not disinterested parties. The global economy is all tied together and that available market has made America rich.

I was reading the thread about the judge in Alabama who got fired and I noticed how any disagreement with any opinion was interpreted as "bashing" or "putting down". Is this some kind of cultural gap?

Reading the stuff on here the "putting down" seems to be only about a few quite narrow topics and really only where it affects others. Bush, Iraq and a couple of other things is about the sum of it.

I read a lot about what a great country America is....yet the people saying that seem to be VERY sensitive to any implied criticism. Where is the self-confidence that goes with the knowledge that your country is great?

About the tax dollars that have helped rebuild other countries......is there an implied price? We give you money and you shut up about what we do in the world forever more? I don't believe you really feel that way.

It's just my opinion but one I would welcome your response to.

Actually by saying "God" you violate the litteral meaning of the first ammendment, gnome.

It is a Biblical God that you referred to, not a morse god, an egyptian god, or any other. List them all if you're going to list one.

And the Posting of the ten commandments, though it does not infringe on YOUR rights, it certainly would offend a budist, a taoist, or all those that worship NO god.

and I think it was Bev that made the best point. If the 10cs were displayed along side the Book of the Dead or the Eddas, as a historical collection, it would be a different thing all together.

Hey lady it is your thread, and I will apologize and walk away if necessary, You seem to have a far more copious way about you, than I have been able to muster, although I have apologized and still been left on a thread talking to my self

Having a good night?

In God We Trust didn't become a part of anything until well over one hundred years after the Constitution, the Declaration of independence, and the Bill of Rights.

Check your history.

Religious freedom is just that. Freedom.

Saying "God" is hypocritical to the idea of the first ammendment.

What if I worship Bhudda, Zeus, Ra, or even myself?

When you find a gal...
She has more tools than you (but is more than willing to share)
She doesn't want your money (she has her own and is willing to share)
She doesn't nag, bitch, piss or moan (except when it's good...lol) about your quirks
She has been there for you thru many a break up... never once saying "I told you so"...
She continues to be there for you... no matter what...
Why does the guy keep searching...
Why does he keep searching for someone to hurt him (emotionally)
Why does he keep looking for abuse

You are what you are until you die. It is always you will ever be. This is the only impression you will ever leave on people who knew you, and it is enough. Who will remember you 10,000 years from now? It doesn't matter. It only matters to those who fear death, and who think there is something somehohw positive in living forever. If some believe that living forever is adbantageous, they don't unterstant the immediacy of time.

Sorry for all of you who fear death more than I.

Christians and other religious-believers say that their main purpose is to serve God, and that they do things principally to please Him (or Her). That is, they are not acting with the idea of obtaining any reward.

Let's put that to the test: What if regardless of your actions to please God (or gods), you knew you would spend the rest of eternity in Hell (or a hellish place). Would you still then have any desire to please God?

In another thread I asked whether we would prefer to love knowing we would never be loved, or to be loved knowing we would never love in return?

The idea in both cases is whether we act fundamentally selfishly, or for the benefit of others.

Jeff

I! I! I found the chocolate thread

Damn. Thought this was another Obama thread.

That is why I stay out , I have a hard time respecting some of the nonsense, have a good night and happy easter