I couldn't believe if I wanted to, although I can't imagine any circumstances under which I would want to. It amazes me how anyone can believe. Not so much believe in God, but believe anything in the Bible. I mean you have to throw rationality out the window to do that.
You don't know it, you only think it. Lots of people with different beliefs to yours are also just as sure as you are. Well you can't all be right, can you?
I still say you have no right to tell anybody what they should believe, and I insist that you stop it at once.
That's the trouble. This is Earth, and we should concentrate on the here and now, not some mythical place where we hope to end up. People are more important than God and heaven, because people are real.
But why isn't it okay for you to believe what you want to, and everyone else to believe or not believe what they want? Why try to persuade other people to alter their beliefs?
You don't understand. Some people can't believe, because they have no reason to believe, and believing something just because you want to believe it isn't a good reason.
The name was chosen out of sheer frustration. When I created my account, every user name I tried was rejected, on account of it already being taken. Anyway, I had a kitchen gadget that had lost a circlip, and the bloody thing was nowhere to be found, so I sent for some from Amazon. Well they arrived as I was getting really fed up with trying to think up a user name, and the rest is history.
It doesn't seem any more unfair than nominating somebody because of their political leanings. How many of the existing members were nominated for their competence?
How many of you people who are passionately defending the right to have a gun have ever actually needed one? Is living in the USA really so risky? What do I know? I don't live there, but letting the general public own guns just seems like insanity to me.
I can understand it. When you've grown up in a country where guns are readily available to anybody and his dog, and so embedded in the culture, owning one is going to be second nature to you. But when you've grown up in a country where people are strongly prohibited from owning guns, it isn't so surprising that you think the idea of allowing the general population to own them is plain crazy.
It's a bit like our health service in reverse. Most Americans seem to feel that it's crazy to give people medical treatment based on their need, rather than their ability to pay for. But when you have been used to a system where you get the treatment you need, free at the point of contact, regardless of whether you are a millionaire or homeless and living on the street, you tend to regard it as unthinkable for it to be any other way.
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RE: "HIS NAME WAS"..(EDWARD BRONSTEIN")
Brilliant. Why address a problem when you can perpetuate it instead? Idiots.