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Yeah. Makes little sense TBH.

First of all, the Mujahideen warlords did not form the Taliban; the Taliban formed to overthrow the Mujahideen warlords. Second, I'm talking about after the Cold War, like I said last post. Lots of shit happened during the Cold War on all fronts, and personally I'm not a fan of living that far...

I just bothered to read the link. It makes me even more amazed that you're getting worked up about it - it's a private prayer of strength. It doesn't say anything about desire to take over the world or cleanse it in God's name or anything. There are no implicit delusions of grandeur...

Post-Cold-War, dude. Um, so? I was talking about communism and your sig/avatar with that point, not Afghanistan. :rolleyes:

Interestingly, though, not one poll puts McCain in the lead. Obama is always ahead by an average of 5% or so. Also: Vanush: Well he supports evolution and generally seems a fairly non-fundamentalist person, so I'm pretty sure it's just a generic prayer on his part to pull the theist crowd.

Man, I remember when it was about 47 cents just 7 years ago.

It's not exactly rare for presidents and prime ministers to be religious you know?

Europe and America implicitly supported the Taliban in power inititially because they thought it would be better than the insane levels of chaos, corruption and banditry which the various warlords were inflicting on the country. They were wrong. It doesn't justify the existence of either the...

I think it's pretty implicit that Obama wouldn't support some willy nilly invasion of Iran unless there was hard evidence it were an imminent threat. He's not Bush. :rolleyes: On the other hand, I completely support his stance on Afghanistan; the Taliban were fucked up, and I'd expect even...

Re: Australian Politics Chatter Thread Post-war recovery and Cold War count as part of general war-time to me. I love Chifley, and he was an epic PM, but he still had completely different conditions to Howard, and was in power when the world was much, much different to today. It's silly to...

Agreed. That probably helps explain why Obama consistently wins the election polls by a comfortable margin. ...

Whatever, NTB. Arguing with you on this is like trying to convince an Arab that Israelis have a right to exist, perhaps with less irrational swearing and insults.

You keep changing the definition of fear to suit your needs. Do I get an adrenaline rush in intense situations? Yes. Am I scared of death? No. I do not think you can say somebody is fearful if they are not scared.

Fucking Christ man, you're now trying to 'prove' I fear death by claiming I have anxiety issues? No, I certainly don't. I've had an existential crisis before, and even then, death was never an important focus to me - God was. I truly and honestly don't care about death; I don't fear it, I don't...

Obama has never been 'against' Israel, and in his speech in Berlin, he again mentioned the possibility of military intervention in the Middle East (including Iran), so I fail to see how that makes him two-faced?

NTB: I fear other people's deaths sometimes, and I fear pain sometimes. Juxtaposing 'fear' in these cases with how I feel about dying, I have to conclude I don't 'fear' death. It's possibly a holdover from when I was a kid and didn't fear dying because I thought I'd continue life with God...

No, it's what I tell you to help you comprehend how I see the world. Because I don't fear death and I don't try to rationalise it away; it's just not an important part of my life to even think about. You're reading like somebody telling an atheist they don't believe in god simply because they...

Yeah, I think it'd be worth just renaming "light and offbeat" to "Miscellaneous News Items" or something, because certain topics in it are anything but light or offbeat (often simply serious and dark, but done to death).

Too much compartmentalisation. Increasing traffic flow is worthless if you're not increasing the number of entities that make up that traffic; it's a matter of spreading things too thinly. Did the lifestyle forum really get a traffic increase, or did one sub-forum get a traffic increase whilst...

It seems your judgement is as clouded on this issues as it is regarding Israel, so I'll respectfully bow out of such a debate.