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A nice flash movie

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  • #2
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    Dude111 wrote: »
    "In God we trust"

    http://web.archive.org/web/20050306162710/http://www.interviewwithgod.com/patriotic/patrioticwebstream.swf

    Very well done smile.gif

    Couldn't watch it all, all the flags and bald eagles were starting to make me slightly ill, but what do you think about it OP?


  • #3
    Lantus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭Lantus


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    Couldn't watch it all, all the flags and bald eagles were starting to make me slightly ill, but what do you think about it OP?

    Agreed. While history has some uses it is not very effective at determining the future. The ideas of 200 years ago don't help us much in changing our present to create a better way of life.

    People often believe that to improve our society we need a better sense of morality. However, this doesn't seek to address the root causes of the problems, rather only the symptoms.

    While laws have made improvements in the way society functions it is technology that has provided the real solutions. Democracy and monetary systems create inequality, poverty and other abhorrent social conditions that we are 'told' are unavoidable. Control mechanisms then try to control behaviour through laws and the threat of criminalisation when people are just trying to do their best in an inherently unfair system.

    We could abolish most of the problems we face today through the intelligent application of technology and re shaping our outdated social structures. Check out the venus project and Jacque Fresco to learn more.


  • #4
    Dude111
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    Benny_Cake wrote:
    Couldn't watch it all, all the flags and bald eagles were starting to make me slightly ill, but what do you think about it OP?
    I agree with you Benny,too many things in it but The main purpose of it was clear! (I can understand ya not wanting to view it all)


  • #5
    brian_t
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    In light of what's happening at the moment in the USA (regarding Church and State), it's an interesting reminder that the Founding Fathers of the US were Christians and they intended their new Country to have a Christian ethos.


  • #6
    PopePalpatine
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    brian_t wrote: »
    In light of what's happening at the moment in the USA (regarding Church and State), it's an interesting reminder that the Founding Fathers of the US were Christians and they intended their new Country to have a Christian ethos.

    I guess you haven't heard of the Treaty of Tripoli.


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  • #7
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    brian_t wrote: »
    In light of what's happening at the moment in the USA (regarding Church and State), it's an interesting reminder that the Founding Fathers of the US were Christians and they intended their new Country to have a Christian ethos.

    What?

    The founding fathers were explicit in a complete separation of church and state. That's what makes it so important.


  • #8
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    brian_t wrote: »
    In light of what's happening at the moment in the USA (regarding Church and State), it's an interesting reminder that the Founding Fathers of the US were Christians and they intended their new Country to have a Christian ethos.

    It strikes me that it's the separation of church and that has allowed Christianity to thrive in the United States for over 200 years, in a way which hasn't happened in western Europe. Unfortunately, in the last 30 years certain parts of the Christian churches have jeapordised that legacy by essentially becoming cheerleaders for the Republican party.


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