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  1. mindlight

    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    Maybe he needs to clarify himself what he means. My understanding is that only people from Malta, Cyprus or Gibraltar would be eligible for such a vote in the actual referendum. Since these countries are within the bounds of the EU that makes some sense. Also they are not that many. Many of the...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    My father was born in India in the last days of the Raj and came back with independence. My family served British imperial interests in India and the people themselves for some 150 years. Are they any less British than those whose families never left Britains shores. Am I less British cause I...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    There are various models of independence e.g. The Norwegian, the Swiss etc. But what you are suggesting goes way beyond all of these. Even setting aside obvious problems like the fact that Britain cannot even feed itself without international trade and relationships I would largely reject this...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    Yeh and I would have disagreed with them on that. But it is not a unanimous picture even in the CBI. They have done 7 authoritative studies of the EU membership issue considering a range of criteria. 5 out of 7 considered the long term benefits of EU membership outweighed the disadvantages. One...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    The EUs economic mass is greater than that of America and there is a negotiation advantage in that weight when it comes to trade deals etc. Britain can of course be an independent nation but there would be serious changes. Small to medium sized businesses might do better cause they are less...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    Yes true and I do trust the common sense of the English people. They may well elect another Labour government but I very much doubt it will be one led by Corbyn. But Europes democratic deficit does not extend to Westminster elections which work according to the British model of doing elections...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    Federalism v nationalism has a different balance here than in the USA. We do not share a common language but we do have a common experience of the devastation of war between nations. That makes conflict less likely and the conflicts that do occur are consequently also less violent. But they are...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    The EU does not really follow the American model and nor will it. But the multinationals are definitely in favour of the EU as it is easier to do business across Europe. Those who argue the case for leaving often counter that middle to small sized business do not benefit to the same degree and...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    Britain is a massive net contributor to the European budget and has the second largest economy in Europe after Germany. Moreover it is actually growing and creating jobs. Taxes in Germany would rise to pay the extra contributions. That Britain is more pro American than many EU countries is a...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    An unfettered Corbyn would ruin Britain and would most likely be just as bureaucratic as Europe is accused of being in his efforts to regulate business and redistribute wealth. Maybe one advantage of Europe is that it protects countries from stupid choices like that.
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    Do you really think that Britain would be more socialist outside the EU than in. I would think it more likely to go the other way. I opposed the deal for Greece on the grounds it was pouring money down the drain and that I believe Greece would be better off outside the Euro though not the EU.
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    There is a democratic deficit. There are things that work well and others that do not. But would Britain have any more control of its destiny outside if it was cold shouldered by the European club and lacked the corporate weight of Europe in global negotiations. Is independence a choice of poor...
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    UK EU Referendum - Stay in or leave?

    The referendum has been called for June 23rd. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35621079 Should the UK leave the EU? If it does is the EU finished as an effective organisation? Would it be good or bad for the UK overall? What are your thoughts? Was the deal offered by the EU to the UK and...
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    Hand grenade attack on refugee home in Germany

    Rivalries of this sort between Immigrants from one Slavonic country rather than another may well have tribal or national roots but probably not racial ones in this case...
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    The New Atheists: "Communists aren't atheists" and its wider social implications

    There is no difference , if you are not for God then you are against Him. What atheists do practically or philosophically with their godlessness cannot be differentiated from the unbelief in which these thoughts and actions are rooted.
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    The New Atheists: "Communists aren't atheists" and its wider social implications

    Not directly but most of the most stupid concepts of the Nazis were drawn directly from Nietzsche and Hitler was a fan , even if Nietzsche probably would not have been impressed with him. Maybe you have not heard of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. There was nothing self contradictory...
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    Will the Jewish people ever accept the Messiah?

    You are asserting a narcissistic materialism as being more real than God on the basis of your own say so. Facts can be revealed as well as observed or deduced.
  18. mindlight

    Will the Jewish people ever accept the Messiah?

    The verse refers to the Transfiguration where Elijah was present. There is a second prophecy that refers to 2 witnesses who will stand in Jerusalem before Christs return. I believe that one of those will be Elijah.
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    The Science of Ghosts

    Do not believe in human ghosts. Do believe in angels and demons.
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    The New Atheists: "Communists aren't atheists" and its wider social implications

    I think atheism combined with liberalism and evolutionism is the dominant form today because of the failure of alternate forms of atheism like Russian Communism, Nietzscheanism, Maoism. Indeed the rise of Christianity at the expense of atheism in its old heartlands of China and Russia testifies...
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