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Why don't some people like being Apes?

Storm

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
George Campbell said:
Here's a little something right out of the bible about the ancients:

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses . . . And the Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously; and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them. Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah, and the other was named Puah; and he said, "When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." (NASB) Exodus 1:11
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So, the Bible is accurate when it suits your purposes?
 
MSizer

MSizer

MSizer
Wannabe Yogi said:
The 20th century was the bloodiest century ever.

Hitler killed Millions.

Mao killed millions.

Stalin killed millions

Over half the worlds population live on under 10 dollars a day.

The Rich Humans are heating up of our planet because of our greedy life style.

How stupid is that?

Not all ancients were stupid and not all moderns are smart.
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Actually, just to be picky, the ratio of combattants and victims vs. deaths was much lower (per capita) in the 20th century than had been in previous centuries. Fewer barbaric raids occur than in past and reduced hand to hand combat means fewer fallen soldiers per capita.

Of course that doesn't negate the point of your post. Just being a picky jerk.
 
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George Campbell

Member
Wannabe Yogi said:
You know what. As long as they keep it out of my son's science text book I don't care what they believe. If they are a good neighbor, pay their Tax's and are kind to others those are the important things in life. Who cares if they believe in talking snakes or that green M&Ms make you horny. Being a good person is what counts it matters not Atheist,Christian or Jew.
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I'll go with that if I'm allowed one caveat. I don't want to hear some half educated bible thumper talking to his invisible man in the sky every time I go to a ribbon cutting, a sports event or a NASCAR race. Let them keep it to theirself.
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
George Campbell said:
If there are many around like you we can wait a couple of hundred years and the 400 year long mistreatment of Blacks in the south will just be a falsehood, a myth, an old wives tale and the Ku Klux Klan will have never existed.
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If you are insinuating that I support revisionist history, you are sorely mistaken.
Rather I showed that archeological evidence does not support your claim.

George Campbell said:
You really believe that the rulers of ancient Egypt were so tolerant of their slaves that they allowed them to come in and dine with them after a long, hot day of labor in the desert. Get Real!
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Not once in my post did I claim such a thing.
What is evident through archeological evidence and Egyptian writings is that skilled craftsmen, valued for their knowledge, erected the Pyramids. There is no evidence of a mass slave labor force erecting the Pyramids.

George Campbell said:
Here's a little something right out of the bible about the ancients:

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses . . . And the Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously; and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them. Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah, and the other was named Puah; and he said, "When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." (NASB) Exodus 1:11
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Why would you use the historically debunked book of Exodus to support your claim?
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
George Campbell said:
I'll go with that if I'm allowed one caveat. I don't want to hear some half educated bible thumper talking to his invisible man in the sky every time I go to a ribbon cutting, a sports event or a NASCAR race. Let them keep it to theirself.
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Private enterprise and free speech are an intricate part of our system of government.
You are also free to abstain from attending these events.
 
Gabethewiking

Gabethewiking

Active Member
The 20th century was the bloodiest century ever.

Hitler killed Millions.

Mao killed millions.

Stalin killed millions
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Because they had the technology, if the religious crazies of today had the same, they would do the same. I hope you realize that.

Over half the worlds population live on under 10 dollars a day.
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How is how much people "live on" relevant? We americans are poor in European standard and our culture is rather backwards in most standards, how is this relekant to anything here?

The Rich Humans are heating up of our planet because of our greedy life style.
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No, they cause Climate change because of massive pollution, We as a nation is hugely responsible because of poor education and religious dogma teaching that the world (anyone except ourselfs) is not important .

How stupid is that?
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Tryong to spell "immensely" correctly. :)

Not all ancients were stupid and not all moderns are smart.
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Incorrect, We as a PEOPLE are smarter and the ancients as a PEOPLE where stupid in a technological standpoint, else we are equal we still havereligious ignorance and violence and hatred, just as back "then".
 
Storm

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
Gabethewiking said:
Incorrect, We as a PEOPLE are smarter and the ancients as a PEOPLE where stupid in a technological standpoint, else we are equal we still havereligious ignorance and violence and hatred, just as back "then".
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There's more to this than just technology. No one is saying we don't have better tech than the ancients.
 
dust1n

dust1n

Zindīq
Gabethewiking said:
Incorrect, We as a PEOPLE are smarter and the ancients as a PEOPLE where stupid in a technological standpoint, else we are equal we still havereligious ignorance and violence and hatred, just as back "then".
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What is 'intelligence'? What is 'wisdom'?
 
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ragordon168

Active Member
Gabethewiking said:
Incorrect, We as a PEOPLE are smarter and the ancients as a PEOPLE where stupid in a technological standpoint, else we are equal we still havereligious ignorance and violence and hatred, just as back "then".
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what makes us smarter? computers?, scientific knowledge? all that is built on what the ancients knew.

if we were told to build some ancient structures we would plan using modern equipment, BUT if we were told only to use simple wood, rope and metal tools we would strugle to match the ancients skills.

and apparently batteries from ~200BC - 250AD were dug up (link) which predate the 'modern' galvanic cell by more than a millenium.

so were we smarter or did we just have a further starting point?
 
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