We slaughter thousands of cows every day, I imagine people from India might think that pretty barbaric, and cruel. As long as it's done humanely the owners should be allowed to send their horses to slaughter.
SacrificialLoon
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horse slaughter, what's your position?
by John Doe inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/us/07horses.html.
murray, ky. emaciated horses eating bark off trees.
abandoned horses tied to telephone poles.
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Is rejecting supernatural explanations close-minded?
by inkling inhere is an excellent video regarding the accusation that skeptics are.
"close-minded" to the supernatural and to woo-based explanations .
if you have ever been on either side of one of these conversations, .
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All you scientists here, explain this:
Go to your bathroom and put both toilet seats up.
Leave the bathroom and make sure no one else goes in.
Go back in 30 mins and see if the toilet seat is still up, or it is down.
Do not use the toilet until you open the door and the seat is down, without you or anyone else having put it down.
I hope you have nice neighbors.
Schroedinger's toilet?
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A new Cold War looming?
by zagor inwhat are your thoughts?.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7947824.stm.
russia announces rearmament plan s bo s iima president medvedev wants to increase the combat readiness of russian forces e iima s sf russian president dmitry medvedev has said moscow will begin a comprehensive military rearmament from 2011.. mr medvedev said the primary task would be to "increase the combat readiness of [russia's] forces, first of all our strategic nuclear forces".. explaining the move, he cited concerns over nato expansion near russia's borders and regional conflicts.. last year, the kremlin set out plans to increase spending on russia's armed forces over the next two years.
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Medvedev and Obama seemed to get along pretty well during the G-20 summit, and there's talk of a new nuclear arms reduction treaty.
Also the Russians are offering supply routes through their territory for the war in Afghanistan, they've also arranged to have that airbase closed in Kyrgyzstan. So Russia can either have a NATO force in Afghanistan dependent on their supply routes fighting radicalized Muslims, or they can have an these crazies running amok through central Asia.
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Only 966 years left of the 1000 year reign
by jwfacts inpart of the reasoning for the end coming in 1975 was that would be 6000 years after creation.
the 1000 year reign would start and the end of it would coincide with the 7000 rest for god (like an omnipotent god needed to rest after creation, but that is a different topic.).
the 1966 book life everlasting, which presented the idea that the end would be 1975 lists in the following table that the 1000 year reign ends in 2975.. that was a neat concept prior to 1975, but since armageddon did not come then it now makes watchtower eschatology look quite foolish, and more so with each passing year.
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I'll remember to watch out for that scary guy with the headband and stick from the Revelation its Grand Climax at Hand book.
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Filthy Apostate Gamers!
by Mastodon injust checking how many here have found that gaming is a better use of time than going to meetings and field service.
post your console type, what games you play online and your 'nicks'.
let's see if we can have some apostate gaming!
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I'm more into RPGs myself. I've got Fallout 3 and Fable 2 for the 360, although to be honest I haven't turned on my x-box for a few months.
On the PC I picked up Empire: Total War a few weeks ago, but it has some bugs so I'm waiting for them to fix them. I did just reload Neverwinter Nights 2, and have been playing that a bit, lots of patches since I've last played it, it works very well now.
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Atheists - Please answer this
by Nellie ini guess i lean more towards an agnostic point of view; though if asked, i will still identify myself as a christian.
why, i'm not really sure if i'm honest with myself.
it all boils down to how i feel about the earth and all of the inhabitants thereon.
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SacrificialLoon
It all boils down to how I feel about the earth and all of the inhabitants thereon. I cannot wrap my mind around the idea that the earth and everything on it is a by-product of an accident. There's just too much "vastness" - the universe is too big
I see it another way. Perhaps the chance of intelligent live devloping is astronomically small, but the universe is astronomically big.
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population reduction being pushed now
by ninja inwatch out for it yourself....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7974995.stm.
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The problem I see with that Spook is the types of people that are against this sort of thing are the exact same types that would be against having any sort of society with the ability to artificially disincentivize these things. The individual not caring about externalities that affect the group is the main reason we have these enviromental, and financial, and societal problems.
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population reduction being pushed now
by ninja inwatch out for it yourself....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7974995.stm.
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I believe the human race is way too selfish to turn this situation around.
Yup, like rats scrambling to the top of a sinking ship pushing each other out of the way, too stupid and no sense beyond self to be able to fix the ship. Perhaps enough people will be able to act for the greater good though.
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population reduction being pushed now
by ninja inwatch out for it yourself....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7974995.stm.
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Oh hells no! Just quit having babies!
I don't know. *If* there is a worst case scenerio with regards to climate change we may have no choice but to engineer crops that can grow in the new conditions, or maybe Baffin Island will be the breadbasket of the world, who knows?
I don't think that GM foods are quite the bugaboo that some groups make them out to be. We've been genetically modifying crops, and animals for thousands of years, just in a not quite as direct method.
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population reduction being pushed now
by ninja inwatch out for it yourself....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7974995.stm.
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I would not worry too much - by definition population is self limiting. The earth will get to a stage where there will not be enough food to feed all and famine will do a lot. Then there will be war by people competing for resources and that will cull some of the population. Disease will do its bit too.
Wouldn't it be better to avoid this altogether by being a little proactive?