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That is interesting. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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JimmyRopes
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Quote from description: mere 420 million light-years
I'm always amused at these phrases.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I agree: for the vast majority of humans these distances are incomprehensible.
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I like to think I can understand it, but the truth is I can't.  I've tried to describe it to my son, I'll get the blank look, then the "so like it's really, really, ...., really far then", so I guess I was successful? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I got there in stages with my lot. How far to the moon? To the sun? To the next nearest star system and so on. They know some of the numbers but I'm pretty sure they really don't understand what they mean. 
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"You might think it's a long walk down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space!"
-- HHG2G
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I am not against any religion! That been said, why are terrorist trying to create "Islamic Caliphate" all around the world, killing innocent souls in the process?
Boko Haram of Nigeria just declared creating one yesterday. ISIS in the middle east too!
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Wouldn't be the first time someone tried to take over the world.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Same reasons we exported Catholicism to the West.
..farmers will not kill for anything outside of self-defense, or to protect their God. Hence, they need some external motivation.
Why?
Dunno, maybe it's a reaction to something that happened? Like someone selling arms to all sides?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You know I was wondering there is so much religion involved in war?
I guess it's easy to make people angry with religion perhaps? And also it's a more powerful motivator than mere profit?
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Super Lloyd wrote: it's easy to make people angry with religion
Vote of 5 for that!
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Super Lloyd wrote: And also it's a more powerful motivator than mere profit?
Perhaps but if they use profit as a motivator they have to share the profit (so less for the persons in charge).
I think profit is a bigger motivator than religion but the people on top use religion so they can keep the profit for themselves and don't have to share it.
In the end it all comes down to either power or money, and very very few "religious leaders" who incite violence actually do it for the religion part.
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Well thought out! 
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It's not religion that causes war, it's evil people. They may use religion as an excuse in order to try to justify their behaviour, but no religion actively encourages such actions.
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Religion helps to encourage groupthink though.
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My question is more "what is religion?".
My definition: religion appears to be a set of beliefs held by a large number of people usually based on some sort of faith in something that is not measurable, using the 'scientific method', and that generally contains ideas that are held as taboo to question within and about the particular religion.
Given my definition, it seems fairly easy to then manipulate a large number of people to do something they would not do outside of this group/collective belief system.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 25-Aug-14 7:25am.
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And with that being said, understand then the frustration of people that have a belief system that DOES encourage thought, discussion and dialogue being continually lumped into 'religion'. If the adherants say, "It's not about religion" they are ridiculed further...
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As far as I am concerned as long as people hold themselves to the golden rule, as much as possible, I don't particularly care what set of beliefs they hold.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Being an Indian, I have been influenced by the sayings of a saint of India, called Swami Vivekananda, who visited the US back in 1893. He said "Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man. Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God". See here[^].
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Don't for a second think that relious wars aren't spurred on by the promise of profit.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Infidel. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: spurred on by the promise of profit
Profit, or prophet?
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