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Joke. Mind the Joke Icon. It was actually a joke, meant to be funny. To be laughed at. A joke.
Joke elaboration: Get angry about someone ranting about people getting angry.
Similar joke examples: "I hate extremists, they should all be shot dead." or "Racism is just like niggers, shouldn't exist".
[Edit] Oh, and did I mention it was a joke ? [/Edit]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Relax! I missed the joke icon.
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Bceause if god says it's ok, then it's ok I guess.
Come to think of it, the morning agile scrum prayers could benefit from this concept too
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Quote: You know I was wondering there is so much religion involved in war?
If you are going to get someone to die for your cause, you have to give them a reason. Promising them an "eternal reward" is just one means of doing that.
Money could be another one, but after you get so many followers, the money pot runs dry quickly.
Brent
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The rest of the world is so brutal...
sure would be easier if the world would surrender instead of causing all those innocent deaths... 
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
modified 25-Aug-14 7:29am.
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And then the "bad guys" win.
And that doesn't stop the brutality: Look at the Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Pinochet, Franco, Hussein, Mengistu Haile Mariam, (carefully Not Mentioning The War)
Their brutality didn't stop when they had absolute power - if anything it got worse.
Sometimes, you have to stand up and be counted.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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As much as everyone will agree on IS(IS) being the bad guys  ,
Historically speaking "Bad Guys" are defined by the winning  side and then embedded into History
I don't like them because they would like to kill me, but that's just my personal taste.
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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I think the behaviour they have shown so far: kidnapping for ransom, beheading the innocent, attempted genocide, "change to our branch of Islam or die" options, and so forth does kinda indicate "bad guys" regardless of any other position on religion or other beliefs.
Can you image what life would be like in a state rules by these guys?
Regrettably, I can...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I can too and it's not that hard,
regrettably there are already several of those in our little cozy planet of Earth.
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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Stranger yet, some assholes in countries not in the neighbourhood of where IS is operating are supporting them. They have nothing to gain, something to lose, and they still go out of their way to announce to the world that they support The Enemy.
Please tell me that instantly gets you a VIP spot on a watchlist.
It's the kind of crap that makes people vote for Wilders[^].
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Harold if you think of it, they have a lot to gain.
A war of culture has began and everyone tries to ignore that fact and handle it with the all-wrong "time will heal" algorithm.
There is a rising power opposing much of what we take for granted.
The war has started and one side is fast asleep they way I see it.
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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Canny Brisk wrote: and one side is fast asleep they way I see it.
Yea no, not so much. See UKIP, Wilders, Le Pen, etc
Sure they're not winning yet, but it's not like they have no support.
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True, I'm aware of those and will lower the sleep from category 8 to 7 
There A LOT of waking up still to be done.
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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For future reference, you should consider following rule four[^] next time. These subjects tend to go out of hand sometimes.
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I thought the link pointed to the ten commandments.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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No, there are just seven of them, we apparently need to have a talk with Bob about that.
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Probably a subject better suited to be discussed in the Soapbox. 
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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I was waiting for someone to say this.
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Imagine you and your immediate family owned a country that produced 11 million barrels of oil a day.
Imagine you noticed that every time there was a terrorist news story the unit cost went up a few dollars.
There is no need to invoke sky fairies. This is about greed.
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Just guessing, but I think they are trying to better their odds of getting laid. Though if they just killed themselves apparently their odds go way up.
"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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It's just a meme. Ten years from now, it'll be as relevant as Rickrolls are today.
Hey, there's an idea... Anyone tried Rickrolling those guys yet? Wouldn't it be hilarious if they tried to publish one of their videos, and someone intercepted and modified it so fifteen seconds in, it cut to that video we all know and love/loathe?
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You have to consider these hateful fiends in terms of business:
Those at the top, who never risk there own safety or comfort, stand only to keep their position if havoc is in play. Some do it with bloodshed (Yassir Arafat, while he looted US$ 2 Billion from "his people"); Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton: racial strife is their stock-in-trade; The middle east? The the Kings, Emirs, etc., can keep there populace accepting poverty (while they drown in wealth) by pointing to an outside enemy (Israel) as the cause: and in that case, the problem really is that it's the only state in the region with rights for women and minorities, investment in infrastructure, education, etc., and allows for defacto religious freedom. They set a bad example so they must be eliminated. There was, after all, no concept, certainly amongst the arabs states, of a palestinian state until Egypt made peace. Now they needed new cannon fodder. Add unrealistic goals and religious zealotry to the mix, and, ta-dah, you have Gaza under the brutal rule of Hamas.
As another on this thread noted, they real game at the top is always money/power. Invoking deity as the justification is a sure way of doing whatever you want to whomever you want. The poor and the desperate, always the most devout, can now take their frustrations out on "THEM".
In this century, Islam is leading the charge in barbarity. They've a long way to go to catch up to Christendom's history of atrocities, but they're certainly trying hard. Muslim-on-Muslim slaughters between the different sects is simply their tradition (everyone else is a heretic).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Add unrealistic goals and religious zealotry democratic elections to the mix, and, ta-dah, you have Gaza under the brutal rule of Hamas, and Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood.
FTFY 
Not the result the west wanted when they push democracy. 
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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Sadly, it takes more than being told "you're free" to really free someone.
Former Soviet Union is an example: to a significant extent, there is a preference for a dictatorship type of government. Few if any decisions to worry about - ironically, that also applies to some necessities.
In the west, we're somewhat more use to the idea of fending for ourselves on the individual level. Also true of small groups (nomadic, tribal, etc.).
So - in the middle east, with the exception of Israel (and to what may be a vanishing extent, Turkey, should it turn away from it's secular-demanding constitution), we have either nomadic peoples scattered about somewhat oblivious to government and those harshly ruled by a central government, where they know what's expected of them.
Perhaps it's as simple as: "There's comfort in knowing who you're afraid of!"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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