Dark, you're scaring me with stuff like this. Boy, if Churchhill ever met you I bet he'd wish he reserved that 'riddle, mystery, enigma' line for you. As usual, when it comes to matters religious, you are dead wrong. Yours is a dying bread dark - and all you other religious kooks on here - you've had your moment in the sun. Hopefully you'll all stop the religious crap you've been posting, that way I won't have to weigh in and destroy all your pathetic arguments.
no offence darkhorse, but you are dead wrong on this point. I know it is called usury however, the idea that usury is defined as excessive intrest is a modern one. Forget breakin, darkhorse will never give up his fantasies. Just like every other Christian - hell, like every other 'true believer'(jew, muslim, christian) - he'll embrace the bits he likes and creatively 'interpret' the ones he doesn't. Of course you cannot have a strong economy of any kind with out a return on investment. That is the reason christians choose to ignore this law. Up untill the 1500's (75% of the time christianity has been around) you could have been excomunicated for charging anyone any amout of intrest. Read any history of the banking system that goes back that far. Right on! In fact the entire history of the catholic church is replete with such idiocy. It even tried to ban the use of Arabic numerals - calling them "numbers of the devil". (they preferred the archaic Roman numerals)
I didn't say Dante wrote the Bible , read the sequence of posts more carefully. I was simply being irritating, jumping on Faster's wagon hoping rs7 would talk to me like he used to. You see it gets lonely 'cause all I do is trade and don't live in a god like fantasia. But hell, lonely is good too.
Have you any idea what that sounds like. What kind of person are you? One minute completely rational next you come out with that! Take up trading or something, get your mind off that stuff. It's your consciousness which causes your ranting. and as Einstein once said "You cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it". Your problem is your god.
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) Born near Naples, in a place called Nola (Campania), Bruno was one of the new breed of scientists who shunned the stilted philosophy of Aristotle; and, thus, came afoul the doctrines of the church. At first he was part of the church (entirely necessary in those days if one was to receive any kind of an education), a Dominican; but not for long. He fled Italy for Geneva and then went to England, that enlighten country, were he taught for awhile (Oxford). He eventually (1585) returned to Europe and traveled extensively, seemingly to avoid his holy pursuers. In 1592, Bruno was arrested by the ecclesiastical authorities (The Inquisition) and put on trial for his beliefs, beliefs based on the real world such as those of Copernicus, and which he would not recant. After a seven year trial, Bruno, in an act which forever branded the church as an intolerant institution, at Rome, was put to death by burning. http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Bruno.htm
Stu, I think dark must have got his hands on one of Al Qaeda's training videos. ...so we better get ready Militant Mormonism!
you right there dude It maybe time to think about a preemtive strike before the weapons of mass distruction he threatens us with are used. Call in the trader allies. Darkhorse, if you allow the trader inspectors unhindered access into your territory , it may be possible to redeem yourself.
Yo, Stu, What's up? Let's talk! (But let's pick another topic...something either useful or humorous). Rs7
oh... please man..PLEASE DO! tell me about your bible dude..i'd love to talk about it with you (but you'd better get ready to go home with your tail between your legs..)
Hi rs7, err well unfortnately i only know how to be skeptical critical and synical . Unfortunately this leaves me in a sort of intellectual desert area. I love to trade and I want to travel the world and help poor people. Also I like horses and puppy dogs. However erm..well perhaps you go first ps. thanks for talking to me dude