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(...) <SARCASM MODIFIER="It's catching, isn't it? :-P"> Wow. Good idea. We can give financial aid to the really terrible governments for the people who really suffer. </SARCASM> That's kind of a cool political satire story idea. Let Michael Moore (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That I shall grant. Christianity has changed a great deal. Perhaps it would be fairer to say that they are stubborn in change. As you said, it takes hundreds of years for change to come about-- it doesn't happen as rapidly as change may be (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Amen, Larry. :) Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nor the Swiss, in whose banks he has around, what, $2 billion? But I digress. It's not as if the U.S. claimed the Phillipenes as a colony (1). The Phillipines had their own government, and Marcos didn't need permission from us to do anything. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What problems has the U.S. generated? Examples please, not just vague generalities. What do you suggest we do? Give out more money? Apologize? What would make you feel better? Name one country that did not do anything wrong in it's history. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wow, what a view! I want a house next to yours! :-, (...) Mostly real-estate holdings in the Pacific, with some other (disputed) claims in South America and the Indian Ocean. France is probably not the best example, as they're not actively (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Who says I don't ask myself what's going on? It's true, the young age of these killers is tragic. How much more tragic do you want it to be? Would you prefer the killers who go uncaptured for years? Give me one kid who blows up and burns out (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Sproaticus wrote <37C57D80.330C3CEB@io.com>... <snip> (...) My point was the really young age. Nowhere (alltough I don't have any hard facts) is the number of murders done by young ones so high than in U.S. You should really ask yourself what's (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Sproaticus wrote <37C57A41.F8EBB1BC@io.com>... <snip> (...) Marcos' (...) Marcos' couldn't do what he did without the support and approval of the U.S. government. Do you have any ideas what happened in the Marcos' era? (What was the country Marcos (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
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(...) What about those ignorant of the process of salvation? Through what mechanism does a stone age native of Borneo avoid separation from God? --Chris (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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