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Emperor Vespasian: Shit, I think I'm becoming a god!
Emperor Nero: Burn this shit!
Emperor Caligula: Fuck this shit!
Emperor Claudius: I shit!
Emperor Hadrian: My wall's da shit!
Hunting: *crunch* this shit is 2 days old and produced by a 5-year old male deer, going east.
Plato: this shit is only a shadow of real shit.
Creationism: this is shit, therefore God exists.
Socrates:
"Are we shit?"
*No, of course not...*
"But don't we use shit to fertilise the land?"
*Well...
I've had both my wisdom teeth been pulled out...there should've been 4 of them, but apparently I'm the next step in Evolution with only 2 wisdom teeth instead of 4. (and I had them pulled out, so now I have none)
Funny thing is, even without any wisdom teeth, I'm still better than Creationists...
Well, there are a few people who believe in Creationism, here in Belgium. Not necessarily Young-Earth-Creationism, but at least Creationism. However, the vast majority only believe on a superficial level, because they were raised to believe so. They might believe in God and in some parts, but...
It looks like Europe is the only part of the world which really has had the experience and outgrew it for the most part. America and Islam are a lot younger and still have to go through "puberty" and have its revolts and such. When both grow up, they'll become more secular.
Don't go from door to door to talk. Organise a lecture about science, somewhere at some time, make flyers and then go from door to door to put the flyers in their mailboxes. They can then watch it whenever they want, they can tear it apart without confronting the distributors or they can come to...
- "AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
* "What? The Allied Atheist Alliance of Acrobatics Against Agnosticism And Aiming At Arguing About the Almighty?"
- "No, a train is about to..."
/ crash
- "...never mind..."
The alternative is funding research that DOES help just about everybody. The rich don't need any more benefits, they have enough. As said, curing mental diseases is better than increasing life expectancy for the rich.
No, making people live longer, doesn't make people live BETTER. Even though...
I stick with the points I made, because they're the truth. It won't work, the way you do it. Not on a global scale, that is.
To lengthen life expectancy artificially, first goes to the rich and only years later to the poor (or not at all to the poorest). On top of that, it doesn't improve life...