Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-24 Thread jburnes
s that their self-interest is at stake, and they don't need to bother themselves with the morality of the war on US foreign policy, etc... -TD From: Morlock Elloi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Senators from Utah being Southern Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:59:05 -

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-24 Thread Tyler Durden
ot;. Actually, more than control signals there are messages that inform the pious that their self-interest is at stake, and they don't need to bother themselves with the morality of the war on US foreign policy, etc... -TD From: Morlock Elloi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-23 Thread Morlock Elloi
>Religions are essentially collections of stories about the latter method Religions are artificial shortcuts to "knowledge" and excellent method to neutralize congenital human curiosity. If you can't comprehend it, fake it. They all offer explanations of various phenomena by using familiar human m

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-23 Thread Tyler Durden
sm of the Buddhist Stupa" by Anagarika Govinda for an excellent discussion of buddhist iconography in the context of an architectural study. From: Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Senators from Utah being Sout

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-23 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim wrote: > Let me remind folks that I am areligious...I no more believe in a god > or goddess or afertlife or supernatural things than I believe in the > Easter Bunny. I view all religions as cults of magical belief. There are two ways of modeling the Universe. One can build it from lots of

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-23 Thread Tim May
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 05:25 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:36:03AM -0500, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: Sorry, but you've got your facts completely wrong here. Mormons very much consider themselves a Christian church; in fact, they consider their church to be the restorati

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-20 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
Tim May wrote: Sorry, wrong again. Hatch is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS, aka Mormon. Not an actual Christian church. Details available with Google. Basically, Jesus is no more a divine figure in LDS than in Islam. In fact, LDS and Islam share a number of th