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| Should the 10 Commandments be there? |
| YES |
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31% |
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| NO |
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68% |
[ 13 ] |
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| Total Votes : 19 |
Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
quote:
Originally posted by Myrthos
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Pugnacious little runt I am... "Everyone's thinking it, I'm just saying it."
Everyone? Do the others know that you are their spokesperson?
Sure. 
*poke*
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Thu Sep 04, 2003 6:27 pm |
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sauron38
Rara Avis
Joined: 14 Jan 2002
Posts: 4396
Location: Winnipeg's Sanctum Sanctorum |
quote:
Originally posted by Myrthos
It's not relevant to which religion it applies. From my point of view what religion or how many religiosn the 10C's belong to is irrelevant.
Again, go back to the analogy of the chairs.
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A court is associated with justice, the administration of law. The buildings of Congress are associated with law.
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*shrugs* so what?
Laws are not created in a courthouse, with the exception of common law rulings, but rather they are enforced exactly according to law. If there is an error or a bias that satisfies the law in the aspects relating to appeals (which may stem from having a member of the court see the Monument, but it is unlikely) both parties have the right to another trial at a higher court, which would move eventually and take them out of that specific courthouse with its ever-so-offensive Monument.
I could see not wanting such a Monument in Congress to be much more reasonable, as laws can be created there and it's best not to have those politicians walk by anything that tells them not to steal or adulterise!
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I believe you established that by yourself and found yourself to be better than the average juror to name them that. Just in case you implied all who replied here in the 'we' then I disagree. Maybe we have some 'illiterate' forum members who who can back you up on this.
However, if they are or not, I fail to see how all of this is relevant especially as if they really are all illiterate as you claim, then that would have me worried more for how they interprete the relation between the law and religion.
Mmm. No. That's countering an absurdity that was meant as counter for another absurdity with a third absurdity.
Moving along...
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Pugnacious little runt I am... "Everyone's thinking it, I'm just saying it."
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Everyone? Do the others know that you are their spokesperson?
Yes, quite frankly, I don't care about or for the Monument, nor the finer points of American Law (is this practise for pro bono work?  ). Since I have declared this before, and utterly sensed Jung's displeasure at having to argue with someone who is scientifically indifferent to the issue, yet has an inordinate amount of fervour & free time for the topic, and remembering that all of you are very smart people, you'd see me instantly as what I've called myself on more than one occasion. And the thing in quotation marks is a quotation.
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There are laws protecting minority groups. Are you saying that that as long as the majority of people do not disagree everything is allowed? and that thus the minority has no voice.
Perhaps it's good that people who want slavery reintroduced, who want government destroyed, who want human sacrifice allowed are suppressed?
I might show you a link or two to some hate sites, or perhaps a Klan site, but those would be grounds to hit that yellow button.
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I have no need for religious symbols in my life and I don't expect to find them in a court house, for all the reasons I already gave.
Since we're using first person pronouns now, I'll say it. Wonderful. Dutch(?) law is different from American law. I'm not sure whether or not you're entitled to your views where you're from, but in America, where the Monument is, there are, sadly enough, legal grounds for it to be suggested that it does not have a place there.
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Thu Sep 04, 2003 7:02 pm |
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Myrthos
Spoiler of All Fun
Joined: 07 Jul 2001
Posts: 1926
Location: Holland |
Well you know my views, you can find holes in them as much as you want. As you are only in this for the argument as you say, it would only result in running in even more circles.
Hey Val, I didn't know you've become everybody 
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Thu Sep 04, 2003 9:08 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
Shh! Don't tell anyone! They like thinking that they're them. 
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Thu Sep 04, 2003 9:15 pm |
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
To sum it up for me...
religion + state = wrong
This goes for every religion, not just the the suppressive monotheist beliefs.
And greetings to the late preacher who once told me
killing bad people = good
and
whipping little girls = good.
May he burn in his personal hell.
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Fri Sep 05, 2003 5:31 am |
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sauron38
Rara Avis
Joined: 14 Jan 2002
Posts: 4396
Location: Winnipeg's Sanctum Sanctorum |
quote:
Originally posted by Myrthos
Well you know my views, you can find holes in them as much as you want. As you are only in this for the argument as you say, it would only result in running in even more circles.
Yeah, this is a good place to end it. Now I'm at school and I can bug people like this in person. Or do work. Either will do. 
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Sat Sep 06, 2003 3:32 pm |
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Kiff
Protector of the Realm
Joined: 27 Oct 2002
Posts: 257
Location: Indiana |
I say we should just beat our children, untill they think and belive like we do. Then in a couple hundred years we all seperate into seperate sects of humanity and have wars over which "race" is better. Haha...good idea. |
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Mon Sep 08, 2003 4:47 pm |
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dteowner
Shoegazer
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
Say what? I'm sure there's some relevance to the thread hidden in there.
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Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:23 pm |
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Cm
Sentinel of Light
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Posts: 5209
Location: Missouri USA |
I think the whole thing stems from a deeper need felt by a lot of people in America. Not necessarily a majority, but enough to make a noise. It just so happened that one of these people was a judge ( or what ever his title was). People are scared. They are loosing faith in the govenment as it is now. They don't feel protected by it and they don't feel understood by it. Is the monument being there legal? No. Plain and simple. It is a religious symbol and as the law stands, does not belong in that place. The debate is much more complex. It is that these people feel it is needed there. That it will somehow make things right again. Like going back in time to a simpler day. They are drawing the line in the sand, and this is where they want to stop the separation of Church and State. Are they right? Are we going to far with the school prayer ban, the use of the word God in connection with anything in government? Here is where the majority whether right or wrong will win. As a Christian I think we have gone to far because this steps on my right to say and do what I want. But as an American I believe we have to have laws that are voted on and then followed. This debate will be one that goes on for a very long time, and it's hard to tell if anyone will truely win, no matter what the decision. Just my thoughts, and I know everyone agrees I have the right to have them, even if you disagree. As I believe in your right to disagree.
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