Mankind's all time worst enemies...
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Mankind's all time worst enemies...
Choose whatever you want, using any angle you wish. I was originally going to include "money" but nope, the more I think about it, nah, the evil perpetrated upon mankind by greed is still a second tier curse in the Big Picture.
For me, four come immediately to mind...
#4: Differing skin pigmentation
#3: Tobacco
#2: Gun powder
#1, with a bullet: Jesus Christ/Muhammed (tie)
For me, four come immediately to mind...
#4: Differing skin pigmentation
#3: Tobacco
#2: Gun powder
#1, with a bullet: Jesus Christ/Muhammed (tie)
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No, I get where he's going. Many, many people have died "In christs name" and continue to do so today.Jsc810 wrote:Your contention of Christ as tied for #1 mankind's alltime worst enemy is absurd on its face and does not warrant serious consideration.
But have fun trolling with it. :)
No real slam on dude christ, he didn't do it, but it's a sad fact he has been the driving force behind a lot of mankinds self created misery.
These days I think muhammad has clearly edged him out for top billing, though.
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I was going to simply say "religion" as a whole but really Christianity and Islam are the root cause of the largest number of deaths among all religions.Jsc810 wrote:Your contention of Christ as tied for #1 mankind's alltime worst enemy is absurd on its face and does not warrant serious consideration.
But have fun trolling with it. :)
Beyond that, beyond the crushing violence mankind has perpetrated upon itself in the name of those two individuals, hey, there's also the obvious notion of world poverty that's nearly the exclusive province of religious based societies.
So, yeah, maybe I should just go ahead and substitute "religion" as a whole at #1.
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That would be Marxism. Marxism plus people sticking guns in your face and telling you to bow to the Politburo is Communism. Communism is just a military state with the excuse being "the people".Van wrote:Communism minus gun powder is a bunch of broke ass morose guys in black turtle necks smoking cloves and listening to avant garde jazz and polka.mvscal wrote:Communism.
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I don't believe you're a pussy, so why are you letting the Jews of the hook ?Van wrote:I was going to simply say "religion" as a whole but really Christianity and Islam are the root cause of the largest number of deaths among all religions.Jsc810 wrote:Your contention of Christ as tied for #1 mankind's alltime worst enemy is absurd on its face and does not warrant serious consideration.
But have fun trolling with it. :)
With all the horseshit around here, you'd think there'd be a pony somewhere.
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At the point of a gun. Take away gun powder and both Marxism and Communism in their most crushing forms have no teeth.mvscal wrote:Try again. Most of Communism's victims were killed by starvation.Van wrote:Communism minus gun powder is a bunch of broke ass morose guys in black turtle necks smoking cloves and listening to avant garde jazz and polka.mvscal wrote:Communism.
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Truth. And made it easier to oppress them, in one form or another. But the bottom line is that people are oppressed by their own forms and others' manifestation of . ....Bizzarofelice wrote:If it ain't gunpowder its bronze or iron in the peasants faces. The feudal system wasn't built upon cannons and muskets. Technology has only opened scale of people to be oppressed.
Lust
Avarice
Anger
Sloth
Envy
Gluttony
and ....... leading the list err ... fall ..
PRIDE
With all the horseshit around here, you'd think there'd be a pony somewhere.
Mv, Tiananmen Square was all about the power of gun powder to squash rebellion.
Nobody ever died of starvation out of their love for the ideals of communism. They died because they were powerless to change their status quo as determined by their government. They were powerless because one gun or one tank in the hands of a soldier overcomes the demands of a whole fuckload of pissed off peasants.
Nobody ever died of starvation out of their love for the ideals of communism. They died because they were powerless to change their status quo as determined by their government. They were powerless because one gun or one tank in the hands of a soldier overcomes the demands of a whole fuckload of pissed off peasants.
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Pride parades feature a lot of the HIV.
Bace parades feature a lot of pride. And some beer gluttony.
Bace parades feature a lot of pride. And some beer gluttony.
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Let me clarify: We're talking man made enemies here, things mankind perpetrated upon itself. (In the case of skin pigmentation we're talking about man kind's various reaction to it, not the differing pigmentation itself.)
Natural disasters don't count! :-)
Natural disasters don't count! :-)
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