Faith based belief systems ARE a problem .......
thanks for caps on the ARE.
you respond as if i was defending systems of faith. i am not. when i said: "
It is not the religions (a non-sentient entity) fault that the stupidity of the humans involved in the religion survive." i was adding to that fact that faith may very well be a crutch for the blind eye and is a problem. in other words, if the mental facility of faith is truly detriment then the fault is inherently of the individuals (not the religion) that choose to enact it. religions are nonsentient vehicles of thought. blaming religions for incorrect workings is like blaming computers for not processing words correctly, for with computers, who programs them? people. any faults in religions are of the creators. therefore it is not neccessarily the religions fault. if a religion tells an individual to 'have faith' that 2+2 will indeed equal 5 some day then it is not the religions fault there is fallicy. it is the writer of that scripture and whatever followers that choose to believe it. if people like you go around blaming religion for inaccurate ways of mind, then it will do nothing more than create more inaccurate realities, for to scapegoat the vehicle of religion for mankinds own stupidity is an inaccurate action. a more mature open-mined considerate approach would be to ponder re-writing religions as inconsistencies are found (if such a thing can be done collectively). science has just as many if not more detriment theory and method as religion. for unrefined but patterned example: the principle that someone has to die in order to find out what is inside the body via autopsy. or, piercing my flesh with a needle to microscopicly view my dna in order to understand my position on Earth and my environment. or freezing myself as an icecube and claiming 'i live forever'. some knowledges are not that of the knowledges of Life. some scientific procedures violate the expansive creative direction of Life and as long as these patterns/methods are still used, blindness will continue to flourish.
if it is your desire to nullify religion then be integral and ignore Christmas (like i do).
and on that note i will add this that i hath found at another forum (it is hilarious).
all are welcome to 'have faith' as to whether the following is true or not.
merry exmass...
SANTA CLAUS: AN ENGINEER'S PERSPECTIVE: There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit all children (many non-Christian or non-sectarian households excluded), this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each participating and anticipating household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them- Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.
Edited by shedon666, 19 December 2003 - 08:52 PM.
