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  • in reply to: General Discussion #239169
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    [B][I]”In the 2011 Census, Christianity was the largest religion, with 33.2 million people (59.3 per cent of the population). The second largest religious group were Muslims with 2.7 million people (4.8 per cent of the population).

    I still find it sad that so many people still believe in something, base their lives upon something that quite clearly isn’t real.
    While this belief exists there is far more chance IMHO that there will be war. How can you reason with people who believe that there is life after death?

    in reply to: General Discussion #239212
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    My disproof of the Christian faith is the fact that people cry at funerals. Why do Christians cry at funerals? The Christian faith says that after death we go to a better place to be reunited with our loved ones. The reason people cry at funerals is because they realise they will never see that person again. Even Christians don’t believe.

    in reply to: General Discussion #238519
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    The SL 500 is fine thank you. The CLK is getting a bit long in the tooth, but with only 65,000 miles on it, it will probably outlast me.

    65k! That’s barely run in. My Mk2 Mondeo had 170k and still running fine on original clutch.

    in reply to: General Discussion #238525
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    It’s driver psychology. Safety in numbers.
    I always park away from everyone for the same reason. Or park next to something more expensive.
    At the end of the day it will be on the scrapheap eventually so why worry. Vauxhall quicker than most.

    in reply to: General Discussion #238385
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    This is beginning to sound like a pastiche of Monty Python!

    I did most of my miles on the west coast of England so, a Cornish pastiche if you will.

    in reply to: General Discussion #238395
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    The markings match those of a freighter that blasted it’s way out of Greenham Common some moments ago.
    Not quite the same ring to it. Looking forward to the film all the same. Was 10 in 77 when it was orignally released.
    I fear only those of 10 can enjoy it for what it is. Happy days.

    in reply to: General Discussion #237897
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    I wish DVLA would get with the times and offer monthly direct debit.

    in reply to: General Discussion #237608
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    Internet athiests always seem to lack any skills at signposting a conversation, or leading it carefully into an area of discussion that might cause ire.

    Let me introduce you to science. Really? Do you have the qualifications to back up that sort of smug, condescending and off-putting rhetoric of yours?

    Qualifications, I have a BSc, does that count?
    But seriously the facts of science are all around us. Lets consider an aeroplane flying in the sky and a person walking on water.
    If you say to me, aeroplanes can fly and assuming I have never seen one I may say “I don’t believe you”. To which you can take me
    for a flight. Explain the science of flight. Teach me how to build a model that flies.
    If you say to me man can walk on water I may ask the same but I bet you don’t have a handy god to demonstrate.
    In other words science can be challenged, tested and demonstrated – or shown not to work.
    But faith, religion has nothing more than `it is`.
    More importantly science stands the test of questioning and doubt and very rarely is shown to be wrong.
    That’s how mathematicians hundreds of years ago could predict the movement of planets that has since been proven.
    But religion does not want to be questioned. `It is` because otherwise it would cease to exist.

    Of course there is one question that has always intrigued me. If god made everything who made god?
    Now that’s one dude I would lke to meet.

    in reply to: General Discussion #237609
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    The move to electric propulsion that we can see happening now will kill it stone dead.

    Moggy

    Not until you can make a battery that can travel at 70 mph for 300 miles and then recharge in 10 minutes.
    Interesting to think what the government will do to reclaim all that lost tax revenue, especially if we all stop smoking too.

    in reply to: General Discussion #237272
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    This is slightly off topic but I’m intrigued by the idea of running out of oil.
    What happens to the jet engine? Is that history when the oil does finally run out.
    I can’t see a viable electric option for a replacement. Perhaps we will see an alternative engine
    that could eventually end up in cars?
    Hydrogen or nuclear powered fighters perhaps?

    I predict that eventually a handheld hydrogen or nuclear reactor (perhaps plasma or ion) will be a reality. Powering everything from laptops to cars.
    Cold and totally safe.

    in reply to: General Discussion #237122
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    Why do we need a god other than a way of dealing with death?
    Can’t we just accept that we are an insignificant species and that life is there to be enjoyed without some `super being` to command us?
    There doesn’t have to be a reason for our existence. We just exist and so what. It makes us no less human because of it.
    Virgin birth, resurrection, and all that. Common sense dictates it’s a load of cods wallop.
    Can someone explain why the wailing wall has a segregated area for women?

    in reply to: General Discussion #235868
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    Because women wailing is something men don’t want to hear? Something for the Westboro Baptists to protest about, I imagine…

    What does it matter? The wall won’t care one way or another, and any passing deity that exists – which they don’t ;o) – in the locality will have better things to do than take the cries of wall visitors into account when wondering what to do that day.

    Having segregation in religion just demonstrates that religion was created by a man. Segregation, control. It’s the same thing.
    Religion is a way for a select few to control the masses.

    in reply to: General Discussion #235869
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    Parkland.
    Film about the JFK assassination from the perspective of those involved. Nurses, cameraman, police.

    in reply to: General Discussion #234091
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    If you are killed for not wearing a seatbelt it hurts your family.
    If your son or daughter is killed while driving isn’t that a pretty strong reason to make it compulsory?
    I wear my seltbelt and don’t even notice it’s on.
    Whiplash is better than dead any day.

    in reply to: General Discussion #233120
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    But we did go to the Tower of London to see the Poppies – and they were AWESOME!

    To be honest that was the reason I went and yes they are very impressive.
    Bit surprised that only 10% of the proceeds goes to charity. But £25 * 856’000 10 percents is still a tidy sum.

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