Demon Possesion

And computers are why there's electricity. It ain't "Love" that differentiates humankind from the rest of the critters, its arrogance. We are animals - an apparently unique species of sentient pack animals able to understand and control our behaviors, that's all. One might even say that by the evidence only some of us are able to understand and control our behaviors.

And computers are why there's electricity. It ain't "Love" that differentiates humankind from the rest of the critters, its arrogance. We are animals - an apparently unique species of sentient pack animals able to understand and control our behaviors, that's all. One might even say that by the evidence only some of us are able to understand and control our behaviors.

How about the ability to differentiate between what's right or wrong? Although it seems nothing in the West is considered wrong anymore.

timberlandko wrote:

And computers are why there's electricity. It ain't "Love" that differentiates humankind from the rest of the critters, its arrogance. We are animals - an apparently unique species of sentient pack animals able to understand and control our behaviors, that's all. One might even say that by the evidence only some of us are able to understand and control our behaviors.

computers are why there's electricity?

Raul-7 wrote:

How about the ability to differentiate between what's right or wrong? Although it seems nothing in the West is considered wrong anymore.

Where's the Islamic world's outrage over the slaughter of Jews by Moslems, Christians by Moslems, Hinus by Moslems, Moslems by Moslems? Why might it be that the global focus of terrorism is to be found in the Islamic world? Why might it be that the Islamic world not only fails to condemn but actually celebrates murder-by-martyrdom? What of "Convenience Marriages", disenfranchisement of women, exploitation, oligarchy, and corruption? Why is it that nowhere on the planet is the gap between the very rich and the very poor greater than is to be found in the Islamic world?

You're a hoot, Raul7, a real hoot ... "We're justified by our faith - its only bad when the other guy does it". Get your own house in order before you try the "Moral High Ground" trick; no matter what you and other Islamic apologists say, Islam is judged by the world on what its self-proe confusing corruption with the religion, when it happens to be from the Arabs themselves. Arabs are to blame, not Islam. Then again, I assume there is no corruption in the US? Why doesn't Bush first fight the terrorists within in the country (ie. gangs, etc.) before going global? However, I guess he won't make much of a profit from that. fessed followers do.

Given the frequency in historical records in which individuals, families, clans, tribes, entire nations--claimed to be moral and humane, while gleefully making the rivers run red with the slaughter of "pagans" or "infidels," i find it more than a little ironic to yammer on about a distinction between being animal and being human. Few animals kill for reasons which do not directly (self-defense) or indirectly (feeding oneself) derive from a survival instinct. In fact, except in cases of obvious pathology, i'd be willing to say that animals are never cruel, in any sense in which the word is meant in English.

... Why are you confusing Islam with Arab mentality? I guess to you Islam only exists in the Middle East. And just because people claim to be Muslims doesn't mean they are a walking example of it, if you want an example of an Islamic state go back to the Caliphate, Ummayad and Abbasid periods. An Islamic state no longer exists today.

I have not said that humans are not animals, i've simply pointed out that there is no meaningful distinction to be made between the terms human and animal. And nothing you've written convinces me otherwise.