Re: Pope is a dope
Date: April 20, 2005 16:27
I think you're right, I am a complete dunce. Totally bonkers. Knackered might be the word. Anyways:
> Mathijs - not based on your comment about the
> pope, or religion in general.
Yep, I am totally anti-religion, and complete astounded that people with sane minds anno 2005 can still be religious. I am just too much a scientist I guess. Does this make me a dunce? Aside from that, the Vatican, and the Vatican alone, is responsible for 25 million people dying of AIDS. It's not only being against condomn use, it's much more in education: to this day children in Brazil do not get proper sexual education as that is forbidden by the Catholic church. The general knowledge about sexual diseases, let alone unwanted pregnency's is virtually zero in Brazil. How can anyone close his eyes to this situation? The same story goes for many African countries. It's true that bigamie is a social event in many African countries, but with proper education the dissaster that is happening now could have been stopped, I am sure about that. You don't believe it? Visit Brazil as I did, live in Western-Africa for 1 year and Israel for another year, as I have done.
> Nor your theroy the US was responsible for Paul Pot.
Paul? The brother of Pol I guess? Well, that's not exactly my theory as I wasn't there at the time and I am no historian, but that's pretty much what history books tell. If you don't want to read a book, check any decent channel like Discovery, National Geographic or whatever. It's a bit the same way Saddam Hussein was supported by the US, as he was a handy help in the problems with Iran, and the US felt they could trust and rely on him.
> inane theroy of how the US will go bankrupt
> without Japaness investment dollars or your
Again (unfortunately...) not my theory, but by economists of Harvard and Erasmus University (both leaders in Economy Science). The theory is that the difficiency of the US has risen to 500 billion dollars due to Mr. Bush's administration. The biggest investors (and credit issuers) in the US are the Arabians and the Japanese. The Arabians pose no thread, but when a catastrophe happens in Tokyo (say, a giant earthquake) and the Japanese decide to demand their invested money back (or simply withdraw it), the total difficiency of the US will rise to such an extraordinary amount of money the total US Economy will collapse in a much much worse manner than the krach in 1933. Of course, this also isn't particularly good news to myself, as Holland is for 75 % depending on the US economy. Let's hope eartquakes won't happen in Japan, or that the economist are dead wrong!
> statement that those who died on 9/11 deserved
> what they got.
Ahh, such old hat. What I said (and you know this very well), is that America could have see this comming, or in hindsight could have understood why it happened instead of this wining and weeping and patriotic behaviour you see now in the US. Of course I would never ever imply that any American deserved this atrocious attack. But I did say that due to the American foreign policy -especially in Middle Eastern countries- a strike back could have been foreseen by the US government.
Mathijs
ps in reality I am a real nice guy, don't worry.