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Poid
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Registered: 02/04/08
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Tchan909 said: I don't think Osama bin Laden actually had unshakable faith in anything.
Why do you think this? Do you have any evidence to back this up?
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Tchan909 said: He just knew how to manipulate people and bore a nasty grudge.
Even though he knew how to manipulate people, how does this mean that he didn't have unshakable faith in something? Is it not possible that he both bore a nasty grudge and had unshakable faith in something?
Osama bin Laden
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At university, Osama's main interest was religion, where he was involved in both "interpreting the Quran and jihad"...
Beliefs and ideology of Osama bin Laden
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Following an extreme form of Islamism, bin Laden believed that the restoration of God's law will set things right in the Muslim world—or as he put it, his hope that the revelation unto Mohammed will be resorted to for ruling.
Sounds like unshakable faith to me. 
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Tchan909 said: Too commonly I see atheists tearing apart transcendent conceptualizations of virtue and righteousness with one breath, while condemning the Pope for failing to adhere to those very same (supposedly nonexistent) ideals with the next.
So atheists point and laugh at delusional hypocrites..so what?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: How do us humans complicate things so much? [Re: Poid]
#14414445 - 05/07/11 09:47 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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its a good question, i honestly think the entertainment industry is to blame for a lot of it, they control the masses. as much as pants off dance off makes me wanna feed the hungry, they still definitely shit the bed when it comes to making it cool to be selfless. if the overall message was to help other people the world would be a lot different. i dunno if youve ever heard of the concept of beliefs acting similar to a virus, but it has some merit, the belief that its easier to get happiness by being selfish has been winning since the beginning but its definitely getting weaker now if you compare us today to people back then theres a definite difference.
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