Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (259885)	11/14/2005 12:58:16 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574002

I just watched this documentary on the Holocaust.......its called the Paperclip Project.........it took place in a small town in Tennesee. During the discussion of the Holocaust, they said that in addition to the six million Jews, 5 1/2 million other people also were exterminated by Hitler. I did not realize that that number was as big as it is. Nearly 12 million people died due to the madness of one man. Its sickening. ted

To: SilentZ who wrote (259885)	11/14/2005 10:07:53 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574002

I like to use the Mormons to evaluate religions. The entire religion was cooked up in the 1830's in the US, and there's a paper trail in english! If you examine it, the religion is totally ludicrous. Take polygamy: Joe Smith started lusting after his follower's daughters, so, God told him that HE could be polygamous! The elders of the church caught on to what ol' Joe was about, and he consulted God, who told him that THEY could be polygamous too! Well, a secret like that coldn't be kept from the hoi polloi Mormons for long, so, they got the divine right of polygamy too! Then, to become a state and to stay out of jail, the Utah Mormons were given the choice - either give up polygamy (a major tenet of their faith) and become a state, or have all your patriarchs jailed and stay a territory. They quickly caved, even though some are still secretly polygamous today. Mormon history is hilarious, but they haven't had thousands of years to scrub the record (although they're working hard at it!) as the older, more established religions have. So, I have extreme skepticism about ALL religions.