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By 'real' I mean a religion which is elevating the human spirit, in contrast of being any kind of ideology.

P.S. Judaism and Christianity are the only 2 religions which can be defined really similar. They are much less in contrast as most people think.

This doesn't surprise me.

There is much much more wisdom (read: concentrated intelligence) in real religion (like Judaism or Christianity) than any modern/post-modern mind is willing to agree...

Yeah, please wake up everybody. (The generic and superficial american optimism doesn't help here and now, and is actually part of the problem.)

We had the year 1929. Sure, quite none of us lived it, but we don't seem to have learned the lesson, we did even worse with our new and sophisticated economic systems...

I can't think of bad habits, only positive ones; plenty of them!

(Maybe it's because I don't use a poor language?)

Is it really that natural to receive congrats from 99% of really unknown people?

[Internets, where are you taking us to? (And do we really want this?)]

taxi.

Compare all costs, and you'll land there...

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First of all we would have not to kill the not yet born ones. This would be the very first step necessary.

The next step necessary would be not to help to kill the old ones.

Currently we have no real respect neither for the not born ones, nor for old ones.

In other words: currently we still (kind of) hate life.

How 'old' is internet itself? Not more than the mentioned 'few' years.

Really important (and great) things grow slowly and die slowly.

All of you high karma folks around:

'Karma' is a quite recent invention, in fact it dates only a few years back. Everything growing so fast is always exposed to dissolve in even less time...

The language/culture influences quite a bit.

I know this quite well, because I grew up with a mother language quite different from my current language (both are not English), so learning other languages (preferably really different from your mother tongue) is always a mind opener.

I made this experience: while slowly growing into my 2nd language/culture, I extended my horizon, without loosing what I learned so far. So, it's not that I'm now inside my 2nd language, and lost my 1st experience/capabilities, but: my horizon is widened, I'm more logic and more flexible in both languages, and in my whole thinking process.

BTW, I never explicitly think in the words of my human language, words may accompany the thinking process, but thinking is so complex and fast, that you would not be able to follow directly; it mostly 'happens'...

Sorry, but this is already sophistication (in the archaic sense).

All things that happen must have a cause.

Even Big Bang had its Cause. And since the exact definition of God is: "The only one not caused by anything, but simply 'cause' of Itself", there's no escape here...

There are simply too many bad (really bad) things growing exponentially in our current times.

(Nobody wants to hear it, but it will come: we all will be poor within the next few years. That is, the small world-wide percentage of still-rich-ones will all go away...)

So, the whole planet will have a 'reboot', and since a reboot starts from 0, there will be an exponential growth of wealth for everybody!

Now, the above is either foolish or prophetic...

Side note:

Everybody telling you that there is a solution for the current world-wide financial crisis is simply a non-expert.

There has never been a situation like the current one in history:

The Big Failing of Communism is already past. The Big Failing of Capitalism is currently happening.

You rich ones should prepare...

P.S. You don't need to believe me, you will simply see it happening soon...

(There was a message hidden in there!)

To not believe in afterlife, you explicitly have to not believe it, so even the denying of afterlife is based on a (negative) faith.

Atheists don't seem aware of being their position a simple negative faith response to a positive faith.

Nice and fine, but here in Europe, in times of satellites, you might sit in another country as your ISP, so the actual location might differ quite a bit.

P.S. In case you are atheist: if you can scientifically prove that Eternal Paradise does not exist, I'll be glad (or so) to hear from you!

(Side note: the current situation on our Planet is still that much more than 50% of currently living souls actually do believe in God/Good/Heaven/Paradise; and the already gone ones, actually already know exactly!)

Don't call it Karma.

Call it with its real name: Democratic Dictatorship.

I prefer Eternal Paradise to some other decade on this violent Planet.

All homosexual marriages are sterile.

Some heterosexual marriages are sterile, too.

In my country, children are (currently!) really fortunate: they are guaranteed to have a mother and a father (yes, I know already your objections), and, as psychology is able to demonstrate, this is still the sanest and most harmonic way to grow children.

Why do we always exclude children from this reasoning?

It seems I need to explain better:

Nature decided that so called "gays" (an artificial term, created in our modern times) can't procreate, so if you would make an island for them, good old Nature would answer with extinction...

(I think Nature is really discriminating here. Someone should sue It.)

This kind of problems arise when people decide to change what Nature decided to be a Constant...

You ask seriously?

Then you should stop programming and start hacking (in the spare time of your day job).

Seriously: what exactly do you expect from the only 2 languages left with exactly no fun?!

Only think of this:

Our personal thinking is never 'Open Source', we always keep some more-or-less decisive part secret (read: protected!), and this for good reasons.

To open-source everything would be very similar to showing yourself naked everywhere...

But I agree that commonly used libraries should be open source (the ones I use are all open source).

Do they? Mature C code: yes. Modern one: no, many times affected by using very bad algorithms...

This is not really surprising: they already did so some couple thousands year back in history.

Side note, if you don't believe it: all cultures in past had the vision of a perfect world in the beginning of human history, and a continuous growth of evil since then.

Only a few centuries back, some humans invented the "homo sapiens" theory...

Before you fall in love, make sure to hear some opposite opinion, like this one:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/9555f5757e...

This is quite surprising:

I'm actually WHITE. Now, we: the white men, have considered darker colors nothing else than lower down the intelligence scale for hundreds of years...

BUT: if someone (like me), just out of curiosity, takes the opposite approach (that is, considering darker-than-white colored people superior in some aspect(!) to us (the REAL minority on BROWN/DARK earth)), that only fact seems to give WHITE people all rights to instantly down-vote such an heretic opinion.

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on YOU, WHITE ONES!!!

Simply train yourself to abstain from something.

It can be very simple and small things, the only important point is to make it a habit.

There is no better way (all other things suggested can help, but if you are not able to do the above, nothing will save you...).

He is a very clever boy: since he doesn't stem from a white culture, but (quite) directly from an african one, he is able to capture nuances that practically no white man is able to see/feel/recognize.

He is really clever, in many more than one senses, and this is what US currently really needs...

The real question is: what are you disposed to do / give up just for convenience?

Both MS and Google are all after that (so human) fact.