In a way there is a point here, but it points to the wrong place. While this reply is purely based on bible and what it has to say, I should say it is in no way incorrect, because if you do read the bible, and I mean the whole bible - or at least the pieces that matter the most -, and think about it all logically, you'll see this is so. (BTW, I have not read even 1% of bible, but I GET it).
The bible should not be accused of anything that is wrong. It is the abuse of bible that screws things up. You ever heard of pharse "guns don't kill people; people kill people"? In a way, that describes the situation: when we demand that guns should not be sold freely or that guns (or TV) are the reason of all killing and evil, we miss the point. It is us that make these things happen, not the tools.
Now, bible can give your basic enthusiastic abuser an Idea. It can make your die-hard religionist kill the other die-hard religionist. Fanatic religion of any sorts is really BAD. This happens in any religion, bible or not.
As far as I can see, you can't say that the bible made the priests do the killings or rapings or set up the inquisition. Or, well, you can say that, but the correct view is that these people completely misinterpreted the bible! Does the bible not say: thou shalt not kill? It also says that you should love others as much as you love your self.
All the evil in the world is in us people. Get that.
Yeah, not like the business with the damned SkyLab that almost crashed to peoples heads (I think it fell in part over Australia). And of course there was that uncredibly stable shuttle explosion the yankees had... I'd say Mir is pretty stable.
You should go back, say 5-6 years and find out how many accidents the Mir had then. I mean, what can you excpet from a space station that has been in service for well over 10 years.
Huh! There wouldn't be any Y2K problems anywhere in the west, US and other countries, then? I bet you wouldn't know how many Y2K problems there have been in the US, for example (well, I don't know either...). The Y2K problem was created just as much by the renowned western scientists as well, but these days the world just is such that where the West had resources to fix at least most of the problems (and thus diminish our fears) the Russians do not have the resources - it is not their computer scientists' fault.
I find such an attitude against Russian science a joke. I believe the Russians can do anything anyone else can, in science and others areas (oh, well, leading a goverment excused:)
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In a way there is a point here, but it points to the wrong place. While this reply is purely based on bible and what it has to say, I should say it is in no way incorrect, because if you do read the bible, and I mean the whole bible - or at least the pieces that matter the most -, and think about it all logically, you'll see this is so. (BTW, I have not read even 1% of bible, but I GET it).
The bible should not be accused of anything that is wrong. It is the abuse of bible that screws things up. You ever heard of pharse "guns don't kill people; people kill people"? In a way, that describes the situation: when we demand that guns should not be sold freely or that guns (or TV) are the reason of all killing and evil, we miss the point. It is us that make these things happen, not the tools.
Now, bible can give your basic enthusiastic abuser an Idea. It can make your die-hard religionist kill the other die-hard religionist. Fanatic religion of any sorts is really BAD. This happens in any religion, bible or not.
As far as I can see, you can't say that the bible made the priests do the killings or rapings or set up the inquisition. Or, well, you can say that, but the correct view is that these people completely misinterpreted the bible! Does the bible not say: thou shalt not kill? It also says that you should love others as much as you love your self.
All the evil in the world is in us people. Get that.
Yeah, not like the business with the damned SkyLab that almost crashed to peoples heads (I think it fell in part over Australia). And of course there was that uncredibly stable shuttle explosion the yankees had... I'd say Mir is pretty stable.
You should go back, say 5-6 years and find out how many accidents the Mir had then. I mean, what can you excpet from a space station that has been in service for well over 10 years.
Huh! There wouldn't be any Y2K problems anywhere in the west, US and other countries, then? I bet you wouldn't know how many Y2K problems there have been in the US, for example (well, I don't know either...). The Y2K problem was created just as much by the renowned western scientists as well, but these days the world just is such that where the West had resources to fix at least most of the problems (and thus diminish our fears) the Russians do not have the resources - it is not their computer scientists' fault.
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I find such an attitude against Russian science a joke. I believe the Russians can do anything anyone else can, in science and others areas (oh, well, leading a goverment excused