History not to be taught in our schools

[tec0]

Road rage or “strip jou m_er� while driving can be a mental condition or the cause of stress that allowed for temporary insanity. But if the condition is realised and not treated then the game changes and you can still be held accountable simply because you where diagnosed with the problem and you didn’t want to accept treatment for whatever personal reason.

However if you did accept treatment and the treatment was not working than the person giving the treatment must justify his or her Motive “but in South Africa road rage is still a touchy subject for our law makers." Normally you get charged with assault anyway so...

[adrianh]

Eish dude...It must be great to have all the answers.

I prefer to stick to "$hit happens - deal with it"

[tec0]

I prefer to stick to "$hit happens - deal with it"

Ah well with that I can agree.

And no I don’t have all the answers. If I did I would have been a Freemason with a nice new Lexus and a position of power at some large Mining group.

Peace

[Butch Hannan]

Who said the Freemasons had all the answers. Just remember that when people face great danger or imminent death they more often than not shout " Oh Lord please help me".
In those circumstances I doubt whether this is just a figure of speech.
Butch Hannan

[tec0]

It took a while but now we are on the same page. Yes people will scream those words probably out of desperation and hope that they would not suffer the coming events. How many of those people were rescued by let’s say “divine� intervention?

Now I will be honest with you. In modern times there was only 2 accounts that that I know off. Now that sounds wonderful but what about the millions of unanswered cries for help? Not to mention the horrible crimes that happen to those that cannot protect themselves.

See I don’t believe in “divinity� in the same way you do. Now that is not to say I don’t believe... It is just I know that it is every person from him or herself. Now in all probability I am wrong in saying that but the statement above reflects my experiences not yours.

It is because of my “personal� life-lessons that I say we need to ban history and religion because these systems are not being used correctly. I am not saying that religion and history is bad. I am saying that it being abused at this point in time. Now you may not agree with me but it doesn’t change the facts as shown in my previous posts.

[adrianh]

I'm in the process of reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I have also watched his documentary "Root of all Evil".

I agree with what he says.

To quote Douglas Adams who says: "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

You know tec0, I agree with you. Children are indoctinated from birth to believe in one story book. Yet they are also told that fairies don't exist and that the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" is a sure path to damnation. Children are told to take the story book at face value (this isn't actually quite true - they are told to blindly accept the interpretation suitable to the circumstance that the parent / teacher is trying to portray). it is said that it is ok to stone a woman to death and that gays are going to go to the big KFC in the sky, yet in another place it says that you shouldn't kill. Anyway, the little kids of Muslim parents are taught a different story and so are the kids of each faction. By the time the kids are 16 they are unable to make up their own minds due to 16 years of brainwashing. Another stunning quote is this: "All kids are the same, they then grow up to be black and white".

What puzzles me is how people can blindly accept a set of stories collated by Emperor Constantine as the only truth, a truth that has no relationship with science, history or even basic physics. Yet those same people do not seem to believe in fairies, ufo's or unicorns. Seems that indoctrination at a young age ingraines so deeply that one becomes willing to do absolutely anything in the name of that belief.

I see the entire issue like this: The fact that a group of people agree that a certain belief system works for them does not give them the right to impose that system on others. I also think that the fact that a group of people hold certain beliefs does not make them true by virtue of number of believers. Remember - The world is flat and the earth is the centre of the universe.

"The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)