Re: funny creationsist

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:15:17 GMT,
NashtOn <nana@xxxxx> wrote:
> chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Stile4aly wrote:
>>
>>>wf3hnew@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:05:32 GMT, NashtOn <nana@xxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>evilgeniusabroad wrot
>>>>>The status quo doesn't want people to have inner peace.
>>>>>
>>>>>They want the kind of peace that can only accompany consumption.
>>>>>
>>>>>Nicola
>>>>
>>>>what's wrong with consumption?
>>>
>>>Well, between the holes in the lungs and the coughing up blood, I'd say
>>>consumption is a real problem. Also, it's evolved drug-resistance
>>>(apparantly because it doesn't want you to have inner piece).
>>
>>
>> And anyway, you are mixing up two distinct things. Holes in the lungs
>> are fine. Once you get to coughing up blood, though, then you're
>> talking about *conspicuous consumption*, and that's tacky.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> I imagine both you and your wife are working to make ends meet.
> I imagine your credit cards are maxed out.
> I imagine you still can't understand why you feel that emptiness inside.

You do a lot of imagining.

>
> And what's tacky is your denial that consumption is behind many ills of
> mankind, from pollution, to bankruptcies to the degeneration of our society.

Can you provide some evidence that society is actually degenerating?
Degenerating from what precisely? An era when the work week was 80 hours or
more? When infant mortality rates were enormous? Where the average
lifespan was less than fifty years? Where diseases could sweep through
populations, reducing them by a third? Where most people were indentured
laborers? Where most people were illiterate? Where kings, princes and
emperors ruled by divine decree? Where every manner of torture and
humiliation was put upon those whose religious or political beliefs were
considered unacceptable by the powers of the day? Where being a member of
the wrong ethnic group or skin color could mean slavery, harassment and even
murder? Where pious politicians could sit on tons of grain and let a
country literally starve almost to death? Where the peoples of two entire
continents were victims of genocide, disease, enslavement and
marginalization at the hands of great Christian powers?

Ah yes, the good ol' days.

>
> But go ahead and deny it. You guys are really good at denying things.

And you're really good at simply making things up?

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