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Comment on A Mormon No More by Eshu

Eshu — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:44:26 +0000

Also Christine, I don’t appreciate the veiled threat. What you said amounts to “You’re wrong and someday you’re gonna pay for it!”. Why do you take this attitude? We shouldn’t have to agree on everything and if we don’t, it would be more worthwhile to discuss why we disagree than to sling patronising threats.

Comment on A Mormon No More by Eshu

Eshu — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:40:10 +0000

Hi Christine,

Thanks for commenting. I prefer to say we’re being enigmatic. :-)

What do you hope your prayers will achieve? How do you think prayers achieve this?

Comment on A Mormon No More by christine moore

christine moore — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:26:02 +0000

i noticed no one has a face. Is that because you are hiding? Someday when you are gone and need to face our creator you will not be able to hide. My prayers are with you and your parents.

Comment on Regulation Of Herbal Medicine by Eshu

Eshu — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:17:52 +0000

chris,

Something doesn’t have to be perfect to be worth doing. It has to be better than the alternatives.

I’m suggesting that state regulation is better than no regulation.

What an alleged medicine contains or whether it is also a “food” is not relevant to how its safety and effectiveness is judged. I am curious why some people think certain medicine should have special exemption from certain kinds of testing.

Comment on Religion Causing Offence by My morning with the Pentecostals « Angry Flat Cap

My morning with the Pentecostals « Angry Flat Cap — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:58:28 +0000

[...] and discussion. Whereas some religious organisations brazenly call non-believers fools on railway posters, one atheist slogan retorted, far more tentatively, that there probably isn’t a God. I’m open [...]

Comment on Regulation Of Herbal Medicine by chris

chris — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:28:58 +0000

The question you have to ask is whether State Regulation ensures safety? There are plenty of cases whereby a SR practitioner is found guilty of malpractise. The evidence for the lack of safety of herbal medicines cannot be based on a handful of cases, some of which are not conclusive, a number of which use non-traditional herbal medicines ie standardised extracts. If pharmaceutical drugs were judged the same they would have been illegal a long time ago.
Herbal medicines cannot be judged by the same rule as pharmaceutical drugs, many are also foods and we all know that foods can also contain ‘dangerous’ chemicals.

Comment on About by Eshu

Eshu — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:06:33 +0000

Jon,
I’ve emailed you at the address you gave me. I hope we can continue to discuss things there.

Comment on About by Jon

Jon — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:46:35 +0000

Oh, I’m sorry for going off subject. I got a little into it and started going. But what do you mean again? And I do hope you continue to talk about this with me over email.

Comment on Contrasting Sikhism by Eshu

Eshu — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:34:33 +0000

Jon,

How do you think we got here. How did the earth begin?

OK, as you changed the subject yet again, I think it’s time to close this thread and continue the discussion via email.

Comment on Contrasting Sikhism by Jon

Jon — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:25:12 +0000

Just goes to show (again) – religion is stupid.

If you have no religion, there’s no purpose in life. I guess we all just magically appeared and do whatever we want until we die and then we’re just gone. A world without religion is a world with chaos. Everyone would be doing whatever whenever if they had nothing to live by. Why follow law? If we’re just going to end up in a grave with nothing, why not just have fun while we can? Religion fixes this by giving us purpose.