Given all the trouble in the world....

[Guest Kether]

I'd eradicate religion, promote elightenment and give people the strength to act on their conscience rather than thousands of years old doctrine.

[Guest]

QUOTE (Ian Cashman @ May 13 2004, 15:44)

...lets say for the sake of argument, you were personally given the task by aliens who were gonna destroy the earth if you didnt succeed. but if you did succeed, you would be given the reward of joining the 'interplanetary union'...

have you been drinking

 

on a serious note - exile all the bastards of this world to another planet. it worked for australia after all

[Guest]

I wouldn't know where to start.

 

It would be a major responsibilty if I / we were had the 'powers' to make the world a better place and if something were to go wrong and things fluctuated to worser situations, it would be in your hands !

 

Things are never as simple as you want them to be.

 

As others have said, this would be something that needs alot of time to think about !

[Phil B]

QUOTE (Ian Cashman @ May 13 2004, 15:57)

if an animal cant be cured then it gets put down.

the human race cannot be cured.

[Alex]

I'd make my world much better than this one, only with more blackjack and hookers.

[Aaron]

Wish I'd have thought of it, but Kether is right, religion is the cause of most of the trouble that we see in the world today. He's hit the nail on the head.

 

If everyone was enlightened, then maybe we also wouldnt have 3rd world countries, who are experiencing famine and disease ravaging their people as we would all be looking after each other, rather than ourselves.

[Louise]

is it religion thats the problem, or the people that take it to extremes?

 

i know me, my family, friends etc turn to religion when needed but dont go around killing each other and blame it on religion

[Aaron]

QUOTE (Louise @ May 13 2004, 18:06)

is it religion thats the problem, or the people that take it to extremes? i know me, my family, friends etc  turn to religion when needed but dont go around killing each other and blame it on religion

 

No but the Al-Qaeda do, all in the name of Islam. This is an exerpt of an al qaeda manual found in a members home in manchester

 

"These young men realized that an Islamic government would never

be established except by the bomb and rifle. Islam does not

coincide or make a truce with unbelief, but rather confronts it.

 

The confrontation that Islam calls for with these godless and

apostate regimes, does not know Socratic debates, Platonic ideals

nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of

bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction,

and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun.

 

The young came to prepare themselves for Jihad [holy war],

commanded by the majestic Allah's order in the holy Koran.

[Koranic verse:] "Against them make ready your strength to the

utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror

into (thehearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies, and

others besides whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know."

"

 

More can be found here

Edited May 13, 2004 by Aaron

[Guest Kether]

QUOTE (Louise @ May 13 2004, 18:06)

is it religion thats the problem, or the people that take it to extremes? i know me, my family, friends etc turn to religion when needed but dont go around killing each other and blame it on religion

If people were enlightened they wouldn't feel the need for religion. Of course there will always be nutters but there's nothing quite as powerful as a rallying cry than a religion and nothing that can inspire such immediate hatred as diamterically opposed views that can never be debated.

 

 

[Louise]

enlightened to what?

[Alex]

Religion is just plain dangerous. Left in the hands of the uneducated leads to attrocities.

[Guest Kether]

QUOTE (Louise @ May 13 2004, 18:17)

enlightened to what?

Enlightenment was a stage that the western civilisation went through during the 18th century where traditional beliefs were challenged by philosophy and reason.

 

It's also what Bhuddists aspire to, and they don't believe in Gods and are non-violent.

[Guest Kether]

QUOTE (Alex @ May 13 2004, 18:20)

Religion is just plain dangerous. Left in the hands of the uneducated leads to attrocities.

Exactly, Islam being a case in point.

 

Give a religion which in its main scripture states that this is your last chance or you all die to a load of savages and look what happens.

 

Although, the Christian fundamentalists that run the American Government aren't far behind.

[Ian Cashman]

But how would you eradicate religeon?

[Guest Kether]

QUOTE (Ian Cashman @ May 13 2004, 18:24)

But how would you eradicate religeon?

I thought in your hypothetical situation we had "the power".

 

If not, ethnic cleansing and book burning does it for me.

Edited May 13, 2004 by Kether