When you have the luxury of looking at someones life from the outside and also in the future... it can be said most people are not making the decisions that are in their best interest... but the truth most people at the time they make their desicions are infact thinking they are making the best desicion...
I never said business people are stupid, they are some of the smartest people... But usually making the most money means someone else is losing out... and there is such thing as legaly stealing... such as a company that lets say builds an oil well... the owners are investors, the project is run by a board... the board then starts using the well to produce oil... and the investors are getting a return on their investment, and they decide to create more oil wells... then a few years go by and the board starts selling all the equipment... so what happened was that investors gave this board money, they took it bought all this oil well equipment, and then sold it and put the money in some secret bank acount... its alot more complicated in court though usually it is about how the oil well doesnet fuction properly and its just not going to work... but wheres the money... no one knows... this is a true story btw
And i must agree with you that possibly another country will become the leaders of this project, using americans money lol.
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"Always respect the purity of battle. For only in the heart of combat are all pretenses of nobility and quality stripped away, replaced by survival and death."
You keep calling it a pandora's box... many things had worse labels when they came out... such as chain stores, franchises, and large corporations... all these were considered the anti-christ. Now its kinda hard to imagine a world without Mc Donalds or Bank of America. The main thing is that inteligent people have the equal power to do good or bad. Thats the thing about inteligence its the most powerful tool, thus comes the saying knowledge is power. I learned that from one of the smartest people i know. See human nature is very neutral to begin with... we are not considered good or bad, most humans just do whats in their best interest regardless of it being good or bad. Almost all other countries say Americans are greedy... yet in America we are trained to think we are not greedy, we call it rational human behavior... if someone is starving, and beging for food they will probably take any job giving them any money. Which comes to make you think why exactly is it written Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
at the base of the statue of liberty??? Obviously you can create a pretty cheap workforce with these kind of people... in the end you are taking advantage of these people... but thats the way the world works and has always worked.. you have a few very rich people and everyone else is usually very poor. Thats the way most economys work just because those with money usually have the power and want alot of it. Buissness people are heartless, you cant have emotion as a buissness person, for a buissness person's job is to make the most money possible and your not going to give away your "hard earned" money to just anyone for any reason.
So anyways back to the topic, this could actually be quite postive for an American economy. If we become the leaders in stem cell research we have created an industry which is what this country is lacking. We dont produce anything... and if we do we produce inferior products and sell them at the same price as the better ones. This bill that is being passed is crap most of the jobs being created are construction jobs... so the gov is hiering constr. comp. to fix/build roads and what not... who do you think is getting the jobs, ill tell you its once again the tired, the poor, the huddled masses and usually these are illegals that the boss says hey you want some money.. ok do this all day and youll get 50 bucks... and they will do a good job so they can get another 50 tomorrow. With an industry like stem cell research and other inovative technologies we can lead the world to a new age... but rebuilding what we have is just like hmmm i only have 500 bucks and i have two options... i can invest it and make it grow, or i can paint my house.
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"Always respect the purity of battle. For only in the heart of combat are all pretenses of nobility and quality stripped away, replaced by survival and death."
I dont really see how curing illnesses whatever it may be with stem cells is by any means playing less of a god than curing it by any other means... we can cure some forms of cancer now which years ago was impossible.. we can bring babies into this world that many years ago was also impossible (me being one of them) through cecarian. So by your term "playing god", which must be defined... i think it would be safe to say that whenever you change the natural course of life your are "playing god". Yet if God truly is all powerful he would not give us the insight in the first place or even allow this whole science to even exist...
If you are a beliver in God... Gods will IS. Its not really questionable... Because for someone who is all knowing and creator at the same time could not possibly create something without knowing its capabilities. In fact if you are all knowing you knowingly give the power to the creation to do your will... See which brings me to this point... all God creates is good.. so if he created humans knowingly giving us the insight to perform stem cell research... which is wholely out of curiosity.. (has that not been the case throughout humanity all the way back to adam and eve???) how could it be considered bad???
Infact i couldent have put it more perfectly than Al Pachino in "The Devil's Advocate" when he says god is a hypocryte that says "look but dont touch, touch but dont taste, taste but dont swallow" So in one hand God knowingly and willingly gives us the knowlege to to bring about medical wonders such as stem cell research... yet in the other hand he just wants us to be dumb, blind and happy with this knowledge?? I really dont understand that... And to confuse me even more in the gosples Jesus raises the dead, gives sight to the blind, makes the dumb speak and the deaf hear... and yet says "this and much more will you do" so really the pandora's box is not really in stem cell research... its in what bill mahr once put it... that jewish book of fairy tales.
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"Always respect the purity of battle. For only in the heart of combat are all pretenses of nobility and quality stripped away, replaced by survival and death."
Im glad this is the case... as far as surprised, im not so surprised. Right now Obama has over an 80% approval rating... now would be the time to push some of those more controvercial issues
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-Leoric of Khanduras, The Craft of War
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I never said business people are stupid, they are some of the smartest people... But usually making the most money means someone else is losing out... and there is such thing as legaly stealing... such as a company that lets say builds an oil well... the owners are investors, the project is run by a board... the board then starts using the well to produce oil... and the investors are getting a return on their investment, and they decide to create more oil wells... then a few years go by and the board starts selling all the equipment... so what happened was that investors gave this board money, they took it bought all this oil well equipment, and then sold it and put the money in some secret bank acount... its alot more complicated in court though usually it is about how the oil well doesnet fuction properly and its just not going to work... but wheres the money... no one knows... this is a true story btw
And i must agree with you that possibly another country will become the leaders of this project, using americans money lol.
-Leoric of Khanduras, The Craft of War
at the base of the statue of liberty??? Obviously you can create a pretty cheap workforce with these kind of people... in the end you are taking advantage of these people... but thats the way the world works and has always worked.. you have a few very rich people and everyone else is usually very poor. Thats the way most economys work just because those with money usually have the power and want alot of it. Buissness people are heartless, you cant have emotion as a buissness person, for a buissness person's job is to make the most money possible and your not going to give away your "hard earned" money to just anyone for any reason.
So anyways back to the topic, this could actually be quite postive for an American economy. If we become the leaders in stem cell research we have created an industry which is what this country is lacking. We dont produce anything... and if we do we produce inferior products and sell them at the same price as the better ones. This bill that is being passed is crap most of the jobs being created are construction jobs... so the gov is hiering constr. comp. to fix/build roads and what not... who do you think is getting the jobs, ill tell you its once again the tired, the poor, the huddled masses and usually these are illegals that the boss says hey you want some money.. ok do this all day and youll get 50 bucks... and they will do a good job so they can get another 50 tomorrow. With an industry like stem cell research and other inovative technologies we can lead the world to a new age... but rebuilding what we have is just like hmmm i only have 500 bucks and i have two options... i can invest it and make it grow, or i can paint my house.
-Leoric of Khanduras, The Craft of War
I dont really see how curing illnesses whatever it may be with stem cells is by any means playing less of a god than curing it by any other means... we can cure some forms of cancer now which years ago was impossible.. we can bring babies into this world that many years ago was also impossible (me being one of them) through cecarian. So by your term "playing god", which must be defined... i think it would be safe to say that whenever you change the natural course of life your are "playing god". Yet if God truly is all powerful he would not give us the insight in the first place or even allow this whole science to even exist...
If you are a beliver in God... Gods will IS. Its not really questionable... Because for someone who is all knowing and creator at the same time could not possibly create something without knowing its capabilities. In fact if you are all knowing you knowingly give the power to the creation to do your will... See which brings me to this point... all God creates is good.. so if he created humans knowingly giving us the insight to perform stem cell research... which is wholely out of curiosity.. (has that not been the case throughout humanity all the way back to adam and eve???) how could it be considered bad???
Infact i couldent have put it more perfectly than Al Pachino in "The Devil's Advocate" when he says god is a hypocryte that says "look but dont touch, touch but dont taste, taste but dont swallow" So in one hand God knowingly and willingly gives us the knowlege to to bring about medical wonders such as stem cell research... yet in the other hand he just wants us to be dumb, blind and happy with this knowledge?? I really dont understand that... And to confuse me even more in the gosples Jesus raises the dead, gives sight to the blind, makes the dumb speak and the deaf hear... and yet says "this and much more will you do" so really the pandora's box is not really in stem cell research... its in what bill mahr once put it... that jewish book of fairy tales.
-Leoric of Khanduras, The Craft of War
-Leoric of Khanduras, The Craft of War