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Nick.      How many times have you heard:  Yeh,  it's not perfect, Yeh, it's not what it was intended to be but the good intentions are there.  For all our faults we're still the best choice that's available in the world, and so on ad-nauseum.       At what point did we leave the stance that '' In all issues one side is right and the other wrong.  ...

Luke, you miss Francisco's point.   Delete: for the greater good, and you are in there.

Mine works for me.  you're on your own.

Nick,   History is the mosaic of mistakes and discoveries.  You are abviously a student of both.  Too much ''Faith'', turn on the Jihad news.  Be an Enron employee.  Have a transmission problem. Vote for the ''Good'' guy.  Expect the right change.  There can never be too little faith.  At least with reason you can expect a justifiable return for ...

''Let me exempt from the judgement of reason the cookies I stole, or, the existance of god, and I will be a man of reason about all else.''   Satanism, Catholicism, Protestism, Judism, Budism, Islamists, Tiki-carvers,  all on the same playing field.,  all for the same reason,  to exempt, to deny, to justify.  Satanism at least seeks to accomodate ...

Confused?      Judge by the mind and the actions of the individual,   not by the genitalia.

Daron,  Trust your mind above all and keep on reading.

Capitalism, the unknown ideal.

Ron,  That would be relative to the individual.  For me, it was confirmation that I wasnt nuts.  That the reactions to situations I encountered wern''t wrong .  That someone, at some time, had been similar.  I suspect that it was the same revelation for the vast majority of her readers. I have never been the same since.  That was in 1968.  That ...