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" Santa is all about pleasure and little girls and boys " - in Santa Claus: Naughty or Nice?

" In these temperatures, most electric motors will simply not bother to start! " - in Do Hybrid cars help the environment?

" people will be less likely to curb their diving habits " - in Do Hybrid cars help the environment?

" it may be the only way to re-connect citizens back with their country " - in A True Democracy

" the 'question-maker' could end up having more influence and power than elected politicians do today " - in A True Democracy

" The more specialized and comlex the laws, the easier they will be exploited by every form of organized crime. " - in Terrorists are Just Criminals

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" So, he started Scientology, precisely to show that at their core, all religions aret the same: rotten. " - in Scientology is a Valid Religion

" That is only true if they valued life above other things... " - in All Human Behaviour is Motived by Greed

" You have gotta love white papers! Good strategy, let the professional writer make your case. Of course, Tesla is directly competing against hybrid cars...and over the last decade, I have not read a single white paper whose sole purpose was not [...] " - in Do Hybrid cars help the environment?

" I guess that is what is referred to as 'free market democracy'.... But don't knock it! It is said that George Washington was elected because he gave away more barrels of booze than his opponent....really. I heard it on 'And now you know the rest [...] " - in A True Democracy

" Ryan, I do love your POV: please, do make more arguments! It will be good for all our egos! " - in Going Dutch

" You say that 'My thinking is that if you were to repeat something with exactly the same parameters, then the result will be the same'. I most vehemently disagree. There is a major difference between a statistical probability of an outcome, and an [...] " - in Free Will

" Forgive me - I've followed a part of the argument, then got lost....I guess 'my mind must be too highly trained'??? I am following Mike P.'s explanation: the demonstration that it is highly improbable that the 2 universes would continue to be [...] " - in Free Will

" I do agree, the ideas may seem mutually exclusinve. However, there is no concept of 'soul' or 'afterlife' in the OLD Testament - so we could go by the Old Testament God of Christians. Actually, the evlution (forgive the expression, if you are [...] " - in God Does Exist

" Not being Christian myself, I resorted to looking what the Bible says on the nature of the Christian God: he claims to ge a jealous and wrathful God who will, if it pleases him, send delusions onto men so that they shall be tricked and believe [...] " - in God Does Exist

" I agree with your general sentiment - however, this is a very narrowly defined debate! Granted, were you to take the proposition in isolation, your argument - and the exceptions you take with some of the comments posted - would be right on. BUT [...] " - in All Human Behaviour is Motived by Greed

" Very true. And most nations have existing laws for dealing with organized crime - even international criminal organizations. These should be quite sufficent - provided they were written well enough....but that is a different problem " - in Terrorists are Just Criminals