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Old 10-20-2005, 10:12 AM   #7
Troubleshooter
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Originally Posted by BigV
capn, you said it three sentences what I wanted to say in three pages. I like yours better now. Well put.
The only problem is that I don't belive it to be true.

The people that blow themselves up do it because their religion says it's the thing to do, not because it makes any form of sense outside of that framework.

Without the fervent belief that their ephemeral little soul was in jeopardy or that they get the virgins and the grapes and no women when they go to heaven they would have a much more shallow pool of motivation to draw from.
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