Terrorist...

[TheBlizzard]

Do we lock down all the borders and turn the US into a militarized state because we have had a couple of incidents?
Its in the future. Maybe not in our lifetime but it will happen eventually.

[StealthGST]

The terrorists are a bunch of cowards who are trying to get the upper hand by using pussy tactics... that, sadly... work.

Guerilla warfare works... look at Vietnam.

[Onefast99gsx]

Yeah Guerilla warfare works but we can't do that anymore. Our soldiers would go to jail for war crimes. It's B.S. It's like the war in Iraq really isn't a war. We're just playing defense over there. Now dropping a 1 megaton bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, THAT was war.

Craig- I totally agree. I also think in the future, perhaps far into it. We will have some sort of mandatory tracking system, personal barcodes tatooed-like or some embedded device for tracking. How something like this would get rolled out into society i don't know. Something like this was actually predicted to happen. Maybe not in our lifetime but somebodies. The technology is there, NOW. Heck, my cat has a little chip in her if she ever gets lost. It's not satellite tracking but i'm sure that's possible with something else out there.

[xluciusx]

Yeah something like that would be a huge blow to "personal freedom" but I mean at least in the case of crimes it would pretty much take care of everything. I mean how are you ever going to commit a crime if its possible to always know where a person is.

[LightningGSX]

Personally, I would love to be the first to say this, people need to realize that their religious beliefs are a bit outdated. You know like 2000 or more years. I don't believe in god, I don't follow any religion and I think the world would be a better place if people would just move on and let the old religions die. Yes religion has in the past done some good for the world, but it has also been holding back science for thousands of years as well as giving crazy people "reasons" to kill other people.
Religions themselves aren't the problem, its mans' screwed up interpretations of those religions that are the issue.

Other than that, I totally agree with you, for many years now, I've been trying to convince people religion has held back society and technology myself.

Reminds me of a quote by one of my favorite authors, Nobel winning physicist Steven Weinberg -
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

[xluciusx]

Religions themselves aren't the problem, its mans' screwed up interpretations of those religions that are the issue.

Other than that, I totally agree with you, for many years now, I've been trying to convince people religion has held back society and technology myself.

Reminds me of a quote by one of my favorite authors, Nobel winning physicist Steven Weinberg -
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

Yeah thats exactly how I feel. I mean there are people out there who can just do their thing and not affect anyone else. Then there are the people who think everyone else needs to know all about THEIR religion and how great it is. And then there are these f-ed up radicals, in EVERY religion I might add, who think anyone not in their religion needs to die.

People need to get a damn grip on reality. BTW that quote dominates. I'm glad there are some others out there that see things the same way as me.

[LightningGSX]

Speaking of this, Einstein is a prime example.He could have pushed science so much further before his death, but his religion conflicted with new theories of quantum mechanics and clearly led him down the wrong path.If there are any physics fans in here, you may know of the his "cosmological constant", which is now known as "Einsteins Greatest Blunder", IMO his greatest blunder was his belief in god.

[Onefast99gsx]

And what were his beliefs in God?

[LightningGSX]

And what were his beliefs in God?
Same as most other religious people

[xluciusx]

Yeah that stupid god doesn't play dice stuff...its amazing that someone as advanced as him would even stop to consider religion.