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In an Interview with David Frost on November 21st, 1995 (Talking With Frost, PBS) the following exchange apparently occured.
Frost: Do you believe in the Sermon on the Mount?
Gates: I don't. I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in. There's a lot of merit in the moral aspects of religion. I think it can have a very, very positive impact.
Frost: I sometimes say to people, do you believe there is a god, or do you know there is a god? And, you'd say you don't know?
Gates: In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
Gates was also quoted as saying "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
And in a January, 1996 profile in Time magazine -
Walter Issacson: Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul?
Bill Gates: I don't have any evidence on that.
Originally posted by ladyinlove84
Why is it that you have to pay to survive on a planet you were born on?
Water is marketed! You work 5 days every week only resting two days just so that you can eat and have shelter. Almost for your whole life expectancy. You can’t get retirement benefits until you reach 65 years old.
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Well I would have read that if my eyes weren't so strained by trying to figure out your ideas.
Posting in paragraphs will give you a much better response. It is far easier to read and reply to something that's NOT one complete sentence.
~Keeper
Originally posted by ladyinlove84
The Roman Catholic Church has more money than all the nations put together but yet there are still homeless and starving people around the world. Something is so not right about that.
[edit on 28-4-2009 by ladyinlove84]
Originally posted by ladyinlove84
Why is it that you have to pay to survive on a planet you were born on? Water is marketed! You work 5 days every week only resting two days just so that you can eat and have shelter. Almost for your whole life expectancy. You can’t get retirement benefits until you reach 65 years old.
Something is not right. Humanity in reality is a SIMS scenario. Are you happy with that? We are living in a feudal system. There are really only two classes in society the elite corporations and the working class. Ruling by making us pay our taxes. If we don’t we risk the chance of losing our shelter even our freedom. We shouldn't have to live like this!
Society has left people in position of power for too long. We've let politicians make decisions for us hoping they would make the right ones, when apparently it isn't working. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, is supposedly Catholic. He could end hunger tomorrow with a phone call. He could easily call he’s billionaire buddies and say “hey how about we put together and end world hunger and provide homes for all of humanity.” He could say “Do we really need these 50 million dollar homes and 1 million dollar cars.” He definitely needs to call Oprah and tell her “instead of giving away cars how about take that money and feed the homeless” He needs to call the millionaires Madonna and Angelina and ask “Why did you only save one child when all the children were starving? But he won’t. His buddies won’t. They won’t jeopardize there power over society. The Elite will just donate a few millions to charity but that's for tax purposes. They are no better than a person giving a $1 to a homeless person even though they have hundreds/thousands in the bank.
The Roman Catholic Church has more money than all the nations put together but yet there are still homeless and starving people around the world. Something is so not right about that. Why is it we live in a society were the highest profession is an entertainer? The more entertaining they are the more their paid? HELL if Leonardo is such a humanitarian how about he gets the rest of the celebrities to end the homeless and starving problem. But he won’t. Come on. The elite need them to keep us slaves happy. Its sickening how your own kind ( the human race) can let you die because they have no more paper with the previous rulers.
The little grey bastards could have just taken over the world but they even had respect enough not to violate our free will. They met with the leaders of the world and the governments invited them in with free and open arms. Just so they could have advanced technology and power. Our own kind sold us out. The government bailed out the corporations not the citizens. We need to fight this. We collectively need to help to awaken people. We make this reality. Washington, D.C is only a few square miles. It is made up of the republic of Georgia, California, Texas, Florida, and etc. We need to say "NO MORE." You need to fix this mess you put us into and tell the whole nation. We need to take away their power. The elite won't just give it away they hand it down to their children and relatives and the cycle begins again with every generation. Look up the presidents' relation to each other. Most of them are related: We've been manipulated into a monarchy and most citizens don't even realize it. The last election spent millions on TV ADS and cardboard signs. YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD OF HAD FOOD! Something is not right! WAKE UP. The best slaves are the ones who think they are free.
[edit on 28-4-2009 by ladyinlove84]
Originally posted by alienesque
Originally posted by ladyinlove84
[edit on 28-4-2009 by ladyinlove84]
people have always had to 'pay' to survive...every animal does..every plant does...every living thing on this planet spends large parts..or even 100%..of its time every day doing the things it needs to survive...we are no different.
Originally posted by ladyinlove84
The pope commissioned a 1 billion dollar telescope to search for miracles.
www.thedailymash.co.uk...&-technology/vatican-to-buld-huge-telescope-in-hunt-for-jesus-20071001436/
The Roman Catholic Church has a vault with priceless artifacts that holds historical value. Are you really believing that they don't have much wealth? It's certainly your choice.
Originally posted by ladyinlove84
The pope commissioned a 1 billion dollar telescope to search for miracles.
www.thedailymash.co.uk...&-technology/vatican-to-buld-huge-telescope-in-hunt-for-jesus-20071001436/
The Roman Catholic Church has a vault with priceless artifacts that holds historical value. Are you really believing that they don't have much wealth? It's certainly your choice.
Vatican astronomer Monsignor Umberto Facci said: "The exact whereabouts of Jesus remains one of the final mysteries of science.
"Over the years he has been spotted in Orion, Ursa Major and the Horsehead Nebula, as well as numerous chapatis and tortillas.
"With this gigantic viewing machine we can chase him all over the heavens until he gets tired and gives up."
NEW York was flung into a state of panic yesterday as thousands of people watched an 80 foot-high gorilla climb the Empire State Building