There's no limit to the loads of bull-crap that christian off-shoots like Christian Science can come out with.Originally Posted by RawSugar
The main stream churches aren't much better. Will the western world ever stop explaining the cosmos and natural law through a mixed version of myth, legend and history attaching to a relatively obscure nation i.e. the bible?
Without a doubt human kind will never prosper until all religions are dumped except, perhaps, Buddhism -but then again it's not actually a religion as it does not claim (like muslims and chritians) to be the 'only way'.
The Christian Science Monitor is not part of the religious right. While It is a newspaper published by The Christian Science church, it is far from a rag. This newspaper's contributors are often teachers, non-profit workers, diplomats who do not want their name used, and people who are actually residing in the area they write about. In certain areas like Latin America the monitor has some of the best sources for information, and it is recommended for students of this area. The CSM has been the recipient of 7 Pulitzer prizes, the most recent in 2002. Suggest you go to its on-line site and look for yourselves,
http://www.csmonitor.com/
"America is very famous. They control the world."
The sad thing is that most of the nationals of that large country either mistakenly believe it or would like it to be so!
Humm... jealous ?
Wesley
All the Best!
Wes
Got it in one! And Americans actually believe that the world should be eternally grateful to them for such arrogant interference.
To hear these comments from a citizen of Vietnam or Iraq might givbe me pause. To hear them from an Englishman is laughable. American attitudes towards the world are vastly less patronizing than what was inbred in English colonialism. The 'white man's burden' is an English concept, and resulted in the humiliation and subjugation of populations and resources everywhere the sun shone. It's withered empire drew and misdrew the maps of the world leading to much of the civil strife and sectarian violence which dominates today's geopolitical landscape--everything from Idi Amin to Israel.
And all this from a country which hasn't produced a useful item on it's own since the steam engine, which glories in its own feudal past, which regards its successors on the world stage with niggling public school arrogance, and which can't get a settee properly placed on the veranda without the help of a 40-year-old brown man called "boy".
Some saw the movie 28 Days Later as a horror film. Others as a utopian fantasy. Me? I love everybody.
Really? I can think of several useful items that you probably use that were invented by Britons, including toilet paper and Viagra.
Dr Gill Samuels headed the research team at Pfizer pharmaceutical and made the breakthrough in discovering the role of the chemical, sildenafil citrate, in the anatomy of male sexual preformance. Sildenafil citrate already had a medical role in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension.
She can be credited with the discovery of this additonal property of sildenafil citrate, but only as part of the overall team that 'invented viagra'. Pfizer was founded in the US and has it's corporate headquarters in the US.
"Official" toilet paper - that is, paper which was produced specifically for the purpose - dates back at least to the late 14th Century, when Chinese emperors ordered it in 2-foot x 3-foot sheets. I suppose the English may have come up with the same idea a few centuries later--stranger things have happened--and produced it in rolls resembling papyrus scrolls--another british invention, I suppose? Clever as monkeys, those English.
In our age, Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857. His new toilet paper was composed of flat sheets. Before Gayetty's invention, people tore pages out of mail order catalogs - before catalogs were common, leaves were used. Unfortunately, Gayetty's invention failed. Was Gayetty English? Possibly. Walter Alcock (of Great Britain) later developed toilet paper on a roll (instead of in flat sheets). Again, the invention failed. I guess the English are too married to the past to accept such a useful invention. The English invented TP on a roll--I give you that. Then failed to use it.
In 1867, Thomas, Edward and Clarence Scott (brothers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) were successful at marketing toilet paper that consisted of a small roll of perforated paper . They sold their new toilet paper from a push cart - this was the beginning of the Scott Paper Company.
In 1942, (yes that's NINETEEN-forty-two) St. Andrew's Paper Mill in Great Britain introduced two-ply toilet paper, another stunning achievement, and worthy of a hearty chorus of Rule Brittania.
All right, I grant you toilet paper, but Peter Dunn and Albert Wood (both employees of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals at the Pfizer run research laboratories in Kent , England) are named as the inventors of the process by which Viagra was created. Their names appeared on an application by Pfizer to patent (WOWO9849166A1) the manufacturing process of Viagra or Sildenafil Citrate.
Other British inventions - waterproof fabric (Charles MacIntosh and Thomas Hancock in the 1820s), radar (given to the US free as part of the wartime Lend-Lease arrangements), polyester (John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson, 1940s). penicillin, and the thermos flask.
Interesting to see an American engaging in Brit-bashing after all the complaints about America-bashing on this board.
Interestingly, the idea of The White Man's Burden, in terms of Rudyard Kipling's poem, refers not to the UK but to the USA's conquest of The Philippines. "Although Kipling's poem mixed exhortation to empire with sober warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States latched onto the phrase "white man's burden" as a characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise." (Wikipedia).
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