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So what yer saying is; you don't fuck your sister? Anyway, it's probably a good thing that Iran is embracing Zoroastrianism to a degree, because as far as I know it isn't as soul-crushing as Revolutionary-Islam can be. At least, if you can stomach incest and leaving dead bodies in the sun for birds to devour.

Why would anyone play ball with a Costa Rican?

The duality of religion is that it does help some people. There are lessons in religions purposely told to make people better humans. There are more than just spiritual stories that are told; for instance the parables of planting seeds in soil and not dry sand, or building a house on a solid foundation. If people have the self-awareness enough to use their religion as a building block of their life, then they are on the right track. If they use it as the entire existence of their life, I believe they'd failed themselves. Objective morality can't exist without religion, right? Every single culture has the basis of it's moral code derived from some sort of religion. If there is no higher being that created a moral code, who is to say that murdering another human is immoral? You? Me? Who has that authority to mandate? And that is whole new bag of words to consider, if human morality is derived from a higher being, who is to say that the higher being exists? If it doesn't exist then it's just humans telling each other how to act. That is where faith comes into play. If every human being on earth feels that it is immoral to kill another human, where does that objective morality stem from? Is it a DNA memory? Is it an implanted feeling of a higher being?

I mean, if you're on a team then there's a good chance that when you die you're going to be wrong. Even atheists might be wrong as fuck. But there's certain things in religion that I understand the purpose for - explaining things that just couldn't be explained at the time & keeping a form of social order and morality. Nowadays, a lot of what couldn't be explained can be explained. And if you need stories and fables to explain to you what is good and bad... that's pretty concerning. And yeah there's a lot of stuff that still remains unexplained still. And a lot of it is interesting stuff to think about. And it can lead to interesting thoughts and discussion. But when you're considering things like: why are we here? how did we get here? what's our purpose in life? what happens when we die? ... they're all interesting thoughts. And they can lead to existential crises to some people if there aren't any answers. And I can certainly see the reason why people would want these answers and have certain beliefs... because it's comforting. But at the end of the day, we're not going to know any of the answers to any of this stuff either ever... or until we kick the bucket and see what the next stage is. Why are we here? I don't know... but also who cares? We are here, and we're going to keep being here until we stop being here. People don't need religion to be good people. And people would probably be better to each other if they didn't have to worry about people having religious differences. Life is short. For all we know, we've only got one life (and if we don't, we've only got one of this life) - so we should be making the most of this one life we have. Especially because life can be fucking shit a lot of the time. Religion gets in the way of people making the most of their lives and creates more shit times for a lot of people. And I think that's especially clear in Iran and the Middle East largely.

Provisional squad for the World Cup:

Dorsch is leaving, it's official already... Friedl should get enough playing time at Bremen next season; he was decent for us so far, and he'll probably become an established Bundesliga player in the future, but I don't think he'll ever really be Bayern-caliber.

Wasn´t he the Barcelona player sang once "Madrid cabrón, saluda el campeón" ? Anyway...

Ordered MotoGP tickets for Sepang in November as my Easter present today... Will look into Thailand ones too once they go on sale

@Dr. Gonzo