Re: Believing in Divine Destiny is one of the pillars of faith, and, in accordance with this belief, everything in the universe is determined by God, the All-Mighty. While there are countless absolute evidences of Destiny, it may be sufficient to make some introductory remarks to demonstrate how important a place this pillar of faith has for the whole of creation.

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:33:58 -0800

Are you saying I just dreamed that Sumer, Ur, Egypt, Babylon, Rome, Sparta, Cathay, and the Indus Valley where civilization first developed and lasted for thousands of years (much longer than the U.S. which is the oldest existing democracy) were not democratic and pre-dated the scientific method?

Brent Meeker

Mark Peaty wrote:
> Dream on Brent ...
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> Regards
> Mark Peaty CDES
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> Brent Meeker wrote:
>> Klortho wrote:
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>>>> The other thing I do is check to what extent a person's speech and
>>>> writings support and affirm the four fundamental ingredients of
>>>> civilisation:
>>>> Compassion, democracy, ethics and scientific method. No civilisation can
>>>> survive without all four of these.
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>>> Talk about assertions without any evidence!
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>> Actually there's a lot of evidence that civilization developed and survived until recently without democracy or the scientific method.
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>> Brent Meeker
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