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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    I've honestly never seen someone more incapable of debate than you. Like playing checkers with a pigeon.
    This is where all your cut and paste google theories fall down. You cherry pick a few bits that might fit your haphazard beliefs, then ignore the rest. That is why you think you are playing a game, but all you are doing is proving the old axiom that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The depth of your intellect is similar to a very shallow puddle of contaminated rainwater.

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    Hans Roslings view on world population


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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    Hans Roslings view on world population

    I haveen a big fan of Professor Rosling for many years. He is more than just a statistician. He has great knowledge, supplemented by huge understanding of how the real world works. Most importantly, he is a great explainer and educator. We can follow his belief system more easily because of his methods and his obvious passion for the subjects that really matter today.

    Unfortunately the world we occupy is brimming with thick misogynists and racists who think they know better.

    Rosling understands this and has a way of explain things that really matter, in a way that those people might eventually understand. For that to happen, those educationally poor people would have to let go of the idea that women are lesser mortals, and that educating the poor is the best way forward, and black lives do matter, but only in the world of morale sapping poverty.

    Well paid celebrities and sports people need to understand the difference.

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    Having pets not kids robs us of 'humanity': pope

    Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis risked the ire of the world's childless dog and cat owners Wednesday, suggesting people who substitute pets for kids exhibit "a certain selfishness".


    Speaking on parenthood during a general audience at the Vatican, Francis lamented that pets "sometimes take the place of children" in society.


    "Today... we see a form of selfishness," said the pope. "We see that some people do not want to have a child.


    "Sometimes they have one, and that's it, but they have dogs and cats that take the place of children. This may make people laugh but it is a reality."


    The practice, said the head of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics, "is a denial of fatherhood and motherhood and diminishes us, takes away our humanity".


    Thus, "civilisation grows old without humanity because we lose the richness of fatherhood and motherhood, and it is the country that suffers", the pontiff said at the Paul VI Hall.


    Francis has been photographed petting dogs, allowed a baby lamb to be draped over his shoulders during Epiphany in 2014 and even petted a tiger and a baby panther.


    But while his predecessor, Benedict XVI, was a cat lover, Francis is not known to have a pet at his Vatican residence.


    In 2014, Francis told Il Messaggero daily that having pets instead of children was "another phenomenon of cultural degradation", and that emotional relationships with pets was "easier" than the "complex" relationship between parents and children.


    On Wednesday, while inviting couples who are unable to have children for biological reasons to consider adoption, he urged potential parents "not to be afraid" in embarking on parenthood.


    "Having a child is always a risk, but there is more risk in not having a child, in denying paternity," he said.


    The Argentine pontiff has in the past denounced the "demographic winter", or falling birth rates in the developed world.


    Earlier this year, he criticised modern society, in which career and money-making trumps building a family for many, calling such mentality "gangrene for society".

    Having pets not kids robs us of 'humanity': pope

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