[s] flarewearer wrote on 16:13, 1st Mar 2005: the one and only reason they are taken to Old Firm matches is to stir up ridiculous sectarian hatred... [/i] Exactly right- the fans who sing 'Rule Britannia' and wave the Union Jack at Ibrox on Saturdays are just as guilty of anti-English feelings as th...
[s]bramble wrote on 21:00, 27th Feb 2005: ... to have it constantly shoved in your face isnt very nice.
The thoughts of many Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish after England's World Cup win, when compared with our own miserale efforts. And yes, we are just jealous.
Might I reccommend a website that may be interesting. It belongs to the Faith Movement, a dynamic yet firmly orthodox group of the Catholic faithful who seek, through the promotion of a "new synthesis of faith and reason", to disprove the oft-peddled myth that science has somehow 'disproved' the exi...
[s] joe wrote on 16:12, 8th Jan 2005: (note there have been responses to this that we live in a multiverse- in just one of every possible orientation of reality, hence it is unsurprising that one universe (ours) is like this. However belief in this idea is as much based on faith as the idea of an in...
[s] md25 wrote on 10:00, 8th Dec 2004: Religion and politics are neutral, it's the misuse of either as an excuse for misdeeds that's the real problem in my opinion. This is exactly it. Religion is something which is a tremendously powerful 'motivator of the masses' and it is therefore only natural t...
[s] David Bean wrote on 23:58, 6th Dec 2004: [i] "the Latin is quite right, I've checked." My apologies. I have just found out that although the replacement of 'a' with 'o' was the result of an etymological error made by the Humanists of the Renaissance, both variations are now considered 100% accur...
[s] David Bean wrote on 21:46, 6th Dec 2004: [i] The word 'country' means 'independent sovereign state'. Scotland is not one of these. The UK is. I'm afraid you're mistaken in your definition of 'country', Mr Bean. 'Country', according to the Collins English Dictionary, refers to "a territory distin...