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I wonder if the next dominant lifeform on Earth will evolve from plastic eating bacteria... 🤔 😉 The most enlightened mind would describe it thusly...

No, it's not exactly what you said, but it is the language you used. It's never a problem, if it's not happening to you 'Mr Jack'. The unions don't have a target, they have an aim; to maintain, at least, or improve the rights of their workers. I wonder how many people would choose not to strike...

No, I'm talking about bin men, nurse's and farmer's; what arseholes are you talking about? And how do they function?

This is exactly the propaganda the tory government/fat cat's want you to swallow; they're targeting the poor old companies, who do their best to pay everyone a fair wage, by which they mean, it's unfair to take away my pastry chef, so the worker's can afford a packet of bourbon's. One day they'll understand the value of a bin man...

And round we go...

One day we'll find out...

I'd like to see a living wage for the essential workers, but that ain't gonna happen while you're alright Jack, with your big stick...

That has no bearing on Marxist analysis. Really, why not? Much like the American constitution, it made sense at the time and from his perspective... One day, a cave will seem like heaven and tomorrow we'll forget it's comfort...

We'd have to trust it first...

OK, let me try again, from the beginning; Clearly Marx recognised that religion teaches contentment "the opiate of the people" and suggested that is a bad thing, as in it insidiously undermines society and promotes apathy in the face of a government that feeds off them. I disagree with his interpretation of what contentment, and by extention religion, means to society; it's certainly no stretch to say "Contented people = peaceful people" and if we extend the drug analogy, some drugs are more insidious than other's; for instance, a drunken bloke slam's down his pint and says "right, you're going down" because he doesn't agree with a perfectly reasonable thought; meanwhile a stoned bloke says "na, your alright mate, you wanna toke". Bearing in mind, how the Russian revolution worked out; was it better before or after, and for whom?

What's God got to do with it? I'm an atheist, you don't need a God to understand religion.

Indeed, see above...

Indeed, which makes you so sure that your enemies don't exist, at least on an intellectual level...

Good business owner = got lucky. Bad business owner = got unlucky... How could an AI change the odds of delivering on a 50:50 bet?

It means, religion's not your enemy, "THEY" are...

"And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Rito.

Well, if you insist on snipping the sentence "to further clarify my position.", then I can only conclude, your misunderstandings are deliberate, in order to slip the punch/question perhaps...

And I was responding to yours, to further clarify my position.

What's more practical than a healthy state of mind? Whatever the circumstance, imaginary or otherwise; for instance, you find yourself in an intolerable situation, is it not practical to invoke an imaginary friend to make it a torlerable situation, until such times when a smile is possible? Even an inmate on death row, can find God/imaginary friend (according to a recent BBC documentary) and look forward to tomorrow, seems a lot healthier than plotting one's own death in a land of plenty...

The odds are, the house always win's, until they don't...

If we accept the limitations of our freedoms imposed on us by our own society, then we have to accept that we are all oppressed; from North Korea to Norway, but from Norway's POV, it's so easy to see the obvious oppression in North Korea, that it blinds them to their own and makes it acceptable to lay a portion of the blame on its people. Our culture teaches us everthing we need to fit in and especially how to "succeed", in that culture; in my culture (nominally atheist) success is excess, more food than we can eat, a bigger house than we need (too display to our rub in the face of our neighbour's and a big fence to stop those pesky economic migrant's from rummaging in our food filled bins. So, as an atheist, I think my culture would benefit from a bit of politics free religion. Tell that to the great one, Cassius Clay Also see above...

Rito...

Did you not choose your path?

If you haven't been hungry enough to eat from a bin, then I agree, communication is impossible. And you'll never understand how a God can grease your wheel's...