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Phlem

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14. Some of us do. Not all of us.

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 16, 2014, 05:25 PM

Jun 2014

are we still killing each other over which faith is the best? Do we have socioeconomic problems where large sums of wealth are hoarded by the few? Do we decimate the least among us? Is ignorance bliss?

I rest my case.

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