If Your Thinking of Moving to NH (Nashua, Keene: houses, transfer)
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People moving from MA to NH don't concern me that much. MA is fairly well run for a heavily populated place. It is that population density that contributes to it being so different from New Hampshire. I believe there is a social bond between people from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. CT people moving to New Hampshire worries me though. CT is so screwed up politically and socially that I believe even those people from CT who disagree with its current conditions are psychologically contaminated by it. It is that social contamination and exposure that is a risk to New Hampshire. CT is also influenced by New York which is bad in and of itself.
I second your comments LeviDunn about the NH DMV. I can't even remember much about the process of turning in my MA license for my first NH license. There was no stress, no struggle, not even a wait. It was one of the easiest interactions with government I have ever experienced. I made the exchange in the Salem DMV office and it entailed entering the building and talking to a woman behind the counter.
A social bond between NH and MA? I don't think so, unless maybe you're talking about southern NH. And I'd be very concerned about transplants from MA or CT moving here and increasing that population density, bringing higher taxes, more development, more traffic, etc. Then there truly won't be any difference between NH and MA.
As for the DMV, my only complaint is they closed a bunch of their satellite offices a few years ago, including the 3 offices closest to me. That could have been better thought out. And, of course, that I don't look like a supermodel in my license photo.
If you missed the point , then there is nothing I can do to help you.
I get your point loud and clear. I's just invalid. There is an epistemology to a religion. There is no epistemology to human rights or social theory or science. You can have the fervor of a religion but that doesn't make it a religion.
If you're gay, that's not a religion. Evolution is a scientific theory, poles apart from religion. Feminism is a social movement, not a religion. Gun control is as much a religion as gun advocacy, which neither are. Socialism is as much a religion as Capitalism which neither are. Atheism can be construed to be a religion in itself but is as valid as any Deity-based creed.
If you either purposely or accidentally confuse religion with events around you just so you can disparage a particular thought you don't like, then there is nothing I can do to help you.
I get your point loud and clear. I's just invalid. There is an epistemology to a religion. There is no epistemology to human rights or social theory or science. You can have the fervor of a religion but that doesn't make it a religion.
If you're gay, that's not a religion. Evolution is a scientific theory, poles apart from religion. Feminism is a social movement, not a religion. Gun control is as much a religion as gun advocacy, which neither are. Socialism is as much a religion as Capitalism which neither are. Atheism can be construed to be a religion in itself but is as valid as any Deity-based creed.
If you either purposely or accidentally confuse religion with events around you just so you can disparage a particular thought you don't like, then there is nothing I can do to help you.
Wrong on all counts, religion at it's essence is a belief system, all of what I mentioned are belief systems and belief systems are being shoved down your throat every day
OED defines religion as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power
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Originally Posted by CrazyDave
Wrong on all counts, religion at it's essence is a belief system, all of what I mentioned are belief systems and belief systems are being shoved down your throat every day
Even if we agree that all religions are "sacred belief systems", this does not mean that every belief system is a religion.
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Originally Posted by Louiggi
New Hampshire is the second least church going state in the union. By and large, to whom you pray, or if you pray, in the way you pray, or not pray, believe or non believe, is no one else's business.
I don't have a problem if my neighbors have a religion or not, but I moved here from the Midwest in part because I was tired of my church-going neighbors attitudes towards anybody who didn't attend the same church they did, and the pressure from coworkers to join them in "bible study" (management all attended the same church, so complaining was a CLM).
OED defines religion as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, mandatory element of supernatural
And there's another reason to like New Hampshire -- you can disagree with your coworkers and neighbors and some random dude in the bar about a belief system (not all belief systems are religions, check your dictionary!) and not suffer a social or career cost.
I had an extensive argument in the back room of a tavern in Manchester with a French-Canadian about whether Palo firewalls were better than Fortinet (definitely a belief system, but no supernatural element, so not a religion) and never felt threatened or that his strongly opposing political views resulted in a bad attitude.
Plus our maple syrup is better than Vermont's (okay, that might be a religion).
Went to the NH DMV today for my REAL ID - drove there and back in less than an hour! Woo hoo! (was expecting at least a 2 hour wait....)
Do you know how lucky that is? In Ma it can take forever! Though in Ma you dont have to have a real ID, you can get a vanilla flavored dl without as much of a hassle.
Went to the NH DMV today for my REAL ID - drove there and back in less than an hour! Woo hoo! (was expecting at least a 2 hour wait....)
FYI - I went to the Nashua DMV.
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OED defines religion as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power
OED defines religion as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, mandatory element of supernatural
