User: Predator

Hi from Slough, Berkshire. Personally I love children, although I have none of my own. I really think it is so over-the-top to think about having a law which would allow any lone adult to be approached in this way. Talk about Big Brother is Watching You!! I can go and walk in the park any time I like, thank you. I would be very annoyed if someone tried to compromise my basic rights in this way.
I have to be careful what I say here, but I also like looking at children, in the park or indeed elsewhere. I love to observe them, watch them play, and listen to the things they say. They are so fascinating, and lovely. Of course, this is light years away from having any sexual interest in them, which is filthy and wicked and totally evil.
The more serious the crime, the more important it is to make certain someone is guilty of that crime, before you pass judgement on it. It is precisely because sexual abuse of children is so wicked, that we must be very very sure someone is guilty before taking action. The average Joe Bloggs in the park is not guilty of anything.
It's not a crime to go for a walk in the ruddy park!!!!!!!!!!!

LHC stands for Large Hadron Collider.

We are still here, because the thing is only warming up just now. They haven't started colliding the beams yet. This will not happen for a few weeks. Right now they are just aligning and fine-tuning the system. The LHC will be gradually powered-up over several months.

It is highly likely that quantum black holes will be created. We are told they will just evaporate in millionths of a second. Personally I remain uneasy about the whole thing.

I love being a deist. It's really great!

With regard to my feelings on Christianity, I guess I would reply "which one?" There are so many branches of Christianity, and their beliefs are surprisingly different from each other. It all depends upon your interpretation of the Gospels. Some Christians think they are going to Heaven when they die. Others think that death is a dreamless sleep, and that Jesus will return to set up His Kingdom on earth. Some Christians believe that Hell is a literal place of burning fire. Others think Hell is a spiritual realm of punishment. Some Christians are pacifist. Others will join the Army and fight. Some believe that you have to be baptised to be saved. Others not. Some have Church buildings full of pictures and images. Others say that is forbidden as per the second commandment. Some say that Jesus was Himself God. Others say that He was the Son of God. Well, I could go on and on, but you get the picture. There are lots of different Christianities.

Well, there is a reason not to have capital punishment, which appears to have been omitted from your poll.
It is very simple. What if you catch someone, try them, find them guilty, execute them, and then new evidence comes to light, which proves that they did not commit the crime?. Here in England, this would have happened a number of times, if we had the death penalty, but we don't.
Even today, in the 21st Century, it is notoriously difficult to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that a person committed a wicked crime. I am not totally against the death penalty, but I would not want to have the blood of someone on my hands, who was later found to be innocent.
If you want the death penalty, you must find a method of proving beyond any doubt whatsoever that the person is guilty. This is because (obviously) the penalty is not reversible. You can always let someone out of prison, but you can't bring them back from the grave. Have a nice day!

To Rico Suave

Well, I think I defined the subject reasonably well in the introduction to the poll.

The word "Fortean" actually comes from someone's name. It was Charles Fort, an eccentric Englishman who had a lifelong interest in these weird subjects, collected accounts, and wrote about them.

Fortean subjects are (broadly speaking) anything weird. Specifically, UFOs and aliens, cryptozoology, weird science, ghosts and hauntings, ESP and telepathy, conspiracy theories, oddities, and the like. You will get a better idea if you visit their website www.forteantimes.com