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| TaoMan1121 (profile) wrote, on 3-30-2003 at 2:02pm | |
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| "Say I remember when we used to sit In a government yard in Trenchtown Observing the hypocrites Said I remember when we use to sit In the government yard in Trenchtown And then Georgie would make the fire lights Love would burn on through the night Everything 's gonna be alright Everything 's gonna be alright" I can't take this anymore. I want you all to realize we know nothing. Accept that with all your convictions and beliefs, everything is impermanent, and there is no black and white; the world is washed over in grey. There is no right answer, so don't pretend there is. The only right answer is that there is no right answer. Does anybody out there have any original ideas or are we are just going to pull our collective arguments off of quotes.com and CNN? "Sadam is a narcissistic psychopath. (Narcissistic: A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, or lack of empathy. Psychopath: A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse.)" Funny, I thought you were an engineering major Mike, not a licensed psychologist. Let's leave the diagnoses to the professionals. Having an extensive understanding of human behavior myself, I know how ethnocentric our country is. Don't pretend that you truly care about the Iraqi people, the Kuwait people, or even Joe Blow down at the end of the street. Jump on the bandwagon, because this week it's cool to be a war protester... oops, I mean a war supporter. All the cool people are sitting on the fence; everyone's doing it you know. How about instead of spreading our immaculate form of democracy on the rest of the world, we focus on providing for our own citizens before we police the rest of the globe. LBJ's focus when he arrived in office was social reform before he was destroyed by the Vietnam conflict. Health care, homeless, women's rights, EDUCATION, social security... nah, we're fine here, you just go ahead and take care of everyone else's problems. We are all eqaul, we are all human beings, and we should treat each other like it. "It is true that the United States accounts for half of the money spent on military worldwide. However, it is also true that since America also has 50% of the worlds total money, which means what we spend, is AVERAGE!" Please explain how this makes any logical sense. I bet you we eat at least half of the world's food as well. Does that mean our obesity problem is AVERAGE then, on par for the rest of the world? If Saddam is so evil, then why do all of you only care when our president tells you to. Funny, the only times I've seen between the two Gulf Wars was as Satan's lover on South Park. 1940s - Hitler 2001 - Osama (Osama who?) 2003 - Saddam 2004 - TBA Now accepting applications for the next posterboy of evil. You may think you know my views, but you don't have a clue. I give you what you need for a bite, then I reel you in. "Because the hook brings you back, I ain't tellin' you no lie. The hook brings you back, on that you can rely." "I'll never really understand protestors. Many of them are so closed/single minded that its almost a miracle of science that their life functions continue." Well thank you for that extremely open-minded contribution. I leave you with the words of the great Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh: "Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace." There, I think I covered just about everything. If I missed someone, just stop by on Monday, I'll be the one in socks and sandals. |
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polishpimping | 03-30-03 8:12pm Ahem I quote… “What is right is not always clear.” That is not some quote I got from quotes.com or CNN. That is something I said recently in a statement that has us all against each other. I never meant for this to happen. I just wanted to know that even though I don’t right some thing on the back of a t-shirt, I too have views. I refrained from expressing mine, until I needed too. Now, everyone who is Anti-Sadam is called mindless sheep. Through that, I never said that anyone against war is against America. I was against war for a long while, and I still am to an extent, I just can’t stand it when people say that our military is out there killing babies. I have friends in the Military. I don’t refer to them as privates or baby killers; I refer to them as David Darling, Dennis Hannah, Scotty Oninzo, Mike Zomer, etc. I could go on if you like. I thank God every day that I am not in their shoes. I wouldn’t be able to kill someone even if he were shooting at me. But this job must be done. If a dog has rabies then you have to put it down. It might not be pretty, and it wont be easy. It’s not something you want to do it’s just something that has to be done.
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TaoMan1121 | Re:, 03-31-03 12:19am Grr... I thought I made this pretty obvious with the journal entry, and I tried to explain it earlier, but people were busy sqawking over me, so I'll try and explain it. I was trying to demonstrate the hypocrisy and self-righteousness that everyone is bringing to this war situation. For instance, I made a statement such as "Everyone should stop quoting other people" and what did I do at the end of the entry? I quoted someone. I even italicized all the instances of hypocrisy to make it easier for all of you. Notice that the phrase "having an extensive knowledge of human behavior myself" is italicized. If you guys honestly believe that I am that condescending, then you obviously don't know me that well. All I'm trying to show you guys is that some people are completely intolerant of other people's views regarding this war. Standing by your convinctions is an awesome thing, but not if it comes at the cost of sacrificing empathy for the other person's views. Please, just try and understand where the other person is coming from before you call them "unpatriotic" or a "baby-killer." All we are doing by fighting about it is spreading anger, and that's not something we need right now. The other thing I wanted to point out with the entry was that if you are so die-hard sure of your views, you shut out new possiblities and explanations and viewpoints. I'm not anti-war and I'm not in support of the war. I only speak up about something when I know all the facts and I feel strongly about it, so that's why I've kept my uninformed opinions to myself up until this point. I just hate it when people get all "high and mighty" on me because they think they know that their views are the ultimate truth and that I'm full of shit. I'm not necessarily talking to every person who reads this, so don't freak out on me, Mike, but I'm saying we all deal with such people on a regular basis.
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