I think you are right stuh. I wonder who's next.
I try my hardest not to think about politics as much as I can. It only makes me angry. I just remind myself that our existence is meaningless, and that the whole social situation is really just an interesting complex system, and the only thing that should really matter to me is making the most of my own short existence.
I understand, stuh. But it's a little selfish as I see it, even though I share your view almost completely.
But when we're debating these issues on a public forum we are doing something. The distribution of opinions and knowledge is key to any fundamental attitude change in society.
I'm not trying to justify my indifference with this statement. I am merely saying that talking about it is better than not thinking about it.
That video was really something. I'm speechless. I feel like I have such blinders on sometimes to the things going on in this world.
I know what you mean. It is hard to believe that there's even a possibility that things could be as suggested by the video.
Yes. And disappointing. I don't understand why our government is so corrupt. Is it the money? What is it about this nation? I just don't get why they would even do that. If they did that is.
Cyracuz wrote:I understand, stuh. But it's a little selfish as I see it, even though I share your view almost completely.
But when we're debating these issues on a public forum we are doing something. The distribution of opinions and knowledge is key to any fundamental attitude change in society.
I'm not trying to justify my indifference with this statement. I am merely saying that talking about it is better than not thinking about it.
When it comes to running my mouth about my opinions, I'm pretty good at that.
As for the issue of selfishness, that brings about a whole new moral debate. My personal opinion on that subject is that everything we do is actually selfish, because everything is done strictly for ourselves...even if we say it was done for someone else. Anything that is done to help someone else is really just done to appease our own conscience because it makes us feel better. It all really comes down to the basic fact that we do what makes us feel better. Therefore, generous acts are done for the same reason as selfish acts, for the same reason as any act that we do: personal gain. Since all of our actions can be unified to satisfying a single goal, all we need to do to pick the proper action is choose the one that satisfies that goal best.
I think I agree on that stuh.
Still, I'd like to kick something when I think about the fact that for every man with a multi million dollar annual income, there's a hundred so deep in debt that they are as good as crippled. And that's only the money issue. All in all, the right to own anything at all is bollocks if you ask me.
If you ever get the opportunity to shake Bush's hand, wait till you get a grip on his hand and then start kicking him in the shins.
If Bush ever suddenly was in front of me I'd turn my back on him. Or maybe I'd talk to him, but no 'mr.president sir'. Just plain old George, and not the sweeter part of my tounge.
"Without the complicity of the mainstream media, the 9/11 cover-up could not exist. Those who control the mainstream media control the brainstem of our collective consciousness. When those charged with being the skeptical inquirers are neither skeptical nor do they inquire, the only phrase for it is deep complicity. When investigative journalists fail to investigate the obvious, it is deep complicity. When investigative journalists only investigate that which distracts the public from the obvious, it is even deeper complicity."
-- Barrie Zwicker
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"The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. ... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies -- all this is indispensably necessary."
- George Orwell, on "Doublethink" from his book of faction, "1984"
What are you afraid of OmSigDAVID?
He's afraid of going blind....if the font is anything to go by.
When people write with fonts like that, or just in capital letters all the time, I always get the impression that they are shouting.
