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Originally posted by indierockalien
I dare one person to successfully argue this away.
"America MUST fall to the wayside in order to make way for humanity"
Originally posted by granoladude
I dunno, I just got back from a great baseball game tonight... There sure are a hell of a lot of things I'd miss people went along with that kind of anarchy plan, which I could hardly see working.
But HEY! That's just me.
The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride...” But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus - murdered; Martin Luther King - murdered; Malcolm X - murdered; Gandhi - murdered; John Lennon - murdered; Reagan... wounded. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
Originally posted by indierockalien
Dude, it's the same old "appreciate what you got" mentality again. I don't appreciate anything I have enough to not let it go for a better cause.
You could find a way to support your family without all the bells and whistles, and sure bad things are gunna happen sometimes, but the whole "go see how it is in other countries, and you'll appreciate blah blah blah" thing is always the argument I hear... and it's a big excuse. It's a big excuse for people to be able to sit in their luxury and not feel guilty.
This is all a luxury, a lulling convenience, a distraction....and in 500 years, if we keep running this course...we're gunna be gone 200 years ago! Humanity and life on Earth will be BUT a memory!
I don't believe humanity is naturally savage at all, either. If we were naturally savage and cruel, then somebody in my family would be torturing and killing others. If it's average, then then odds are most of the people I am related to are evil and cruel...and that's just NOT so.
Everything you stated there is an excuse to continue being exactly the way you are and to avoid the anxiety that comes from being forced to change your ways.
I wish someone could enforce that in a non-fascist way, but you can't force people to do anything because there's too many of them. That's the whole problem. There's just too many people. My guess is a great fear that this time, we've truly lost
Originally posted by indierockalien
I would rather die agonizing and wretching of starvation than continue to live a lie and support an evil superpower that uses it's might to destroy the world rather than serve it.