One Nation Under A Heartless God - Page 2

Jonesy · 04-25-2008, 01:45 PM

God is a wonderful creature... puts us here, installs all these survival instincts, yet does not tell us why we should survive and leaves us to figure out survival itself is a fallacy. Fueled by our survival instincts, we spend our whole lives fighting and scratching for pitiful scraps of pleasure.

We're supposed to survive even though survival is impossible. Nice world.

Kanadesaga · 04-25-2008, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by babylonDon

Why Is America So Mean?

Because it it is run by compasionate conservatives.

Ted Rall

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Some, obviously not all. Americans are also gullible to a fault and unto fiasco.

and most are more concerned with their own lives and problems than with what a bunch of criminals are doing in Washington, DC. The criminals in Washington call it a distraction, we call it $3.98/gal.

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Plato said something about man always perceiving advantage in injustice. The disconnect isn't that fault-and-foible riddled people who are in a position to get away with shit then try to get away with shit. The disconnect is that we let them.

No one wants to rock the boat. As Mr. Rall said:

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I bit my tongue. Here in the land of the twee and the craven, I know when to shut up. That's what we do now. Airports are nodes of high-intensity fascism in a nation settling into authoritarianism lite. Hassle the bastards and you might end up dead. I had a flight to catch, doncha know.

Everyone shuts up.

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Because, except for the few who will put their lives on the line in the stead of people who will not put their lives on the line, people are afraid of dying. No matter how shitty their lives, no matter how loudly they proclaim their belief in a better hereafter, people are afraid of dying.

Makes you appreciate the founders a little.

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People don't like to get hurt, either. I will suggest that our New & Improvised Torture line of products and services is designed as much to keep Americans in line as it is to keep Others in line.

More.

Kanadesaga · 04-25-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by babylonDon

We as a nation, are big fans of judgment and retribution. We really should be focusing more on actual justice. We seem to get caught up in finding a place to aim our anger, than actually attempting to fix situations.

But identifying the problem is as far as I've come. I don't have a lot of solutions.

Ever the optimist. Identified the problem?! I wish we were that far along. If "We", as in "We the People..." could come to a consensus on what was the problem, I imagine that the solution would be found easily. In my "not so humble" opinion, that problem is the continued exploitation of people by other groups of people. In other words, the nature of man.

BillCosby · 04-25-2008, 06:37 PM

Well the title is a bit mis-representing. I thought I was the only one guilty of that.......lol

I don't see Americans as all that. SOrry I don't.......... There are some very generous ppl & those I would consider good ppl........ & there are a lot of assholes, mean, greedy & selfish Americans to........ Just like there are in Canada & Columbia....... & anywhere else.........

All this goes on & where are all those millions of millions of good Americans??? I would suspect that most ppl here are more active than the average Suzie sipper or Joe sixpack..... some nasty letters & chronic bitching......???

Someone said the only thing necessary for evil to thrive is for good ppl to do nothing..........???? Nothing has happened to the bastards that did all this..... bush has the blood of a million IraQi civilians on his hands & american blackwater civilians murder 17 ppl in broad day light & nary a one does time..............

& the beat goes on... & on.... & oN.............

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Jonesy Truth Lion Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,554 Thanks: 10 Thanked 32 Times in 23 Posts	God is a wonderful creature... puts us here, installs all these survival instincts, yet does not tell us why we should survive and leaves us to figure out survival itself is a fallacy. Fueled by our survival instincts, we spend our whole lives fighting and scratching for pitiful scraps of pleasure. We're supposed to survive even though survival is impossible. Nice world.
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04-25-2008, 06:37 PM	#14 (permalink)
BillCosby The party of the pissed!! Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4,504 My Mood: Thanks: 183 Thanked 119 Times in 92 Posts	Well the title is a bit mis-representing. I thought I was the only one guilty of that.......lol I don't see Americans as all that. SOrry I don't.......... There are some very generous ppl & those I would consider good ppl........ & there are a lot of assholes, mean, greedy & selfish Americans to........ Just like there are in Canada & Columbia....... & anywhere else......... All this goes on & where are all those millions of millions of good Americans??? I would suspect that most ppl here are more active than the average Suzie sipper or Joe sixpack..... some nasty letters & chronic bitching......??? Someone said the only thing necessary for evil to thrive is for good ppl to do nothing..........???? Nothing has happened to the bastards that did all this..... bush has the blood of a million IraQi civilians on his hands & american blackwater civilians murder 17 ppl in broad day light & nary a one does time.............. & the beat goes on... & on.... & oN............. __________________ Preventive war is not war!!!!Counter-terror is not terror
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