Re: What are you scared of?
 

Your lack of respect for knowledge in general is an affront to humanity. My little barbs are minscule in comparison to your insults.

And I don't teach children, I teach adults. Yet another pearl of wisdom from someone who refuses to educate himself on any topic he discusses. Its been YEARS, Typhoid, that you've been embarrassing yourself in political conversation for the simple reason that you are intellectually lazy. YOU ARE NOT STUPID, just lazy, and that is worse than being stupid. I think you're a reasonably smart kid and I'd love for you to care enough about your world to learn what is going on in it.


These are opinions I can't fathom. I'm sorry you feel helpless and when it comes to your futures and those of your families, but I don't. To say that terrorists and ruthless regimes can't be controlled or eliminated is to give up on civilization in general. We can control it and fight to get our world back, if only by educating ourselves on the subject at hand and speaking out about it. We can affect the world by affecting the ideas and attitudes of our own people and government. We have the right to vote and the freedom of speech, which is more than most people in the world have (scary to think we are the minority, but its sadly true).

All it takes to stop evil is the will to confront it with no limits. Hitler was not an unstoppable force, he was a petty political boss until the world let him be a tyrant. The world tried to appease Hitler, while selling him weapons, and so he turned the world upside-down because we let him. If England alone had followed the policy of Churchill instead of Chamberlain (I think thats his name), we could have avoided the millions of deaths that followed.

The world is slowly reverting back to one reminiscent of 1938-40. Russia is pulling back to their old ways, removing the right to vote and persecuting newspapermen that critcize them, and continuing to work with Iran and sell them weapons. Venezuela is pushing South America into a pro-Iran version of Cuba. Hezbollah, the right arm of Iran, has spread across the ME and simply waiting for Iraq to fall to become more active. Radical Islam is growing in leaps and bounds in Western Europe and intense violence is still prevalent in France, even though you'd never hear about it in the mainstream news. Meanwhile Iran laughs at the world while developing nuclear weapons which they've essentially said the'll use to bring about the apocalypse, or at least destroy Israel with.

Meanwhile, we've appointment a bunch of cold-war era officials that have determined that we need to adopt a policy of appeasement and negotiations with countries who want only one thing: The US and Israel to cease to exist.

Something we can't control? No. Something our government and majority population don't have the stomach to control anymore. They're not willing to bomb mosques that harbor terrorist leaders. They're not willing to commit more troops when things aren't going well. They're not willing to do what it takes to win a war because they're scared to death of what the New York Times will say. The American people are too tired and absent-minded to stomach the fight any longer, especially when the fight is across the ocean and seemingly won't affect them, until it does affect them.

To affect change you first have to have a spine, and thats something we've lost over the last 5 years.

Re: What are you scared of?
 

Alright. Whatever helps you sleep at night. Just remember, you're the one who "can't fathom" something here, and wasted a few minutes on typing out an elaborate post which has questionable intentions. Are you trying to somehow light a spark under the other posters here at GameTavern? Inspire them to worry about the things you're worried about? To display your obviously superior and unchallenged familiarty with the topic at hand?

Meanwhile, I'm gonna take my ignorant, lazy, spineless ass outside to walk my Golden Retriever and toss the old pigskin around with my buddy.

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I'm hoping to get people to give a rat's ass about their world and the direction that its going. I want them to question the media and what they're spoon fed from it. Its head-in-the-sand thinking that will get us all killed, and everyone here seems to be content in thinking that if we play with our dogs everything will be alright. Yes, I can't fathom your position on this, because its one of helplessness and hopelessness. You haven't even bothered to analyze the situation that your apathetic about and thats EXACTLY why we're where we are today.

And yes, so far my opinion is superior and unchallenged... but only because no one has bothered to CHALLENGE IT. I'd be happy if you just thought about it and read about the information and still disagreed with me, instead of just being lazy and ignorant worst of all, PROUD about it that ignorance and willingness to let others determine the fate of the world that you live in.

Re: What are you scared of?
 

@Professor
Are you a real professor or just a name?

Re: What are you scared of?
 

Its just a name because I have a background and certification in education and I instruct adult learning. I am not an actual professor, and in fact I adopted the name on a strictly "tongue-in-cheek" basis. Plus I was tired of The Strangler as my name. Too violent in my old age.

Re: What are you scared of?
 

Give me a break...first of all, don't put any words in my mouth. If you think for a second that I'm one of those "everything will be fine, people" people then you're terribly mistaken. I haven't told anyone (on GameTavern) this, but I currently have a life-threatening health condition. That scares me and puts enough pressure on a 21 year old as is...it doesn't help matters to worry about what else can kill me out there. If I want to stay as oblivious to it as much as possible for a while so I can spend some extra time with my puppy or with family and friends, how dare you accuse me of being hopeless or helpless. You probably don't know **** about being helpless or hopeless comapred to me.

If you want to worry about the condition of our world, go ahead. I won't think any less of you...like I said, whatever helps you sleep. But to try and point the finger and look down on those of us who would rather make the best out of what we have today...that's pathetic, dude.

Re: What are you scared of?
 

Well, if you read my post, I said I dont worry about things I cannot control.

I dont know about you, but I cannot control where terrorists attack, where an Earthquake strikes, where a flood happens, where a fire breaks out and how long it carries on for, where a tornado or hurricane occur, where lightning strikes, who a murderer will shoot at point blank, when a drunk driver will hit my car, when a regular accident might occur.

But it is apparent that you can control all of these things.

Kudos to you.


EDIT: And constantly thinking about the terrorists wont make them attack you any more than not thinking about them will. Humans are incapable of controlling things with their minds, I'm sorry to say. So you may want to find another line of work, opposed to telling people over the internet how they should be thinking and living their life, because thats how you do. Which, is a very American thing. "Well I do this, so you do it too, or else you're wrong, and at fault!".

I like how you cant accept people think differently, or live their life differently.

Worrying about the terrorists, or not worrying about them, has about as much control over where they attack as worrying about the next hurricane. You can't control the weather. Get it?

If it helps you live day to day, sure. **** your pants over the terrorists if you want. I'm not telling you what to believe, think, or how to live your life. Stop doing the same to everyone on the forum.

Re: What are you scared of?
 

Here's what I never quite got: The people who are the most afraid of terrorists in this country seem to be those that have the least chance of ever getting attacked...unless it's nuclear...in that case hide under your wooden desk.

I can't speak for the entire city but it appears that no one in NYC is as scared as how the media makes out the rest of the country to be. "Officials say chances are high that the subway system could be attacked with a dirty bomb today." The subway isn't any less crowded and nothing happens. People are far more worried about holding unto their job and keeping their family off the streets than to spend time worried about terrorists.

To make things "safer" the city instituted random bag checks. A cop isn't about to stop a person trying to get to work on time (or going home, which they want even more desperately) to randomly check their bag. That's about the best way to die in the line of duty. Since this began in July 2005 I haven't seen anyone's bag actual checked except during that first month.

If you have plenty of leisurely time to watch so-called "news" programs and listen to these talking heads about how dangerous the world is, chances are you don't have enough actually problems to deal with, so this takes on greater focus.

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I get the feeling that people here seem to think I am worried about terrorist attacks... thats is a LEAST of my worries. We are far beyond simple terrorist attacks, we are approaching a world dominated by those who use terrorist attacks to affect change. 9/11 was chump change compared to what I feel is on the horizon. I'll take suicide bombers any day over a world controlled by those that would use them.

And Stu, I'm sorry that you have a lfie threatening health condition, but you mentioned playing with your dog in the context of this conversation, not in that of you condition. I don't see why you should be upset with me over your own words used incorrectly. I wish you the best, but to use personal experience in a such a non-sequitur makes little sense. I hope you get better and soon.

Typhoid, I beg that you will actually read one of my posts completely before rebutting it.

1) I can accept others that think differently, but not lazy thinkers who have no care to learn anything about what they think about. I already made that clear earlier. I can re-post it for you if you like.

2) I never said I could personally control anything, but I'd rather try to affect change and encourage others to do so as well than to simply give up control and allow anyone to do what they will. As a group we CAN affaect change. All you have to do is care about anything other than what is directly in front of your face. I get the feeling you live a completely sheltered existence when you make comments like you do.

3) No, you can't completely control whether or not we get attacked again, but that doesn't mean we should just give up and say "screw it" either. We can affect change and slow terrorism if not stop it, and to say you can't is to become irrelevant, which is a very Canadian and european thing. I'd rather have American traits when it comes to these issues any day of the week. You wonder why America is such a force in the world? The rest of the world likes it that way. It keeps them from having to give a **** when they can just say "what is America going to do abou this?" soon followed with "my my, how America is ruining the world... tsk tsk". The rest of the world (excluding England and Australia) can chime in once they make their presence notable when it comes world security.

So go ahead, play the fiddle while Rome burns. Turn to obliviousness while those that want you dead gather strength around you. Just remember whay I've said here when your lives, laws and freedoms start to change during the next 10-50 years because no one had a spine to stand up to those that are ruthless and manipulative.

I'll be in Australia where their government is at least willing to say "no, this will not happen here" while you have a figurative gun pressed against the back of your heads. Why Australia? READ SOME ****ING NEWS EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE AND YOU'LL KNOW WHY. I'm tired of trying to talk sense to those that ignore anything that dares inconvenience them. Later.

Re: What are you scared of?
 

Maybe you need to get out of your own country and comet o Canada or something, because nobody here ever talks about terrorist attacks.
It's not in the newspaper, on TV, or anything.
The only faction "growing in strength" to do with this particular topic, are the people who dont worry about it.


And good.
Let's leave it at that.
Discussion ended.
We have different thoughts.
Case closed, problem solved.
We are not the same person, we do not fear the same things, we live in different countries, for that matter.
If you can accept the fact I, or everyone else in this thread think differently, and truely accept that, you wont post again about it.
Since you can comprehend the fact that we think differently, there is no need for more.
Good day, sir.

Re: What are you scared of?
 

I talked about playing with my dog in the context of PLAYING WITH MY DOG. My puppy brings the same smile to my face regardless of what other events are taking place. You're the one who actually pointed the finger at someone who would rather get out of the house and have some fun instead of trying to convince others on a message board that they SHOULD be scared. It's not complicated. (Thanks for the kind wishes, by the way).




And you have more of a spine than me because...? Unless you've decided to join the US Special Forces or find a position of legitimate influence on the situation of which you speak (other than message board super-poster).

Look, you believe our lives and freedoms are in danger because of a possible global takeover by terrorists. I believe my life is in danger because of something entirely different. I've gone through a hell of a lot to directly fight with and improve my own situation...what about you? And yet, I'm spineless.