What are you scared of?

[Perfect Stu]

Originally Posted by Professor S

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.

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.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Perfect Stu

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?

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.

[Perfect Stu]

Originally Posted by Professor S

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.

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.