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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, LobowolfXXX wrote: Then where does the hate come from? What influences that development? They live what they learn. In a world of equalized opportunity, free from violence, and the threat of it, I think you'd see a lot less divergence. Face it, by the time they reach the age of reason they are already poisoned by their parents nonsense; just as their parents were. To me the hardest thing about being a parent was to keep my worldview out of my son's thought processes - to let him think and decide for himself. I'm around a lot of children and their parents. By FAR the best parents are those who have the courage to ask their kids what they think; instead of what they should think. Have you ever met a cynical four year old? I have, far too many times. They didn't get that way on their own. "Always will"? Says who? Those who preach doom, so we might as well kill as many of the others before we go?
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, LobowolfXXX wrote: Stop with the opias. I'm not talking about that and never will. Which groups, or mindsets, are against it - and more importantly WHY? What is the basis of their so-called belief that they have the right to dictate what others do with their lives? It certainly isn't a belief based on anything objective.
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, Jonathan Townsend wrote: The way things are? Not many. It's not a matter of the processes, but of what should be at the base of what those processes stem from. Btw, I'm on earth. I have no idea which planet, or dimension, you are from.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, NYCTwister wrote: Who is "they"?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Basically we want the same things, regardless of where we're born or what we believe We may all want the same for ourselves, but not necessarily want the same for others...and in that, we may be the same.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Couldn't stop yourself from religion being the root of every problem could you? Can't you just have an idea without blaming someone and accusing them off being the problem?
Your blinders are very effective. You have your truth and everyone is an idiot. But the interesting thing is the way you post here is very aggressive, condescending and in the right place in the real world would get your teeth loosened. Isn't that part of the very problem you complain so loudly about? If even you, apparently the only prophet of this idea, can't manage to pull it off how can you expect to inflict this idea upon an unsuspecting world?
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts |
Playpens are designed to predispose and encourage babies to embrace violent Octagon* Fighting... *Babies can't count.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness...
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, LobowolfXXX wrote: There are many "they's"
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 21, 2017, Dannydoyle wrote: It isn't religion Danny. Quote:
Can't you just have an idea without blaming someone and accusing them off being the problem? Problems have causes Danny. Can't you just read a post without attacking the messenger? For once. Quote:
Your blinders are very effective. You have your truth and everyone is an idiot. The hypocrisy needed for YOU to make that statement is mind boggling. Quote:
But the interesting thing is the way you post here is very aggressive, condescending and in the right place in the real world would get your teeth loosened. Isn't that part of the very problem you complain so loudly about? I'm not complaining loudly about anything. Thinking that I am is your damage. Part of the problem is that anyone would think about loosening anyone's teeth over an opinion. You just thought of it - violence in response to words you disagree with. Why? Btw, I am the same in "the real world" as I am here. Quote:
If even you, apparently the only prophet of this idea, can't manage to pull it off how can you expect to inflict this idea upon an unsuspecting world? I am not a prophet. Don't be rude. I'm just a person who runs his life using common sense. And I'm not the only one who is thinking about what is wrong, on a macro level, and the root cause of the problem. So the world is not "unsuspecting". I'm also far from the only one who thinks that actual peace - the absence of violence - is not just an abstract concept. What's interesting to me is that the only way you can see change coming about is by inflicting - forcing - an idea. Don't you have any faith in humanity? Don't you think we can change our behavior? Why all the derision? I'm just pointing out that there is a different possible way to live together. What is SO WRONG with that?
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 21, 2017, Salguod Nairb wrote: Ok, now I'm triggered. Where's my safe space?
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, landmark wrote: What makes some want what's good for them, while thinking others don't deserve it? What's at the root of THAT mindset?
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Language: Them, deserve...vs eminent domain, no,
Simpler to presume there will be conflict of interests and focus on how one addresses a conflict and what others accept as greater good. How much rancor, triggered how reliably? claimed as essential vanity? Zeus said so. Cthulhu agrees. The devil you know ... Stopgap measures.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
What proposition are you debating at this point? Whether peace is better than war? Whether it's acceptable to show your displeasure with a government by bombing civilians? I've lost track.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 21, 2017, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: I'm saying that peace can't be achieved at the point of a gun - no matter how big. I'm also saying that we supposedly keep trying to achieve it that way because the root of what most base their morality on, is fatally flawed. It's not religion. It's far deeper and more insidious because - "Hey, what's the big deal?" Do you ever stop to ask yourself why it's possible for so few to control so many, so easily. It's obviously what's (been) happening and it's obviously wrong. What makes it possible? Although it's less and less acceptable to show my disagreement with the despicable actions of my government, I'll continue to do so for as long as it's allowed. Which probably won't be very long. I'll do it no matter how many tell me that the only way to deal with those who do things differently is to kill them all, or make them afraid that we will. Or "nuke them until they glow." Smdh. Syria? North Korea? Just the latest boogeymen, necessary so the weapons can keep flowing while the credulous stand in groups saying YEAH!!, with their fists flying up in the air. Like they're holding onto something that's invisible there.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Again with the "boogeyman" theme. I suppose Hitler and Stalin were fictitious entities that gullible people were taught to fear, too.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
So communicate effectively. What do you offer in place of what you find offensive?
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On Apr 21, 2017, Jonathan Townsend wrote: To whom was this post directed?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
@nyctwister, methinks.
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 21, 2017, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Which offensive thing are you specifically talking about?
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
You're asking how want becomes condoned rancor.
I'm saying you'd do better to address the wants than to complain about the larger celebrity rancor events.
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