Re: being obnoxious/OT

Posted by RodInNS on April 12, 2007 at 20:40:11 from (142.177.84.213):

In Reply to: Re: being obnoxious/OT posted by Dave from MN on April 12, 2007 at 05:42:28:

I'll agree with you on some of that. There's a general lack of respect for mostly everything in the world today. It seems that very few today would treat others as they would like to be treated.... If that's what they are doing, then they don't expect much.

The endless pursuit of money at the expense of all else is the other great evil of the day in my opinion. There's not much any one of us can do about that either. The system is such now that you basically can't survive without money..... and to get money, you're going to be part of the system whether you like it or not. So you get swept along with it. You may not take part in the madness of it all, but you still need to fit in. If you don't, you're one of the bums on the street.

Beyond that, I don't agree with too much of what you said in your plan. I think reality would get in the way of most of it. I'm sure if you sat down and thought about it, you could come up with an adverse reaction to most of it that would be far worse than the present state of affairs. I believe it was Mr. Kissinger who once remarked that each success only buys an admission ticket to a more complex problem.... and he had some experience in that department with the meddeling he did.
I can only imagine the state of things that would exist if the rag heads were deprived of their current revenue stream from the US purchases of their oil. I'd bet it would be a whole lot worse than it is today throughout the world.

The other thing that I don't like is the degree of religious Bible thumping that goes on today. There are so many who use the Bible to justify what they're doing, who they're persecuting, and have absolutely no regard for the opinion of anyone but themselves. These people invariably seem to claim that only they are correct, all others will burn, and life must be lived by their own iron rule. You go to the next group and get the same style crap with a different set of criteria for life. It's simply turned me off of organised religion of any kind.
Between that layer of crap, and this fascination with security and trying to prevent the terriorists from repeating what they've already done, the laws that are created in response to these concerns are driving the western countries to down to the level of these mid-eastern countries where freedom means nothing. You are there to serve the state and do as you're told.
It seems to me that if you were to inact a lot of what you propose, it would be an afront to most of the principles that America was founded upon, with freedom of the individual being one of the most important. Freedom to choose to do as they please, right to wrong. Anyhow, that's how I see it at this hour.
Respectfully,

Rod

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