Half of Baghdad now under control

Discussion in 'World Events' started by sandy, Jun 30, 2007.

  1. Repo Man Valued Senior Member

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    Read this, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2528/br_ph4laymen.htm

    The result of this is that the human race becomes divided into rival groups of fanatics, each group firmly persuaded that its own brand of nonsense is sacred truth, while the other side's is damnable heresy. Arians and Catholics, Crusaders and Muslims, Protestants and adherents of the Pope, Communists and Fascists, have filled large parts of the last 1,600 years with futile strife, when a little philosophy would have shown both sides in all these disputes that neither had any good reason to believe itself in the right.
     
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  3. Dark520 Rebuilt Registered Senior Member

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    Well who can admit they're evil (unless they're somewhat joking around)? Because whoever is doing something is doing it because they think it is the right action to get the desired effect, which means they think they're doing the right thing. Everyone always thinks that they are the good and the other guys are the bad, but it's all relative to who's talking, so it's pointless debating who really is the good and evil.
     
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  5. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    It must be comforting to be able to actually believe such simplistic nonsense.
     
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  7. hypewaders Save Changes Registered Senior Member

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    I really don't think it is. I think it's comfortable in a teeny middle, but chewy on the outside. Too bad is tastes like

    Shit, where did the time go?
     
  8. pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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    first off the us doesn't always win. second that line of thinking is very dangerous. and third why do you seem to ignore responses to your posts when you are pressed to defend your arguments?
     
  9. Mr. G reality.sys Valued Senior Member

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    "I'm not finding Leftie-ism to be anymore compelling than it has been for years."
    Leftie reality. Packaged as Leftie wisdom. No possible equivalent non-Leftie reality can/must exist. All non-leftie realities must be invaded and occupied due to the Leftie Mandate for Universal Reality.

    I'm sure you'd prefer all the world was a Leftie Califlowerphate. Ain't going to happen. Not everyone wants to be a leftie, or needs to be lectured to by lefties. That's a reality, or twenty, way beyond your imaginary control. Leftieism evaporates at the boundry with the rest of reality for quite naturally compelling reasons still outside your personal experience. Imagine that.

    You are partially correct. [Edit: Color correction; swapping Red/Blue references for proper context. Hotel Tango: hypewaders] Blue Americans are being rejected as everyone's police. Red Americans and Independent Americans just don't cleave to your comforting pablum. That's why the world doesn't want you blue Americans to police the rest of us--we other Americans, and all the non-Americans on the planet who just don't find you folks compellingly necessary.

    So, you lefties should just stop pretending and simply stop presuming to tell the rest of us on the planet what we all should be thinking and doing. Stick to what you know, amongst yourselves, and leave the rest of us alone. If we wanted what you have to offer we'd already have called you with an expressed invitation.
    You see what I mean? You have such a narrow appreciation of reality that you have no capacity of imagination for perspectives other than your own.

    Sorry, dude. It's a big world and you folks are just not demonstrably compelling overlord material.
     
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  10. hypewaders Save Changes Registered Senior Member

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    The very concept of policing the entire planet is extremist, and only openly advocated in extremist ideology.

    "Stop pretending you lefty, and simply stop presuming to tell the rest of us on the planet what we all should be thinking and doing. Stick to what you know, lefty, you, you...

    you lefty"



    How compelling. The redhed is dead. Years ago. Send for help- Hedmedix!
     
  11. Mr. G reality.sys Valued Senior Member

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    Thank you. You make an excellent point. My point!

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    You lefties have to mold all of reality to fit your own intellectual comfort zone or none of it is real to you.

    QED
     
  12. hypewaders Save Changes Registered Senior Member

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    Big Blue Meanie.

    If I call you names, does it make you wrong?
     
  13. hypewaders Save Changes Registered Senior Member

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    If you think you're not stuck in the past, why did you get the colors backward? You might as well hang our flag upside down. Are you in distress?
     
  14. Mr. G reality.sys Valued Senior Member

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    Well, finally. A leftie who can see an actual mistake, even if it's only someone else's.

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  15. pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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    do you feel that badly of yourself that you must spend so much of your posts here taunting people?
     
  16. Mr. G reality.sys Valued Senior Member

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    Are you taunting me?

    Actually, it's the people who think badly of themselves who hang out here because they're less likely to be taunted by someone else.

    I hang out here because Nature abhors inbreeding.

    It's just not natural.

    Easy as it seems to be around here.
     
  17. TW Scott Minister of Technology Registered Senior Member

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    Depends on your defination of control.

    If you mean little random violence random violence by criminal factions, then yes possibly. Unfortunately that came with the similair death rates as now perpetrated by the governement of Irag against 'suspected dissidents' behind closed door. It also came with the price of rape rooms, where baathist soldiers loyal to Hussein could bring anyone they wanted and torutre and rape them with impunity.

    So while on the surface it was good, underneath it was vile and putrid.
     
  18. pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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    no i am not taunting you i'm asking you a question.
     
  19. Mr. G reality.sys Valued Senior Member

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    In a manner of speaking. But, okay. For your question, an answer.

    I don't think badly of myself. In fact, my self-image is indelible. I no longer out-source my self-esteem to anyone.

    If I was in need of confirmation of my own personal net-worth I wouldn't be hanging out here where it's not likely to be found. I'd be hanging out with people who only agree with me, all the time.

    Then I'd be just like all of you.

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  20. sandy Banned Banned

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    I'm trying very hard not to even read posts with personal attacks, much less reply to them. But it's very hard since there are so many of them.

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  21. Repo Man Valued Senior Member

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    She isn't capable of defending her outrageous assertions. Instead she just posts them and runs. She claimed that Snopes says that the 9/11 hijackers weren't Muslim, but she could not back it up, so she left the thread. She repeats this pattern over and over.
     
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  22. pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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    really cause i posted responses to some of your posts you've attacked me because of them suggesting that it is "liberal propaganda and then when i pressed you to attemt to refute my logic you just started talking bout something else. like your coulter thread you still have yet to respond to the fact that you support someone who adavocates terrorism and the commiting of warcrimes by americans
     
  23. BobtheBuilder Registered Member

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    How can you possibly say that?! We aren't always in the right, and we don't always win. We sanction terrorism when it suits our purposes. I mean, we freakin trained ben laden. We supported the shah of Iran. We deliberately ignored what Saddam was doing as long as he did what we wanted. We tested nukes on bikini, and then sent the islanders back to get radiation poisoning. We sanctioned slavery and jim crow laws. How many major wars have we been in? Revolutionary war? Won by the French. Civil War? We were fighting amongst ourselves. WW1? We came in late, after millions of deaths, and I do believe the British and the French already had it won. WW2? That was all the work of the Russians and the British. We were pushed back by the Chinese when we tried to take over North Korea. We lost in Vietnam. (I only name the major wars, cause I'm not familiar with the smaller ones) We are usually in the right and we usually win. Please respond.
     

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