OT the present predicament

DannyinJapan

DannyinJapan

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OVer here in japan, everything that happens in the world is a joke. a far away dreamland that has nothing to do with the japanese.
its not so strange to them, after all, beheading is part of japanese coping skills.
i know better.

today for some reason, i got pretty damned upset about the beheading.
at lunchtime, i got really angry and then i cried a little.
I didnt even know the guy.

I practice cutting peoples heads off three times a week.

I dont mean it though, and I would have to be put in a padded room if I ever actually had to do it to someone in self defense.

I was thinking, maybe this IS world war three and nobody wants to admit it.

How can we ever get out of this demonic cycle of death and hate in israel, gaza, iraq, afghanistan, etc?

Can we kill the bad guys and have only good guys alive in iraq?
Wont we have to be "indiscrete" ?

Sorry to ramble or depress.

Hey lets hear it for those red sox, huh!?
 
Danny,

Sound like the Japanese are still continuing to live in a world of isolationism....they did it for centuries before the downfall of the Tokugawa (sp?) and forced trade with the US.....

It's got to be frustrating over there if you can't openly discuss something with others about the outside world.

Can we kill the bad guys?...sure, but Ying & Yang.....one can't exist without the other.....unfortunately :(

Keep the faith,
Steve
 
I have never cut the heads off of anything larger than a goat. Mostly chickens. This was pre khuk for me so I always used a machete. And I always felt bad about that, but it's part of farm life. Anymore I use a 22 magnum on the goats before I cut their throats.

Poor guy. I don't know about WW3 but how about Armageddon? I was always taught by my fundamentalist Christian upbringing that the Whore of Babylon in the Book of Revelations was the Catholic Church. I wonder now if the people who pushed that theory are changing their minds??

I think the only answer is to go totally toward some vegetable based energy source that will put our farmers to work and just say to H*LL with that region. According to what I have read with Biodeisel the cheapest they can make it now is $2.50 a gallon, so we have never been able to make it competitive with gasoline.

However if you consider the true cost of gasoline the military cost of being in the mid east, the cost of the environmental damage it causes. And the increase in jobs from corn and soy based fuels I believe the real cost of biodeisel is LESS. Also now gas is almost $2.50 a gallon anyway.

Think about it is energy self sufficiency not a national security issue?

However with the gov't controlled by oilmen we are not making any serious effort to look for alternatives, even though we will probably be out of oil globally in 100 years anyway.

http://www.biodiesel.org/resources/reportsdatabase/reports/gen/19931210_gen-003.pdf

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0422_030422_veggiefuels.html
 
Regardless of oil, we will survive.

We have in the past, with less technology (using coal oil, for instance). Hydrogen technology is very close to ready.

Danny, come to GA when you can. Got access to 100 acres with a cabin on it. Come during deer season, and we can hunt, and train, and eat good food, and maybe down a drink or two when the day's shooting is done.

John
 
DannyinJapan said:
Over here in japan, everything that happens in the world is a joke. A far away dreamland that has nothing to do with the japanese.
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I live in California, in the middle of everything, and I pretty much feel that same way. When the 9-11 incident happened I watched it on TV. New York is thousands of miles away and I don't know anybody there. It's a foreign land to me and things that happen there don't really affect my day to day life. The same goes with the war in Iraq.

I know some people get very passionate about world events and things that happen to strangers but I am only concerned with what happens directly to me and my family.

I guess it's kind of like people who watch a sports game and say "We won!", or "We are in First Place!". I don't get it. They didn't win, they are not in First Place. The team won, the team is in First Place. Everyone who is not a player is just a spectator.

That's what I consider myself. A spectator watching events over which I have no control.
 
fenryr said:
Danny,

Can we kill the bad guys?...sure, but Ying & Yang.....one can't exist without the other.....unfortunately :(
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Yeah, you've got a point. But what the heck, there is more than one eastern philosophy that we can try out.. and if not, we can try on a western one for convenience.. all I'm saying is that if we did kill all of them, we would at least know whether or not it would work.

My wife used to hang out right between the twin towers during lunch. She was safely away on 9/11. All I could think about was the daycare on the first floor, wondering if the children were OK. We still deal with the trauma in my step-son who is forever terrified of airplanes and death. - He was in NY when it happened, across the bay in Staten Island.

I don't have much sympathy. Maybe I'll be thinking better tomorrow and I'll try again...
 
to an insane world, Danny. Most Mil folks I talk to who were doin the killing in war times had a need for recovery and counselling (not always formal, sometimes just talking to other recovering sanctioned killers) following such an episode. To a man, they did not enjoy killing people, and it made them sad.

I also thinkg most WWII vets agree with you. They had enough of the war machine eatine bodies of friends and enemies alike,came home, and tried to forget with the Baby Boom. I guess a natural response to all that death is to make some life, right?

Mebbe instead of screwing thinngs up, we should just screw.


Keith
 
Mebbe instead of screwing thinngs up, we should just screw.

Sounds like a good logo to live by.....I'd buy a t-shirt......when do they go on sale?
Any graphics? like a couple of the stick figures from the VW Farvegnugen commercial?
;)
 
Lions,

Please don't think I don't want retribution. Far be it.....the more the better. I haven't forgotten where I was that day either. And every time I hear about an innocent getting killed I think about them being someone's son or daughter, husband or wife or I picture twenty years from now, what my children might be facing.

Evil....can't get rid of it completely but I sure don't mind trying any way I can in my little corner of the world!!
 
heeheehee. Come to think of it, it was stated some 30 years ago in the phrase "Make love, not war" I just brought it up to 21st c. standards.



Keith
 
While I would happily use fuel made of vegetables, or goats, or whatever Hollow has available, and certainly am happiest making love, not war,...I still admit to feeling that the entire region would make a great parking lot.

They've pushed it to that point, and I would step forward to accept whatever fate deals me in the afterlife...whatever that is.

Nuke 'em all, shoot the glowing ones in the dark, let whatever god they believe in sort it out.

Terror? I lived in silos for a while...I'll show them what terror is.

Sad, but true.
 
Spectre said:
Regardless of oil, we will survive.

We have in the past, with less technology (using coal oil, for instance). Hydrogen technology is very close to ready.

Danny, come to GA when you can. Got access to 100 acres with a cabin on it. Come during deer season, and we can hunt, and train, and eat good food, and maybe down a drink or two when the day's shooting is done.

John
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thank you specter, that is exactly what i needed to hear.
 
If there really was an apocalypse in the Middle East and only two dung beetles remained alive afterwards ...they would still be fighting.
 
BillTheCat said:
If there really was an apocalypse in the Middle East and only two dung beetles remained alive afterwards ...they would still be fighting.
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Probably true. However you put a bunch of people in an area with few resources and they have 8 and 9 kids per family you can't help but get some conflict. It is just like putting too many chickens in too small a space and they start attacking each other.

Until we can get the third world to practice birth control and control the population I don't feel like we can expect much more than what we got now.

Also remember almost as soon as Mohammed died there was a fight over who would be his successor :confused:
 
Hollow...my solution takes care of the population problem too. Reduced fertility rates in the region for the next 250,000 years at least. Even then, the decendents might look like dung beetles.
 
I'm glad I choose not to watch the movie. Seeing some picture is enough. Just shows how far behind those bastards are in terms of morals... :mad:
 
Forty years ago, or more, I read a short story of the last two people on earth. He was ?blonde? and of one ethnicity, and she was freckled and of another. Their factions had fought to extinction until only the two of them were left on earth.

They lived together. One day, he took a knife and stabbed her, then sat down to eat the dinner she had poisoned.



(The particulars are probably incorrect, but the elements of the story are there.)


And so it goes.


Kis
 
Until we can get the third world to practice birth control and control the population I don't feel like we can expect much more than what we got now.>>>>>> Hollow

You know, Hollow, this is one of those observations that cuts through a lot of arguments that really aren't very important, or solvable until this is recognized.



munk
 
:D:D:D

Like I said b4,,, the muslims piss of the world about every 600-700 years, get hunted to near extinction, call "genocide," then build back up to do it again.

Keith
 
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