Men are evil. That’s the nature of the beast.

Come on. This mirage does not exist.

Keep balance. Harmony is the key.

I need to print is out.

I said, “There are cases when the war is unavoidable,” for example defending our country, defending interests of our country, protecting those who need and ask for help. At the same time, if anybody starts a war w/o any reason, that person is a psychopathic criminal. What part of the above you do not understand?

I would prefer to sound like a “peacenic” than a belligerent sociopath. You say you “do not intend to advocate for war!” and …




Are you saying that we all are apes incapable to determine our destiny? [Sometimes results of our presidential elections support such statement.] “Higher stage of our conscience” depends on us now and always. It is our choice either (1) to think logically, independently, and wisely or (2) fall in mental slavery of repeating propaganda that slave masters has cooked. Democracy’s prerequisite is smart people; otherwise Democracy is useless. There are peoples who prefer living in prison camps. -- That is not the American way.

If you refer to the problem of overpopulation, the remedies for it are contraceptives and education (not wars).

Everyone select one’s favorite comedian. Palin is the best.

Whatever the point is, rudeness is an argument against it.

Absolutely. That’s why they call it “advice.” You should think, feel, select your behavior line, and make your decisions yourself.

Well, I cannot agree more with that. How do neighbors treat a drunken sailor who shoots them because “he can” (i.e., the sailor has a gun and the neighbors do not)? -- Neighbors unite, and buy guns, and eventually shoot down the drunken sailor. [Germany and Japan were such “sailors” in the WWII.]

In addition, military over-expenditures are not healthy for national economy: it either requires people’s economic sacrifices (which Americans willingly accepted during the WWII, because the war defended our country) or leads to an economy crisis. Any nation has two sectors of its national economy: (1) the War Economy funded via taxation and government borrowings and (2) the Value Creating Economy that provides Supply matching Demand from population and private businesses. The Value Creating Economy pays taxes to the government and does not consume tax money. If the War Economy exceeds certain proportion of the Value Creating Economy, this disproportion will break normal economic relations. For example, price bulbs (like overpriced real estate) burst (and we observe massive foreclosures); expectations of corporate profitability become moot and stocks (including pension savings) go down. [To be fair we must say that the reasonably proportionate War Economy prevents the crisis of overproduction (like the one in 1920’s-1930’s). Also if products of the War Economy are sold overseas, such sales contribute to the Value Creating Economy.]

Does it really matter whose fault it is, if the bond has expired? He drinks and cheats; she likes “bad boys.” She’s rude and careless; he likes “strong women.” There are thousand scenarios, which practically impossible to classify.

Does it really matter? One cannot be fully responsible for “evolution of relationship.” I agree it is a dialog (“two for tango”). However any evolution has its natural course. Over-analysis does not help to make future perfect. Lessons learned improve our abilities, but we are never perfect.
Somebody told me a joke, “To keep sanity everybody has to change one’s job and one’s spouse every five years.”

That says it all perfectly.

The plot hints about our policy in Afghanistan and Iraq. The analogy is false; we neither pump oil nor mine natural resources in these two countries.

I do not believe that a psychologically healthy person is striving for war, killing, raping, observing blood of one’s friends, being violently killed or tortured. Dissemination of such belief is nothing else, but pre-war propaganda. In days of peace it is a nice game to be cynical and express bizarre opinions. There are cases when the war is unavoidable, but those are much less than 50% in the human history. Social Darwinism was Gebels’ effective propaganda tool and nothing else. Napoleon killed 3 million young Frenchmen; Hitler – 9 million of Germans plus 6 million of Jews. Are you saying we are all that type? I am not.

"Fuhrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!"
Benito Mussolini - (to Adolf Hitler) 28th October 1940

"A gigantic fleet... has massed in Pearl Harbor. This fleet will be utterly crushed with one blow at the very beginning of hostilities...Heaven will bear witness to the righteousness of our struggle."
Rear-Admiral Ito - Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet - November 1941

"The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly."
Emperor Hirohito (On his Birthday) - 29th April 1942


Bumper stickers: Thoughtless war statements, propaganda or both?

http://media.www.collegian.com/media/storage/paper864/news/2009/02/27/Opinion/Bumper.Stickers.Thoughtless.War.Statements.Propaganda.Or.Both-3652112.shtml

Cliff23, I like gin and tonic. Happy Solstice!

Solstice and blessing are both silly? I disagree. We have a scientific debate here. I bet a calendar New Year would be under Rocket Science and marry christmas – under Stay Happy and Committed.

Which one, solstice or blessing?

My prayers for you. We’ll rock roll!!!

Thank you for sharing the scientific observation and the philosophy concept. Peace.

Snooow! It’s nice. News show it every day.