Lasher
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Global Steward
Destruction of the empty spaces is my one and only crime \m/ >_< \m/
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Post by Lasher on Apr 10, 2008 14:57:12 GMT -5
It made me realize how small the world is getting in where a poor kid from Brooklyn could be text msging advice to the future president of the US and how instead of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove it might be Chris Rock that has the ear of the next president of US. Trippy It is a strange world indeed and I think that this points to our electronic age. Strange things have always happened but we just didn't hear about it. Now that the world has become one giant link and you have instant access to just about anything or anyone then we will become increasingly aware of surprising bedfellows. That is kinda weird... but cool. I was just browsing around the other day and noticed someone say that technology would be the death of us all. It got me thinking a bit, and I realized that technology has been detrimental in a lot of ways... but I think a kind of amazing good has come of it as well, in that, as you described, we have all become connected. Like a hive of bees... except less organic. *Edit just to add quotes... hadn't realized I was on the next page. |
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Post by androgyn on Apr 15, 2008 9:01:30 GMT -5
Right on Lasher!
Dialogue and understanding are the only long term solutions to the "war on terror". The terror is in our own minds and created by collective karma because of our own past wrongdoings on the world scene. The only thing that needs to be done here is
to kill man's wish to kill. Bravo for clear and present insight!
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TarotDragon
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ignore me, i'm an idiot
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Post by TarotDragon on Apr 16, 2008 18:03:44 GMT -5
Time to throw my two cents in now. ;D
I'm not so sure about this statement any more. Listening to the news and the comentators on the political stuff, they're getting fed up of the distractions too. Ususally they jump all over something a candidate might have said wrong, but now they're saying just let it go and get back to what's important. Which was refreshing because usually they're glorifying in their juicy downfalls. So maybe this is a time of change and people are getting tired of letting themselves get distracted from what's important.
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Post by androgyn on Apr 16, 2008 19:35:50 GMT -5
This is the beauty of Obama...
He seems to be able to be sage enough to bring the
conversation back to what's really important, and seems
mature enough not to fall for the absurd arguments
and traps set for him. We may just have someone who
understands that its important to be an adult
in the white house for a change, even though he is
"inexperienced". That to me, is an asset, not a detriment
because he is seeing with fresh eyes and common sense
like a child might, seeing that the emporer is indeed naked!
He also has so far made great come backs in the controversies around his use of words or his (pastor's) words; (how absurd to judge him by what his pastor said to begin with...) Everone else getting so caught up in semantics and not seeing that what he said was actually true about Americans' frustrations being in large part economic at this time, and trying to find some solace in what comes natural to them. It was a perfectly valid and true assessment of our state at this time...at least to this overworked and underpaid citizen here!
May he get stronger and stronger! A vote for him is a vote for sanity and clarity!
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Post by MagnetMan on Apr 16, 2008 20:06:48 GMT -5
If the Clintons had given 90% of the $100 million they have grossed over the past 8 years to charity, instead of 10%, Hilary would be a sure-fire shoo-in for next president, and still have $10 million in the bank.
She adds insult to injury by claiming to have the common touch. She needs to get back to minimum wages for a while.
What is really ironic is that most people are trained to admire the obcenity of so much dollar excess.
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