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"Genitalia, while fun to play with, are rarely peasent to look at"

This message has been edited by ic0n0 on October 08, 2001 at 07:46 AM

Secondly, my only problem with a lot of the peace demonstrators is that they don't really present a solution. They just say "we want peace." As I understand it, they just simply want "no war" without providing a viable path to get there.

There was a peace rally recently here where one man with a bullhorn walked behind them presenting his side of the argument. The peace rally participators got violent with him and started shoving and attacking him until the campus police stepped in.

A daily dose of irony is good for the soul.

edit: I'm reminded of an X-Files episode where Mulder requests "peace on Earth" from a Genia. The result? No people.

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When 1337 hax0rs start impaling each other with swords and typing code with a hook on one hand, then they can modify the term "pirate."

This message has been edited by Observer on October 08, 2001 at 08:10 AM

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"Genitalia, while fun to play with, are rarely pleasant to look at"

And the biggest problem with the peace demonstrators is that they become violent. Yeah, they have every right to protest and say what they want - but they seem to forget that everyone else has that right too!

Personally, I don't like war, but sometimes it's necessary. I'm glad our military has finally figured out how to win wars and at the same time win public opinion by taking the moral high ground. They learned from Vietnam, even if no one else has... things like "kill the bad guys while helping the civilians as much as possible."

Of course, both the doves and the hawks are going to disagree with that, for one reason or another, but it sounds like a DAMN good plan to me.

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Originally posted by ic0n0:
I think we should leave the middle-east maybe they would leave us alone then. This may seem a little to simplistic but really what do we care what the afghan’s and Iranians think.

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That's a strange attitude. Do you know why there's civil unrest in the middle-east? Because the extremist Muslims there believe that they deserve to live in Israel, and would love to kill off all Jews that are there... and anywhere else if they could.

What happens if we leave, stop our diplomacy, in addition stop representing our interests in settling the unrest? It goes to hell in a handbasket. We are one of the biggest obstacles to crushing those Damn Jews (TM). If we leave, the crazy Muslims (as opposed to the sane ones) will finally be able to reclaim their friggin 50 acres of holy land and live in paradise, or some shit. That's why they want to terrorize us, and threaten us to leave the area. We're not bullying, we're the teacher holding the two kids by the shirts and dragging their asses to the principles office.

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"Genitalia, while fun to play with, are rarely pleasant to look at"

my biggest hope is that after we blow the Taliban and bin Laden's asses into the next universe, we stick around and help Afghanistan get a working democratic government.

It's all a bit imperialistic, but the alternative is far worse - more civil unrest in the Middle East, which sucks for the entire world.

This message has been edited by ic0n0 on October 09, 2001 at 09:57 PM

It bothers me that people would devote their life, the only one they get, to destroying something because of what some fucking book said. So what if Jews are the bastard son of Mohammed, or whatever the fucking book says. I don't care. Books shouldn't inspire people to kill. BOOOOOOOKKK!!! A bunch of words written down on parchment!!!! How important is that!!?!!??!!??!

Sorry. If got wanted to speak words to me, he would have made mountains the shape of things I need to hear. He doesn't use the technology of people around year 0AD. This is a general religion arguement, but really this is what it's all about. Muslims hate Jews because it's proscribed in the Koran. Fuck that book. No book of an ever-loving god would pit two peoples against each other.

It's fucking stupid and I feel like I'm the only one that realizes it. Religion is a man-made fabrication of his understanding of the universe at the time. If a real god wanted to pit peoples against each other, he would have been a hell of a lot more sinister about it. From the teachings of religions, the idea of putting two religions in the ring against each other is more the work of a Satan. How do you fucks know that it wasn't him that wrote the Koran to make each other hate. Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!!

I am a person who wants peace more than anybody else. It irritates me to no end that people fight for the stupidest of reasons. Fuck holy lands, fuck God, fuck Jihads, fuck all of it. It's not like we're living in a world of shortage. We can all live like kings if we get along. It's the fuckers who bang their bibles to prove a twisted point that ruin it for us.

I'm done. Going to pass out now before I embarress myself further. It all just gets to me, given the astrological significance of it all. Sorry.