The Relevance of Serenity
POSTED BY: MarsOrBust
UPDATED: Monday, May 8, 2006 08:22
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Originally posted by MarsOrBust:
Please don't be a pretentious ass.
Ah yes, name-calling, the mark of a post that should in Real World Discussions. I was not trying to be a pretentious ass and I'm sorry if it sounded that way, I was just trying to point out that your posts were strangely formatted because of the quote tags.
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Copied from western civilization.
Most of it was, but I have a hard time believing that eveything in the Soviet Union was copied.
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And progressive taxation under a liberal regime is going to help that..LOL.
I never said that, I just wish the government would give a hand to sick people instead of a finger.
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Yes, the Enron guys should be shot, I agree.
Finally we agree on someting
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Wal-Mart on the other hand is the product of market forces.
Agree, again.
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You don't like Wal-Mart..get folks to stop shopping at Wal-Mart..Good Luck.
Most of the people I know don't, the rest are the type who don't care about the business practices of the companies, all they care about is getting crap for cheap.
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And here is the crux of the matter. You and yours take the word of a media that was infiltrated and taken over by socialists decades ago and you do so apparently without question.
OK, who should I believe? A guy on the Internet who for all I know could be joking? FOX news who tell me that the president is perfect? Some nut who writes about what the voices in his head say and then prints it on an underground newspaper? Where can I find the truth?
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By your own admission, you are too lazy to go and honestly investigate it for yourself. The books are all there in your public library my friend.
Yes I am, but assuming I could get off my lazy ass and get down to my library, which books are true? I can probably find books in the library that will support and refute you views, which ones are right? Since you are biased towards your point of view I can't trust you to objectively inform me of which ones to read, so how do I choose which ones to believe?
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Go look and get an honest assessment of what is going on before you condemn those that disagree with you
Once again, where? You say that the media has been infiltrated by the EVIL, socialists (which I am aware of by the way), how do I know that they haven't gotten to the books too?
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especially those of us that have developed their own informed opinion by investigating what the facts truly are for themselves.
Well the problem with this is is simple, I can't be sure that you have your facts straight. I'm not trying to say that you are mis-informed but rather that I can't know how you were informed so I can't tell for sure that you are properly informed. Just so you know, I do not claim to be well-informed myself.
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I trust the private sector with those billions far more than I do an impending socialist regime that will use that revenue to further erode my freedoms in the name of "equality'. An equality that will be defined ever downward as time goes on. We will all eventually be equal: equally impoverished, equally powerless, equally tyrannized and enslaved. Then perhaps you and yours will be happy.
So you would rather give more money to the next Enron?
As for being equally impoverished, the system we have in place continues to divert more and more money into the pockets of people who don't need any more, many of whom were born into their positions and have never really worked for their money, taking it away from the rest of us. Equally powerless? We have a President (a Conservative no less) who already ignores the will of the people, and he is a Conservative with deep ties to Big Oil and corporations, not very socialist to me. Equally tyrannized and enslaved? Yeah probably but that will happen no matter who we put in charge.
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It won't be for everyone. You are more than welcome to stay here and chase your pinko utopianNOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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Originally posted by SAVEWASH:
Wait, we're going to Mars? Yea!
Woo Hoo!!!
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Wait, we have to be capable and won't be taken care of there? You mean, there aren't any amenities on Mars?
Yep it'll be like roughing it in teh Wild West, except with almost no oxygen, and a touch cooler.
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Wait, we have to go with someone who calls someone else a pretentious ass for making a reasonable request? (It IS hard to read. Fred wasn't making it up.)
Thanks for backing me up on this
EDIT: on second though I probably could have worded it better, but still...
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I guess you can count me out. I'll just wait for the flight to Europa. No trolls there, so I've heard.
Actually they have Ice Trolls on Europa, but they are easier to kill because they don't regenerate and take double damage from fire
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Suddenly, moderator Chrisisall
This is new
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Whoah there, Tex, the first mark of a non-Browncoat is thinkin' they can judge who is or ain't Browncoats (Browncoats also don't generally use the word 'pinko'). Not sayin' you ain't one, just be careful, we're all here for the same reasons, and should respect each other, K?
Let's get back to talkin' about Mars, or some such thing.
Suddenly, moderator Chrisisall
Sorry 'bout the fuss Chris but this guy is being a pretentious ass.
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Quote:I'm trying to be a kinder, gentler Chrisisall.
Originally posted by fredgiblet:Quote:
Suddenly, moderator Chrisisall
This is new
But this is Marsorburst's first day, he is kinda rude...
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Quote:We kid because we love. Fred can be a little rough around the edges, but he's cool.
Originally posted by MarsOrBust:
Sorry 'bout the fuss Chris but this guy is being a pretentious ass.
Chrisisall, who's never rough around the edges. Just in the center of his own evil, rotten heart.
Sometimes. When he's doing his imitation of Ghandi.
You know, if he was really pissed.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Fred can be a little rough around the edges, but he's cool.
What the??? 'reads it again' I'm cool? Awesome!!! Go me!!!
Seriously though, to Marsorbust, I should have worded that differently it was a bit harsh. It's just that with all the writing to go through to keep up on a lot of these threads it gets really annoying when the formatting is working against the reader.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Sometimes. When he's doing his imitation of Ghandi.
You know, if he was really pissed.
I've seen Ghandi pissed man, it's not the sort of thing to joke about...it still haunts my nightmares...I still wake up crying thinking about it. ''hears a soft noise behind him and runs screaming into the bathroom'
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Quote:I know, ya have to read twice as slowly when the format works against you.
Originally posted by fredgiblet:
It's just that with all the writing to go through to keep up on a lot of these threads it gets really annoying when the formatting is working against the reader.
Chrisisallorbust
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Quote:You gettin' all bendy, Fred?
Originally posted by fredgiblet:
I've seen Ghandi pissed man, it's not the sort of thing to joke about...it still haunts my nightmares...I still wake up crying thinking about it. ''hears a soft noise behind him and runs screaming into the bathroom'
Lights, I see lights Chrisisall
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