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[samson]

Oh, right. Him. Sucker. But, as much as I would like to mutilate you for your blasphemy, my mission is to educate the masses. And thus, wiki for Transmetropolitan. Best damn comic ever made.

Noots? You think I'm JUST on noots? Man, head bones, HEAD BONES. I love my head bones...

[Centurion]

You were only tricked into WWII because Britain was busy fighting your war for you and had worked itself into the bone. Make no mistake it was as much America's wars as it was Britain's, WWII was a fight for world freedom and you guys swaggered in late.

[Centurion]

Oh, right. Him. Sucker. But, as much as I would like to mutilate you for your blasphemy, my mission is to educate the masses. And thus, wiki for Transmetropolitan. Best damn comic ever made.

Noots? You think I'm JUST on noots? Man, head bones, HEAD BONES. I love my head bones...

I hear these head bones are good shit.....

[samson]

My head bones tell me many things. They are good. I love my head bones.

Aaanyways. I'm surprised that you guys (as a nation) haven't already grown jaded on your political history of bullshit. I mean, was there EVER a president that didn't **** over something? Or a congress? Or a senate? It's really not so hard to see how shitty your current political organization is. I don't mean to start a list, but when court procedure can be stopped by saying the magical word of "goverment secret", it's pretty clear that something is seriously wrong.

[JMorgan]

Our current political organization as it appears on the surface to the masses is not the same as the "political" organization underneath that really matters. I'm not worried about the direction of the country regardless of who's president.

[DJS]

Every civilization in history has eventually failed, I don't see why the current western dynamic would be an exception to this rule (though there is certainly the possibility that it could be, I'd just like to hear the argument ). Does this worry me? No, not really. I am also not "worried" about global warming, genocide in rwanda or some doomsday asteroid striking the planet and wiping out intelligent life as we know it. All scary scenarios to be sure, but well outside my sphere of influence or control.

So I set my focus towards these issues on autopilot and usually my preexisting knowledge, combined with the passive acquisition that comes with hanging around folks such as yourselves, allows me to still hold my own at dinner parties where too much alcohol has been served (and thus these types of topics become once again socially acceptable to discuss)

Worry about personal finances, worry about being properly positioned to take advantage of technological trends as they arise, and worry about the ordeal that comes with justifying your own existence each and every day of your life. But don't sweat the small stuff. [tung]

[JMorgan]

Yes, in terms of our success as a civilization, the odds are against us according to history, but so are the odds against solving the mysteries of aging. And like our quest to defeat aging, where new ways of thinking and technology may overcome the odds, our civilization as we know it is quite unique from those of the past.

New ways of thinking have arisen and we stand on the edge of either great catastrophe or great prosperity. The symbol of the pyramid on the back of the dollar has luscious green land in the foreground and a stark desert in the back, and the pyramid we represent when we put our minds together stands right in the center between these two paths.

I'm optimistic because to think otherwise is too depressing.

Edited by JMorgan, 08 January 2007 - 04:42 PM.

[eternaltraveler]

nations, governments, and cultures rise and fall. Generally however, most people live on.

[xanadu]

bik, you must hate democrats with a passion. Now you want to dig up dead presidents and hang them. Is that your version of it must be ok because others did it? I'm using that next time I murder someone. I'll just say it's been done before so don't bother me about it.

I'm not prejudiced one way or the other. I hate most politicians demo or repub. The deluded scumbag Bush's new strategy is to send even more troops over to Iraq to be slaughtered like sitting ducks. Fortunately, congress and the senate are in demo hands so the chimp can't just do as he pleases. When is the bastard going to be impeached? That's what I want to know.

[spacey]

Then what about the nutjob who kills your whole family after raping your mother or molesting your little sister?  Premeditated.  Cold blood.  Just because they were there.  And he wanted $20.

Sounds far fetched?  As hard as it is for us to believe, that crap still happens in this world.

You can easily turn that the other way around what if someone very very close to you comitted such crimes would you be for killing that person?

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi

[JMorgan]

That's hard to imagine and I guess my answer won't seem genuine to you, but I would probably feel MORE hurt if it was someone close to me. I'd have a very difficult time understanding, nor would I probably want to. On top of all that loss, I'd feel betrayed as well. I would still want the person to suffer.

Living in peace is only possible when everyone wants to do that. The second someone decides otherwise, it is imperative that we act to defend ourselves even if it means the use of violence. To secure peace is to prepare for war.