Garry77777's Waterfall
A reduced rate of metabolism has a lot to do with it as well, that's why it's a constant fight against the tide to stay slender, especially if you weren't naturally slender to begin with, that' why most middle aged people just settle down with someone and say, fuck it!!!!!!
"According to Gary77777, the U.S. tried forcing Iraq into democracy. Evil!"
Yep, that quote expresses my view perfectly, down with the great satan, by the will of Allah we shall have sharia in the US yet, Insha'Allah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As much as it goes against my beliefs the juxtaposition of the top two pictures made me laugh quite hard so im this on side;-)
"The thing is though, religion often fuels desparity"
I don't beleive this is correct, at least not in the context in which i think you meant it, religion is an opiate used as a remedy for desparation.
"Non-issues are being depicted as something we should despair over, causing fear in the minds of many people"
People are only susceptible to this kind of fear if they are unwilling to critically analyse their own existence, the reality is far too many people are contented with their servitude, i do beleive Aldous Huxley's vision is coming true.
I am just glad that teh OWS movement has emerged to counteract mainstream discourse to degree.
"I was brought up a Christian and know that parts of the bible are as bad or worse than parts of the Qur'an."
Fair enough, i can agree with that completely, i just thought you might be one of those people who lovs to criticise Islam but fails to recognise the religious fundamentalism in his own soceity.
I think people too easily forget about the danger posed by religous fundamentalism in the west, instead choosing to focus on the east, take for instance Iran who may or may not be developing a nuc, you have people calling for war, and even a pre-emptive nuclear strike, and we don't even know if their building one.
I mean Goerge W Bush openly stated he heard vioces from God, and that was part of what led him to Iraq, and 1.2 million died as a result.
Religious fanatacism in our culture is just as much as a danger as in the ME, amybe even more the technology and expertise to wipe out the planet many times over, look the republican GOP candidates, thee are some crazy people up there who could potentially inhabit one of the worlds foremost positions of power, that thought scares me more than a country like Iran (which ive been to BTW) gaining a nuc.
"And I have no obligation to respect your religion."
Nor does anyone have any obligation to respect anything.
"I think Islam and the Qur'an disgusting and I find its teachings immoral"
And whats your opinion of Chrsitianity?
"What other than a calling from god would cause sane people to kill themselves and others in acts of terrorism?"
Actually many terrorist groups have used suicide to inflict casualties without the belief that God asked them to do it, or the promise of 72 virgins, although instances of this are less numerous.
While i will concide that religious fanaticism greatly increases the willingness (and thus frequency) to kill oneself in angry, i think desperation is also a primary cause.
You see desparation is the fuel of religion, and the more extreme the religious views the better.
"Wikipedia is full of false information "
Thats probably why he included a link to national geographics website supporting his opinion.
"Animals have got it into there brain that they need the opsite gender."
Of course they have if they didn't the species would die out, any species whose genes told them to sleep only with members fo same sex are nto around to tell their story for that exact reason i.e. natural selection deselected them from the gene pool
Homosexuality is frequently displayed in nature, to blindly refuse to acknowledge the truth when its staring you in the face, and couldn't be any clearer is incredibly ignorant.
Well it should be obvious, its because they lack alternative military options, when all else fails your body is an effective weapon.
This sums it up nicely:
When Ahmed Ben Bella, the leader of the Algerian revolution, was asked why he was placing bombs in baby carriages and leaving them in the soot to explode amongst the French forces and their collaborators, he answered:
"If the French will give us some of their helicopters, some of their aeroplanes, we will give them our baby carriages."
"no, an oxymoron is when you say, "I'm a smart liberal"
Thans for the correction;-)
How about the top 1%, im sure they've got plenty of room in their houses, i imagine they're quite large, plus most of them probably have multiple houses all over the country and they can't be in two places at the same time (law of conservation of mass) so why don't the homesless shack up in those houses, if you think about it its a much more practical solution;-)
"If a small part of the "99%" change everything they want to change without considering the voices of the rest of the 99% they are just as bad as the street they hate."
Actually one of their main goals is to achieve real democracy(so the rest of the 99%'s vioices can be heard), not the fake kind you have at the moment where every year the two parties come out and give the illusion of choice in some pointless election. Then later the interests of the 1% are served, there your point is moot.
Ya it was developed largely by fundamentalist wackjobs from Britain, Germany, Holland etc., if it wasn't for the hispanic, irish, mexican (and others) influence on american the coutnry would have no fucking soul, look at your country before the sixties, really is that a place you'd want to live in, fuck id barely live there now, you know your country and China have the largest per capita execution rates than any other country in the world. Not a stat id be very proud of, especailly since you pontificate about all these backward countries, and then go kill them to show them how they should be living.
Without those hippies you hate sp much the civil right movement would have never occured, i dread to think what kind of country the US would be if that 60s never happened, you should be commending these people.
Yes it does actually...............................
"Garry does love to do that."
Really, this is news to me, how many times have i even responded to you, couldn't be mroe than 4-5.
" The thing I hate most is that in every argument he has to make some personal attack on either your intelligence or affiliations."
No you do that all on your own.
"If he claims to be as smart or educated as he claims to be"
I don't ever remember saying anything to you about being smart or educated, please show me exactly the quote where i said anything to you about my education or level of intelligence, you've been reading my other posts, now whose the stalker?
Seriously, when did i ever bring IQ or education into an argument with you, or even Sierrastruth,or anyone for that matter, i don't think i did, cause i wouldn't use my education as some pathetic tool to win an argument, arguments are won and lost on the merits and demerits of someones posts, not on what level of education they claim to have so ive never engaged in a tactic like that, i was asked recently in an argument what level of education i had and what i was studying in college, and i duly responded but that wasn't adressed to you or Sierrastruth.
I know plenty of people who are practically illiterate but have insight and knowledge i can never hope to possess, thats why i don't bring it into arguments, i even insinuated that some was stupid it wasn't because i beleive their unintelligent its because i find their views stupid.
If you're going to accuse someone of something at least make sure there is some truth to it, for instance you could easily have said i treated you like fool in our debates, thats true, and makes me look bad, but you didn't, you decided to accuse me of something im not even guilty of. That my friend makes you look bad.
First of all i know this may come as a shock but i have better things to be doing than following you around on this site, the only reason i even did that once is cause you called me an idiot and a psycho, and said you weren't going to reply to me, so naturally i went around to every comment of yours i could and psoted my reply there. Now you can think whatever you want of me, label whatever you wish, it really doesn't matter me i won't be wasting anymore time on a person who won't even admit that killing 1.2 million people in Iraq was illegal.
I am neither actually...............................
No it really doesn't, you see the reason Isreal have so many Palestian's (not terrorists) is because the extremist state of Isreal routinely captures Palestians and imprisions them without trial or any reason for being capture, its called interment and the British did it the catholic population of Northern Ireland in the 70s,and 80s until it was outlawed.
Thats why the Isreal have so many Palestians in prison, no other reason.
Now i admit that many being held in prison without trial have done somehting wrong, but in most cases its no more than trying to defend his home from being stolen out from under him, or throwing stones at armoured vehicles as they bull doze through his village.
They are referring to the fact that 1% of the american population control 40% of the countries wealth, there saying were the 99% who you've been fucking these last few decades taking more and mroe and more from, pretending that this bullshit system treats everyone equal when in reality it does the opposite, so maybe you should correct your debate title. BTW im not surprised you didn't realise that 1% of your population control 40% of the wealth, and the top 10% control 90% of the wealth, i dunno maybe you fall into the 10% category.
Ya not the feather Indians cause we all know there pretty hard to find these, wonder why that is?
"Israel, with its population of 7.5 million, has won the same number of Nobels as India"
The state of Isreal has never and will never represent all Jews, the Jews that formed Isreal did not represent the vast majority of Jews at the time, and they don't now. This is another tool used by the propagandists to convince people that Isreal = Judaism, therefore is you dislike Isreal or its hanus actions in anyway your an anti-semite (e.g. Jimmy Carter), and most likely a holocaust denier as well.
"WHY THE FUCK WOULD AMERICA BOMB ITS OWN BUILDINGS THREE TIMES! "
Fear is an excellent tool to manipulate the masses, people need to beleive that fear which is perpetuated by the media isn't simply irrational, therefore it is entirely conceivable that a false flag event, even of the scale of 9/11, could be carried out. This should always remain a possible exaplantion as long as there are unanswered questions, and in the case of 9/11 there are a lot of unanswered questions.
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George Orwell was one of the first people to put this in print, in his most fampus book 1984 he describes a dystopian future society modelled on the USSR in which fear and coercion are used to keep people in line. You should read this book as its easily one of the greatest ever written, and will give you great insight into the question you posed even if you don't fully grasp its nuances and subtleties.
"THOES 15% are fudging stupid like fo realz but idk "
You should never ridicule something you do not have a proper understanding of.
"GOD BLESS US OF A"
You should try to cultivate a natural distrust of all things ideological, this can be done by questioning every answer you receive.
I honestly deep down don't beleive in political actions, i think the system contracts and expands as it wants to and accomodates certains changes, i think the civil rights movement was an accomodation on the part of those who own the country, i think they see where their self interest lies, they see a certain amount of freedoms as good, an illusion of liberty, give these people a voting day every year so we have the illusion of menaingless chioce that we go like slaves, and can then say" oh i voted", the limits of debate in this country are established long before the debate even begins, and everyone else is marginalised or made out to be a communist or some kind of disloyal person, a cook, and now its a conspiracy theorist, they've made that something that should not be even entertained for one minute, that powerful people might actually get together and make have a plan, doesn't happen, you're a cook, youre a conspiracy buff!!!!!!!!!
- George Carlin R.I.P.
"Maybe they shouldn't go to war and behave themselves "
Ya they should behave themselves, they should be good little slaves, they should bend over and take that big 15 inch US dick and like it, isn't that right. The cheek of these people demanding things like freedom, the right not be occupied by foreign powers who only want to steal their resources, the right not to be killed indiscriminately. You said it Joe, they've got some fucking neck!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Because developed nations never fight each other?"
I think we both know that in the vast majority of cases strong opponents generally fight much weaker ones that cannot adequately defend themselves (i.e. the entire history of US foreign policy since the end of WW2), whereas opponents that present a major threat due to their strength are rarely attacked i.e. US vs. USSR is case in piont
" Nor undeveloped nations fight each other?"
The debate subject is concerned with drone warfare, the fact is underdeveloped countries are never going to have the finances to develope significant number of drones for their military,therefore when impoverished countries go to war, as they often due, they won't have drones are their disposal, therefore my piont stands, and your reply doesn't.
That isn't to say they won't use drones but they will most likely be unable to acquire enough of them to give themselves a serious military advantage, and even if they did, your original piont about all done armies fighting other drone armies really falls flat on its ass when applied to impoversihed countries, i think most people would agree with that.
