[quote=Akira]
In the past, I have been criticized for my long, emotional posts, and have made recent attempts to correct this.
Been told the same thing about my "rants." So, more dilemmas, right?
I'm not very good at being pithy, however. Tenth-grade English:
1. Before you can discuss anything, there must be agreement on the definition of terms. And
2. Before you can define what something is, you must define what it is not.
These days, by the time you simply lay the foundation for an intelligent discussion, most people are either bored to tears or completely lost.
So i.e., I understand, and agree, that I misunderstood some of what you were saying. And that, Akira, ain't no problem, right?
While I have conciously chosen anger over despair, (anger is far more constructive than despair)...
"Feel the power of the dark-side." I did that, too, for a long time. Now? Hell, I've pretty much just given up. We seem to be living in the age that's really best described with that "pithy" little "Don't confuse me with the facts. My mind's made up."
Or: Really hard to get a populace interested in the really substantive matters when the overwhelming majority really do care who's going to win the next "Survivor" series.
now that there is a light at the end of the tunnel for me...
Due to budget cuts, the light at my tunnel was cut-off and, due to downsizing, they even threw my ass right out of the tunnel!
Ah. I love the destined-to-be-immortal words of Stonesour:
"Dastardly bastards with their thumb on your pulse and their fingers on the trigger."
the anger is no longer constructive and has been relieved of duty.
I gave up "most" of the anger because it kept me distracted from what really matters to me: My family. By focusing so much on "them," "they" were still going to win even if I "won," in the legal/patriot sense.
Screw 'em. "They" ain't worth my time. Yes, like you, and all of us, I wish they'd just leave me alone. <heavy sigh> I think that's not likely to happen...
Men & women offer their allegiance...
Yeah. Re that "allegiance" thing....
Whole bunch of folks all in an uproar about "prayer" in schools, or the lack of it. Me? We need to stop FORCING itty-bitty little minds to repeat a "pledge of allegiance," period, end of discussion. That "pledge" contains some might powerful, personal "committments" to "the state," and NO ONE should be "forced" to make such a pledge, at least not in a "free" society.
And so forth. (Nice thing about the folks here is y'all can fill in the blanks....I'm used to dealing with truck-drivers where the most intelligent thing you usually here is "I ain't got no panties on.")
Are you suggesting, if someone kills you, or a family member, or commits some other 'real crime' (mala in se) that someone/anyone/a collective authoity, should do nothing?
No, no, no....
But now that you mention it....
Why DOES the "state" care if I get murdered?
Is it because:
1) It's "morally" wrong? (Wait. That's "government" legislating morality, right?) Or:
2) The "state" is pissed off that it lost a "taxpayer"? I.E., back to the notion that, in "reality," the state is dealing with us all as "legal fictions," and NOT as flesh-and-blood entities. Mmmmmmmm
Uh-oh. Mr. Headache is returning....
the civil flag was used until 1890 or so
Had never, ever heard of that. Checked it out. How damned cool!
[b]"...the science of law...."
Oh, whatever judge/court said that is SO damnably arrogant, patronizing, and condescending. Perfectly typifies the BB-type.
Oh, wait. More Stonesour:
"Government is just another way to say better....than....you."
Egad... now I've got a headache...
See? "They" are killing us....
Take care of yourself, Akira.
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