thequietguy (1721) 3 SFW Posts | 64 Space Comments | Favorites | RSS Feed Paradox is the foundation of perceptive reality. Registered 2007-11-26 23:31:14 Comment Karma: 1 Featured Comments: 0 Member of :

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Comment on Delicious Meat (2008-01-17 18:37:15)
bad photoshop trickery
Comment on Terrorist Grandma (2007-12-29 17:57:56)
Words are the primary obstacle to communication. Everyone has got their own idea of what they mean. So many times I have witnessed conflict between people who have the same basic beliefs and life-goals, simply because they could not wrap their minds around the words they were hearing. We humans often get caught up in the details, forgetting what is truly important in our effort to prove our own point of view. People don't like being wrong, and only want the best for their family, friends, immediate neighbors and country. It's a fractal web of conceptual priorities, but focus too closely on any one detail and you have an entirely new picture, with it's own inherent problems. We disagree when we can no longer see other peoples point of view because we are so involved with our own. I say all of this because I am a first generation American, my mother immigrated to this country in the seventies from Colombia, she was very fortunate. Until she came to America her life was very hard, she was born in the fifties during a time of brutal civil unrest. My Grandparents had to flee their home and property because bands of bearded men with bloody machetes were roving the mountains pillaging, raping, and murdering all that could not afford to defend themselves. When order was restored they returned home to find that their home was burned, and all the papers that proved their ownership of the land had been stolen. The neighbors claimed the land belonged to them, my Grandfather took my uncle and left my Grandmother and her three daughters destitute. I am aware of what can happen in a country where the government is corrupt and unaccountable. But most often this is the result of poor, uneducated, citizenry powerless to change the status quo, manipulated by bloodthirsty warmongers to hold beliefs that serve the good of the elite, while promising a brighter future for the underprivileged. BUT.... here in America the elite live like gods and the underprivileged live like the well to do of third world countries. I don't deny that the capitalist politics that allow this to be so are most likely immoral. But it is next to impossible to do anything about it. Stop buying cheap shit from China and you shut down a sweatshop, but you also deprive a child of their only source of income. It is not the American governments fault that the Communist Chinese government allows for children to work under such conditions. Still I buy overpriced American products, because I am educated and affluent and can afford to support local business. I am also a first generation Latin American who's mother came to this country with nothing. Hard work, planning, vision, these things lead to success no matter who you are. My cousins in South America tell me that there aren't as many opportunities where they live. That I take for granted my soft American lifestyle. But the strength of my country is the American people, who for all their faults still believe in each other. We look out for each other, sure you might get screwed over now and then, but there is a limit to what an American community will tolerate, and most of us still own guns. There will never be a time when random innocent people disappear en-masse, no matter how many laws you change. When someone disappears in this country people tend to notice and even if the FBI, CIA, ATF, INS, TSA, DHS and any other acronyms you can think of, won't do anything about it. You can depend on SOMEONE coming to your aid. I don't see that kind of thing going on when I travel abroad. It's usually Americans and the odd European and Asian or two risking life and limb to help war torn Nations that refuse to help themselves. The mass of Americans might be dumb and lazy, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous, because three hundred million hi-tech dip shits is more than a match for any corrupt government.
Comment on 5 year old stoner (2007-11-26 19:52:40)
And there's no way that she's going to light that bong holding the lighter like that.
Comment on 5 year old stoner (2007-11-26 19:50:26)
The article says something about the Northern Territories, so I'm guessing this is from Canada. Notice that upon close inspection you'll find that there is no weed in the bowl of the bong. this is clearly right-wing propaganda.