Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
I admire your dedication to something as elaborate as non violence in today's day and age.
Well, violence is the lowest form of stupidity, if you ask me.
Nothing is gained through violence except harm to others.
Even self-defense is violence through positive intent by self-preservation.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
Though it may be futile given the fact we are a violent society.
Granted.
Society itself is as violent as the lowest common denominator.
We are attracted towards sports and bloodlust which took the place of the
Flavian Amphitheatre.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
If a rattle snake feels it is threatened it will coil itself close together and strike its enemies when the time is right.
Any animal, whether four-legged, or two-legged, meaning man, when attacked, will either fight, coiling ready to strike, or flee in a rabbiting
scenario.
Fight or Flight is an instinctual nature of all creatures big and small.
I choose to stand and fight and when and if I choose flight I am planning a bushwhack.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
This is what and how "these" people operate.
By "these" people I assume you're referring to politician's.
They are social animals as much as we are but they are amoral and immoral.
The difference between them and us is they know they're criminals often.
And we often as a society live in denial of that fact and or choose to remain ignorant.
The
bread and circuses of Ancient Rome has bred into
Welfare and American Idol.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
It doesn't matter if you lobby for the change of laws, it doesn't matter if you write your congressman.
Lead by forward movement or by apathy.
One will make change.
The other will get you killed.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
What changes in the right direction have you seen take place in the past decade to show that this actually works?
I rarely ever see any positive change.
The same lies are told, the same campaign promises are broken, the same old politics as usual happens, due not just to the corruption, but due to the
apathy.
Ignorance.
Stupidity.
Unrealistic idealism that people will keep promises they have zero intention of keeping.
Without ever demanding those people step down.
Except in one city recently.
CA City Seeks Resignation of High-paid Officials
Let us hope Bell, California, spreads like wildfire, like the Liberty Bell.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
If you can show me we as a "united" states of the people are back on track, because it works...then i'll shut up and say I was wrong.
We the People are divided, but only because we the people do not know why it is far more important than Government, because united, we do not
need Government.
Something Government fears.
Which is why Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.
He was unifying people outside of Government control through Civil Rights.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
I'm not trying to advocate everyone take up arms and march on D.C. I'm just stating that history has proven that those with the bigger guns usually
have the last word.
Of course.
The man with a bigger gun has the best chance but the man who knows how to take that gun away through non-violence, is not only better, but smarter
and successful.
The question is whether we are men who need guns, or who can make a bigger stand and impact, by taking those guns away, by standing armed with
knowledge.