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How Do Americans Define "Freedom", "Friends", & "Family"?????
I, (Esoteric Teacher), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
A brief history of “common sense”.
Dear G.O.D., (Government Of Dollar$)
Actions speak louder than words. This means if what a person actually does is inconsistent with what a person says, why believe what they say more than what they choose to do?
Friends do not mandatorily expect friends to conform to expectations so numerous they shall not live long enough to learn them. This is not an example of loving friends.
Family does not mandatorily expect family to conform to expectations so numerous they shall not live long enough to learn. This is not an example of loving family.
Freedom is not defined by the requirements of conforming to a system that has more laws than any child born today can live long enough to learn before they die. this is not an example of freedom. this does not make people feel at home.
Yet, American doesn’t only pander such expectations, but they do enforce such a definition of freedom by means of war in how many other countries these days?
TERRORISM is defined by ruling by fear, and manipulating and coercion using fear.
Do Americans fit the description of terrorists?
the global war on terrorism (by the way, global = world, so stop calling it the global war on terror and start calling it what it is: WWIII)
Americans are participating in a system of Mandatorily expecting everyone else on the planet to conform to their form of “freedom” by war?
Let’s take a poll:
Americans,
If America took all their supreme court justices, all their senators and all their congressmen and locked them up in a huge plush hotel with all the necessities that they required, but didn’t let them out until they wrote down from memory all the laws that currently exist, would they be able to do so prior to all dying of old age?
insanity is paying other people to make more laws when you can't number the laws that already exist, nor live long enough to learn them, in my opinion.
If they can’t do it then how is it “FREEDOM” to expect any newborn to learn all their societies mandatory expectations? lawmakers expect of newborns what they all combined can't prove they know? this is freedom, justice, and the pursuit of happiness?
Americans,
From your perspective from where you are right here and now …
What are the number of laws that you must adhere to?
If you can’t provide a number of the laws, how sure are you that you are even complying with them?
Is this what Americans are willing to send their neighbors off to war, die or be killing, for?
Americans,
How is it you can honestly claim to be supporting your troops when they are killing and dying for a system which defines freedom as an institution that has more mandatory requirements than any child can live long enough to learn, let alone comply with?
Why not just sit a bunch of toddlers down to play monopoly and slap them every time they break a rule? Maybe not a fair comparison, since Americans’ ideologies are responsible for more than just slapping foreign children in distant lands.
Americans,
If you can’t comply with your expectations why expect others to be able to do so?
If you can’t comply with your expectations, then why enforce this “freedom” on others through acts of war?
Americans,
Is your common sense broken, or are you the sane ones and I’m somehow looking at this wrong?
American
How many laws must you abide by from your perspective, a number please?
Please include in your census all local, state, and federal laws.
Thanks,
E.T.
P.S. If you are not my friend, and you are not my family, then dear JURY, how are you my peers?
If you are not my friend, and you are not my family ....
then, american, what are you?
[edit on 4-6-2010 by Esoteric Teacher]
Originally posted by Legion2112
Do you always have to start America-bashing threads that serve absolutely no purpose but to inflate your already inflated ego?
Seriously, I want to understand the psychology of this...
You post a thread title that bears no resemblance to anything in the thread, benign enough to warrant attention but not revealing of the rhetorical agenda contained within.
Seriously, you contribute nothing here. Nothing.
Seriously dude, what's the point?
Originally posted by AlreadyGone
You sure sound jaded. Which Americans are you talking about?
Originally posted by Legion2112
Do you always have to start America-bashing threads that serve absolutely no purpose but to inflate your already inflated ego?
Seriously, you contribute nothing here. Nothing.
Seriously, you contribute nothing here. Nothing.
Originally posted by Legion2112
Do you always have to start America-bashing threads that serve absolutely no purpose but to inflate your already inflated ego?
Seriously, I want to understand the psychology of this...
You post a thread title that bears no resemblance to anything in the thread, benign enough to warrant attention but not revealing of the rhetorical agenda contained within.
Seriously, you contribute nothing here. Nothing. Unlike other threads that criticize the U.S. government and seek to prevent such actions in the future, you seek to hate for hate's sake because you cannot see beyond your own narrow, dogmatic view of the world that demands that others buy into your bull@#$t or explain themselves to you.
Seriously dude, what's the point?
Originally posted by Legion2112
Do you always have to start America-bashing threads that serve absolutely no purpose but to inflate your already inflated ego? Seriously, I want to understand the psychology of this...
Seriously dude, what's the point?
Main Entry: ego
Pronunciation: \ˈē-(ˌ)gō also ˈe-\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural egos
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, I — more at I
Date: 1789
1 : the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world
2 a : EGOTISM 2 b : SELF-ESTEEM 1
3 : the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality especially by functioning both in the perception of and adaptation to reality — compare ID, SUPEREGO
— ego•less adjective
Main Entry: su•per•ego
Pronunciation: \ˌsü-pər-ˈē-(ˌ)gō also -ˈe-(ˌ)gō\
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, translation of German Über-ich, from über over + ich I
Date: 1919
: the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is only partly conscious, represents internalization of parental conscience and the rules of society, and functions to reward and punish through a system of moral attitudes, conscience, and a sense of guilt — compare EGO, ID
Main Entry: 1id
Pronunciation: \ˈid\
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, it
Date: 1924
: the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives — compare EGO, SUPEREGO
Originally posted by AlreadyGone
You sure sound jaded. Which Americans are you talking about?
Originally posted by NightShift
Here you go friend, have a ball with the US Budget:
www.gpoaccess.gov...
As for how much tax I pay, that is between me and the IRS.
Most Americans don't really have a say as to how the American Government's foreign policy runs from day to day. Not much different from each of the other 200+ countries in the world.
I will say this, which is what I tell most other people who don't like American foreign policy. If you don't like what my government does (I don't always like it myself) then stop wasting time complaining about it and lobby your own government to take its own initiative.
If you really ARE an American, then call your representatives and organize.
The system WORKS.
The problem is that we are so big and diverse here in America, with so many different cultures and backgrounds and beliefs, that we often cannot agree on what to organize for. Calling us out usually does it, though.