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originally posted by: MisterSpock
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: MisterSpock
It's generally bad form to admit you had a crush on the priest.
They should take the win.
How many of them could actually portray themselves as the victim....
ETA: The "Priest" was in fact a Priestest and she had the classical big ol knockers of the typical priestest straight out of a 80's B horror movie.
How about forcing people on probation and who have committed minor crimes to clean streets and highways of garbage for 8 hours once a week, as our town does?
originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: rickymouse
You forgot Honor thy father and thy mother.
That was a very important standard as well.
originally posted by: wantsome
We are a cutthroat society where most people will do what ever it takes to get ahead. Everyone is out for themselves. People in mass are coming unglued. If only we spent as much on making our country better instead of war we'd be a lot better off. Kids in Detroit don't even have heat in some of their schools. Yet other schools have tennis clubs. Some kids have to worry about where their next meal is going to come from. Instead of trying to find the root cause and fix what is wrong with the country we have a prison system built for profit. Corruption and greed have taken over in this country.
originally posted by: YouSir
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I’ll say it one more time so that maybe you’ll get the big picture...human beings are territorial...lactating...mammals...animals in fact and truth...humans are the top predator species on the planet...
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Some claim that violence is inherent in people. Others argue that senseless crimes cannot be explained as an unavoidable part of human nature.—See the box “Doomed to Violence?”
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DOOMED TO VIOLENCE?
Some argue that the propensity for violence or killing has always been inborn in humans. Supporters of evolution maintain that we come from wild animals and have simply inherited their violent characteristics. Such theories would leave us doomed to an endless cycle of violence from which there is no hope of escape.
However, there is much evidence to the contrary. The theories mentioned above do not explain why in different cultures there are wide variations in frequency and types of violence. They do not indicate why in some cultures responding with violence seems to be the norm, whereas other societies report very little violence, with murder almost nil. Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm exposed cracks in the theory that we inherit aggression from primates by pointing out that although some of them are violent as a result of physical needs or for self-protection, humans are the only ones who have been known to kill for the sheer thrill of killing.
In their book The Will to Kill—Making Sense of Senseless Murder, Professors James Alan Fox and Jack Levin state: “Some individuals are more prone to violence than others, yet free will still exists. The will to kill, though governed by numerous internal and external forces, still includes choice and human decision making, and thus accountability and culpability.”
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: toysforadults
We can analyze poverty all we want, but the key is what makes people poor.
The problem is that too many people want to blame everyone and everything except themselves for that.
Poor people make poor choices. My brother-in-law's brother is a trained mechanic. How many truly poor mechanics do you know? I know one. He can't even hold down a job because he lacks the basic job skills to show up on time and consistently, so he ends up fired.
Again, poor people make poor choices.
Nobody is ever going to point out the obvious...
Here is exactly how to improve your financial situation, your life situation.
But it's a lot easier to just blame others and ask your government to make it all better for you.
originally posted by: Willtell
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
I imagine it depends on what side of the issue one is on.
It's easy for the power culture to espouse love and peace and look at the glass as half full.
The millions denied good by the depraved evil of “civilization” will look at things as either half-empty or all empty
Didn’t you read I said sure there are good and sincere believers in all religions but the present day and history testify that the more negative has prevailed.
originally posted by: MisterSpock
originally posted by: FyreByrd
a reply to: MisterSpock
And does your outrage motivate a solution that you can share?
A start would be acknowledgement and stop labeling those that point out the truth as if it's coming from some source of hate or intolerance.
originally posted by: Willtell
a reply to: liejunkie01
America needs a massive retraining effort and to lower college tuitions or the future is grim...
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: MisterSpock
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: MisterSpock
I'm not so sure, in the past what you say there certainly applies, the world we live in now is a different beast though. With production and distribution centralised the way it is smaller towns will fail along with the cities.
Dense urban areas economic output is essential for globalism.
Rural output is more locally dependent.
That's really not debatable. And for clarification I'm talking about basic survival needs, not economic output.
If a collapse comes, only a fool would argue it to be advantageous to be in a dense urban area that would be cut off from essential supplies, supplies that are largely dependent on largely national/international(and somewhat rural) distribution networks.
Well I do agree with you there, I guess in the event of collapse then you country folk better have a lot of amunition, because those millions of people in those cities won't go hungry quietly and will search outward for sustainance.