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by Nick
Mon May 24, 2010 6:15 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

The US military is currently hard to compare with anything, not as much in military power (which is increasingly argued to be increasingly obsolete in the fast moving realities of a post-civilization UN administered world) but how their size, budget and intelligence sources are so intertwined with ...
by Nick
Wed May 19, 2010 5:37 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

Exactly. The chances any two nations going to war with each other is highly unlikely, and that is what most of the US military is designed for. So by having that kind of apparatus around in the modern world, it only makes the world less safe and secure.
by Nick
Mon May 17, 2010 10:47 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Certain Memes on the Rise.
Replies: 51
Views: 5823

Re: Certain Memes on the Rise.

Ah the age of 30, the age when all traces of genius in most men expires. Of course you, the harbinger of mediocrity, would associate that age as entering into a more enlightened period in one's life.
by Nick
Mon May 17, 2010 10:17 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Certain Memes on the Rise.
Replies: 51
Views: 5823

Re: Certain Memes on the Rise.

Alex T. Jacob wrote:Just read 3-4 of Nick's posts. Inspiration? I often get more from geese flying south.
Lets be real Alex, you care about entertainment, not inspiration.
by Nick
Sun May 16, 2010 11:00 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Certain Memes on the Rise.
Replies: 51
Views: 5823

Re: Certain Memes on the Rise.

There's nothing wrong with critiquing what you consider to be wrong with societal values, but at some point it just starts to sound negative, redundant and whiny. It would only be whining if I were a father and husband who wasn't happy with his situation, but alas, I am not. I'm simply making what ...
by Nick
Sat May 15, 2010 4:54 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

So finally you admit that you're just a troll. About damn time.
by Nick
Sat May 15, 2010 1:58 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Certain Memes on the Rise.
Replies: 51
Views: 5823

Re: Certain Memes on the Rise.

Another thing about how uninspired people are, it seems the only thing people are actually allowed to get inspired about is starting a family and everything else that entails, i.e. the stuff that women care most about.
by Nick
Sat May 15, 2010 1:52 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

Alex, I've told you before I have no interest in reading your diatribe, and don't try to use me as a catalyst for it either. If you have something to get off your chest, say it, or don't, either way I really don't care. Just because we both happen to post on the same message board doesn't mean I'm g...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 6:17 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interesting Article on the "Tea Party" Movement
Replies: 11
Views: 4297

Re: Interesting Article on the "Tea Party" Movement

Here's another good article by Noam Chomsky on the Tea Partiers: How the Tea Partiers Are Getting Screwed by Their Own Ideology
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 5:55 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Certain Memes on the Rise.
Replies: 51
Views: 5823

Re: Certain Memes on the Rise.

by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 5:53 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

Okay, I looked it up: 1. no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression. 2. of a discarded or outmoded type; out of date: an obsolete battleship. 3. (of a linguistic form) no longer in use, esp., out of use for at least the past century. Compare archaic. 4. effaced by wearing ...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 5:46 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

Animus,

They're still in the process of releasing each segment of the interview. They release one segment per day, and I'm not sure how many segments there will ultimately be in this interview.
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 5:20 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Certain Memes on the Rise.
Replies: 51
Views: 5823

Re: Certain Memes on the Rise.

Modern Spirituality is mostly about feeling good, it's about titillating our emotions and attaining greater and greater heights of egoistic gratification, and the means used to reach our ends are often just as superstitious before, but instead of any clearly defined ideas or concepts, people can no...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 4:58 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

This opinion of yours is unstudied, emotional, reactionary, and girlish. It is not balanced, considered, 'rational' and manly. I disagree. But the main part is that you seem driven by an a priori emotionalism. Wrong. Can you name a 'humane' army that is presently conducting war? Why are you asking ...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 4:19 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

A bit. What did you conclude from the interview with the soldier? I already summed that up in the OP. What are we to take away from that? I don't know what we are to take away from it, and I already took what I wanted to take from it. What is the 'nature of the US military as a whole'? It's primiti...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 3:52 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

I don't think I am myopic (as you seem to mean it). My point would be that there are many different 'opics' that one can use, in a given moment, to flesh out an understanding of things that happen in the world. The video shows aspects of a war that are no doubt terrible, but this incident was takin...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 3:50 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

What gives him relevancy is just that he seemed to realize that dissident politics is not just a 'game of righteousness' but takes place in a real world where motives are ALWAYS mixed and even dubious. You will find no human situation, even at a kindergarten level, where human motivations are not c...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 3:28 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Re: Interview with a Soldier

The 'inceredibly fascinating' comment seems disingenuous. Looked at directly, all war, any war, is completely horrible. Your implication is that the 'mentality' of the US army is somehow different than that of any other power that engages in war, which is false. Alex, you are completely myopic. The...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 12:59 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: everyone is the best fucking person, discuss. x
Replies: 27
Views: 7553

Re: everyone is the best fucking person, discuss. x

Cory Duchesne wrote:dejavus 15 threads in an hour (which Dan deleted) were indistinguishable from what someone might post after a serious head injury.
Well, drug induced or not, he seems to be carrying this trend on despite the warnings.
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 12:18 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Fallacy Of Genius
Replies: 25
Views: 7688

Re: The Fallacy Of Genius

A type of learning happens with genius, wrong thinking is corrected by right thinking, either by exposure to wiser individuals, reading and reflection and so on. It takes an inquisitive intellectual in the beginning, that is the seed to which genius grows. A strong dissatisfaction with conventional...
by Nick
Fri May 14, 2010 12:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: everyone is the best fucking person, discuss. x
Replies: 27
Views: 7553

Re: everyone is the best fucking person, discuss. x

Am I missing something or did "dejavu" suddenly go off the deep end?
by Nick
Thu May 13, 2010 11:40 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Certain Memes on the Rise.
Replies: 51
Views: 5823

Certain Memes on the Rise.

A few memes that seem to be on the rise in the minds of people is the vague concept of a "higher power" which orchestrates how things unfold, that some "cosmic force" is going to end their suffering, and a tendency toward the postmodern mentality that all "truths" are u...
by Nick
Thu May 13, 2010 10:40 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interview with a Soldier
Replies: 38
Views: 8210

Interview with a Soldier

The Real News is in the process of releasing a series of interviews with a former soldier who was stationed in Iraq. He was part of the company that was involved in the now infamous collateral murder video on wikileaks. I found it incredibly fascinating in how it reveals the mentality of the United ...
by Nick
Thu May 06, 2010 9:36 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interesting Article on the "Tea Party" Movement
Replies: 11
Views: 4297

Re: Interesting Article on the "Tea Party" Movement

Have you even driven by a tea party as a casual passerby or attended one? No. The few (about 12 or so) I've actually attended in California, North Dakota, Colorado, Oregon and Washington state, have been infiltrated by both mainstream Repubs and Dem insiders. But they stand out like a sore thumb an...
by Nick
Thu May 06, 2010 8:42 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Interesting Article on the "Tea Party" Movement
Replies: 11
Views: 4297

Re: Interesting Article on the "Tea Party" Movement

Looks like a bunch of angry old white men to me. Notice their trademark "Obama made to look like a fictional comic book character poster" as well. Way to make a statement about... well actually.... I haven't a fucking clue what kind of statement their trying to make with posters like that...