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[Rock]

Went to the dog park the other day. Not here, of course, but back in the good old USA. Saw the dogs playing, happy and carefree, and that hundreds of them, making me feel so relieved to see freedom and what it offers.

Saw those dogs back in Korea too, the ones tied to dilapidated dog houses, chained to cages with bowls without water. . . You know the story.

Some say it's a difference in dog culture. I say the difference symbolizes freedom and what it can do.

Then I met a Canadian at the dog park, a woman from Toronto, believe it or not. She was exquisite, making me wonder about the un-exquisite souls stomping Korea. You see, I live in Florida, USA., where many Canadians come to visit at the nice beaches and what not. They appreciate the beauty of freedom and what it can bring.

But not so those in Korea, it seems, when it comes to sensing freedom and what it represents, making them mis-informed misanthropes of Americans. She had a sense of belonging, despite political differences, whereas those in Korea didn't seem to have any. Was it because they were without what she represented, what this dog park symbolized?

Funny thing was, after parting with her, I didn't say anything to her about teaching English in Korea, and she didn't say anything to me about us bombing Iraq. It must've been the beauty of freedom that brought us together, unlike those in Korea.

It's great to be unchained from ignorance.

[JAWINSEOUL]

Thanks for the post on the surface it��s a good thought.

Is what you experience in America freedom, or is it just a mirage.

The United States only has two viable political parties. I don��t see voting for Bush or against him as political freedom

Many minorities feel they no possibility of advancing in the white dominated workforce.

The United States still has the Armed forces draft. I��m not sure being sent off to die without my consent would be considered freedom of choice.

In regards to freedom of speech you may consider the following: Howard Stern, 5 Second Television Delays and Cindy Sheehan being thrown from the State of the union address for wearing a ��T�� shirt (She makes my skin crawl personally).

If you believe Timothy McVeigh, then Waco was not the best example of freedom for Americans to gather peacefully or the right to bear arms.

These are just things that make me wonder if freedom is actually real. As a Canadian I ask similar questions of my country.

Personally I like America and its politics. I also see that dog chained on a tiny rope in Korea every Friday. I feel bad for the dog regardless of what my signature states.

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[eamo]

From chained-up dogs in Korea, through Waco, Stern and McVeigh, and finishing with legalize Marijuana!!!

In only three posts!!

This thread has it all!!!

I'd like to add that the continuing Chinese occupation of Tibet is a scandal now that we're all buddy-buddy with China........

.........and, I'd also like to throw in the alarming rate at which the Greenland ice-sheets are melting due to greenhouse gases.

[endofthewor1d]

rock must write for afkn.

[red dog]

Rock, I'm not sure if I totally understand your point but I think you're really looking at things with the wrong attitude. Why compare dogs in a U.S. dog park with chained dogs in Korea? It would be more fair to compare chained dogs in Korea with chained dogs in the U.S.

There are plenty of dogs living in disgusting conditions in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Korea. And there are plenty of good animal people here in Korea -- they helped place my foster dog, Amber, in a wonderful home with a Korean animal advocate who keeps an online diary about her. They also helped me when I found two other stray dogs in Seoul -- fortunately those dogs were placed as well.

I'm not denying the existence of animal welfare problems in Korea but going to a dog park in Florida and watching part of the small minority of American dogs whose families value them enough to give them that freedom isn't a very good way to shed light on the problem. Chances are that those dogs are OK and don't need your help. But there are plenty of other dogs who do, regardless of what country you live in. If you go to www.animalconcerns.org you'll see that there's no shortage of animals who need help and no country with a monopoly on cruelty.

So are you back in Korea now, or still in the States?

[captain kirk]

The jist is:
You weren't happy in Korea, felt oppressed. Like the dogs in Korea are oppressed. So you identified with the chained up dogs in Korea (and Taiwan).

You didn't like Korea's government. Now you're in America and are a patriotic American. You have a pumped up identity now (which isn't your identity, really, but latching onto a national identity).

Now you're with some beautiful people in beautiful America.

Right.

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[Satori]

[jinju]

[red dog]

[Gorgias]

[captain kirk]

I think by 'boring' he's implying pompous, obnoxious, and biting (scathing, hostile, insulting). Sure, it's a free country and Rock pokes fun at what he sees as a lame job in a lame country, but enough's enough already. Rock has a lot going for him and I gotta wonder why he wastes his time and writing talent harping on about 'losers working teaching English in a loser country, Korea'. Which is what all his posts seem to imply. Choosing to stew around in negativity and offer up that slop to others isn't tasty fare.

So it's boring what he does. It's like being stuck in a room with a bore lecturing and trying to get under one's skin. And, supposedly, he's in Florida with beautiful women and all that tripe.

I liked his posts better when he was crusading for the rights of dogs and living in Asia like the rest of us. Then you could figure he sounded weird from job stress, living in Korea, etc. which is understandable. When he was 'one of us'.

He's got an axe to grind about being weird and unpopular online here, when he was posting from and living in Korea. Yeah, right. It's like a crazy man carrying a placcard on the street protesting for 'more respect for misunderstood and maligned eccentrics NOW!'.

[Homer]

Rock...I think you should assemble a crack team of special forces and organize a massive series of rescue ops to free all the oppressed dogs in Korea.

Then, you could hit China and free the cats and dogs there too.


You could call this the Poochie Force or PF for short...I am sure you could get funding from the government and become a world changing force!



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