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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| The Gipkik wrote: |
Virgo! Not that I believe in this stuff.  |
Virgo is the sublimation of Pisces. You have strong Pisces in your chart.
Sorry for the derailment. |
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SW
Joined: 08 Sep 2009
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of guys out there have a "one that got away."
A girl that I can't help but think I might be married to, had I made a different choice in a situation five years ago, bolted and and ended up marrying another man.
I've experienced a lot of happiness since then, but I can't help thinking about it from time to time. I know it's silly to keep dwelling on losing a girl, but without going in to too much detail, I think what really bothers me is that I actually wanted to do what it took to hang on to her, and because of perceived (but false) external "obligations," I didn't.
btw, I am a metalhead too. It's hard to be a metalhead in Korea. Nothing but hip-hop all around. |
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
Location: Right behind you!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| SW wrote: |
A lot of guys out there have a "one that got away."
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Mine just came out this year. Turns out there was a good reason she got away. |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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I am terrified of the Economic stronghold that the American Government has on the world.
I am terrified of the fact that if Amerca doesnt back a decision for the globe then there is no chance of achieving the goal ( realistically) without their particpation
I am terrified of the fact that their government does not answer to the people they answer to CEOS and shareholders, and that they do not get done what the people actually need.
I am terrified that this lack of democracy in their country will continue to trickle into mine through influence.
I am terrifed of the fact that capitalism is going to one day destroy our lives as we know it........and it most certainly will so long as it is run by greedy, selfish, selfserving control freaks who don't want to share their piece of the pie.
Yeah thats about it, right now I go for the most pressing problem affecting the entire globe at the moment. |
Thats right. The leaders and politicians in your country (whichever one it is) are pure and trustworthy, the corporations arent greedy, and the voters are highly enlightened. Yet big bad USA is ruining this wonderful land. |
My country is not a superpower, my country does not have anywhere near the impact globally that the Americans do. I did not say that my country isnt capitalistic and greedy as wel, thats why I simply mentioned capitalism, not just American capitalism.
To be honest I hate people like you who always want to point fingers elsewhere as if to excuse the behaviour being spoken against. The same thing happens on the No Smoking thread I ws recently on. We criticise smoking and people want to say " well look at cars, they pollute too, so dont bug people for smoking"
its like there is always an excuse for ignorance and or evil actions.
Like it or not, America controls the planet both with power and with influence. Nearly every western country takes its cue from America. So long as America's govermment is corrupt, devoid of decency on a mass scale, concerned with money and politics and not the welfare of the people, and controlled by corporations, they rest of the world and the other worlds economies have no possibility of change.
I am not saying that my country has a perfect anything, but that is beside my original point |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| conrad2 wrote: |
| Seoulio wrote: |
I am terrified of the Economic stronghold that the American Government has on the world.
I am terrified of the fact that if Amerca doesnt back a decision for the globe then there is no chance of achieving the goal ( realistically) without their particpation
I am terrified of the fact that their government does not answer to the people they answer to CEOS and shareholders, and that they do not get done what the people actually need.
I am terrified that this lack of democracy in their country will continue to trickle into mine through influence.
I am terrifed of the fact that capitalism is going to one day destroy our lives as we know it........and it most certainly will so long as it is run by greedy, selfish, selfserving control freaks who don't want to share their piece of the pie.
Yeah thats about it, right now I go for the most pressing problem affecting the entire globe at the moment. |
Thats right. The leaders and politicians in your country (whichever one it is) are pure and trustworthy, the corporations arent greedy, and the voters are highly enlightened. Yet big bad USA is ruining this wonderful land. |
And while trying to be sarcastic your last sentence is true, the USA is ruining not only their own country, but much of the globe through the actions of the GOVERNMENT ( not the american peole, most of them are excellent and awesome people, and I am proud that some of my closest friends are Americans)
You don't have to take my word for it, there are more than enough writers, Americans included, who have written book, after book, after book, on this topic, and its not just propaganda or scare mongering. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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My first or second year in Korea my co-workers and I were on our way home from a trip to a temple and we had to slow down for a couple cop cars and an ambulance on the side of the road. While we were passing, I casually glanced over and looked right at a normal looking middle aged Korean in a completely abnormal position, utterly still in a huge puddle of his own blood. Then half a second later we were past.
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Seoulio wrote: |
I am terrified of the Economic stronghold that the American Government has on the world.
I am terrified of the fact that if Amerca doesnt back a decision for the globe then there is no chance of achieving the goal ( realistically) without their particpation
I am terrified of the fact that their government does not answer to the people they answer to CEOS and shareholders, and that they do not get done what the people actually need.
I am terrified that this lack of democracy in their country will continue to trickle into mine through influence.
I am terrifed of the fact that capitalism is going to one day destroy our lives as we know it........and it most certainly will so long as it is run by greedy, selfish, selfserving control freaks who don't want to share their piece of the pie.
Yeah thats about it, right now I go for the most pressing problem affecting the entire globe at the moment. |
I think I'm more terrified of what's will happen if/when the USA crumbles, like all great empires before it have, who will rise to fill the void? China? Maybe India? Some united Islamic Fundamentalist movement? The Church Scientology lead by nuttiest of nuts Tom Cruise? Or the scariest of all possibilities, the Mormons... |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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What do you envision the US will look like if it "crumbles"? Somalia? Mad Max?
More likely it will look like Britain. Is that so bad? (Well, yes, but we're talking relatively here.) |
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Senior wrote: |
What do you envision the US will look like if it "crumbles"? Somalia? Mad Max?
More likely it will look like Britain. Is that so bad? (Well, yes, but we're talking relatively here.) |
Some parts of Britain are better than others. 
But I think you misunderstood my point that everyone like to complain about the USA having too much power, well, if they crumble it's not like the world power base is just going to balance out, it's just going to shift elsewhere (or there is going to be a fight over where it shifts), and really, who is in a position to fill that power void? From a global prespective would they really be any better than the USA?
But anyways I was also trying to put a joking tone on it, hence the scientology and mormon comments. |
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hapigokelli
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'm most haunted by memories of hurting people in the past.
Another is this:
When I was in college, I was driving down the interestate in late fall. There was a large V of geese flying overhead. I looked to my left and saw a goose with a broken wing in the median. He was running as fast as he could in the direction of the other geese. I think he was trying to catch up with them.
I thought about stopping or trying to call animal control to help him, but I didn't. |
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Noliving
Joined: 01 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Seoulio wrote: |
And while trying to be sarcastic your last sentence is true, the USA is ruining not only their own country, but much of the globe through the actions of the GOVERNMENT ( not the american peole, most of them are excellent and awesome people, and I am proud that some of my closest friends are Americans) |
I always get a kick out of those statements, reminds me of the "I'm not a racist, I have friends who are black!"
I disagree with the lack of democracy considering the vast majority of USA's democracy takes place at the State,county and city/town level, not the federal level that most countries are like/used to and so as a result on the outside it would appear that the USA doesn't have a democracy.
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You don't have to take my word for it, there are more than enough writers, Americans included, who have written book, after book, after book, on this topic, and its not just propaganda or scare mongering. |
So because someone writes a book or enough people write about it means its real? You mean to tell me that the obama deception by alex jones is completely true? OMG! Reminds me of how if you repeat a lie enough times it will eventually be accepted as the truth. |
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Location: Not Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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Goto www.dopemusic.co.kr - they might have a listing of metal shows.
| SW wrote: |
A lot of guys out there have a "one that got away."
A girl that I can't help but think I might be married to, had I made a different choice
in a situation five years ago, bolted and and ended up marrying another man.
I've experienced a lot of happiness since then, but I can't help thinking about it from time to time. I know it's silly to keep dwelling on losing a girl, but without going in to too much detail, I think what really bothers me is that I actually wanted to do what it took to hang on to her, and because of perceived (but false) external "obligations," I didn't.
btw, I am a metalhead too. It's hard to be a metalhead in Korea. Nothing but hip-hop all around. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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I'm afraid the exchange rate will tank or something else will happen and I will lose my money. It's not very much objectively speaking, but if I lose it, it'll be like I sacrificed two years of my life on mediocrity for absolutely no reason. 
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| I have an acute emotional memory: the smell of a mound of leaves mixed with other olfactory triggers can awaken part of me to exactly how I felt and looked at the world when I was a child of 5. Memories flood my mind. Some are only feeling memories and others images. Foods do this quite often as well. |
The other day I caught some kind of smell in a classroom and was transported back to the Saskatoon Staples location that I used to visit as "something to do". A nice reminder that life, as dull and lifeless as it may be at the moment, actually used to be worse! |
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Seoulio
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Noliving wrote: |
| Seoulio wrote: |
And while trying to be sarcastic your last sentence is true, the USA is ruining not only their own country, but much of the globe through the actions of the GOVERNMENT ( not the american peole, most of them are excellent and awesome people, and I am proud that some of my closest friends are Americans) |
I always get a kick out of those statements, reminds me of the "I'm not a racist, I have friends who are black!"
I disagree with the lack of democracy considering the vast majority of USA's democracy takes place at the State,county and city/town level, not the federal level that most countries are like/used to and so as a result on the outside it would appear that the USA doesn't have a democracy.
| Seoulio wrote: |
You don't have to take my word for it, there are more than enough writers, Americans included, who have written book, after book, after book, on this topic, and its not just propaganda or scare mongering. |
So because someone writes a book or enough people write about it means its real? You mean to tell me that the obama deception by alex jones is completely true? OMG! Reminds me of how if you repeat a lie enough times it will eventually be accepted as the truth. |
Um ok yuo love those statements, American people are not their government. I make it very clear to basically every American that I like them individually ( or not in some cases) but that I hate the government.
Yes okay a lot of democracy happens at lower levels, I am sure that is the case, but there is still a LOT of political strongarming and interference at any level. Corporatiosn buy off candidates pure and simple, and often it comes down to publicity and money, not skill and being better suited/more intelligent for the job.
Also if your highest positions are gained by buy-outs, strongarming and other devious tactics, what exactly is your democracy worth? Hell just look at your conventions where basically its which candidate is liked enough/has offered the biggest incentives. Once it has been established who the favorite is the American people get THAT candidate to vote for. You get a grand total of TWO viable candidates for president, and if George W Bush is the result of any process that ivolves picking the best candidate for anything then you have a serious flaw in the selection process.
if the books are based on historical actions and have backing in fact then yes. Or are you saying that the American givernment does not make selfish sefl serving actions on a regular basis. Perhaps you can share your feelings on the Kyoto accord.
Basically what I am saying is that you dont have to just blindly accept what the American media shovels at you, if you cared to bcome educated on the ills of American Givernment there is more than enough literature to keep you occupied for years to come.
Anyway this is not supposed to turn into a political thread, the mods will likely lock it of it turns into one. the question was asked what scares me and I responded with what basically scares the crap out of me. The Americans in control of the entire planet and with a finger on a nuclear arsenal scares the crap out of me. |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Seulio, this thread isn't about what scares you. A haunting memory or thought or feeling is completely different. I can see why people would jump to conclusions but even a haunted house isn't about the ghosts that scare people who live in or visit the house, but about the fact that the house is haunted by memories or spirits of bygone days. The people that visit or live in the house are external to the fact that it's haunted. It's about persistent memories, unforgettable in nature, and that are eerily evocative. |
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