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What is the biggest threat to America?

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Originally posted by: kogase
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
Originally posted by: kogase
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
We create our own hang-ups
luckily your the only one who has to live in that head.
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So you disagree with my attitude? I think that you share the same attitude. To quote your sig:

"Fight war not wars!"

You have clearly chosen one viewpoint over another, and therefore (according to your ideal of open mindedness) have a closed mind.
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And I have yet to see a compelling arguement to convince me of what is obvious.
Name calling sure isn't going to convince anyone though except that you all are acting like a bunch of e-thugs.
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I haven't labeled anything as "obvious". I also haven't called you names. I don't think I've acted like any kind of thug in any way. If you're going to quote my post, respond to it, not anyone else's. You haven't said anything that sounds like a response to my post, just an attempt to sidestep my point by equating me (in a most untactful way) with some of the more rude posters in this thread.
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Actually you did not insult me at the moment I was juggling a number of flamess from a few here in a number of threads.
OK that out of the way for this I apologise.
anyhow on to your answer since you did not name call.

What makes you think I am dead set in one viewpoint, becasue I have a opinion?
I am not dead-set in much of anything in life by any means, but like I said I have yet to see a compelling viewpoint that detracts from what I have investigated and observed into the matter for over a decade now.

There are a few scenerios that would change my whole view of the war, but as of this point my case is pretty well known by the majority of americans from the looks of recent polls.

So what is your point? That I have formed a opinion?
I am not getting the closed minded part here.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: glorifiedg790
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Hehe, what a question? The problem with America, with the human race, is that it cannot understand what its problem is even when correctly diagnosed.

Everybody feels like he or she is the worst person in the world. This feeling is so deeply repressed and beyond conscious awareness that nobody has even the slightest inkling that this is even remotely true.

We do not know we feel like the worst in the world, we do not want to know we do, and we don't want to know we don't want to know.

The the consequences are devastating. Because we hate ourselves the notion of the Golden Rule becomes a disaster. We do treat others exactly like we treat ourselves, with profound hatred and contempt.

We have created a society that is based on hostility competition and hate. It is called the American Way. It is deeply psychotic and cannot be cured. Only the individual can escape. Humanity itself is bent on self destruction, the fate the worst in the world deserves.

That which you despise and hate you despise and hate from your own self hate.

There is only Love, so you can understand why you would be sad.
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good point.
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LOL - you told Moonie that one of his faux-introspective rambles made a good point. N00b! 😉
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What? I just agreed with what he said.

 
Originally posted by: Riprorin
Activist judges. We can throw out the pols but there are seemingly no restraints on the judicial lifers.
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Activist judges? Wow, the power to declare war or balance the budget is nothing compared to the ability to review a court case...:roll:
 
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
I am not getting the closed minded part here.
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Same here. Which is my point. I don't see how I am being closed minded for having a specific opinion. I clearly gave a reason as to why I didn't think Moonbeam's point was all that useful. I also didn't think poetry had much relevance to the topic at hand, or Moonbeam's, and I pointed that out. So did ckGunslinger, in fact. I then described how I considered all aspects of an issue, and then eliminated those viewpoints which I considered spurious. Your response to that was:

" We create our own hang-ups
luckily your the only one who has to live in that head. "

Which implies to me that living in my head would be an unfortunate circumstance.
 
Originally posted by: Riprorin
Activist judges. We can throw out the pols but there are seemingly no restraints on the judicial lifers.
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Darn those conservative judges appointed by Reagan and Bush, Sr. How dare they....follow the law.
 
The biggest threat to America is a citizenry that no longer can tell the difference between right and wrong.

 
The greatest threat to America is tolerance of the govenrment's actions, and then sucking up to those [mainstream Democrats] who speak as though they are truly different, but still do nothing for the people, and all for themselves.
 
The Sun

Once it sets out upon it's terminal phase of the Main Sequence, there's no stopping it.

It's gaseous outer envelope will expand to a diameter that out entire planets orbit will be within the diameter of the stars surface, and that may be detrimental to the environment.
 
Originally posted by: cquark
For a single fixable threat, I'll say corporate personhood. Since the court reporter notes on the Santa Clara Railroad case declared corporations as persons under the 14th amendment, they've used this power to strike down most restrictions limiting their power. In particular, corporations claim to the right of freedom of speech, which equates to the right to give money to political candidates and organizations, allowing them an unprecendented level of control of government.

Corporate-dominance of government has led to the same sort of corporate subsidization that led to the American Revolution. Remember that the Boston Tea Party as a protest against the British government enforcing monopoly rights of the East India Company. Modern corporations are continually advocating for expansion of copyright and patent monopolies to suppress competition from startups. As Bill Gates said, "A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.?
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If you haven't seen the corporation, you should watch it sometime. Excellent documentary, extremely well done.
 
Activist judges. We can throw out the pols but there are seemingly no restraints on the judicial lifers.
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yes, those actiist judges are just messing everything up aren't they, why don't you just relabel them "judges who don't agree with me or my beliefs"
 
The biggest danger is still Americans who can no longer tell the difference between right and wrong. And the second biggest threat is careless science.

Who needs al Qaeda when we have American labs mistakenly shipping WMD all over the country?

😕

 
Originally posted by: Reck
materialism (money and goods have precedence over all else. which is sickening, it's one of the reason why society is completely artificial)
social and government brainwashing, people are amazingly gullible
governing morality
incredibly hypocritical politicians
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yes this is about it...if it weren't for point number one SUVs and other overconsumpton might not be as much of an issue.

Also this seems much less partisan than some of the tripe above.
 
people like John Ashcroft,
who don't even stop and think before circumventing the constructuts this society has been bound too since the 18th century
 
Originally posted by: Riprorin
Activist judges. We can throw out the pols but there are seemingly no restraints on the judicial lifers.
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ACTIVIST JUDGES

The system you are talking about has been in place for some 200 years and the basis is still the same. The judicial branch merely ballances out the other two branches. Even though Fox news would like you to believe judges are reforming this nation, it's awalys been the legislative or executive branch making the first move. Judges merely uphold or throw out the legislature created by them.

There is absolutely no activism on their part - judges don't have a way to promote or create ideas, they only decide based on the stuff presented.
 
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