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Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Northern Ireland to name three with the IRA doing what they believe is right politically not for religious purposes. The breakdown of Yugoslavia, death and destruction, the wiping out of its centuries old history was not religious it was ethnic. I heard all the stories about christian and muslim in former Yugoslavia -- I didn't buy it. The invasion of Cyprus and the splitting of the country with a north south divide was for political / military advantages to the Middle East and North Africa. Who gained? The British Military and the U.S Military. Turkey and Greece gained too and who lost out? Those who had their land and their heritage taken from them -- sounds like I heard that story before somewhere else. Northern Ireland want independence from the crown -- the world view is that of a partial or fully religious one -- Protestant / Catholic - whatever there is about religion has nothing to do with the bombings that take place in the name of the IRA. Their message is simple - Get out of Northern Ireland or we will keep bombing you. There is no religion there -- just heritage.

The official cold war ended when a couple of world events took place - the dropping of the Iron curtain [Glasnost] and the dropping of the Berlin Wall. These two significant events showed the world that things were changing. Oh, they were changing alright. The cold war went from behind the desk to out on the street.

The cold war is not over. It's just got a new name - terrorism. This new cold blooded war is not after land or posession of land. It's after control. Control of it's own interests whether they are homeland or someone elses land through the fear it inflicts in the people. What difference is there in the dead whether it was a bullet from a UN/US/Allied rifle of from a suicide bomber? They are still dead. The difference is a point of view based on political bias.

Think on this: Rather than invade a country, how much easier is it to place someone you can influence in charge of that country? Iraq today and a multitude of Middle East countries from decades before. Looks to me like the same principal is being applied. This time it's terrorism's anti-flag that is flying not a cold war political agenda.

Poltical Jehad? That's an excuse. Terrorism will PAY? That's an excuse. What is it over? Decades of BAD Politics AND NOW it's being done on the streets and not from behind closed doors. We get to see it through the media as terrorism whereas for the last number of decades it was claimed as a cold war with way more deaths [if not more -- terrorism as we know it today is still young.. give it time to mature and the death tolls to rise] which were claimed as "Wars" and not in truth, puppets being controlled by "special interest" groups who wanted a shift in the balance of power from one government to the next or from one despot to the next. For greed, control and power. The country with most allies is still a terrorist country if they kill innocent people. Terror - ism - inflicting of terror. Doesn't matter how you inflict it, the people are still terrified!

Don't believe religion is the root of all problems. Human imperfections are the root, namly Greed. Greed for anything can be the root of any problems.

A religion's ideology can be perfect. It's the people IN the religion that are not.

Nick

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Things Learned Along the Way

by blondie in

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i have collected sayings, homilies, whatever along the way that crystallize something bigger i learned.

i will post a few every day.

if you have one, please share it.. if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.. to belittle is to be little.. somewhere, i got the idea if i just took care of others, i would be taken care of.. blondie

Left_Field

-- The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux.
-- Welcome to Hell. Here's your copy of Windows.
-- ... because computers are happiest when we avoid describing them in anthropomorphic terms.
-- Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire; the network is down.
-- The Tao that is seen is not the true Tao, until you bring fresh toner.
-- The Web site you seek cannot be located. But endless others exist.

-- Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

-- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

-- Today's payslip has more deductions than a Sherlock Holmes novel.

-- Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

I thank you... N.

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The "What If" Game

by copsec in

i ask a question, the next person answers my question and then asks their own and so on.

so i will start off with....... .

what if animals could talk?

Left_Field

The I wouldn't have a weight problem...

What if you could have any object in the world... what would it be?

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Stop! Stop Or I Shall Shout "Stop" Again!

by Englishman in

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just a bit o' friday afternoon fluff.

a question for the 'mericans, of which we have one or two here.

you've probably communicated with more brits here than you had in all your life before joining this board.. leaving aside the stereo type brit of the movies, stiff upper-lip, unarmed policemen, morris minors and mini's, are we just as you expected us to be?.

Left_Field

Friends around me mimic me whenever I slip in a phrase or word spoken with a cockney slant.

Puts a smile on my face, know wha' I mean?

N.

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another subliminal????

by homunculus in

i am really new in this forum so i hope to enjoy all of your companion...i saw a picture in a watchtower article and i just want to see if my mind is playing games...i would like to see your opinion on a strange picture i caught on the watchtower article on page 10 of the 3/15 issue.unfortunately i do not have a scanner so i will try to be as best descriptive as possible...page 10 has 4 sets of pictures...in the picture down right there is a pole of either greek or roman influence...i can see 3 faces on the top part of that pole...2 human and 1 animalistic (possibly a horse)...is another "coincidence"?

?this whole subliminal thing is really getting weird...i would like to hear opinions about the specific photo since its relatively new and in general about these "strange" "coincidences".

homunculus

Left_Field

Ok, I don't understand what "qualifiers in messages" means. What am I missing here?

N.

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Are you one cool cat? then lets talk jive!

by doodle-v in

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what it is, my man!

hey sweet daddy, what's goin down?

i'm bout to raise up outta here and get back to the pad cause i got a hip flick i gotta catch around five ya dig?

Left_Field

Y'all wanna hear mah brutha on tha air ways chiilin'? You don't, you be illin. Seen?

Jive Talkin' Hip-replacin' L_F

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Listening to The (A) Great Teacher

by wasasister in

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i have a good friend who is a primary school teacher.

although he and his wife both have a masters degree, he earned more money last year painting houses during the summer than he did teaching.

it is a well bemoaned fact in the usa that teachers are terribly undercompensated, considering the level of education they must obtain.

Left_Field

LOL!

Left_Field

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