I agree with you here Antonio. I do want to make another point. Most of the proble
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You are not alone there. 4 of the 5 people in my family are teachers and they hav
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When you an authority system that constantly lies, a thinking person will quickly lose faith in anything the authority says. Kids are not stupid. They mostly have inquisitive minds. They are not nearly as brain-dead as most adults. Consequently, kids will see through the hypocrisy of the government’s continuous lies and doubt anything they say.
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Not any different than just about every other generation. Normal part of maturing. It’s tough to face the pressure, but the alternative is to give in and become not yourself, but another puppet of the system.
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If one million kids listen to a piece of music and one uses that music as an excuse for some outrageous behavior, then it wasn’t the music. The music just happened to be the trigger this time; it could have been triggered by a news story, a book, a conversation, a tv show. The problems lie within one’s self, not without.
Like someone said on a TV program one day. Parents are responceable for their Childrens actions. So the Question is…Where are the Parents?
Good points, friends!
BTW: CSXRules4eva, you don’t listen to modern jazz? Hmmmmmm. I got the impression that you did. ( I’ve noticed that most deep thinkers with cool, laid back personalities are usually jazz fans)
Peace.
Looks like his legs are tied, and his arms might be too, considering they are pulled behind him
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Well said
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Your first point is a very broad generalization without any factual support. Kids aren’t brain dead (but adults are)? Did you miss the picture at the begining of this thread??? Thank God kids are around to tell us how the government is lying to us. For a moment there I thought I would actually have to research the claims of politicians and make decisions based upon my findings when I went into the voting booth. Now all I have to do is turn on Nickelodeon. Or MTV. Hopefully Paris Hilton will take a moment to stop having sex with everything and tell me how my government is lying to me. Seeing as she is currently one of America’s aspiring youth leaders, I am not holding my breath.
Your second point is equally pointless. I thought about fighting the system and then I went to prison and saw where fighting the system leads. Don’t worry, in time you will see that too. (There are a whole lot more people in prison for ‘fighting the system’ who are greedy self serving nut cases
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Your first point is a very broad generalization without any factual support. Kids aren’t brain dead (but adults are)? Did you miss the picture at the begining of this thread??? Thank God kids are around to tell us how the government is lying to us. For a moment there I thought I would actually have to research the claims of politicians and make decisions based upon my findings when I went into the voting booth. Now all I have to do is turn on Nickelodeon. Or MTV. Hopefully Paris Hilton will take a moment to stop having sex with everything and tell me how my government is lying to me. Seeing as she is currently one of America’s aspiring youth leaders, I am not holding my breath.
Your second point is equally pointless. I thought about fighting the system and then I went to prison and saw where fighting the system leads. Don’t worry, in time you will see that too. (There are a whole lot more people in prison
Trainspotting was about heroin addicts. I saw it and don’t recall that being an outtake.
[{(-_-)}]…Blame it on Marylin and on the heroin where were the parents when middle America now it’s a tragedy now it’s so sad to see…
Sorry, I couldn’t resist
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Of course I saw the photo at the top of this thread. How long does it take to get off the tracks? A few seconds? Big deal! Even I can move that fast. And my first paragraph may be a generalization, but the ‘factual’ support is available any time you actually pay attention to the news (unless you are brain-dead from watching the Fox network). For instance:
We are at war because of…what? “They” told us WMD’s were everywhere in Iraq.
We had the so-called “Patriot” Act rammed down our once-free throats because of …what? “They” told us terrorists were lurking around every corner ready to steal our children and blow up our BMW’s and our health clubs and our trains
Global warming is of no concern because of…what? “They” told us it has nothing to do with the billions of tons of carbon dioxide we are pumping into the atmosphere every year due to fossil fuels (which our current administration has much financila interest in).
And that is just the tip of the (melting) iceberg. Shall I go on, or do you get the point yet?
Perhaps if you would stop having your world-view shaped by what you see on tv, you would realize that there are other ways of defining a person or a generation by what the mass-media feeds into your brain (hence my comment about the brain-dead adults). Or if you must use tv as your source, try PBS occassionally; it might stimulate some latent information-gathering brain cells.
And who said anything about fighting the system? There are other ways around a problem other than fighting. There is a difference between fighting the system and working within the system to effect change. But it would be difficult to see the need for change if one has become a part of the system that needs changing. In time, you will hopefully see th
Thank you!
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Zardoz you are a breath of fresh air on this forum. I am growing sick of those who just beacuse we do not agree with them think we are the scum of the earth. I am not going to name names but they know who they are. As for the pick we have another darwin award winner on our hands.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
What’s the Patriot Act got to do with a young guy laying on what appears to be Class 4 (60 mph) track? So, because it takes just a few seconds to get off the track, what this guy is doing is O.K? Not a big deal? Wow! Let’s see…had it been me and my parents found out about it…I would have winded up in some serious pain, for sure!
Sorry if I seem puzzled, but years back I’ll NEVER forget the day I went railfanning with my new Olympus OM-1 camera. I went to Dover, Florida where the SCL/L&N intermodals whipped by at 65 m.p.h.
I was standing just 2 feet away from the track…I looked both ways–no train. I looked down at my camera and fiddled with the aperature ring. I looked up and there was a train coming at me flying! What blew me away is that I didn’t hear it coming!
I stepped back and 10 seconds later, three GE B23-7 locomotives blast by with a 50 car intermodal. The engineer gave me a friendly “toot” as I took the photo. I don’t think he had even seen me since the sky had a hazy glare to it and my clothes blended in with the scenery.
Guys, I railfanned for years. When the wind is and weather conditions are just right, even 4 cycle diesel locomotives can sneak up on you on a well kept mainline; especially with welded rail. No clickety-clack warning unless he rolls over a nearby switch.
Point is…to Brotha Man, Sista Girl, Jail Bird, or Congress Man, liberal, conservative. We can argue about PBS, latent brain cells, Iraq, media, Islamic terrorism, etc, (which by the way, is a real threat) … What this guy did is incredibly stupid!
Had he not been able to get off in time because
- He didn’t hear a train coming,
- Engineer didn’t see him because at the crucial moment he was looking at gauges.
- This guy tripped / hit his head / slipped and fell back down / got his foot caught
- He b
Thanks for the complement [:D] [:I] I guess you might be able to conclude that my deep thinking, layed back personality comes from classical, because that happens to be one of the main things that I do listen to.
Sorry, doesn’t change the fact that he is a moron. Just because you THINK that you can move fast enough doesn’t mean you can. Wheels cut flesh in fractions of a second, not seconds. No one can move that fast.
They were. Sadam used them on his own people. Tens of thousands of them. Maybe even hundreds of thousands of them. It all depends how many more mass graves they find. The neat thing about Sadam’s regime was that it didn’t need bio weapons to kill lots of people (even though they used them). Wood chippers worked just fine in a pinch. I absolutely refuse to feel bad about taking this guy out. I have yet to hear what the better alternative was. UN sanctions? The French had their hands rammed into that cookie jar. UN military action? Yeah, that worked great in Rawanda. Only 100,000 or so people died there while the UN was ‘keeping the peace’.
I am still free to express myself, go to church, read any news media I want, and assemble where I want. I fail to see what rights were lost. What rights have you lost? Reading about some scenario that a lawyer thought of were you might have to go to a military tribunal insted of a civil c