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Toasti Jen
Squire
Posts: 925
Join date: 2010-09-13
Age: 34
Location: West Coast, US
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DDO character: Barbarian
RK Profession: Whiskey Distiller
 |  Subject: Re: Messed up world  Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:28 am | |
| | Bekah wrote: | | Don't ever be fooled, governments and corporations don't care about human life, people are totally expendable. |
This right here. Absolute truth. |
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anto_capone
Noble
Posts: 4943
Join date: 2010-09-11
Age: 32
Location: Che Cazzo fai?
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DDO character: Ranger
RK Profession: Blacksmith
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:18 am | |
| | Quote: | com·pas·sion [kuhm-pash-uhn]
noun
1.
a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. |
It's just what it is. Some people have it more than others.
Personally, I think the world would be a better place with more of it. I don't think any one life is worth more than another, no matter how rich, talented, or famous. Everyone is made of the same crude material. Everyone shit stinks, everyone dies.
Yes, celebrities/rich/famous people are people in the end. But they do not deserve pity. Why not? Because they made the choice themselves.
Feel pity for those who have no choice. Stop the celebrity worship, it's pathetic really.
And no matter how hard you try to slice it; when you earn more in one day than what most people earn in their lifetime: you are part of the problem, not the solution. You can donate 1% of your money to charity, if only to make yourself feel better, but that still does not make you a good person.
'And the meek, they shall become celebrity and inherit the earth.'_________________  |
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Dee_Snider
Squire
Posts: 869
Join date: 2010-09-20
Location: DDO: On Airship RK: An Gort
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DDO character: Barbarian
RK Profession: Blacksmith
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:42 pm | |
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anto_capone
Noble
Posts: 4943
Join date: 2010-09-11
Age: 32
Location: Che Cazzo fai?
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DDO character: Ranger
RK Profession: Blacksmith
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Bellz
Squire
Posts: 702
Join date: 2010-09-19
Location: in a galexy far far away or Khyber... or stuck at work dreaming of Hawaii
Character sheet
DDO character: Cleric
RK Profession: Baker
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:32 pm | |
| I agree with you Anto.
As for the Whitney thing... it pissed me off to see that it was headline news. They even had it as the "top story" on the CBC news yesterday recounting her funeral. I'm sorry but what message does that send to my kids? We need to all cry over some woman who continually and knowingly made BAD choices in her life because she could sing? Yes it is sad she died the way she did, but it really doesn't need to be the largest news story in two countries with so many other important things happening in our world.
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Aidann
Squire
Posts: 682
Join date: 2010-09-14
Age: 17
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DDO character: Fighter
RK Profession: None
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:55 pm | |
| I guess newspapers wont sell if the front page is starving children over and over again. But somehow people with a lot of money doing ilegal stuff should be front page material  The other day I heard something along the lines of "change isnt sudden and dramatic is takes time and persistence works, eg.. how much people care about recycling compared to ten years ago. kids grow up thinking its perfectly normal to recycle plastic" so maybe in a few years with persistence more and more people might make decisions with 3rd world countries in mind.. "should I donate? help?" I probably said something stupid, sorry  |
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Bekah
Squire
Posts: 954
Join date: 2010-09-13
Age: 40
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| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:38 pm | |
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anto_capone
Noble
Posts: 4943
Join date: 2010-09-11
Age: 32
Location: Che Cazzo fai?
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DDO character: Ranger
RK Profession: Blacksmith
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:58 pm | |
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Achilles
Admin
Posts: 509
Join date: 2010-09-18
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:10 pm | |
| | Quote: | The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound.
Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book,
and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BCE
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It's easy to be self righteous about the state of the world today. I've yet to hear about a generation that thought the next one is better than the previous ones. |
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anto_capone
Noble
Posts: 4943
Join date: 2010-09-11
Age: 32
Location: Che Cazzo fai?
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RK Profession: Blacksmith
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:26 pm | |
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Achilles
Admin
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Join date: 2010-09-18
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:44 pm | |
| Did you just make that ? lol point stands, ya'll suck  |
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Zakku
King of the Incinerator!
Posts: 514
Join date: 2010-09-15
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| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:35 pm | |
| | Achilles wrote: | Did you just make that ? lol
point stands, ya'll suck |
STFU N00B
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KING OF THE INCINERATOR
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Toasti Jen
Squire
Posts: 925
Join date: 2010-09-13
Age: 34
Location: West Coast, US
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DDO character: Barbarian
RK Profession: Whiskey Distiller
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:47 pm | |
| | Achilles wrote: | | Quote: | The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound.
Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book,
and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BCE
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It's easy to be self righteous about the state of the world today. I've yet to hear about a generation that thought the next one is better than the previous ones. |
I don't think I understand your point.
Old people bitch about whipper snappers, the world is going to hell in a hand basket--these things have been said since day one. Ok, I see that.
But where is anyone being self-righteous about the state of the world today?
I surely as fuck hope the next generation is better than this one. If not, I feel VERY bad for a few generations after that. Whoopsie, sorry for the planet! Hope you didn't actually want to use any water. |
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Achilles
Admin
Posts: 509
Join date: 2010-09-18
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:06 am | |
| I just hate people who spam the internet with anti-corporation rants, thats all.
Toasti, I don't suppose you've never used a pfizer product ?
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Toasti Jen
Squire
Posts: 925
Join date: 2010-09-13
Age: 34
Location: West Coast, US
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DDO character: Barbarian
RK Profession: Whiskey Distiller
| | Subject: Re: Messed up world Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:53 am | |
| "spam the internet with anti-corporation rants"...hmm.
Spam the internet.
Ok, moving on. Full disclosure, I have used the following Pfizer products within my life: Centrum vitamins, advil, lo/ovral, Thermacare, Neosporin, Robitussin and Chapstick (have it in my purse right now). I try my hardest to vote with my dollar, but sometimes it doesn't happen. I expressed a passionate opinion here on the internet (Spamming The Internet!) but it doesn't mean that I am always 100% an activist, scouring the labels as I shop. Sometimes I have dry lips while I am at the checkout stand and toss in a tube of Chapstick. Am I contributing to the problem? Maybe. Maybe not. It doesn't mean a person can't express their displeasure concerning the practices of governments with corporations in a related thread (by definition-not spam).
Just so we are clear, my "internet spamming rant" wasn't anti-corporation. It was anti-dick move. It was anti-government-in-bed-with-corporations-for-their-own-gain,-fuck-it-if-people-DIE.
Sorry, I can't get past that first sentence. "I just hate people who spam the internet with anti-corporation rants".
Also, that is what you meant with your original sentiment, the one I asked about?
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