Okay, just got back home to see, thankfully, that the board isn't twenty million pages longer than when I left :) I think people are waiting for me...(but I'll have to leave again soon because we're going out to dinner, but I'll be here til then and right after)
Sooo...
I'm ready to debate, but once again, I will probably agree with you (Anthony and anyone else here) on many issues you want to persuade me on (Me='Social' Liberal, as I said before). Also, when it does come to economic issues to me the real issue is the human condition behind it and our inherent inability to be, well, ideal and create this ideal society that we dream of having. We strive to meet a certain goal (ie: communism is an excellent idea, but that's just it, it only works in theory and not in practice) but as humans we have difficulty in one way or another and usually screw it up for ourselves (in this repect sometimes I agree with Agent Smith of Matrixian fame, if you understand what I'm saying....) I love that the human race has a built in hope, but for some reason I can't shake off the natural tendency to be human and thus screw up anything and everything (which you'd all argue about my choice of political candidate and his job, but I'd argue for every last human, it's just human nature. It's like this: we want what we can't have and we can't have what we want; then once we get we want, we lose it or break it and then sit and complain to the person next to us about the whole ordeal. However, we still try and try over to repeat the situation with the hope that is already built inside of us--hoping each time for a better outcome that may or may not happen. (Sorry for that little ramble..I was feeling a bit low and Agent-Smith-like for a second there...sorry if that kinda seemed a harsh view of humans, but for some odd reason I just felt like Smith...)
Anyway, back to the subject...
Anthony, what did you mean by this statement, though?
"I just don't want to die, not yet. There's so much to be done... "
Who/what's going to kill you? Are you quoting something? (I'm really confused, sorry if this makes me look stupid but I'm confused as to what this response was a response to...)
"Stacey, I would not get angry with you for your political affiliation, but rather, the way you express it. There is no call to condescend and say that we all think that being President is easy or that world peace is simple or even possible."
Sorry a billion times over, I reacted to gut-ly and I didn't mean to sound condescending. If we were talking face to face in real life I'd never come of as such, but there's something about talking from the inner monologue in your head that makes you more abnormal than you would be. Basically, I'm just frustrated at the way people make fun or are intensely condescending towards myself because of my political ideas (As far as supporting Bush) at school and, well, everywhere else. I kinda of reflected that which is imparted upon me by friends (the entire school is like 99.9% for Kerry) and others before and I apologize. I guess I lost my cool, didn't I. It's like I acted as a mirror but I absorbed the attitude imparted on me that would later be reflected. Or something.
Sorry.
Edit: Meant to say this too...
Anthony, I hope you had fun getting eaten by a plant.
(And I don't mean it in a sarcastic or mean way or anything like that, I'm actually quite serious: I hope you had fun at the matinee today and all went well :) )
Updated On: 10/30/04 at 06:02 PM
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