Me and my friend Sye met up today and went for a long old walk.  This was nice, as it always is, and we got talking about rather deep things, as we tend to. One of these was about the difference between political dogmas on the way people live their lives and religious ones. In the west, there is certainly differences, although they clearly overlap ( Read more... )

 
I suspect I'm being British here, but I really don't get the whole patriotism thing.  I get the impression that it's an important thing to be "a Patriot" in the US, that one should support one's country.  It seems that it's a big insult to call someone unpatriotic, and the people who aren't patriots are in some way bad.

I'm not a patriot in any ( Read more... )

A couple of folks I know have moved over here to be more intelligent at the world.  & I might do, as well, if I decide what I can be intelligent about.