I know the majority of westerners think that Europe is the cradle to an amazing civilization, that it's provided so much to the world. But really, when I think of Europe, I think of a place that was dark and depressing for much of history, that was filled with pagan barbarians who regularly plundered and raped or stuck peacefully to their various ( Read more... )

The irony of fearing the uncleanliness of animals, the smell of livestock, yet putting its very insides which produce the outsides into one's own stomach. Granted, animals simply are dirty, but why eat their insides realising this outside assumption?

Fortunately everyone will understand this soon.

I won't go into detail about this event because the greatest fact is that most people don't know any of the details of what's going on and chances are a great deal of Americans think the US is furious because they think Russian troops are on American soil ( Read more... )

Related to the forum thread, I wasn't surprised one bit when my reply mentioning that copyrights are bullshit legal jargon got deleted. Never mind the fact that I wasn't directly encouraging anyone to go out and steal books, make copies, and sell them at double price. In general I thought copyrighting was meant to protect the writer from plagiarism ( Read more... )

So I've realized that discussion forums are a big joke and most likely a government set-up. There are always several types of people in a forum - the lurkers, who simply enjoy reading the information/drama everyone else makes. Then there are the posters, who fall into other categories - the popular, non-mod poster, whom other posters idolize and ( Read more... )

I'm a strange guy. No let's back up... just an anti-social guy. I have a common compassion for all people, a compassion that allows me to be kind to other people on a general level, allows me to see past their stupid actions and say, "To each his own" because in the end, no one should be told not to do what they truly want to do ( Read more... )