War came to Angola in 1961. My father would have been 11 when it started. Too young to comprehend, too young to feel the silent, invisible shockwaves that travel through the minds of men and women. Knowledge jumps like a cricket from one to another, but it leaves the young on Islands alone. Older brothers were old enough. Old enough to be conscripted
Thanks Jess, It's too often that my thinking gets me in trouble. Or would that be my lack of thinking? Either way I like you thinking that my thinking is OK. Marco
A lot of light can get through the clouds if the light source is strong enough. People are right for calling you sunshine. I didn't notice all too much of you feeling sorry for yourself. It seems that you are more worried about others. And never mistake missing the one's you love for self pity. Hope everything works out ok.
A lot of light can get through the clouds if the light source is strong enough. People are right for calling you sunshine. I didn't notice all too much of you feeling sorry for yourself. It seems that you are more worried about others. And never mistake missing the one's you love for self pity. Hope everything works out ok.
Like all classifications of terrorism and terrorists, it depends what side of the fence your sitting on. An organisation or entity gets classified as terrorist by other organisations or people. Any classification of things or people is by necessity a subjective process. A thing is only a terrorist once you call it one. As we have seen recently, this can be dangerous. A figurative-linguistic first strike that can only lead to retaliati
Mig, That's what I was guessing, but with a word as strong as pimp you want to be certain. Bad connotations. And me...sadistic. Getouttahere. Never. Not even mentally. Ok. Maybe just a little. But that's the "other" me, and I hold you accountable for that guy. Marco:)
A pimp of what? I'm sure that you use that word in a very specific context. Very interested. Never been called that before. Don't have the necessary fashion sense or sadism.
Verbal mince is mine I tell you. Don't take away the only thing that makes me me. I am king of verbal mince, but I guess you could always be a duchess of some sort:p
Thanks Dyl, Just what i needed. I figure that the longer i feel disempowered and small, the longer i will confine myself in a position that is ineffectual in changing my environment or life. But it is true. What we do for a living too often outlines our self-perception. Making no money and harming people (and yourself) in the process makes for a bad combination, makes you feel like you are of no help to others or your own wel
The very fact that all of you are speaking. Trying to make a connection. Looking for others or looking out for others. All this makes all of you precious. I'm not a tree hugging hippy. But to those of you that have contemplated, or are contemplating suicide - It would be a damn shame to lose any of you. We need as many voices as we can get. We need to know how to alleviate each others pain. What would be the good of all this if we don't at lea
FatRakoon, I see in your words of neutrality not any weakness, but a kind humanism. I thank you for these words, because its probably people like you who sit on the sidelines watching people like us bitch, who spend the time to think and weigh, who have the ability to influence us one way or the other. I don't know anymore either, but my personality disallows me to remain silent. I must say that i have no anim
There has been a lot of posts recently on JU about the reported differences between women and men. Is it time to split the two into seperate species? Would that be more convenient for some? One could always try to exterminate the other and we could call it a wildlife crisis. As far as i can see, women and men love each other. Need e
I never claimed that the war was primarily concerned with oil. America and Russia are the two biggest stock pilers of Chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. America also has or had very close links to terroists - Osama Bin Laden, the Israeli military, paramilitaries the world over, Saddam, the Shah of Iran etc, etc. Israel has no qualms at all about announcing to the world and then carrying out political assasinations. All
Kingbee, That was one of the most effective replies I've read in a long time
Are we THAT invisible? Fuck the rest of the world - we should send out a horde of drop bears, that would teach them. Great post. I needed the laugh. Thanx Muggaz
America still has not given us a clear, concise reason of why it invaded Iraq. WMD - not there. Moral reasons - they've had a whole 13 years - why now? Why not other countries where the justification is just as convincing. Stability in the Middle East? It is less of a stable place that it was before the invasion. If terroists found it easy to base themselves in a country with a "strong" government, how easy will they find it in a country with
Draginol Al-Qa'ida started operating out of Iraq overtly only after the US invaded. And yes, they would have found other reasons to kill Americans because America has given developing nations more than enough reason to hate it. How MANY more resaons do i have to provide you with. Can you not even admit that US foreign policy since world war II has been flawed and based on inaccurate information and intelligence. As far as I k
Say to an alien - are you the galactic UN intervention team Wear to the beach - what i always wear. A wetsuit/boardies and my body hair. do if you were dying soon - tell no one and lay in bed suffering anxiety related stomach cramps. seriously. think of someone if they told you that you were beautiful - silence. absolute silence... and then give them verbal mince. ask for if you were offered any "gift" at all - someo
I think that vanity is a love of what we deem to be "latent" within us. Passive qualities that do not require the machinations of consciousness or action to define themselves. Pride is a preceptual schema reserved for the deeds we have committed and the qualities we articulate with the aid of attention and awareness. Both require reflection and the involvement of past tense verbs and "past tense" personalities. Animals are in
"JakeD: Can you remind me again what specifically the crashing of airplanes into the World Trade Center were in response to? Or maybe the USS Cole? Or the Embassy bombings? What specifically were these in response to?" Draginol, This is a very, very silly thing to ask. The US's past actions in the middle east and just about anywhere else on the globe has given a great many people, a great many things to retaliate against.
Love the last line. We never leave places. We just roll out the crime scene tape and lie amongst the corpses
Jeeez, Find a room you guys. or at least a forum where you can draw the curtains
Thanks JakeD, translator almighty ("sanctioned by the top brass", now thats gotta mean something) Could I possibly call on your service for other areas and users of JU. I think i need it.
Just reading over your "Death of the American Dream" blog, I would almost think that it was congratulatory, but these days I'm so so confused here at JU that i don't quite know what to make of anything. Being on here makes me feel kinda funky . Not necessarily a bad thing;)
mikimouse, Is this meant to be cryptic, sarcastic, or am i just DENSE. *scratches head and suspects the later* Please, oh PLEASE forgive my ignorance:)
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