I actually do not think I've ever been called a prick before
congrats

or wait is that prick? did he self censor? I am has confuz

Lemme explain a little further. Its not about "spam" (not saying that stupid post was, it wasn't) as much as it's about ass-hole people. I didn't see the post Herm just quoted until now. CM is a fecking dick. You guys can have him.

:laughing: you can't tell people how to feel especially when they are pissed off. Ain't nobody got time for that hippie shit.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BKF4w1kYuv...onkey-face.jpg

not directin this at charlie but just from seein that hippy post by chameleon i must say that i hate hippies too


news flash: violence does solve things (sometimes). it is needed (sometimes). pacifists are idealists and not livin in reality

:laughing: at the picture.

I was just trying to point out the absurdity in letting a stranger's comments on the internet influence our mood. If someone calls me c**t, tells me they hope my mother gets cancer, blah blah, I'd be a fool to let that affect me. It's just words, and words by someone who doesn't even know me. We should be careful in how much power we allow others to have over us.

If it's any consolation I don't look like a hippy, dress like a hippy, smell like a hippy. My home ain't decorated as such either. But deep down, yeah, I am a bit of a hippy, certainly in my philosophies. The love and peace stuff. It's a good goal I think. ;)

that's my point though. It's fine that you are so zen and above that but not everyone is the same obviously and you can't really tell someone how they should react especially when they are in the moment and don't want to take advice from someone else. They just want to be themselves and react the way the want to.

Yeah, I see your point.

i know i wasnt tryin to call you out or anythin and i agree, its a great goal. but i do believe violence is necessary and maybe thats unfortunate but its just reality to me.

i look at it like this. if im a pacifist and im totally anti-violence, but theres a guy who is the opposite of that and is a psycho, then his violence is gonna trump my peacefulness in the fact that he is goin to kill me if i dont adapt and use violence myself

thats not a likely scenario but the way i look at it. i dont agree with the wars the usa has initiated recently, but was wwII necessary?? wwI? i mean sometimes i think violence is necessry especially as a reactionary measure.

and i cant stand hippies because i view them as ppl not in touch with reality. total peacefulness is somethin to strive for but will never happen. and im sayin that as, just because we dont achieve total peacefulness doesnt make the cause or outcome unsuccesful. strive for it, but dont get caught up in thinkin its a reality that will ever happen. too many psychos with different beliefs to be achieved.

I don't think peace will happen either. We may have evolved into a somewhat more peaceful and tolerant species but, as the last century shows, our technology means we can inflict far more death than ever before. And as resources become ever scarcer and thus more valuable, I fear further wars, maybe even world wars, are inevitable.

Also take a look at your avatar. There needs to be some war/violence for their to be peace.

The two have to co-exist for their to be a balance.