saintchism wrote:Yah, Doc you are right it was not a 👍 it was an excellent one. 😀
Bubba showed more or less how one can benefit from the principle of synergy.
An idealstic post. I <3 it.
Your´s was realstic one, Doc. Nothing against it tho
I was going to get indignant over the gay flag, but Bubba installed AIX yesterday, which is a game mod I'd wanted GRB to play for six months. Because of that, I told him I loved him, not in a gay way, but in an old-style naval tradition way. . .so I guess I have no room to complain. 🙂
saintchism wrote:Right now there is a tendency to avoid polarization and turn to "new" methods of getting things done in german "politics". It is practised by the younger ppl rather because they are the ones that get engaged but do not want to be necessarily part of one of the two or three big parties. These big parties are too big and static, to get things done and be flexible and quick enough doing so. Politically engaged ppl who want to participate and lay in their knowlegde and energy are not willing anymore to do it explicitly under the flag of one of the big or even smaller parties.
I <3 it.
Things work for awhile, then they stagnate, get corrupted, and lose focus, so new things are needed, or the old things come to the forefront again. Everything is cyclic. Nothing is forever.
saintchism wrote:And then, very generally spoken. Human interactive dialogs about whats however are always a dynamic process or no? To advance in developement - and shouldn´t that be the goal in life - it does not help to simply avoid conflicts. It woud be better to improve the way in which they are lead.
I broke things down for me and maybe simplified them too much, but it comes down to:
Atomm and others have to keep their mouth shut, becuz Duck and maybe others are not able to discuss things without getting in rage and hurting ppl. I don´t think that this is his intention. I doubt that. That´s why I said, wait and see, ask him what ideas he comes up with. He is a clever person. Not dumb at all.
Of the things someone might think to call Duck, dumb would not be one of them.
We had a thread awhile back that you started. Someone wrote an article suggesting that the US was heading for another civil war. We shot down that idea, not because there isn't division in this country, but because it's a division that is fairly homogeneous across the whole of the nation. There are divisions within our society, but not along state lines. People are divided by their ideology, and as Bubba said, by facts.
You must understand that you're poking at a very raw wound here. This goes deeper, and has been going on longer than you can know-both in this nation in general, and in these forums specifically. It's something we try to tread lightly on here, because of our past experience with this subject. This is not our first, or second, or even tenth or twentieth attempt at such a discussion. Everyone THINKS and SAYS they can be calm and discuss matters rationally, but history, and again, the entire internet, begs to differ.
Things are never as simple and straightforward as they should be.