A serious poll!
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I'll just go ahead and give my answer and reasoning. You might not want to read on if you want to fool yourself into believing I wrote the choices given completely unbiased.
Nothing sickens me more sometimes than people going on and on about how much better life was in the past. Take the rennaisance. What was so fuking great about the rennaisance: the fact that 1/2 the people you knew weren't dying from the black death and the other 1/2 were living in sh!t?
So many people have this overly-glorified view of the past, and it seems to me they forget about the horrible things the past had to offer: disease, poverty, bloody war, world-wide Taliban-esque treatment of women, slavery, illiteracy, ignorance, Manifest Destiny, inquisitions ...
My answer to the above would have to be right here, right now. The future could be better or it could be worse, but that's the point: it's the future, so we don't know for sure. I think, with everything that's happening and has happened this year, that overall this is a great time to be alive.
Yes, I know as an American it's easy for me to think everything's all peachy 'cause I live in the richest country in the world, but even "lesser" countries have it made these days compared to what life was like in the past. Yes, things could be better, but I believe overall they're better than they ever have been.
Nothing sickens me more sometimes than people going on and on about how much better life was in the past. Take the rennaisance. What was so fuking great about the rennaisance: the fact that 1/2 the people you knew weren't dying from the black death and the other 1/2 were living in sh!t?
So many people have this overly-glorified view of the past, and it seems to me they forget about the horrible things the past had to offer: disease, poverty, bloody war, world-wide Taliban-esque treatment of women, slavery, illiteracy, ignorance, Manifest Destiny, inquisitions ...
My answer to the above would have to be right here, right now. The future could be better or it could be worse, but that's the point: it's the future, so we don't know for sure. I think, with everything that's happening and has happened this year, that overall this is a great time to be alive.
Yes, I know as an American it's easy for me to think everything's all peachy 'cause I live in the richest country in the world, but even "lesser" countries have it made these days compared to what life was like in the past. Yes, things could be better, but I believe overall they're better than they ever have been.
Right here, right now. Because that's where I'm at, and there's nothing I can do about it, so why wish you could live in a different era when it's not gonna happen.
i would love to be back in the roman rennisance. Greek mythology, and Roman rule has always interested me.
about disease, death, and war, hey, its somthing you gotta accept. if i lived back then, i would want to be a legionary. ive always been facinated with swords and have even taken a few swordsman classes.
about disease, death, and war, hey, its somthing you gotta accept. if i lived back then, i would want to be a legionary. ive always been facinated with swords and have even taken a few swordsman classes.
The sixties (in SF)
They had better music and nicer cars
Although the weed was weak in those times
They had better music and nicer cars
Although the weed was weak in those times
The USA is not the richest country in the world. It's only the country with the biggest ego! The richest country is Swiss and the country with the highest percentage of happy and content people is Sweden. Just because America has the biggest military potential doesn't mean they are the best. I'm really sorry if I offended anybody, but all that "God bless America" just makes me puke!
I think sven meant that in a sort of self-derogatary way...God bless America is annoying, especially when every celebrity starts preaching it as well...the hypocracy is shocking.
Sven : good question. I would have to say the future because I think, while things are pretty bad now and have always been so, they are improving...
Sven : good question. I would have to say the future because I think, while things are pretty bad now and have always been so, they are improving...
actually, this thread was secretly intended to weed out the Swiss nationals on this board and expose them, they're the real threat to the American Way.
You hear me, Astyanax? You tell 'em over there in Switzerland that I'm comin' and hell's comin' with me!!!
You hear me, Astyanax? You tell 'em over there in Switzerland that I'm comin' and hell's comin' with me!!!
According to a survey 4 or 5 years before in "happyness-ranking" Bangladesh lead before Ghana, first European country was 4th place Poland, America somewhere at place 30, Russia at 80 or so.
BTW Best Chocolatiers are the Belgians IMO!
yah our candy ownz you all
well according to a new study, from a few months back, the scandinavian countries are the happynesst indeed, lemme see of i can find it somewhere
well according to a new study, from a few months back, the scandinavian countries are the happynesst indeed, lemme see of i can find it somewhere
Originally posted by Astyanax
Fine I'll tell them. BTW, I'm Dutch....
OK, fine ... I'll wage war on the Dutch, too.
SHEESH!
That wouldn't be wise. The USA are already using Dutch military airplanes and stuff for their war in Afghanistan. You'd be declaring war to those who support you.