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Ardennes44 wrote:The marriage unit which is the backbone of society is fragmented in most places. Parents spend little or no time raising their children, nourishing them, educating them, and guiding them. Globalism is moving across the planet, erasing cultures, customs, and roots. The result is that we have an awful lot of young people out there who wander aimlessly through life, grasping at straws, trying to find some sense of meaning to their existence.
Corporate capitalism relentlessly presses for labor to be an "input" on the same terms as materials, and in doing so it separates people from one another for the sake of standardization and efficiency. Labor unions resist this but only to a degree. Meanwhile, businesses feel free to impose incredible disruptions on families and communities.

Then, once the disruptions cause social fractures, the corporate elites blame the societies they've destroyed and move on for greener pastures. The members of those societies begin to turn on each other. It's a modern version of slash-and-burn agriculture. Individuals who resist are labeled communists or socialists, and societies that resist are simply threatened with the loss of their livelihoods.
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2. I think the issue of homosexuality is raised in light of Christian ethics so often is due to it's nature. Greed and other vice has been around for as long as man has, likewise, i imagine, so have homosexuals. But only in late 20th going into 21st century, has it been passed off as normal or a 'lifestyle'. It's brazeness is simply a sign of what has seriously gone wrong in the West. Even in Rome, where towards the end, orgies of all natures took place, it was never passed as 'normal', it was vice, and they knew it.
Sorry for not having addressed your no2 post earlier, Redhand.
If the tenets of the "gay-rights" movement are true, the Torah and New Testament are wrong, Christianity has been wrong since the time of St. Paul, Aquinas and Augustine were wrong, and the moral edifice by which men in the West have lived for 2,000 years was built on bigotry, prejudice and lies. Was it?
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snyder wrote: Meanwhile, businesses feel free to impose incredible disruptions on families and communities..
I so agree with you, Snyder. It is called "the reenslavement of America", is it not?
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Oh, bummocks... :o
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Herky, I have removed my reply to avoid hijacking the thread.
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'Thread' is an example of a single word Oxymoron on this site. Any thread that achieves page 2 sans disruption, lateral swerves or downright dismantling is a strong contender for subject of the year.

What?.............No one liners? It wasn't...... :roll:
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Well, I had mixed feelings about my posting anyway. I really don't feel like getting into a long debate over the issue of whether homosexuality means the end of Western civilization as we know it. Even I have my limits. 8)
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El Prez wrote:'Thread' is an example of a single word Oxymoron on this site. Any thread that achieves page 2 sans disruption, lateral swerves or downright dismantling is a strong contender for subject of the year.

What?.............No one liners? It wasn't...... :roll:
Now YOU wait just one durn minute, mister!!! You cain't call ME an 'oxymoron one-linear'... ... ... uh, unless yer buyin the first beer...! :o
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Threads tend to wander quite naturally on these forums, taking a mild meander through our thought processes. Don't worry about it or you'll end up as paranoid as us British types. Relax, enjoy. :lol:
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El Prez wrote:Threads tend to wander quite naturally on these forums, taking a mild meander through our thought processes. Don't worry about it or you'll end up as paranoid as us British types. Relax, enjoy. :lol:
:D yeah!... I KNOW how to meander, I do that all the time... as to thought processes, uh... I'm a Colonial... are we allowed to have any of those?... as to fun, I haven't had this much fun since tha pigs et ma baby sister... :D
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As for tribes.......Yes can see what you mean. The tribes in the UK kicked off last Saturday. Football Supporters. (Soccer to you gentleman and ladies from the other side of the pond)

You see a 300 pound 5' 6" for want of a better word BLOB proudly wearing his soccer teams shirt along with thousands of others whos lives revolve round "The Team". I don't mind really but some of them take it to the extremes of stupidity. There have been numourous cases where the Game comes second and the whole object of going to a Soccer match revolves round beating the sh*t out of anybody whos wearing the oppositions colours.
I have heard it say that the game of football was introduced into England by the Romans, but there does not seem to be any definite proof to substantiate this belief. In Medieval England, it is said that the London schoolboys "played at the celebrated game of ball". The next mention of the game is in the time of Edward II. Because of great disturbances in the streets of London by mobs who collected to play or to watch the game, an edict was passed in the early 14th century which prohibited football altogether. Authorities tried in vain to put a stop to the popular game, and despite all efforts, it persisted. And I say, thank God it has persisted to this day. I`m all for a great soccer game. Forget American football! :D
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You lot want to have a gander at the Royal Marines Misc Disc to see how a thread can be Hi-jacked!

You Start off about the joys of Hitting the Beach from an LCVP and it ends up all about how our JR/Owdun/El Prez/Artist/Sticky Blue got Pi**ed as handcarts down the Gut in Sunny Malta!

Well Prez that seems to have Hi-Jacked this one to a Tee! :D

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El Prez wrote:Threads tend to wander quite naturally on these forums, taking a mild meander through our thought processes. Don't worry about it or you'll end up as paranoid as us British types. Relax, enjoy.
O.K., anyone want to speculate on who really killed John F. Kennedy? It's common knowledge that Oswald is on one of those UFOs responsible for the crop circles and that Jack Ruby was actually Richard Nixon in a mask, so who did the dirty deed? :)
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snyder wrote:so who did the dirty deed? :)
Aristotle Onassis :wink:
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