Re: Nothing Is Worth Dying For

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:08:02 -0400, Gary James <gnjames43@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:41:25 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
><PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:11:50 -0700, El Castor
>><justuschickens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Gary James <gnjames43@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is a good article that puts in perspective the idea of "dying for
>>>>one's country". Especially when you consider that people like Bush
>>>>and the other Chicken Hawks refused to risk their worthless carcasses
>>>>for their country, but they want every young man to be willing to die
>>>>for their country now that the CHs are in charge.
>>>>
>>>>------------------------------------------------
>>>>Nothing Is Worth Dying For
>>>>
>>>>by Joe Goodson
>>>>
>>>>"When you sacrifice your life, you give up everything. The world has
>>>>ended. What you were no longer exists. No more life, no more love,
>>>>no more music, no more sports, no more breathing, no more interest in
>>>>anything . . . . You are no more."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/goodson/goodson1.html
>>>
>>>So I guess you are saying that the South should not have rebelled? The
>>>US should have stayed out of WWII? We should still be a colony of
>>>Britain? What?
>>
>>
>>
>> Gary and I are in agreement in that we both wish the South had
>>won the Civil War, and separated from the rest of the US.
>
>I have mixed emotions about the secession and the war. I don't think
>there is anyway either side can justify the death of 600,000 Americans
>for naught.


Yes, as I've mentioned before, if I were Lord Protector of England,
I'd be willing to work out arrangements as equitable as possible for
Scotland, or any other region that wanted to separate, to do so. And
I have no negative feelings for Scotland, other than their primitive
hostility to gay people, but a lot of countries are still that way,
most conspicuously and inexcusably the USA. England is not very
modern in that regard either, sad to say. I've never been to
Scotland, though I was born only a hundred miles away, but I would
look forward to visiting.



>On the other hand the rural people of the Deep South would not be able
>to control the Yankee government like we do now had we been successful
>in leaving.



Yep, we agree again.



>BTW, I suppose the owner of this site is sad we lost.
>
>http://fuckthesouth.com/



That sounds like me, once I skim off the rage.


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I've been on and off lately because my computer is f.ing up.
I lost the sound and haven't been able to get it back for two
weeks. I lost the modem too, but I was able to get on
last night and this morning by reinstalling the software and
starting the mail program before the reinstall finished. Now
I'm on again, though, without even asking. I did make
another tech support call this morning and the guy had
me do something different, wipe out my old identity and
re-enter it from scratch. It didn't work and I was skeptical
when he said he'd looked up and there were problems
in San Fran but it should work soon. since the problem
still looked just like it did a week ago. If he did fix the
problem, I'll have to make one more call to tech support to
compensate for my skepticism and let him know it did work.

If I can't get the sound back, I'll get a new computer. There's
an emachine computer (T5010) that's only $500. I have to
have sound. I haven't been able to work on music on the
computer for two weeks, no real biggie since I often leave off
for that long or more, but I do want to get back to the thing
I was writing.

I always have unusual problems. I don't fit into this world
well. The stuff I want is often not made, though it could be
made, and the stuff that's made is often of little interest to
me. I couldn't care less about being able to play movies or
Brave-New-World type video games on my computer.
The credit-card companies that offer cool stuff for $5 if you
gain enough credits have never offered anything I'd even
want to have around, because having it wouldn't be worth
the effort of dusting it off occasionally to me.










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