by Miki » Fri 29 Sep 2006, 05:49:08
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', 'B')efore you all jump on me...
Come on, Miki, the late Joe Vialls (he died recently) was a virulent, foaming-at-the-mouth, conspiracy-theorizing, classically anti-Semitic neo-Nazi. He scoured the world from his computer in Australia, scraping together "evidence" of Jewish depravity for many years.
Well, I certainly didn't know that Zardoz. As for PO, I've read some of the basic stuff and I was planning to take a look at the "how to be prepared" (forgot the exact name) thread to learn about some possible ways to deal with this if it happens when it happens. There are many educated/intelligent people in this forum, and I just can't dismiss something that they all seem to agree with. I am skeptical of the more doomerish scenarios, but I need to learn more before discarding them. I even told my parents about it, and we have a piece of arable land and a house in the N. of Lebanon. Right now it only produces olives, but in my dad's village there are grapes, figs, cows, hens, and they are all fed with local stuff. I suggested that we try to prepare the land for other stuff, and that we consider buying some arable land in Peru (in the Andes), in case we're there. The Andes are very fertile. My parents didn't take me too seriously, to be honest. They both think that by the time the oil starts decreasins, alternative forms of energy will be available at a larger scale.
Thanks to those of you who bothered to explain it to me in polite terms. I am the first one to admit that I don't know enough about the topic. That said, I don't see how any of you intends to convey your message if you atack anyone who asks questions, and you make assumptions about how ignorant they are and how much respect they have for your opinions. I think people have the right to question and be skeptical, no?
PMS seems to have too many assumptions about me. He seems to think that the criminal wars that the US and Israel fight for oil have nothing to do with oil. Aren't the resource wars one of the most dramatic consequences of PO? Aren't the millions of lives that will be lost the most important aspect of all this?
He also seems to think that I don't have any respect for the opinions of others and that I am as rigid as he is. He seems to think that, like him, I get my views on the world from the bunch of liars in the US government. He seems to think that the thousands of people that are being slaughtered thanks to his country's greed for oil are not important. He seems to think that only American lives and the maintenance of the filthy "American lifestyle" is important.
Seldom Seen is too unconfortable with the things I say, so he calls them "spam" and atacks me. He would like to continue thinking that Muslims are a bunch of backward criminals, and that him and his government have no responsability on this, so he would love for me to stop pointing out the unconfortable truth to him and others. Somehow the concept that the Open Discussion forum is for any topic doesn't fit in his head. Neither has he understood one of the most important issues of PO: the geopolitical dynamics that it involves.
Interestingly, I don't see those that are open to my ideas complaining about me posting about Israel and the US. It is only the radical right wingers/Islamophobics "America is ever righteous" Israel's unconditional lovers that seem to be bothered by my posts. Must mean something, no?
You certainly don't help people get interested in PO by assuming they're ignorant, not having respect for their views, and not being open to their ideas. And then you complain that others are ignorant, not interested in PO, or not open to new ideas. Maybe that's part of the reason why many are not listening to you. And by "you" I mean those of you who seem to be offended by the fact that I have valid opinions that contradict their views.