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Ellianth: Notice I DID place an emoticon after that remark. As in "I was joking!"
That said, I already had stated I was done and would have left it at that.
But curiosity got the better of me, so I listened to the next podcast anyway. Lo and behold, in the very next podcast they made jokes about it!
This isn't about some stupid braindead "flame war" - this is about important issues people shouldn't joke about or make uninformed remarks about. Opinions, my foot!
While I am at it, unlike SOME I do not have opinions on issues of importance UNLESS they actually *have* a factual basis.
Without facts, opinions are worthless.
Um Lukas,
You're having a problem not seeing the forest for the trees. Nobody has ever said (at least to my knowledge) that you are dead wrong and a bad person because of your opinions. Brad and I simply happen to disagree with you on this issue. You can put forth your facts and we can put forth our facts. But in the end, clearly in the instance, nobody's mind is gonna change. I've personally never changed my mind solely on what another person said. It's when I got involved and did some investigating that I changed my mind. Initially, I wasn't necessarily for the war, but I did some checking and it is an honorable thing. Yes the loss of life is terrible in every sense of the word, but that comes with the uniform.
Now see, you can have an intelligent disagreement with no name calling.
Am downloading HL2 Episode one, wish my broadband was faster.
Yeah, thanks to the show I downloaded my whole HL package again, too. I forgot how much I love this game...
the loss of life [...] comes with the uniform
Exactly why I'll never put one on.
Gecko,
Sorry about reintroducing you to HL2. We all gotta suffer...
The loss of life, in uniform or without is terrible. But there is tremendous honor in putting that uniform on. I'm a veteran of the first Gulf War (I was in the Army for almost 7 years). It was nothing compared to what our guys are going through this time, but soldier's still died and they died with honor. But not putting one on doesn't guarantee you a long life. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow. If I have to die before my natural life is over, I'd want it to be in service to my country.
Great episode this week. Very enjoyable. I particularly liked the rant at the end. Top notch work.
One of these days I will play Half Life 2. I hated, and I mean really hated Half Life. I liked it for a while, but then it was just lame. Once the whole Xen levels started, I really soured on the whole experience. Ever since my disappointment with HL, I have been wary of the sequel.
Simpilot: the only honorable thing concerning the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are the willingness of the soldiers to go there and do what they consider to be their "duty".
However, their "duties" have long been exposed to be coming from orders based on blatant lies, mostly by the current occupants of the White House, and some guy in the UK called T. blair.
The "facts surrounding theis "war on terror" have been exposed as the lies they are. I wonder what facts you are referring to?
Europe, and is disliked if not hated pretty much everywhere else.
My latest post seems to have broken up there. Oh well. The more I re-read the old posts here, the madder I am getting.
This is WAY beyond anyone's opinions.
BTW, sorry to all the rest of you, my latest post seems to haven broken up in bits & pieces, but just try to re-read dear FrogBoy's posts in the previous forum, especially the one in response to Boz011's and to L's posts (5/30/2006 11:25:00 PM and 5/31/2006 6:23:10 AM, respectively).
Is this REALLY a guy you like listening to? Sure, he's so funy on the show, but Jezus, these people have valid views, right? And I know this is not the forum to do so, but there are sources that will confirm the insanity and the atrocities caused by these "wars on terror"...
Lukas: Free advice - GET A LIFE.
Might I recommend you go hang out on DemocraticUnderground.org where people like you can get together and rant about how stupid, ignorant, and evil those people who simply can't get with the plan and recognize the obvious truth of your position.