Human will is my belief. I believe that everybody wills to pleasure, power, meaning or simply just to survive - the former three varying from person to person.
I believe that exterior to the self comes culture, which ties the would-be individual into the uniformity of a given age. From here I believe the passing of ages fulfill a cyclic pattern to a near exactness, which you could call destiny.
It was a better song than the others that finished near the top.
Besides, look how many hot women Eastern Europe pulled out of the bag - making a good show of Eastern Europe's finest export - they can do what they like.
Ok, well i'm more of the persuasion that we drove our industries away first and then by default became ever more reliant on the City - but I suppose this doesn't chnage any of the facts for the here and now.
It's sad but true about the Germans. I have to say it's irritating to see them striving ahead whilst the rest of us sink, again.
And are you sure I can't change your mind about the cull? Think of the unemployment figures.
I live near trafford, it used to employ eighty thousand engineers, now we have a huge shopping centre. Most of the industry of this country was lost before I was born, so during the adult lives of the people aged 50 and above today.
And yes, we have lots of consumables, anybody it seems can consume as much cheap trash as they like - only recently has it become apparent to people how we've paid for it, or more fittingly, not paid for it.
I don't think it's new. I believe people are supposed to start thinking in different ways as time goes on - like you did then just as I do now. I just want to make this country something that it was worth them dying for, instead of trivialising their deaths by running our countries into the ground.
I'm sorry for patronising you, I know I can be guilty of that. As for maturity and respect, I do hold earnest views for which I have been name-called and insulted within the thread by people who are in the apparent position of maturity without lashing out at them.
I think my generation has to be different, that's why it will be different. Afterall, the older generation(up to a point)began in prosperous countries and will leave them bankrupted and debt-ridden, if we continue to follow the same line of performance then we would be like Africa by the time i'm dead.
But I'm aware of which generation created the modern state of politics. PC thugs, so-called equal opportunities, censorship, media and educational manipulation. All party to some innane quest to masquerade everything that could be construed as offensive. I seriously doubt that it will be the older generation that changes any of this because to them it's almost a tenet.
The cost is passed on to the consumer in a sense, but not evenly, as those paying more taxes pay more of the cost of oil. If the cost was at the point of consumption everybody would pay on what they used - which doesn't suit our economy that depends on the working and lower-middle classes consuming heavily in other areas. Consumption of energy is cheapened just as consumption is cheapened broadly speaking.
I predict that conventional global oil reserves will peak around 2025, and from there we'll see rapidly escalating costs of energy, and so, costs of everything.
The cost of oil is undeniably kept beneath what it could be, it's practical value through our reliance upon it does not warrant today's low prices at the pump and in addition the cost at the pump doesn't take into account the external costs of oil -tax, insurance and retail costs in other sectors.
As for the oil companies, they certainly do not enjoy vast oil fields drying up when new fields that are found are ever smaller and less fruitful - to the point where today we consume 3 barrels of oil for every 1 barrel that is discovered.
We could talk of limiting how much profit the individual can make from the oil game, but this could affect productivity and at the end of the day these people are keeping the lights on - far better to take this approach with the banker who draws far more unjust profit than any of the industrialists do.
It's true to say that the profits drawn do increase at they are the percentage of the price. However, the cost of production is increasing per barrel quite dramatically as conventional supplies dwindle, and so profits are directed heavily into new, dangerous and sometimes desperate ventures to obtain greater supplies.
As for price fixing, it certainly is fixed. But it's not a conspiracy against the public, it is a conspiracy for the public - if oil was costed in accordance to our economic needs, then crude oil could cost 3-4 times more per barrel than it does at the moment(why else do you think we prop up so many dictators and corrupt administrations in oil producing nations across the globe?).
'The question whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.
Life is a struggle involving plants, animals, and humans. It is a struggle between individuals, social classes, peoples, and nations, and it can take the form of economic, social, political, and military competition. It is a struggle for the power to make one’s will prevail, to exploit one’s advantage, or to advance one’s opinion of what is just or expedient. When other means fail, recourse will be taken time and again to the ultimate means: violence. An individual who uses violence can be branded a criminal, a class can be called revolutionary or traitorous, a people bloodthirsty. But that does not alter the facts. Modern world-communism calls its wars “uprisings,” imperialist nations describe theirs as “pacification of foreign peoples.” And if the world existed as a unified state, wars would likewise be referred to as “uprisings.” The distinctions here are purely verbal.'
Oswald Spengler - first published in the Cosmopolitan.
Well this link is just more media. What I do know is that Gaddafi still hasn't taken back the other half of the country and therefore the support against must be fairly strong - stronger than the rebel support was in any other Arab nation.
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RE: So...What do you believe in then?
Human will is my belief. I believe that everybody wills to pleasure, power, meaning or simply just to survive - the former three varying from person to person.I believe that exterior to the self comes culture, which ties the would-be individual into the uniformity of a given age. From here I believe the passing of ages fulfill a cyclic pattern to a near exactness, which you could call destiny.