Chill Out About Oil, Terrorism, and God

Wow. So much being said about the 3 fundamentals of life. (Oil, Terrorism, and God)

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All y'all eggheads need to chill out. Stop worrying so much about everything. Go out, have fun. Find a girlfriend/boyfriend. Get some. Stop carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. Besides, its not like your opinion matters to anyone important, anyway.

It'll all work out. Look at the big picture:

We're in Iraq to fight terrorism (therefore protecting our homeland) and bring it a free market it so we can get [cheap] oil. God is down with it because we're fighting insurgents who are killing innocent people [falsely] in his name.

So basically, God is cool with our occupation of Iraq, we're tightening the noose on terrorists, and we'll soon have cheap oil.

Problems solved.

Relax.

Sometimes I think you have happy magical rose-colored filtered ear muffs and only Anshe and the value of the $L trickle through to your ears.

Except the message gets even more garbled.

*smacks her sarcasm detector*

Damn it... Ulrika shorted the thing out, it doesn't work anymore

Good one.

Ah, but if we'd invaded Iraq knowing it was all about oil in the first place it would be a different story. I feel kinda bad making 2k+ American soldiers (and a hell of a lot of brit soldiers too) die so I can pay less at the pump. I'd prefer to have just bought a damn hybrid.

The british fuel problem is different to the US one. Our fuel price is so high be because of tax. About 90% of the profit from each liter is given to benefit takers, because it's hard work picking up your un-earned cash from the job center every week.

As for religion, I don't have a problem with any faith's God at all, it's his sheep I have a problem with. But only to the same extent as someone whos read Lord of the Rings 4000 times and prays to Sauruman every Thursday.

Jamie

So basically, God is cool with our occupation of Iraq, we're tightening the noose on terrorists, and we'll soon have cheap oil.

Problems solved.

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I can only assume that you have tripped out on a funny mushroom.

Alexa

You need to chill out. Stop worrying so much about what the eggheads are talking about onthe forums. Go out, have fun. Find a girlfriend/boyfriend. Get some. Stop carrying the weight of the forums on your shoulders. Besides, its not like your opinion matters to anyone important, anyway.

Oh, I do agree with you. The casualties are very sad. But if its helping to prevent terroristic attacks on our own soil against innocent civilans wouldn't you agree that those brave soldiers at least died for a noble cause?

He He... glad to see you are subscribing to my argument

Glad you are too.

While we're at it maybe we could take an opinion poll to see if opinion polls are meaningless.

I post to these threads because its fun. If I hated reading them I would be an idiot to worry myself over them.

Oooh that's brilliant!

In other words... *swings pocket watch* "Your eyelids are getting heavier... sleeeeeep.... Sssssllleeeeeeeeep..."

Yes definately, don't get me wrong, I feel any soldier who honestly believes he is trying to make the world a better place, dies nobly. But if that's the case, then surely we're saying the terrorists (who believe just as stongly if not stronger that their cause will benefit the world as a whole) are noble in their actions.

Ever heard of the IRA? They consider themselves an armed force fighting for an independent Ireland, and Brits call them terrorists. We've been dealing with them for years. Since the late 1960s, the IRA has killed about 1,800 people, including about 650 civilians. In fact Northern Ireland can be as messed up as central Baghdad at times and we have had a large military force over there for at least 30 years.

We watched in disbelief as Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein (the IRA's political arm) was treated like a celebrity during his US tour by the Irish population of America. In fact a number of Irish-run US & UK businesses have funded the IRA for many years to help them with their 'noble' cause. It just depends which side of the fence you stand. Thankfully it's all coming to an end.

Fighting terrorism by shouting louder doesn't work, they just shout back.

I don't think so. Not even a little bit.

Invading a sovereign nation so you have have your fight there and kill their citizens is not a noble cause. It is a selfish cause at best.

Imagine if a country invaded the US so they could have their fights here killing our citizens so that the citizens of their country would be safer. Would that be noble of them? How would you react? Would you love your occupiers?

Ah, but the difference is that we're not trying to build weapons of mass destruction to sponsor terrorism against innocents around the world.

Furthermore, we're a democracy... Iraq was a brutal dictatorship. We've secured liberty for the Iraqi people - and now we're helping them to overcome those who want to see the country swept back into autocracy.

Which weapons of mass destruction are we talking about? The American arsenal sitting in their silos that have been rusting away since the cold war, or the Iraqi ones which didn't exist?



Saddam had Islamic Extremists under control, they were scared of getting totured and generally having the hell kicked out of them by Baathist Loyalists. He was an evil man who had control over other evil men. We've knocked over the beehive and they're planning their next move.

I don't call a US filtered political system democratic. Name one candidate that refuses to give oil to the states?

I would have responded to this earlier but I couldn't stop laughing.

Iran Contra anyone?

What's really scary is that God actually does feel the same way that Jamie does. And He does talk to George W. Bush, late at night in the Oval Office. And He hates Muslims and likes the fact that the United States is doing His work. And when it's done, He has promised to reward the American people with cheap foreign oil.

Allah, on the other hand, has similar personality issues - and has made similar promises to His people.

We are all but proxy combatants in a Greater War in the Heavens that none of us know about - except for Jamie and George W. And maybe a few others. I know about it too, but it takes me a six-pack of Corona and lime, and a baseball bat to the head, before I can get into the receptive frame of mind.

I think Jamie is just trolling.

If I were a woman, and fertile, I would want to have Seth's babies.

Wait a few years, Neehai. Medical technology is exponentiating.

I'm not. I'm a die hard freedom lover. Freedom isn't free. It costs a lot in terms of personal sacrifice and the willingness to endure setbacks to attain a greater goal.

The problem is most people lack this intestinal fortitude these days. The fact that you think that my middle-of-the-road set of morals and values is trolling is a sad statement on the way people of the world have atrophied in regards to having a backbone.

Why is it so hard for you to believe that perhaps God really IS speaking to George W Bush? I'm not saying that he IS for sure... but the possibilities certainly does exist.

Well for me at least, God told me that he wasn't speaking to George W. Bush. As I am the official Messenger of God and he speaks through me, I should know.