X Marks the Spot

Yes.

His name was Daniel Pearl I believe...unless it was a different one.

I chose to watch plenty as well, before I decided to no longer subject myself to said.

And I agree, there is enough violence to have witnessed first hand, to not want to see it perpetrated on others by the choice of a 'click'.


GLP would be even better if we were offered the option to completely hide thread titles from view, if one so chooses...

As some are titles disturbing enough to wrought horror alone.

Indeed.


'Unpin all' my new favorite and constantly utilized feature.

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what are your thoughts on this

That War is Hell.


The 'schoolyard' taken WAY too far...


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Last Edited by Seer777 on 02/01/2013 11:39 PM

I would honestly say it depends on the "woman" and the "job" some are not cut out for it. There are some women out there more masculine in nature than men I know. Women can be just at good at shooting as men like I said it all depends. Now mothers with children at home and their spouse in the military also I would say no because if something does happen that child needs at least one natural parent.

back in the day when I was into this stuff

I noticed they were deploying husband and wife's ....brothers full sets of them.,.. deploying mothers knowing they had just had a child.... and knowing they had no one to take care f that child....

taking elderly people I think the oldest was 50 years old deployed yes 50 is elderly

they would be waiting out side prisons waiting for them to get out and trying to recruit them or going in and visiting them recruiting them finding out when the date would be till they are let out..


oh the list goes on what they are doing bending over backwards trying to get more bodies out there to fight their war

in the high-schools here they have kids still babies in my eyes doing ROTC every time I see them in uniform I wanna cry

they are just babies..

now they have lifted the ban for women to go to the front lines...

NOT a good idea in many countries they treat women like
well im sure you know what they would do if a woman was soldier was captured..


some day they will run out of people to do there wars and they will just deploy bots.. and thats not a joke either...

also forgot to mention some of these people did like 4 tours the people they kept deploying..

I understand.. all of it is a personal choice , not that I promote War I do not. They are beyond that , with some of the technology they have today .. well it is mind boggling at the least. Many movies cover many varieties of what they have. Think about Captain America and creating super soldiers and biologically enhanced as well. Its a War for Earth period not just between nations. And it is perpetuated by Greed. I still shake my head sometimes but the fact of the matter is someone who is not trained to take care of themselves or family is an easy target when a war does break out. that I believe is something everyone should have at least a working knowledge of. But that is merely my opinion. No one should be subjected to the atrocities of war but at this juncture it is part of the planet we live and they have made it into .

I watched a movie one time when I was a teen. I have no frame of reference for the name of the movie or any scene other than the one I am about to relay.

Essentially, a girl, a mother's child was about to be forced to serve in combat, in a country foreign to this one, which allowed said.

The mother in this movie, to keep her daughter, around 16 or so, from being forced into combat, chose to burn her daughters legs severely with either an iron or hot water while she screamed in pain.

I remember being so horrified and conflicted that a mother would 'love' her child so much that she would choose to maim her, before allowing her to war.

It sticks with me to this day.

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women have PMS sometimes when women have that they bad judgments... know what im saying?

you dont wanna have a pissed off PMS women in the front lines everyone will go down

maybe thats why there isnt a female president she would prolly have PMS and press the button and say fuck it all!

maybe im old fashioned women belong in the kitchen

ehhhh its all wasted energy talking about all this I dont know why I brought it up

none of it will ever change

any ways have a good night

bye

Have a goodnight yourself. Its all good just personal opinions on the matter . Lets not fall into the divide and conquer routine over it tho .. All life is sacred and should be treated as such. Please come back sometime :)

I don't believe that is love but pure selfishness. Love would never under any circumstances in my opinion maim their child.
I would make them run away from said circumstance's rather than to cause harm from the one person they are supposed to trust.
Maybe my reasoning is a bit tainted tho based on what I have been thru.

Yes...that is why I had such a hard time with it. But at the same time, in the movie the mother was desperate to keep her daughter out of combat. There was also an element of loose agreement between the mother and daughter but I don't think she knew what her mother would do...


It reminds me of something else as well, it was a couple of years later and again I only remember a specific scene.

The scene was again in a foreign country. There was a group of boys playing outside, all between 10-12 or so. A van pulled up with armed soldiers of the country the boys lived.

They forced all of them into the van with the implicit intention in the movie of making them 'child soldiers'...

My mother was next to me as I watched this. She got up and left the room crying.

As I watched her leave, I turned back to the screen seeing only an empty schoolyard holding a lone soccer ball where the boys once played, and an empty living room I now inhabited.




Last Edited by Seer777 on 02/02/2013 12:28 AM

I can relate to the feelings. My son in the Navy turned 18 on July 11th and left for boot camp July 23rd It was a decision he surprised me with on His part. I cried for a month after he left missing him terribly and then on top of that Hurricane Katrina hit and that compounded the pain of his leaving. I wasn't ready for him to leave home so soon and to such a Job. I am proud of him tho he has fair'd well in his job and also protected in what he does to a large degree. The Empty nest thing was very hard on me. I put so much into my boys and was beside my self when my youngest left to live with his dad for awhile and to get to know him , but he eventually came back home. He needed to find out what his father was like. That was a rough patch to go thru and was going thru the 2nd menopause as well. The first was cause of a hysterectomy, ( Still had my ovaries tho)

I believe most go into the military due to a strong desire to help others.

I don't believe most feel they have done said, after they are relieved from the responsibility after having seen combat...


My best friend during my teens and early twenties suddenly told me one day he was considering joining the Marines.

This was in 2000. As we sat in his car arguing over his choice, I said to him that war was coming and that if he chose to enlist he would face said.

He laughed at me.

He joined the Marines, and I supported him for it after he made the choice. Even flying down to San Diego to see him 'graduate'.


On 9/11/01 it was his message on the answering machine which woke me.

By that time the towers had already fallen.

He served 3 combat duties, and came back with the scars to show for it...

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I have known a couple of soldiers who came back from Desert storm with the scars from it as well. Fortunately my son has yet to see the face of combat and has been spared so far going to a war torn area. He has mentioned that after this tour he is thinking of getting out because he has mad skills already in the IT field. I pray that he does not have to go but if he stays in it is inevitable I suppose. Something I have tossed around in my heart and it did not feel very good. :(

So, what is the discussion today?

Yes.


I love that picture...

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So it's anything goes?


Not enough right?

It's open for discussion at this point , do you have something in mind

or should we blast to the past

Nope, not really, I'm just looking to see what you folks have REALLY been up too.

well look back earlier in the day yesterday or have you already ? We discuss many topics on a daily basis and if you follow the thread you probably already know :)

Dynamics of creationary principle's , sacred geometry, Dna and how energy , electromagnetism affect/effect consciousness and ancestral memories , the current environment. Things of that nature. Wide variety of subjects if you will

Nah, it's really simple.

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Well...

Shall I go back far enough to the bores which lay waste unto my heart?

If you so choose ...

Shades of William Wordsworth ?

Nah

Leonard Cohen ... I do like Bon Jovi's version of the same