SpheresOfBalance wrote:So it's subjective, which is in fact my point, so why make a fuss about something as such, do you really feel that everyone must cater to your relative whims? Oh I forgot, of course you do, as evidenced by your dealings with Bill, Bob, Godfree, me, as well as others that you feel don't stack up to your particular subjective sense of normal/right. Can you say megalomania?
I can, can you say paranoid nutjob?
SpheresOfBalance wrote:Nope, I guess you missed the elephants, another testament to you not paying attention, and just spitting out arbitrary words that are supposed to contain legitimate cohesive thoughts, that are on topic. If you had said pachyderms you would have nailed it. Though Bill, the OP, has also brought up apes in the past, different thread, same argument. It would seem you're incapable of summing things up; no surprise!
Once again you avoid the issue as it's clear the the question was, 'does this make sense' and whether you like it or not, it does. And the sense it makes is that these animals are worth a fortune to those hungry you care so much about.
Already been covered, so you either pretend or can't keep up, either way, you loose!
Ah! you're on about your end-of-times again.
Not on topic, you can't have it both ways sweetheart!
What are you burbling about now? You asked me what it was that I marched, demonstrated and successfully protested for and I told you.
Only in your mind, of constant assumption, so as to stroke yourself, while characterizing your opponent falsely (lying), a flimsy means to win anything of any true value. Originally, only me pointing out that I have done something, though it's not surprising you can't keep track, as you have so many reasons, that are meant to only suit you, at any cost.
My apologies, so you now agree with me that the policy you previously followed is wrong and should not be continued?
Not quite!
Yes, quite.
No real solution, appeasing the monkeys-boys, many side effects that hurt the truly intelligent, that care not for monkey-boy mentality.
So now we have others as 'monkey-boys' do we? Money was and is a very real solution to the problems that barter faces when scaled-up.
I already told you I hate to either follow or lead, as in following fools, or being one in the leading. As I've said before "all" aspects of humanity should be lead by a huge round table of all fields of serious study, where only PhD's are members, with votes as to proper course, are followed until new data, begs a new vote. And I mean ALL aspects, there's no room for foolish monarchs or politicians where they have any ultimate dominion, only this round table of PhD's can steer the proper course for humanity, and that's a FACT!!!!!!.
So whilst you castigate academics you appear to also wish to hand over the running of things to them!? You basically want a technocracy which is more than ironic given your thoughts about elitism.
We? Is there a mouse in your pocket? Please speak only for yourself in areas that you can only do so, with any amount of certainty.
I am, that's why I do not give to food charities any more and advocate free-trade rather than conditional aid.
I thought you kept track by looking back, don't blame me because your method comes up lacking, such that you forget, if you care to respond look it up, I'll not do your work.
Three to four years makes little difference in such matters. The calculations I made about how many your policy has helped was based upon your figures.
So I gotta spell it out for you, sheesh, go figure! Mine had dates of data gathering attached, then you come along and compare apples (different year) with my oranges (different year), sheesh, you can appear quite dense sometimes. There were other fruits, you threw in as well, such that your argument fell flat on it's face. Keep up please, or don't respond to that which you have no clue. You would be a half-assed research assistant. Where's that education, that enables you to TELL the God-free the way it is?
It's on the bit of paper that says I've studied Philosophy to an acceptable level of education, as that was what I was talking to godfree about when he asked my why I thought I could say what I did. I used your figures to calculate how many hungry people your policy has actually helped.
You're right, let us let them starve to death, until your half baked plan can be accepted as predominate and implemented. What? Are you kidding me? Money for food is obviously a quick fix until such time, that a real plan, that's self sustaining, is put into perpetual motion. Get busy, you that would love to be a part of the solutions finer details. Though I don't believe you have a PhD, "next applicant, please!"
I did not say I have a Phd, I've said I have a B.A.(Hons), an MSc and a PGCE.
It's not a half-baked plan and ironically enough it's been proposed by many Phd's.
You're not giving money for food, you're giving food.
Bull shit, your dumb ass sees a single page, and believes you've read the entire encyclopedia set, and then proceeds to sum it up, via a reflection of your minds eye, a fools game if ever there was one. Such that what you meant to say, where it contains any truth, was that, "seemingly, we disagree on a great many things," as you cannot possibly know why it's the case, as if it's some silly whim of mine, as if you could know that. There is a method, to what you see as my madness, despite you're not understanding it. Though it would seem that you prefer to TELL someone what it is that they mean, as surly it's only contained in your mind, that you impart via your response, a crazy fuck idea, if ever there was one. It's more customary to ask, before you tell someone 'why' they disagree.
What are you burbling about now!? You have called me a liar many times because you disagree with my response, i.e. it doesn't fit whatever psycho-babble you believe in. It's this behaviour I refer too.
Actually my way has the potential to go as deep (as far back) as possible, it just takes a lot more work, that you try and eliminate. I understand! But I see that it makes things harder to follow, in the LONG run. It's true that it's at server space expense, I'll grant you that much. though text is small, as compared to graphics, hear that Bill.
Actually Bill doesn't use server space for his pics, as they are just links. Just felt like giving him the crap he enjoys reading, so he'll post another one, just for spite.
What are you talking about, I have done nothing to 'eliminate' your approach. It's you who have abandoned your original style as, I guess, you and your interlocutors soon discovered that it becomes difficult to quickly identify the replies.
Bill's approach uses bandwidth which I know to my economic cost.
You just did, where you tried to trivialize my reasons for disagreeing, we all do this to some extent, the difference between you and I though is that I at least use evidence that you provide here, as I know you no other way, while you, I believe, find similarities between me and others you've encountered, and assume that all our reasoning, is the same, or so it would surely seem, because you're wrong more often than not.
Nope, I put my opinion forward about what you say and propose. I do not trivialise your reasons, I point out where and why I think them lacking the ability to achieve what you claim to wish.
Oh and they are murderers, as they cause extinction, including themselves, yet they do not know this. They will though, that's for sure.
More end-of-time gnomic predictions.
The lessons learned through not, also slows their own ultimate demise, something apparently above your head, as you've admittedly not gotten it, up higher in this this message, for instance. [/color]
We're all going to die so unless you think these 'others' are going to die from these events within the next few decades then I think you're cries will fall upon deaf ears. What is needed is concrete policies to help these peoples economic conditions now.
What ever suits your selfish needs. You see, as I've already said in this forum, in other threads, the last good war that the US was involved in, was WWII. ...
lmao! One that the US only entered due to their own selfish needs, i.e. power in the Pacific. Otherwise the US would have carried on trading with the Nazi quite happily.
That there were two quotes that were coined in that time that spells out what I mean. One was an American and the other an Englishman. The American said that the US should 'walk softly and carry a big stick,' while the Englishman said that he was afraid that they had, "awoken a sleeping giant;" the US. ...
It was a Japanese admiral who said the latter. The former pretty much expresses the policy that the US had towards the Nazi and if Jap had not attacked you you'd still have been walking softly.
In both quotes, I see the ONLY way that the US should carry itself, then I could feel no guilt, but this is not the case. You've had me all wrong from the beginning, par for your course, as I've said. You think me a mindless yank. You are wrong, I hate the US most for not always being the leader, in everything, where the self interests of money don't trump what's morally right. I am not a person of any country, I am a person of the earth, the one singular organism, the symbiosis, that is ALL life on this planet, and I judge any constituent accordingly, I don't give a fuck who they are. The only thing important to me is the singular organisms health.
I don't think you a mindless yank, I think you an example of a certain type of Yank who oft visits this forum when you try to categorise me by gender and deride academic endeavour such as to enable you to belittle anothers thoughts.
Whilst I like the sentiment I think it ignores the conditions. All life on this planet pretty much eats the one below. All the organisms together do not make one singular organism.
Thanks for "appear," it is a moment of your truth in conflict, an impartial statement, where you admittedly cannot know, giving the benefit of doubt, where I sense you'd like me to clarify, so as you may know, and I thank you for these brief moments where you are honest and fair. As I said above, I don't give a fuck who you are, I only care about the one organism, that is the symbiosis, earth! Because, where it's multitudes of spheres that balance are destabilized, it shall all surely die.
So you now understand why the poacher does what he does and understand that it's economics?
Two few words to remember what we're talking about, so I'll skip this one, I've already spent hours on this message, don't feel like opening another window to check. Refresh my memory if you care to, otherwise...
You don't think the mind is a time-machine with respect to present behaviour.
Same as above, just too lazy, all this has been replied to from memory, care not to look it up, need to get some things done today.
How you act today based upon past events can be changed by the time-machine that is the mind.
I was calling you out, with your solution, being somewhat sarcastic, as I see the mess as requiring a MAJOR revision. Where money has no meaning. You and I both know that humanity, any time soon, can't see their way to relinquish their illusory wealth, even though it's not to be found in a glittering prize, as most are still monkey-boys. Intelligent, my ass!!!!
Driven by circumstance!! The gains in health, wealth and education have not been illusory. And like it or not.compared to all the other systems it's been the capitalist system that has provided the greatest advances for the many.
Change, is not something humanity likes, unless they can see their profit in it, and even then, they hate unknown territory, and allow it to fall through the cracks of habitual nominalism (my word, not medieval philosophy, just the status quo of being nominal).
Humanity is change and it's if they can see an advantage in it not just a profit.
Bullshit, some help is better than none. Only a fool sees that their method is better, while not being instituted, while that which has been, does some good. All or nothing for you? A fools game!
A winners game.
Why argue it then. Because I pegged you correctly, you are a country elitist, "Arising_uk," as evidenced by this response of yours and your constant engaging Bob with similar country oriented bullshit. ...

I've already told you twice now about how I came by my nik.
My response was to your acclamation of the US's food contributions. Pots and kettles methinks.
We are a planet I tell you, you can take your colorful rags and burn them for all I care, stick them up your ass, that's a good idea, as your pride it them side steps the real issues of the world. The only us and them are the good guys and the bad guys, which know no territorially lines. The good are for the one organism, and the bad are monkey-boys, still arguing on who gets the biggest slice, oblivious to their would crumbling around them.
We are not a planet, at best we are a part of a biosphere which is a small smear upon the planet. The planet was here long before and will be here long after this current biosphere ceases to exist. This planet has had several ice-planet stages and presumably several biospheres and if we fuck this one up for us it'll still have a biosphere without us as life evolves. The real issue of the 'world' is exactly what you display, us and them. All you are doing is taking the same territorially and making it abstract.
Look, if you feel like not engaging me on any particular point until you do more research, so be it. It is always hard to engage another's obscure statistics, as their counter may not even be available. I would hope I would not be childish enough, to rub ones inability to find opposing data, in their face, as if it could be seen as some sort of shallow victory.
Goggle is free to all(well maybe not the Chinese).
Sure but what is trust for? My "major" concern when giving to charities, was to ensure that the majority of the money actually went to the aid and not to paying those, supposedly, ensuring people are actually helped. So that is the research I undertook. I found those whose overhead was slight in contrast to their affect as to the cause. Again, we all balance our own lives against helping others to varying degrees, as capable in the time allotted. Who doesn't wish they were omnipresent and omnipotent?
Admirable but you were talking about food aid I thought? if you are talking about money to the WWF then I'll return to the issue that these animals still appear to be going extinct as it's the economics of poverty and no amount of money will be able to match the value the market is putting upon these creatures. So if you want them around for the future then you'd better start promoting a better market for them.
So you say! I live in my head, or at least I'd like to live there, with at least, some sense of ease. Does it then translate to the reality that I'm forced to live with, NO!!!! But If I don't try, nothing will ever change, now will it? All I can do, with such a thing, that everyone "buys" into, to suit their own needs, and wants/desires, as it's what was presented to them at birth, knowing no other way, is to get them to think about other possibilities, where everyone really cares for one another, "and you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one." No need to tell you who wrote that, I would hope, one of my hero's! Yours? Probably not! Or so it would seem.
Loved the Beatles and thought him an idiot for going to live in America but his tax-accountants told him to and look where that got him.
You want to teach the world to sing? Give them a living so they have a chance to sing. Otherwise it's all hippy dreams.