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Greatest I am wrote:

Greta wrote:It's simply primitive behaviour from men who have chosen to embrace primitivism rather than adopt modernity - because it suited them to do so. They have been beaten, bruised, dominated, humiliated and ruined by western and Russian aggression and the men clearly decided that they can at empower themselves by treating women like garbage, just as they were treated like garbage by western invaders. Bullying tends to pass down the line.

The greater the conflict, the more extreme the fundamentalists become. Relatively moderate countries like Egypt and Turkey are starting to put the screws down on women now as the extremism of their neighbours builds.

So Eastern misogyny and all that the Eastern women are suffering is due to the West.

Somehow I do not see that as true but perhaps that is why so many of them want to move here and so few Easterners want to fight to free their countries. Seems we are also making the Eastern men into cowards.

We are all the same deep down, of course - just as brave, cowardly, smart, stupid, kind, unkind and so on. Trouble is, progress is difficult when always at war.

It's interesting to imagine what the Middle East and Islam would have become without the oil. Maybe they would have been far more moderate because there'd be less warfare to fire people up? Or maybe they still would have been involved in local conflict but not had as much impact on the world? I think of the middle east as being similar to Europeans in the centuries when they couldn't live peacefully together.

The question is whether struggling nations can modernise in time to avoid being decimated by environmental pressures, and associated resource-based warfare and associated disease and increased local violence. The current wave of refugees would appear to be the tip of the iceberg.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

Greatest I am wrote:

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:[
It's not the cop of the world, it's the paranoid, self-righteous, conceited bully of the world.

Compare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lWl3ep0vws

Regards
DL

Oh, a video clip from faux news. How enlightening.

It hit home if you are reduced to talk of the source and not the content.

You cannot refute the message so try to have us focus on the messenger.

Regards
DL

Greta wrote:

Greatest I am wrote:

Greta wrote:It's simply primitive behaviour from men who have chosen to embrace primitivism rather than adopt modernity - because it suited them to do so. They have been beaten, bruised, dominated, humiliated and ruined by western and Russian aggression and the men clearly decided that they can at empower themselves by treating women like garbage, just as they were treated like garbage by western invaders. Bullying tends to pass down the line.

The greater the conflict, the more extreme the fundamentalists become. Relatively moderate countries like Egypt and Turkey are starting to put the screws down on women now as the extremism of their neighbours builds.

So Eastern misogyny and all that the Eastern women are suffering is due to the West.

Somehow I do not see that as true but perhaps that is why so many of them want to move here and so few Easterners want to fight to free their countries. Seems we are also making the Eastern men into cowards.

We are all the same deep down, of course - just as brave, cowardly, smart, stupid, kind, unkind and so on. Trouble is, progress is difficult when always at war.

It's interesting to imagine what the Middle East and Islam would have become without the oil. Maybe they would have been far more moderate because there'd be less warfare to fire people up? Or maybe they still would have been involved in local conflict but not had as much impact on the world? I think of the middle east as being similar to Europeans in the centuries when they couldn't live peacefully together.

The question is whether struggling nations can modernise in time to avoid being decimated by environmental pressures, and associated resource-based warfare and associated disease and increased local violence. The current wave of refugees would appear to be the tip of the iceberg.

The only modern thing required is modern thinking by women. Many think that the problems you see and their solution that will depend on women and what they do.

If women do not teach equality to men, and demand it for themselves, then they will never have it. If you act like a n*****, you will be treated like one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8N0xy3hjE

Regards
DL

Greatest I am wrote:
It hit home if you are reduced to talk of the source and not the content.

You cannot refute the message so try to have us focus on the messenger.

Regards
DL

Oh right. Of course. Faux news is known to have content worth listening to.

I thought the rest of the world pretty much does?

Last night in Paris was not a great advertisement for that idea.

No.

Islam is a misguided and immoral religion but does create a climate where some of their adherents have the courage of their convictions and that is a quality that other religions have lost.

In that sense and that sense alone, Islam is a superior religion.

I think it has to do with sacrifice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T64_El2s7FU

This scholar is speaking of the fact that the more one sacrifices to an idea or religion, the longer it will maintain itself.

Regards
DL