The Anabaptist Jacques
Crusader
TAJ
Sorry, I changed my mind about responding as I am sure you are in want of a good spanking.
Thanks for that interesting but incorrect analysis of me.
You are obviously quite intelligent. Welcome to the club. I am your intellectual equal however our views on how the world operates are quite divergent. You also seem to be somewhat of an historian. Last historian I knew was an old college professor of mine, he was a communist. I’m not implying anything I’m just saying.
Your moniker suggests that you imagine yourself as some noble humanitarian and pacifist that is willing to sacrifice all in blind selfless martyrdom for some momentary and unequal benefit to those that are undeserving and unappreciative of the same. Does that about sum it up for you or is that not an accurate description of the original Anabaptist Jacques? Maybe you see yourself as representing the new age of enlightenment. Nice dreams but hardly workable in the real world.
I do believe that it is you that has a puerile and simplistic view of how the world operates. It in fact operates by conflict of opposing ideologies, each one attempting to dominate and suppress the other with the major power brokers using whatever ideology suits them at the time for their own ends, and those ends simply the acquisition of more power and wealth. The people however are just sheep caught up in what they think is an active involvement in the affairs and destiny of the world.
I also believe that people must come together and work for a common cause. I do and the operative word here is cause and there are many of them. Just because a cause doesn’t agree with your standard of acceptable causes doesn’t mean it is less valid. I am also generous. Generous with my time and money but directed toward, in my view, an agreeable cause. I give money to various conservative PACs and to dear Sarah P. but I wouldn’t drop a nickel on the ground for a welfare mother with five starving kids that traded her food stamps for a bag of crack.
I attack an ideology and system, you attack me. This tells me much of you. You speak from a position of weakness founded on a platform of naive pacifist idealism born out of some commie pinko wet dream. Are you an elitist intellectual or maybe a campus activist? You think that helping the undeserving poor in some sort of altruistic pursuit for self satisfaction is the highest one may attain to. What insipid drivel. Only those who help themselves first deserve or will even benefit from help.
It is true that the rich will victimize the poor. It is also true that the poor, given the opportunity, will victimize the rich. It is the age old and eternal conflict between the haves and the have nots. It is as true today as it was when the first caveman had the bright idea of forcing the rest of clan to hunt and die for him. He got the best food and the best women to breed with as long as he could maintain his position or until someone else forced him out of it. As has been demonstrated time and time again during history, revolutions or redistributions of wealth and power have only resulted in a change of names for the dominant and the subservient. The name of the game stays the same.
I am a right wing ultra conservative, you are a left wing liberal. Our views are diametrically opposed and any further commentary on this subject is of no value and will only become tedious as I will and do maintain my position.
This next is for anyone reading this.
I have given this message board and this post much thought and this is absolutely my last posting, I do not care to see any responses and will not. The site is actually misnamed and the originators have lost control of it. It has no real purpose and is majorly devoid of useful information. Although there are some sincere persons here and there it is mostly a forum for detractors and a place whereby whiney babies can blame others for their failures and mistakes in making major life decisions. I made a lot myself, how can anyone not, but the difference is I own mine.
Now that I have lambasted you all let me make up for it with a piece of very valuable advice.
Buy gold, buy guns, buy food. You will need all three in the coming times.
Auf Weidersehn, Mein Fuhrer!
The Anabaptist Jacques