Quote from: islander on May 05, 2010, 02:24:11 PM
these are available, and you would have gotten at them if only you bothered to explore more, all these years. (that takes years, and the basis are not just current news with tilts.) note: the internet is not the only source. it takes intellectual curiosity and the cleansing of one’s stereotypes to get at the truth.
Wow, now you're taking potshots. Just because my interest doesn't lie where I'm not wanted should take to mean I'm not intellectually curious ? Hmmmm.....maybe all that time studying roses and planting techniques I should've spent studying something useless
Quote from: islander on May 05, 2010, 02:24:11 PMby the way, just because you didn’t get to these sources doesn’t necessarily make you belong to the majority just as my access wouldn’t relegate me to the minority, as you claim. consider statistics, for starters. let’s grant that muslims have access to information that christians don’t bother about. how many muslims are there? their number alone won’t make them the minority.
Majority = the most people....hmmm, 49% is minority,51% is majority wouldn't you say so, then it follows that if there's a better number of people who view that region negatively rather than positively, it follows that the previous group is a majority.
Quote from: islander on May 05, 2010, 02:24:11 PMmeanwhile, ensconced in their own comfort of feeling like they’re the center of the world and couldn’t be bothered by other things except when such comforts are challenged, some americans (with exceptions, of course) don’t even know where kosovo is and are even wondering if filipinos are asians. (info 1 was on american tv almost a decade ago; info 2 was on the internet lately.)
Yes, lots of Americans are ill informed...so are a lot of Filipinos. But come to think about it, if everyone was concerned about things that are useless in their daily lives, do you honestly think there could be progress ? Your wealth of knowledge about geopolitics won't buy a mansion but maybe a wealth of knowledge in stocks, commodities or real estate will. You can't blame people for pursuing what is important to them...and FYI, I don't think most Americans think they're the center of the world. Just like how most Filipinos think that everything from the US is better, a lot of Americans think that if its from Europe, its better...so on and so forth.
Quote from: islander on May 05, 2010, 02:24:11 PMsorry to let you get off that high horse, but not knowing some things doesn’t mean you’re in the majority. your lack of access in this respect and the bias of your conclusions based on the little access that you have may be what would make you lonely.
Again you take potshots. High horse ? I believe you have not really seen one yet so I'll let you off the hook on that one. IF anything, your comments have grown more and more condescending. Maybe you should rethink and actually socialize more , maybe you'll see what real people's concerns are. Lonely ? you can draw your own conclusions. If anything, people who seem to think they're the end all , be all of knowledge are the most lonely. So, you can be alone in your citadel of geopolitical authority while I go to dinner and plant swap with my plant buddies, and be the normal, average, human being that I am



























