Thread: Western culture! How fortunate we are!

I quibble not with the points that "things have gotten better" or "we've come a long way" as this nation's history has progressed.
My point was addressed to those who try to make the argument that this nation was somehow imbued with Divine Greatness at its founding, through divine inspiration and guidance. If that was the case, then why did God not put it upon the hearts of our forefathers to treat minorities and woman like equals instead of inferiors?
Maybe it just skipped His mind...who knows.
It's just a darn shame that it's taken so long for wrongs that should never have been there in the first place to be righted. If someone puts his foot on my throat and holds it there for, oh say 200 years, should I be grateful and appreciative to that person when he finally decides to remove it?

Originally Posted by billyjeff2

I quibble not with the points that "things have gotten better" or "we've come a long way" as this nation's history has progressed.
My point was addressed to those who try to make the argument that this nation was somehow imbued with Divine Greatness at its founding, through divine inspiration and guidance. If that was the case, then why did God not put it upon the hearts of our forefathers to treat minorities and woman like equals instead of inferiors?
Maybe it just skipped His mind...who knows.
It's just a darn shame that it's taken so long for wrongs that should never have been there in the first place to be righted. If someone puts his foot on my throat and holds it there for, oh say 200 years, should I be grateful and appreciative to that person when he finally decides to remove it?

You will find an argument any where I believe!
I scanned over the posts in my thread and did not find one person saying the things that you claim that you were addressing, which leads me to believe that your only purpose for posting in my thread is to cause problems instead of address solutions!
I will thank you to no longer post in my thread!

Mark

@BillyJeff:
Please don't rant or goad people. That is not what this thread is for, and that's not necessary to make a point. This forum is also not a pulpit from which to deliver fire and brimstone sermons.

Also (and this is just a matter of being courteous) if you feel the need to write lengthy posts, please break them up into paragraphs because half a page of dense text is not only difficult to read, it is also hard for people to respond to individual items in your post because they'd have to manually cut text into paragraphs.

@everyone:
it takes two to tango. don't reply to people if you don't think it will go anywhere constructive.

Oh, and Trumpers and Truefitt & Hill... I'm proud of those too.

And the BBC. And the NHS. And Babe Ruth.

Wait, he's not one of ours, nix that.

How about this:
I am grateful for the opportunity Western culture, and the US Constitution, affords me to express my views without fear of censorship or retribution, and to express the truth as I view it.

Better?

btw: What time does "Dancing With The Stars" go on?

That's better

Tow the line, billy!

I'm happy to live in a culture that, for the most part, I can put on our country's uniform and not have people shrink in fear in our own country of what we might do to them.
That some (thankfully not all) feel quite safe in their disagreement with what I do for a profession, some even going so far as to ad lib their version of what they think that is.
I am allowed to own property as are other citizens.
People are even allowed to voice their protests in public (as well as on public forums) without secret police making them "disappear". Thanks to the successes of Western culture it has become desireable to emulate in other nations also; I have friends from all over the world, some online admittedly, and others in person, from not only my own country and Western countries, but Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Hungary and even Iraq and one from Iran. This would have never happened 20 years ago I think, not to mention, I think the openness has much to do with the example our culture (if not we in particular) have set.
Sure there's lots of bad I could point out, too, but overall I think we have it good.


I just hope we aren't in the process of throwing it away; it's seemed to work so far, and not just for our country. Let's not throw it out in exchange for any of the systems other countries are already throwing out in favor of one like this one.

John P.

I'm happy to live in a culture where I can have a weekend like the one I just did and not worry about a damn thing. I'll lay it all out for everyone so it's a little more clear.


Saturday: SWMBO and I cuddled until about 11:00 AM, then drove 100 miles to have lunch with my family and do some shopping.

Sunday: SWMBO and I didn't do a thing but read together almost the entire day. I made lunch and a leisurely dinner. I finished a fantastic book, and she did too.

Monday: Another late day, we cuddled for a long time. I performed a much needed repair on my truck, but otherwise lazed about for most of the day.

Besides being the epitome of lazy, it was a great weekend. How many people in China can enjoy what I did?