Liquidshokk

cringy. Just cringy.

I freak myself out thinking about this stuff all the time. It's mental. As some have pointed out we have only had the technology to investigate this subject for a very short period of time so in the same amount of time again I think we will get some big answers. I just hope I'm alive to see them. Sometimes I can't help but allow the thought that at any point an asteroid could hit us, yellow stone could errupt or the sun could explode (not alien related I know but puts our little, defenseless planet in perspective) then I look around me and see things in a very different light...........

No I think it was a point worth elaborating on Maybe its the extremety I have a problem with. i mean, If I saw someone sh@gging in the street I would have a problem with that but again I wouldnt expect them to go to prison for that, let alone kissing. I think there are better more civilised ways of dealing with the beliefs in any country. I guess it is, as you say, all about individuals beliefs based on their experiences/cultures and its not neccesarily a case of being behind, just seeing things differently. Man, you've changed my opinion! Not many people manage to do that! :-D

Yeah sorry, I did edit my post to acknowledge that as its a very good point Maybe I should be more accepting of their beliefs and just be grateful I was born when I was :supz:

I keep comning back to the couple that kissed in public but I still firmly believe that the fact that the country saw it as a crime is wrong regardless of respect for their beliefs. Sometimes common human sense has to come into play and this sort of thing seen as nonesense. Think Ive gone in a circle now

The difference is we have moved on and seen the errors of those ways... I therefore find it astonishing that there are countries that havent. The question is whether these countries are "behind" or not.... if not then I fear for the future of these countries and trying to "correct" them by invading them is a pointless mission. edit: I didnt really acknowledge your valid point, sorry. That is a very short timescale indeed so maybe im just blinkered by having only been alive for 27 years Maybe these places will go the same way one day. Although, as most of the countries in question arent even developed yet and we have been so for a long long time I feel its going to take many many years yet before we see changes in these countries to match our developments of the last couple of centuries.

Cant argue with that. Only thing I will say is that the freedom we are given in this country doesnt have to be used by us to correct our societies downfalls. We have a substantial, structured policing/justice system (?) in this country that takes care of those things for us. I just think that in comparison to many of the countries in question the fact that we can pretty much do whatever is considered "normal" and "ok" shows we are some steps forward in our way of life over theirs. The fact that some of the laws/beliefs that the middle east/africa still have are the kind that we had in place many moons ago yet are now no more only backs up this point.

Haha, I wasn't referring to all of our actions! :-D I was more referring to the basic fundamental laws and the freedom we have in this country that is sometimes quite astonishingly missing in other countries. But yes, we're not perfect in this country :-)

I digress anyway. My point is that I think our way of life and beliefs in this country are as a result of an advanced stage of civilisation where we use common sense and science. It just amazes me that there are so many countries that are in my mind seriously behind in evolving.

But I think there's more chance of me being right in that no man single handedly created this earth and about a man walking on water, dieing and coming back to life than there is of it actually being true?! So they can believe it all they like but common sense can prove them wrong surely?!??? Religion had it's time and helped a lot of people deal with the unknowns but now we have science to disprove everything it stands for and therefore it's about time it was dismissed completely. Maybe if common sense and science was relied on rather than religion throughout the world then the crime if kissing in public would be shown for how insignificant it really is. I don't think you'd find many religious people admit the bible was wrong though.

Another great post... But surely common sense, rationality and logic MUST have some impact on their beliefs?!? They are human snd have brains afterall?!? On a simple level such as the question of whether there is a god, jesus, heaven etc or not I find it extremely easy to dismiss these things because in most cases science proves that these things don't exsist (especially in proving the bible is fiction) yet it is beyond me that people can't apply this common sense themselves and they still believe in religion today. The only thing I have in common with these religious people is the fact that I feel as strongly about my belief on this matter as they do... Which is worrying...

Its going on all the time. That site has loads of examples :snipe::snipe::snipe:

U.S. Forces Shooting Unarmed Iraqi Civilians http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2c2_1174734212

American soldiers in Iraq decribe how they can kill civilians; http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f66_1223515331

Thought it was just another video of the soldiers killing a couple of civilians after mistaking them for terrorists......BUT TO BLOW THE VAN UP WHEN COLLECTING AN INJURED PERSON?!!?!? That bit shocked me. I saw a video a long time ago where american soldiers were sat in the back of an armored truck and as they drove down the road with american folk music playing on the radio the guy on the back was randomly killing civilians walking down the street!! Then started shooting at the drivers of the cars following behind causing a big pile up of cars. Thats two leaked events of this kind.... the scary part is that its probably happening every day. RIGHT NOW IN FACT.

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I liked this post a lot. Ive thought a lot about how other countries behave compared to us recently and must admit I can never understand it when their actions differ so much from ours. One example being the couple that got put away for kissing in public, my initial reaction is " how the hell can a country be so far behind and take such extreme actions over something so insignificant" Surely these countries have evolved enough to see this as a harmless act. I guess, as everything does, it all comes back to religion. Which is also balls imo

Nope, no blanket and flask for me I want somewhere that sings and applauds without feeling like Im around a bunch of drunken yobbos. (no offence to those in northam stand who dont fit that description ;-))

This incident was mentioned elsewhere on here and the guy was spoken to by the stewards apparently. Where do you normally sit? I'm after an alternative to that area...

I mean watching/listening to Pardew giving his orders and seeing how it impacts the game (or not). Adds another perspective to the game from near the dug out. HTH

Was lallanas first as good as it sounded?

Hmmm... Was considering block 4/5 for season ticket! Been trying to find somewhere with atmosphere yet not Northam as I'm not nearly as excitable/p1ssed as the northam lot are when I go :-D kinda wanted to be dugout side too to see the action on the bench... Back to the drawing board then.......

Im assuming we're talking about Itchen North?? Last 3 times Ive been in block 9 you'd think someone had died :S

"Stick that in your pipe and smoke it" on Radio Solent I recognise the names of those quoters