To quote a GREAT -blam!-ING AMERICAN !!! who inspired and opened the mind of a young English guardian many years ago before destiny was even though of.
The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid -- ever -- because... this is just a ride.' And we kill those people.
'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that -- ever notice that? -- and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over -- not one human being excluded -- and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace.
Pretty sure there's a decent bit of advice in there. As the bigotry on these forums is as dense as the darkness that taints this world.
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If America stopped spending on Defense/Weapons there will always be a country who will step up and fill the vacuum. You might not like what you get. You may not like what you have but the devil you know is better than the devil you dont.
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Yep just one year not spending on weapons would solve most of their debt.
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Think trump just wasted 8 million dollars testing the B61-12 gravity bomb. That's 8 million dollars per -blam!-ing bomb. Doesn't take an idiot to work out where that money can be spent better.
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Ohh to be young and naive again.
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But also fact and young I am not anymore. Wiser yes .
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Bill Hicks was born in Georgia. Nice words, though. Pretty sure there's also a decent bit of advice that would suggest England might be a very different place today without defense spending.....
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Amended to American, research is key
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Agreed. Nice. The debate between idealism/realism is always an interesting one to have, but probably not appropriate in a Great Nike thread. Cheers. PS I bought a heart pin. Just, tying into the OPs topic
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Ideals can always be made reality, just takes a little effort