EVE General Discussion

I don't know the words to describe the idiocy uttered in that last sentence of his "Advancement before culture is ready. Disastrous."

Sentences like that are usually heard by technophobe religious nutjobs and back to the stone age fanatics (yes, some of them survived the nineties).

And I think You mix up culture and civilization. The difference is, admittedly, subtle but it's there, and we could do well without the first.

Culture is formed by the people over the time. It contains history, traditions, norms, ideals, thinkings and wisdom of sometimes thousand years old civilizations. It should respected and protected. It is what makes us strong as species. The diversification of the many cultures is what makes us who we are. Without culture we are nothing. But we have forgotten that we should learn from eachother and not fight eachother in our greed for power. The globalization tries to eliminate cultures and makes everything equal. But we pull out our beating heart. No. For me respect and acceptance of other cultures is what makes a good human inter alia.

Wait a minute, straight males are acting like straight males!?

Yes, I like big **** and a pretty face to look at while I farm on my farmer alt. is that so wrong?

I asked my husband about this once. His answer was "why ask why?" I stopped wondering years ago.

well this is such a well rounded and very perky discussion. i would hate to see it fall to something less given the overall gravity of the situation.

I agree with you that the world becomes a very very mad place. But the lack of ethics and moral means not that we do not need one.

I give you another example. In my country, Germany, the EU commission (EU law is above national law, unfortunatly) and the former allies try to eliminate our culture, our tradition, who we are and from where we come. They want to eradicate every Prussian ideals. They see a threat in it because in the Prussian constitution were things written like that expropriation (through banks e.g.) are forbidden. That was a clearly threat to the rising private banking system after WWII. The reason why they (USA) want to eradicate the Islam is because the Islamic banking system works pretty fine without any interests. Interests are forbidden in Islam. As well as nuclear weapons by the way. The reason is these people have a sense for ethics and moral coming from their culture. And they know from history what the interest system does to a society and what it creates. The forbade of interests, the knowledge from history and history itself are parts of their culture and their tradition. So we can learn a lot from them.

Today our governments in the EU want to globalize or with other words Americanize us, make us only to worker and consumer. Remembering our traditions is what saves us from becoming what they want: Mindless system follower with no cultural ties. We fight for our traditions because we know what we fight for. For our right, our heritage, who we are as people.

Without tradition and culture the people have nothing they can identify with. A state without culture and tradition is a empty shell. And that is what these globalisation fanatics want: Taking everything from us, so we have nothing left what makes us more than worker and consumer. And they do a very good job. They fight the traditional families, supporting gay "families" - I have nothing against gays - but a family is father, mother and child and maybe a dog. Not father, father, child and a chiwawa. They want to make everything equal. Men, Woman, gender roles, family and so on.
After the upcoming German election next month the government and the EU will remove the status of national states from the EU. If they do what they have said - not in public of course. I can name hundreds of more examples in this direction.

We Germans have our traditions - what is left of it. They Americans have theirs. The people in Syria have theirs and so on. The Roman Empire was so succesful because they respected the cultures of others. They conquered them but they did not suppress them. Their cultures prospered under Roman administration and this let to the Pax Romanum, an era of peace in the empire. The Romans learned from the knowledge of other cultures, adapted their knowledge like the old Babylonians did before. Many culture, many points of views, many knowledge. This is what make humanity as whole who we are.

The Germans are the denser and thinker. It is the heritage of our culture. Where would the world be without our knowledge (rockets or computer e.g.)? The democracy - the pure democracy not this pseudo-democracy in the western world - was invented by the ancient Greek culture. They brought us the philosophy, the logic and discussions. It was their culture and we learned from them. The basic principles of law come from the ancient Roman culture. It is the foundation of our modern law system.

So you cannot say that culture and tradition is meaningless.

I'd just like to say that I'd like to create an alt that is grotesquely fat, tia

Right. Tolerance fits better. For me respect and tolerance going hand in hand. And you are right with Judea. With Syria I do not know.

Unfortunately, you are wrong on that account.

Tolerance does not mean you respect or even like something, It means you endure it, mostly because you have to. And it's mostly something bad.

I tolerate a lot of things, high taxes for example, or the construction workers labouring through the night, right in front of my house. Or my neighbours loud smelly and ugly dog (I hate dogs). Stuff like that.