Paris attacks
A full day has passed, and I couldn't find a single thread on the subject here on WoS.
You guys don't watch the news anymore? :-/
No 'urge' to discuss these events on your favorite forum?
You guys don't watch the news anymore? :-/
No 'urge' to discuss these events on your favorite forum?
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It's awful.
That's all I'm saying for now, or possibly at all.
As a result i expect to see multinational boots on the ground, even the russians are ratling the sabres now.
And the reason it's not been discussed here already: Politics, religion and web forums don't mix.
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Then this heppened, To be honest with you though RetroTechie WOS is a place of pure escape, a little home online to get away from the doom and gloom of all the sh!t things that happen real life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34825382
the drummer hid quick lol
Not necessary to have a dig at the C64 here.
Spreading hate is what the terrorists are doing.
*bails from thread also*
That said: every once in a while there are those events that you 'can't get away from', and... you shouldn't either (imho) regardless where you are. For example I remember when 9/11 events made the news, I totally dropped what I was doing, watched, and talked with house mates about it. If I had been working then, I'd have stopped working for at least some time. If I'd been shopping then, I'd probably have dropped that, gone home & watch reports.
A similar thing happened when the Berlin wall fell... I had been there on a school trip (when it was still up), and felt in my guts how happy how many people would be. Clearly a world-changing event that would also put other events in motion. So that entire night was spent glued to the telly.
Okay these Paris events weren't that big (in comparison with 9/11 - or Berlin wall for that matter), but big enough to stop & take note - even here on WoS.
Oh and as for "real life doom and gloom": visited some Jehova's Witnesses recently (friends of my gf), and one of them was trying to convince me that it's easy to see 'this world is going down the drain, just watch the news' - or something along those lines. FYI: fits in nicely with JW's teachings.
But you know what? She couldn't be more wrong. It just looks that way because modern day news makes our world feel smaller & smaller. And most news is the **** happening, not the good stuff.
But if you look at the numbers: there are less and less people who don't have clean drinking water - both in absolute and relative numbers. Yes it's still waaaayyy too many, and it's still an enormous problem. But much less than it was 10 or 20 years ago. Same with food - yes people are still starving. But for most people on this planet today, eating too much is a bigger hazard than not having enough to eat. Long-term trend in war deaths: less and less and less as time passes. Yes many wars are still fought, but these days it's much more local / small scale, as opposed to world wars / large blocks of countries fighting.
I could go on, but you get the point: yes tomorrow some stupid mishap could happen & put our world in nuclear holocaust. Or a 5 km+ meteor comes out of nowhere & wipes us all out. But until that happens, we're not doing that bad as mankind. Not bad at all, really - especially given how many there are of us by now. Same # of people that got killed in Paris, will be killed in a week (or so? just guessing there) in traffic accidents across France. Yesterday's news, because that happens every week. Just to put things in perspective...
http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/anonymous-declares-war-on-isis-news/
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You ain't kiddin'!
Arise children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived
Against us tyranny's
Bloody standard is raised
Listen to the sound in the fields
The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and consorts
To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows
What do they want this horde of slaves
Of traitors and conspiratorial kings?
For whom these vile chains
These long-prepared irons?
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What methods must be taken?
It is us they dare plan
To return to the old slavery!
What! These foreign cohorts!
They would make laws in our courts!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would cut down our warrior sons
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brow would yield under the yoke
The vile despots would have themselves be
The masters of destiny
Tremble, tyrants and traitors
The shame of all good men
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will receive their just reward
Against you we are all soldiers
If they fall, our young heros
France will bear new ones
Ready to join the fight against you
Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors
Bear or hold back your blows
Spare these sad victims
That they regret taking up arms against us
But not these bloody despots
These accomplices of Bouillé
All these tigers who pitilessly
Ripped out their mothers' wombs
We too shall enlist
When our elders' time has come
To add to the list of deeds
Inscribed upon their tombs
We are much less jealous of surviving them
Than of sharing their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
Of avenging or joining them
Drive on sacred patriotism
Support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished liberty
Join the struggle with your defenders
Under our flags, let victory
Hurry to your manly tone
So that in death your enemies
See your triumph and our glory!
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eagles of death metal talking about the bataclan slaughter, immensley shocking and emotional