Den Haag, 11, NL
Yes, but, who am I to doubt myself?
Where did you grow up?
Drenthe, the Netherlands
If you claim a political party affliation, which is it?
liberal-socialist
Which religion (if any) do you follow?
Protestant, Christianity, Protestantse Kerk Nederland
pseudoniem's Top (5) Replies by other users' votesSo you shouldn’t support someone just because a nut at the other end of the world thinks he’s great? If that was true, you couldn’t vote for any politician with a personality! He has nothing to do with Hamas, if Hamas decided to ’support’ him in public, what can Obama do about it?
Besides, it’s probably a good thing that Hamas agrees with sòmeones foreign policies, since their actual cooperation will be required to make the Middle East a halfway peaceful place.
- written 1 year, 4 months ago – voted for by Florimouse, OliveOil, Maximina
li.mony - I think I get what you’re coming from. It’s good to be in control, even if it’s only because you can predict things.
crazy711mdlay -Yes, allthough pacifism is a bridge too far for most. Actually, being a pacifist shows an incredible trust in people, in the ability to change things without violence, prevent crime and violence rather than have revenge on the offenders, the believe people can be appealed to by reason and emotions. Are you an optimist?
- written 1 year, 3 months ago – voted for by crazy711mdlay
In my experience, building walls around yourself will not protect you from getting hurt. It will prevent you from being loved occasionally, it will hold out the bright sunshine of fun and friendship, it will ensure that your dark secrets remain your own. Inside the walls you are alone with yourselves and most of us cannot stand that for too long without getting lonely, creating vicious cycles of thoughts in our minds and losing all faith we had in our own abilities. The world outside the walls keeps getting scarier if you stay between the walls longer, so we get even more scared of being hurt the longer we keep everything locked up safely..
When you read Machiavelli (great author by the way) it’s important to take the context of his writing into account. He lived in an age where the pride and power of the Italian city-states (in one of which he grew up) was in great decline. Many people in his time focused on the superior traditions and morals that would mraculously safe them if only people would get back to them. Machiavelli saw that was not going to happen: morals alone cannot safe a country, it takes real physical power and influence to do that. So he warns about being too moral. In fact, he writes for a future prince, not a private person. He states in the first part that it is just about impossible to be a prince and go to heaven (it’s the catholic heaven, which has quite a lot of strings attached to it), so you have to choose. His point is that you either go for power and use it, or should stay away from power altogether.
- written 1 year, 3 months ago – voted for by ne'e
Losing the one you love, be it to live or to death, leads to a process of grieving. Take your time for that, you will need it. Do whatever you feel the need to. There is no given way to grieve, nor is there any given time to take. But remember him and your relationship as it truly was. The good times, the bad times, all of it. Not to feel guilty, not even to learn from it, but mostly to keep reality in your life. If you do that, there will be a moment when you realize you haven’t thought about him or cried about him for a while. Then there will be a moment when you find yourself thinking about other men. And eventually, if you allow yourself, you will find another that will mean much to you, not in exactly the same way perhaps, but very pleasantly and passionately. Untill that time I wish you courage, love, strength and people around you to comfort you and distract you.
- written 1 year, 4 months ago – voted for by crazy711mdlay
Just think logically: climate change means some areas are growing dryer and others get a lot more rain, the sea levels will raise, temperatures change so the way people need to protect themselves from heat and cold are affected, crops rely on specific climates and predictable weather… All of this will mean decreasing markets for some products and increasing markets for others. And the need to decrease CO2 emissions will effect businesses as well.
Just pick a business you know something about and figure out how global warming will affect them.
- written 1 year, 7 months ago – voted for by PxlDnky