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barnaby joe Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1992 euchareena	I have become intellectually estranged Jan 28^th, 2012 at 5:33pm from all politics. There are no simple answers for most issues and little clarity and abscence of ambiguity on many questions pertaining to the most important of social matters.
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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Posts: 7062 Gender:	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #1 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 5:40pm How will you become Fuhrer if you give up now?
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barnaby joe Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1992 euchareena	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #2 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 5:41pm NOOO FUTURE
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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Posts: 7062 Gender:	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #3 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 5:43pm There are no answers, just opinions. We have no control.
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barnaby joe Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1992 euchareena	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #4 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 5:46pm nah, there are answers. its just that in too many cases there is too much ambiguity in what they are.
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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Posts: 7062 Gender:	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #5 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 5:50pm We will never all agree on a single thing and many of us won't agree on anything at all. A solution for Matty is probably not going to be an acceptable solution for me. We'll never all be satisfied.
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barnaby joe Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1992 euchareena	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #6 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 5:52pm what i mean is that most people who claim they have the answers don't actually have them. there may be some truth to what they say but the whole truth of a matter is rarely going to be occupied entirely within one camp.
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #7 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:06pm I agree. It's all about compromise. I'm glad that there is at least one other person on here who prefers to think through issues for themselves instead of flag waving and towing a single party line. (Actually I know there are many others)
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barnaby joe Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1992 euchareena	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #8 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:09pm pretty much this thread is just the concession: i don't find much of what i think or have wrote about here in the past very convincing anymore. but at the same time i dont find most other people here very convincing either.
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Reply #9 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:47pm

barnaby joe wrote on Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:09pm:

pretty much this thread is just the concession:

i don't find much of what i think or have wrote about here in the past very convincing anymore.

but at the same time i dont find most other people here very convincing either.

yeah well i was convinced i knew everything at 14. then again at 18. Then 21....24.etc etc.
Luckily now, I really do have all the answers.

But nah, everythings changing all the time, so you've got to move with it. That things you said, wrote/thought years ago seem wrong now is a good thing. It shows you're not stuck in a rut, and are capable of adapting to change.

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Life_goes_on Gold Member Offline Posts: 4772 400kms south of Yobsville, Qld Gender:	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #10 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:53pm Forums like this are 99% hyperbole and histrionics. A pack of drama queens who swear blindly that things are always much worse than they really are. It's just arguing for the sake of arguing....
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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Posts: 7062 Gender:	Re: I have become intellectually estranged Reply #11 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:56pm Life_goes_on wrote on Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:53pm: It's just arguing for the sake of arguing.... No it isn't. (heh)
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Reply #12 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 7:07pm

Life_goes_on wrote on Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:53pm:

Forums like this are 99% hyperbole and histrionics.

A pack of drama queens who swear blindly that things are always much worse than they really are.

It's just arguing for the sake of arguing....

Yeah exactly, who cares. It's not very likely you're ever going to wake up one morning and find you are supreme dictator of the world. Theories are fine on the interweb, but all you really need to know is how to organise your own life, not the whole world. Leave the machinations of the world to sid meier.

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Reply #13 - Jan 28^th, 2012 at 10:57pm

My name is dsmithy70 and I am a troll.
Insipid politicians with no vision have made me this way.
I used to try and have intelligent debates with an open mind to others opinions, but I have been overcome with a great sense of hopelessness that nothing of ANY consequence will ever be discussed again. I have fallen into the trap of mediocrity that has overtaken our leaders.
Hair and clothes worn are more important than issues of equity and social justice, and it would seem most like it that way.
I feel your pain, I live your pain and my trolling is a plea for the unobtainable, intelligent,witty but still serious debate Sad

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Re: I have become intellectually estranged
Reply #14 - Jan 29^th, 2012 at 8:27pm

... wrote on Jan 28^th, 2012 at 7:07pm:

Life_goes_on wrote on Jan 28^th, 2012 at 6:53pm:

Forums like this are 99% hyperbole and histrionics.

A pack of drama queens who swear blindly that things are always much worse than they really are.

It's just arguing for the sake of arguing....

Yeah exactly, who cares. It's not very likely you're ever going to wake up one morning and find you are supreme dictator of the world. Theories are fine on the interweb, but all you really need to know is how to organise your own life, not the whole world. Leave the machinations of the world to sid meier.

Exactly. What about those leftists, eh Honky?

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