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Old 03-03-2005, 01:22 AM   #1 (permalink)
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American Idiot

The land that bought us happiness in a bottle by the name of Prozac and Fast food.. Now in these days these companies are being taken to court.

*Personal view* - Happiness is found in nature, the ancient Greeks said this thousands of years ago and it's something that holds weight today, obey nature for we are part of her. God is nature!

What I would like to ask is what do people think of a song called American Idiot released by Green Day?

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Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindf*ck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well that's enough to argue.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information nation of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Oil is the fuel to these complex society's we have made, USA domination in the middle east and problem causing is for this reason.
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Old 03-05-2005, 03:06 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: American Idiot

get over yourself PM.. Once again your lumping all Americans in together. Have you ever been to the US? N0? then form your opinion about Americans from first hand knowledge rather than secular music... you just sound childish. BTW just because theres an asterik in the middle of the word doesnt make it less offensive...
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Old 03-05-2005, 03:56 PM   #3 (permalink)
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America is a community of nations, it's the land that I feel negative comes out of not the people. For thousands of the years the Chinese always used to say that destruction comes from the west. And this is even used in feng Shui calculations today.



People are people there are good and bad of all places in the world, but I feel we live in a meaningful world where everything has a deep meaning that we are lost by and everything is in unity and humans push it out of Synchronisation to selfishness.



Person who wrote the Da Vinci codes came out of the US, Prozac, fast food, weapons of mass destruction, Viagra, ecstasy... The list is endless. The only thing that good comes from is religion, my village in Cyprus has had many miracles, if you put your faith in God and obey nature and respect all people, God will always be with you, for we are God, because God is everything. We need Synchronisation with God! God is everything good, everything else is an illusion a temporary high!



God bless Cyprus and God bless the middles east. Justice will be served.

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BTW just because theres an asterik in the middle of the word doesnt make it less offensive...
That word is only insulting in your own mind, the word still exists even if it's not writen.
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Old 03-05-2005, 04:29 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: American Idiot

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The land that bought us happiness in a bottle by the name of Prozac and Fast food.. Now in these days these companies are being taken to court.
Prozac or Fluoxetine 20 mg caps, made by Eli Lilly is recommended to patients suffering of major depression or dysthymia, which is a milder form of depression. Also for those suffering of bulimia and obsessive compulsive behavior. It has also suitable for patients suffering from panic disorder and other types of anxiety disorders and phobias. Not recommended for those with hypersensivity problems. Not recommended for those underweight either, as during the treatement, the pacient may loose weight.

I cannot see this drug as a solution for hapiness. On the contrary, it's role is to help sick patients to feel humans and alive.

For the fast food, well, everyone is free to eat whatever he wishes for.

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Oil is the fuel to these complex society's we have made, USA domination in the middle east and problem causing is for this reason.
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We can blame the external politics for this one and not ordinary american people.
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Old 03-05-2005, 07:12 PM   #5 (permalink)
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The land is cursed. Any soul drawn into the country and paying taxes there is guilty. I live in the UK, I’m guilty too. My tax money is responsible for people that died in a war. Was my voice heard? NO. Rebuilding on Iraq, US and UK companies are in there as we speak, paid for by oil. The companies are then taxed and that's one of the many ways the US benefits from the war. They set up saddam in the first place. CIA backed him and armoured him. Knowning he was an evil dicator, so that could use it as an excuse to get into Iraq. Trouble in Cyprus caused by the US and UK, trouble all over the middle east caused by the US and the UK. Isn't it funny that there just happens to be oil there? Please don't think I'm one minded about all this, 2 years ago I used to wear union jack t-shirts and loved US politics, in 2 years I have grown to hate everything that the US and UK government stands for.


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Old 03-05-2005, 08:34 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: American Idiot

I would rather say that politics and politicians all over the world are a plague. They promise everything in order to get elected and the moment they have the power, they forget instantly all the promised they have made not long ago.

A land where the war is always present, may be considered to be cursed. Right now, USA's politicians don't really realize what a war can make in their own land. As long as the war is elsewhere, they play to blind game and feel powerful, in control of the situation. Remember the panic from Wolrd Trade Center ? And those stupid politicians, still don't realize the consequences of their external politics. UK's politicians followed the big leader. Maybe to be sure they get their part of the reward.

An ordinary person, do not care about the share of the world between the leaders. For ordinary people, the family and its welfare have priority.
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Old 03-05-2005, 09:37 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: American Idiot

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The land that bought us happiness in a bottle by the name of Prozac and Fast food.. Now in these days these companies are being taken to court.

*Personal view* - Happiness is found in nature, the ancient Greeks said this thousands of years ago and it's something that holds weight today, obey nature for we are part of her. God is nature!

What I would like to ask is what do people think of a song called American Idiot released by Green Day?

Oil is the fuel to these complex society's we have made, USA domination in the middle east and problem causing is for this reason.
http://www.cna.org.cy/rss/newsdispe.asp?a=235472
Hello Postmaster,

I am a grade one, Class A, top of the line, American idiot. Yep. What a fool I've been.

I went to Europe. Dumn dumn dumn. And I went to Turkey and Greece, and Israel, and the Middle East. And I did the stupidest things you could think of. I went and helped those people with various problems, like the earthquake in 1999 in Turkey...yup, I was there pulling stones away from collapsed homes, looking for people, hoping like hell they were still alive, and Haiti, rebuilding school houses, making student's desks, teacher's platforms, lockers, intalling gates, only to watch my work and efforts torn apart and burned as fuel the next day, by...people, with no regard for their own. How absolutely stupid of me, to think that 1. I could make a difference, and 2. that people would give a damn.

And I have two sons who are idiots. See, they put on a uniform and went over to do what they could...and they may not come back. Why are they idiots? Because they abandoned the relative safety of their homeland to go into a dangerous area, to help heal (medics, Postmaster, medics).

You are right. Americans are such idiots. Because, we (Joe and Josepine dumn ass American citizen), might give a damn.

So you see, all you have to do is wait awhile. We are soooo stupid, that we can't help but go the way of the "DODO BIRD". Then you win...

Thank you for such a heartening and upbeat post.

V/R

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p.s. that said, if you were drowning, I'd still pull your backside to safety, just to hear you tell me how I did it all wrong
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Re: American Idiot

so...


the trouble in Cyprus is the United States and Englands fault? Turkey has nothing to do with it, right?

please postmaster, if you really feel that much hate towards entire nations, i would encourage you to engage in some anger management classes or, better yet, some mindfulness meditation. it really will help with your anger issues.

it is quite fashionable these days to bash America and everything that it has ever done or has ever stood for and blame them for all the ills in the world today.

let me simply point out that prior to the existence of America there were ills in the world. it's a rather foolish and naieve to think that America is the source of the worlds troubles, in my view. international politics is such a messy business that no nation finds itself able to play "innocent" in the court of world opinion.

an aside... when China referred to the west in classical times, it meant the land mass from India to Greece and beyond. quite clearly, they did not mean the United States since it wasn't in existence until quite recently.
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Old 03-05-2005, 11:29 PM   #9 (permalink)
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One word could mean one thousand things, a whole paragraph could mean a million things. But before you feel you know who I'am or what I trying to say, don't

Because it doesn't matter what people read or hear, some people will always remain blind. I still am and have been a victim of that
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Old 03-06-2005, 12:04 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Basically, when you are blind intentionally or even accidentally you are still part of what Americanisation, the American and America stand for. But when you pick up that banner you shout human rights and like Michael Moore did, you are no longer part of that evil. You separated yourself from it.



The Ancient Greeks gave so much blood to create the democratic system. Something which revolutionised the world forever, but DO NOT forget that the Ancient Greek democratic system is different to what it is today. For example every year the Athenian people used to banish 2 people they felt were gaining too much popularity and often the very generals that saved them from the Persians got banished. Bush and his father (once head of the CIA) have played the democratic system like a game of connect 4.

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In other words, the greeks should rule over the world ?
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All I have to say is to this entire thread is "".
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All I have to say is to this entire thread is "".
Yeah, kinda goofy isn't it.

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Q, I don't think he has something against you. For some reasons we don't know yet, Postmaster is angry.

Something strange happend this morning. I got an e-mail you have sent, but it didn't appear on the forum. You didn't post it finaly ?
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Re: American Idiot

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America is a community of nations, it's the land that I feel negative comes out of not the people. For thousands of the years the Chinese always used to say that destruction comes from the west. And this is even used in feng Shui calculations today.


Postmaster, which are the Feng Shui elements you have taken in consideration to get to this conclusion ?

I would like to know what happend two years ago to make you so angry with the americans. Do you know any of them in person ? Have you been in America to judge by yourself before speaking of them like this ?
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