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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 9:50am

 oldviolin wrote:
Indeed it would seem unambiguous. I'm glad you didn't tag a question mark on that.

One could replace conflict with cooperation to arrive at a very different outlook. Esp. for evolved social animals.
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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 9:45am

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Maybe that premise is just wrong.

Indeed it would seem unambiguous. I'm glad you didn't tag a question mark on that. 

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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 9:38am

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I guess that’s the bet we make!

channeling The Police
Every bet we make
every chance we take 
every heart we break
every cake we bake?

We could wake up dead and still not know it was a dream or we could live in a state of grace and pump grease into those giant bearing journals and let the dead inside us live like there's no tomorrow...

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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 9:31am

 oldviolin wrote:

I should have said "examination" to bridge the relevance lol.
Right. I think its called evolution...

I guess that’s the bet we make!
Do we leave it to a chance mutation, or a preferred trait?

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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 9:23am

 black321 wrote:
 oldviolin wrote:

We have to outgrow war. How are we going to do that? I think it has to start with learning how to navigate conflict. Level heart, level mind, level playing field. 
Sure, human civilization is pretty much based on conflict. How is it even possible to change a profile like that? Good question.
Where does change actually begin? That's a rhetorical question of course.
We're all soldiers in a way, or will be. 
So what is actually worth fighting for? The illusion of peace or just simple relevance? Ultimately we seek the proof of meaning. That's where the individual comes in. Living their lives, inspired or not, with the potential to change the world, chips falling where they may.
Sorry to continue threadjack.
J.D. Vance is an interesting character.  Back to topic-

This seems more interesting than that character, ha. 
To outgrow war would be quite something wouldn’t it? 
But wouldn’t that also mean to outgrow our instinct or nature, where there is constant conflict and violence?
I find the good parts of spirituality and religion encourage this, but haven’t seen it much in politics or economics.  
 
I should have said "examination" to bridge the relevance thing lol.
Right. I think its called evolution...
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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 9:21am

 oldviolin wrote:
Sure, human civilization is pretty much based on conflict.

Maybe that premise is just wrong.
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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 9:19am

 oldviolin wrote:

We have to outgrow war. How are we going to do that? I think it has to start with learning how to navigate conflict. Level heart, level mind, level playing field. 
Sure, human civilization is pretty much based on conflict. How is it even possible to change a profile like that? Good question.
Where does change actually begin? That's a rhetorical question of course.
We're all soldiers in a way, or will be. 
So what is actually worth fighting for? The illusion of peace or just simple relevance? Ultimately we seek the proof of meaning. That's where the individual comes in. Living their lives, inspired or not, with the potential to change the world, chips falling where they may.


Sorry to continue threadjack.
J.D. Vance is an interesting character.  Back to topic-



This seems more interesting than that character, ha. 
To outgrow war would be quite something wouldn’t it? 
But wouldn’t that also mean to outgrow our instinct or nature, where there is constant conflict and violence?
I find the good parts of spirituality and religion encourage this, but haven’t seen it much in politics or economics.  

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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 8:41am

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Because militarism.


We have to outgrow war. How are we going to do that? I think it has to start with learning how to navigate conflict. Level heart, level mind, level playing field. 
Sure, human civilization is pretty much based on conflict. How is it even possible to change a profile like that? Good question.
Where does change actually begin? That's a rhetorical question of course.
We're all soldiers in a way, or will be. 
So what is actually worth fighting for? The illusion of peace or just simple relevance? Ultimately we seek the proof of meaning. That's where the individual comes in. Living their lives, inspired or not, with the potential to change the world, chips falling where they may.


Sorry to continue threadjack.
J.D. Vance is an interesting character.  Back to topic-


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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 8:28am

Because militarism.
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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 7:20am

 oldviolin wrote:

One would have had to be there to speak to the experience. To hear commentary from those ignorant of that experience gives me a strange compassion for uninformed opinion. I choose to react that way rather than other ways I could react. Humility should always be the common denominator it seems. I take that approach if I can.



because wisdom...
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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 7:06am

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 rgio wrote:
Nobody has ever met a veteran who didn't overstate their experiences and importance (several family members included). 

Wow.  Just wow. Please enlighten every veteran that you come into contact with. with this statement.  I dare you.  buddy wrote:

As the son of a 30-year US Army officer veteran of WWII & Korea and as a Vietnam Era US Navy veteran myself, I'm calling BS on this one. Most veterans I've know downplay their service record if anything. Talking about it tends to only be relevant to between other veterans. Many civilians have no concept or couldn't give a shit as long as they didn't have to or choose to serve.

What Buddy said.
 
One would have had to be there to speak to the experience. To hear commentary from those ignorant of that experience gives me a strange compassion for uninformed opinion. I choose to react that way rather than other ways I could react. Humility should always be the common denominator it seems. I take that approach if I can.

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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 6:18am

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As the son of a 30-year US Army officer veteran of WWII & Korea and as a Vietnam Era US Navy veteran myself, I'm calling BS on this one.

Most veterans I've know downplay their service record if anything. Talking about it tends to only be relevant to between other veterans. Many civilians have no concept or couldn't give a shit as long as they didn't have to or choose to serve.

I was drafted in 1972 & chose to enlist in the US Navy instead of going into the Army or Marines (which what was happening at the time).  That I served honorably during the years of the conflict but was not deployed to Vietnam classifies me as a "Vietnam Era Veteran".  We had no choice as to our deployments, I just happened to be deployed to San Clemente Naval Auxiliary Landing Station as an Air Traffic Controller (used to train fighter pilots how to land on aircraft carriers) during my first two years 1973-1975. The conflict ended shortly before my tour at NALS San Clemente was up so I was rotated to a US shore-based billet for my last two years since those deployed were all coming home. I could have just as easily been deployed to an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin had the conflict still have been active.

More than you likely care to know, but this was my experience. Even my Lt. Colonel father had little to no choice of his assignments at any time during his career.  I'm proud of my father's service, and of my own, an of OV's and the other vets I know here.  Whether you or anyone else considers it "important" is of no concern to me. 


Thank you. I imagine it’s a difficult and complex decision/choice/path. 

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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 6:07am

 rgio wrote:
Nobody has ever met a veteran who didn't overstate their experiences and importance (several family members included). 


Wow.  Just wow.

Please enlighten every veteran that you come into contact with. with this statement.  I dare you.

 buddy wrote:

As the son of a 30-year US Army officer veteran of WWII & Korea and as a Vietnam Era US Navy veteran myself, I'm calling BS on this one.

Most veterans I've know downplay their service record if anything. Talking about it tends to only be relevant to between other veterans. Many civilians have no concept or couldn't give a shit as long as they didn't have to or choose to serve.

What Buddy said.


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Posted: Aug 11, 2024 - 12:28am

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He didn't say it, you interpreted it. If we're at war and he was carrying a rifle (not a typewriter), he almost gets a pass when he says he carried that rifle in war. Should have said wartime

I just think it's funny that you're not spasming over Vance taking this stand. They both served as they were called to do. Vance for 4 years, Walz for 24. Move on.

My understanding is that he was stationed overseas and receiving combat pay. So maybe an overstatement. But now we are kind of splitting hairs. Oh, and the democrats have clarified the record.


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Posted: Aug 8, 2024 - 8:20pm

 rgio wrote:

Nobody has ever met a veteran who didn't overstate their experiences and importance (several family members included). 

As the son of a 30-year US Army officer veteran of WWII & Korea and as a Vietnam Era US Navy veteran myself, I'm calling BS on this one.

Most veterans I've know downplay their service record if anything. Talking about it tends to only be relevant to between other veterans. Many civilians have no concept or couldn't give a shit as long as they didn't have to or choose to serve.

I was drafted in 1972 & chose to enlist in the US Navy instead of going into the Army or Marines (which what was happening at the time).  That I served honorably during the years of the conflict but was not deployed to Vietnam classifies me as a "Vietnam Era Veteran".  We had no choice as to our deployments, I just happened to be deployed to San Clemente Naval Auxiliary Landing Station as an Air Traffic Controller (used to train fighter pilots how to land on aircraft carriers) during my first two years 1973-1975. The conflict ended shortly before my tour at NALS San Clemente was up so I was rotated to a US shore-based billet for my last two years since those deployed were all coming home. I could have just as easily been deployed to an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin had the conflict still have been active.

More than you likely care to know, but this was my experience. Even my Lt. Colonel father had little to no choice of his assignments at any time during his career.  I'm proud of my father's service, and of my own, an of OV's and the other vets I know here.  Whether you or anyone else considers it "important" is of no concern to me. 

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Posted: Aug 8, 2024 - 5:24pm

Trump never served. He ran away. He's not ashamed. He gloats about it. He brags about how he used his daddy's privilege and wealth to avoid not only Vietnam, but serving at all.
JD Vance, he served. He did what the Marines needed him to do and went where they told him to go. He wasn't any hero, his four years in the Marines are undistinguished, and that's okay. That's okay. Most of us aren't heroes, we're just just people doing the job, we do what they need us to do, we go where they tell us. Doing your duty is enough. Or rather is should be enough. But Vance? Well JD Vance is ASHAMED of his service, of not being a snake eater. Because that's what Republicans turned service into, Hollywood heroism. If you're not a door kicker, if you're not a bearded steely-eyed SEAL, if you're not a raw meat eating Ranger parachuting into danger, you're not a real veteran. That's what Republicans have turned service into. Heroism.
And JD Vance, ain't no hero.
He was just another Marine. Like millions of others before him. Someone who showed up for four years and did the job he was assigned. No more. No less.
And it's just not enough.
It's not enough because swaggering wannabe heroes like Trump and Vance turned military service into heroism or nothing.
And now they're hoist on their own petard.
And MAGAs have no choice but to denigrate Tim Walz's service. Because they can't live up to their own manufactured ideal of what a veteran is.
Because they are ashamed of their own ordinary record.
And because most of all: they're ashamed Trump himself ran away when called.

~Jim Wright
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Posted: Aug 8, 2024 - 4:24pm

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Most of you are forgetting that Walz said in was in combat.  Repeatedly from his first run as governor up until now.  That is the lie.  And a big one.

That is the stolen valor part.  Evidently it only matters to a small few here.



He didn't say it, you interpreted it. If we're at war and he was carrying a rifle (not a typewriter), he almost gets a pass when he says he carried that rifle in war. Should have said wartime

I just think it's funny that you're not spasming over Vance taking this stand. They both served as they were called to do. Vance for 4 years, Walz for 24. Move on.
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Posted: Aug 8, 2024 - 4:05pm

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You have lost all reason.  You support someone whose father paid to have a fake diagnosis to keep him from serving, while wanting to crucify someone who enlisted twice, served over two decades, and used his service weapon as an example in discussing guns.

Nobody has ever met a veteran who didn't overstate their experiences and importance (several family members included). 


I try not to, but I'm enthusiastic that way.  I hedge extra on my importance so I can let the memorable experiences fly! I happened to fall through the peace crack of the mid 70's. Now I ask you, what is better than getting blown up or shot at? Probably everything unless you have an ear for it. Oh, wait. I mean, you know, listening, oh nevermind... 
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Posted: Aug 8, 2024 - 3:38pm

 kurtster wrote:

Most of you are forgetting that Walz said in was in combat.  Repeatedly from his first run as governor up until now.  That is the lie.  And a big one.

That is the stolen valor part.  Evidently it only matters to a small few here.


You have lost all reason.  You support someone whose father paid to have a fake diagnosis to keep him from serving, while wanting to crucify someone who enlisted twice, served over two decades, and used his service weapon as an example in discussing guns.

Nobody has ever met a veteran who didn't overstate their experiences and importance (several family members included). 

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Posted: Aug 8, 2024 - 3:28pm

 kurtster wrote:

Most of you are forgetting that Walz said in was in combat.  Repeatedly from his first run as governor up until now.  That is the lie.  And a big one.

That is the stolen valor part.  Evidently it only matters to a small few here.



Did he mention how his bone spurs made him 4F?
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