HockeyHorror killer sig there, definetly one of the best here 🙂 🙂
Well I have been fortunate enough to both have lived in USA and EUROPE. In the states I lived in Arkansas and in Europe I live in Norway(a country who is still outside the European Union).
I was a little puzzeled to learn of the ignorance of the outside world among some of my fellow citizens of Arkansas. But the hospitality of the people was and still are amazing. I just love America despite their so called" faults". In my eyes those "faults" exists in all nations so they aint alone in that department. The average teen I encountered werent all that different from me when it came to most things that occupy a teenage mind. I made a load of friends and almost 20 years down the road we still have contact.
No USA aint the greatest country in the world and it sure as hell aint the worst. I dont know what is the greatest country in the world and actually I think no one knows.
Linkalicious> I’d never say “Denmark is the greatest country in the world.”
First of all it’s rather small… Seriously, though. I like living here, because I know the culture, the language and this is were my friends and family are.
But a human concept as “a country/a nation” can’t be great. Anyone who heils about their country being so and so great are usually blind to the bad things committed by the same country.
I once wanted to settle in the US to complete my Ph.D. Today I’m glad I didn’t, since I’ve been there to visit friends countless times, and I could never live there. If I move anywhere now it’ll be to China… 🙂
China may become the greatest economic powerhouse in the years to come...quite possibly outdistancing america and EU...but america is not the hellish place that a lot of people seem to think it is: here and abroad...
no country is perfect, and if it were would you want to live there? if you want to blame a thing then blame yourself, because no matter what, You(pl) voted those people in power whether by choice or not and by that i mean to those people living in countries such as Iraq when Saddam was in power....as it goes: Power to the people and pity to those who are.
Originally posted by Fëanor
what's 26 compared to 5 billion already crowding our planet?okay that was lame...but it ain't gonna happen that way...
as for America: it's a Hell of a place to live...
Wow i think its ideas like that that make any place hell.... 😬 and i thought i was evil. Many deserve to die but not out of spite.
"Wow i think its ideas like that that make any place hell.... and i thought i was evil. Many deserve to die but not out of spite."
If you already think certain people deserve to die then you've already made the leap between what you consider to be evil and good. Reasoning is just paperwork from then on.
Justin Timberlake hasn't committed mass murder or bombed his own people but I still wouldn't think twice about putting two in his forehead.
-AC
America: The Greatest Country In The World Or The Closest Thing To Hell On Earth?
Its both.
Some things are black and white, but a question like that certainly isn't. There are so many things to take into account...what state you live in(different taxes, laws, etc.), what kind of area you live in (rich, poor, urban, suburban, desert, forest, beach, etc.), what your (or your parents) income is, what your political views are, and so on and so forth.
A person like Tex is going to have a completely different experience than me based on those factors, just like I will have a completely different experience than a millionaire from Manhatten or a beggar from Detroit. Kinda funny that, since I think its our lack of unification that keeps us from being truly great. I could go into it but I won't. Suffice it to say that I think "freedom" has replaced and eliminated "morals" in my country. "Personal freedom" to do whatever the hell we want has replaced "personal responsibility" for the consequences of our actions.
We have our problems, but so do other countries. I don't think we're so bad off. Some countries are like celebrities. Bad things happen to people all the time, but when something happens to a celebrity it ends up in all the papers, everybody makes a big deal out of it. There are people dying all over the world, but if Dubya makes a verbal slip in a speech or Britney Spear's boob falls out of her top its somehow more important and ends up on the front page.
America has lost sense of its priorities, but as for Hell On Earth, I guess that depends on which town you live in. 😉