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Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostUh, no, the exact opposite is true. People of other countries think you Americans are weird and nutty for your levels of nationalism. Chanting "USA" is a good example of that - when you do it people from other countries stare at you as if you're insane. No other country that I'm aware of has a practice of chanting the country name. Same goes with the "<my country> is number one!" that you Americans like to do, which also has people rolling their eyes / laughing at you.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostUm, well apart from getting rated the best country in the world or close to it on all sorts of international rankings from least corrupt country to best country to have a holiday in to freest market to general overall best country in multivariate rankings... NZ was first to give women the vote, the first Western country to introduce universal healthcare for its citizens, the inventor of nuclear physics (Earnest Rutherford) the first to climb Mt Everest (Edmund Hillary) and arguably the inventor of instant coffee (possibly not an achievement depending on your taste in coffee). But kiwis don't tend to brag about their country the way Americans do because our humility is strong I our culture and we also tend to travel widely so are aware that there's lots of other countries largely on par with us (Scandinavia, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands).
But it's strange to see America which typically ranks in the teens or twenties in best-country international comparisons behind the above listed countries and behind most of western Europe, has such a tendency to glorify itself, and pays so little attention to countries doing better than it.
But the issue in this thread isn't whether NZ is good or bad or best or worst, it's why Americans are so bizarrely insanely patriotic compared to pretty much everyone else in the world.
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Originally posted by EvoUK View PostWe seem to be in a weird middle ground in the UK. Personally I can understand pride in ones achievements etc, but not pride is something you had nothing to do with. WWII is a popular example- but almost no one alive today had any part in that war.
For example we currently have lots of flag waving Brexit nonsense, especially in the print media. Conversely, the same reason they're moronically beating their chests and waving their flags is the reason I'm a little embarrassed to be likened to them.
As I said, the country is a little conflicted at the moment..!
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI agree. It would probably be under Nazism.That's what
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostOr Japanese ImperialismAtheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostUm, you think that the world being fascinated by the ongoing clown-show that is US politics is envy?
Considering people are literally dying to try to get to the US, yes. The US gets more immigrants, both legally and illegally each year than any other country.That's what
- She
Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by MaxVel View PostThe Baseball 'World Series' is an example...That's what
- She
Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by EvoUK View PostWe seem to be in a weird middle ground in the UK. Personally I can understand pride in ones achievements etc, but not pride is something you had nothing to do with. WWII is a popular example- but almost no one alive today had any part in that war.
For example we currently have lots of flag waving Brexit nonsense, especially in the print media. Conversely, the same reason they're moronically beating their chests and waving their flags is the reason I'm a little embarrassed to be likened to them.
As I said, the country is a little conflicted at the moment..!
Every country has its share of nationalism in their history.That's what
- She
Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postum, You guys literally riot and kill each other over football teams.I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostWe have a Canadian team (And used to have 2)."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostUh, no, the exact opposite is true. People of other countries think you Americans are weird and nutty for your levels of nationalism. Chanting "USA" is a good example of that - when you do it people from other countries stare at you as if you're insane. No other country that I'm aware of has a practice of chanting the country name. Same goes with the "<my country> is number one!" that you Americans like to do, which also has people rolling their eyes / laughing at you.
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostAt least Green Street Hooligans is a pretty good movie.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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