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Will people ever truly unite?

Baralis

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Do you believe we will ever achieve total acceptance of other ethnicities or religions?

Mankind has for thousands of years warred, enslaved, or suppresed due to ethnic and religious differences. We are a creation that often times have low tolerance for difference. While we try to believe that here in the US we have overcome such petty actions it is still here. We still set limits on what we will and will not except even if we fail to see it.

Do you believe we will ever achieve total acceptance of one another or do you believe we are better off throwing the idea of unity out the window and realize that we are better off segregating ourselves from one another?

Personaly I believe our ethnic and religious differences will always be a issue that we will never overcome. I never understood the need or reasoning for us to try to unify different societies into one big mass. In doing so we all lose a bit of what we were to become something we were not.

Edit- Well I failed at the poll so I need moved. Opps..
 
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We will never unite because there are too many racist asshats and too many extremely conservative people in this world.

The idea is good one but all we can do is wave as it passes by.
 
We won't unite and I don't think it has to do with racism, but divisionalism. It's almost hard wired for us to notice differences first before we rationally stop to consider similarities. Things that are different scare us which in turn transforms into prejudice.

We are very animal and tribal in that way.
 
There's no poll option... :(


But yes, people will unite. When there's evidence of a mass alien invasion.
 
We will never unite because there are too many racist asshats and too many extremely conservative people in this world.

The idea is good one but all we can do is wave as it passes by.

"Racist Asshats". When you see a racist vs when I see a racist, we see two different races wearing "Asshats". This by nature of you being a PC Liberal. Mine is through observation of a hate ,and rage filled culture, unwilling to join the human RACE.
Presently the shakedown... hatedown efforts, of the most racist culture on earth, does not serve them well, nor does it serve humanity AT ALL.
 
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Yes, I say men and women unite!!! :mrgreen:
 
Whats it gona take to bring the world together? Aliens.
The human psyche eneds an 'other' to define an 'us'. Its extremely problematic.
 
Not as long as there are religions.


I suppose someone had to say it.

Nevermind the fact that political ideology, nationalism, economic self-intrest and so on has undoubtably started more wars and killed more people than religion, though many ambitious conquerors have abused religion as an excuse to invade their neighbor because the conqueror wanted the neighbor's land/resources/wealth/serfs.
 
I suppose someone had to say it.

Nevermind the fact that political ideology, nationalism, economic self-intrest and so on has undoubtably started more wars and killed more people than religion, though many ambitious conquerors have abused religion as an excuse to invade their neighbor because the conqueror wanted the neighbor's land/resources/wealth/serfs.

Could not have put it any better myself. Well OK I could have, but that's not the point! ;)
 
No. With total acceptance there is no diversity.
If the other guys culture or religion was so great we would all convert or move there.

As it is now there is a salad bar acceptance. Pick and choose what you want.
Trouble comes when someone elses "acceptance" equates making someone "approve" of their whatever.

Being of one mind has caused a bit of death as well.


Notable mass suicides
 
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We will never unite because there are too many racist asshats and too many extremely conservative people in this world.

The idea is good one but all we can do is wave as it passes by.

nope-some of us are producers or hosts and some are parasites or takers. One party runs on supporting the producers and trying to limit parasites. THe other pary not only caters to the parasites, it does everything possible to expand their numbers.

It is like saying will ticks and dogs ever truly unite as friends.
 
Nope. Mankind is way too mean for That:(
 
I can see getting clubed like a harp seal for this response.

We can unite but some ideas need to be discarded with first.

1. Religion needs to go.
2. Private propertty needs to go.
3. Nations and references to national pride need to go.
4. Borders need to fade.
5. Universal money.
6. universal language would have to be in the works.
7. The UN or a group like that would have to take change.

Individual nation states could no longer exist.

IMO religion is the biggest barrier to unity.
 
Asking about unity is a veiled attempt to decry the fact that the government cannot control its citizens as much as the decrier wants, among other forms of control and tantrum-throwing.
 
I can see getting clubed like a harp seal for this response.

We can unite but some ideas need to be discarded with first.

1. Religion needs to go.
2. Private propertty needs to go.
3. Nations and references to national pride need to go.
4. Borders need to fade.
5. Universal money.
6. universal language would have to be in the works.
7. The UN or a group like that would have to take change.

Individual nation states could no longer exist.

IMO religion is the biggest barrier to unity.


Private property needs to go? You mean you wish to get rid of a persons rights to have private property? Or something else?

Borders need to fade? So we should simply open the flood gates and just let everyone in?

Universal money? That scares me. It sounds like you are on the New World Order Team.

Do you understand that as much as we may wish for it that there will never be any such thing as Universal Love? I really wish but feel it is a pipedream.
 
Private property needs to go? You mean you wish to get rid of a persons rights to have private property? Or something else?

Borders need to fade? So we should simply open the flood gates and just let everyone in?

Universal money? That scares me. It sounds like you are on the New World Order Team.

Do you understand that as much as we may wish for it that there will never be any such thing as Universal Love? I really wish but feel it is a pipedream.

How do you politely explain that someone is off their rocker thoroughly enough that they get back on it?
 
Private property needs to go? You mean you wish to get rid of a persons rights to have private property? Or something else?

Borders need to fade? So we should simply open the flood gates and just let everyone in?

Universal money? That scares me. It sounds like you are on the New World Order Team.

Do you understand that as much as we may wish for it that there will never be any such thing as Universal Love? I really wish but feel it is a pipedream.

I figured when i wrote that it would be pretty much a stretch for most people that is why I stated it as I do. I am a huge believer in Utopian Socialism. I live as part of a Socialist Commune where we do share everything for the good of the many. I don't know that it can be done in a large scale. I would like to think that it can be.

The OP asked about unity. Unity is only achievable if we tear down the walls and restructure what our primary goals are. It is not possible if we in our lives and beliefs create a conflict.

It is a matter of says we are all equal. We are all good. We all are human. We have to put away anything that divides. If we are not willing to do this we can forget unity except in small groups of maybe up to 10k adults. We will tend the war wounded until the day we pass from the earth. Unity is impossible in any other framework.
 
How do you politely explain that someone is off their rocker thoroughly enough that they get back on it?

If you are implying that Inferno is off her rocker? Well I would love to pull up a rocker beside her and rock a while.

If you mean I am off my rocker? Well point taken cause I know I am crazy and have meds and papers to prove it:rofl

If anything else? Please explain? :2wave:
 
If you are implying that Inferno is off her rocker? Well I would love to pull up a rocker beside her and rock a while.

If you mean I am off my rocker? Well point taken cause I know I am crazy and have meds and papers to prove it:rofl

If anything else? Please explain? :2wave:

I was indeed implying that Inferno is severely misguided.
 
FlappyTheKinkajou, I really long for the Utopia that Inferno speaks of but do not think it is realistic on a Universal level.
 
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