How do you feel about the world today?

Discussion in 'Opinion POLLS' started by Jango, Mar 16, 2013.

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How do you feel about the world today?

  1. There has never been anything better!

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    5.7%
  2. I'm completely happy

    3 vote(s)
    8.6%
  3. I'm happy

    4 vote(s)
    11.4%
  4. I'm content

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    2.9%
  5. I'm paying attention

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    14.3%
  6. I'm slightly nervous

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  7. I'm nervous

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  8. I'm slightly worried

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  9. I'm worried

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  10. There has never been anything worse!

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    5.7%
  1. Jango

    Jango New Member

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    I'm using the word 'world' to not just mean the entire globe, but it can be as little as your home or just your neighborhood, since they are certainly representations of your world and may be all you consciously focus on. I'm wanting to gauge the levels of positivism of the members here. I'm curious, because of the financial crisis, and other related crisises that have arisen at alarming rates over the last decade and a few odd years. At some level, several of these large incidents will have impacted you in one way or another. Surely you have opinions, or know the facts involved in many of the events. The question is, taken in as a totality, how does it make you feel about our world today?

    (I had to take out 2 Poll Options, by the way. One was to go in-between the good and the bad 'I'm Bored' and one was to go last 'Other')
     
  2. Jango

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    I should add, discussion is encouraged!
     
  3. Wizard From Oz

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    I am 51. A long time ago my dad said to me "The only the thing that ever changes is the date on calendar

    And after 51 years in this world, I think he is right.

    All time periods and generations have their challenges triumphs miss chances. I really dont see any of that changing in the foreseeable future
     
  4. RedRepublic

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    I feel like I'm crying out for change, the world just seems so boring at the moment. It sounds a bit heartless but I think I'd like a bit more upheaval and conflict. Politics is just boring now, no one proposes anything radical. It's a bunch of essentially identical political parties and politicians pretending to be different and only changing things in the most mild manner possible. It just so boring, everywhere you look you see sameness.
     
  5. robini123

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    The world is always on the brink of something bad. The world has seen worse times, for example WWII, the Bubonic Plague... etc. Am I concerned? Sure... got a madman with nukes saber rattling in North Korea... Obama passing UHC and nervous Americans wondering how high their taxes will go... China stealing intellectual property which hurts business around the world... and about a thousand other worries around the globe that I don't feel like listing.

    I do miss the time between Vietnam and 9/11 where we had relative peace and security.
     
  6. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    The Chinese have a saying. "May you live in interesting times." It's regarded as a bitter curse.

    What has always gotten to me is how anyone can vote for conservatives, who seem to think that life, by and large, is just not HARD enough for all of us, (except, of course, them, poor things)

    My current greatest worry is we are going to get someone who will organise all the nutbar killers and then the gummint will "crack down" on everybody BUT the gun nuts. I saw it on tv the other day, a meeting of some Congressional Committee on Sandy Hook. A whole bunch of "experts" saying how we had to ban video games and start institutionalising everybody who lived alone, with nary a mention of Milton Militia and his 4 million rounds in the basement. A really fascinating exhibition of useless (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)s tiptoeing SOO gingerly around the 50 ton, stinking, brontosaurus in the room
     
  7. Pollycy

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    The world's economy is a frail house of cards, supported by 50 "central banks" and their fraud-balloon doctrine of pulling imaginary money out of thin air. Am I concerned? How could anybody with a three-digit IQ NOT be concerned...?!
     
  8. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    That system was systematized by Cosimo de Medici who got it from the Venetians but they were less organized. Anything that's worked for about a thousand years, works, say what you will. The fly in the ointment is the same one that bedeviled the Renaissance Prince, violent jerks who are more interested in enjoying Schadenfreude than increasing their own prosperity. People who want to see others fail and suffer, even if they have to pay themselves to do so.

    Nevertheless, it cannot be argued, mankind is presently in a Golden Age. We have never before seen so many people living so well. The fact that we have never seen so many living so badly either is just because Mankind's fecundity has always outstripped his prosperity. That situation is being corrected even now, and peacefully. (We tried war and genocide but they didn't work, though some haven't given up on them)
     
  9. yepdone5

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    TO MUCH WAR,NOT ENOUGH PEACE ON THIS PLANET,ALL FAKE LOVE ! I'M PRAYING MAN GET HIS ACT TOGETHER AND SOON.:truce:
     
  10. wist43

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    We're living in historic times - in our lifetime it is likely the U.S. will collapse/cease to exist as an independent country. Having taken only some 126 years to go from a republic to a democracy; and another 100 years and counting for that democracy to implode in upon itself as democracies always do.

    The financial bubble is deliberate and necessary from the standpoint of those who are seeking to centralize their power. The Constitution has been completely neutered and stands as no impediment to the expansion of government, and expansion of the police state.

    I find it amazing that so many people believe that the latest "crisis" they are watching unfold on the nightly news is some kind of unhappy accident. Crisis is a tool, just as terrorism is a tool. Already the U.S. FedGov can violate your rights against search and seizure, confiscate your property, arrest you, hold you without charge indefinitely; and when they feel like it, murder you.

    All in the name of keeping you safe ;)
     
  11. DeskFan

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    America is (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up. There are many problems which need to be fixed. There are many problems in the world that need to be fix, but no one is fixing them.
     
  12. Wizard From Oz

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    What alternative world where you living in. Iran and Iraq at war - two wars by the west in Iraq Libya and Lebanon. Iraq attempting to build nuclear weapons. China invades Vietnam - Vietnam invades Cambodia. The US invades Panama the Soviets invade Afghanistan. The rise of a plethora of Italian terrorist group. Spain has ETA blowing stuff up. The IRA is blowing up everything in site in the UK. And off course the PLO blowing up and hijacking ships and aircraft at will.

    Economically we had the energy crisis. The recessions of the 80. Bursting of the Dotcom bubble in the 90s


    And to top it all off Roger Waters left Pink Floyd
     
  13. robini123

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    Don't know how things were down under during those years, but in America is was relatively peaceful and secure. I was speaking of life in America specifically... there is always chaos and some brink of disaster happening on the planet. Just because the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in the 80's or a 100 hour war in Iraq during the 90's does not mean it caused the U.S. to be in turmoil and lack security. Name me a time where it was pure nirvana in America where we all walked around farting rainbows that smelled of cotton candy?

    But I am sorry to hear that it was so bad down under from 1975 to 2001 though.
     
  14. Wizard From Oz

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    You really need to clean those rose colored glasses. If you were oblivious to the events happening around you, that does not mean they didn't happen. I mean you really did not see those queues at gas stations stretching for miles. You don't recall Ron Reagan ratcheting up the cold war with his 'evil empire' speech. You dont remember a Pan Am 747 being blown out of the sky over Scotland? You dont recall the hostage crisis in Iran?
     
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    You obviously are reading way too much into what I am saying and taking some gratuitous liberties with assumptions.
     
  16. Anders Hoveland

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    Being a racial separatist, I am concerned that the world is going to irreversibly lose it's human diversity. Progressives may have a difficult time understanding this, but the best way I can get you to see my persective is to imagine knowing that all the trees, and all those endangered species would be gone forever in just a few short generations. Maybe then you will have some idea how I feel. I know, I know, we are "all part of the human race". :roll: But let's be honest here. Why do the most beautiful women in the world come from Sweden and not Namibia or Saudi Arabia??

    In fact, why does it even matter whether the human species survives?
     
  17. happy fun dude

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    In my opinion, and in my belief, based on what's going on today as well as history, I think we have two things coming up in the near future:

    Great Depression II

    (bond bubble bursts, paper currency becomes basically worthless, which is what nations around the world are actually working towards in their currency wars)

    World War III

    (the domino theory comes true as Western powers destabilize one country after the next throughout the Middle East, but somehow I feel the impending war with Iran will be a lot higher stakes than all the other countries.. It should produce at least enough chaos that China can begin her agenda, such as annexing those territories she wants so much. Western powers will have their hands so full in the ME that N.K. and others will be able to do what they want and I imagine NK would then attack SK.. Containing the (*)(*)(*)(*) storm in the ME will be a full time job.)

    The policies of the USA and many other countries I believe are working towards bringing both of these on.

    Call me a paranoid nutter and tell me to put on a tin foil hat if it makes you feel more at ease; I don't' care. It's just what I think.
     
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    NICE!!!

    The sad part is, these corrupted bankers and their politician buddies know this.. They are just trying to keep the system propped up and afloat as long as they can so they can amass and horde as much real assets as they can before it all goes bust, which is inevitable. It's the same as a Ponzi scheme, its failure is mathematically guaranteed.

    Real assets will not come on pieces of paper. Real assets are gold, land and guns.
     
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    LMAO.

    What Sammy Hagar's departure from Van Halen merits no mention?
     
  20. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    I'm curious, Who will be taking us over?

    Any government has been able to do that since time immemorial, at least nowadays they have to at least act like they're trying to hide it.

    You need to read something by an ethnicist whose "degree" didn't come from an institution with either a swastika or a burning cross on the front lawn. The human genome project recently proved yet again what they've been saying for years. There are no races in any meaningful sense and never were. The entirety of the human race shares 98% of it's genes with chimpanzees.

    Black women are not to my (and obviously your) taste, yet even I will put Halle Berry, Beyonce and Imam up against Britt Elkland anyday. (They're coming over to my house for the contest too.)

    As for your fear of diversity eliminating diversity, look at dogs, they are ALL the same species. A chihuhuaha and a Great Dane can breed (though god only knows how) and the offspring will not be hybrids.

    Real assets are whatever we say. The Yap islanders used giant rocks for millenia with no problems. Assets today are electrons in databases and they've been entries in ledgers since the 1500s. Spain had more gold, guns and land in the 16th/17th centuries than anybody. Where are they now?
     
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    An interesting and intellectual post. I hope you write more! And while I don't disagree with you on anything you've said, exactly, I am nevertheless quite concerned about this gigantic Keynesian fraud-balloon, which is the only real manifestation I can identify as being the so-called "recovery", as created by the Fed, the ECB, and the IMF.

    At some point, the U. S. is going to be so deeply in debt that it is doubtful that we will even be able to pay the interest on the National Debt, even though the central banking cartels have suppressed interest rates down to microscopic levels. And the principal skyrockets upward every day: http://www.usdebtclock.org/

    It seems to be a mathematical inevitability, then, that the United States (home of the world's "reserve currency", as you know), will repudiate the National Debt, and order a currency re-issue. And, yes, the very real prospect of that does worry the hell out of me, even though, as a species, we have achieved relative prosperity compared with the heydays of the de' Medici family....
     
  22. Wizard From Oz

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    LOL I was always a bit old school with that band. Sammy was technically better in every department, I just liked David's showmanship a lot more
     
  23. happy fun dude

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    You can put value in anything you want. Right now pieces of paper have value.

    I'm guessing that at some point in the future, you're going to rather have gold, land and guns, than pieces of paper.
     
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    I am slightly nervous about the world as it is today, yet also cautiously optimistic looking ahead to the future.
     
  25. Mr. Swedish Guy

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    The world's obviously not going in the direction I want to see so I'm slightly worried. But I'm not losing any sleep over it; In fact, I'm eagerly awaiting all the conflicts, big and large, that I forsee in the future. What conflicts and chaos overpopulation will lead too, what will happen in a multipolar world et cetera. It's also some big historic changes going on, such as the racial population swap in europe. Being a fan of history it's terribly interseting to see what humanity will do next.
     

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