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Like I said, it is not wholey peculiar to the U.S. That said, I personally do not agree with that view, which I think I mentioned earlier in the thread.

Duley noted. In recent months have you grown an aversion towards the value of debate and how that can help strengthen one`s ideas and arguments on an issue? It appears that that is the case. I remember a time when this site, or at least in its former incarnation, was quite dynamic.

Hmmm...perhaps not. Mycernius has corroberated that they are viewed as week-kneed, referring to them as "surrender monkeys."

All that tells me is that the French didn`t make the best decisions strategically and being in a situation of having to more and more relinquish their holdings, perhaps a sign of gluttony that they could not sustain -- or a bigger world view of themselves that they could not support. But, why...

The key word here is "won." For if the land was innitially colonized without a war, then it is a bit misleading to say they were won in a war (being "kept" is not "winning"; it is just a state of ownership). But yes, perhaps the score is even on this point. Or perhaps not -- if we throw in the...

Didn`t the French lose in Vietnam, too, prior to U.S. involvement? The battle of Dien Bien Phu and their defeat there decisively ended France`s colonialism, or their attempt at reimposing colonialism on their claims in Indo-China. In addition France lost Algeria in a devastating guerilla war...

Membership seems to not have changed much. The site looks kind of dead in regards to activity. It seems to be more of a personal blog of what Maciamo wants to discuss, more so than a dynamic place where many come to discuss a variety of topics that interests them. Maciamo, what are you doing to...

Hi Duo, Thanks for moving that over. Sorry I haven`t had a chance to reply. I`ve been busy lately and may stay so for the next week or two. If I get some time I will pop in and continue the discussion. Thanks. -- SVF

Wow! Ultramarathon runner Serge Girard has completed a cross-continental run from Paris to Tokyo without ever taking a full day`s rest. Quite an amazing accomplishment! Apparantly it has been done before but Serge`s run has broken the previous record. Serge accomplished the 19097.3 km run in...

Duo, do you mind if we move this over to the thread Maciamo created, Are you a vegeatarian?? We seem to be discussing the general issue of "vegetarianism" rather than "mulluscs" or "if vegetarians eat mulloscs or not." ---------------------------------------------------------- Also, Maciamo...

Hi Duo, I agree with most everything you said above. However, I`m gonna go and eat some oatmeal and nuts now for breakfast. I will answer in perhaps an hour. Enjoying the discussions.

Like I said, so many of us have our personality quirks, but to bring them up in discussion when another issue is being discussed, is what is called an "ad hominem attack." It is irrelevant to the issue, so why bring it up -- if not to smear the character so that the issue the character is...

lol(if true). But, is it any worse than praying to an invisible entity which one believes to exist for answers? Duo, would you by chance have some sources to site the "bodyguard firing" incident with "energy measuring sticks"? or are these just impressions and rumors, or reportings in...

Janez Drnovsek, the current president of Slovenia, is a vocal champion of vegetarianism. In fact, he is a dedicated vegan. In an interview last year he gave to The Society for the Rights and the Liberation of Animals to coincide with the World Protection of Animasls Day (Oct 4) he simply but...

I think that is what Glenn and I were referring to -- that we need more room and space -- that things are just too crowded as it is. Those empty spaces you are referring to in Canada and U.S. states are some of the last open spaces left in the developed world. The human population is so large...

Hi, Duo. A quick look and it was rather easy to find vegetarian movements/societies in developing nations. If I were to spend more time on it I am sure I could find more. Keep in mind, India still has a lot of poverty and many poor Hindi and Jans are vegetarian. One thing I did notice...

They are human like us, but I am not sure that the majority of the population engaged in male gay sex or had the natural sexual desire to do it. I am not aware of Plutarch sources or other ancient historians of sorts saying that gay men sex was the norm for the majority of the citizen males...

I see your point, but that only explains the acceptance of it in those countries within the last several decades, primarily after the influence of the church in peoples' lives since the end of WWII. Prior to the emergence of the Church, like in your OP homosexuality did not seem to be so...

In Greece during one of their warring periods with Macedon at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE), there was a fighing force of gay warriors known as the Sacred Band of Thebes. Most were killed during the battle, one where they held their position while the rest of the armies gave and fled, and it...

I am starting this thread for members to post on true stories depicted in some form of screen drama. Please, when describing the film you are talking about, don`t give away the endings -- unless of course the story is so famous everyone knows about how it ends (e.g. Flight 93)...