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| User: | bumbletbw (665392) Where Am I Going, And Why Am I In This Handbasket?
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| Name: | no devil lived on | ||
| Website: | Rotten Tomatoes Journal | ||
| Birthdate: | 09-28 | ||
| Bio: | I've had this journal for a long time, over three years now. Unfortunately, this place was hijacked I lost 1 + 3/4 years' worth of entries. I'm 24, a Political Science major at West Virginia University. I like sports and long walks on the beach and all that jazz. For those of you who don't know me, perhaps you should try talking to me before you make a judgment. I'm heterosexual, white, male and Christian, and that pretty much makes me responsible for all of the bad things in world history. Click HERE if you're a non-conformist.     "It is not merely unwise, it is contemptible, for a nation, as for an individual, to use high-sounding language to proclaim its purposes, or to take positions which are ridiculous if unsupported by potential force, and then to refuse to provide this force. If there is no intention of providing and keeping the force necessary to back up a strong attitude, then it is far better not to assume such an attitude.The steady aim of this Nation, as of all enlightened nations, should be to strive to bring ever nearer the day when there shall prevail throughout the world the peace of justice. There are kinds of peace which are highly undesirable, which are in the long run as destructive as any war. Tyrants and oppressors have many times made a wilderness and called it peace. Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice, and have sought to hide from their own minds their shortcomings, their ignoble motives, by calling them love of peace. The peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice, all these should be shunned as we shun unrighteous war. The goal to set before us as a nation, the goal which should be set before all mankind, is the attainment of the peace of justice, of the peace which comes when each nation is not merely safe-guarded in its own rights, but scrupulously recognizes and performs its duty toward others. Generally peace tells for righteousness; but if there is conflict between the two, then our fealty is due first to the cause of righteousness. Unrighteous wars are common, and unrighteous peace is rare; but both should be shunned. The right of freedom and the responsibility for the exercise of that right can not be divorced. One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards. Neither does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful, too dishonest, or too unintelligent to exercise it. The eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty must be exercised, sometimes to guard against outside foes; although of course far more often to guard against our own selfish or thoughtless shortcomings. A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil." -Theodore Roosevelt Excerpt from Address to Congress December 6, 1904         The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. | ||
| Memories:: | 8 entries | ||
| Interests: | 132: 42, 80s music, 88 mph, a fish called wanda, acting, adult swim, alec guinness, alice cooper, anyone but kerry, back to the future, baseball, beastie boys, beer, black stormy, bleu, bob dylan, braxtanfilm, bruce campbell, bruce lee, buckaroo banzai, burn notice, charles krauthammer, christopher lloyd, clancy brown, clue, comedy, denis leary, dexter, directing, douglas adams, entourage, eric idle, ewan mcgregor, family guy, fight club, flim, france, french, full metal jacket, games, gaming, george carlin, ghostbusters, graham chapman, guitar, guns n' roses, guy ritchie, heroes, history, hockey, hotblack desiato, house m.d., humor, hunter s. thompson, jack black, james bond, jean reno, jeremy roenick, john cleese, john cusack, kevin smith, kids in the hall, laughing, lewis black, lock stock, martial arts, matt stone, micheal palin, mike mccready, money, monty python, movies, murder by death, music, obi-wan kenobi, pan galactic gargle blasters, pearl jam, philosophy, pittsburgh penguins, politics, queen, radiohead, red hot chili peppers, robert rodriguez, rock, rock n' roll, sam raimi, sarcasm, scotland, sean connery, sex, singing, slash, snatch, snl, soundgarden, south park, spike jonze, spinal tap, sports, stanley kubrick, star wars, steely dan, tae kwon do, talking heads, terry gilliam, terry jones, the argument, the beatles, the cars, the clash, the darkness, the groundlings, the highlander, the police, the who, the wildhearts, trey parker, trivia, van halen, velvet revolver, voting, weapons, weeds, wheeling nailers, white stormy, wilkes-barre/scranton penguins, wit, women, writing, yuengling, zombies!!! | ||
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