The Official Rejects Thread (1 Viewer)
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Couple of years ago, many fanatics around the arab world, from the gulf to palestine to Hezbollah in Lebanon to syria and etc tried to boycott American products... such as Coca Cola, Pepsi, Malboro, Pizza Hut, Mc Donalds, Nike, Ariel....etc, and they didn't succeed.
The same few months ago happened when a Danish newspaper drawn some caricatures about Prophete Mohammad, people went nuts again, asking everyone to boycott Danish products from Cheese to Milk to etc.....again, nothing new, they didn't succeed.
The same few months ago happened when a Danish newspaper drawn some caricatures about Prophete Mohammad, people went nuts again, asking everyone to boycott Danish products from Cheese to Milk to etc.....again, nothing new, they didn't succeed.
Yes, I remember that. Also here in Egypt, there have been lots of tries to boycott the American products. Actually, I was against such boycotts since I see that it is a complete nonsense; simply because the customer needs the best wherever he is, and if we need to stop purchasing the American products so we have to find a proper replacement, and of course I do prefer the national product. Finally, I remembered to whom I was talking to; I was talking to some sterile Arabic governments.
Regarding the Danish newspaper caicatures, I was against that nonsensical campaign as well. We can't cut our relationships with an unbiased country just for some idiots. At the end, I do prefer to discuss the issue with the Danish people, media and government in a civilised mature way.
But there is a point here Rab, I don't call the people who have started these boycotts - especially the one against America - as being fanatics. You live in that world and you know, exactly as me, that the people here (in the Arabic countries) are so frustrated due to dozens of reasons. Actually, I can see some excuses.
Regarding the Danish newspaper caicatures, I was against that nonsensical campaign as well. We can't cut our relationships with an unbiased country just for some idiots. At the end, I do prefer to discuss the issue with the Danish people, media and government in a civilised mature way.
But there is a point here Rab, I don't call the people who have started these boycotts - especially the one against America - as being fanatics. You live in that world and you know, exactly as me, that the people here (in the Arabic countries) are so frustrated due to dozens of reasons. Actually, I can see some excuses.
In this era of globalized corporate nobility, the irony is in thinking that companies somehow represent the government or people of their home office headquarters. As if even companies show national favoritism when they're beholden to international shareholders.
I laugh every time there's talk in the U.S. about our dependence on "foreign oil" and how that should necessitate a move to pull petroleum out of American territories in the arctic wilderness. As if oil companies aren't all international conglomerates who accept anyone's dollar or Euro as valid as the next guy's ... as if they offer national discounts to certain nations because they have employees there.
No, boycotting corporations should be done because of the corporation ... not because of some perceived national bias.
I laugh every time there's talk in the U.S. about our dependence on "foreign oil" and how that should necessitate a move to pull petroleum out of American territories in the arctic wilderness. As if oil companies aren't all international conglomerates who accept anyone's dollar or Euro as valid as the next guy's ... as if they offer national discounts to certain nations because they have employees there.
No, boycotting corporations should be done because of the corporation ... not because of some perceived national bias.
Everybody is entitled to their opinion. Such as the fact that I can claim I am a direct descendant of the original sauropod dinosaurs that lived on that land eons before any person laying claim to it today. Therefore it belongs to me personally.
That is, because I am completely myopic (hey, my descendants had brains the size of peas!) and do not realize that the earth and universe always have other plans -- where mountains form and fall, seas rise, lava covers the earth, asteroids strike, etc. Meaning: all this is going to seem downright silly when we're all here bitching about something 30 meters under water on the sea floor.
Belief in any real "pemanence" for the planet when you start talking across generations and our own lifetimes is such a delusion.
That is, because I am completely myopic (hey, my descendants had brains the size of peas!) and do not realize that the earth and universe always have other plans -- where mountains form and fall, seas rise, lava covers the earth, asteroids strike, etc. Meaning: all this is going to seem downright silly when we're all here bitching about something 30 meters under water on the sea floor.
Belief in any real "pemanence" for the planet when you start talking across generations and our own lifetimes is such a delusion.
lookout guys...I think he's got a bomb strapped to his body!! 
Go back and read. I didn't use quotations for LAND, I used them for "Your", as in you, personally, have never owned land. If you did, then you would have documents showing transfer of title and the amount of money you paid for the land. I suspect past members of your family owned the land that you call "Your" land, and that is why my use of quotations was correct.
P.S. I hope you get some land to call your own, and I hope it happens soon.
P.S. I hope you get some land to call your own, and I hope it happens soon.
I think all humans basically lease space on this planet and in this universe (just like we never own beer -- we just rent it for a while). What was land today may well have been sea before that, and/or inhabited by different peoples or creatures before. And what may have been true and reality many generations ago may have no bearing on today whatsoever -- whether by drought, receeding glaciers, ecological catastrophe (e.g., Easter Island), comet strike, the migration or starvation or viral eradication of tribes, or even the fact that there was once just one continent called Pangea.
Everything else is shaving hairs, because where do you draw the line then? It takes a lot of short-sighted arrogance to think that one puny lifetime in this world today amounts to more than all of that history. And when does one span of history become relevant and even more history before it become irrelevant?
And unfortunately, there are a lot of people who do think that way, and that has resulted in so much bloodshed, intolerance, and evil in the world.
Everything else is shaving hairs, because where do you draw the line then? It takes a lot of short-sighted arrogance to think that one puny lifetime in this world today amounts to more than all of that history. And when does one span of history become relevant and even more history before it become irrelevant?
And unfortunately, there are a lot of people who do think that way, and that has resulted in so much bloodshed, intolerance, and evil in the world.
that place. 
