Tediz64

Yeah. I don't feel shame in it either. When you allow the world to travel the path and course it has been, you get people like me born into it. I was conceived by rape. I was born from hate, agony, and ignorance. An overall lack of order in this world allowed me to be created. Half the time i don't even feel like i have the right to complain because then i'm reminded that far worse exists out there. I met a girl in florida before i turned 18 who literally wanted to run away and come to me (an online friend) just to get away from her step-dad raping her. I am open to coming to the table and negotiating for a better world but i want to see some initiative. Because what we are doing isn't working. The crime has gone up. Our population is at 7.9 billion. More crimes will continue to happen and people will continue to suffer and that shouldn't be condoned or accepted as the norm. Being radical is the only answer when otherwise it means being complacent and never getting around to solve the problem. We should event be at 60 aggravated assaults per hour. It should barely be like...10 per day or something smaller. When someone is murdered that is a family ripped apart. According to that clock that is 2 per hour (almost). That is 48 people killed senseless per day. We need to restore order and do away with those who are evil.

I'll be your wingman (er.....wing woman) and accompany you to also pick up other girls too =D

So i ask, how is that working out for us? I took a basic level psychology course and one word horrifies me. One word or "effect" simply blew my mind away. The By-stander effect. Where people diffuse responsibility of a situation among a crowd or for various other reasons won't jump in to save a person. I don't want to live with people who can watch someone break into a home and do nothing about it. I don't want to live with people who can watch an 8 year old at a bus stop get kidnapped and assume someone else who saw will call the cops. You have people who'd watch as someone gets raped/killed and DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT. Kitty Genovese (which kicked started research into by-stander effect) literally was BRUTALLY murdered and screamed for help and over 38 people didn't do shit because they thought someone else would get around to it. You want diplomacy? Well guess what, you want to be raped, killed, robbed, and beaten. That's all i hear. Just because you don't hear it or see it, doesn't mean isn't happening right now. In 2014 based off the FBI Crime Clock linked in a spoiler, those are the crime rates that are reported in America. Reported!. Meaning they aren't accurate because some people don't report their rape or being robbed. In fact also when i took Intro to Criminal Justice, based off how records are filed if a person committed domestic abuse and beat his wife and 2 children, on the docket when he is filed and charged it'll be for all 3 counts, but in the archives it'll be listed a 1 incident of domestic abuse. So even those reported are being lumped together. Look at the clock. Tell me it doesn't make you sick. 13 people per hour are getting raped. THREE HUNDRED AND TWELVE per day!!! More than 60 people per hour are assaulted. That is 1, 440 per day . It eats me up every day if i don't distract myself with games or anime that out there right now, someone is suffering or dying and the entire world goes on and we do shit about it. I remember hearing my mom say "if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got". Just a quick search shows that the idea of imprisoning people dates as far back as 640 B.C. So tell me why are we still wasting our time with locking people away when it clearly doesn't deter crime none what so ever based off that FBI crime clock? Which by the way has gotten worse as of the later years. Plus that clock doesn't factor in other countries and parts of the world. Ok....so i'm getting a little worked up but let me put my point in a smaller more direct paragraph because otherwise i can keep going There are people out there who are evil and just plain wicked and inflict pain and suffering on others. Ignoring them, locking them up, or being "diplomatic" about it is going to do ABSOLUTELY nothing. Killing them not only sends a message that a new world order won't accept such heinous crimes but makes the world a better place. Your diplomacy doesn't achieve that. It has been tested against time since 460 B.C. when the Romans first enacted a prison. You say i'm being childish and seeing things as black and white, but everyone else's opinion on what to do and how to keep going about a certain situation isn't getting it solved. It isn't working. What bothers me about what you said the most is the part i underlined. You don't want to live peacefully because you don't even realize this world isn't peaceful right now. Yet you criticize me for wanting to make a change and ACTUALLY make the world a better place. You don't even want to make the world a better place through diplomacy because your still busy turning and looking the other way as someone RIGHT NOW is getting killed or robbed. As far as i'm concerned, if you haven't already killed someone in your life time, you part of the world that is ok with evil existing. Your part of the world that will turn and look the other way as others suffer. Your part of the world that glorifies evil with games like Grand Theft Auto which make sport of crime, or movies that have rape scenes in them, or books like 50 shades of Grey that turn abuse into a bondage role-play relationship that girls swooned over and was so popular it needed a movie. You ignore it, because it hasn't happened to you, your mom, your siblings if you have any, or a friend. That is being complacent. My idea on going to other countries and committing genocide is what i have to bring to the table. Are you coming up with any ideas on saving the people or making the lives of 7.9 billion (i think that is our current population on earth) better/peaceful? No. You don't care about the world from where i stand at. You want those people making others flee for their life to go on about their business. Your ACTIVELY ignoring them and letting them continue to operate by saying "oh we'll use diplomacy and not go genocide them. lets focus on racism and trump" For argument sake we have an incompetent leader but don't get distracted by that. Lets focus on making the world better instead of whining about something we can't change. Now then....i'm kinda wondering how i go on to this topic when the original topic was border crossing. Look at my rant above lol. We do have alot wrong with america. We got other problems to solve then to worry about immigration. Problems that date back super far and yet haven't been solved.

That's....kinda cheating lol.

But the goal isn't to "accept" them and let them come over. They probably don't want to. It should be making it so they can stay in their country where they probably want to be, but also make it safe. As in get rid of the problem that is making them fear for their life. I don't know about you but i don't want our population to shoot up to like 2 or 3 billion. I don't even think america could handle that resource wise.

In addition to my post (where i'm quoting Dr. Tarrasque) i want to put another emphasis on how i think that the current method isn't that great. We could brainstorm a better idea. I don't want people to misunderstand and think that i condone what is happening with the families being separated. I just think something different needs to happen but what i don't want is for nothing to happen or be done about it. We need some type of solution that also involves limiting the hundreds upon thousands trying to come over here (especially if its just because they fear for their life. Because that implies they don't want to leave but have too. We should be giving them an option so they can stay AND be safe in their country!)

Not to throw them to the wolves and say it isn't our problem but basically.....yeah...not our problem. Don't get me wrong, it is unethical and immoral that crime exists in other countries and i believe that these people genuinely fear for their life but they need to do something about it themselves. We can't police the entire world and help everyone. It just isn't feasible. We have our own battles to wage and problems to fix on our side of the border. So regardless if they "voluntarily" turn themselves in at the border or not, they still aren't allowed and need to file paperwork and wait in line like EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD. Just because they share our border and can waltz over a few hundred miles doesn't mean they should get special treatment. I know a filipino who APPLIED (with paperwork) to come over here back in the 1989! They are so backed up on paper work that they BARELY started reviewing the papers filed dated between 1980 and 1995 in 2014. At this point, some of the people filed on the paperwork, they passed up the age of 18 and now have to RE-FILE as adults and go through the whole waiting process all over again for who knows how long. Have you heard what has been going on in the news over there? They fear for their life too!. But it isn't like they can just WALK over to our border (or swim it if you want to split hairs). They file and wait patiently. So why are the central americans allowed to do it? Why aren't we making them file and wait? Think about how unfair it is to the other people from different parts of the world. They see our country and how peaceful it is so of course they want to come here compared to where they are now. But we simply can't house millions upon billions of people from every country where shit is hitting the fan and then come out and say we are still doing ok. If you (also implying the thousands maybe even millions of people who feel the same way you do to) want to make a difference for them, here is an idea that helps them plus saves us the effort/resources. Form an organization. Fund the organization based of donations or self-fund it with its members. Arm and train the organization. Have all the members renounce their citizenship so it doesn't look like we are invading other countries. Go to the country where evil people exist, and shoot to kill. Exterminate all of them. If they push drugs, rape women, kill babies, or whatever it is they are doing that is so bad they are making people flee for their lives (literally leave the place they were born and known all their life and leave behind all their belongings and maybe some family members), more than likely you can't reason with them or rehabilitate them (being the bad guys) so just do everyone a favor and kill them. Then all these people can go back to their country and set roots and just go on about their business. You can even stay if you want behind afterwards so you can help rebuild the towns and etc. I say this in all seriousness because running away doesn't solve the problem and people that are being evil shouldn't be allowed to get away with how they are behaving and go unpunished. Something has to be done. You can't sit here and tell me that them running away while leaving those bad guys alive to run amok is the best we can do. That isn't solving a problem. Its ignoring it and allowing it to become other people's problem (not just us but over time future people born in that country) Also regarding your first source, it is filled with words like "alleged" and "reportedly" including talking about a private meeting. So basically a bunch of hearsay. Which we all know can be biased based off the reporter and how they choose to word it or use flaming words. That 4 year old girl story is pretty fucking sick though. They ran away from that only to find it here too.

I'll bet $10 to each person in this thread that this thread will hit 100 pages in that time

I tend to not agree or see it from the point of view that it is specifically trump let alone. the republican administration that is "ripping apart/tearing apart/separating, etc" families. Something has to be done and someone has to enforce it/take the blame. Take for example a common citizen (who in this example is a single parent for w/e reason) who commits something akin to murder, rape, etc and is caught red-handed. That person would get arrested immediately and detained. Irrelevant if they have a child at home or not, that person simply can't be allowed to roam free to commit further crimes. It isn't like using the "oh i have a child i can't leave alone" defense excuses them so they can stay free because that wouldn't sit well with ANYONE. Especially if they committed another crime in that time frame. You'd have a whole mess of people complaining why he wasn't put away sooner. So in this situation you now have a child (lets make up an age. we'll go with 7 years old) left to fend for themselves. That would be negligence or irresponsible to leave them alone for NUMEROUS reasons (they could hurt themselves, probably can't feed themselves, etc). So then the police would outsource that job to say for example CPS, or whatever other agency to care for that child or contact family to go give that child to them in the mean time while the parent is charged. You should already give them credit for even going that far. I mean say they didn't do that? Then you'd have people saying we are leaving children at home abandoned and etc so the complaining would NEVER stop. SIMULTANEOUSLY, you can't also bring the child and lock them up with the parent for another whole mess of problems that can come up with that situation. First off, if i'm not mistaken, jails and for sure prisons separate genders and don't lock them up together. So which parent gets the child locked up with them? Then think about the fact that sometimes people don't get one whole cell all to themselves so what if a stranger is in there with a child? See, in this scenario, i shouldn't have to explain all the ways this could go south REAL QUICK. Again people would whine and complain regardless. They'd cry inhumane. So long story short, we can't lock them up together, we can't leave them behind, and we can't just let people break the law and use children to defend themselves from being imprisoned. Now is the crime that is being committed that serious? (the whole crossing our border since that is the topic i'm responding to in the few posts above me) Not really. But it is getting out of hand. As opposed to doing nothing this at least sends out a message we won't tolerate you crossing. Are there other options on how to slow it down or stop it? Sure if you TRY to brainstorm more effective ways. Emphasis on the TRY part. But sadly our leaders are too lazy for that. This gets media attention, uses scapegoats, and basically fits someone's agenda. Its a shame but regular citizens like us don't get to make decisions or implament things except every 2 or 4 years when it comes time to vote. Even then we don't get much choice in the matter because it is a emphasis on the "we are just voting for leaders". In other words, we can only pick people to do things based off the candidates that we have. Sometimes they don't do what they promise, sometimes they get bought out, sometimes nobody represents a particular issue that needs to be addressed, and a whole bunch of other problems with the whole democracy and republic style of government. I know this is my first time posting in this thread, and i want people to take what i say with a grain of salt, but i don't like our current style of government. I --> THINK <-- a monarchy would be better. Sometimes this country sounds like an oligarchy. Its run by an elite few. Say for example i had great ideas, and i was truly a philanthropist and altruistic and put others before me. Say i ran for office. I'd get crushed in an instant. I'd never get any votes let alone probably make any changes if i got up into a position. My only options would be to donate to a group/organization that reaches out and helps people but even those only target specific reasons or causes. There are too many battles being fought. Again....."grain of salt" please.

I just love how there isn't a no to the "are you right" in the female version xD lol. As if they can't be wrong. That was a hilarious little chart. We should post more like that.

I'm asking because sometimes I dunno if I'm being too hasty and assigning that word to people I like but maybe don't think of me the same way. So I wanted to know if there is some rite of passage or maybe some signal you can tell you reached that level. Sounds like you're being condescending. Just a little bit. @Pengaius

....I wanted to laugh but I think your taking me literally and just giving me Oxford or Webster definitions

Oh ok. That's fine. I'm just curious

So out of curiosity and other people's perspective, I'll ask a 3 part question. Part 1. What is a friend? Part 2. When do you consider someone a friend (give like an example. Like if some thing has to happen such as getting a drink together, visiting one another's home, taking a bullet for the other, etc) Part 3. Part 1 and 2 but this time Best friend

I'll pitch in. Still got an hour+ 1. How many best friends do you have? 2. How many crush's do you have (if any. Celebrities don't count towards the counter but you can mention them if any) 3. What were your grades in school and also favorite subject? 4. College? Going or attending? Also if attending for what degree? 5. Do you have a bucket list and are.you on working on it (if applicable) I know my questions have two parts so it's almost 9 questions sorta

So uhm....are we taking turns? Or going in whatever order? Do we wait at least one post before posting again? Our thread went quiet.

Is that what a sleeveless shirt is called in female clothing stores? Tanktop? I thought guys called them muscle shirts?

I remember when GameStop had competition like EB games, or GameStop, or whatever else was out there. Now, it's the only specialty store :(

In this Texas heat lately I've been using basketball shorts or swim shorts that go past my knees plus plain t-shirts (the kind you buy in pack of 5 with a little chest pocket and come in a variety of colors). I just hope people don't think I'm trashy or w/e but it's what is most comfortable in this weather (Edit: I switch between short sleeves and sleeveless and the brand is Fruit of the Loom which I know is super generic/cheap)

<--- *victim of GameStop I have my N64, GameCube, Wii and so forth after that Wii gen, but older ones I sold for money to get the next game. The regret to this day. Tis a fearsome thing to behold

Lol. So steering clearing of adding to the topic, I'd like to ask a question about male clothing. So if you just met someone for the first time, how much are you judged exactly on what you're wearing? Are we talking big enough/ important enough to be a deal breaker when aiming for things like friendship, dating, or etc?

Maybe no dancers but soliders carrying the army's colors (flag) and being a "banner" unit. They could literally use the rally skills from FE Awakening and boost your stats! Or something like that

@Dragoncat I'll try to keep that in mind for future post. I'm going to edit my post so it looks neater

Ahh...its been so long since i've RP-ed. I'm kinda anxious. Well here is to the start of hopefully an eventful RP session. I posted not too long ago. Sorry i took so long. I'll try to get more involved.

In the distance thunder can be heard rumbling. Looking up you can't see a single spec of blue in the sky. "These clouds came in fast" coming from a solider on look out in a tower. "Do you think any good will come from this meeting Efreet? We could really use supplies at the very least if not more volunteers for the vanguard." Leaning against a balcony looking out over the landscape i respond, "Something should happen. They just lugged Colonel Garre in crystallized. I'm hoping at least a few of the others saw that before he broke free that way they can see what fate awaits them if they don't act". Grunting and moving away from the edge of the tower, "At the very least we get a break for a few days from the more serious fighting. Back to back dog fights is getting exhausting and those gnorcs all of sudden pulling out the heavy artillery of ballista doesn't bode well for upcoming battles. If they keep fielding those most of our combat is going to get grounded". Each tower stood with a handful of Peace Keepers manning them looking out over the fields. In addition to manning the towers a few were sent to scout the perimeter and make rounds no more than a few miles from the meeting place. Down below you can see convoy after convoy arriving with guests and representatives from the other lands. Another solider remarks, "I just hope these clouds don't prelude to something bad happening." I nod my head and stare out into the endless gray sky. The day is just starting and ill weather already sets the mood.