I reflect on my time as a Navy Airman from '77-81 and my time traveling the Orient and 20 countries. On every Air Station or Base the local's come out in huge numbers. By locals I mean when a large ship, Aircraft Carrier, would dock at Port in Subic Bay Philippines, the young girls would flood the city, Olongapo, outside the Base. These young girls were sent by their families in hopes of marrying an American Servicemember, and came by boat from every island, so when they eventually made it to the USA, they would be able to use the PX or come to our Country physically. People the world over desire what Americans have, and the youth of this country do not appreciate what they have by just being born here. People willing to let their daughters' become whores so the whole family can benefit understand better than home grown kids what we have.
Why? How? How did their parents raise them? Why do kids today hate this country? It pains me...and makes me want to deport them all to Cuba or Venezuela. It also pains me that everywhere around the world there are similar stories outside EVERY American Military Base. We, Americans, abuse and use the local population and leave babies behind from young "men" and the Locals try to marry service people and come to the "Land of the Great PX" sacrificing their young girls. Anybody have an answer to this ancient issue? I'm sure it happened in Alexanders Day too. It disgusts me how the Jolly Green Giant changes a local populace for the worse because of the "Love of Money"!
Sure, we care about the downtrodden of the world, heck, my grandparents went through Ellis Island, but they came here to contribute (and escape the coming war), not live off everyone who already EARNED their retirement. The current occupants of The Administration want to take Our money and share it between themselves and the world. If the Founding Fathers rose from their graves today the first thing they would do is raise an Army to take back DC and wipe out all those giving our inheritance away. We are a Constitutional Republic and commies are in the hen house. Sure, it looks like Socialism, but that's always the beginning of Communism. Only the American Indians ever truly lived an excellent communal lifestyle.
A ton of TRUTH in your post. Thank you. It reminded me of a story my WWII veteran dad used to tell me. To boil it down:
During the war, my dad briefly commanded a small US MP detachment, headquartered on Piccadilly Street in London. The city was being bombed nightly, yet the "lonely" local gals somehow found the time and perseverance for what was important to them. My dad recalled how one day two fine British women appeared in front of his desk with a problem they needed him to solve.
Turns out they were mother and daughter. Further turns out they were both pregnant. Digging deeper, the father of both upcoming bundles of joy was a singular, young American soldier under my dad's authority.
Could have gotten very ugly, right? Well, as fate would have it, the aspiring Romeo had, at different times, borrowed the bicycle of each woman and failed to return either one. The "ladies" had no complaint about their conditions - they just needed their bikes back. My dad made the young soldier fess up, locate both bikes, and give them back to the women. He would chuckle as he told me he never saw hide nor hair of either of them again.
I often wonder what became of those babies and still smile when I recall my dad relating the incident. Thanks for the memory jolt...
The issue you speak of is selfishness, and we are all born with that nature, which we inherited from Adam and his wife, after the fall. The only difference is the degree we carry out the natural outworkings of that selfish attitude. There is an answer, which you can read about in a little booklet I wrote, here: http://www.discourseonagape.org The philosophy of selfishness will end one day, as it must, since it is not sustainable (or nice). Agape, of course, is eternal.
As for the Indians, you don't seem to know very much about them. They were raping and pillaging each other, till the Europeons came and did a better job of it. The dialogue from the movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (2007) between Sitting Bull and Col. Nelson Miles speaks to this, but it's too long to reproduce here. The script is on this page: https://subslikescript.com/movie/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee-821638, and the dialog starts with 'You must take them out of our lands,' for those that care to look.
I actually posted alike on the previous comment. Despite the last minute kurt ball about native americans They really were primitive no written language had even invented the wheel yet. They were one with nature because they had to be. Not meant to be a dig just a fact. They.. generally... certainly did not respect land rights. Human rights et cetera by any fairly modern definition. Of course all tribes were different. definition.
You wrote a booklet about agape and then criticize what you see as my lack of knowledge? You know nothing about my knowledge base and my comment was just about how the Native American's lived peacefully among each tribe and worked for the benefit of all. Yes, they could be brutal, but it was the European's who decided to count dead by scalping which the Tribes adopted.
I am writing about how the "love of Money" and American prosperity has caused problems for every country we are allowed to build a military base in and how American young men leave fatherless children around the world. I was 17-21 when I was in the Navy, and I wasn't much better as I was ignorant at the time. I didn't leave any kids behind, but I saw many who were left. I don't have the answer as it has been going on since there have been armies. I just know only God can fix this as most people are lost. Blessings.
I hesitate to reply because of shame. I am replying to paragraph 2. I was in the Navy and in Asia aboard a Destroyer when I was 18-21 from 1958-1960. This was 13 to 16 years after we bombed Japan twice with the crude A-bomb to end the War in the Pacific. So far, the USA is the only Country that has used nuclear weapons against another Country: I think. Japan was occupied and governed by the USA at the time. We were taught in Boot Camp and in onboard lectures before we entered a country that we were the only Ambassadors of the USA that the common people would probably ever see. We should be on our best behavior while in Country. In one ear and out the other for most of us. In actuality, we were a bunch of drunken whore mongers. I grew up in the '50s. Happy Days, duh. I grew up in a small town of 8000 in Southern California. I was born on a farm, and we moved to town in 1946. Every lad was doing everything he could to get Laid and every Lass was doing everything she could to be a Virgin. Virginity was and still is a virtue for males and females. I was an 18-year virgin when I left for the Far East. I had a girl in every Port. But I was 'monogamous' while in that Port. Australia was the best. We were in Melbourne, Australia in the middle of Summer for nine days just before Christmas until January second. I had nine days of Shore leave from 0900 one day until 0800 the next day. People would call the ships and ask for 5 Sailors to be sent to xyz address for a party. I changed $20.00 Military Pay Script, MPC, for Australia Currency on the first day and changed Australia Currency back to MPC for about $19.00 on the last day. I was wined, dined, and taken to various events and the Beach for nine days. I did keep my Virginity.
It wasn't only Asian countries where the women were trying to latch-on to an American and come to the USA. It was the same in Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji Islands, Australia, Malaya, Philipine Islands, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
As far as Indians fighting Indians, it was the same in the Military. Sailors from one ship fighting with Sailors from another ship. On Aircraft Carriers, Airmen fought with Ships Company. Navy fought with Marines. Marines didn't fight with Marines too much: Semper Fidelis
Back in the Fifties in California there were gangs. Gangs fought with Gangs. I guess that's how we worked off our Sexual Frustrations. I apologize for rambling on. Just Saying! Florida Jimmy.
Of course, you can find other articles, not as well researched, that say it was the europeons. However, it was a worldwide practice. But the point of my comment was that, despite your statement to the contrary, native american tribes did NOT live peacefully among each other, but were constantly at war with each other, just like people all over the world. They were not 'noble savages,' but rather were and are just as savage as anyone else, including the europeons.
I did provide the answer to this, as well as war itself, and fatherless children. Or rather, of course, God provided the answer, all I did was write a little booklet summarizing a few things about God. You are correct that only God can fix our selfishness. But that reminds me of a joke:
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
America is the perfect example of the saying "It works, until it doesn't." So, what happens? America declines into irrelevance or even into non-existence, at which point, it is to be hoped, someone founds a New Rome as an asylum for downtrodden, motivated, freedom-seekers among the world, and it all starts again. Why does history seem to repeat? It is the constancy and immutability of the human being, his/her "nature" we call it, that produces these repeats. How? It happens, because choices determine outcomes, and values, reflected in culture, determine choices. Since the emotional makeup of the human being is locked in, the values are relatively fixed and, therefore, the outcomes are predictable. Best always. PM
P.S. Choices are made by humans for the purpose of satisfaction of emotion. The 4 basic emotions are: desire for gain/profit,. desire to forestall/avoid loss, enhancement of status/rank (ego), and comfort and convenience. By learning to recognize these "types", you can identify what the primary driver of your fellow beings is and know how best to proceed with them. PM
Thanks for a very perceptive view of the opera. I have always viewed Pinkerton as a "Cad and a Bounder" but had not taken on board the racism on the Japanese side as well as the American. As always I enjoy your musings.
Help. What is "heteronormative intersectionality?" I think it's a multi-syllabicate loquacious term for sexual congress. But I could be wrong. Inquiring minds want to know.
Hey Jimmy, I hope you have forgiven yourself and have become a better man. You were not alone, and it still goes on today around the world. Every country my Uncle in DC took me to I always heard how badly those people wanted to come to America. Maybe we should send these whiny kids who want Socialism to a true Socialist country and see how quickly they'd be swimming back home?
Just being born in the USA puts you ahead of 95% of the World's population! My dad was on Guadalcanal during WW II, and I know it wasn't different back then with the young "men" we send to fight our wars. I had a very good friend in high school of Japanese descent and her parents were sent to an American concentration camp...I know we didn't call them that but that was so wrong! My grandfather had the largest Polish Radio broadcast station just before WW II out of Buffalo, NY and the government closed him down thinking he was broadcasting German war secrets! He had to move to Niagra Falls to keep broadcasting. Crazy! Especially since his son was in the Army Air Corps!
We need to completely clean out DC and create a government not influenced by money or people who WANT to go there. Politics should not be a career and the Founding Father's never meant it to be. We send a good person there for their term and then get a new rep. every term.
Sorry, I'm rambling too.
Just forgive yourself, do better, surrender your wicked past to the Lord and seek His face. He'll find a way to use you for His glory.
Yes, that's true. But evil people are usually good to their children, to the exclusion of everyone else. Matthew 7:9-12. That's selfish too, since children are an extension of the life of the parents. The parents are really being good to themselves.
Hey Alex. Yes, we are highly influenced by our families, but we are each responsible for our own salvation. Somehow, somewhere in every life, God will find a way to touch a person's heart so they, and everyone, has the opportunity to find Him and come in to His Kingdon. Blessings.
I reflect on my time as a Navy Airman from '77-81 and my time traveling the Orient and 20 countries. On every Air Station or Base the local's come out in huge numbers. By locals I mean when a large ship, Aircraft Carrier, would dock at Port in Subic Bay Philippines, the young girls would flood the city, Olongapo, outside the Base. These young girls were sent by their families in hopes of marrying an American Servicemember, and came by boat from every island, so when they eventually made it to the USA, they would be able to use the PX or come to our Country physically. People the world over desire what Americans have, and the youth of this country do not appreciate what they have by just being born here. People willing to let their daughters' become whores so the whole family can benefit understand better than home grown kids what we have.
Why? How? How did their parents raise them? Why do kids today hate this country? It pains me...and makes me want to deport them all to Cuba or Venezuela. It also pains me that everywhere around the world there are similar stories outside EVERY American Military Base. We, Americans, abuse and use the local population and leave babies behind from young "men" and the Locals try to marry service people and come to the "Land of the Great PX" sacrificing their young girls. Anybody have an answer to this ancient issue? I'm sure it happened in Alexanders Day too. It disgusts me how the Jolly Green Giant changes a local populace for the worse because of the "Love of Money"!
Sure, we care about the downtrodden of the world, heck, my grandparents went through Ellis Island, but they came here to contribute (and escape the coming war), not live off everyone who already EARNED their retirement. The current occupants of The Administration want to take Our money and share it between themselves and the world. If the Founding Fathers rose from their graves today the first thing they would do is raise an Army to take back DC and wipe out all those giving our inheritance away. We are a Constitutional Republic and commies are in the hen house. Sure, it looks like Socialism, but that's always the beginning of Communism. Only the American Indians ever truly lived an excellent communal lifestyle.
Hi Paul -
A ton of TRUTH in your post. Thank you. It reminded me of a story my WWII veteran dad used to tell me. To boil it down:
During the war, my dad briefly commanded a small US MP detachment, headquartered on Piccadilly Street in London. The city was being bombed nightly, yet the "lonely" local gals somehow found the time and perseverance for what was important to them. My dad recalled how one day two fine British women appeared in front of his desk with a problem they needed him to solve.
Turns out they were mother and daughter. Further turns out they were both pregnant. Digging deeper, the father of both upcoming bundles of joy was a singular, young American soldier under my dad's authority.
Could have gotten very ugly, right? Well, as fate would have it, the aspiring Romeo had, at different times, borrowed the bicycle of each woman and failed to return either one. The "ladies" had no complaint about their conditions - they just needed their bikes back. My dad made the young soldier fess up, locate both bikes, and give them back to the women. He would chuckle as he told me he never saw hide nor hair of either of them again.
I often wonder what became of those babies and still smile when I recall my dad relating the incident. Thanks for the memory jolt...
The issue you speak of is selfishness, and we are all born with that nature, which we inherited from Adam and his wife, after the fall. The only difference is the degree we carry out the natural outworkings of that selfish attitude. There is an answer, which you can read about in a little booklet I wrote, here: http://www.discourseonagape.org The philosophy of selfishness will end one day, as it must, since it is not sustainable (or nice). Agape, of course, is eternal.
As for the Indians, you don't seem to know very much about them. They were raping and pillaging each other, till the Europeons came and did a better job of it. The dialogue from the movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (2007) between Sitting Bull and Col. Nelson Miles speaks to this, but it's too long to reproduce here. The script is on this page: https://subslikescript.com/movie/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee-821638, and the dialog starts with 'You must take them out of our lands,' for those that care to look.
I actually posted alike on the previous comment. Despite the last minute kurt ball about native americans They really were primitive no written language had even invented the wheel yet. They were one with nature because they had to be. Not meant to be a dig just a fact. They.. generally... certainly did not respect land rights. Human rights et cetera by any fairly modern definition. Of course all tribes were different. definition.
You wrote a booklet about agape and then criticize what you see as my lack of knowledge? You know nothing about my knowledge base and my comment was just about how the Native American's lived peacefully among each tribe and worked for the benefit of all. Yes, they could be brutal, but it was the European's who decided to count dead by scalping which the Tribes adopted.
I am writing about how the "love of Money" and American prosperity has caused problems for every country we are allowed to build a military base in and how American young men leave fatherless children around the world. I was 17-21 when I was in the Navy, and I wasn't much better as I was ignorant at the time. I didn't leave any kids behind, but I saw many who were left. I don't have the answer as it has been going on since there have been armies. I just know only God can fix this as most people are lost. Blessings.
I hesitate to reply because of shame. I am replying to paragraph 2. I was in the Navy and in Asia aboard a Destroyer when I was 18-21 from 1958-1960. This was 13 to 16 years after we bombed Japan twice with the crude A-bomb to end the War in the Pacific. So far, the USA is the only Country that has used nuclear weapons against another Country: I think. Japan was occupied and governed by the USA at the time. We were taught in Boot Camp and in onboard lectures before we entered a country that we were the only Ambassadors of the USA that the common people would probably ever see. We should be on our best behavior while in Country. In one ear and out the other for most of us. In actuality, we were a bunch of drunken whore mongers. I grew up in the '50s. Happy Days, duh. I grew up in a small town of 8000 in Southern California. I was born on a farm, and we moved to town in 1946. Every lad was doing everything he could to get Laid and every Lass was doing everything she could to be a Virgin. Virginity was and still is a virtue for males and females. I was an 18-year virgin when I left for the Far East. I had a girl in every Port. But I was 'monogamous' while in that Port. Australia was the best. We were in Melbourne, Australia in the middle of Summer for nine days just before Christmas until January second. I had nine days of Shore leave from 0900 one day until 0800 the next day. People would call the ships and ask for 5 Sailors to be sent to xyz address for a party. I changed $20.00 Military Pay Script, MPC, for Australia Currency on the first day and changed Australia Currency back to MPC for about $19.00 on the last day. I was wined, dined, and taken to various events and the Beach for nine days. I did keep my Virginity.
It wasn't only Asian countries where the women were trying to latch-on to an American and come to the USA. It was the same in Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji Islands, Australia, Malaya, Philipine Islands, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
As far as Indians fighting Indians, it was the same in the Military. Sailors from one ship fighting with Sailors from another ship. On Aircraft Carriers, Airmen fought with Ships Company. Navy fought with Marines. Marines didn't fight with Marines too much: Semper Fidelis
Back in the Fifties in California there were gangs. Gangs fought with Gangs. I guess that's how we worked off our Sexual Frustrations. I apologize for rambling on. Just Saying! Florida Jimmy.
I'm not certain what my booklet has to do with pointing out a mistake in your comment. Please don't take it personally; it wasn't.
The Indians already had the practice of scalping, long before the white man came here. https://www.americanheritage.com/who-invented-scalping
Of course, you can find other articles, not as well researched, that say it was the europeons. However, it was a worldwide practice. But the point of my comment was that, despite your statement to the contrary, native american tribes did NOT live peacefully among each other, but were constantly at war with each other, just like people all over the world. They were not 'noble savages,' but rather were and are just as savage as anyone else, including the europeons.
I did provide the answer to this, as well as war itself, and fatherless children. Or rather, of course, God provided the answer, all I did was write a little booklet summarizing a few things about God. You are correct that only God can fix our selfishness. But that reminds me of a joke:
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
...
...
...
...
...
Only one, but it has to want to change.
America is the perfect example of the saying "It works, until it doesn't." So, what happens? America declines into irrelevance or even into non-existence, at which point, it is to be hoped, someone founds a New Rome as an asylum for downtrodden, motivated, freedom-seekers among the world, and it all starts again. Why does history seem to repeat? It is the constancy and immutability of the human being, his/her "nature" we call it, that produces these repeats. How? It happens, because choices determine outcomes, and values, reflected in culture, determine choices. Since the emotional makeup of the human being is locked in, the values are relatively fixed and, therefore, the outcomes are predictable. Best always. PM
P.S. Choices are made by humans for the purpose of satisfaction of emotion. The 4 basic emotions are: desire for gain/profit,. desire to forestall/avoid loss, enhancement of status/rank (ego), and comfort and convenience. By learning to recognize these "types", you can identify what the primary driver of your fellow beings is and know how best to proceed with them. PM
Thanks for a very perceptive view of the opera. I have always viewed Pinkerton as a "Cad and a Bounder" but had not taken on board the racism on the Japanese side as well as the American. As always I enjoy your musings.
Yes Bill, life imitates art, and art imitates life. Seems like the more things change....
I didn't know that apotemnophilia was all the rage in Ukraine.
The decent vocabulary but I actually had to look that up. I'm pretty sure it's not the rage.
Help. What is "heteronormative intersectionality?" I think it's a multi-syllabicate loquacious term for sexual congress. But I could be wrong. Inquiring minds want to know.
Hey Jimmy, I hope you have forgiven yourself and have become a better man. You were not alone, and it still goes on today around the world. Every country my Uncle in DC took me to I always heard how badly those people wanted to come to America. Maybe we should send these whiny kids who want Socialism to a true Socialist country and see how quickly they'd be swimming back home?
Just being born in the USA puts you ahead of 95% of the World's population! My dad was on Guadalcanal during WW II, and I know it wasn't different back then with the young "men" we send to fight our wars. I had a very good friend in high school of Japanese descent and her parents were sent to an American concentration camp...I know we didn't call them that but that was so wrong! My grandfather had the largest Polish Radio broadcast station just before WW II out of Buffalo, NY and the government closed him down thinking he was broadcasting German war secrets! He had to move to Niagra Falls to keep broadcasting. Crazy! Especially since his son was in the Army Air Corps!
We need to completely clean out DC and create a government not influenced by money or people who WANT to go there. Politics should not be a career and the Founding Father's never meant it to be. We send a good person there for their term and then get a new rep. every term.
Sorry, I'm rambling too.
Just forgive yourself, do better, surrender your wicked past to the Lord and seek His face. He'll find a way to use you for His glory.
Blessings James.
I am saying in EACH TRIBE, they lived for the benefit of young and old. Not different tribes. Cherokee for Cherokee, Sioux for Sioux...
Yes, that's true. But evil people are usually good to their children, to the exclusion of everyone else. Matthew 7:9-12. That's selfish too, since children are an extension of the life of the parents. The parents are really being good to themselves.
Hey Alex. Yes, we are highly influenced by our families, but we are each responsible for our own salvation. Somehow, somewhere in every life, God will find a way to touch a person's heart so they, and everyone, has the opportunity to find Him and come in to His Kingdon. Blessings.