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bennyfroobs wrote: if this was scotland and not ukraine, what u think england would do?

bennyfroobs wrote:not saying it makes laws moot just saying that a revolution changes circumstances a bit

like imagine if this was scotland and not ukraine, what u think england would do?

bennyfroobs wrote:putin, rly? i heard it was america who paid the snipers

News outlets love to make us, their audiences, agitated, frightened and bothered a lot of the time, that's how they make their money - and yet all of us have an even greater responsibility to ourselves to try to remain resilient and calm. They pretend that they are getting us wound up about the Ukraine for our own sakes; we should never forget that they're doing it for their bottom line.

At moments like this, we should turn to a philosophy known as Stoicism, which became popular in the late Roman era, under the guidance of two thinkers in particular, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. The Stoics were living in a time of constant political turmoil, with wars, coups and intrigues breaking out on a continuous basis. The question they asked themselves was: how can a person remain calm in the face of constant risk?

Their answer was distinctive. Rather than allow oneself to be constantly surprised and panicked by the prospect of bad things that might happen, the Stoics preferred to make themselves fully at home with the very worst scenarios that could threaten humankind and then reassure themselves that, far from ideal, these new realities would still be survivable. 'A Stoic prefers to have two arms,' observed Seneca, 'but - after much practice and study - he will not despair if events mean that he ends up with only one.'

This sort of steely, resigned pessimism functions like a balm that can be applied right across the anxious wound created by the news agenda. Contrary to what the media suggests, hardly anything is ever totally awful, few things are truly shocking and very little is unsurvivable. The revolution will not mean the end of history; it will just change a lot of things in many different small and complicated ways. The moves in the Crimea will, at their worst, be a rerun of a version of the Yugoslavian conflict, which was terrible for many thousands and left you and 99.9% of humanity unscathed. The economic indices remain quite grim, but we have weathered comparable challenges many times over. A bad avian flu may disrupt international travel and defeat known drugs for a while, but research laboratories will eventually understand and contain it. The storms looked dramatic, but in the end, they affected merely a fraction of the population and receded soon enough. Rome fell, torn apart by vicious barbarians, but six hundred years later, everything was almost back to normal again.

m8son wrote:we're more the eu's bitch than america's

pockpock - could you post again what you said in your first post? I just woke up and didn't understand you. Could you say a little more?

ehbrums1 wrote:I love poquepoque's spelling mistakes I understand reasons