America

[blackribbon]

I am a descendant of slaves and I have experienced many things because of that. More than you will ever know. I can tell you there are plenty of people who not only minimize and are dismissive of slavery but they think it was deserved. They have an attitude of "it wasn't that bad, the slaves were happy or it didn't go on for as long as it did". There are also those who wouldn't mind if it happened again. Slavery didn't end with Emancipation. Just like I'm a descendant of slaves there are those who are descendants of slave owners and their belief system is alive and well. I don't happen to believe people are any different now than they were then. I don't think people were ever decent. I just think it's a manifestation of the heart meeting opportunity. That's why I can't be easy with this society because they did it once and who is to say? Look at Trumps campaign and tell me I'm making stuff up...

I don't happen to think intellectual conversations are any more meaningful without emotion. I think that's just a way you tried to insult me...

I never said it wasn't an awful time period or an awful thing. It is you who keeps putting words into my mouth because your emotions blind you from reading what I actually have written. It was not a uniquely American problem...and slavery still exists sadly enough. The little girls kidnapped in Nigeria just two years ago is one example. One of my good friends used to laugh because her family was wary of her wonderful Christian husband because his African tribe used to enslave her family's tribe. Slavery is real and still exists in the world, it just doesn't look like it did in the US in the 1800s.

You also make a lot of assumptions about me that are not true. And YOU started this conversation about slavery .. the thread is actually supposed to be things that we LIKE about America. If you don't like anything about America, I would have thought you would have skipped reading it and posting on it.

 

[blackribbon]

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1778/contents/made

Your link is about a TREATY between the US and Britain.... (you do realize that other countries have their own social security laws, don't you).

"This document is described as an “Agreement” with the understanding that it entered into force for the United Kingdom as a formal treaty subject to parliamentary ratification and for the United States as an executive agreement under authority of section 233 of the Social Security Act (Act). Upon entry into force, the Agreement had, and continues to have, the effect of law in both countries and is binding on both countries.

A Supplementary Agreement amended the U.S.-U.K. Agreement on social security (TIAS 11086) that was signed on February 13, 1984, and that entered into force on January 1, 1985. The Supplementary Agreement was signed June 6, 1996, and entered into force September 1, 1997. Its provisions are not separate or distinct. Rather, they are an integral part of the Agreement and the annotations for the Agreement and Administrative Agreement."

 

[quietpraiyze]

We were talking about America, not other places. Actually if you had really read my initial post, I was agreeing with a poster and responding to another. You are the person that decided to come in and respond to my post. I doubt there would have been any further conversation had you not done that. So now you want to tell me what the thread is about and as to whether I should have posted? You can keep that...just move on...

 

[tatteredsoul]

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[Elliewaves]

Lol, I love Simone Biles and the American gymnastics team.

 

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[blackribbon]

Do you know when they compete?

They are being televised right now and I do think it is "live" .... qualifying round for individuals, all-around, and team competitions.

 

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[blackribbon]

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Just checked...not a single slave owner in my quite extensive family tree...either side of the family... (well, maybe the Viking side had a few slaves but that would be hard to trace that far back and they would have been white slaves).

 

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[Noxot]

what I like about the usa is that they help to sort out all the common and terrible anime and they get some of the best ones whilst japan has to deal with loads more crap ones compared to what americans have to deal with.

 

[James of Arc]

Greatest country song even and possibly the greatest song ever.

 

[Noxot]

this is basically the only country song I like

 

[Noxot]

what I love about the usa is that it has at least not yet decided that communism is a good idea but I think that the USA is fated to reveal how capitalism is just the other side of the coin of the world because even the desires of the anarcho-capitalist fall very short of the kingdom of God.

but I do love how I can be what i want and not get persecuted as much as I would in say a place like china who has so many different insane laws and that has mass murdered more of their own people than hitler or stalin have.

in the usa people are willing to be mass murdered and there is no draft yet and so i'm thankful that massa still gives me the choice. so thankfully there is a choice for me if I desire to get myself killed or if I just wanna live a peaceful life. though I know I have to treat cops extra special since they think they are someone who is above me but they only persecuted me a few times. so i'm thankful that the most successful gang in america at least does not chop peoples arms off with chainsaws. it sucks they are willing to torture me in a prison when I have not done any harm to others but heck you can't expect all the love of God to come out of inferior human ideas and ways of being!

i'm also thankful that the usa partially still believes in free speech, even though it is a God given right and not really something humans are supposed to be giving to others since God already gave it to all. so in general anything that is based on God that the usa attempts to emulate is what i like about the usa.

 

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[Noxot]

I guess it is fallen human nature to desire to control reality and thus people. humans have a long history of existing in a sometimes harsh environment called nature. thankfully humans are advancing technology-wise and so it makes them less dependent on the sometimes cruel natural world. the USA was one of the key players in being part of the modern world and so i'm certainly thankful for that. I think that being a creature naturally results in slavery but the upward flight of the spirit sets us free and orders all things correctly so we are all on a path of growing up to God and our world serves as a stage and i'm thankful for the stage and for all the gifts the good spirits can cultivate by existing in this world.

i'm thankful for all the many cartoon shows that i was privileged to watch as a child. they had a deep spiritual impact on me.

i'm thankful for all the huge companies that keep things such as youtube and the internet in general alive. the usa plays a big part in that.

i'm thankful that the usa is not a country of wild people that has to live by very basic things such as hunting bison and deer without much technology.

i'm thankful that the USA produces so much food that most likely no one has to starve to death.

i'm thankful that many different businesses in the usa sells many useful tools and other things such as pomegranate trees because useful things is a form of true wealth unlike money which is just printed paper.

i'm thankful that the USA has so many different people in it even if I never meet most of them and don't desire to associate with most of them.

i'm thankful for big places like wal mart and amazon because they provide so many people with a means of making money and for us to get hold of useful things to live our lives in the world.

i'm thankful that in the USA I can find so many different books and other means of education for so many different things.

 

[FreeinChrist]

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Folks, please stay on topic. The topic is in the and is what you like about America. Some clean up was done. ​