ocho wrote:Smurfs and TMNT were popular in the 80's too. Animaniacs, Gargoyles, X-Men, Batman, Beast Wars, Beavis and Butthead, Tick...all great 90's cartoons.
Well, being born in '84 I had the best of both worlds. I loved Animaniacs and Tiny Toons, (scenes from both those keep popping up every once in a while,) but
nothing can beat Muppet Babies!

I just love the whole idea of exploring different "worlds" and all that.
I had thought for a while that heaven was your dream world, (I was always by myself in mine! Not exactly sure why,) and my first dream world was an infinitely long, old mansion with hidden passages and rooms and twisting hallways. I just knew that that was going to be my heaven. Then a few years later I switched it to a tropical paradise where there'd be a waterfall, (duh,) and colorful fish that I would swim with while not needing to hold my breath. Strange, in both I was all by myself, and in the real heaven the focus will be "people". Interesting, non?
BTW, hated Beavis and Butthead. First episode I saw, in fourth grade, had them watching this girl on a beach and them saying things about wanting her to take her clothes off. Repulsed me.
ocho wrote:It wasn't really socialism, because their government (Roman Empire) didn't implement socialism.
I didn't mean the political system they lived under, but the system they chose to live by as a small group under the Roman Empire!

Boy, you must think I'm as intelligent as Beavis and Butthead!
he whom I have to keep correcting wrote:That's a common misconception of a free market system. In a free market, you have a choice of which job to take and you have the most opportunities to choose your destiny.
Baloney! (Versus bologna.

) Even if you earn every penny you're still hoarding when you should be giving. The Bible decries hoarding and puts it in the same category as stealing. Giving is the rule of God's economy. And besides, how do these people make all that money? By marketing something many people like. And who are these people? The members of that capitalist society. And what do they do for a living? Things that for the most part don't pay as well but contribute so much more to society. How much should Oprah get paid to sit and talk for an hour compared to how much a janitor at an airport who cleans the toilets so many of us get disgustingly filthy? Who should get paid more for their labour? I say the janitor. Your wages should be in accordace with your work.
And if you happen to make a ton of money off other people for work easier than a lot of them have it, you should give it back or charge less or whatever the case would be. Take my state's sports team, (the Twins or the Vikings, I can't remember which,) that wants a new stadium. We pay them what they make, and they make a ton of money. Yet they want the taxpayers, people who don't all care about them, to pay for so much of the stadium. We already gave them plenty of enough money!
If they want one so bad they should just buy it themselves! Why do we have to pay them more money so they can be happy? If it would contribute to local vendors, fine, let it contribute. That doesn't mean they need money off of those people too! Even if they bring in the extra buisness! They make their money by the people who care; why charge those who don't??? It's ludicrous and defys logic! Greed and selfishness. And I hate it.
A handful, (like, literally,) of Reese's, even if sold at a movie theater, (who charge and arm and a leg for the movie itself,) should
never cost $4. What are we supposed to do, (I sneak stuff in usually, but other times I don't plan ahead for that,) protest and boycott everything? Yes, if I don't agree with it I shouldn't pay for it, but let's get real people. (Oh, and by the way, I paid for the tickets; my mother, whom I went with, paid for the candy that I wouldn't have otherwise even considered.) People should be fair, just and not so incredibley selfish.
Hey, take Paris Hilton for example! You spend a night at a Hilton and it goes straight into her pocket! She's quite wealthy, you know. And just imagine how cheap things would be if they were their just price and not bloated up by the Fat Cats who greedily stuff their faces with the proceeds off a ridiculous price. And how about John Kerry, wife of a Heinz? (Presidential elect who ran against Bush Jr, if anyone happens to be unfamiliar with him.) Would he have gotten to run for president if Heinz ketchup and what have you were appropriately priced?
Bush is probably a Fat Cat of sorts himself- with oil, so I've heard. You have to hoard money earned by selfishness, greed and/or birthright in order to even run for the presidency, right? How many awesome presidents do we miss by this? I'm dead serious about beleiving there should be laws agaisnt spending your own money for those campaigns. You should get alloted an equal amount of airtime, man-power and whatever else goes into running for president. Don't ask me about specifics, but it should work that way somehow. It's only right.
ocho wrote:If socialism is the ideal economic system, socialist countries wouldn't be abandoning it for capitalism.
You didn't get what I said earlier about that system not working in our world. That's why. Capitalism is what works for sinful people.
Sorry I've gone on and on. I'm just very passionate about this!
