K, for those who are paying attention, I'm waiting on a few RP's to clear up so as to gain much needed levels on characters. My Shaman and Mage's are getting closer to their T2 which makes me happy and my Assassin is fast approaching T3. However, what has me lightly irked is I have one RP that's done and needs to be graded until I can start into my second T3. Natomi is ONE level away from Tier Three and I wants it bad. I have interesting plans for her class and may be able to pull some interesting things for her storyline wise with her lover Andreas.

Anyway, yes... I just ranted in General Discussion. There's a couple reasons for that. One, I needed to, and two, it gave me an ok way of setting up a foundation on something to do. We need activity yes, and this is MY way of not only staying active, but promoting activity.

Anyone bored out of your mind and just feeling like chatting about anything or everything, I don't care.

I just have a few ground rules. No flaming! Not me for my rant or whatever I may say, and no one for what you may say. I want this to be a free discussion thread because I just feel like chatting and need people to chat to and subjects to chat about while I bide my time and sit around with nothing to do.

Also, anything goes. Any sort of discussion you want to have with me or others is fine by me, I can't guarantee it'll really be approached but feel free to throw it up.

Equally, please try and focus on one discussion unless it's chanced to have died out or something or the subject ties into a current thought.

Yes, while written nobody was on but I'm BORED and needed something to distract me... So if/when someone gets up that wants to maybe talk about something or just talk... feel free to start. The floor is now open for discussions. =)

For the record, two of the three things were already graded, and I graded the last today. ^.^

Anyway. Here is the first topic. Government.

What is the best form of it, in your opinion? I'll hold my opinion until after someone else says theirs.

ty Harper, I can finally get Natomi to T3 ^^.

Anyway, my opinion on government is one much like that of England. A monarchy which is balanced out by a parliament. A wise and just ruler and an uncorrupted parliament who's eyes are on the people and the country would probably be one of the greatest ways to go.

Eh, thats not a bad form of gov't. But, personally, I like the idea of a dual monarchy. The two sides being a linear monarchy and an elected Monarchy. The Linear Monarch would be more powerful, but he wouldn't choose his successor, the elected Monarch would. Basically, the Linear Monarch would choose ten possible successors and train them to take over, and the Elected Monarch who was in power at the time(he is re-elected every five years, and has to have served at least five years in the military to run) would choose the new Linear Monarch from the ten he trained.

There is no "Best form" of government. Just because a form of government works somewhere, doesn't mean it will work everywhere. Government needs to be designed by people living in that area so that it works for the good of the people.

Well put insight Cev. It is true to say that though it may work, and well it may even here in America, there is no guarantee. However, relying on the people alone isn't always the wisest idea. The "masses" aren't always wise on what is best when they may think it is. Sorry to put any of you down, sometimes people do need to be thought for. Power of voice is strong yes, and unless everyone places it, it's not always going to turn out for the best.

I believe it was said once: "An uninformed vote is worse than no vote at all."

Touché

It's called the "We The People" competition. I've heard more about the Constitution in the past two months then most Americans do in a lifetime.

Yeah... we never went over the Constitution much in school... And I don't really take the time to look it up and read it... >.>;;

You should. It's not that long, and very informative.

I used to be able to recite the first two articles and all of the amendments of the Constituion. We spent forever on it. Anyway. I don't think the common people will ever be smart enough to elect their leader completely. That leads to a lot of bull shit with parties and stuff like that and any kind of congress or council just wastes time, really.

I think I'll have to then. New subject since government seems to be covered... education. Good, bad... thoughts? Anyone?

The American Education system needs a major reform, more socially than in structure at this point. American culture at this point places too much importance, and money, on Professional Sports and Celebrity importance.

I believe this link gives a great example: http://www.michaelcastellon.com/2007/12/pr...news-media.html

What's more important to show our children, Deaths and Sciences, or Teen Pregnancy and the results of men and women being able to do things well with balls. I mean CURES for TWO KINDS of cancer have been found, Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). Were these made that publicly known? No, because America wants news that involves them or something they care about.

It's like way AIDS is such a big problem today, because it was only seen as a "Gay Disease" when it came out, the CDC didn't get the funding they needed to study it until it was far too late. It was barely even mentioned on the news in fear of wide-spread panic. And even after it was discovered that it was being passed by contaminated blood, the Red Cross didn't see the need to test for it because it was too expensive.

Wow, that got kind of rambly. What I basically mean is that Americans need to focus more on positively presenting Education to children early on.

Nice examples and well placed. I agree, too much is on sports and other nonsense. People have been trying to get rid of the Arts in schools claiming that it's a waste of time when in reality it is the very department that they support with their hearts that is wasting our time and money. Arts increase the performance of a student, sports does not.

Yes, and it's not that I'm saying that we should get rid of ALL sports, in fact the Obesity problem in America needs to be fixed as fast as possible, but I think that when you set it up so that everyone has to do the same thing it actually hurts the ones who need exercise the most, since they are out shined by the ones who are good at sports. I'd much rather walk around for an hour talking with my friends than stand their and have people who hate me for being nerdy decide they want to throw balls hard enough at me that it hurts.

True, also, if we could eliminate the peer pressure issue that exists in high school, it would show a great leap in educational proportions. It's not something that's probably gonna come about any time soon, but if it were, I'm sure that would also effect things. And yes, though it is tedious, if we could at least group more people that are closer to the same range together and have them working in different ways to better themselves, such as the obesity issue compared to people who are well in shape and powerful, it would also, not only dwindle the peer pressure issue, but also create a higher form of education.

Well the problem is that by High School, most of the negative habits formed by Peer Pressure are already in place. In fact, they start as early as 1st grade. By the time kids with wieght problems get to middle school they're so used to not exercising and eating the way they do that it's hard to break even if you want to try.

True, so let me get this straight. A possible suggestion is an actual program that may incline kids to work towards creating healthier habits?

Exactly. Exercise is necessary. Paying Professional Sportsmen Ungodly amounts of money isn't.

True. Such things as the latter is folly. While sports makes a good past-time, it still doesn't beat either actually doing something more constructive then sitting around WATCHING it. Yeah I can admit sometimes it's good to get away from the stress of everything by watching a movie, tv, football game or otherwise, but even at that, sometimes the best escape is to a new world. Pick up a book or something, I know not many people like to read, I feel that's part of education or it may be something else, I haven't researched it. But when you want to get away, stepping in to a new world through a book is an amazing way to do it and it brings out higher results then other things in more aspects of life.

Oddly enough I remember hearing that the human brain is not designed to read, but the fact that we have learned how to read is proof that the human brain is evolving.

Really, I wasn't aware of that. How interesting... so what are some of the things it was designed for?

I don't know. It was just something I heard from someone. I think it was my dad, who has a PhD in Physics, so I believe most of what he says about stuff like this.

Ah, I see. Well that is indeed very interesting that though our minds aren't designed for it, we do it because of evolution. Mind you I don't believe in "We're from apes." Regardless of how much evidence there is. But I do believe in evolution because we're always evolving beyond what we are now and creatures beyond what they were to adapt to our natural environment.

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Just thought that would be a neat thing to link to.

lol nice, I like it.

I thought you would.