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"I love my country!"
    #9297318 - 11/23/08 01:16 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

Note: As much as possible, let's try to keep this from drifting into political territory.

I honestly haven't a clue what anyone means when they say this. How does one love a vague and nebulous concept that could be pointing to an infinitude of things?


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9297378 - 11/23/08 01:30 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

It is patriot code for "I am comfortable and I do not wish to see that change, so I will identify with the status quo in order to gain this measure of physical security."


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #9297417 - 11/23/08 01:37 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

"I like the ideas and images associated with my territory and I [think I] enjoy enough of my life within it, and I don't really want to go through the hassle of moving far away and learning another language and set of customs and associating with new friends."

Hue's works too.


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #9297422 - 11/23/08 01:38 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

It could also be people desperately wanting to feel like a part of something bigger, but can't cope with the idea that they're aren't. If they are, it's a part of the human race, but these people don't see it because they only differences, like what side of that line drawn on the ground you grew up on.


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9297501 - 11/23/08 01:53 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

When I say it I mean that the scenery is beautiful, and when I can I enjoy spending time there (Scotland) because of (generalisations of course) the atmosphere and feel of the cities, the attitudes, openness and general friendliness of the people. And the whisky.


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: mr_kite]
    #9297504 - 11/23/08 01:54 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

ps Have you read "Of Mice and Men", Steinbeck?


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: mr_kite]
    #9297554 - 11/23/08 02:06 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

What about the fine highland lassies? :naughty:


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9297586 - 11/23/08 02:10 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

Im happy i grew up w/more opportunity's than most in other countrys. I would not say i love it though


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9297750 - 11/23/08 02:37 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

For many people, it is nothing more than an expressions of unquestioning fealty to the status quo in the nation/state they are living under.


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9297817 - 11/23/08 02:45 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

I love my country!!



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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: BrainChemistry]
    #9297866 - 11/23/08 02:53 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

Got wood?


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9297874 - 11/23/08 02:54 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

If I was hugging the tree with that chick, probably yes. :thumbup:


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: BrainChemistry]
    #9297887 - 11/23/08 02:56 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

:lol::thumbup:


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: Lion]
    #9299316 - 11/23/08 06:44 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

It represents many, many things. Interestingly, I think very little of it involves the "country", given it is a fabricated concept anyway. On an unconscious level, I think patriotic statements are another example of social bonding phenomena. Identifying with a source of power is obviously advantageous, but there are also numerous evolutionary benefits to group uniformity (or at least agreement).

Most blatant forms of patriotism are always public. Flags, bumper stickers, signs, conversations, etc. It involves human relationships more than imaginary borders.


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9302164 - 11/24/08 04:29 AM (15 years, 2 months ago)



:yesnod::heartpump:


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9302683 - 11/24/08 08:54 AM (15 years, 2 months ago)

"I love the country"

What's so hard to understand about that city boy?


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: Icelander]
    #9303120 - 11/24/08 10:14 AM (15 years, 2 months ago)

If someone builds a mall in your precious desert is it still 'country'?

BTW, unless you are Patrick Swayze, my ghetto homies will waste your redneck friends.


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9304789 - 11/24/08 03:17 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

No, then it's shitty, er city.

I don't think I've been to a mall in fifteen years.


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: Icelander]
    #9305055 - 11/24/08 04:05 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

The country guy in my sig pic is certainly getting 'malled'... :lol:


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Re: "I love my country!" [Re: Icelander]
    #9305071 - 11/24/08 04:07 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

You're not missing out.


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