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If you have 1 hour check out this documentary on liberia.....Insanity







general bnttnaked and the tupac army


once you watch it, let us discuss.

Thanks for sharing, definitely going to watch it.

Saw an interview with a Liberian head of some Women's Rights Movement, and the stuff she describe was just mental. The daughter of a friend of hers, for example, married a pastor, and had a few children... when this woman's friend saw the picture of her son-in-law (who then lived in another village or something) she recognised him as the killer of her son, who had perished in the local conflicts.

She didn't know whether (and how) she'd ever tell her daughter who her husband was...

yea I checked this out last year. worth the watch & totally shocking. Africa is one fucked up continent.

i also used to fight naked as a rebel general but they called me General Hung

That was pretty fucked up. I worked with a lot of Liberian refugees -- Id argue Sudan refugees had it worst -- but this is not a fucking contest -- fucking horrible what some people have to go through.


This is why i dont mind religion - if some people find comfort and peace in something - i am all for them doing it as long as it does not affect others around them negatively.

Vice does some amazing docus
The current one they've got going on North Korean labor camps in Russia looks promising. Some of them just don't go anywhere, though. I had high hopes for their Krokodil Tears docu, for instance, but it was lame.

good watch. I like how the conclusion is very open-ended. did the general guy really find jesus or is he just trying to recant for slaughtering tens of thousands of people?

I sat through this thinking to myself, I think I'm having a bad day sometimes, but every day of my life is paradise compared to what most of the people in this film go through.

We all moan about the state of affairs - we really do not have anything to complain about........

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Originally posted by Jarvmeister I sat through this thinking to myself, I think I'm having a bad day sometimes, but every day of my life is paradise compared to what most of the people in this film go through. We all moan about the state of affairs - we really do not have anything to complain about........

^^ First world problem pictures ftw.

The whole notion of making fun of first world problems is fucking retarded for the most part. Yes there are some stupid things like someone bitching about their organic milk not being available when there is tons of other milk right there next to the empty row... But that being said people should not dismiss certain inequalities and injustices just because over all their lives are better than some place like Liberia.

That is just pacifism that will lead to a point in time where you will probably be living in a place just as bad as Liberia.

joss lives in his aunts basement and fights naked with his teddy bears. he knows pain. Have you ever tasted the inside of teddy ruxpin??? I didn't think so. Turn to god nou...turn to god

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby The whole notion of making fun of first world problems is fucking retarded for the most part. Yes there are some stupid things like someone bitching about their organic milk not being available when there is tons of other milk right there next to the empty row... But that being said people should not dismiss certain inequalities and injustices just because over all their lives are better than some place like Liberia. That is just pacifism that will lead to a point in time where you will probably be living in a place just as bad as Liberia.

Maybe, but the idea of calling it a "first world problem" is that you're saying it in jest... making fun of yourself, but still continuing along with business as usual. I don't think anyone starts typing #firstworldproblems in a Facebook update/tweet and then goes, damn, I need to change my life and be a pacifist.

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Originally posted by david.michael Maybe, but the idea of calling it a "first world problem" is that you're saying it in jest... making fun of yourself, but still continuing along with business as usual. I don't think anyone starts typing #firstworldproblems in a Facebook update/tweet and then goes, damn, I need to change my life and be a pacifist.

No, I think nou is right. Yeah, nou is definitely right. If we complain about not having access to organic milk, pretty soon the Western world will be exactly like Darfur. EXACTLY LIKE IT.

Also, I think Nou complaining on the Internet about people complaining about first-world problems is, in and of itself, a first-world problem.

:: eats a child's heart ::

Today I stepped in a puddle while running and got muddy water splashed all over my new running shoes.

At first I was a little upset, but then after I wasn't able to hack off the limbs of the next person I saw with a machete in 4 clean strokes, it put things into perspective.

Better stock up on AK47s.

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby The whole notion of making fun of first world problems is fucking retarded for the most part. Yes there are some stupid things like someone bitching about their organic milk not being available when there is tons of other milk right there next to the empty row... But that being said people should not dismiss certain inequalities and injustices just because over all their lives are better than some place like Liberia. That is just pacifism that will lead to a point in time where you will probably be living in a place just as bad as Liberia.

Oh my god, get a grip.....

Its a fucking joke mate.

This is U.S. in 30 years when whites become the minority.

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Originally posted by Igaryok This is U.S. in 30 years when whites become the minority.

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Originally posted by david.michael Maybe, but the idea of calling it a "first world problem" is that you're saying it in jest... making fun of yourself, but still continuing along with business as usual. I don't think anyone starts typing #firstworldproblems in a Facebook update/tweet and then goes, damn, I need to change my life and be a pacifist.

They don't have to think it, it just becomes an attitude of "don't complain cause you are better off than those people."

Thats an attitude we have in the US over all, for a long time. Its this "we shouldn't complain because we have freedom!" when there are dozens of other countries with just as much freedom as us and are far better off. And a common reply to that justification for why we should strive for even better living conditions than we have now is "at least we aren't xyz country in Africa."

Its the same thing as religion convincing people to have a shitty lot in life because they will be rewarded in heaven.

There is no reason that people shouldn't fight for a better life just because they are relatively better off than some other lesser group.

I don't think the "first world problem" pictures typically make fun of things like being unable to afford medical care due to lack of insurance, or having deadbeat drug addicts for parents, or any of the other bad stuff that still happens in the "first world."

They are usually about minor irritations experienced by those who are truly privileged even within a first world context, like college students whose parents are paying for their schooling. It's not about saying that first world people cannot have problems, but rather that some people whose problems are relatively minor have a tendency of blowing them up into world-ending catastrophes, in emotional terms.

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Originally posted by Vector A I don't think the "first world problem" pictures typically make fun of things like being unable to afford medical care due to lack of insurance, or having deadbeat drug addicts for parents, or any of the other bad stuff that still happens in the "first world." They are usually about minor irritations experienced by those who are truly privileged even within a first world context, like college students whose parents are paying for their schooling. It's not about saying that first world people cannot have problems, but rather that some people whose problems are relatively minor have a tendency of blowing them up into world-ending catastrophes, in emotional terms.

I understand that, I was more responding towards an attitude like that of Jarvmeister.

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Originally posted by Vivid Boy Have you ever tasted the inside of teddy ruxpin??? I didn't think so.

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Originally posted by Vivid Boy all i remmeber was my penis getting tingly and i felt faint and dizzy. andmy teddy ruxpin doll was never the same since

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=454391

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby I understand that, I was more responding towards an attitude like that of Jarvmeister.

In a totally non confrontational manner, could I just ask you to clarify what attitude you think I have on the matter?

I do respect your post, not least of all because I am unsure, in some ways, what I believe my attitude is on the film I saw.

I don't know if I want to change the world, or sit back and be smug that I'm not the poor bastard living in Liberia, which is possibly what you picked up on - but not sure.

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well tonight, thank god it's them instead of you........

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Originally posted by Vector A http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=454391

YOU THINK THEYRE JUST JOKES!?!?! I'VE LIVED IT!

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