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ORIGINAL: bottle_head9

Please don`t take this the wrong way cord, but if you would speak in words that most of us didn`t have to look up in dictionary you may get quite a few more listeners.I did fairly well in school. I actually spent two years in a community college, but it would take me about an hour to break down and actually understand what the hell you just said.Just speaking my mind.

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ORIGINAL: bottle_head9

Please don`t take this the wrong way cord, but if you would speak in words that most of us didn`t have to look up in dictionary you may get quite a few more listeners.I did fairly well in school. I actually spent two years in a community college, but it would take me about an hour to break down and actually understand what the hell you just said.Just speaking my mind.

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ORIGINAL: cordilleran

I'm glad I got your attention. Fact is, education and intelligence are not mutually inclusive. God forbid that a person has both and experiential knowledge beyond the pale, to boot, they find themselves on the outside looking in. Here's where things get unsavory. As a lifelong searcher I have witnessed the closing of the American mind. No longer are U.S. campuses a place of free inquiry and thought. As indoctrination centers, colleges and universities have devolved into think tanks for a very narrow interpretation of reality. With numerous laurels a person of my standing is persona non grata. With my numerous degrees and professional accolades and a dollar bill (plus tax) I am afforded the opportunity to slake my thirst on a cup o' java. So much for diversity and tolerance, mere buzz words for those intent on shackling free minds and free will. We can rally around the banyan tree and sing the praises of democracy, but when entire peoples are subjugated and disenfranchized based on their race and sex, then a cauldron of disenchantment is the soup de jour. Oppression, however, is an equal opportunity destroyer. If you haven't been touched by the growing miasma seeping into collective consciousness you will. Forget emotion, forget social propriety, go ahead and forget those treasured baubles and long-term dreams. Many already have. We are moving into a period of history never realized before. Call it the Dark Ages Redux. Let me be so brazen as to extrapolate on the immediate future. When the foundations butressing civilization give way, civilization collapses. Four elements constitute civilization: economic provision, political organization, moral traditions and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. Civilization begins where chaos and insecurity end. Currently, we live in an age of uncertainty as never before. Unlike the most recent cataclysmic conflict, World War Two, we neither know the enemy or fear that the enemy is living next door. The greatest triumph during this great upheaval is that people were unified for the common good. There is an underlying sense of hostility punctuating the people in their daily discourse. Civility has taken a back seat in the bus and today, people have been divided to the point of near anarchy. Moral tradition has been thrown out the window as so much bathwater along with the infant comprising our greatest strengths. As I touched upon earlier, the pursuit of knowledge has been severely curtailed by anarchist gatekeepers and what passes for art is politically motivated. The leftist powers-that-be recognize this and have effectively infiltrated mass communications, public education and yes, even traditional houses of religious worship. When a person is bombarded with politically charged propaganda day after day, he or she begins to believe the propoganda as truth. Such is the power of real-time propaganda and political division yields to the one voice mantra. Economic division is easily solved in the totalitarian construct -- make everyone needy. Universal health care is but one venue toward this end. Of course in theory universal health care sounds attractive. In reality the incentive for quality health care goes out the window with the baby and higher costs with a lottery system of healthcare becomes the norm. Need cancer treatment? Take a place at the back of the bus. Funny how I fought against such oppression as a soldier. Moreover, it is ironic that my father and my father's father -- all socially upstanding men -- fought in great wars to prohibit the insidious scourge of absolute oppression from poisoning the peoples of foreign lands and here we are weighing the merits of socialism. In closing let me say that when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life. Stop being afraid, speak your mind and throw off the ever-tightening shackles before a few stalwart souls have to shed their brave blood for the collective good of the masses.

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I managed to read this whole blob of type with the help of a straight edge

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ORIGINAL: pyshodoodle

Come on, Cord! Write something funny that we can all enjoy! And keep it short or use paragraphs.

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ORIGINAL: cordilleran

Deprived of vocabulary, no one HAS much to communicate.

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ORIGINAL: CALDIGR2

WOW!! What a strange tangent this post has veered off into. Verbal semantics are acceptable in some instances, but a bottle collecting site isn't one of them. Typing intelligently, with correct sentence structure and spelling, is really all that is necessary to get your point across.