Conversation
Conversations can put so many things into context that we would otherwise ignore. Today I spent an large amount of time in the SI office talking and hanging out with my supervisor Richard. We determined the following:
1. Any country can go kick another countries ass if it is in the protection of their own freedom, economic interests, etc.
2. War is not pretty... many people don't want to acknowledge this and that cycles up to politicians chastising generals about civilian casualties as being too heavy or not putting enough troops in theater. Do people honestly think our troops try to kill civies? Do people think that we can avoid collateral damage in an urban, civilian populated combat environment?
3. Things with Cristi and I probably wouldn't ever work out because of our social upbringing. Granted we could "make it work" but we both agreed that while Cristi and I are compatible, there are too many fundamental differences in our upbringing for the amount of work to be small enough to handle.
4. I need to date an older woman. This was Richard's response to me talking about the shortcomings of mine and cristi's relationship. He is gay and has a lot of female friends and he is older by about 5+ years (I don't know how old he is) and he said that what I need to be happy is almost nonexistent in 20 year old women. He said that I should ask out the woman at the Crisis Center who is 30... just to "go have some fun even if it doesn't work out".
5. We determined that there is a certain level of emotional detachment and apathy that seems to be prevalent in military brats. He suggested that there may to be an online dating website that is devoted to military brats who want to meet and date fellow military brats. This made me laugh and wonder... ?
6. We decided that we are tired of people sticking up for the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. They have a roof over their heads, copies of the koran, and they "aren't lieing in their own excrements for days". These are humane conditions, but anything more would be too much for a 1) Prisoner of war who pointed a weapon at one of our guys with the intention of killing him/her and 2) Terrorist who wants nothing more than for all of us to die. We spoke of the fact that they are not deserving of rights of a citizen, they deserve the rights of POWs and are therefore subject to a military tribunal and we agreed that most of them should be hung.
7. We are both apathetic to people being emotional and don't really care about being politically correct.
8. We had an interesting conversation about how there must be something either genetic, environmentally in the womb, or a combination of the two the influences sexual preference. We also talked about how gay people can't help finding people of the same sex attractive much the same way a straight person can't help finding someone of the opposite sex attractive.
good times... there's stuff i forgot we talked about... ahh well... oh there is this very attractive girl in my organic and cell bio. class. She has gorgeous light blue eyes! OMG!!! I'm such an eye person haha! someone in my unit told me that i was too sensitive and borderline gay for paying attention to eyes... i promptly told him to fuck off followed by some kind of insulting retort.
i may have made another mistake on my organic test... let the nail-biting begin... that is, if my front teeth came together enough for me to bite my nails :-( kiki! bite your nails for me!
1. Any country can go kick another countries ass if it is in the protection of their own freedom, economic interests, etc.
2. War is not pretty... many people don't want to acknowledge this and that cycles up to politicians chastising generals about civilian casualties as being too heavy or not putting enough troops in theater. Do people honestly think our troops try to kill civies? Do people think that we can avoid collateral damage in an urban, civilian populated combat environment?
3. Things with Cristi and I probably wouldn't ever work out because of our social upbringing. Granted we could "make it work" but we both agreed that while Cristi and I are compatible, there are too many fundamental differences in our upbringing for the amount of work to be small enough to handle.
4. I need to date an older woman. This was Richard's response to me talking about the shortcomings of mine and cristi's relationship. He is gay and has a lot of female friends and he is older by about 5+ years (I don't know how old he is) and he said that what I need to be happy is almost nonexistent in 20 year old women. He said that I should ask out the woman at the Crisis Center who is 30... just to "go have some fun even if it doesn't work out".
5. We determined that there is a certain level of emotional detachment and apathy that seems to be prevalent in military brats. He suggested that there may to be an online dating website that is devoted to military brats who want to meet and date fellow military brats. This made me laugh and wonder... ?
6. We decided that we are tired of people sticking up for the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. They have a roof over their heads, copies of the koran, and they "aren't lieing in their own excrements for days". These are humane conditions, but anything more would be too much for a 1) Prisoner of war who pointed a weapon at one of our guys with the intention of killing him/her and 2) Terrorist who wants nothing more than for all of us to die. We spoke of the fact that they are not deserving of rights of a citizen, they deserve the rights of POWs and are therefore subject to a military tribunal and we agreed that most of them should be hung.
7. We are both apathetic to people being emotional and don't really care about being politically correct.
8. We had an interesting conversation about how there must be something either genetic, environmentally in the womb, or a combination of the two the influences sexual preference. We also talked about how gay people can't help finding people of the same sex attractive much the same way a straight person can't help finding someone of the opposite sex attractive.
good times... there's stuff i forgot we talked about... ahh well... oh there is this very attractive girl in my organic and cell bio. class. She has gorgeous light blue eyes! OMG!!! I'm such an eye person haha! someone in my unit told me that i was too sensitive and borderline gay for paying attention to eyes... i promptly told him to fuck off followed by some kind of insulting retort.
i may have made another mistake on my organic test... let the nail-biting begin... that is, if my front teeth came together enough for me to bite my nails :-( kiki! bite your nails for me!
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