Ironies in life., self-explanatory Options

[Digital Insanity]

For starters:

The children will pay for their parents' sins

Ferdinand Edralin Marcos declared Martial Law in the Philippines on September 21, 1972, not only the concussions still remain on the generation that lived it, but their children also suffered -- UNTIL NOW.

The most unlikely of characters will help you in the most unlikely of desperate situations.

Looks can be deceiving.

This post has been edited by Digital Insanity: Feb 9 2004, 10:44 PM

[YManchun]

Don't judge a book by its cover

[Digital Insanity]

Men keep on saying that women are bad drivers even though men drive agressively.

[AtlantisStar]

What somewhere along the lines of the Hammurabi code?

[gaijinkokujin]

For starters:

The children will pay for their parents' sins

its kinda weird, because behaviors are passed through the bloodlines.

so they suffer a fate of being "cursed" if you will with their parents or grandparents sins, unless they attone for them.
its not a religious thing either thats what makes it wilder.

[Cevilgenius]

Yes... very good gaijinkokujin. But technically it's not a curse nor blood - it's the DNA. Something about messed up chromosomes that is spread through each generation - like if a father was a serial killer, the son might be too.

[Digital Insanity]

Yes... very good gaijinkokujin. But technically it's not a curse nor blood - it's the DNA. Something about messed up chromosomes that is spread through each generation - like if a father was a serial killer, the son might be too.

Actually, that's not what I'm talking about.

What I meant by

The sins of the parents will be paid by their children

is that future generations will get the blame for the acts of generations before them.

[KoRn]

u mean like the Nanjing Massacre and the japanese?

[Digital Insanity]

Actually, that's just the beginning.

As I pointed out somewhere within the Chinese chat, future Japanese generations will get the blame for the atrocities of the past generations.

Also, other irony:

The Jews that were Holocaust members are Europeans (read: German).

[b3n]

In 1776, Britain invaded America to try to shut them up about their independence beliefs.

Now America is taking Britain's role and attacking countries b/c they have different beliefs (Iraq).

[SiLvErStArDuSt]

Yes... very good gaijinkokujin. But technically it's not a curse nor blood - it's the DNA. Something about messed up chromosomes that is spread through each generation - like if a father was a serial killer, the son might be too.

Only if the mutation is in the gene pool. Otherwise it wouldn't matter.

The father/son case of serial killers is likely, but is caused by psychological factors rather than genetics.

[Digital Insanity]

Both Japan and the Philippines are OUTSIDE the mainland of Asia.

I'll go straight to the point:

Yet, PEOPLE KEEP ON SAYING THAT FILIPINOS ARE PACIFIC ISLANDERS!

Even though Philippines is a part of Asia, THEY STILL KEEP ON SAYING THAT IT'S A PACIFIC ISLAND NATION!

This post has been edited by Digital Insanity: Feb 13 2004, 04:44 AM

[YoyoWassup]

Both Japan and the Philippines are OUTSIDE the mainland of Asia.

I'll go straight to the point:

Yet, PEOPLE KEEP ON SAYING THAT FILIPINOS ARE PACIFIC ISLANDERS!   

Even though Philippines is a part of Asia, THEY STILL KEEP ON SAYING THAT IT'S A PACIFIC ISLAND NATION!   

i might be a tad confused 'bout yer point on this post. do u mean to say dat there is somethin' offensive 'bout bein' labeled a pacific islander despite the fact dat the philippines & japan r literally islands in da pacific?

or do u mean to say somethin' along da lines dat it's bull fer ppl to separate japanese n filipinos from da rest of asia just b/c dey live on an island?

or could it be dat u object to da use of some blanket term to cover all nationalities outside of mainland asia - as opposed to simply callin' the japanese "japanese" & the filipinos "filipinos"?

[Digital Insanity]

Both Japan and the Philippines are OUTSIDE the mainland of Asia.

I'll go straight to the point:

Yet, PEOPLE KEEP ON SAYING THAT FILIPINOS ARE PACIFIC ISLANDERS!    

Even though Philippines is a part of Asia, THEY STILL KEEP ON SAYING THAT IT'S A PACIFIC ISLAND NATION!    

i might be a tad confused 'bout yer point on this post. do u mean to say dat there is somethin' offensive 'bout bein' labeled a pacific islander despite the fact dat the philippines & japan r literally islands in da pacific?

or do u mean to say somethin' along da lines dat it's bull fer ppl to separate japanese n filipinos from da rest of asia just b/c dey live on an island?

or could it be dat u object to da use of some blanket term to cover all nationalities outside of mainland asia - as opposed to simply callin' the japanese "japanese" & the filipinos "filipinos"?

No. What I intend to mean was that even though both Japan and the Philippines are outside the mainland, I haven't heard a person call a Japanese a Pacific Islander while people KEEP ON DELIBERATELY CALLING FILIPINOS PACIFIC ISLANDERS!

That's just blatant hypocrisy, isn't it?

[YoyoWassup]

oh yes, now i understand u. yes dat is quite strange now that i recollect. lot of ppl call not just filipinos pacific islanders, but also indonesians n malaysians. but if ya dink pacific islander, then yeah, japanese most of da time fall out of the picture. wot r these other ppl not asian enough dat census takers have to make it read "asian OR pacific islander"?

[s0b3yur53lf]

Both Japan and the Philippines are OUTSIDE the mainland of Asia.

I'll go straight to the point:

Yet, PEOPLE KEEP ON SAYING THAT FILIPINOS ARE PACIFIC ISLANDERS!

Even though Philippines is a part of Asia, THEY STILL KEEP ON SAYING THAT IT'S A PACIFIC ISLAND NATION!

the same wit hawaiian ppl(did i spell it ryte?)

the hawaiian islands wer claimed by the US and wer made a state but yu hardly ever hear a hawaiian person plainly called an american

n i think that its the same wit alaska

[xiong]

In 1776, Britain invaded America to try to shut them up about their independence beliefs.

Now America is taking Britain's role and attacking countries b/c they have different beliefs (Iraq).

You can't use that in the same context. America got the idea of independence because the britain was taxing them too much. It was about freedom.

Who is the "they" in your question. If you are referring the Iraqi people they were happy that Suddam is gone same beliefs they wanted Suddam to go.

[Digital Insanity]

The people will get the blame because of their politicians

ie: REPUBLICANS IN WHITE HOUSE SINCE 2000

[Cevilgenius]

In 1776, Britain invaded America to try to shut them up about their independence beliefs.

Now America is taking Britain's role and attacking countries b/c they have different beliefs (Iraq).

You can't use that in the same context. America got the idea of independence because the britain was taxing them too much. It was about freedom.

Who is the "they" in your question. If you are referring the Iraqi people they were happy that Suddam is gone same beliefs they wanted Suddam to go.

No, but it works as in not what they believe, but that they do believe. He's saying that the Britians attacked us because our beliefs were different then theirs. We wanted freedom, they didn't like it. Now the US is attacking other countries because they don't side with us.


-Norm

[xiong]

In 1776, Britain invaded America to try to shut them up about their independence beliefs.

Now America is taking Britain's role and attacking countries b/c they have different beliefs (Iraq).

You can't use that in the same context. America got the idea of independence because the britain was taxing them too much. It was about freedom.

Who is the "they" in your question. If you are referring the Iraqi people they were happy that Suddam is gone same beliefs they wanted Suddam to go.

No, but it works as in not what they believe, but that they do believe. He's saying that the Britians attacked us because our beliefs were different then theirs. We wanted freedom, they didn't like it. Now the US is attacking other countries because they don't side with us.


-Norm

Are you saying they as the "people" or they as the "government". because in the the countries(only two) that America has attack their government was oppessive to the people.