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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:27 PM
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Poll question: Are you proud or ashamed of the history of humanity in general?
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:28 PM
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1. Only the US sucks. No else had war, slaves, etc. :) (and only Christians have done bad things) (nt)
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:36 PM
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7. But the US put a man on the moon and
gave the planet Elvis and Kennedy , leviis
and movies

Free thought and not.
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:29 PM
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2. Eschew fish and choke the chicken.
Else there is not point to this poll at all.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:35 PM
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6. Eschew obfuscation
alse there is not point to anything. :evilgrin:
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Lefta Dissenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:31 PM
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3. No pie?
What kind of poll is this??? :shrug:
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:32 PM
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4. The oceans are polluted and the chickens are full of chemicals. No. nt
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:34 PM
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5. The Serfs, yes. Ruling Class, no
Whether it be under priests, kings, or CEOs the PEOPLE have built bridges, set broken bones, taught children, scrubbed toilets, designed engines, grown crops, poured cement walkways, put out fires and fixed bad teeth.

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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:48 PM
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8. In general humans
have elevated themselves in absolutely incredible ways since recorded history.

In general over the last say 1000 years we have gone from brutal harsh lives of largely subsistence living, plagues with wars and insecurity to a life of leisure and good health. Of course not all, but even the people plagued with horrible living condition are largely better off than their ancestors from a millennium ago.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 10:00 PM
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9. I Agree! Although sometimes it seems a step backward many humans are better off IMO than
ancestors from a millennium ago. That said, it could be far better, but humans have this trait of imposing misery on others as they strive to dominate and control bettering themselves. For a supposedly intelligent species, we go about things in a rather strange way IMO and call it progress.





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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 10:01 PM
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10. And yet we are destroying our habitat. Is this a problem humanity can solve? nt
Edited on Wed Nov-24-10 10:02 PM by mix
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 10:30 PM
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11. Other: meh
We could be some serious badasses

We could also be some maniacal terrorists

We're neither

Meh
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