You really don't know the truth about what went on...
“Truth...” an excellent concept.
your ramblings about massacres and people being driven out of their homes...give me a break.
“Massacres...” The ONLY mention of the word (until you mentioned it) was by BY, in #23. NOT me. Were there NO people “driven out of their homes?”
Propaganda may work on the ignorant,
Well then, BY must have assumed that there are a lot of “IGNORANT” people here on FR, because he posted an “Easter Greeting” which was wholly propaganda, and has added to that in practically every post.
but don't try and educate anyone without knowing the facts, especially when they themselves are searching for the real facts while you go with whatever is fed to you.
This IS a joke, right? You IMAGINE that you are “searching for the real facts,” but in reality, whatever “truth” you find will be forced to fit into the template of your particular ethnicity. “We are good and decent.... THEY are evil. THEY mass murdered our people, and stole ________. So, we have to devote ourselves to getting it back, no matter how many of us have to die, or how many of THEM we have to kill. Because THEY are evil, and God is telling us to do it.”
And, guess what. Every other ethnic group in the Balkans believes EXACTLY the SAME thing. Each faction has done enough badness to the other sides (over the last thousand or so years) that each can point to this invasion, that atrocity, the other.... and each side necessarily exaggerates the evil doing of the others, and minimizes their own.
The really funny thing is: this tribalism goes on all over the world. It is just that the Balkans is famous for it.
Find out how many innocent deaths those US-led bombings on Serbia caused before you start throwing around numbers here.
“Numbers?” The ONLY number I used was the 2000 dead, which was kindly supplied by BY.
Find out why those Kosovars were evacuating, and who really forced them out. Find out what happened to those who tried to stay, and by whose hand it happened....then speak, and do so intelligently.
And, the answers to all those questions will depend entirely upon which faction is telling the legend. And, you will claim that I don't “speak... intelligently,” unless what I speak conforms to the template of YOUR particular ethnicity.
The funny thing is folks like yourself honestly believe that Serbs one day woke up and decided to start butchering people for no apparent reason, and you calmly accept and go with that ridiculous notion.
Of course, not. But you are willing to ATTRIBUTE that thought to ME, when, (if you had bothered to actually READ that which I wrote) you would know that it is not true. You just made it up. Because it fits your TEMPLATE.
You don't even once think that maybe there is more to this than you're being told.
Again, you have made up something (about me) which fits your template. Have YOU ever thought “that maybe there is more to this than you're being told?” That maybe the story YOU are being told might be distorted?
The reality is they (young Albanians led by militant Muslims who only want a foothold in Europe) tried to take that region over and were successful only due to the aid of the US (who also want a foothold in Europe).
There is probably some truth to that, but neither of us actually KNOWS the full truth of it.
So when Serbia, one of the US most loyal allies throughout history, sees us take the side of known terrorists....can you possibly fathom what that would feel like?
If you had bothered to read what I wrote, you would have seen that I have commented on that, already.
Don't try and make good Christian folks here feel bad by you siding with Muslims and saying it's our fault for not doing the same.
“Good Christian folk...” do not hate, and lie, and murder.
And YOU just uttered an OUTRAGEOUS LIE, by claiming that I am “siding with Muslims and saying it's our fault for not doing the same.” It is so obvious, and downright stupid a lie that only the truly deranged would believe it. Is that who you are trying to influence?
Some of us here have spines.
So do sea urchins and porcupines. Neither is particularly endearing.
God doesn't hand anyone anything “on a silver platter”
It is hard for me to understand a Christian imagining that he has ANYTHING which was not a gift from God.
and if it comes down to living while being forced out of my country, my home, converting to Islam, possibly watching those I love being brutalized or killed vs. dying to try to prevent it....
You have me all confused, here. What country are you talking about? Serbia? Or America?
.I'm defending my family, my country, my beliefs and values...
Good for you. But, which country? Have the Muslims invaded America, and are they forcing us out?
a shame you're not,
There's another one of those idiot lies, again.
that's why our country is where it is now.
Again, which country do you mean?
PS- No need for the huge fonts, our eyes are just fine. It's you who are apparently “blind”.
Touche... You really got me there. (I just love this scintillating repartee!)
DG
p.s. You might do yourself a favor by asking someone with a military background what the word “DoorGunner” means.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Continue living life with your blinders on, chief. When it happens here, just go with the flow and bust out your prayer rug. No one here said anything about killing “them” but you. My point was that Serbs should not have to change their lives and beliefs just because terrorists say so, but you once again haven’t a clue what the real deal is. Your mind is fixated on what you want the situation to be, thus no rationalizations or pointing out of blatant facts will sway you. Nothing to see here....move on. You continue to work real hard on figuring out templates, I’ll be out of the basement, dealing with the problem at hand. When something like 9/11 or what almost happened at Ft. Dix happens in your neighborhood, you’re going to have a lot of template reading to do.