TheSerbRyder_ReTurns
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SerbRyder,
The wars in Serbia-Croatia obviously have had and still have great significance for you. The average American has absolutely no clue what-so-ever as to just how significant Serbian and Croatian history has impacted the 20th and now the 21st Centuries. Their history was the Ground Zero Event for not one, but two world wars. World War II in Europe was not a seperate war from World War I. It was a continuation of that unresolved war. If we were somehow able to talk to them, there are over 100 million Europeans and 200,000 Americans who would explain it to everyone else had they not been fatal casualties of those wars. Croat or Serb, Hungarian, Greek, Englander, French, German, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovakian, Austrian, Swede, Fin, Norwegian, Pole, Russian, you name it - over one hundred million of them were slaughtered for king (Kaiser, Czar, Caesar) and country. From me to you, my friend, I understand and have not forgotten them.
That being said, however, "Boomer" (the author of the TTO/Titor posts) failed to even make a hint at Serbia or Croatia. His reference to BS has to be taken within the context of the series of posts that he was responding to (and because I was involved in those posts I'm fully aware of the context). He was responding to Doug's posts and challenging Doug on his (real or fained) incredulity at our having found nukes in Iraq. The question was whether that "fact" (finding nukes) would be used as propoganda to expand the war. The problem is that his post was made at a time when the news was incorrectly reporting that we had found nukes in Iraq (and the truth is that the news was reporting that we had found chemical WMD's). Boomer was working the current news where a real time traveler (if they actually exist) would know that the reports were inaccurate.
Serb, I would never deny your right to opine on any subject. But the Titor Meme is, on the whole, lame. The political message is trite, common left-of-center libertarian. Nothing new. The physics message is nothing less that laughable. It really is pretty awful 8th grade wannabe "science". It's not a matter of accepting the possibility that time travel is allowed by general relativity. It's a matter of hand-waving magic to accept his version of modern physics. It really is that bad. The war saga is Saturday afternoon at the cinema, John Wayne fantasy. I don't know if you were personally involved in the Serbian war. But if you were or know anyone who was, would you or they describe the period as a time that they wouldn't trade for anything - as Titor described his involvement as a soldier in the Everglades? That's an othwesie innocent 12 year old boy's view of war, not the view of a combat veteran no matter what his/her age. People who have seen just how starkly terrifying violent death is on a daily basis don't use words like "I wouldn't trade it for anything" to glorify and remember the experience. I certainly don't, my peers don't, and we have seen more than our fair share of what man can do to man to extinguish their existence on this mortal coil.
my views on the war are actually quite interesting, given the past couple days, ive been doing exensive research on very ancient roots of the serbs, i found that all slavs are descendents of the serbian race, which is why we share a common language, yet each tribe had formed an accent and slag unique and individual to them, which is not that hard to relate to if you live in the usa, cause northern and southerners, sound much different, english, and americans, sound much different, would probably be a somewhat better example, more interesting i've found, no historians could find in history, where the serbs ever sought dominance over any other race, or tribe... what happened was they loved freedom, so when one tribe came under attack, all of them united to defend the freedom, of the serbian people, so i can be clear, all slavs back then were known as serbian people, different tribes had different names, which we still use today, croatians, bosnians, montenegrians, russians, serbians etc. which is where the 4'cs came from, hope i dont slaughter the translation, it basically means, unity through salvation saves serbs/slavs... and interestingly the turkish ottoman empire actually stood no chance at defeating this peaceful race, who just desired to be left alone, so they would still a male serb, when they were born, and convert them to islam, never allowing them to know they were actually serbian, and they would use these children once they got older, to attack the serbian tribes, which is how they stole kosovo in the first place, so that whole lil bad situation plays into todays dilemma, the powers that be extremely stupid, wanted to break apart this huge empire of peaceful people called the slavs, look at a map of europe before ww1 and look at it now, they have turned our tribes, into smaller and smaller ones, denying them the truth to they really are, the same people, divide and conquer. when it used to be basically just serbia/yugoslavia, and russia, now we have so many pieces of those 2 empires of serbs/slavs, seperated into many lil states, when they all were just tribes of the mother homeland of serbia/kosovo the sooner the slavs are educated as to this truth of their being, then europe will be better off, cause then the serbian/slav empire will be restored and peace should reign, cause as always, we never sought dominance, we just sought knowledge... is there any more to say to this?