The Golden Rule ? Sense or Bullshit?

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This is all rather tangential to the rest of the conversation, but just a few quick points about what you wrote here. You are on very dodgy ground claiming the moon landing(s) as an American accomplishment. Worldwide, it was seen as a human accomplishment. If you're going to add a nationality to it, the American flag should have been accompanied by a swastika. It was German ingenuity that gave the US space program its foundations... born from their efforts to demoralise the UK by means of unmanned munitions delivery.

The best translation of everything you wrote was that the USA had the money to see those things accomplished. That was due to resources and manpower. If the New World had been the size of Belgium, with the land and population to match... none of that would have been achieved. And it is down to money. If you're ever in one of those creators of technological ingenuity, have a listen to the number of accents that you'll hear. The brains aren't all American. The money is, though.

You've been drinking the Patriotism Koolaid like every other good citizen.

Noooo, I'm merely stating out the ad hominem fallacy in saying Americans are automatically stupid even though this country has a fairly long list of producing and/or sponsoring successful ideas and innovations that have helped humanity as a whole. I'm not saying the US is alone in those regards, merely that stating "You are American ergo dumb" is a pitifully weak statement in the face of the fact that, if nothing else, we were certainly smart enough to see a good idea and to finance it when we saw it quite often.

Also do not ever say something like this:

You've been drinking the Patriotism Koolaid like every other good citizen.

to me ever again. I cannot begin to explain how insulting that really is to me or why, but you might as well have just pissed on my dead mother's grave, it's on THAT sort of level. I'll forgive you this one time because I don't believe that was your intended purpose, but just bear that in mind going forward.
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Attie...you're just an idiot. When did China "hunt in America," when the amount of time necessary to travel either by land OR boat to go ACROSS THE OCEAN, for the sole sake of hunting some deer or bear, would have meant that the meat would have been spoiled LONG, LONG before it ever got back to China? Please, provide me with some links to these articles, I have to see this shit to believe it.

Even if you manage that, the fact of the matter is you're clearly several levels of intelligence below just about everyone on this forum (as demonstrated by your childish ad hominems and mind-numbingly stupid statements ((seriously, polluting space? Did your mother smoke a lot of pot when she was pregnant with you, or did you just snort a lot of those lead-based paint fumes growing up?))), and I'm even including some of the most notably stupid members we've had around this forum [ask anyone here; we've had some wonderful examples of idiocy]. Discussing a topic with you is clearly going to be like trying to explain calculus to an underachieving fifth grader. Make a point and back it up with information or just admit you're a brain-dead retard. Doing anything other than the former will automatically lead to you defaulting to the latter.

See mate, the problem is you miss the point I and many others have been making. Not on this forum though. Now you want me to help you out of your dilemma. I'm not going to do that!

As for our Chinese history, you go do the digging for yourself. Fact is that America was inhabited long before Europeans put foot there. China had the largest seafaring ships long before Columbus could dream about one and we colonized the Americas way before western history started recording facts.

It's evident you are still very young, full of zeal but not that educated.

The Buddha taught about enlightenment which contains non-conceptual awareness. Did you study this at varsity too?