Comments by "The Phoenix Saga" (@The_Phoenix_Saga) on "The Japan Reporter" channel.

  1.  @journeytrials  oh indeed; but who doesn't know everything at the age of 18 - 25? Education is important but it's something that also requires a bt of common sense. Put your hand in a fire and you get burned. Youth's enthusiasm really does bring home the fact however that there are some lessons that can't be taught by others, they have to be learned the hard way. Ever heard the Latin phrase "Tu fui ego eris"? What you are, I was. What I am, you will be.
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  2.  @VVabsa  Ah I was just waiting for that one - actually I DO have every right, because I never gave mine up. You however consented to their future actions with just a tick and thus you're responsible for everything they do by default and therefore YOU are the one with no right to complain, because it was YOUR choice to put them in to act. And in the process you surrendered your rights in exchange for privileges; which unlike rights, they can just as easily take away from you as they can give them.
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  3.  @magfam9980  Maybe so, however - I say this as respectful as I can be and I'm sure you already know this: it is THEIR country and THEIR issues. It is not your place, or mine or anyone else who isn't of Japan, to go and demand changes. Roles reversed, once upon a time, we would have expected the same thing. Though looking here in my own nation - we seem to encourage women to see motherhood as more a burden than a blessing and it's easy to see how and why everything has gone so wrong with ideals such as that. My point is that we need to deal with the speck of dust in our own eyes before paying any heed to that in anyone else's.
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  4.  @ogungou9  Nerve touched seeing as my argument was just removed. To paraphrase it though; until someone has lost their home or they're starving... or both, they need to shut the hell up about how unfair the world is. Because there's a whole lot in that boat who are there for absolutely no fault of their own who haven't started feeling sorry for themselves and instead work to better their situation. I am cruel only for the sake of being kind - you don't do anyone favors by being nice in coddling someone but not make a single difference: the only one that improves in that situation is the one who is doing the coddling; not any of these folk who need a good swift kick of reality. And that is not only far more cruel, it's sick: feeling morally superior at the expense of someone else's misery in a hypocritical stance of righteousness! At least I'm honest.
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  5. I tell you, my great grandmother was German Jewish, she left her home with her fiancée; an Irish Italian my great grandfather, and her family when they chose to remain in Germany back in 1932. Needless to say they died in the camps whilst she escaped to Britain, married and never looked back except to hope one day she'd receive a letter or a phone call. I've been to Germany myself since and been to those camps. And I tell you here and now - any hatred I have of the people, died with those responsible. I hold absolutely NO ill will with their descendants as they were not present, did not commit and thus not responsible for any of the atrocities. One can not blame one generation for the actions of another - otherwise we'd be seeing sons and daughters jailed for the crimes of their fathers and mothers long before their birth or even during their lifetime. To do that would be just as much persecution driven as those who dragged my distant family to those squalid conditions from which they never would leave alive. Japan had its dark secrets too - I give you Unit 731 as the most blatant example, but would it be just today to blame the Japanese of the living day today for the actions of those few of a unit long since passed? It may have taken you years, but the fact is you did get past that sense of resentment. If there are any who would still deserve your wrath, let it be buried alongside them for they have all since passed away and none alive today are responsible for what lit that fire within you.
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  6.  @jamilgonzaga7081  Sounds like my worthless father. Guess what - proved him wrong to spite him and I look back and think that instead of coddling, being made to face advertisity did me wonders as it showed me how the world really is.
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  7.  @rifqimujahid4907  liking the pun.
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  8.  @digital_gravity  it really is.
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  9.  @Arcessitor  So you essentially want to arrest people on grounds of something they never did. Well that policewoman in Japan - you know the thirty year old who looks like she's in her teens? No wonder she had a hard time finding someone - given how people are more concerned about the nature of appearance then they are the well being of individuals themselves. It's hilarious how in some parts of the world - you can legally be drafted into the military at the age of sixteen but DARE forbid you buy a game based on warfare labeled for adults. And here we're talking about the argument to have an adult perform but she's not got a shot in hell if she doesn't look her actual age. I'd be far more concerned and repulsed if it was someone who wasn't of the age of consent - THEN we have a case to stand on, but aside from when that atrocity occurs, you can't just go banning something on an assumption.
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  10.  @vorynrosethorn903  Sure outlaw adult content - I'm sure that worked with prohibition in the states... oh wait, that failed. You can't go dictating to adults what they can and can't do amongst themselves consentually.
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  11. Not a chance in hell. Anybody who could accept that of their wife, there's a word for that: Cuckold. And here's another: PATHETIC!
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  12.  @TokyoTraveller  My line of questioning wasn't directed at you but at society in general. But for my lack of clarity in my last comment I apologise.
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  13.  @cosmicphoenix9  she's in an allotment at a local cemetery... so yes.
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  14. It's not that society chastises women for having sex, it's the fact that so many are having that many partners that it puts a lot off the incentive. It's a cruel fact but it's why so many women in that industry find it hard to find men to be partners - not only does the man have to accept that she's having it off with every guy she works with, he has to hope to hell when they have time to be intimate that she's not going to be numb to it.
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  15.  @VVabsa  And you actually believe a group of strangers that you elevate above everyone else is going to have your interests 😏 therein lays your problem. You prattle about the future whilst harbouring no heedance about the continuously forgotten wisdom painfully learned briefly by the repeated mistakes of the past.
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  16.  @babyvaso3855  They probably are. Before he died - my grandfather having fought in WWII being left abandoned in Australia by his own country following the end of it because the nation he fought for was bankrupt lived his whole life until the age of 83 and one of the last things I remember him saying in regards to how the world has gone was "Why the hell did we even bother?" Men like him threw their lives away for the thought of a better future for those who came after him... and THIS is what we get.
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  17.  @MrTobi013  As cold as it sounds, 'want' has nothing to do with anyone else but them. They have to want to change themselves before anyone can even begin to help. As upsetting as it may be to you, you cannot help someone that does not want to be helped - and it's never a motivator to try and tell a person "Do it for whoever" that never works either - addicts tend to relapse more frequently when attempting to break their habits for the sake of another and really, is this not on similar par? Unfortunately you get people that are what you have to accept are a lost cause of their own making. Whether they want to come out of that or not, will be down to themselves.
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  18.  @thescope4373  And lastly ohohoho... just HAD to try the WW argument eh? I had at least some respect for you for having pulled yourself up and done something with your life; an admirable and commendable act. But needless to say you want to talk about WW - you realise the events that led to the second came about because a country elevated a tyrant to power, because he was pandering to their whining and complaining by using a scapegoat or two.
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  19.  @RpRm  Hardly underhanded, just rather direct. I don't consider myself "privileged" in any way because I'm just as well in the rat race. Only difference is that i don't go sulking about it. But you feel better? Got that little hypocritical ramble off your chest? Get over yourself.
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  20.  @ogungou9  Oh for goodness sake... an actual mental condition such a schizophrenia being compared to a little bit of a bad day is a pretty poor comparison. I wake up every day not really wanting to do a lot of things - but I'm not the center of the universe: no one is, so I pull up my pants and get on with it. So maybe instead of making excuses for them not to improve, how about making them realise that either they pull their thumb out or they stay stuck in their rut. Help doesn't help those not prepared to try and help themselves and I'm simply sick of people trying to pretend that coddling is the be all end all. No wonder so many abuse the system.
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  21.  @ogungou9  Sure, but to be helped, you first need to want to be helped. Anything less than that and folk are merely wasting their time.
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  22.  @ogungou9  There's nothing complicated between wanting help and not and those not wanting it instead warranting feeling sorry for themselves - I have no time for.
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  23. Rubbish. No school fee is worth your dignity and self respect, much less your future.
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  24.  @richerDiLefto  Marrying is one thing - a drunken hook up in Vegas can lead to a marriage down the street via an Elvis impersonator. KEEPING a marriage with both partners loyal to each other and giving to each other far more than what they gave to whatever partner - "business" or not, they were with before - is another thing altogether. And I wonder just how long it will take until he finds himself being cheated on or expected to "accept" her wanting an open marriage due to him, just not scratching that itch the way she likes and an ensuing divorce that ruins him. I'll keep my "red pill" though if you like, but you're the one living in delusion if you think anyone who values themselves so little to engage in their antics, is redeemable. You'd either have to be the Messiah or just spoonfed on the blatant tripe you just spouted.
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  25. Understandable, albeit a lousy excuse to justify what's essentially wrong with the world today: people want the glorious wedding day, the wonder of their children's birth; but when the crunch comes that they need to be responsible and realise they chose the life they're in, they immediately start blaming everyone except for themselves. Bills need paying, mouths need feeding, clothes and so on, thus you work to pay for it; that's the way of the world and when you're home, you be the parent, you be the partner and you do it without complaint and certainly don't go throwing it away just because of a spat or a dry spell. There is never a good enough reason to cheat: for men or for women. Disregarding vows like the ones made in marriage is as immature as a child who can't keep a promise and never is expected to do so.
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  26. It's the oldest occupation for a reason.
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  27.  @ajossi  They don't need to go that far - they've already got Pride parades in the west and the likes of Netflix doing that for them with actual young ones at actual risk - but not one iota of protest to that here is there.
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  28.  @vorynrosethorn903  Laws only have so much power in that they're acknowledged and agreed on by the majority. And again, prohibition was tried and all it did was have people rebel and defy until it was dropped. Instead of advocating the making of ridiculous laws, how about actually going after actual perpetrators who inflict actual harm? Sheesh - no wonder the confidence in the status quo is so low and law breaking is becoming more appealing; it's having an actual issue be utilised to justify the restriction of others with no relevance other then for being for the sake of it.
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  29.  @vorynrosethorn903  And how are you going to enforce a law that no one is going to step up to and enforce? Governor of New Mexico found that one out quite recently trying to put a law to prohibit conceal and carry. The police have even turned round and told em where to go and so have the people. As I said - law can only be obeyed when the people agree to it. The delusion of establishment holding the cards is stifling and your argument is null and void.
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  30. @yourstrulychaos947  Well she can either accept her future alone with little to show for it with shamed dignity or with regret and shame. That's entirely up to her - but either way, it's rather bleak.
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  31. Only because they let it be.
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  32. Yeah, they can start by not being so picky whilst retaining good standards and not just settling for some schmuck after they've passed the peak and can no longer compete for the bad boys who won't settle, period. Men like women, not girls defined as women because of their age, with daddy issues thinking they're owed something.
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  33.  @nanaholic01  Yeah I've read the works of Smith and on paper the principal works, however the weak link is - people are inherently wanting more and wanting to do less to attain it. There are those who choose diligence and those that will let distraction take its course. Hence the result in China and it's corruption - the same can be said anywhere. As such the theory never makes it anywhere off paper and history has always proven that the problem isn't inherent to the principle, but to people and you can't take away people's right to either be avaricious or lazy, just as you can't force those who choose to improve themselves to have to submit their gains for the sake of those just demanding it.
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  34.  @Luziferne  I refer you to the same response I gave to Nanaholic01 only replace the works of Smith with that of Marx.
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  35.  @steemlenn8797  Well first of all - we kind of already are and always were financial slaves - unless you're the sort prepared to fend for yourself in woodlands and wilderness and scavenge on the land. Not to mention as I point out that currency is based primarily the existence of debt. To which I ask you how to pay back debt with a currency backed by it? The money was never government owned, it was loaned to them by banks. So redistribution is as much as an impossible notion as it is wrongly perceived as to be applied. The welfare state can only exist with more capital going into it than being used to support those needing it and unlike your historical example, the currency can only lose value as it's not based on a physical collateral. And let's be honest, even if you tried putting a Gold or Silver Standard: the amount of material needed to balance the debt is either non-existent or simply is beyond our technical means to attain. Face it - there's only one way out and it's the one no one wants to admit: toughen up and adapt, because it's either that or revert back to the serfs of yesteryear when the offer of a reset of said debt comes - nothing is free, not even good intentions.
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  36.  @steemlenn8797  And just where is the value in a currency not backed by a collateral? How will that debt be paid back? It isn't the government who owns the money, they loan it from the banks.
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  37.  @Alpha-Omega-TFOA  Ask each foolish government who accepted such conditions to begin with and who have allowed the debt to snowball.
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  38.  @steemlenn8797  Because the inflation of currency is tied to said debt the country owes. What happens when you raise the wage? Inflation rises to meet it and so what changes? Absolutely nothing to the one pursuing the wage.
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  39.  @E3567Y5  In other words convenient rational to justify a lack of doing anything.
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  40.  @robertchandler2063  The irony being that the money in of itself only has a perceived value, not one tied to a collateral. If everyone realised the rub - the value of that money would vanish instantly. Problem again isn't the theory - it's the nature of people. Unless you want to indoctrinate them into being obedient automatons, there never will be an answer and by doing that, you destroy the very humanity you're trying to progress.
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  41.  @Luziferne  I read them and understood them, I merely point out the flaw. Can't read that, sorry. Translation?
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  42.  @steemlenn8797  Answer me this - when say a dollar you lent in ten years is only worth fifty cents and in interest you owe one dollar seventy five - how do you pay it back?
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  43.  @Kokozaftran  if wishes were fishes the world would be an ocean; as much as no one likes assholes, you can't take away their right to be assholes.
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  44.  @evzenvarga9707  then let the Japanese sort it out.
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  45.  @eros-arcana  fingers crossed.
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  46.  @eros-arcana  says the halfwit responding to comments made over a year ago.
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  47.  @journeytrials  Yeah, choice of STI too.
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  48.  @TokyoTraveller  It's also a matter of expectation. Do too much and you'll be expected for more - and if you do nothing, you'll be demeaned.
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  49.  @journeytrials  And the fact that no one just flashes around their STI like a banner, means just jumping in with someone who does the leg split and smash for a living is just asking for the inevitable. And typically - get the clap more then twice and you're stuck with that for LIFE.
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  50.  @journeytrials  Try pleasing everyone all of the time and you'll always be disappointed. And all your idea does - whilst I get the message you're passing on - is justify further poor choices. Best course of action, though the least likely is have men be men and women to have standards but for fuck's sake let them be realistic.
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