Are You A Patriotic Person Since Leaving The Witnesses? (page 2)

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and I forgot

I can pack a gun just incase any one gives me any poo-poo

Mikado

the older I get the more I find I have no tolerance for patriosm and patriotic people. I think it's almost a national trait, but just accentuated by my life experience.

it almost feels like people having a sense of, my country is so much more superior, but I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, those who come from countries were they feel very patriotic are generally the places where people havent travelled and realised now wonderful the world is, and just how varied...

just a side note, many other countries have freedom, and that of speech and safety, without all the nonsense that goes without it, and fortunatly without carrying lethal weapons

dazed but not confused

A couple months ago I bought my first American flag and proudly display it outside of my house. I now vote in local and national elections. I am thinking of getting the red white and blue tattooed somewhere on myself (as a 4th tattoo). I feel serving for ones country is an honor that I missed out on.

I had a deep sense of nationalistic pride surge through me on the morning of September 11th, 2001. I never had an outlet for the pride and anger I faced after that day. Until I left the borg, I always felt uneasy about those feelings.

I hate most politicians and the lies they spew. I don’t like that America has become the world’s police. But I believe if someone challenges you to a fight or stands in the way of the personal freedoms of weaker ones, then someone needs to step in and kick a little ass.

All in all, I am a proud American who is also a little conflicted…

So, yes. I am more outwardly patriotic since leaving.

LisaRose

It depends on what you mean by patriotic. If you mean the "my country right or wrong, 'Merica" crowd, then no. If you mean that I am happy to live where I do, that I enjoy the freedoms I have and feel a sense of pride for America, then yes, I am patriotic.

I dont always agree with what is done by our country, I was against the Iraq war. My husband is a retired Army warrant officer, he fought in the gulf war, even though he didn't believe in it, because that was his job, and I am proud of him. I am also proud of my step son who fought in Iraq as a marine, and in Afghanistan for the Army reserves, and I am proud of my grandson, currently in basic training for the Air Force, although I pray he never has to go to war.

BobFlanagan007

@ Band On the Run - "The USA isn't always right" No she*t, you're statistically the the most war mongering country on the planet. And your health care, welfare and minimum wage are an embarrassment/international joke. Most people here in Europe saw the 9/11 attacks and thought "karma's a bitch" then got on with their lives because the fact is considering the number of people who die needlessly from starvation and/or preventable illness the 9/11 attacks weren't even the worst thing that happened on 9th September 2001, nevermind the entire history of the Universe as many yanks seem to believe.

cofty

God Save the Queen

jam

The problem I have, Us against Them..We all remember that , right.

Patriotism, by its very definition, love of country instanly creates a

barrier of "us" against "them". We as humans love to categorize, create

divisions.

I feel no country should be elevated above another. Here in US our

history is not that great, but I love it...

The Greeks and Romans referred to anyone who did not speak Greek

or Latin as "Barbarians".

breakfast of champions

No, not at all.

Too close to the we're-the-only-ones-who-are-right-and-the-rest-of-you-all-suck mentality I was raised in. Been there, done that.

If anything, I'm now a more humanistic person, and if I were to have any "cause" it would be humanism and not patriotism.

jam

Where did all this patriotism come from? God, remember

the Tower of Babel.....

NCO

Not any more. I still love what my country once was and hope it will become again. But even though I wear the flag of my country on the right shoulder of my ACU and proudly serve the citizens of the State of Georgia, I'm not patriotic. I can't in good conscience be a cheerleader for what this country has become. I work and pay taxes at my civilian job and those taxes pay for a total charlie foxtrot of corruption. When I put on the uniform once a month for MUTA, I'm putting it on to serve my fellow soldiers and the citizens who need me. Not the USA. If that makes any sense.

Are You A Patriotic Person Since Leaving The Witnesses?

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