I get what you’re saying… it’s overwhelming for us, and we’re in Canada… can’t imagine what it’s like for those of you who are right there and can see/understand what’s going on. The seeming lack of concern from some Americans makes perfect sense when you explain it that way. Thanks!

Maybe Bin’s plan will work now (even if he’s not around to see it), with how crazy Trump’s been acting? That’s actually a question.

Interesting. Thanks.

Hmm, you don’t sound very worried about it either… same as the other Americans I’ve asked. Like, unless I’m just not reading your tone right, I’m probably more worried about it than you are.

Why do you think it happened?

Looked at the article… it’s really discouraging the way some Americans support and seem to love this guy. With everything he’s doing, do you think he’s setting the country up for another major terrorist attack?

The guy’s definitely not winning any popularity contests.

I haven’t celebrated xmas for several years now and it’s seriously been so liberating.

Has there ever been another U.S. President who’s spent this much time fighting the courts?

I’ve seen a couple of news articles saying the U.S. is setting itself up for another terrorist attack, but a couple of Americans have told me that’s not the case and they’re not worried about it… anyone have any insight into this they can offer?

Is this supposed to be our response to Trump’s threats? Can’t say it instills much confidence, or any actually.

This is starting to feel like someone’s playing a joke on me and the whole world is on it.

Thanks for telling me what I think. Take care.

Worse than that, I suspect they don’t care much if people notice.

The words hell in a handbasket come to mind.

You didn’t think very hard about my response to you.

Sorry, didn’t mean it as a criticism… it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, and still can’t come up with a 100% original thought of my own.

I’m not positive about this, but what I suspect is that we’re maybe not capable of having thoughts that are 100% original… that we’re in fact all followers in this sense, each of us following sets of different ideas originally coming from some place else. I do believe however that it’s possible for an original thought to come to us from these other places that we can’t express because there are no words to express them. The example I gave elsewhere in the thread is of a man I knew who almost died… he claimed to see something when he was unconscious that he said he couldn’t describe because there were no words to describe it. And I think this is where the spiritual realm comes in, which a lot of people think is nonsense and don’t believe in… but then can’t explain why they seem incapable of having 100% original thoughts that are purely their own.

Just thinking about comics is already unoriginal, something originally created by someone else and that many people have thought about probably countless times by now.

Yes, it does seem that way, but our thoughts are influenced pretty much non-stop on a daily basis.