Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
You never voice a clear opinion of your own. [...] Next time you feel compelled to respond to critisize something that I have said; please also clearly state what your own point of view is. If you don't actually have an opinion, then please do not argue just for the sake of it. Leave it to those who actually care about the topic enough to have an opinion.
Do you have an example of that? I mean, I was under impression I express my opinion clear enough as long as I have it, but sometimes I just don't have enough info to base my opinion upon, and I think it's obvious from what I'm trying to say. However, when I see someone's firm opinion, I usually start asking questions, to understand the source of that opinion, at times in a belief I can share that opinion to make it my own. One of the good ways of finding the truth is to look for the contradictions. If I present them and they do not get an adequate explanation, I can safely throw those opinion away for myself and look for something else. I'm truly interested in what's around me (there were reasons for it), but I hate reading books or articles allegedly "explaining everything" - a tactics sometimes used by the "followers". The simple reason that is those fantastic books' authors are not here to comment. I cannot have a dialog with them, cannot present my questions to them, cannot present those with the contradictions, etc. That's why I chose to talk to the real people who have based their opinion on something, and try and dig below that something in a hope to find something useful. If all I hear is "the US/capitalism is responsible for all the evil on this planet" without an adequate explanation, I reserve a right to myself to have some fun with that. I think that complies with the free spirit of the Interenet discussions. (And I hope people would correct my English the same way I try to help those who learn Russian.)

Having said that, I think we can do some fair damage control here. If you want my opinion, just ask. You know some fair amount of my opinions, I believe, like:
- I hate the communism
- I prefer the Western-style capitalism to any other form of the resource distribution presently available
- I think things should be measured in comparison
- I think the 9/11 was neither designed not performed by Al Quaeda
- I think the Soviet Power was just another disaster that hit Russia and some other countries
- I don't think the US is evil, and I don't think the EU is the best thing that could ever happen to Europe
- I don't think the pan-European ideology is sound and solid
- I support Israel in their struggle to survive as an idependent state against the surrounding Arab nations who dream to wipe it out
- I think the so-called Palestinian-Israeli conflict is fed by the external sources (i.e. the other nations use it for their benefits) and I think it's a very dangerious thing to do because the Meggido Mount is located in Israel.
- I don't think Islam is a source of the so-called Islamic terrorism
- I think the big religions were the best psychological and philosophical acheivements of their time, but nowdays they are holding the spirituality of the humanity back
- I think the wars are perhaps the worst things that happen to the humanity and I support destruction of the local customs in favor of establishing the global uniform planetary culture
- I support the expansion of the humanity to the space
- I think the .net developers are not shallow and their PMs are

What else do you want me to share? (Please, don't ask me anymore where did I serve in the military, because I hate that experience and I don't want to discuss it.)

Sounds fair?

PS. So many letters.. gosh..