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Posts by Meathead  

Joined: 3 Jun 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 10 Apr 2022
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Meathead   
4 Jan 2013
News / The lottery of life: Where to be born in 2013. Poland ranks 33 out of 80. [23]

I know your intentions but we both know that your personal success is based mainly on your brains, hard work and persistence. Living in a successful country can be definately beneficial but it's no guarantee of success whatsoever.

Oh no? How can you explain Poles who don't amount to a hill of beans in Poland become successful in the United States or Mexicans who live in squalor in Mexico but maintain a living in the US. Of course it matters where you are born. Just read the posts on this forum. Luck matters.
Meathead   
27 Dec 2012
News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

How did they do it?

You do it by paying a livable wage. If people are not economically secure they won't have children. The Roman Catholic philosophy of "living in poverty leads to heaven" is pagan nonsense.
Meathead   
22 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

Most people who write racist and xenophobic posts are American born or raised there. How come, despite such a multi-cultural environment they grew up to be racists?

He is expressing the views of devout Roman Catholics in the States. Roman Catholics do not believe in freedom of thought, so if one thinks differently they become angry.

Even though I'm Polish myself I tended to think the same at the beginning of my usage of this forum, but this site convinced me that Poles are not worse in those terms than so called "Western Europeans"... barring the fact that Western Europeans likes to think of themselves as being tolerant and culturally superior (as if there was no clash between those two terms, btw).

Poles are culturally "Western"

Yes, I'm defensive, this forum made me like that.

The forum made you do it? Poles are defensive by nature.
Meathead   
14 Dec 2012
Life / If you are Polish abroad or of Polish descent, do you celebrate St. Nicholas day? [33]

The example set by the real St Nick is ideal for today's selfish.greedy times.

Typical anti Santa Claus pap from the Roman Pagan Church. I attended a Christmas service a long time ago in Denver where one of the parish Nun's concocted a story-line in the middle of the Mass where they had Santa Claus literally assassinated (simulated violence). Typical American church goers thank God, I don't think anyone paid attention. You Roman pagans are just a bunch of sick puppies.
Meathead   
10 Dec 2012
Life / How a Pole can contribute to the homeland? [27]

Actually, that was a cornball comment on my part. I was trying to match wits but it fell flat.

How about shale gas? It's now a great discussion in Poland concerning extracting the shale gas.

Poland doesn't have the technology for this.

Myabe you could suggest something an average Kowalski have competence to do?

Bio digesters are low tech and within your reach. Here's how you do it:
1. Find feedstock, could be waste from factory, small village, farm, etc.
2. Locate appropriate size bio digester on internet. Find costs, etc.
3. Locate customer for product that your bio digester is going to produce.
4. Go to bank and get business loan.
5. A lot of legwork but...Simple!
Meathead   
4 Dec 2012
News / Are Poles good enough for USA (to go there without a visa)? [288]

I live in the US and what you are saying is nonsense. Nobody cares about Poles or Poland here, and you know that.

exactly! Americans are ambivalent towards Poles and Poland. Visa problems are emulating from Warsaw or Brussels not Washington DC.

Brussels wants cheap labor.
Meathead   
4 Dec 2012
Life / How a Pole can contribute to the homeland? [27]

i don't know

I don't believe that, you've always appeared (from your posts) to be rather curious. Curious people have interests.

and cheat and lie? ;)

Polish women of two types, either super scrupulous or amoral and anything goes. From your post you must be of the former.

Okay the question is, how can a Pole contribute to the homeland.

Here's an opportunity and something I would pursue if I lived in Poland and was looking to make a enough money to support myself. Notice this article about Poland signing an agreement with Germany about a gas supply.

warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/article.php/23038/news/10224/47731

Well, I was thinking wouldn't Poland be better off with it's own gas? Where can Poland get it's own gas? How about bio digesters? Are they feasible?

web.mit.edu/colab/pdf/papers/D_Lab_Waste_Biodigester_Case_Studies_Report.pdf
Meathead   
3 Dec 2012
Life / How a Pole can contribute to the homeland? [27]

That is reality. To succeed in anything you have to lose your fear of failure. So just chose something to do, and do it enough until you get good at it in spite of your setbacks.

Example, I knew a fellow who wanted to be a bartender. Unfortunately he didn't have any experience, so everytime he answered an ad for a bartender he never had the experience to get hired. Finally, he went to a job interview where he told them he had the experience. After one day they found out he didn't have the experience and fired him from the job. He went on another job interview and told them he had the experience, after two days of work they found out he didn't have the experience and fired him from the job. This went on for the first five jobs and after the sixth job he finally had the experience to stay on the job. Moral of the story is to find out what you want to do and pursue it.

Not everyone is given the chance to do what they like. Let alone not everyone is blessed with the knoweldge what they would like to do in their life...

What are three things that you like doing?
Meathead   
30 Nov 2012
Life / How a Pole can contribute to the homeland? [27]

Find a need and fill it. What does Poland need, what would sell? And when you fail...try again and fail again. Success doesn't come from success, success comes from failure. My advice is for you to do what you would do even if you weren't getting paid to do it. In other words do what you enjoy doing...and keep doing it.
Meathead   
30 Nov 2012
News / Grzegorz Braun's firing squad? [39]

What I've noticed on this forum is that people who claim to be Polish have German last names and publish the most intolerant and extreme views.
Meathead   
27 Nov 2012
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

but are anti-Europeans and they should be out

True

Bonne journée quand même mais avec la haine que tu sembles avoir, ça ne semble pas très facile

I love the French language.
Meathead   
25 Nov 2012
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]

Sorry, but your comments about people living beyond their needs is complete hogwash. The problem with America and Europe is this nonsense of using cheap third world labor to maximize profits. When third world labor is used at the expense of a domestic workforce, (surprise!) no one has the money to purchase anything. In short they are cannibalizing their own markets, it's a zero sum game.
Meathead   
24 Nov 2012
USA, Canada / Homeless Poles in NYC [25]

Only if you will fix me a visa.

You need to apply

I'm not sure what did you mean by the above comment but mind that my English is flawed. I'm sorry if what I have written sounded uncompassionate, that certainly wasn't my intention.

No need to apologize. Your English is much better than my Polish. No, you didn't sound uncompassionate, you're only guilty of taking someone's word for it.
Meathead   
23 Nov 2012
History / Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime against Poland [97]

WWII occurred because you European folk basically don't get along. WWII was an extension of WWI and we didn't want anything to do with another bloodbath. You know sending soldiers "over the top" in the teeth of machine guns and losing a whole generation of young men. The same bs is happening all over Europe today with the financial crisis (austerity measures). And what are you doing about that? If England's leadership had a brain they would quit the Eurozone and concentrate on their "lost empire".
Meathead   
23 Nov 2012
USA, Canada / Homeless Poles in NYC [25]

For example I've read in Glowacki's book

You should go there and see it for yourself.
Meathead   
23 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]

As long as they're good parents, it really shouldn't matter to others.

My sis showed me some old Polish census records. Many babies were born to single mothers. The concept of unmarried couples having babies isn't something new.

Exactly. First off, marriage is a relatively modern concept. It didn't come into fashion until the 15th or 16th century. Before than people just moved in together and the church was uninvolved except for the huge political weddings that united powerful political families.

Secondly, with war and invasions and different health standards it was not unusual for blended families and one parent homes.
Meathead   
10 Nov 2012
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

Culturally, Poles are Western European.

Culturally, West Slavs developed along the lines of other Western European nations due to affiliation with the Roman Empire and Western Christianity.[2] Thus, they experienced a cultural split with the other Slavic groups: while the East Slavs and most South Slavs converted to Orthodox Christianity, thus being culturally influenced by the Byzantine Empire, the West Slavs along with the westernmost South Slavs (Slovenes and Croats) converted to Roman Catholicism, thus coming under the cultural influence of the Latin Church. (Rarely, the term "West Slavs" includes these Catholic South Slavs.)

^ "From its beginning, Poland drew its primary inspiration from Western Europe and developed a closer affinity with the French and Italians, for example, than with nearer Slavic neighbors of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine heritage. Gladas Hanger This westward orientation, which in some ways has made Poland the easternmost outpost of Latinate and Catholic tradition, helps to explain the Poles' tenacious sense of belonging to the "West" and their deeply rooted antagonism toward Russia as the representative of an essentially alien way of life." U.S. Library of Congress, Country Study Poland

Meathead   
6 Nov 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

Unfortunately, you people are confusing geography with CULTURE. Poland is where Western Europe begins culturally. Dominika99 the book you listed is about Russia searching for some cultural identity by approaching Poland. It's not about Poland approaching Russia (culturally speaking there was nothing there for the Poles). Apparently you guys didn't read the links that I posted, more specifically the, "History of Philosophy in Poland": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_philosophy_in_Poland. If you bother to read this, Polish Philosophers were studying with Thomas Aquinas in Italy in the 13th Century and throughout the Middle Ages there was interaction (an exchange of ideas) with France and Germany and Scotland. There was no mention of Russia. I was wrong, Poles don't look West they are West. Poland is to

Russia what England is to France.
Meathead   
4 Nov 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

I would be glad to know if you are Polish or American/Westerner.

According to the links I posted Poles are Westerners. Read the links.
Meathead   
4 Nov 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

i believe I answered your questions about your mother and your aunt and their attitude towards your friend and other Ukrainians. And it looks like my posts are substantiated by wiki.

Poles are a strange people. They love being Polish but hate Poland. Poles born in the States hate the thought of being American but love living in America. I had to embrace the fact that I was American and I left Poland or Polishness behind. Best decision I ever made and this is not a criticism of Poland or Polishness.
Meathead   
4 Nov 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

Oh ok, so it's fine to treat others badly if you don't like where they come from. Brilliant point.

You asked, at the start of this thread what Poles thought of Ukrainians. From what I read not much. But, this doesn't speak for the individual, i.e., there are individuals out there who will overlook the cultural differences.
Meathead   
4 Nov 2012
History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

From footnotes in the slavophile article:

^ "From its beginning, Poland drew its primary inspiration from Western Europe and developed a closer affinity with the French and Italians, for example, than with nearer Slavic neighbors of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine heritage. Gladas Hanger This westward orientation, which in some ways has made Poland the easternmost outpost of Latinate and Catholic tradition

You're American (your posts sure are. are you not?). The above quote is from the Library of Congress. Remember we're talking cultural differences here, not individual differences. My guess is your friend will not be accepted in poland until she assimilates into Polish culture and society. In short Poles don't like Ukrainians, the cultural divide is too deep.