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Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....

 
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Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Everybody uses the metric system except us; everyone drives on the opposite side of the road from what we do; most countries read from right to left.......

What is is about amerika that we changed and don't recognize that?

the ONLY thing we do have in common is the language of *english* ....... why?

Thoughts?
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Like in the times of ancient Babylon.
They keep us separated to more easily control us.

The sons of satan have all the ancient knowledge and are using it as a weapon against all of humanity.
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Like in the times of ancient Babylon.
They keep us separated to more easily control us.

The sons of satan have all the ancient knowledge and are using it as a weapon against all of humanity.
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aaahhhhhhh, interesting response. Makes sense! but the language being the common denominator... why?
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Everybody uses the metric system except us; everyone drives on the opposite side of the road from what we do; most countries read from right to left.......

What is is about amerika that we changed and don't recognize that?

the ONLY thing we do have in common is the language of *english* ....... why?

Thoughts?
 Quoting: Satya Revelations


The statement in the red is selectively narrow sighted.
Amarica and the rest of the world have many connective branches, styles, habits, beliefs, desires, political systems, banking, written words, etc, etc.
"A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger."

"He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Everybody uses the metric system except us; everyone drives on the opposite side of the road from what we do; most countries read from right to left.......

What is is about amerika that we changed and don't recognize that?

the ONLY thing we do have in common is the language of *english* ....... why?

Thoughts?
 Quoting: Satya Revelations


The statement in the red is selectively narrow sighted.
Amarica and the rest of the world have many connective branches, styles, habits, beliefs, desires, political systems, banking, written words, etc, etc.
 Quoting: LTHN.


but that doesn't explain the differences i pointed out...... why? what is the purpose of having amerikans reading left to right..... driving on opposite sides of the road .... different measuring system. why?
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Everybody uses the metric system except us; everyone drives on the opposite side of the road from what we do; most countries read from right to left.......

What is is about amerika that we changed and don't recognize that?

the ONLY thing we do have in common is the language of *english* ....... why?

Thoughts?
 Quoting: Satya Revelations


The statement in the red is selectively narrow sighted.
Amarica and the rest of the world have many connective branches, styles, habits, beliefs, desires, political systems, banking, written words, etc, etc.
 Quoting: LTHN.


but that doesn't explain the differences i pointed out...... why? what is the purpose of having amerikans reading left to right..... driving on opposite sides of the road .... different measuring system. why?
 Quoting: Satya Revelations


The metric system was imposed on Canada back in the 80's, the imperial system we had worked fine, came from Britain, same with Fahrenheit temp measurements as opposed to changing to Celsius.
It cost the taxpayers massive amounts of money to replace all the road signs form mIles to kilometres across the country, countless machinist's Imperial measuring tools now needed to be replaced unless one wanted to go through mathematical conversions.

I guess America takes more of a " if it ain't broken, and it works, don't change it" kind of attitude.
Same reason I still only use a landline telephone, It works fine for what I expect a phone to do.
"A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger."

"He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
You are wrong on several points and spelling America with a "k" is extremely gay...
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Everybody uses the metric system except us; everyone drives on the opposite side of the road from what we do; most countries read from right to left.......

 Quoting: Satya Revelations



It's hard to have such a discussion when the basis of many of your questions is just based on your perception rather than in fact.

For instance, driving is a simple one to disprove:

"RHT is used in 165 countries and territories, with the remaining 75 countries and territories using LHT. Countries that use LHT account for about a sixth of the world's area with about a third of its population and a quarter of its roads."


So basically it comes down to 2/3 of the world uses the same driving side as we do, whether you base it by number of countries or population, but when you do it by area it is more like 5/6 is the same as the US.

You can check the footnotes on the wikipedia page for the source.

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Your discussion will be more worthy and hold more merit if you can ask questions that are actually factually based, and phrased in ways that are objective rather than subjective (e.g. "most countries read from right to left", isn't the population more important than the number of countries? etc.)


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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Everybody uses the metric system except us; everyone drives on the opposite side of the road from what we do; most countries read from right to left.......

What is is about amerika that we changed and don't recognize that?

the ONLY thing we do have in common is the language of *english* ....... why?

Thoughts?
 Quoting: Satya Revelations


The statement in the red is selectively narrow sighted.
Amarica and the rest of the world have many connective branches, styles, habits, beliefs, desires, political systems, banking, written words, etc, etc.
 Quoting: LTHN.


but that doesn't explain the differences i pointed out...... why? what is the purpose of having amerikans reading left to right..... driving on opposite sides of the road .... different measuring system. why?
 Quoting: Satya Revelations


The metric system was imposed on Canada back in the 80's, the imperial system we had worked fine, came from Britain, same with Fahrenheit temp measurements as opposed to changing to Celsius.
It cost the taxpayers massive amounts of money to replace all the road signs form mIles to kilometres across the country, countless machinist's Imperial measuring tools now needed to be replaced unless one wanted to go through mathematical conversions.

I guess America takes more of a " if it ain't broken, and it works, don't change it" kind of attitude.
Same reason I still only use a landline telephone, It works fine for what I expect a phone to do.
 Quoting: LTHN.


nah...... makes no sense. Everything else "was" before...... Amerika came to be, and changed it. I'm just interested in the reasoning.
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
America was founded on FUCK YOU, that's why. It is about to get it's balls again too. That tree of liberty is about starving now.
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
America was founded on FUCK YOU, that's why. It is about to get it's balls again too. That tree of liberty is about starving now.
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
America was founded on FUCK YOU, that's why. It is about to get it's balls again too. That tree of liberty is about starving now.
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 Quoting: Satya Revelations

sorry..... misunderstood......

interesting response actually........
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Everybody uses the metric system except us; everyone drives on the opposite side of the road from what we do; most countries read from right to left.......

 Quoting: Satya Revelations



It's hard to have such a discussion when the basis of many of your questions is just based on your perception rather than in fact.

For instance, driving is a simple one to disprove:

"RHT is used in 165 countries and territories, with the remaining 75 countries and territories using LHT. Countries that use LHT account for about a sixth of the world's area with about a third of its population and a quarter of its roads."


So basically it comes down to 2/3 of the world uses the same driving side as we do, whether you base it by number of countries or population, but when you do it by area it is more like 5/6 is the same as the US.

You can check the footnotes on the wikipedia page for the source.

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Your discussion will be more worthy and hold more merit if you can ask questions that are actually factually based, and phrased in ways that are objective rather than subjective (e.g. "most countries read from right to left", isn't the population more important than the number of countries? etc.)


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Green karma for you, if you were a member...
"A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger."

"He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
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Re: Why is everything in Amerika in reverse / different from the rest of the world ~ except for one thing....
Everybody uses the metric system except us; everyone drives on the opposite side of the road from what we do; most countries read from right to left.......

What is is about amerika that we changed and don't recognize that?

the ONLY thing we do have in common is the language of *english* ....... why?

Thoughts?
 Quoting: Satya Revelations


We use the metric system here we use both. I have tools in metric. We have bolts nut all in metric. EVER ONE drives on the other side? How do you come to this fact?
MOST countries read from right to left? Again how do you come up with this?
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