before you do something regrettable. — Sir2u

Like reduce poor little you to tears?

Interesting fantasy. Have you spoken to your therapist about it?

No matter how many baths I take, you still stink, dear.

I would if I could stand the smell, dear.

Can’t stand the smell of sweaty peasants working for me, dear.

Let me do the sweaty work for you though. — Sir2u

Please don’t. The odour is unbearable.

Did you look up the meaning of snake oil? — Sir2u

No and it’s quite obvious that neither did you.

If you are horny, right now, think of how thorny I am!

No point in _________ you. You will always be ________.

No, it was not 'clearly wrong' then. Do you imagine that in the past people did what they did because they woke up one morning and thought 'Let's be evil'? — Londoner

I disagree. They very well knew it was wrong to kill and oppress but invented all sorts of excuses to justify their evil deeds. Not much has changed in that regard today.

Yes, people saw things differently in the past. It is enjoyable to re-tell history as a simple story of goodies and baddies but that is not how it seemed to the people involved then, and nor is helpful when trying to understand the situation today. — Londoner

Attempts to morally justify or excuse what was clearly wrong then and now, won’t wash either.

Except possibly Cyprus, for the moment, as far as I know. — unenlightened

Really?? Check this out:

More clearly express your opinion, and you shall then be condemned to the Gallows.

Never try to teach a _____ to ______.

I think that what happens is that they land on shore and see a lot of unoccupied land. Land is not an asset as such, it has to be worked to become productive, so there would be no notion that the new arrivals were depriving anyone of anything.

There was something of that notion in early Jewish settlements in Palestine, They were taking on unproductive land, so bringing it into production would benefit everyone. — Londoner

So if Somalis landed on English shores, that happen to be unoccupied at the time, they can start working on them to make them more productive for everyone's benefit, right? With such mentality, no wonder the old english imperialists felt entitled to help themselves to anything that crossed their path.

reality — Metaphysician Undercover

Do you mean the physical world?

such as Aristotle's proposed dualism between matter and form — Metaphysician Undercover

That's not at all what Aristotle proposed.

Life is a bitch, so we screw it.

Your____ gives me the _____.

Do a poll to find out if anyone understood what you meant. — Sir2u

Most of us understood, dear.

Put some snake oil on it then — Sir2u

Bloody charming.

But it's easy to bloviate before then, before you've really understood the problems deeply enough, and come to rash conclusions — gurugeorge

Oh, I wouldn’t wanna come out in a rash conclusion.

At this point I'd settle for the 20 hour work week without reduction in pay. It's not the sort of goal I dream of, but it's good. — Moliere

At this point I’d settle for 25million in my bank account for sitting on my arse all year round. If Prince Charles deserves it, I don’t see why I wouldn’t.

Yawn

Easily. Humanity is a random (and unfortunate) occurrence unlikely to be repeated.

You have my permission to use that language if you'd like. — T Clark

Can you sign a waiver that you will not sue for copyright infringement?

Yes, that should do it.

By giving them lots of crap to moderate hoping they’ll die from exhaustion.

I’m in.

Baden isn’t.

And by God I mean Baden.

It was God’s will.

Oh dear... what did you do now? — Agustino

Let’s just say the party is going to start sooner that you thought.

Not Chopin but still beautiful

It’s common knowledge. Now eat your pretzel, dear.

...and don’t worry about the funny taste.

Similar to your dogmatic attitude with regards to religion — Agustino

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Religion is by definition dogmatic.

Ok, here’s a pretzel then

A place in the Hall of Dumb.

I wasn’t referring to you but your honest self-reflection is commendable.

:snicker: I hope you're not serious dear :lol: — Agustino

I am very serious, dear. Im not the one giggling.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to mislabel some people as educated and intelligent.

One of the problems of guns is that they are very swift and generally fatal. A loaded gun doesn't allow for much chance to reconsider. People who would use slower methods (hanging, for instance) have time to think twice and often do decide not to take the final step. — Bitter Crank

It doesn’t take more time to swallow lethal pills than it takes to pull a trigger.
Guns jam or the user may misfire and end up with a messy disfigurment instead of a bullet in their brain.

When despair becomes sufficiently intense, or when loneliness is too severe, or the pain of existence (from physical or mental disease) is too great, people turn toward suicide and consider that option. — Bitter Crank

Some people commit suicide out of boredom and loss of meaning in their life which is not the same as intense psychological pain.

But if the biological drive to live was not inherently as strong as I suggest, there would be a lot more suicides. — Bitter Crank

Perhaps there would be more if the means or courage to do it were more readily available. Lack of courage doesn’t imply strong biological drive to live.

Observe and admire, dear.

are you trying to proselytize us?

P.S God is a delusional belief. I don’t know how seemingly educated and intelligent people can believe in such made-up fantasies.

My giant ego. What else? :p — Ying

Sounds a lot like SPS.