are regularly portrayed as intellectually incompetent, sociopathic nutcases who are a grave threat to all of humanity — WISDOMfromPO-MO

It’s a pretty accurate description actually :smile:

Organisms, including humans, are designed to live actively, and we all keep living, and we all keep wanting to live, — Bitter Crank

Some people commit suicide because they find life is not worth living. So the question does exist and it can be answered either way. If this biological drive was inherently as strong as you suggest, there’d be no cases of deliberate self-harm or suicide.

I thought I'd add the one below which I took near my place in Thailand — Baden

Is this a self portrait, Baden?

Careful. I think Agustino might be falling in love with you. — T Clark

It’s only natural. I’m irresistible :cool:

I thought you are a Communist — Agustino

I am not a communist but I do sympathise with your inability to differentiate between political ideologies that don’t belong in the right-wing conservatism in which you reside.

Trust me, I can throw it away faster than you think.

No. like these ones

a million bucks would be nice

all of it

I believe you

we cant be sure either way

Agustino you lil whiner :razz:

individual cells have consciousness. — BlueBanana

Interesting. And you know that because..... :chin:

Why do you lot have to dissect every attempt at humorous innovation to the point of fatal fastidiousness?

you might grow a fungus in your beard.

it’s not in your best interest if I do.

how terribly interesting

Timeline has beautifully dismantled your argument. Sometimes you have to admit defeat and move on, dear.

This a serious question. Do you suffer from OCD?

Religion posits a place called heaven where , it's supposed, we all go after we die. Heaven is a place of happiness, no suffering - a great place everyone should be happy to go to. — TheMadFool

There’s also a place called hell and rumour has it it’s not very nice.

what are you talking about? It’s me!

it’s no secret

Just a personal portrait..

that really pisses you off doesn’t it? :lol: so funny

Why aren't people behaving more immorally than they are behaving? — Bitter Crank

Because of the fear of getting caught and punished.

Yesterday's muppet is tomorrow's genius.

What if I told you ______? Would you_______?

In Jungian terms, the world appears to be currently in the grip of the archetype of the devil; this will inevitably lead to disaster.

If pigs could________, the world ________.

I have a dream, that one day I will start a global Communist revolution for the emancipation of the proletariat class which will lead to a more equal society, but will result in the death of the bourgeois .

Boredom is ________.

French people can irritate the driver for miles.

Australians eat ____ on the ____.

Hamsters taste like ____. — Lone Wolf

Hamsters taste like armadillos on nuclear diet.

Hamsters can _____ all the way off.

So the UK could have used the Novichok in him, and blamed it on Russia. Why blame it on Russia? Brexit. May's absolute failure in the brexit negotiations is reducing her popularity and she needs something to distract the masses from the big issue, and an attack by Russia on it's home soil would do just the trick. — René Descartes

Very plausible. As you said, the Russians are evil but not stupid. They could have gotten rid of him when he was incarcerated in a Russian prison. Why not do it then and wait until now? It doesn't make sense.

Does anyone else think this game is a lot like cards against humanity?

political correctness to the extreme. It’s apparently a racist crime to ask someone what their ethnicity is.

that makes a lot of sense

No, I don't think marxists are the truly religious ones. Some marxists are good people, some capitalists are good people. — Bitter Crank

Are you making an association between "religious" and "good people"?

But not of my stomach's peristalsis — Agustino

You never have gas, I take it.

It's good to be boring — Agustino

I bet you’re speaking from experience.

Yes, that is indisputable I think. Breathing, heart rate, metabolism, digestion etc. almost everything is unconscious. — Agustino

What you mean is “automatic”. You’re conscious of your breathing, your heart’s palpitations, your stomach’s peristalsis etc. You just choose to ignore them because they’re so darn boring.

It's not a quality conversation — Agustino

Says Professor Agustino.

I don't think we can do something comparable with our minds. — Bitter Crank

I thought yogis had mastered the art.