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Feb 7, 2013 - 9:28am
hobiejoe wrote:
There are so many things wrong about this that I will never, ever complain about Heathrow again.
Crazy.
hobiejoe
Oh Lord above, send down a dove; With wings as sharp as razors; To cut the throats of them mean blokes; That sells bad beer to sailors.
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
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Feb 7, 2013 - 9:22am
There are so many things wrong about this that I will never, ever complain about Heathrow again.
hippiechick
Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
Location: topsy turvy land Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
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Jan 26, 2013 - 6:49am
fuzzy wrote:
One could say that not having your values in the right place is what causes one to think they are right and everybody else wrong.
I would say that it is more like the egoic need to be right at all costs.
I would also attribute it to being too lazy to something the right way. For example, it's easier for a doctor to give a pill than convince the patient that he needs to lose 50 lbs.
hippiechick
Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
Location: topsy turvy land Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
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Jan 26, 2013 - 6:40am
fuzzy wrote:
That's what happens when people think they're right and everybody else is wrong.
I would say it's more like not having your values in the right place (that is, not money. Love of money is the root of all evil.)
hippiechick
Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
Location: topsy turvy land Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
I have 3 cats. Love 'em all. But, I am never guilty of anything with them around.
2 weeks ago, I was folding laundry, snapped a towel in the air to get the wrinkles out, and my youngest cat (who was dead asleep) launched off the back of the couch and RGP'ed herself into a very expensive lamp, rendering it into little ceramic pieces. (The bulb still worked)
Parts of Idaho are very strange. I've been through Coeur d'alene a couple times and despite my lily whiteness, I apparently failed to fly my rebel flag or show the proper wink/nod combination to get invited to the rally. I've rarely felt like such an outsider, and I've been to some places where I was definitely an outsider.
Idaho panhandle/NW Montana both have a lot of survivalist/separatist/secessionist types. Not as scary when you get to know them; the stranger-menace schtick is a big part of their cultural identity.
Too many of them (not as many as it looks, since the more-sane people up there don't make as much noise) are deep into racist displays and conspiracy crazy.
I've mostly been passing through, but we did look at a business opportunity up there. We figured we could eventually work out how to deal with the locals, but it was clearly going to be additional work. There were other factors in not moving forward, but the local scene was discussed extensively.
Parts of Idaho are very strange. I've been through Coeur d'alene a couple times and despite my lily whiteness, I apparently failed to fly my rebel flag or show the proper wink/nod combination to get invited to the rally. I've rarely felt like such an outsider, and I've been to some places where I was definitely an outsider.
Idaho panhandle/NW Montana both have a lot of survivalist/separatist/secessionist types. Not as scary when you get to know them; the stranger-menace schtick is a big part of their cultural identity.
Too many of them (not as many as it looks, since the more-sane people up there don't make as much noise) are deep into racist displays and conspiracy crazy.
Parts of Idaho are very strange. I've been through Coeur d'alene a couple times and despite my lily whiteness, I apparently failed to fly my rebel flag or show the proper wink/nod combination to get invited to the rally. I've rarely felt like such an outsider, and I've been to some places where I was definitely an outsider.
Location: Downstairs at Downton Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
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Jan 16, 2013 - 9:20am
Proclivities wrote:
It's really sad - I've casually come across a few different government-conspiracy-theory sites about Newtown and the shooting in Colorado, too - without even really drilling very deep. WTF indeed?
Unfortunately this is not really surprising. Back a few years ago when the saner among us (including L8 and others) were trying to discredit the CT fans who used to regularly post 9/11 nonsense here, I came across an essay that explored the philosophy and psychology behind the popularity of conspiracies. I can't put my hand on it now, but the book Empire of DConspiracy by Timothy Melley has a similar essential thesis: people are drawn to conspiracies as a result of a sense of powerlessness, what Melley terms "agency panic". If this is true, it's not surprising that the violent slaughter of young children would cause people to experience such feelings of powerlessness, and conspiracy theories offer an attractive explanation that is more appealing to many than simply admitting that sometimes people are crazy and do insane things.
Proclivities
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
It's really sad - I've casually come across a few different government-conspiracy-theory sites about Newtown and the shooting in Colorado, too - without even really drilling very deep. WTF indeed?
