You make some very good points, Yellow Sign. Too which might be added the fact that the American public would not tolerate such an intrusion into their everyday lives. The ACLU would be all over any effort of the kind needed on the scale needed.
Speaking of enhancements... we discovered a line of wrist and ankle braces that make her look like one of the Borg when she wears them. Yummy. };->
To: little-whip Reality is for people who can't handle drugs. And drugs are for people who can't handle you - including you I, on the other hand, indulge because weed makes me hallucinate. I get to talk to all kinds of p
To: DrDonald I understand and I identify. First, I've chosen to live. Then the idea of personal change and accepting the reality of this world "just as it is" is a matter of survival for me, the issue of happiness paling by comparison. Painfully, after much disillusionment, boundaries are established. Ultimately, I becom
To: Shovelheat I'm happiest when I sit still and quiet long enough to realize "why the hell not?" I think that only works once you've reached a point where you feel there's nothing to lose. And that's a good place to be because then major change becomes possible. If, on the other hand, you
To: KarmaGirl I am content with my life, but I don't know if I have been truly happy since I was a kid. I was blinded to the real world, and the real pain of life back then. But, unfortunately, I'm no longer ignorant, and my "bliss" no longer exists. I think that's true of many, perhaps even
LW oopsie.
To: DrDonald I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes. I could not agree more. Let me tell you a true story - two stories in fact, both of them true. When I was seventeen I made one of several abortive atte
To: foreverserenity First let me say that this, for me, is the best article I've read from you, ever! Why you might ask? Not because it is about Anna Nicole so much as it is about what is so relevant to our society today! It's so on point and so simplistic in your reasoning - if you get my drift! <B
To: Zoologist03 I agree with you that happiness is fleeting. How could I not, when that's patently true? The happy times come rarely and leave soon and blend into each other so that all one remembers in the end is the glow that seems to fill such times. Unhappy times, on the other hand, are vividly clear to the mind, sometimes unbearably so, and while we endure them they seem endless. I long ago realised that our expectations of happiness are
To: Tova7 I found this line, of all the lines, to be so dead accurate, so razor sharp, that I bled a little inside. I have to say that's a wonderful image. Equally, I also have to say that I enjoy your responses. They are always on topic, appropriate, and add some insight of your own to the dis
Give up now, you unhappy motherfuckers. Or be happy, and don't. Either way, you're equally deluded, and will be forced to listen to my laughing at you.
What is happiness? Does anyone deserve to be happy? Can happiness be bought? What's the difference between happiness and misery? Does anyone deserve to be miserable? No one fully understands the life of another. No one can, merely on the basis of external appearance, judge whether another is truly happy or not. What is happiness? Is it found in
Grins at the Geezer.
Tova. There are people who would kill to have your life. I'm not one of them, but I can appreciate why they would. Your life has texture, depth, the kind of everyday, unassuming, importance that makes the world go round. You have something to get up for, every day. At night you have the bitter joy of knowing that, on the other side of the world, there's a man who would give anything to be with you at that moment. You have sons, whose entire wo
Simon is of the opinion that the SAS will be sent in to effect a rescue...after that, anything goes. If all Blair does is bitch and whine then I will burn my UK passport a minute after I become a citizen of the US. I've heard some commentators argue that the captured service personnel should have fought back. Fine. Good idea. Except they were outnumbered, outgunned, and forbidden to do so by their rules of engagement, which stipulated that force was onl
lw oopsie
I've never been poor in America. But I lived on the street In England, and whored myself to keep a roof over my head and food in my gut, so I think I can say I've been poor. I agree with Dr Guy to a certain extent. Time, talent, work, and good luck can bring an end to poverty, and there are too many 'poor' that are content to suck on the public tit for as long as they can.
The link doesn't work for me, either.
Absolutely not. I'm English by birth; the slave trade thrived in Britain and was the bedrock of the wealth of major British cities such as Bristol and Liverpool. It's more than likely that my ancestors owned slaves. Am I going to feel responsible for what some long dead ancestor did back in the day? Hell, no. I find this idea not only ridiculous but offensive. And at a public level, apologies equal the recognition of guilt, and with that recognition comes the probability of demands for
To: little-whip And in the end, that's all I ever wanted anyway. And, in the end, it was all the Machine ever promised you - though its coming about seems to be following a pattern neither of us anticipated. Piss on the Poodle. V^^^^^^^V bites you.
To: Abe Cubbage I'm a bit surprised to see you making this argument. How do you defend it? How do I defend the statement that God exists? I don't. My days of proselytizing are long gone. How do I defend the statement that God is like an artist and that the creation, all of it, is a work of art
To: Abe Cubbage I wouldn't advocate that a person strive for happiness as you just defined it, since it defies the human condition. However knowing that isn't particularl
To: Abe Cubbage After years of reading and much navel-gazing on the subject, I came to the conclusion that the meaning to life is happiness. If that were so then most people would live and die without their lives having anything other than fleeting and intermittent meaning - because, as we all know, happiness doesn't last. Happiness is an epi-phenomenon , an accidental event or process in the course of the dis-ease of life
To: Cordelia Talking with Sabrina this morning I mentioned that the word 'Tyrant' originally designated, in Ancient Greece, a 'sole ruler' - one who ruled without the legitimacy of transferred power (they were often aristocrats who had seized power but whose rule benefited, and was acknowledged to benefit, the people). " The word is neutral, has associations with wealth and power and can therefore be synonymous with expressions like basileus, 'king'. For example, the oldest k
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