I read an article in the Miami Herald a few days ago that 25% of the mortgaged homes here are underwater - and not in a literal sense, although we are sea level.....
Definition of underwater mortgage is that the amount owed in mortgage is more than the value of the home. Stinking villains that created this crisis.... banks, credit rating institutes, politicians..... greed and fraud, greed and fraud.
Ahem! the meaning of life excerpt from the plot of Monty Python
The film begins with a stand-alone 17-minute supporting feature entitled The Crimson Permanent Assurance (directed by Gilliam). A group of elderly office clerks in a small accounting firm rebel against their emotionlessly efficient, yuppie corporate masters. They commandeer their building, turn it into a pirate ship, and sail into a large financial district, where they raid and overthrow a large multinational corporation (before ultimately sailing to the edge of the earth and falling off).
don't you think it is too simplistic to say "bad seed" or man is inherently evil or bad...
On the other side of the coin, why is it - that there are men and women in the world that no matter how much challenges they have in life, they rise above it and become great?
We have a terrible fascination with these predators - and I along with the rest of us, but for me, it is so that I can recognize them and avoid them.
Of course, just like some, who like to get out there and swim with the sharks - even when the odds are low of getting bit, and why and where - I prefer to swim in a pool, lake or ....... bathtub
there are also now, a "spree killer" who goes on a killing rampage from the original kill and all that follow in order to either carry out a plan or to evade capture.
But the worst kind of killer is one that has not been caught.
and that's the whole thing - it is a truly individual decision.
I am, I think, a very loyal person, however, I have learned over my life that if it is a big betrayal of a friend - I do not forgive - some other people do - they forgive but not forget or they forget...
I also have some lovely friends that were so destructive, that I avoided them and excluded them from my life. They have grown up and changed, so I have become on friendly terms again.
How does she feel now about returning to a friendship with you? Does she feel awkward?
Our capacity to love as humans, is amazing, and confusing, and happy, and sad and all varieties in between. Did Shakespeare have it right? Is it better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all?
Is it a case where she thought of you as a friend with benefits and you wanted exclusivity?
Too bad that you lost your friendship with her.
Let me ask, if I may, if your friend had been a male and he betrayed you in some manner (like told someone else a secret about you).... would that break a long time friendship or are you like to forgive him? (I am talking about non romantic guy friendship)
So if you would and have forgiven other of your friends, could you take a leap of faith and forgive your ex-girlfriend and turn her back into a good friend?
just kinda curious - there is no right or wrong answer just all about who we are as people?
You are just getting to this reality now? Remember when you were allowed to smoke on the planes, before the whole second hand smoke thingie?
They clean those planes between times of occupation of passengers - it is no better in the airport, restaurants, baseball games, stadiums, street fairs, roller coaster rides, music arenas, movie theatres - - -
just about anywhere that large or small groups gather - because it just takes one infectious diseased person.... and voila'
Also do you realize why children bring home so many colds and flues and then mommy and daddy get sick and then mommy and daddy bring it into the office and around and around it goes. until everyone is immune or.....
Is there a particular story you want to tell? people do not operate in a vacuum, missing specific information is important. The question is, really would you?
RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"
It is just a crazy mixed up world isn't it?Although, on the other hand, there have been women who, usually use poison and go on and kill their husbands and lovers, or tenants.....
black widow, ...... yikes I googled and I am wrong about the idea that women use poison - how unlike me to let a gender stereotype go unchecked...