Ambrose2007 Forum Posts (8,881)

RE: Survival....

Well, Captain (I thought you were banned - did they redeem you already?), have you looked at the logical consequences of this belief? Influenza, in its various and colorful forms, kills thousands of people each year. Some have been equally or more lethal than the Swine Flu. Would you support compulsory flu shots? If not, why not?

Various cold viruses probably kill some people each year as well. Should people who have colds be forced into quarantine?

Where this would lead logically would be to a mammoth government health agency which oversees everything we do related to health. Hell, people who drink too much coffee probably pose a threat because their frayed nerves could cause them to mishandle a car or heavy machinery. Being overweight is a drain on our medical system, likely causing loss of life due to diversion of finite health services.

You will argue that we can create rational, sensible lines which separate health tyranny for health democracy, but I think when you advocate forcing people to ingest substances into their bodies you are clearly crossing that sensible line.

RE: Survival....

I'm worried, too. If alcohol makes its user as perceptive as it apparently makes T, then I'm afraid I should be drinking more...

RE: CAN YOU FORGIVE YOUR BELVOED'S BETREYAL ?

Nor should you!

RE: CAN YOU FORGIVE YOUR BELVOED'S BETREYAL ?

I've always regarded your attitude on this as superior, T. Could I achieve it under similar circumstances? Very doubtful. But I do admire you for it nonetheless.

RE: CAN YOU FORGIVE YOUR BELVOED'S BETREYAL ?

I sense a possible contradiction here, Jeffrey. (Please reference "the lady doth protest too much.")

RE: CAN YOU FORGIVE YOUR BELVOED'S BETREYAL ?

Then you've allowed her to sentence you to Hell. Is that truly what you want - to give her that kind of power??

RE: CAN YOU FORGIVE YOUR BELVOED'S BETREYAL ?

That's HER character flaw/transgression, Handsone (is there supposed to be an "m" in there?), not yours.

RE: CAN YOU FORGIVE YOUR BELVOED'S BETREYAL ?

That's a LOT of "not thinking" about someone "dead" to you, Athens...

I don't think it's a matter of being a "better person" by "forgiving" someone, but rather about having a better life.

"Forgiving" is likely the wrong word. But clearly, by still holding anger toward someone for betraying you, one is continuing to give him or her power over oneself. So really, it's more about self-interest, acting in one's own best interest - not for his or her benefit - that one should consider ceasing (is that better than "forgiving"?) one's condemnation of the betrayer.

After reading your poem, of course, I could never forgive him. But that's my problem.

RE: Survival....

Hear, Hear! This thread reminds me of the classic line: "We're from the IRS, and we're here to help you!"

RE: Survival....

Jeez...what did the good Captain do this time?

RE: Survival....

She's merely have to get a position in the government, and then she could be all-knowing, too, L!

RE: Survival....

And then you'd have to get a job as the detention center director or something, wouldn't you, T?

RE: A really geeky question on dating.. and stuff. .

"Expanded"? Didn't you write earlier (very sensibly, I thought) that one could carry on occasional friendly conversations but not go on dates with one's exes? That doesn't read like an "expansion" to me - sounds more like a "contraction."

Glad to see you still around, A, btw.

RE: Survival....

As long as I don't know or like my neighbor, what's the problem? The government(s) know best, no?

For instance, if the government told us a whole people were evil and responsible for bad things in our society, we'd happily herd them into train cars and detention centers, wouldn't we? I know I would.

RE: Survival....

The government knows more than us about everything, T. In fact, it's all-knowing. We must obey unthinkingly...

Hmmm...somehow that has a familiar ring to it...

I remember Bush's immortal words about weapons of mass destruction. Surely no head of state would ever lie or occlude the truth?

RE: Survival....

But this is a medical emergency (for the company producing the Swine Flu Vaccine)!! {insert obnoxious emoticon)

RE: Survival....

RE: Survival....

In other words, T, why not go along with the collective? After all, you're no individualist who would exercise his own judgment over the common weal, are you?

RE: Survival....

But seriously, why take a government's proclamations on faith? Where's the evidence of some horrible virus killing people en masse? Surely something so devastating would be known by every educated person by now?

RE: Survival....

And here I thought it was "divided we fall," and "united we stand"?

RE: What kind of man can really satisfy a woman in bed?

I know I'm the best in bed because a little voice in my head told me so (of course I was holding a gun to the little voice in my head's head).

RE: Who's got Viking ancestry here?

Are we speaking metaphorically, G?

RE: What on Earth Do You Make of This? !!

The guy's an idiot, plain and simple, Alison.

RE: What on Earth Do You Make of This? !!

Who wouldn't be?

RE: What you want or what you need?

Well, Karen, couldn't someone say pretty much the same thing about you (that if you can be with two men at once and aid and abet cheating, coudln't you do that to someone else?)?

RE: What you want or what you need?

Joanne!

RE: What you want or what you need?

And women are so into chocolate, too.

RE: What you want or what you need?

I wonder if he knows the whole truth, though? Hard to imagine him tolerating it if he did. I don't think that speaks well of him.

Leave it to Karen to stir up her usual hornet's nest. She certainly is a colorful CS character; one can't take that away from her. But someone to have a healthy, long-term relationship with?? Karen, I suspect you have a LOT of work to do before that will be possible. Right now you seem awfully self-satisfied with traits in yourself that are extremely destructive with regard to relationships.

RE: What you want or what you need?

Fudge-brained might've been in better taste?

RE: What you want or what you need?

Actually, T, I've always suspected you might be four or even five-dimensional with respect to that subject...