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I'd like to start a new thread on what you think is the most important thing in the world.

I think humour is the most important thing in the world. Well, after food and shelter of course. Oh yes, and family and loved ones. But then after that definitely humour. No, wait, there's also compassion and tolerance, I guess they'd have to come before humour, but after that it's definitely humour....or maybe sincerity, but then it's gotta be humour...unless you include honesty, or would that come under sincerity? If you combined them I guess that'd be OK too...but humour must certainly come after that....oh, did I get love? Damn, well I guess love'd have to go up pretty high there, but humour...oh damn, just forget the whole thing .... ๐Ÿ˜€

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Gratitude. Without that nothing else will be noticed or valued. ๐Ÿ™‚ Kirk

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Well, however nice, all these are not 'things' they are emotions or concepts...

Some contenders for most important things would have to be:

Oxygen
Water
Sunlight
Chocolate
and of course, The RedHotPawn server!

Rhymester

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Originally posted by Rhymester
Well, however nice, all these are not 'things' they are emotions or concepts...

Some contenders for most important things would have to be:

Oxygen
Water
Sunlight
Chocolate
and of course, The RedHotPawn server!

Rhymester
"thing
1. a material object without life or consciousness
2. that which is, or may become, an object of thought, whether material or ideal, animate or inanimate, actual, possible or imaginary." Macquarie Dictionary
Don't mess with an English teacher, man

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In the 'Julie Andrew's Sound of Music' Dictionary I've got to admit that you're quite right ;-)

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Originally posted by Rhymester
Well, however nice, all these are not 'things' they are emotions or concepts...

Some contenders for most important things would have to be:

Oxygen
Water
Sunlight
Chocolate
and of course, The RedHotPawn server!

Rhymester
After the essentials, water, food, air... I would like to nominate the fairer sex (they always seem to dominate my life! (given this it may be useful to add beer at this point also)).

Andrew

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Themost important thing in the world is to be able to live in peace, without the threat of terrorism.

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Originally posted by Rhymester
Well, however nice, all these are not 'things' they are emotions or concepts...

Some contenders for most important things would have to be:

Oxygen
Water
Sunlight
Chocolate
and of course, The RedHotPawn server!

Rhymester
How about...

Gravity
Electrons
Up and Down quarks
Space
Time
Towels (read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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Actually the most important thing in the world of the web forum is... ๐Ÿ˜‰

Without this little winking icon many comments would be impossible to make without causing offence and sparking off flame wars.

Rhymester

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Originally posted by dud
Themost important thing in the world is to be able to live in peace, without the threat of terrorism.
Especially state sponsored terrorism, like the kind the United States has perpetrated in Latin America, Africa, Indonesia, etc, etc. I'm tired of the U.S. government making making noise about a 'War on Terror' without examining their own brutal history and insidious foreign policy.

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Originally posted by Rhymester
Well, however nice, all these are not 'things' they are emotions or concepts...

Some contenders for most important things would have to be:

Oxygen
Water
Sunlight
Chocolate
and of course, The RedHotPawn server!

Rhymester
Guiness
Harp
Bush Mills
Glenfiddich

To promote world peace, first round is on me!

Does anyone detect a theme?๐Ÿ™‚

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Originally posted by bbarr
Especially state sponsored terrorism, like the kind the United States has perpetrated in Latin America, Africa, Indonesia, etc, etc. I'm tired of the U.S. government making making noise about a 'War on Terror' without examining their own brutal history and insidious foreign policy.
I made a few lengthy posts a while back touching on this subject. They do not appear to have been a big hit judging by the response they generated.

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Originally posted by willatkins
Guiness
Harp
Bush Mills
Glenfiddich

To promote world peace, first round is on me!

Does anyone detect a theme?๐Ÿ™‚
You should get together with Dr Brain. Johan is a man who shares your views on how to promote world peace. ๐Ÿ˜€

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Originally posted by rwingett
I made a few lengthy posts a while back touching on this subject. They do not appear to have been a big hit judging by the response they generated.
I didn't reply because I don't like to rehash the same ground over and over and get into the same heated debates, but I will say my piece and be silent.
My "favourite" one is that Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize but he was instrumental in instigating the bombing of Laos (around the clock for nine years). There are still bombs with "Made in the USA" written on them lying in the ground there (I know because I was working as a journalist there; I drove over one! Thankfully, it didn't go off).

Little colourful spinning bombs are still picked up by children who throw them to each other. When I was there in 1997 I saw the photos of what was left of five boys who no longer had faces. Yet the USA never officially fought a war in Laos and still refuses to claim responsibility. When I interviewed the then Deputy Secretary of State about it he said "We're here to talk about the future, not the past."

I agree that we need to fight the War on Terror. But, especially with Christmas coming, I can't believe Australia is about to be dragged into another war by a weak leader (talking about John Howard, not Bush). My cousin is in the army. I don't think he will be sent but someone's son will be. I don't agree with the way Saddam and Kim Jong Il are running their countries, with torture and deprivation, but even Australia has been debating whether to allow ASIO to detain and question adults and children as young as 14 for up to 48 hours. Fighting fire with fire? If the price of fighting terror is to kill children and even torture your own children, the price is too high.

Having compassion for one another is a lot more important than fighting terror.

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Originally posted by shougi
...but even Australia has been debating whether to allow ASIO to detain and question adults and children as young as 14 for up to 48 hours. Fighting fire with fire? If the price of fighting terror is to kill children and even torture your own children, the price is too high.

Having compassion for one another is a lot more important than fighting terror.
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Excellent post. I, for one, fear Big Brother much more than Saddam Hussein.

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