Originally posted by Grampy Bobbynurse tells me you spend your days and nights accosting both patients and orderlies, bothering them endlessly about how you are 'socially assertive', and assorted other drivel. i've asked her to increase your medication. this should also help stop your compulsive self-stimulation which, frankly, causes the female staff great distress.
You now delegate your replies to Nursing Supervisor Mildred Ratched?
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThose foul do sound a lot like we humans.
[b]What else seems to simulate life itself?
Antithetical: Roosters, Hens and Chicks (mindlessly pecking around the barnyard all day long, in search of food,
without the least clue of destiny or awareness at all of their eventual date with the chopping block from the start).[/b]
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Originally posted by BlackampDiffer away Blacky but once you've come to terms with the "inevitable" (death, taxes and more taxes, usually in your early teens) one does their best to be good to one another, just 'cause it makes sense.
i beg to differ. i think humans do indeed have a deep awareness of their mortality, a 'being-toward-death' as Heidegger would say.
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Originally posted by Great Big Steesin the first place, i don't think many people really do come to terms with their own mortality, and especially not in their early teens. thus, they take refuge in the 'comforts' of religion, material wealth, etc., or they try to stave off the inevitable through diet and exercise, or they just keep frantically busy, so they don't have to think about it. in the second place, it is patently obvious that a great many people, and perhaps the majority, certainly do not do their best to be good to other human beings. human history is not a history of people treating each other well. in the third place, it is by no means clear that it 'makes sense' to be good to other people, simply for the sake of being good to them. in the fourth place, the point on which i was differing was peoples' awareness of death, and nothing to do with how they treat other people.
Differ away Blacky but once you've come to terms with the "inevitable" (death, taxes and more taxes, usually in your early teens) one does their best to be good to one another, just 'cause it makes sense.
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Originally posted by BlackampIf you want to look intelligent at least use capitals at the beginning of your sentences. If your shift key is not working get a new keyboard, or laptop, or what ever it takes. Another thing never use , before and it irks the hell out of trev. 😛
in the first place, i don't think many people really do come to terms with their own mortality, and especially not in their early teens. thus, they take refuge in the 'comforts' of religion, material wealth, etc., or they try to stave off the inevitable through diet and exercise, or they just keep frantically busy, so they don't have to think about it. in t ring was peoples' awareness of death, and nothing to do with how they treat other people.
No one likes anyone, unless they can get something from them.
Originally posted by Very Rustyis someone who declines to start sentences with capital letters deserving of capital punishment? discuss.
If you want to look intelligent at least use capitals at the beginning of your sentences. If your shift key is not working get a new keyboard, or laptop, or what ever it takes.
Originally posted by Very Rustythat depends on how broadly you define 'something'. if it includes things like 'enjoyment of their company', you may be right. if however, you mean 'something' more narrowly - for example, material gain; a promotion; or sex - then i doubt it.
No one likes anyone, unless they can get something from them.
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Originally posted by Very RustyNever say never. A comma is used when and connects two independent clauses.
Another thing never use , before and it irks the hell out of trev.
For example: Rusty is a Canadian, and he enjoys playing hockey and giving
grammar lessons. Blackamp's example is not correct, and he should know better.
Irking trev is irrelevant, and that's the way it is.
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Originally posted by HandyAndyi just fling them in when i feel the urge, and leave my editors with the unhappy task of dealing with the aftermath. that's what they're paid for. they also have to insert caps at the start of my sentences. mwuhahahaaaa.
Blackamp's example is not correct, and he should know better.
Originally posted by HandyAndy😀
Never say never. A comma is used when and connects two independent clauses.
For example: Rusty is a Canadian, and he enjoys playing hockey and giving
grammar lessons. Blackamp's example is not correct, and he should know better.
Irking trev is irrelevant, and that's the way it is.