Reply #52

In the discussion thread: "The planet does not need more successful people" [View all]

Response to devilgrrl (Reply #48)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:27 PM

LaurenG (24,674 posts)

52. Yeah that sounds right!

Reply to this post

Back to OP Alert abuse Link to post in-thread

Always highlight: 10 newest replies | Replies posted after I mark a forum

Replies to this discussion thread

62 replies	Author	Time	Post
"The planet does not need more successful people" [View all]	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	OP
Mr. Orr overstates our importance, IMHO	Cary	Jun 2012	#1
Orr was talking about our culture, not the human species	greyl	Jun 2012	#2
I would take you more seriously if you knew what I was referring to when I said homo sapiens sapiens	Cary	Jun 2012	#7
Homo sapiens sapiens are "modern humans."	greyl	Jul 2012	#58
Which you claim, incorrectly, to have been around for a few million years.	Cary	Jul 2012	#59
Humans have been around a few million years.	greyl	Jul 2012	#60
I specified homo sapiens sapiens	Cary	Jul 2012	#61
And yes my specification mattered as that was the whole point of my comment	Cary	Jul 2012	#62
Unimportant in one sense - mortal, brief, forgotten	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#3
Wondefully said.	Inkfreak	Jun 2012	#4
Perhaps	Cary	Jun 2012	#8
absolutely no antipathy for science here	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#10
Einstein was great and that's an understatement.	Cary	Jun 2012	#12
again.. no need to correct me "you're way behind"	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#14
Well you are way behind.	Cary	Jun 2012	#16
good grief	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#17
I know a little aboit science.	Cary	Jun 2012	#18
OK then.. by the same deductive reasoning, I know enough about you	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#19
Your science phobia ought to be easy enough to dispel.	Cary	Jun 2012	#20
It has nothing to do with science-phobia.	antigone382	Jun 2012	#23
Unilke you I regard evolution as science.	Cary	Jun 2012	#25
Your response has nothing to do with what I posted.	antigone382	Jun 2012	#32
thank you!	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#33
please, stop. I beg you.	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#28
Good grief and please please right back to you.	Cary	Jun 2012	#30
A discussion board is an excellent opportunity to improve the quality of communication skills.	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#35
I am a trial lawyer Voice for Peace	Cary	Jun 2012	#36
I told you that I thought you expressed yourself well, which you dismissed I think as an	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#37
Pfeh	Cary	Jun 2012	#40
honestly I wonder if you considered a word I wrote.	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#45
OK...	greytdemocrat	Jun 2012	#22
?	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#26
All funning aside, there is much to Orr's wisdom	Cary	Jun 2012	#29
I'm definitely not disputing that.	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#31
I am not actually saying we are insignificant	Cary	Jun 2012	#34
Then why the need to insult other peoples' comprehension and understanding of science?	antigone382	Jun 2012	#38
Get angry about it.	Cary	Jun 2012	#41
I'm not the one who doesn't know what I'm talking about.	antigone382	Jun 2012	#44
How do you expect me to respond to your whiny rant when I didn't read it?	Cary	Jun 2012	#46
Cling to that smugness as tightly as you can.	antigone382	Jun 2012	#47
Oh good!	Cary	Jun 2012	#50
excellent post	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#49
Thanks!	antigone382	Jun 2012	#51
you were also civil	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#53
For all there is to know and understand about the universe, our world, and ourselves	FrodosPet	Jun 2012	#39
If that.	Cary	Jun 2012	#42
What's wrong with the idea of being "a minute little experiment?"	Cary	Jun 2012	#6
there's a whole universe inside of us as well	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#9
I appreciate your intent behind your lecture	Cary	Jun 2012	#11
ok, no problem	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#13
Some will, some won't, so what?	Cary	Jun 2012	#15
It's a matter of seeing very well who we are...	drokhole	Jun 2012	#55
I think he was referring to the planet as humanity.	lunatica	Jun 2012	#24
I don't see any good reason to argue about what he meant.	Cary	Jun 2012	#43
Agreed.	DeSwiss	Jun 2012	#5
I scratch my head	LaurenG	Jun 2012	#21
+1	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#27
it's the difference between needs and wants	devilgrrl	Jun 2012	#48
Yeah that sounds right!	LaurenG	Jun 2012	#52
it seems like success is seen as having a lot of money by too many	JI7	Jun 2012	#54
Wonderful	drokhole	Jun 2012	#56
thanks very much, and these are great quotes.	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#57

Edit History

Please login to view edit histories.