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a geek named Bob

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11. Every day that we don't kill ourselves is a day that we come out on top.

Reply to NoOneMan (Reply #10)

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 10:16 PM

Jan 2013

Then there's economically beating the shit out of the USSR, and facing evil (and winning) via WWII.

I thought you were going to be my designated stoner. If true, you're going to have to go through a lot more...

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Dude... a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #1

This seems like knee-jerk disrespect for alternative ideas to the status quo NoOneMan Jan 2013 #2

Some minds are hermetically sealed, sadly. marmar Jan 2013 #3

right... a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #5

I was simply attempting to use a poetic metaphor to express... a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #4

2a makes us seem pretty clever NoOneMan Jan 2013 #6

That "belief" you mentioned is based on our track record as a species to figure our way a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #7

Yeah, war, poverty, epidemics, waste, pollution, and now climate change NoOneMan Jan 2013 #8

and gardening, and food storage, and elctricity, and books, and a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #9

Precisely! All that stuff and we are still perpetually screwing up... NoOneMan Jan 2013 #10

Every day that we don't kill ourselves is a day that we come out on top. a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #11

"Then there's economically beating the shit out of the USSR" NoOneMan Jan 2013 #12

If you want to go be depressed... a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #13

Get back to me when we are actually beating pollution NoOneMan Jan 2013 #14

So what do I get, for fixing the problem? a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #15

Damn Bob, we are going to need more balloons! NoOneMan Jan 2013 #16

again, you seem upset... a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #17

I am rather ambivalent about your struggle NoOneMan Jan 2013 #18

Thank you for the well wishing... a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #19

Where HAVE you been? tama Jan 2013 #20