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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 01:05 AM
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44. Nah, they aren't that hard to understand.
Edited on Fri Nov-10-06 01:10 AM by w4rma
Just imagine what you would do if you did not care to take into account the lives of other people when making your decisions. Imagine if you did not care if *anyone* lived or died and considered *everyone* as tools to be used to push your own ambitions.

Pretend your ambitions were to become wealthy/wealthier, have someone around willing to sleep with you and occasionally comfort you and help give you children who are the closest thing to immortality that we have, currently.

Just think of it as a mental game and wrap your head around that kind of thought process. You'll find that you understand the actions of many people much better, especially when you take into account that most people aren't that extreme, or even nearly that extreme, but there are definitely many who are.

Now, remember that understanding doesn't mean acceptance and force your self not to accept that ideology and do your best to fight the actions of those who do accept it.
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  -Do you think a person's life is worth shit these days? MissHoneychurch  Nov-09-06 09:11 AM   #0 
  - We're all dispensible to corporations  malaise   Nov-09-06 09:13 AM   #1 
  - But without the people  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 09:14 AM   #2 
     - Why?  malaise   Nov-09-06 09:16 AM   #3 
     - Oh I believe you  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 09:19 AM   #6 
        - That's the key point  malaise   Nov-09-06 09:24 AM   #16 
           - Nah, they aren't that hard to understand.  w4rma   Nov-10-06 01:05 AM   #44 
              - And those that care not to realize  BushDespiser12   Nov-10-06 01:24 AM   #48 
     - Let's qualify that...  trotsky   Nov-09-06 09:56 AM   #30 
     - People are a limitless, self-sustaining, self-replicating resource,  greyhound1966   Nov-09-06 09:35 PM   #43 
  - I know each person is valuable  swimboy   Nov-09-06 09:17 AM   #4 
  - It truly is  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 09:21 AM   #9 
  - Only if your boss has taken out "dead peasant" insurance  Cerridwen   Nov-09-06 09:18 AM   #5 
  - There is such a insurance????  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 09:23 AM   #12 
  - Amazing, isn't it? Gives a whole new meaning to  Cerridwen   Nov-09-06 09:28 AM   #19 
  - Yuck. I can't say I'm surprised, but yuck.  atommom   Nov-09-06 09:23 AM   #14 
     - Well, as the saying goes...  Cerridwen   Nov-09-06 09:29 AM   #20 
  - Some life is worth more than others.  CrispyQGirl   Nov-09-06 09:20 AM   #7 
  - Life has never been worth much  bryant69   Nov-09-06 09:20 AM   #8 
  - You nailed it:  reichstag911   Nov-09-06 09:21 AM   #10 
  - I don't think shit is worth shit nowadays. I don't know so much about life. - n/t  porphyrian   Nov-09-06 09:22 AM   #11 
  - "Freedom of speech is a privilege" -- Korporate Katie (answer your question?) nt  tiptoe   Nov-09-06 09:23 AM   #13 
  - Did she actually say that???  Der Blaue Engel   Nov-09-06 09:32 AM   #22 
     - From the media horse's mouth (YouTube, and a few links with comments):  tiptoe   Nov-09-06 10:51 AM   #35 
  - nothing is worth a shit these days  leftofthedial   Nov-09-06 09:24 AM   #15 
  - But isn't that stupid thinking?  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 09:25 AM   #18 
     - When has power  NoMoreMyths   Nov-09-06 09:32 AM   #21 
     - Who already has, gets more  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 09:33 AM   #23 
        - That's the reality we've built  NoMoreMyths   Nov-09-06 09:38 AM   #24 
           - How is the saying in the Bible?  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 09:43 AM   #27 
              - That's where science and religion work well together  NoMoreMyths   Nov-09-06 09:52 AM   #28 
              - I don't believe that I was created and favored by God  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 09:55 AM   #29 
                 - I doubt any species has that control  NoMoreMyths   Nov-09-06 10:52 AM   #36 
              - The sick thing is that the passage as commonly rendered is incomplete...  DarkmoonIkonoklast   Nov-10-06 07:21 AM   #58 
     - it's not thinking at all  leftofthedial   Nov-09-06 09:38 AM   #25 
  - No  NoMoreMyths   Nov-09-06 09:24 AM   #17 
  - Exactly equal  Jim Warren   Nov-09-06 09:41 AM   #26 
  - I don't think this is a new phenomenon  Marrah_G   Nov-09-06 10:06 AM   #31 
  - No it isn't new  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 10:13 AM   #32 
  - A CEO once told me,  CrispyQGirl   Nov-09-06 11:34 AM   #38 
     - I wish more CEO's would think that way n/t  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 12:23 PM   #40 
  - mine's worth less than that!  Blue_Tires   Nov-09-06 10:16 AM   #33 
  - I don't believe you are worth less than the rest of us  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 10:17 AM   #34 
  - If it's a company with a mine colapsing..  Xenotime   Nov-09-06 10:58 AM   #37 
  - The should  MissHoneychurch   Nov-09-06 12:23 PM   #41 
  - We value things over people. -nt  CrispyQGirl   Nov-09-06 11:38 AM   #39 
  - I need to consult an actuary first.  izzybeans   Nov-09-06 12:32 PM   #42 
  - In their eyes, we are all just commas n/t  Pachamama   Nov-10-06 01:12 AM   #45 
  - IMPEACH BUSH!  Swamp Rat   Nov-10-06 01:24 AM   #47 
     - Hey Swamp Rat  MissHoneychurch   Nov-10-06 02:03 AM   #49 
        - I certainly hope so because we need it.  Swamp Rat   Nov-10-06 03:40 AM   #55 
           - If they can try to impeach Clinton because of sex  MissHoneychurch   Nov-10-06 04:33 AM   #56 
  - The lives of the powerless have never been worth anything to the powerful.  AlienGirl   Nov-10-06 01:22 AM   #46 
  - That's what the neocons seem to believe  BuffyTheFundieSlayer   Nov-10-06 02:30 AM   #50 
  - Excuse me?????  MissHoneychurch   Nov-10-06 02:41 AM   #51 
  - I was pretty cheesed too  BuffyTheFundieSlayer   Nov-10-06 02:57 AM   #53 
     - Not only in the U.S.  MissHoneychurch   Nov-10-06 03:05 AM   #54 
  - "Blessed are the rich, for GOD has favored their endeavours."  DarkmoonIkonoklast   Nov-10-06 07:32 AM   #59 
     - Funny how they'll rend their clothes over the abomination of homosexuality  BuffyTheFundieSlayer   Nov-10-06 10:57 PM   #60 
  - They don't mean much to God  shadowknows69   Nov-10-06 02:43 AM   #52 
  - It's what I call the "Commodification" mentality...  DarkmoonIkonoklast   Nov-10-06 07:15 AM   #57 
 

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