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In reply to the discussion: Am I the only one who thinks that sometimes things are just as they appear? [View all]Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)32. We NEVER seem to learn, do we
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Am I the only one who thinks that sometimes things are just as they appear? [View all]
OKNancy
Aug 2019
OP
I believe it just refers to finding some mundane thing to do to avoid the news for whatever reason
mr_lebowski
Aug 2019
#36
I got that in response to my mentioning how much I miss my parents since they are both gone.
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#43
Glad to be of service. May all your remaining loved ones have the same good fortune :) (nt)
mr_lebowski
Aug 2019
#64
Oh, so sorry. I saw both my parents live with that. It helps somehow to know that others do know
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#69
Could also mean cleaning up after a hookup. Is that what you didn't want to cast asparagus about?nt
zackymilly
Aug 2019
#110
Ooh be careful, Eliot. You're going to make some people clutch their pearls and throw themselves
Cousin Dupree
Aug 2019
#20
No, narcissists never accept the proposition that they've even been destroyed
PandoraAwakened
Aug 2019
#99
There is NO way he killed himself for a variety of reasons especially the narcissist
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2019
#109
Russian Embassy openly supports Gabbard and yet she has some fans here, SIGH
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2019
#115
Uh-huh, and Trump & Barr are good guys who didn't have anything to do with Epstein...
polichick
Aug 2019
#17
Of course that may be the truth. But there is every reason to be suspicious, given he'd been on
hlthe2b
Aug 2019
#24
Things are just as they are. Appearance is the illusion of observational perspective.
WheelWalker
Aug 2019
#31
I read a while ago Epstein was severly depressed. Not unusual to be suicidal and
riversedge
Aug 2019
#33
No. Sometimes. A weed in the flower bed is just as it appears but an egg in the unicorn nest
IADEMO2004
Aug 2019
#62
But then people wouldn't have so much fun pretending life was like their favorite TV show or movie!
PSPS
Aug 2019
#67
Many personality disorders are overlapping and often do not exist in isolation. People out of
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#107
Rather not argue with you about PDs. I will say that although diagnostically they provide a
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#119
Oh for goodness sake. Attitude. I taught college English. I know what an oxymoron is. Just never
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#121
Because killing him in the most highly.visible high profile way possible
StarfishSaver
Aug 2019
#101
Am I the only one who thinks 24 hours isn't enough time to have a definitive opinion?
meadowlander
Aug 2019
#105
Absoutely. Yet any suicide should be investigated while the individual was incarcerated.
BeckyDem
Aug 2019
#113