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[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Ha!
 
Who said this?
 
Does he have books?
 
I'd like to read them.

It's a Confucius quote.

[TheBunz]

"When a wise man points at the Moon, the imbecile examines the finger."

Sums up the whole situation.


Stop fatshaming.

No way brother. Fat is nasty. I don't care what anyone says they "feel". If fat was attractive, Victoria's Secret models wouldn't be so popular.
Raise the bar

[The Hierophant]

Same thing. Everyone is scared to death of liability issues if something did happen.  One incident in one cinema could cost hundreds of million of dollars. And before you say that they would be covered by insurance polices....no...most insurance policies do not cover acts of war or terrorism, therefore Sony, Paramount and what ever cinema chain would be solely liable.   

Sony folding is understandable due to it losing millions and investors. Their cyber security has to be AOL trash tier though.

 

What gets me is that people are losing their marbles over NK who's been making threats like these and laughed @ by the international community  (minus SK) for decades. Where's the evidence of NK agents being capable of carrying out these threats? All i see is unsubstantiated fearmongering that's only emboldening NK.

 

It would be understandable if this were from jihadis as they've proven countless times their logistical capabalities and tenacity, but from NK? Please.

[Isichar]

Can we not use the word fat please? It's offensive. I prefer the term horizontally challenged

[slimgrin]

Can we not use the word fat please? It's offensive. I prefer the term horizontally challenged

 

That is height shaming.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Human-Rightism is an ideology utilized by UN forced on nations of the world.

Whether you like above sentence or not, despise ideologies or not, it is true.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

It's a Confucius quote.

The logic of

"Confucius was sexist, so let's ignore all his teachings."

is amusing.

 

blah blah..

[Sigma Tauri]

Empathy isn't helpful.

 

Empathy is the only thing that's keeping me from joining the sick fak bandwagon. Whether that's of consequence to you or not, I care not.

 

How much do you need to understand a person's views or beliefs before you're allowed to resonably reject them?

 

This. Reason and logic are just as important as empathy. Maybe even more so.

 

Enough to make a good, well-reasoned judgment about a situation. For example, just because someone wants to kill themselves because one understands their life is shitty doesn't mean one should not reject the suicidal's intent to kill themselves. Empathy is a form of understanding, and it isn't isolated from judgment, reason, logic, or common sense.

[Jock Cranley]

Empathy is the only thing that's keeping me from joining the sick fak bandwagon. Whether that's of consequence to you or not, I care not.

 

 

Empathy is an illusion-it only exists where expedience requires it. Otherwise it is wholly and totally absent. Why not embrace it for what it is?

[mybudgee]

 
Stop fatshaming.

You wanted this...

 

 

Rock the Dance floor you BBW!!!!!

[Inquisitor Recon]

Recon is a sick fak though

What? I am the only one not corrupted here?

[SwobyJ]

No. There's overreaction being done by people, and that's not even remotely new for humanity.

[Inquisitor Recon]

Be true to yourself

I always speak truth.

[Inquisitor Recon]

When have I lied? Besides for all of the times I've lied for my own interests.

[AutumnWitch]

Pax Americana. We've lived in a relatively peaceful and prosperous society for many years now, knowing little of the hardships our forebears and the outside world face each day. In the absence of hardship people start to lose touch with basic realities and become preoccupied with "first world problems", largely ignoring affairs elsewhere or viewing them through an extremely Americentric point of view. Basic amenities which people elsewhere must fight for are freely given here and excesses are at the touch of your fingertips, even for the "disadvantaged." It's getting to a point now where we no longer need to interact directly with other people or the world around us because we can live vicariously through technology instead.

 

We are complacent and totally dependent on the system in place. The people will be ill-prepared when the bubble eventually bursts and we find ourselves facing reality once again.

 

Well said. I grew up (until I was ten) in a house without running water and only spotty electricity. It pisses me off seeing all the whiners today complaining about not having a Iphone 6 or whatever. Sickens me. Makes me think if this quote from DA2

 

"Look at you. Like fat Dathrasi you feed and feed and complain only when your meal is interrupted. You do not look up. You do not see that the grass is bare. All you leave in your wake is misery. You are blind." ~ Arishok

[mybudgee]

When have I lied? Besides for all of the times I've lied for my own interests.

 

[Seraphim24]

No I don't really think so, it seems to me there were always weird things going on, and people just talk about them more now.

 

If anything, I feel like there should be more weighing and balancing of concerns. Like, is it theoretically true that other people breathing reduces the global oxygen supply for each individual member? Is it theoretically true that eating a thousand apples in a single day will possibly kill you? So should we ban apples and other people? Theoretically, you probably over-eat or under-eat every single meal, do you precisely intake calories at the exact rate as your body digests them? Well, probably not, is McDonalds somehow to blame for that?

 

Yet no one (well.. I hesitate to say this now) freaks out about those things because they aren't material, they aren't worth the effort to establish a safeguard against overdosing on apples accidentally, because they percent chance that you would accidentally eat too many apples without realizing it is infinitesimal for a variety of reasons. It would be basically just like madness.

 

In many other instances, there doesn't appear to be a leveling function for most issues, so people are just shotgunning every concern they have across the map. I feel like the reason for that is a leveling function strikes (some) people as this kind of scary arbitrary thing, and so people settle for extremes like "everyone is smart" or "everyone is dumb" in order to cull the wrath of possibilities but without that kind of lateral injection you pretty much end up with the same number of possibilities.

 

I feel like that kind of arbitrary (although it's not really arbitrary) "screw it Mcdonalds is tasty and so what if there's a mismeasurement of proportions half a tick that way or this way" is generally discouraged as kind of closed-minded or irrational (in other contexts), or just generally bad behavior. Consequently, I think society is reaping what they sow in certain respects.

 

Anyway, I think it's more complicated than kids get off my lawn sort of situation here.

[Inquisitor Recon]

This has so much meaning eh reocon?

The cake has always been a lie. I've known this since the extraction chopper was called off in Nicaquara back in '83.