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  Should Anything Exist????Says Who???Should Nothing Exist?? Says Who?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  should anything exist?

  that is a question that nobody can answer with authority.

  if any one says they have the answer, i ask:"says who?

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  myauntfanny

  Preston, LMAO, somehow that really hit my funny bone.

  Narkissos

  "les non-dupes errent" ("the non-dupe err", perhaps the most famous Lacanian pun for "les noms du Père", "the names of the Father").

  Implying that if god is the Word, god is also a delusion whose acceptance is inherhent in being homo sapiens sapiens? These modern French philosophers are too clever. Their signifiers signify too much; it gives me a headache and makes me feel like such a prole. I do love them, but in small chunks all smushed up and fed to me by someone clever.

  I also think that if no defines yes, yes equally defines no, just as the rational and the irrational define each other. Isn't it an error then to privilege either one over the other?
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  Should Anything Exist????Says Who???Should Nothing Exist?? Says Who?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
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  should anything exist?

  that is a question that nobody can answer with authority.

  if any one says they have the answer, i ask:"says who?

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  Narkissos

  Agreed. Yes is always defined by no, if only for the practical reason that everything we say yes to involves saying no to something else, since we can't do everything. But I wonder if god-if-he-exists faces the same limitations. Perhaps god is definable as yes=no.

  Perhaps it seems a little farfetched, but as a little boy I was already struggling with the same questions, wondering why words are what they are.

  Hey, me too. I remember as a little girl looking at the word "tree" and thinking, why that word? Is there treeness in the word "tree"? Now that I have to learn a foreign language, it all comes back to me. It seems quite ridiculous to me sometimes that these people have completely different words for things. Don't they know the right word? It's TREE, for heaven's sake.
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  Should Anything Exist????Says Who???Should Nothing Exist?? Says Who?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
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  should anything exist?

  that is a question that nobody can answer with authority.

  if any one says they have the answer, i ask:"says who?

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  myauntfanny

  Narkissos

  In the beginning was the Word.

  And the Word was No.

  Or was it YES?

  It?s like a tap-dance

  Or a new pink dress

  A shit-naïve feeling

  Saying Yes

  Some say Good morning

  Some say God bless

  Some say possibly

  Some say yes

  Some say never

  Some say unless

  It?s stupid and lovely

  To rush into yes

  What can it mean?

  It?s just like life

  One thing to you

  One to your wife

  Some go local

  Some go express

  Some can?t wait

  To answer Yes

  Some complain

  Of strain and stress

  The answer may be

  No for Yes

  Some like failure

  Some like success

  Some like Yes Yes

  Yes Yes Yes

  Open your eye

  Dream but don?t guess

  Your biggest surprise

  Comes after Yes

  Muriel Ruckeyser
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  What Truths Lie Within Your Character???

  by dh in

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  myauntfanny

  It really was astonishingly accurate. Apparently I'm practically perfect in every way.

  (I was all prepared to give a deep evaluation of my own character on this thread. But this was fun too.)
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  Bush Documents a Forgery

  by Yizuman in

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  on september 8th, the cbs show 60 minutes ii ran a story bringing to light which purported to show that when president bush was in the national guard he failed to obey orders.

  the memos were supposed to have been written in the early 1970s by a lieutenant colonel jerry b. killian.

  (who is, as it happens, died in 1984.

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  It doesn't matter what the real truth of Bush's service is: I don't think that anybody cares what Bush did at that time.

  I think quite a lot of people do care. Maybe young people who think Viet Nam was just a movie might not care. But the people who went to Viet Nam and came back with missing parts and crippling psychiatric disorders, the people who lost brothers and fathers and best friends, the COs who spent time in jail, the people who watched themselves engage in atrocities they'd never have imagined, I bet they all care. Bush got a preferment into a cushy gig during wartime and didn't even bother to honour his comparatively trivial obligations. At any other time in US history this would be an enormous scandal. As it is, I think that in spite of the conservative media whitewashing this almost into oblivion, many people of both parties are conscious of it and deeply disturbed, even if their main preoccupation right now is fear of the outside world.
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  Should Anything Exist????Says Who???Should Nothing Exist?? Says Who?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  should anything exist?

  that is a question that nobody can answer with authority.

  if any one says they have the answer, i ask:"says who?

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  kls

  LMAO. You are really cracking me up on this thread.

  Frankie

  I'm not sure what you mean by "should". We can't be sure we exist. But whether we do or not, what's "should" got to do with it? If someone created us, then he-she-it would make the decision by letting us live or wiping us out. So as long as we're here, he-she-it thinks we "should" be here.

  And if no one created us, then there isn't anybody in a position to say we should be here or not, we just are (or not, as the case may be).
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  DNA

  by teejay in

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  this past sunday on 60 minutes, there was a segment about the police investigation of a brutal rape and murder of a student at the university of oklahoma in 1996. the only evidence the police had was semen.

  so, to catch the killer, police asked every innocent person that even remotely knew the victim to give them samples of their dna, imposing what are called dna dragnets.

  many of the victim?s associates, mainly students, volunteered.

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  ?I suggest to you that if we ran a police state, we would be much more successful at solving crime.?

  And there you have it in a nutshell, why people acquiesce to police states: they think they'll be safer. History shows differently, of course. The source of danger simply shifts, from the criminals to the state itself. You're better off with the criminals, in my opinion. At least THEY aren't keeping your DNA in a database.
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  My son bought a Motorcycle and i am so scared.

  by kls in

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  not just any motorcycle but a crouch rocket and it is making sick to my stomach and i am so scared.

  he called so many insurance agency's and most won't even insure him because of the kind of bike it is.

  i hear so many people killed on bikes and it terrifies me .

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  myauntfanny

  I'd be petrified. PETRIFIED. But weren't you scared the first time you sent him off to cross the street alone? And the first time he drove alone? He'll probably be fine, 25 is well beyond the suicidally confident teenage years, and you'll get used to it, I bet.

  You've got to try and convince him to wear a helmet though. I read a study a few years ago that found that you are 7 times more likely to die in a motorcycle accident if you have no helmet. I don't understand why they aren't required in all states.
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  Bush Documents a Forgery

  by Yizuman in

  1. social
  2. current

  on september 8th, the cbs show 60 minutes ii ran a story bringing to light which purported to show that when president bush was in the national guard he failed to obey orders.

  the memos were supposed to have been written in the early 1970s by a lieutenant colonel jerry b. killian.

  (who is, as it happens, died in 1984.

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  myauntfanny

  I don't understand why there is so much focus on these forged documents when we already know that he didn't complete his National Guard service, didn't take the physical, and wasn't penalised for it. These three facts are not in dispute, even by him and his henchmen. The alleged documents make him look like even more of a pratt than he did already, but he was AWOL even by normal people standards, so what does it matter? The central issue is did he fulfill his obligations (during wartime), or pay the price for not doing so? And the answer is no, and no.
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  Pathological fears?

  by Brummie in

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  what do you fear the most?.

  we were relocating a person who works with us to another place , turns out she had a pathological fear of dwarfs and since one worked there she came running back to us.... not sure i have any real pathological fears, however i remember having to get out of pitsburgh due to the high buildings, then i couldnt stay in new york when i saw the hight of the twin towers and other buildings, dont know if i was pathologically scared or just totally overwhelmed.. anyway, whats your fear?.

  brummie

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  I'm not sure if it's pathological but I do really hate wasps. I really can't relax at all with them around, and it was a bad summer for wasps. When they come I leap around swatting them and trying to run away, which of course makes them mad. I seemed to have transferred this fear directly to my daughter, yippee. Between the two of us, me jumping around like a flea on a hotplate and her shrieking "wasp" at random intervals (whether there's an actual wasp there or not), there's really no point going on a picnic with us. We are zero fun.