No one is completely ok on his or her own.
What is your favorite hat?
@trinsec I've heard the drought is natural, but exacerbated by human activity (particularly the Colorado River shortages and aquifer subsidence). People want quick and easy solutions, and it's even better if problems just go away. I raised the question today to encourage people to think in a different direction.
I'm sure New Vegas will be a lovely place to visit, if you can avoid the radscorpions.
@trinsec Depends on who you ask. I was listening to a radio report on the drought conditions in the American West, and they made the statement, "Don't let the recent rains deceive you." So often people look at short-term or one-off events and interpret them as long-term or part of a pattern. "It rained! The drought is over! We don't have to worry about the Colorado River or Lake Mead or whether Las Vegas is going to be inhabitable in 100 years!"
@trinsec Take your pick! Climate change, decreasing product availability, nationalism, etc. Apply the question to each- to whatever trend you're hoping will just go away- and consider what it would mean if it didn't go away.
What if [the trend] isn't a short-term situation, but persists for decades or centuries?
What is the core of your worldview? What could or would change that?
I know some people like this.
"...all his new acquaintances, in spite of the differences of their ages and their characters, had one point in common which made them all alike: they were all people with a splendid past and a very poor present. Of their past they all - every one of them - spoke with enthusiasm; their attitude to the present was almost one of contempt. The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love the act of living. [The boy] did not yet know that, and before the stew had been all eaten he firmly believed that the men sitting round the cauldron were the injured victims of fate. [The old man] told them that in the past, before there were railways, he used to go with trains of waggons to Moscow and to Nizhni, and used to earn so much that he did not know what to do with his money; and what merchants there used to be in those days! what fish! how cheap everything was! Now the roads were shorter, the merchants were stingier, the peasants were poorer, the bread was dearer, everything had shrunk and was on a smaller scale."
-Anton Chekov, "The Steppe"
I don't think I've ever used the word "excresence" in conversation.
You are a fantastic and awesome person. Don't believe that too hard, though, or it stops being true.
The "send" button is not an imperative command.
I imagine a seller of plate-glass saloon windows could have made good money in the Old West. Just have to stay a step or two behind the marshals.
What song lyric from your teenage years makes little sense now that you think about it?
Today, January 6, is the Christian holiday of Epiphany (it has a few other names too- don't get hung up!). 12 days ago, we marked Christmas, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Now, we observe the day when people said, "Hey, that baby born in a Bethlehem barn is someone special." Attended by shepherds, sorcerers, and seraphim, this kid was not simply an impoverished baby born into the underclass of the world's superpower, but a living God with the incredible power to heal human bodies and souls. Not only did Jesus feed, heal, and teach the people of his day, he also lived without wrong or regrettable action, his ongoing scandal the contrast between his perfect life and the flawed behavior of the religious leaders and teachers of the day. Those leaders found him to be a threat to their peace and power, and contrived to have him executed, a fate Jesus saw coming and neutralized by rising from the dead. By paying as an innocent for the guilt of all who choose to accept the gift, then overcoming even that final punishment, that little baby has offered us each a "get out of jail free" card and a "get into paradise free" card. You can be off the hook for all the wrong you've ever done, and you can have the most fulfilling, joy-filled, authentic life you've ever dreamed of--and all you have to do is have an epiphany about that man born thousands of years ago, that God who speaks even today.
Just curious: what are Donald Trump's religious practices now that he's out of office?
Merry Christmas!
What's the last Brad Pitt movie you saw that isn't actually a Brad Pitt movie?
"Wasn't he in that vampire movie, Bite Club?"
"Oh, he was great as the swashbuckling archaeologist in Lost City."
Which is your favorite sensorium?
Through diffused light
The fence - enclosure of a hidden kingdom
The tree - staff of a watchful giant
The house - fortress of a marble mahal
Magnified by mystifying fog
"Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people."
"Pay attention! I have good news that will make you very happy- it's not just for you, but for everyone!"
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