(December 10, 2024 at 4:21 pm)MR. Macabre 666 Wrote:

(December 9, 2024 at 10:56 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: It also doesn't mean it's right because you happen to agree with it.

No it doesn't, but it apparently pisses off an awful lot of members of this forum. Let's just wait 4 years, and see what kind's of situations we'll have going on around the globe. I'll bet we'll be in much better shape than that senile POS Biden is leaving us all in.

So your metric is how miserable others are. Figures.

I can say Biden never pretended to give a microphone a pretend blowjob or thought windmills cause cancer.  One other thing, Biden is undefeated in presidential campaigns.

(December 10, 2024 at 4:40 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: One other thing, Biden is undefeated in presidential campaigns.

There was that time in 1987 when he had to drop out of the primaries. He was caught plagiarizing and lying. 

Since then it's become OK to lie if you have the support of the right people.

(December 10, 2024 at 7:14 pm)Belacqua Wrote:

(December 10, 2024 at 4:40 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: One other thing, Biden is undefeated in presidential campaigns.

There was that time in 1987 when he had to drop out of the primaries. He was caught plagiarizing and lying. 

Since then it's become OK to lie if you have the support of the right people.

This is true, for instance, saying you had more people at your event than Martin Luther King's dream speech.


I like this game.

(December 10, 2024 at 7:46 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:

(December 10, 2024 at 7:14 pm)Belacqua Wrote: There was that time in 1987 when he had to drop out of the primaries. He was caught plagiarizing and lying. 

Since then it's become OK to lie if you have the support of the right people.

This is true, for instance, saying you had more people at your event than Martin Luther King's dream speech.


I like this game.

Lying is bad.

(December 7, 2024 at 2:15 pm)Asmodeus Wrote: As the world turns to shit and the future looks bleak everywhere you look with bad news and more bad news every day, what still moves you forward?

I find life to be pretty awesome in a general sense, even as I get older and closer to the last day that I will ever exist.

I also think that humanity has --in spite of all of our disadvantages and near-misses-- built a pretty amazing world around ourselves. We may never reach our potential (I doubt that we will, not without tens of thousands of years of continued evolution) but we achieved a heck of a lot, in spite of ourselves. In the end, we'll be gone. That might take a few million years, or it might only take a few thousand, but that's where it's all headed.

Of course, by then I'll be long gone. In the meantime, I have enjoyed my life and hope to enjoy it for a couple of decades more if I am lucky. I guess I'm not wired to spend too much time worrying about it. Ironically, my past life as a Jehovah's Witness probably helps in some ways, since they do not believe in the concept of eternal torment. I always understood that the end was just that, and not something to fear. I suppose my only concern is that I'll miss out-- I won't see how things turn out. But it's not like it'll be nagging me, or anything.