Optimally, this thread should be closed because I don't think I've ever read so much ed up in my life. Joss is right. I'm telling you from my own experience - he's right.
I had a big post ready to qualify that but you people haven't earned that level of trust from me. I will say only that it's been a little over twenty years, since my mother was killed by a man who then committed suicide. I'm not going to ing get into a debate about how the catastrophe has post-traumatically shaped the inflexibility of my opinion. That would be too much trouble and you people, some of whom are, however jokingly or not, posting coercive suicide advice over the internet, just haven't even come close to earning the respect I'd show by delving into it with you.
bananas
jesus, people, just shut the up already
EricB.
Arbiter
It's amusing how so many think that their personal experiences are so generalizable. They conceptualize a paradigm based on their narrow perception of a singlar experience, and they think that it gives them some great insight. But, in reality, they can't even see their own experiences clearly, clouded as they are by emotion, much less can they comprehend the breadth of experience in this world. It's rather diappointing, but I suppose they can be forgiven for their humanity.
Ted Promo
Wow... so there's this thread here.
Sand Leaper
SuspicionVandit
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Originally posted by Ted Promo
Wow... so there's this thread here.
Silky Johnson
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MeLLyMeL
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Originally posted by Sand Leaper
That John Walsh / Expired tag bit was funny because it recently happened to me. The expired tag not the body in the car!
It does remind me how a few months ago, a friend called me up telling me that someone I used to know when I was 18/19 had choked his girlfriend to death and drove around with her lifeless body in the passenger seat for 12 hours!!! He went over to his friends houses with the dead body. He ended up turning himself in.
:wtf:
Joss Weatherby
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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
Which one is Echos... :p Imagine if she was in this thread too... Your minds...
Lira
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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
I do not think the world is ready for humanism in the sense that you can look at it from "we are all people." Its a nice thought but its obviously not working. It is an admirable goal and we do need to see it if our species (the most important thing, above national or genetic identity is our identity as a species) is to survive, but I do not think that we are even close to that yet.
Funny, why does it work where I live?
Really, the only reason why this seems to be a problem in the US is because "interracial marriages" are not as numerous as they could be. As Brian (BoJingles) stated, this distrust is cultural rather than genetic. Have you ever heard of a racial uprising in Brazil? I doubt it, most people that look European have African genes and vice-versa. And the Native Brazilians have their share in the gene pool as well, we banged them before they vanished.
I, for instance, can trace my ancestry to all inhabited continents in the world, except Oceania (I'm counting North and South America as one single continent, by the way) and this is pretty much the norm here. The only kind of distrust you're likely to find here is with foreigners, even if they share a common genetic background.
The "it's not working" bit? I don't buy it. At all.
