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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's important to be reminded that there are people in the world who care - about EVERYTHING - more than you.

And more times than not, this " caring " involves taking money from others and putting it towards FIXING the so many wrongs in the world.

And if you question or dare to object ? By golly, you don't CARE.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's important to be reminded that there are people in the world who care - about EVERYTHING - more than you.

And more times than not, this " caring " involves taking money from others and putting it towards FIXING the so many wrongs in the world.

And if you question or dare to object ? By golly, you don't CARE.

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I'm trying to think of a way you could be MORE misdirective and self-servingly nebulous, but it's not coming...

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

Jongs, great songs, but we haven't come so far IMO. We move like the tides, making progress, then slipping back.

It's the way of things...

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And more times than not, this " caring " involves taking money from others and putting it towards FIXING the so many wrongs in the world.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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And more times than not, this " caring " involves taking money from others and putting it towards FIXING the so many wrongs in the world.

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FIRST DO NO HARM.

It would be a great start if we would just stop killing people by the hundreds of thousands ... bombing, shelling, shooting.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
If you let all the misery in the world get to you, you'll end up in a straight jacket.

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
I once had a job offer from a top-notch company in England. I liked the people in the company, liked the perks, but something about the norms and general societal structures in that (elite) part of the UK bothered me. Something was off there. Everything was so rigidly defined, as opposed to my experience in Boston where one could go out to dinner wearing torn jeans and a crappy old T-shirt but the waiter/tress would be cool because he/she had to consider that maybe you're a tech millionaire who really can afford the best wine on the list.

That wouldn't happen in the UK that I experienced. Even the "punks" there were uniform in their dress and behavior, taking care that their appearance defined their social role. (F'ing creepy how uniform the "punks" were! WTH?) In that society, what one looks and acts like in the moment defines everything that they are and have been and will be, and that is an end to it.

I quote only a small part of an article I read today and found very enlightening - read the whole thing if you want to make sense of the mentality of the ruling classes in England, and by extension those of other countries established by England. By which I mean the US. It is directly related to the neocon mentality of the old wealth class here in the US, the mindless obeisance of authority and lack of any empathy towards those who face challenges in the very basics of survival.

It very neatly fits Frem's ideas, which I have never disagreed with in general, though I find his focus too narrow.

From the article:

"This clutch of male ruling politicians embodies the grand Victorian public school virtues – or failings – more than most: suppression of emotion, devotion to the team, distrust of women and minimal empathy for the weak and ordinary."

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/04/abuse-britain-private-s
chools-personal-memoir

Good lord, is that not the US neocon movement? The ruling British class, which has become the US ruling class?


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Originally posted by Brenda:

My bad I should have included the writer of the song and that happens to be Buffy Sainte Marie. She is a Native American.

I thought it was a fitting piece given the thread title and I happen to agree with the sentiments in the song.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
If you let all the misery in the world get to you, you'll end up in a straight jacket.

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Got one all picked out.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Looks just like the one Frem's in 23 hours a day.

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Depression bad. Happy good.
Ever know a sociopath? They never get depressed.

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Depression bad. Happy good.
Ever know a sociopath? They never get depressed.

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That sounds like the kind of lie a sociopath might tell. :P

We do get depressed, it's called co-morbidity. If you have one mental health disorder, it's likely you have others.

And some of us do have interests in causes apart from our own self-interest.

The difference is, the way they approach problems lends itself to horrible solutions. And any regret they might feel is tempered by their certainty that it was necessary and they were right.

We're more common than you think.

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
That sounds like the kind of lie a sociopath might tell. :P

We do get depressed, it's called co-morbidity.

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