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sir pball

(4,758 posts) Wed Sep 4, 2019, 02:17 AM Sep 2019

It was so much easier to blame it on Them.

It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

-- Terry Pratchett

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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. (Original Post) sir pball Sep 2019 OP

Exercises in semantics don't minimize effects of the antics abqtommy Sep 2019 #1

abqtommy

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1. Exercises in semantics don't minimize effects of the antics

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Wed Sep 4, 2019, 06:51 AM

Sep 2019

of Me/We/Us/Them. Nip the negative in the bud, Bud. In this extended human family we truly are
our sibling's keeper and by extrapolation the keeper of all that's positive for the Me/Mine. Learn
to answer the philosophical question presented by Terry Pratchett: "Can a leopard change its shorts?"

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