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Product of Evolution Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:02 PM
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Do you ever feel happy when bad things happen even though you shouldn't?
For some reason, I'm just ecstatic every time a hurricane hits Virginia Beach. ;-)
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:02 PM
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1. Schadenfreude?
Who doesn't experience it from time to time. So, what's your beef with VA Beach?
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:04 PM
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3. The anti-christ lives there
In the form of Pat Robertson. :)
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:06 PM
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7. Indeed he does!
n/t
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KCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:03 PM
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2. schadenfreude
it's one of my favorite emotions.

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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:04 PM
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4. What about when bad things happen to people you really don't like?
A woman from work I couldn't stand just got fired...I know I shouldn't take joy in her misfortune, but she's not really a nice person, and shouldn't have been working around kids anyway...Am I a horrible person?
Duckie
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:04 PM
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5. Yes
I'm happy when bad stuff happens to ppl I dont like.

EOM
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:06 PM
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6. So, are we bad people, Kamika?
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:10 PM
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8. I do feel bad
But not about Pat Robertson. Just regular people I wouldn't wish some things on anyone even though a lesson is good.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-04 08:12 PM
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9. For some reason, I'd like to be snowed in
I used to get really excited anytime there was a huge snow storm. Now that I have to drive to work no matter what the weather and shovel our driveway which gets plowed in by the city, I am not so happy.
Sometimes, I have mixed but generally positive feelings when someone gets what they deserve. As my sister told a little girl, who she babysat for who purposely dumped water on the floor and fell on it mintues later while chasing her sister: "Sometimes bad things happen to you when you are being bad."
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