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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:30 PM Original message |
Is it me, or do we as a species seem to be getting meaner |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. No. We've been cruel and nasty for thousands of years. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. True |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Read Heart of Darkness, saw Lord of the Flies |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. I'm reminded of the story... |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. It's sad that it is humanity's nobility, and not its savagery, that surprises. |
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MsKandice01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I remember that line! |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Yeah, what was that computer language he was using, anyway? BASIC? FORTRAN? |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
8. Yes, kinda. The internet is partly to blame for that. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. Rats in a cage. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
11. Not necessarily. Remember that public executions by gruesome means used to draw crowds |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. Oh, FUCK YOU, Taverner. You rat fucking bastard. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:11 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Oh yeah? You wanna piece of me pally? |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
13. No, we just hear about more of it |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 06:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. There's a lot of good stories out there, too, though. Don't you think? |
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