Lasty

... that only went, like, not even 2,000 feet into the air. More of a terrible carnival ride than proof the earth is flat or a platform from which to run for Governor of California... Liftoff

Also, not "inevitable". Ongoing, just not highly escalated as it has been in the past. and it needs to stop.

I wasn't making anything like an effort to be condescending. It's a message board? I know it's rooted in humor but bear with me; humor is still a mode of communication, which makes that the objective here, right? Your initial response to mine seemed like it was testing the water to see how much of a rise you could get out of me. You can't justify this kind of crap by trying to hide behind the atmosphere of the board, and you can't hide it from me, even through the anonymity of text on the internet. Your initial post made a decent enough point which I expanded upon for the sake of the discussion. You're avoiding addressing the substance of the point I made. Couldn't say why you did it without some additional context, though. A simple misunderstanding perhaps? I'd like to think that, because it's better to give people the benefit of the doubt and maybe get disappointed than it is to never give anyone the benefit of the doubt and always be disappointed. That being said, if I were being manipulated, I would be very grateful if someone tried to point it out to me. Hell, I don't even care if they happen to be wrong because that's going to happen sometimes if humanity is ever going to flesh any of this B.S. out. Have a nice day! =^__^=

Projection on your part.

I was pretty clear when I said "money is a way of usurping people's time". Totally relevant and your after-the-fact pop-culture reference edit is not a good pun under that circumstance... and now you're trying to do the thing. *eyeball roll*

I wasn't disagreeing; I was adding to what you said because you left out the most important part. As long as you're thinking about it like that? It's you they control, whether you're getting paid for it or not.

Time isn't money; your time is your life. Money is a way of usurping people's time...

I dunno 'bout that. They seem bent on using money to manipulate people but more and more westerners are developing skepticism and distaste for the idea...

Money is not a raw physical resource to begin with. It's only a thing because of this massive placebo that was set in place ten thousand years ago when money was still a good idea. It's vestigial now... There's more than enough to go around...

Nobody wins in a war....

You have now! O_O

Don't take a job if it'll mess with your circadian rhythm. You need that flowing right to be able to work effectively at all.

Yea, but I'm gonna be annoying about it until you take better care of yourself... Are you eating right?

I do, man! You're wasting your money! v__v;

Try three for a dollar at dollar tree.

I write mnemonic devices to save a planet in crisis don't really care what your vice is It's all in our heads, man, like this...

Soon enough, you will die.... Where's GSN when you need him?

Aw, you don't want to be a night owl? You could drink coffee and read bad newspapers very loudly in a late night cafe!

Would have been a +10 if someone had returned it to you...

Is that money?

I don't want to lose you.

I hear the British royal family eats people... The guy I heard it from was definitely a racist, though, so confirmation is needed.

I play & write music.