Guns, Guns, Guns.
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Like the Japanese version, or Magnificent Seven? Because... both?
Akira Kurosawa was a master filmmaker. He also predicted the Fukushima disaster well before it happened.
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My goodness, Mal4,
Of course I'm capable of recognizing a metaphor, but you don't seem to be even willing to recognize a vicious, personal and humiliating attack. Just because language is metaphoric doesn't make it kind or respectful or just. Of course you don't imagine that Anthony literally makes love to his gun in the mirror (I never suggested that you did), but how does that make your nasty insinuation any better, any kinder, any less offensive? Of course it's "hyperbolic," but no more so than, say, Rush Limbaugh's various "hyperboles" about women and their sexuality.
I'm floored that you continue to insist that you've not been out of line in your attack on Anthony. I can only imagine that you somehow perceive Anthony himself to be responsible for oppressing you and so you lash out at him without apparent pang of conscience and without restraint. And now you turn your rage on me.
Irony.
Being unkind, as you're being here, is simply not okay with me and because I generally think very highly of you, I chose to call you on it. If it's not possible for us to remain respectful of each other here in cyberspace, what hope is there for any of us in the real world?
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Just saying...
With all the talk of gun-control, and the want of school defenders...
Might it not make sense that the people of the community be tasked with this?
Instead of the military, or the police guarding the schools... ask the community if there are any who want the job? Since getting rid of gun-free zones, and allowing teachers to be armed, is a battle away... and we dont want the government (armed) in our schools...
Why not ask if former military (who are without jobs), or community members (after being vetted) would like the position?
How many would enjoy the responsibility of protecting children, even getting paid for it?
"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... YOU are locked in here with ME."
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As I recall, only three samurai survived that. Their last comments are about how society will use up its heroes and discard them. Sometimes even fear them.
There is no such thing as glory. There's only the right thing to do and the wrong thing. The wrong thing is easy. And the right thing always hurts.
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The right thing always hurts... correct.
Doesn't mean you don't do it.
"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... YOU are locked in here with ME."
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Quote:
Originally posted by WULFENSTAR:
The right thing always hurts... correct.
Doesn't mean you don't do it.
Yeah.
SHERIFF
But a man learns
all the details of a situation like ours, well,
then he has a choice.
MAL
(looking stone-cold serious)
I don't believe he does.
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Exactly.
I'm called a fool for believing in the "good" of people.
I laugh in the faces of those who say such things. They tend to be sad, bitter things... worth more pity than discussion.
"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... YOU are locked in here with ME."
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Bytemite, the Wulf Whisperer.
"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Brenda, if you're still around and haven't been scared off, please accept the apologies of the ADULTS here for the way you've been treated. All new voices are appreciated by most of us here, and a couple of immature, insensitive snarkers do not speak for all of us. Telling someone to shut the fuck up is precisely against the intent of these forums; I'm sorry you were subjected to that.
Good to know you don't have a "side", Byte, and that you're civil to all.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra...
Quoting ST-TNG on a Firefly board? Blasphemy!
lol
"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... YOU are locked in here with ME."
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