Even a cat can look at a cowgirl.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Aug 24, 2009 3:04:33 pm PDT #5385 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Calli - Aug 24, 2009 3:08:42 pm PDT #5386 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
This right here is why I adore my husband (check out the fabulous pictures!): [link]
I think my favorite is Death on a Plinth.
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2009 3:09:10 pm PDT #5387 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think even nice people are more than happy to hear "thanks," if nothing else.
But does it still count as being nice if you do it for the thanks? If nice is equated with altruism, not really.
sarameg - Aug 24, 2009 3:11:16 pm PDT #5388 of 30001
Scrappy's husband is awesome!
Cass - Aug 24, 2009 3:12:00 pm PDT #5389 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
our 2005 model children are matched in their bear fear!
Yes, but you had a bear in your area, so this is a justifiable fear. OMG, CHECK THE BATHTUB FOR ROUGE SHARKS !
eta: i is never going to make the text blinvisible, just slightly thinner and tilted. Why can't I remember the quick edits?
sarameg - Aug 24, 2009 3:21:02 pm PDT #5390 of 30001
t cheery Also, I don't think there are enough nice people in the world to make altruism work as a sustainable system. People's capacity for nasty and mean and selfish is amazing and civilisation is a thin veneer that makes a lot of us look nicer than that while still serving our selfishness
t /cheery
Actually, Bhutan is an interesting example of ..something. I haven't fleshed it all out. It's definitely an outlier,but the national identity is something so tied up in being nice and mindful, but it's also small, isolated and pretty homogenous. And goodness knows there are some cranky nepali -bhutanese refugees living in Nepal... So.
Jesse - Aug 24, 2009 3:21:14 pm PDT #5391 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Real nice, cat-of-tommyrot!!
But does it still count as being nice if you do it for the thanks? If nice is equated with altruism, not really.
This is the train that got my college philosophy professor to assert that Mother Teresa was the worst person ever.
tommyrot - Aug 24, 2009 3:25:41 pm PDT #5392 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, I got a new apartment. I was feeling really pessimistic after one place rejected me due to bad credit, but this place accepted me. It's a large-ish efficiency in an old building on Jarvis (which is very close to the Evanston border on the North side of Chicago).
I'll be moving at the end of the month. Most of my stuff will be going into storage, due to the bedbugs....
Connie Neil - Aug 24, 2009 3:26:45 pm PDT #5393 of 30001
brillig
It sounds like when I would get in arguments with my economics professor said socialism/communism was inevitable, and I said there would always be people who would want to have something that others didn't and the whole equality and "according to their needs" would fall apart. Even if everyone is happy with a shovel, someone's going to want to have their shovel gold-plated.
sarameg - Aug 24, 2009 3:27:31 pm PDT #5394 of 30001
Congrats, tommy!
I need to read this book: [link] I had a great long conversation with a friend of lisah's about it and Bhutan.