Displaying 241 To 270 Of 3,373 Comments Up until about ten years ago, many music fans felt that the Beatles would be like Mozart and Bach, that their music would endure and people would be listening to them decades, if not centuries, into the future. They have blazed as brilliantly as any musical group ever (more than a billion albums sold!), but alas, even they, may ultimately just become a sentence or two in a history book. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 31, 2011 @ 4:34 pm No, my desk/table is made of orange juice. I’m really hoping I’ll be the closest to being right this time, too. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 31, 2011 @ 4:20 pm Yes and no. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 31, 2011 @ 4:00 pm KT, what a quote! Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was slightly less graphic in her descriptions, but she basically said the same thing. She likened humans to beautiful canyons that need the ravages of weather to emerge as beautiful. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 30, 2011 @ 7:00 pm Our leaders here are losing the “War on Earthquakes”. But our architects and structural engineers are AMAZING! God Bless ’em! » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 30, 2011 @ 6:08 pm I think depression is interesting because, in milder forms, it does “sculpt” the personality in positive ways, I agree. Or at least it has that potential. And yet everyone, when depressed, wants out of it as soon as possible. Even if we were to change the language about it, people would still be miserable, because of how the brain chemistry works while depressed. We SHOULD, as a society, raise consciousness about it, definitely. We should not call people weak or lazy when they need to take off work, or even have suspicions about that. We should know not to give stupid advice like, “Watch comedies!” or “think positive thoughts!” (Telling a depressed person to think positive thoughts is like telling a crippled person to “walk straight!”) And, as you write, we should be made aware, as this article makes us aware, that depression has benefits to society. Not to the degree that it has costs, perhaps (think of all the suicides), but real benefits nevertheless. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 30, 2011 @ 6:05 pm Hi Kes, I basically agree, but as someone who has experienced a full blown case of severe depression, I can validate that it most definitely should be labeled a pathology. It’s not just glum feelings, not by a long shot. It’s a living hell. Thank God For Paxil! And I mean that. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 30, 2011 @ 5:28 pm I support the president because there have been no major earthquake attacks on American soil during his term. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 30, 2011 @ 5:25 pm We shook! It was four a.m. abouts. My wife was running around with a helmet on. Rosie and I just stayed in bed. Earthquakes are stronger than helmets. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 30, 2011 @ 5:24 pm Fascinating article (and not to self to consider doing a visual essay on this) about the connection between depression and great leaders, such as Churchill and Lincoln. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904800304576474451102761640.html » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 29, 2011 @ 10:49 pm Yeah, people need to be taught to put two and two together better. Too many children are being let down by a failure to speak up. To know who to call, when to call, why to call, etc. Everybody just wants to “mind their own business”, but there are times when that just doesn’t cut it. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 29, 2011 @ 7:17 pm This kind of incident happens too often. The neighbors express their suspicions after the fact. I think it should be part of our civic training, or at least something children are taught in schools, to look out for warning signs of abuse. We are our children’s keepers. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 29, 2011 @ 6:58 pm Yup, agree with you. Sometimes it just seems like they want to tilt at windmills, but this seems a legitimate argument. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 29, 2011 @ 6:28 pm Wow, man, that is so sick! You read the story and you think, somebody should have intervened sooner. The neighbors should have alerted somebody. We need to raise consciousness about this issue apparently, so that people are trained to make that call. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 29, 2011 @ 6:24 pm A “pragmatist” and “realist” dog is the one that tells the “ranting” dog next to him, “Don’t bark so much or the Good Butler will stop throwing us table scraps, just like the Bad Butler never does!” Or something like that, I guess. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 28, 2011 @ 10:19 pm Whatever KQ. I just see you singing that same song over and over. Somehow criticizing a dysfunctional system leads to making the system more dysfunctional. Like I said, whatever. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 28, 2011 @ 3:27 pm Yep, talking about this issue, which is not what the article I posted was about. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 28, 2011 @ 3:07 pm I don’t think it is a matter of apportioning blame. It is a matter of looking at the country we live in and asking ourselves honestly if those people who are elected to serve us are actually doing so, and if not, how so and why? Could things be better? Obviously. How much better? A LOT. A whole, fucking lot better. Tax cuts for the rich that didn’t even exist in Reagan’s time are now so sacred that the country’s credibility is now willing to be sacrificed to preserve them? All the sweetheart deals to corporations and Wall Street for the last thirty years have HURT, not helped this country. This is not a perspective; this is fact. We have lost our industrial base and widened the gap between rich and poor. Worse, we have widened the BURDEN between rich and poor. We have become closer to, not further away from, a banana republic in the last thirty years, and by no stretch of the imagination can that be called progress. So if you want to say it’s the Republicans fault, sure, I won’t argue. But the Democrats could have done better for the people of this country, and it’s good to ask why that hasn’t happened. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 28, 2011 @ 2:55 pm From Truthout “The two main political parties are failing to serve the people, both locked in a dance of dysfunctional political posturing in service of power. In a candid moment this spring, speaking to Charlie Rose, some New York Times correspondents acknowledged the sorry state of our politics: Tom Friedman remarked that we are trapped in a “corrupt duopoly.” » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 28, 2011 @ 2:30 pm thanks, KT! » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 27, 2011 @ 9:32 pm Exactly! In times like these, crying statues of Mary just doesn’t cut it! People want a more Hands- On approach. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 27, 2011 @ 3:24 pm So is Harry Potter. We Muggles will buy anything. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 27, 2011 @ 3:13 pm Actually, the reverse is even worse. According to a poll conducted by Whatsipedia, only THREE percent of angels and other celestial beings (C. B. for short) approve of the human race! » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 27, 2011 @ 3:12 pm It’s like I’ve been saying all along. God only focuses on the center of the galaxy! We folks out here in the boonies hardly get noticed. He’s just not that into us! » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 27, 2011 @ 2:57 pm Five foot tall, huh? As long as you don’t come at me with that gargantuan patootie of yours, I like my chances. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 27, 2011 @ 7:33 am Aye ayes are SCARY![img]https://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ayeaye.jpeg[/img] » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 26, 2011 @ 6:47 am Booooooooooooooooooooo! Are you the loon that thumbed me down? » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 26, 2011 @ 1:55 am Lord, I thank You and praise You for the Ohio State University Football Team, and pray that you will sow discord and confusion among all those silly NCAA investigators into ethics violations, that You will raise Woody Hayes from the dead, and that You will shorten all our first downs to five yards and lengthen our opponents’ to fifteen (and twenty for Michigan). Amen. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 25, 2011 @ 6:29 pm a very nutty nutshell. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 25, 2011 @ 6:21 pm According to whatsipedia, the ability to crack oneself up with ones own humor is one of the surest signs of a healthy mind. » Posted By whatsthatsound On July 25, 2011 @ 6:12 pmComments Posted By whatsthatsound
But I don’t see that happening. As great as they were, they don’t seem to be catching on with young people, at least not internationally. Barely one or two of the young college age kids I teach here in Japan know a thing about them.
When asked “How is that Steward-y Earth-y thing working out?”, not a single C.B. responded positively.
If it weren’t for the bad press God received for the Flood Option, I might not even be writing this now, and you might not even be reading it. Some angels who have a particular antipathy toward us are combing through the clause in Genesis where God promises Noah never to wipe us out again, looking for a loophole. Many of these are the ones who were disappointed that humans, and not ants, were favored in the first place (Eden, of course). They have been protesting outside God’s house with placards that say “Hairless Apes Suck”, and “God Loves People: Why?” for the last hundred years.
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