That must be a US thing. We don't do that over here.So, something that's always bothered me: Why do you park in your driveway but drive on the parkway?
That must be a US thing. We don't do that over here.So, something that's always bothered me: Why do you park in your driveway but drive on the parkway?
So, something that's always bothered me: Why do you park in your driveway but drive on the parkway?
If tin whistles are made of tin, what do they make foghorns out of?So, something that's always bothered me: Why do you park in your driveway but drive on the parkway?
I can't help that you, my beloved overseas cousins, do things wrong. I love you all dearly anywayThat must be a US thing. We don't do that over here.
One will get you arrested, the other one won't.(and don't even get me started on the vegetable oil / baby oil debate! )
Every week Rat Catcher says: "It's a mercy, you know", and opens his mouth as a sad-looking rodent wanders in of its own volition.Exactly. They end up depressed by the end of the episode. That is why they should die.
Hi Ratty,@WhiteShadow - are you a bubble dweller or ex-pat?
& is that your playername too?
(stolen from a commercial)
If love is blind. How can it be at first sight?
Translation? Romantics are liars.
I'd love to. I just need to be online at the same time as you@MishaTX
I should be arriving back in the nebula later tonight.
I'll also need to be gathering manufactured mats (Horizons) in the odd Haz res, if you'd like to dust off your CMDR and join in...
Speaking for myself, the off-roader found a river, there was only a railway bridge and the far bank is much nicer.It's as much "becoming free" as switching from an off-road vehicle cross country trip to a train on a single track railroad.
Speaking for myself, the off-roader found a river, there was only a railway bridge and the far bank is much nicer.
Easy-peasy... You are awake and active during the hours I can play - so all it takes is the suggestion hereI'd love to. I just need to be online at the same time as you
(Almost) exactly my point.Freedom is an illusion in all senses - every human is constrained by the social 'programming' of the society in which they grow up, life experiences, genetics, neural anatomy, and that then overlaid on a persons internal representation of reality which in itself is a pastiche of reality tempered by fallacies and expectations.
Generally when someone says they feel "free" what they mean is "free from angst", and for most people, free from angst equates with being happy with one's position in the world and one's lot in life. Given, as you rightly say, love restricts freedom at the expense of feeling comfort, coupled with a tendency to reduce introspection and increase altruism (which is well linked to a sense of wellbeing), it is not surprising that people when asked define that as "freedom"...
I didn't have the freedom to get here any other way, so the alternative wasn't meaningful freedom. I am free to get off and return to the offroad if it doesn't suit (and I am absolutely sure here, because I have done it and remained on good terms with the.. err, train drivers on other lines?). I have lost no freedoms, I just actually like the choices I made and the people I made them with. Saying love is a loss of freedom is like saying you lose freedom by doing a job that fulfils you. The only loss of freedom is the loss of choice. You're not trapped because you didn't throw away the positive consequences of your free choices.Do you consider getting stuck on this "nice bank" fitting the idea of freedom?
(I am not asking how does it feel to be there).
I didn't have the freedom to get here any other way, so the alternative wasn't meaningful freedom. I am free to get off and return to the offroad if it doesn't suit (and I am absolutely sure here, because I have done it and remained on good terms with the.. err, train drivers on other lines?). I have lost no freedoms, I just actually like the choices I made and the people I made them with. Saying love is a loss of freedom is like saying you lose freedom by doing a job that fulfils you. The only loss of freedom is the loss of choice. You're not trapped because you didn't throw away the positive consequences of your free choices.