Posted by jkm822 at michigan.mgmt.rpi.edu on June 10, 2003 at 14:20:44:
In Reply to: Why must some of you people.... posted by Kev Hoffman on June 10, 2003 at 14:13:08:
: keep putting "RE:" before a new statement...it's really annoying. Also, keeping the ::::'s before a new comment is ultra annoying too. These things are bothersome because it doesn't look like anything else new has been said and I don't like to have to look twice at a post.
Right there with you, drives me nuts, too.
: Okay, now that I've gotten that out of my system...
: I have decided that it'll come to a vote, whoever wants god to come out and end all of the madness (death, disease, war, etc...not crazy people doing amusing things or stuff like that) say "yay", whoever doesn't, say "nay". I'm sick and tired of being pushed around without my say in how god runs our lives, so I vote "YAY". This is taxation without representation to the highest degree, and I won't stand for it.
No death? Well, could cause a bit of an overpopulation problem. It's a nice idea, in theory, but not very practical. Not while we're still bound to this planet, anyway. You have a choice; you can have an Earth that's still even vaguely worth living on, or you can have a planet that looks like NY did in 5th Element. Right down to the captain of Red Dwarf flying on up to the McDonalds fly-thru window. It was, too - check and see!
So on that one, in this century, I'm gonna have to vote Nay!
Disease? Well, I can't argue with you there. If we're gonna have to die, I'd like it to be some way other than wasting away in agony and misery. So I'm with you there, I vote Yay!
War? Goes without saying, for me. I'm such a peacenik, I've boycotted Crossages Malll for the last several months just because they booted people for wearing peace-related T-shirts. That they'd had made IN THE FUCKING MALL, for Chrissakes!!!
And anyone who's gotten an e-mail from me knows that my sig quote at the moment is "What's so funny 'bout peace, love & understanding?" So I definitely vote Yay! there, as well.
We've all got to go sometime. I'd just like it not to be through disease or violence. And when I say violence, that encompasses everything from war down to a city mugging.
I'd like for us all to die peacefully in our jeep. Er, sleep.
Sorry, looks like I've got Red Dwarf on the brain, today.