Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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Interesting.
So the word's definition shall change according to context. Interesting use of language when there are other words that more effectively communicate meaning.
To back to the whole ghost thing, I used to think it was ridiculous until I spent some time in my high school's haunted auditorium, there was one really weird incident, and even now over a decade later, I still can't come up with a logical explanation.
Anybody here ever been involved in an animal abuse/neglect case? I'm still concerned about the horses I mentioned a few weeks ago, and I'm getting close to calling animal control. They're skinny, their hooves haven't been taken care of, they're constantly covered in flies, and I can smell them from farther away than the other horses I've been around. None of it is horrible, but it's not good, and definitely worse than the other horses I've seen.
I'm kind of attatched to these guys, so I'm wondering if I'd be able to kept up to date on what's happening with them, and if it went to court if I'd have to testify. I also have some video I took, and I plan to take more, and I'm assuming the cops would want to see them and possibly use them as evidence.
We already have tons of books and comics covering that period, so it doesn't really see necessary to me.
Anybody here ever been involved in an animal abuse/neglect case? I'm still concerned about the horses I mentioned a few weeks ago, and I'm getting close to calling animal control. They're skinny, their hooves haven't been taken care of, they're constantly covered in flies, and I can smell them from farther away than the other horses I've been around. None of it is horrible, but it's not good, and definitely worse than the other horses I've seen.
I'm kind of attatched to these guys, so I'm wondering if I'd be able to kept up to date on what's happening with them, and if it went to court if I'd have to testify. I also have some video I took, and I plan to take more, and I'm assuming the cops would want to see them and possibly use them as evidence.
Perhaps.
Someday someone will explain to me why "need" became the figure of speech for everything.
Some things make sense in the English language. This is one of those that doesn't to me. It makes no sense to take a perfectly serviceable word reflecting a specific quality and reworking it to mean something else. It also comes across poorly. As no doubt my pedantic nature does too.
Less things than one might hope, though.
TBF, I sort of get it. My personal bugaboo is the use of "literally" to mean the opposite of literally. But I'm not going to comment on it every time I see it somewhere on the internet. What would be the point? It may bug me, but it certainly doesn't bug others, and no one really wants to be lectured on the use of colloquialisms.
(Whereas the use of "need" for "want" bothers you, but it doesn't bother me at all, and in fact I have used it in that sense many, many times.)
We have to understand that humans use language imprecisely, and that our language changes and evolves over time. If you want to only be exposed to people who use language in a precise, literal fashion, the best I can suggest is maybe wait around 40-ish years, and then look into the possibility of emigrating to Vulcan.
Trust me, I have been looking in to it.We have to understand that humans use language imprecisely, and that our language changes and evolves over time. If you want to only be exposed to people who use language in a precise, literal fashion, the best I can suggest is maybe wait around 40-ish years, and then look into the possibility of emigrating to Vulcan.
To be fair, it was more an idle musing on my part and realizing that this idea of a need for a particular entertainment installment is the quintessential first world problem. As is debating particular peculiarities of parsing language expression.
I've been in allegedly haunted houses with other people and yet nothing happened but others in the same group on the same night claim things happened, so either they did or they didn't or it was the power of groupthink.
Is this the new way to screen for drug use at school? Line the kids up and ask: Do you see dead people?
I have no issues with ghosts existing though I don't think they are what people think they are. But, I make no efforts to contact or communicate them, and see no reason to seek out haunted places. I have heard stories from people I trust who have had ghostly encounters and I have heard stories, like yours, of people in supposedly haunted places with nothing happening.
However, I have zero desire to hire a medium, or other such person who claims to have paranormal connections.
Personal story time: my former boss, now in his 70s, deeply regrets not having children. He ended up marrying a woman in his 50s because when he was younger he was told that the world was overpopulated and that people should not have kids. So I can see some people feeling that regret after realizing what they missed out on.
Where did you run into this? I've not heard about it.
Pacino is expecting.
Is Pacino the new Picasso?
Might enjoy the podcast the Exorcism Chronicles which I hear is quite popular. Was recently reading an article about it.
I like Glitch Bottle. It’s less crazy.
Craziness is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose.
I haven’t dug up any relatives to see how much they decomposed, so I’m doing pretty good.
Got to take your victories were you can get them.
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