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20 Oct 2018, 1:10 am

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all that is why I live hermited away from [most] people.

Well I used to feel that way but like I said before I'm starting to realize there's a lot of nice people in this world who mean well. I can't allow the sociopaths and narcissists to convince me that everybody in the whole world is as evil as they are.

Even if people do bad things sometimes you just have to try not to judge them and put yourself in their shoes. I think it's only fair to judge people when they do something very cruel and evil and they feel no guilt or remorse about it.



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20 Oct 2018, 1:15 am

TW1ZTY wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
all that is why I live hermited away from [most] people.

Well I used to feel that way but like I said before I'm starting to realize there's a lot of nice people in this world who mean well. I can't allow the sociopaths and narcissists to convince me that everybody in the whole world is as evil as they are. Even if people do bad things sometimes you just have to try not to judge them and put yourself in their shoes. I think it's only fair to judge people when they do something very cruel and evil and they feel no guilt or remorse about it.


living away from people reminds me that it is human nature itself that is the problem. to L>I>V>E is to be E<V<I<L. the 25% figure is an average, some areas have a much higher concentration [politics, show business, big business, military, pro athletics]. there is only a small minority of people one can trust. the vast middle is subject to being turned at any time, by the dark side. it is even hard to trust oneself.



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20 Oct 2018, 8:34 am

auntblabby wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
all that is why I live hermited away from [most] people.

Well I used to feel that way but like I said before I'm starting to realize there's a lot of nice people in this world who mean well. I can't allow the sociopaths and narcissists to convince me that everybody in the whole world is as evil as they are. Even if people do bad things sometimes you just have to try not to judge them and put yourself in their shoes. I think it's only fair to judge people when they do something very cruel and evil and they feel no guilt or remorse about it.


living away from people reminds me that it is human nature itself that is the problem. to L>I>V>E is to be E<V<I<L. the 25% figure is an average, some areas have a much higher concentration [politics, show business, big business, military, pro athletics]. there is only a small minority of people one can trust. the vast middle is subject to being turned at any time, by the dark side. it is even hard to trust oneself.


The only people anybody can really trust is their closest friends and family and even those people can turn their backs on you sometimes.



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20 Oct 2018, 6:41 pm

TW1ZTY wrote:
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having researched it, hanging is NOT painless, there are a few survivors who report feeling that their bodies felt like they were on fire [spinal cord damage] and the nuclear bomb of headaches as the smaller veins allowing outward flow are constricted. there are many more [relatively] humane ways to do somebody in, than hanging.

I agree. I don't understand why hanging was so popular for so long. Even cutting a person's head off would have seen more humane.

Unless you have a guillotine it can take three to four ax blows until the condemned dies. Not what I'd call humane.


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21 Oct 2018, 1:53 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
having researched it, hanging is NOT painless, there are a few survivors who report feeling that their bodies felt like they were on fire [spinal cord damage] and the nuclear bomb of headaches as the smaller veins allowing outward flow are constricted. there are many more [relatively] humane ways to do somebody in, than hanging.

I agree. I don't understand why hanging was so popular for so long. Even cutting a person's head off would have seen more humane.

Unless you have a guillotine it can take three to four ax blows until the condemned dies. Not what I'd call humane.


Even so I bet it would have still been quicker than watching them strangle to death and twitching around helplessly while hanging from a rope.