casita
Senior Member
Suggest. Call. 311.
Oh, pud!
Suggest. Call. 311.
Someone's gotta take out the garbage at CH (preferably not GFL).
Rob shouldn't be running for any public office right now, full stop. His list of health issues is longer than Schindler's. He had a great opportunity to make a graceful exit. What we're seeing now is anything but.
Bingo - empathy, at the end of the day, makes the person feeling it feels better. It doesn't do an iota for the subject (unless you're interacting directly with him).
AoD
Ditto all that hogwash about prayer. If I'm dying, don't bother praying. Just do something meaningful and bring me chocolate.
Now we're talking!
And casita, please stop worrying about impending doom - chances are you'll live for decades yet, so worrying about it will only make you feel anxious for no real reason. Be happy right now for the good things in your life, and leave worries for possible futures until they occur.
Well put. That's exactly how I feel.
Edit: the fact that he struggles with addiction doesn't factor into my lack of sympathy. Addiction is a disease, just like cancer. It's his contempt for, and ill will towards - indeed, his apparent hatred of - so many factions of the population that makes it hard for me to feel sympathy for him.