You're the light that shines the way- I will pay for tickets to your show.

Maybe ironic given the gist of this post but I'm with you. Putting asides that age gap is a personal thing between adults- It was a subject they frequently brought up and addressed, and Monica was the aggressor in the relationship which Richard was reluctant about. Would it be better if they treated Monica as too stupid to be responsible for her own decisions and had Richard "know better" and "tell her what she really wants" by sending her off with "you're too young"?

Both tend to have the goal of saving lives and making the world a better place.

Your first responsibility is to yourself. You are the one thing you will always have. You are the one common thread in all your relationships of which you can have many. If you aren't healthy no relationship you have can be healthy, so while you sometimes need to put the needs of another before you, you must always protect and foster your own well being. My overarching point was that it's not black and white. You need to do what's best for you. If you two can't reach communication, if you both aren't willing to work through a problem, you're relationship is already doomed and leaving saves both people time and hurt. No one can or should have to "fix" another person. Their issues are theirs, but being together means dealing with those. Some problems can't be worked out, when your fundamental well being is in danger you must protect it. If they don't care enough to protect yours they are a loser, and if they can't give you that one thing nothing else in your relationship matters.

I'm rather fond of him and Keanu Reeves from what I know of them. They both seem like good people.

That's why it's best to leave your sanity tucked into bed when you leave the house.

Lmao. Nothing like fecal particles to put a debate over lifting a seat in perspective.

Yes. It's often confused by non religious types with BADSM- the words of the savior: "Bread Alone Doesn't Sustain Man" a common missunderstanding along with: "Lazarus Got Back To life Quickly" also called LGBTQ.

@famousone- they weren't total idiots anymore than anyone else. Things have just changed in 200 years. Many of the basic principals have not and likely won't ever. But they were smart enough to leave room to make changes because they knew they couldn't foresee the future. I'm just saying that relying on their vision as gospel isn't the greatest idea. All men are fallible and shaped by their age. It took quite awhile after they said all men were equal for the law to reflect that black, Asian, or other non white people and women were also humans and should be treated as any white male. They designed a system based off technology and ability as they knew it at the time. We still lack the capability for a secure direct democracy and questions still exist as to wether people are informed enough to trust with such power.

It's cool enough- if you aren't the servant, the mail boy, or the woman. Equality isn't about making anyone better than anyone else or more important, it's about the fact that most people don't like being the one who has to get screwed over for someone else to have a good day, or at least taking turns being the one who gets screwed. Wether it's rural amd metropolitan, men and women, whatever group and whatever group, aid we wouldn't trade places if the system worked the same way then the system doesn't work.

Yeah. I always look for advice from 200 year old dead guys. That's why I start my day with a hearty meal of beer and grains from my fields prepared by my servants, then hand write some correspondence to be delivered by carrier boy (or pidgeon if urgent) and then start hand working my wheel chair in case the polio takes my legs. Then I make sure not to take too many baths so I don't get infected by ghosts- I wouldn't want to have to drill a hole in my head to let the bad spirits out then shove it full of cow poop to keep leprechauns from stealing my juju. Maybe afterwards I'll go find some ladies and minorities who are getting too full f themselves and give them some work to keep them occupied, and if any lady is too mouthy I'll send her to a doctor to stimulate her nethers and get the energy out (since I don't know what a clitoris is.) if that doesn't work she must have skeletal gingivitis and need a labotomy.
Those guys had the secrets of life all figured out.

Lmao. It is quite the mess. It's also a laughable idea that size has no bearing on governance, as does the idea of these "utopia" nations without our problems. The grass is always greener. The difference in culture and law will be much greater between Germany for instance and Italy than between California and Florida- despite being geographically closer. There's no perfect place, some people just will take certain problems over others.

It's rather silly. I've seen all manner of unconventional choices in cuisine, and things that would make a chef cry. There are people who order prime rib medium well. Prime rib! But they're eating it not me. If that's how they want it or how they like it- enjoy. If Starbucks can put coffee and a tray of cupcakes in a blender and call it coffee, no need to judge anyone for wanting a few extra lumps in their Joe. This isn't Europe, we didn't work food crimes into The Hague convention.

It seems so. People have decided it's a "men's rights" or "equality" issue to make sure men are properly represented in the bathroom I suppose.

Just as the television made it easier for idiots to get their message heard, and the radio before that, and the printing press before that. One of the biggest opponents of the printing press were in fact those in power- because with freedom to information people could put out a message other than the one they controlled. Same with the others in sequence. It isn't the fault of the internet that morons exist, so long as there are morons they will speak, so long as we are equal they will be heard through whatever medium we devise. Perhaps in a few generations they'll bemoan how idiots can not beam thoughts to people's brains along with all the intelligent minds of the world. So it is, so it was, so it shall be until the last of the idiots falls.

It's also important to note that many rural areas support cities. One that commonly comes up in farming communities are water rights- something many city voters don't even k ow are going on, but are major events affecting the livelihood and possibly the survival of those people, and often having big impacts through ripple effect on population centers. What's more, if the logic is that it's more important to represent these more populated areas- then why should the rural areas even have to be subject to their laws? One of the major causes of the civil war was that many in rural areas felt urbanites were being represented at their expense. If we want to be counted as one country we have to make sure to try our best to give everyone equal representation, even if they represent the minority of a population.