[Enobarbus]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

My my Enobarbus, what a good little boy you are to read a metaphor the wrong way!

What metaphor? I am simply attempting to get you and Hellswit to follow a straight logical path instead of just parroting all this fluffy-bunny hippie nonsense that the pair of you are so keen on.

"I'd rather be poor and have love than be rich and lonely." Blah, blah, blah, yap, yap, babble, babble...

But if you are talking about romantic love, there is no such thing -- at least not in the way you imagine it.

Of course, it may take you until you are about 30 to realise that what I'm saying is true. But true it is. Pull yourself together you little brat, and stop dreaming.

[Ixi]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Then why are you always here if you don't want us to convince you to go to church?

I'd like to see you try.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

I'm not stupid. Of course I would spend the money, and donate some of it to the rainforests and Africa.

You just contradicted yourself quite impressively there.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

I'M NOT IN JV!!!!!!!!!!! And the last thing I want to do is waste a day in a fluffy DRESS! Ugh! That might appeal to Avie but certainly not to me.

Then why are you always here if you don't want us to convince you to go to church?

[Ixi]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Probably not. Three year old criminals have a facility all to themselves.

I'M NOT IN JV!!!!!!!!!!! And the last thing I want to do is waste a day in a fluffy DRESS! Ugh! That might appeal to Avie but certainly not to me.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Do you think I'm stupid?

YOU? Oh heck no! That's the last thing anyone thinks!

My mom is probally to young to find some Baptist man, and we are happy the way we are.

No one is EVER too young to become a Baptist. Just think, all you little girls could dress up in fluffy pink dresses, and matching shoes and white gloves and go to church every Sunday morning instead of wasting your lives as worthless pagans.

Besides, they don't allow computers in JV so I'm not there, and I don't think they allow 3 year olds either.

Probably not. Three year old criminals have a facility all to themselves.

[Ixi]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Of course you don't want to be like that. Never coming out of your cubicle would be very stupid.

But if you won a prize of a million dollars would you refuse it because money can't buy happiness?

Would you?

I'm not stupid. Of course I would spend the money, and donate some of it to the rainforests and Africa.

[Ixi]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Of course you would, dear, of course you would. So would we all! You are a very bright little child to realise that! Well done Icky Wicky, we'll put a gold star in your book.

Really, you should be on Mastermind for that insight. Master of the "Bleedin' Obvious".

But the question that I am asking is a different one. The question could be put two ways:

1) Would you rather be poor with love, or rich with love?
2) Would you rather be miserable and poor or miserable and rich?

My my Enobarbus, what a good little boy you are to read a metaphor the wrong way!

[Ixi]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Look Icky, send me a picture of your mom. We may be able to find a good Baptist man to take her in if she leaves all of you brats there in JV.

Do you think I'm stupid? My mom is probally to young to find some Baptist man, and we are happy the way we are. Besides, they don't allow computers in JV so I'm not there, and I don't think they allow 3 year olds either.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Any jury will prove that a goth is a human being, just like you and me.

This isn't California; Brother Wash has the right to be tried by a journey of his peers. Round these parts, there is a very good likelihood that his peers will include a lot of good old Christian boys, who may not see things the same way you do. Understood?

This whole situation is starting to remind me of that incident with Bobby Joe and the bunnyman.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Or you know what else I can do? Get a better job, get some of my sisters to work, get my mom to get a better job, sell stuff so we can live off of that money. Life will go on. That's what will happen.

Look Icky, send me a picture of your mom. We may be able to find a good Baptist man to take her in if she leaves all of you brats there in JV.

[Enobarbus]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Sleeping under a bridge isn't as bad as you think. I mean the first hour is pretty bad, but if your lying on a patch of grass its ok. As for me, I would rather be poor with love then miserable and rich.

Of course you would, dear, of course you would. So would we all! You are a very bright little child to realise that! Well done Icky Wicky, we'll put a gold star in your book.

Really, you should be on Mastermind for that insight. Master of the "Bleedin' Obvious".

But the question that I am asking is a different one. The question could be put two ways:

1) Would you rather be poor with love, or rich with love?
2) Would you rather be miserable and poor or miserable and rich?

[Enobarbus]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Any jury will prove that a goth is a human being, just like you and me. Even if was deliberately trying to run over an actual animal, they would've pinned him for reckless driving. But on the more serious note, if he is caught and tried, he will be guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter which is classified under third degree murder in most states. And if the prosecutor has a good lawyer, the defendant (Brother Wash) will be charged with 1st degree murder, whereas he initially planned to kill any goth that crossed his path. Either way he's pinned with homicide and attempted genocide.

"Attempted genocide"? Well...in the broadest sense of the term, maybe...

[Enobarbus]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Same here. Some buisness men barely ever come out of thier cubicals. Do I want to be like that? No.

Of course you don't want to be like that. Never coming out of your cubicle would be very stupid.

But if you won a prize of a million dollars would you refuse it because money can't buy happiness?

Would you?

[Enobarbus]

Re: How many goths have you bagged today?

Yeah, but if you spend the vast majority of your time working to get money, you'll never have time to love. I'd rather love, have time to love, and risk being poor, than to be lonely and rich.

Of course, of course. But we are not speaking about spending the vast majority of one's time working to get money. Just 40 odd hours, or even less, per week.

Once again, your argument assumes that being lonely and unloved goes inevitably with being rich. If that were the case, then one would be advised to avoid being rich. But it's not the case.

Oh dear. Yes, yes, yes, yes, being rich doesn't guarantee happiness, or love. But nor does it prevent it.

By the same token, being poor doesn't guarantee happiness, or love. And doesn't prevent it.

But I certainly see no evidence that being poor increases one's chances of being happy and loved.

There are a few homeless people in the city where I live and I see them going through rubbish bins and going off to where they sleep under a bridge in the park, none of them ever seem to look cheerful -- they usually look the picture of misery. Recently one of them was found dead: he had died of natural causes but they didn't find him for days -- until the smell of his decomposing body alerted passers by.

He was well known round town by sight but he never looked happy to me -- he looked miserable to, and he was always alone; he had no friends at all, let alone anyone who loved him. Most of the homeless here seem like that -- friendless and miserable. No, poverty doesn't increase one's chances of happiness and love.