"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out howthe strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt--
It was orginally marketed as a parlour-game, like Scrabble or Monopoly.
__________________ "When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
~C.S. Lewis
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
...and David Berkowitz blamed a dog. How many people took him seriously?
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"Surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you."
- Aaron Sorkin
"Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
- George Carlin
We take it seriously when people blame other people for deaths.
How many people think that that kid at college who taped his roommate was the cause of the roommate committing suicide?
This is the age of anti-responsibility. No one is actually culpable for what they do.
Some of the comments on the linked page indicate people believe the Ouija board actually played a role in this. I suppose it's comforting to think the really bad things out there might not be your own doing after all.
__________________ I am an OCD survivor. If you need someone to talk to, you can PM me.
"Surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you."
- Aaron Sorkin
"Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
- George Carlin
ok, if you believe in quija boards; Its a board that by design is dead people speaking to you, why would you take them seriously? They are dead, they either don't care or want everyone to be miserable.
Eightball/magic Conch shell they won't lie. (Even if Squidward doesn't believe) Just kidding, if either speaks to you, report them to the nearest authorites, you might need to be put under protective custody from the item, at least until the item doesn't speak any more.
__________________ If you haven't had enough, vote for Obama, I'm pretty sure we haven't hit Bar-rock bottom...yet. 6 trillion more debt, What would it have been if the Congress of "NO" was alittle more agreeable?
is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced.(but) in my hometown of Chicago, there’s an awful lot of violence, and they’re not using AK-47s, they’re using cheap handguns.” Obama makes it known, he will work to ban assault weapons and handguns.
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