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So, ya, this lays it out pretty well.....work, value, being needed. 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/opinion/dalai-lama-behind-our-anxiety-the-fear-of-being-unneeded.html?_r=0

 

I'm going to miss this man, assuming he doesn't outlive me!*

 

*and no, he's not perfect. No one is.

 

That's a good article.  His central point is what matters and should hopefully be a takeaway for everyone across all spectrums of this - how do we become less divided and more connected?  Happiness comes from our relationships with others and that seems to be waning for a variety of reasons, even as our world gets smaller.

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My alternatives are The Day After, Failsafe, Doctor Strangelove, and Wargames. Better?

Don't forget On The Beach. Damned vacuum tubes!

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DEMOCRATS AIN'T GOT NO JOBS SO THEY ALREADY VOTED ARGH BLARGH HERP DERP

 

 

 

Funny, I was just thinking that it meant Democrats perhaps just aren't procrastinators. I got up early to vote.

 

On a side note does anyone else feel guilty waiting in line and making presumptions about who your line-mates are going to vote for based on physical appearance alone? Or am I the only one who does that?

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Timed it so there wasn't a line. I did wear my pub crawl shirt to distract people into instead thinking "Why does that guy have a paper bag over his head?"

 

Nobody bothered me.

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Funny, I was just thinking that it meant Democrats perhaps just aren't procrastinators. I got up early to vote.

 

On a side note does anyone else feel guilty waiting in line and making presumptions about who your line-mates are going to vote for based on physical appearance alone? Or am I the only one who does that?

Well, this is likely to sound terribly racist of me ... but I had a wait when I voted over two weeks ago. So there I sat with many others waiting to vote. When I surveyed the room I realized I was the only caucasian there. While one can never be certain of how a certain demographic will vote, I felt fairly certain there weren't many in the room voting for Trump. Then had a nice conversation with the woman sitting next to me about life and how we both just wanted this over.

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Well, this is likely to sound terribly racist of me ... but I had a wait when I voted over two weeks ago. So there I sat with many others waiting to vote. When I surveyed the room I realized I was the only caucasian there. While one can never be certain of how a certain demographic will vote, I felt fairly certain there weren't many in the room voting for Trump. Then had a nice conversation with the woman sitting next to me about life and how we both just wanted this over.

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Um ... are you suggesting that was my reaction? It wasn't. It was expected considering the ward I live in in the city I live in. What I was saying was that I felt comfortable knowing that those around were likely voting as I was, but looking at the demographic, I made a generalized statement.

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Um ... are you suggesting that was my reaction? It wasn't. It was expected considering the ward I live in in the city I live in. What I was saying was that I felt comfortable knowing that those around were likely voting as I was, but looking at the demographic, I made a generalized statement.

I'm suggesting that I was expecting to find civil political discourse in this thread but instead I found shocking racism- from you. That was mfw.

But I like your suggestion too, thanks! It could work either way really.

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Um ... are you suggesting that was my reaction? It wasn't. It was expected considering the ward I live in in the city I live in. What I was saying was that I felt comfortable knowing that those around were likely voting as I was, but looking at the demographic, I made a generalized statement.

Sounds like you were being a good neighbor. As far as I know, people aren't punished for thoughts. If they were, we'd all be out in the woodshed.

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Sounds like you were being a good neighbor. As far as I know, people aren't punished for thoughts. If they were, we'd all be out in the woodshed.

Oh, no ... not me ... my thoughts are as pure as the driven snow! ;)

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Well, this is likely to sound terribly racist of me ... but I had a wait when I voted over two weeks ago. So there I sat with many others waiting to vote. When I surveyed the room I realized I was the only caucasian there. While one can never be certain of how a certain demographic will vote, I felt fairly certain there weren't many in the room voting for Trump. Then had a nice conversation with the woman sitting next to me about life and how we both just wanted this over.

I was in line behind an overweight, slovenly middle-aged guy who almost certainly never in his life had much luck with women, so my thoughts immediately were that he was surely voting Trump. That doesn't make me a racist but some kind of prejudiced certainly.

 

Then I thought if I were in a movie the guy would turn out to be an eloquent and open-minded literary and sociology expert who would start dropping Susan B. Anthony quotes and defy my unfair expectations.

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I was in line behind an overweight, slovenly middle-aged guy who almost certainly never in his life had much luck with women, so my thoughts immediately were that he was surely voting Trump. That doesn't make me a racist but some kind of prejudiced certainly.

Then I thought if I were in a movie the guy would turn out to be an eloquent and open-minded literary and sociology expert who would start dropping Susan B. Anthony quotes and defy my unfair expectations.

Odd, I don't remember seeing you behind me.

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Well it took an hour, but the civic duty is complete. Don't think my vote is going to matter much on the national scale considering the state I live in.

 

There was a fairly important proposition to vote on locally... $750 million to build on existing road infrastructure to alleviate the traffic problems here.. $5 a month tax sounds well worth the attempt.

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Holy crap....he's leading in far more swing states than I'm comfortable with.

 

Also, with as close as these states are, there is no way this ordeal is over tonight.

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