Deep Thoughts....

[Trevor]

...if a billionaire spread her wealth equally among all Americans, we'd each get three bucks. I'm excited!

$3 is 30 South African rand: I could buy milk and bread with that 

[Alex]

As of 2016 the USA had close on 600 billionaires, although China now has more apparently.

[Svengoolie 3]

Ooohhhh,  America has 600 billionaires.... Out of 300 million people.  

[ER]

...if gun control worked Chicago would not be the murder capital of the nation.

[ER]

...waiting in someplace you don't want to be, waiting on someone you don't want to see, is an excellent time to think deep thoughts.

[Alex]

...if gun control worked Chicago would not be the murder capital of the nation.

If it doesn't though how come every other place in the world that doesn't have free gun laws doesn't have a high murder rate? I think the answer is a little more complicated than that.

[ER]

...kittens become cats, eventually you run out of Chap-Stick, great loves always end, and sometimes I think the journey itself is the destination.

[ER]

...unhappy people tend to feel the seduction of seeing uniqueness in the pain they feel, while happy people see their joy in simple terms, so which is right?

[ER]

...when I was little I was standing knee deep in the ocean of Galway Bay with a lot of my mother's family up on the shore behind me, cousins scattered about, and a wave knocked me flat on my back onto that stony expanse they called the beach, and I remember looking up at the sky, choking, not seriously but still choking, while this gossamer veil of water covered my face, got in my eyes and nose and mouth, and strangely no one among all those Irish came to help me, lift me up, see if I was all right, so I sat up on my own and looked back and them, and they were mostly looking at me but not reacting at all, and as little as I was I think I understood something that maybe they were trying to teach me, that in this life you honestly do have handle your own problems. (Shrug?)

[ER]

...why is it that mental health professionals are quick to label behavior patterns as indicating PTSD, when under some circumstances those reactions are a perfect fit for cold hard reality?

[RCMerchant]

...if gun control worked Chicago would not be the murder capital of the nation.

If it doesn't though how come every other place in the world that doesn't have free guns doesn't have a high murder rate? I think the answer is a little more complicated than that.

Yeah. It was a good idea to have guns laying all over the place in the 17/1800's when we had to kill Indians so we could steal they're land , also to free people from slavery. But now-it's not such a good idea.

[ER]

...in my day to day life lately I have been encountering clear omens of death, and I laugh them off, so does that mean if I die my courage might translate into an offer to go to Valhalla, since I laughed in the face of death?

[ER]

(five minutes til my appointment)....I wouldn't have wanted to be around when Grape Ape moved his bowels.

[ER]

...I think Klingons should be a playable species in D&D.

[ER]

...how did a deaf, dumb, and blind kid manage to play mean pinball?