CHALLENGING QUESTIONS

[Trevor]

How come most of the great rock bands have been British?

Their not. They're from Michigan.  

The great Sixto Rodriguez comes from Detroit so yes, I agree 😊🐢

[RCMerchant]

^ So does Motown, the Stooges, MC5, the Sonics, the Rationals, Grand Funk Railroad, Alice Cooper, Bob Segar, Eminem...and many others.

...oh yeah, and Ted Nugent and Kid Rock.  

[Trevor]

^ So does Motown, the Stooges, MC5, the Sonics, the Rationals, Grand Funk Railroad, Alice Cooper, Bob Segar, Eminem...and many others.

...oh yeah, and Ted Nugent and Kid Rock.  

Rodriguez is the only one I've worked with 😉🐢

[ER]

Do natural rights exist, or only agreed-upon privileges we've granted ourselves, gratis?

[Alex]

Do natural rights exist, or only agreed-upon privileges we've granted ourselves, gratis?

I can't remember the exact quote, but as Terry Pratchett once said, you can grind the universe down into the finest possible powder and you will never find a single molecule of justice, mercy or pity and yet we act as these as the most important things in existence.

[ER]

The White Lady of Amherst tells us:

One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
One need not be a House —
The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
Material Place —


Do you think she was right?

Is there a difference in, say, mental illness, and a metaphorical---or literal---haunting of a person? Can someone otherwise sane for all intents and purposes be haunted by the past, or an idea, or a loss? Can a dark energy focus on a person and infuse that person to the point that he or she is as haunted as any structure?

[RCMerchant]

^ I want what your smoking! 

[Allhallowsday]

^ I want what your smoking!  

[ER]

Blah, I don't need to be high to think about things like that. Welcome to the default setting of my mind. 

[Allhallowsday]

Blah, I don't need to be high to think about things like that. Welcome to the default setting of my mind. 

The White Lady of Amherst is of course EMILY DICKINSON.  "Because I could not stop for Death he kindly stopped for me...the carriage held but ourselves and immortality..."

[ER]

Blah, I don't need to be high to think about things like that. Welcome to the default setting of my mind. 

The White Lady of Amherst is of course EMILY DICKINSON.  "Because I could not stop for Death he kindly stopped for me...the carriage held but ourselves and immortality..."

Very true, sir!

[Allhallowsday]

American poets... WALT WHITMAN  EDGAR ALLEN POE  EMILY DICKINSON  probably in reverse order. All traumatized and marginalized depressives. 

[RCMerchant]

Blah, I don't need to be high to think about things like that. Welcome to the default setting of my mind. 

The White Lady of Amherst is of course EMILY DICKINSON.  "Because I could not stop for Death he kindly stopped for me...the carriage held but ourselves and immortality..."

I was close!

[ER]

If you have a strong wish to be turned into pet food after you die, and be fed to your dogs, should you really have dogs in the first place?

I was just debating this on a plane.

[RCMerchant]

^ Why not? As long as they like pickled shrimp!