The Dark Thoughts Thread

[indianasmith]

Indeed!  There's a quote attributed to the famous courtesan Lola Montez:  "I want to live until I die!"

That's my creed these days.  I want to be in full possession of my faculties and my body until I take my last breath.

[Allhallowsday]

Indeed!  There's a quote attributed to the famous courtesan Lola Montez:  "I want to live until I die!"

That's my creed these days.  I want to be in full possession of my faculties and my body until I take my last breath.

I'll give you a dark thought.  "I'd die if I couldn't read." 

[indianasmith]

Yeah, that would certainly place a damper on my will to live.
Like Cicero of old, I cannot live without books.

[Allhallowsday]

Yeah, that would certainly place a damper on my will to live.
Like Cicero of old, I cannot live without books.

Perhaps you don't recall.  You wrote it when I'd advised elsewhere my inability to read. 

[indianasmith]

Yeah, that would certainly place a damper on my will to live.
Like Cicero of old, I cannot live without books.

Perhaps you don't recall.  You wrote it when I'd advised elsewhere my inability to read. 

I do.  I was reaffirming what I said.

[Alex]

I possibly saw a ghost today. They looked unhappy about it.

[chefzombie]

i'm very concerned that my baby sister isn't doing as well as i thought when it comes to the PTSD related to the car wreck she was in last summer(NOT  her fault, she was hit head on by .. i don't think i can say it here). i suppose i should be grateful that the nightmares have stopped, if she's telling the truth. but the fear she deals with just to get in a car and go to PT is scary...i worry that she can't get past this.

[Alex]

Going back to the original post, this might interest you enough to listen in on: https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/dying-brain-activity-found-in-consciousness-hot-zone-372824

[ER]

What has always surprised me (and appalled me) is that even with a quarter of his head gone, apparently President Kennedy showed weak vital signs at the hospital. Dear God....

[ER]

Hitler was democratically elected.

[Alex]

Hitler was democratically elected.

As was Mussolini, although both liked to spin it as a revolution.

[LilCerberus]

Actually, Hitler was democratically elected to parliament...

It was Paul von Hindenburg who appointed him to chancellor, wherein The Nazis gave "emergency powers" to Hitler following the Reichstag fire...

On his deathbed, Hindenburg gave the word that made Hitler president of Germany....

[indianasmith]

Hitler was democratically elected.

He finished second to Hindenburg - twice!
But he commanded enough votes in the Reichstag to demand he be made chancellor.

[Alex]

She didn't mention the chancellorship, only that he had been elected.

[Allhallowsday]

The nazis also destroyed ballots, stuffed ballot boxes, and cheated every way they could.