Comments on: Spambot of the day https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:26:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769983 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:26:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769983 @ IrishOtter49 > “O grasshopper: desire is the font of all suffering.”

And also of all progress.

I miss that show. Our boys were encouraged to do better by watching it.
And they all got hooked on Chinese, and then Japanese, martial arts.
https://kidadl.com/facts/quotes/kung-fu-grasshopper-quotes-from-the-1970s-tv-show
Maybe not the all-time best quotes, but good enough.

]]> By: IrishOtter49 https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769959 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:29:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769959 O grasshopper: desire is the font of all suffering.

]]> By: Helper Mike https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769829 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:49:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769829 The only bumper sticker I ever attached to my truck said “How Does It Feel To Want?” I didn’t have an answer for a long time, but people did ask me what it meant; Other people wondered, and didn’t have an answer either. One day, the answer did dawn on me: Normal. It’s normal to want. Why lie? It’s hard to be perfectly honest with ourselves, even.

]]> By: Wendy+Laubach https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769822 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:20:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769822 I always thought that was, “In the absence of lying and theft, why desire?” and their corollary, “In the absence of reason, why wonder?”

]]> By: Nonapod https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769821 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:18:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769821 @JohnTyler – lol, sounds like Kamala Harris composed that circumlocutious nonsense.

]]> By: JohnTyler https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769788 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 13:25:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769788 “In an absence of desire, why lie or steal?”

Because of the significance of the passage of time.
Time is significant. And it’s passing is significant. This is true if time is significant or if its passing is significant or if both time and its passing are significant.
Now time can be more significant than its passing and also its passing can be more significant than time.
But the bottom line is that significance is very significant.

And yes, we have been to the border and no, I haven’t been to Europe either.

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769762 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:48:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769762 Desire is never absent, regardless of whether reason is present or absent.
Even desiring “nothing” is a desire: “I have everything I need or want; I don’t want anything more …”

False premise = false conclusion.
But as someone famous once said “at some point you have made enough money…”

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769755 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 01:41:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769755 Indeed.
More accurately, “desire” means the absolute psychological NEED to project, e.g., on the Left, such “desire” has ref-lined beyond the RPM dial and gone beyond insane…
“Leftists Predict Hysterical Dystopian Future Ruled By JD Vance And An Immortal Elon Musk“—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leftists-predict-hysterical-dystopian-future-ruled-jd-vance-and-immortal-elon-musk

]]> By: Aggie https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769747 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:48:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769747 But in this season, the one thing that is most definitely not in absence, is desire. Hence the lying and stealing, yet to come.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/11/02/spambot-of-the-day-142/#comment-2769738 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:11:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136965#comment-2769738 Why not?

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