grandpa_lash started a new discussion called Is it time to bite the bullet? in politics.
1 day ago
For the purposes of this discussion it is probably irrelevant whether your politics are red, green, blue, or crazy paving. When is any government, of any kind, going to admit to its voting public that there just isn't enough money available to cover the crudest of infrastructure and essential services costs let alone the plethora of special interest needs of their constituents? Whatever the thr...

grandpa_lash responded to a discussion called The Issue of Jobs in politics.
6 days ago
Mea culpa, I made a mistake and put this in the wrong place: this repetition is to correct that. I have long considered that the "job creation" function of business is a complete furphy. In Australia there are 670,000 "officially" unemployed (5.1%). If a new mine starts it might offer 3000 jobs, and even if all of these were filled by the unemployed, which is somewhat fanciful, it would ...

grandpa_lash responded to a discussion called Marrying Again in life.
6 days ago
I've had four divorces, the last 20 years ago, and the longest relationship I've had is eight years and running, and we're not married. It was unquestionably a matter of the triumph of hope over experience, and I certainly meant it all three times (the other was a pregnant rebound and lasted almost no time at all), but I got better lol. I think a lot of it is social conditioning, otherwise we'd...

grandpa_lash responded to a discussion called They say 1 in 5 girls has STDs and babies in their teens! in sex.
2 days ago
Who gave them the STD's, and why aren't you asking about how crazy and amazing that is? Oh yes, I forgot, everybody knows men can't control themselves, so its up to the women to do the controlling. Er, hang on, aren't the men supposed to be doing the controlling? Ah, then in that case, we're back to my original question. [b]Who gave them the STD's, and why aren't you asking about how crazy and ...

grandpa_lash responded to a discussion called realistically how many ?'s do you have to answer to make any money on this site? in questions & answers.
1 day ago
It's not how many discussions you answer, it's how well you do it. As Lamb has put it, you write, you get paid; they write, they get paid. You have to, as mysdianit has said above, respond to the responses to your discussions, and get involved in actual conversations with other members. That way you too can get regular payouts. But let's face it, however well you work this site, it's still only...

grandpa_lash commented in a discussion called Do you think religion is loosing momentum? in religion.
6 days ago
If I were to do that, I would have change my reality to Hogswarts reality; it's a f*ck sight closer to our reality than religious scripture, and much much better written. Lash

grandpa_lash commented in a discussion called Suicide vows.. in life.
2 days ago
vandana, I don't disagree with your view here, but I should mention that when I talk about quality of life I mean it in the context of my two untreatable degenerative conditions, one of which brings with it constant high level pain, and the other which will inevitably bring me to a most unpleasant death. Some degree of symptomatic treatment is available, but soon enough those treatments will be...

grandpa_lash commented in a discussion called Charles L. Worley How to get rid of Lesbians and Queers in religion.
5 days ago
rog - you said: maybe they are a new specie in evolution First, transexuals are not necessarily or even often homosexual. Second, homosexuals are not a new species, history has noted them for at least the last 7000 years. Alexander the Great was gay, most of the Athenian and Spartan men were at the least bisexual. Sexologists, I believe, consider that 10% of the population has always been ho...

grandpa_lash commented in a discussion called Is it time to bite the bullet? in politics.
16 minutes ago
bigfoot, this concept that the people don't understand is something of a fallacy. True, there are probably many who are incapable, but a lot who seem so I believe are simply responding to the belief that they can't understand. Most people, if something is explained to them, will have some understanding at least, but our politicians seem to think they are the only ones with the capacity for thou...

grandpa_lash commented in a discussion called Is it time to bite the bullet? in politics.
12 minutes ago
Self suffiency is an admirable ideal, and no doubt a lot of people are capable of managing it, but for all of us or even a significant minorityof us to do it is probably an unattainable goal. I have tried to some extent, but it requires learning a whole new subset of almost obsolete skills, and I doubt that many have the time, ability, or impetus to do so. We are more likely to be able to chang...