cachalot

@cachalot (60)

Australia • Age 84

Joined myLot 14 years ago

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Have you seen the panda? Do you like panda?

mark98 @mark98 (567) • China 17 Jan 11

The panda is rare animals unique to China.Most people like the panda I am also. Pandas eat bamboo, looks very much to like. Have you seen the panda? Do you like panda?

panda

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cachalot Sad to say, mark98, I've never seen a panda in the flesh. I see them in pictures and on TV. They really must have strong digestive systems to be able to eat that bamboo. While bamboo is a grass, it seems to me to be a very indigestible one. It almost as if...

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Laughter is the best medicine

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 18 Jan 11

Laughter is the best medicine, they say. Is laughter that much innocent as it sounds? Why do we laugh at the failures of others? Slipping on a banana peel if you fall down on a thoroughfare, there will be very few people to help...

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cachalot It seems SIMPLYD and atleya, that not all laughter is good medicine. Probably the healthiest kind of laughter would be laughing at really funny jokes or telling a joke on yourself (my mother always used to say: "Confident people tell jokes about themselves")....

18 Jan 11

Do you regret the mistakes you made in the past?

Sebastian Onciu @polaris77 (2040) • Bacau, Romania 17 Jan 11

There are many moments in life when we look back and regret some of the things we did in the past and we would like to go back in time and do things in a different manner.Do you often think about your past and regret some of the...

past

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cachalot polaris77 - Hi there. Yes I've made silly mistakes, said bad things, made wrong decisions in the past. Show me a human being who says he or she has never made a mistake, and I'll show you a liar. The saying goes, 'tis human to err.' There is no use in thinking...

18 Jan 11

Some please explain class warfare to me

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 9 Dec 10

I know what it is I just don't understand why. Why hate someone for being rich? Why hate someone for being poor? It seems right now the popular thing to do is pick on the rich. Love to hate them. now I understand the corrupt...

tax the heck out of them

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cachalot Hating the rich for being rich is a phenomenon that has been around for a long time. Most people get very angry when I suggest that it may be because they are envious. However, I believe that's the case. In the USA, just as all Western countries, governments...

13 Jan 11

"If You disagree just shut up" is this appropriate in our discussions ?

Patsie Hatley @Hatley (163781) • Garden Grove, California 11 Jan 11

telling us users before hand if we do not agree with a poster's belief on his issue to just "Shut up" is that really the way we are supposed to treat each other? What gives that person the right to tell any of us what we should...

free to have our own beliefs

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cachalot Hatley, Hi. I think that if a person tells you to shut up because your ideas are different to his/hers, then that rude person probably has fixed ideas and no arguments to support those ideas. You find that with some people. They make up their mind, based on...

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why did it take so much time to clear the oil spillage from the sea

tundeemma @tundeemma (894) • South Africa 17 Jul 10

i am actually talking about the oil spillage in the gulf of Mexico, i can't just stop and ponder why it took so much time by United States and Mexico to clear the spillage and it was not until thousands of sea life has been...

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cachalot It might have taken a long time for the US and Mexico to clear the oil spillage, but stopping the oil oozing from the oil pipe quickly would certainly have helped. In that regard, you would think the US President would have bent over backwards to help an oil...

11 Jan 11

What would Your last words be?

Gameslayer007 @Gameslayer007 (862) • United States 11 Jan 11

A few months back I saw on the news where a man in Arizona, who was sentenced to die in prison, said "boomer sooner" as his last words. Being a life long sooner fan I thought it was cool. I mean the guy could of held resentment...

last words

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cachalot When I'm breathing my last there will be no-one around me, save, I hope, a nurse. If there is a nurse around me I will say: "Well, it was a life, but such a small one." I live by myself, have no friends or family around me, and am 71 years of age already. I...

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the interests and rights of women on veils and headscarves

advokatku @advokatku (4033) • Indonesia 9 Jan 11

In France, recent there a debate about the veils and headscarves of women. By reason separation between state and religion, Muslim women prohibited wearing headscarves and veils in public places such as schools or government...

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cachalot Hello advokatku. In my opinion, no Government has the right to interfere in the customs of ANY women, whether they be in their own country or in a foreign country, whether they are citizens or visitors to a foreign country. Governments are all too ready to...

10 Jan 11

Don't worry about old age--it doesn't last long

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 8 Jan 11

A freind sent me the above statement earlier today. I believe that in the West old age and the elderly is seen by many as an irrelevance and incovenience that is best ignored about until such time as we no longer can. But in many...

growing old

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cachalot hi catdla1. I am one of those elderly people (I want to be up-front about it). I totally agree with you that old age is somethings that happens to other people, not ourselves. Most of those I went to school with are certainly looking their age, but not me. And...

8 Jan 11

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purpose of life ?

sam8pro @sam8pro (376) • India 5 Oct 10

should the purpose of life is just to be happy ?? Or should it be to live honorably , being useful to the people, to make the difference that is caused by a life well lived by virtues by principles by ethics.... Or we can...

be happy

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cachalot sam8pro, hi. What do you think happiness is? Happiness is the embodiment of those things you mention - living honorably, being useful, virtues and ethics. If you have these in your life, then you will be happy. When I speak of happiness, I'm talking about...

7 Jan 11

Do you still believe in the existence of this so-called "Secret Organizations"?

totor_53 @totor_53 (223) • Philippines 7 Jan 11

I am really bugged out when our teacher introduced to us some of the so-called secret organizations. One of which was the Anti-Christ organization known as Illuminati. I have heard different views and opinions that this so-called...

illuminati

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cachalot Yes, I know many exist. Most are for the good of their members, who receive mentoring to increase their wealth and well-being, and have no ideas of world domination or any of that rubbish. I know, because I learned this from an American millionaire via a book...

7 Jan 11

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you have won 750,000 GBP

ashvini_urs @ashvini_urs (415) • India 27 Oct 08

Yes this is the e-mail i had received that i have won 750,000 great Britain pounds i was shocked to see this the reason was that since i have maintained online activity i have won in sweepstakes then they had stated that i...

sweepstakes

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cachalot ashvini_urs, hello. Yes, for about 2 years, I received these regularly. When I received the very first one, I went to the website of British Lotto to see if my name was in print as a winner. I was puzzled, because it wasn't there. So I went to the Help...

7 Jan 11

Which animal you get afraid of - you pass thru by?

arunmails @arunmails (3011) • India 7 Jan 11

[b]Hi Friends, Probably most of us have pet animals at home. Dog, cat, squirrel, rat, goat, etc. Even though they are animals, we get easily go with them. Which animal you get afraid of? I get afraid with a group of dogs....

animals

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cachalot Hi arunmails, yes, a group of dogs would be scary. There's usually a leader of the pack, and if he doesn't like the look of you, run! I guess the most scary of all animals for me is a spider - one we have in Australia called a huntsman. Actually he doesn't do...

7 Jan 11

Why people fall prey to negativity?

Urfun2 @Urfun2 (51) • United States 27 Dec 10

Case and point..I'll bet you clicked on my discussion simply because of the negative connotations in the heading right? Or were you just curious? In any event, what ever made you stop and read my pole is because it had something...

negativity

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cachalot There are so few discussions, Urfun2, that take my interest, that it is a relief when one looks as if it is about something that interests me. Your discussion is the kind that interests me. That's why I pounced on it. As for negativity, it is very easy to be...

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