09-30-2020, 06:18 PM
(09-30-2020, 04:22 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: People that protect their neighborhoods are called neighbors. They protect each other, even if they don't agree or like each other. Even if they don't share the same culture, the same religion, the same color, or football team.
This.
I can't agree more. When Trump was first elected, I had two friends one a Progressive and one gay, who went into an absolute panic that "they're coming for us!" I told both of them not to sweat it, that if angry right-wing mobs accosted them just give me a call and I'd come running, armed and ready, and I would ensure that no one harmed them.
Some things transcend politics. Friendship and neighborliness are two of those things.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’