09-01-2020, 07:08 AM
(08-31-2020, 05:26 PM)Snarl Wrote:(08-31-2020, 05:18 PM)Ninurta Wrote: I do wonder what the country is going to look like when the dust settles and the smoke clears, though.
They'll be hoping to pick us rural folk off one at a time ... 'til the farms stop producing. -chuckle
Two things John Titor said have come back into my mind recently. He was asked when the next Civil War starts, and he responded that he thought it was about the time that cops stopped answering 911 calls. He said it started before that, but that was when everyone knew it was on.
The other thing he said that comes to my mind was - when farmers stop producing, all they have left to do his hide in the bushes and shoot folks all day.
Now JT claimed that in his timeline, the war started in 2008, and DC got nuked by a friendly foreign nation in March of 2015, so his prediction mechanism was a bit off, but we do appear to be on track with most of what he said, just several years behind schedule.
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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.’