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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him

The hardest thing to do with someone suffering from depression is to get them to get help.

Others, with mental illness issues that are so plain to those around them, refuse to admit they have a problem.

My friends in the mental health field told me about seeing the same people, week after week, who would talk about the same problems. And those people never did anything to improve their situations.

I am reminded of women with abusive boyfriends. Most of us here know how difficult it is to get a woman to leave an abuser. As Kopp so succinctly stated--with a tiny edit on my part: โ€œHe/she prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.โ€

Addicts, alcoholics, people with depression, people with personality disorders--helping them is like pulling teeth without anesthesia!

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Are pit bulls safe to have as a domestic dog?

If I recall correctly, the "common law" concerning strict liability got its start when an English lord brought a Bengal tiger back to England after a tour of duty in India. Now, the lord took all reasonable precautions: double enclosures, strong locks, dig proof perimeter fences, etc., etc. But since you can't totally predict what a stupid person will do, sure enough--a servant in charge of feeding the tiger got distracted and left two gates unlatched. The tiger got out and munched on some of the local townspeople, who were quite understandably upset. The lord protested that he took every conceivable precaution. But a court ruled that taking a wild animal, particularly an apex predator, out of its native habitat and keeping it in an artificial environment, where if the animal escaped it could wreak havoc and even death, was an inherently dangerous activity. If fact, it was so inherently dangerous, the court ruled, that if anything happened the owner should be held liable regardless of the precautions taken. The same law of strict liability also pertains to explosives: no matter what precautions you may have taken, if something goes wrong and someone is injured or killed, you are held liable no matter what. I think the same legal concepts should be applied to owning a pit bull or similar breed--if ANYTHING goes wrong, the owner is liable, regardless of what precautions may have been taken, because owning such an animal is so inherently dangerous.

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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him

ProffVampy wrote:
So true it hurts xD the amount of people i know that didn't go for the help but to be told they're right/nothing wrong with them. usually ends up being a total waste of time and money for everyone

The reason ALL of my friends in the mental health field left it: people just wanted to talk about their problems, while doing nothing to solve them.

It would be like taking your car to a mechanic, and just wanting to tell him what was wrong with it instead of getting it fixed.

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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him

A fellow student in university told me that at his church, he was to have held the chalice containing the communion wine, and that he downed it all in one big gulp.

The pastor asked him why he emptied the chalice. My friend replied, "The Scripture says, 'Drink ye all of it!'"

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Are pit bulls safe to have as a domestic dog?

I am reminded of my adventure widely known as "The Hound of the Baskervilles," when I used my trusty Webley to dispatch that murderous mastiff!

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Are pit bulls safe to have as a domestic dog?

I was going to say that someone needs to have a talk with this neighbour; however, too many people who own these dogs just won't listen. Or they listen, but they dismiss what you have to say. It's obvious that if this dog really wants to attack another animal or a person, the owner is powerless to stop it. If you have one of these things coming at you, you need options. Running probably won't help--it may further trigger the predatory instinct, and the dog can probably outrun you. You might be able to climb on top of something, or go up a tree--but again, you'd need to be fast, and have enough distance between you and the dog to give you time to climb. Hopefully, you could make it back into your house or your car, but not practical if the dog is really close. Pepper spray COULD work, if the wind wasn't blowing for all it's worth and it's of sufficiently high concentration to discourage the dog. Of course, if you turned the dog with pepper spray, the stupid owner would simply berate you and insist the dog only wanted to be petted, or some tripe like that. Best option, if you are able to use this one, is to shoot the dog, making sure that there is no "collateral damage." The owner will scream and cry and call you all kinds of names, but (1) the pit bull won't be around to attack you any more, and (2) you will have escaped either being killed or spending hours in the ER getting stitched up. Watch her go and get another one the same day!

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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him

You'd have to drink an awful lot of communion wine to get a DUI!

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Say where you're from.

AL - USA.

I have also lived in Florida, Georgia, California, Texas, Alaska, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Kuwait, Afghanistan and West Africa.

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Forbidden Planet.

This movie, produced in 1956, was about the far future--but it certainly captured the "Zeitgeist" of the 1950s era--people just don't act that way today.

The men in the movie undoubtedly used Brylcreem on their hair. That was de rigueur in the 50s and early 60s. Then Vitalis came along and derided Brylcreem as "greasy kid stuff."

But Brylcreem hung in there--their website today says, "Actually, it never left. Brylcreem has long been famous for the timeless slicked back look that keeps hair perfectly in place. But itโ€™s got even more going for it. One small dab and it shines, styles and conditions hair. Itโ€™s 3 grooming products in 1. Saving you time and counter space."

I still don't like greasy-looking hair!

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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him

Southern Baptists celebrate communion with grape juice instead of wine.

I always thought that was a bit extreme.

Jesus didn't turn the water into grape juice at Cana--and he was known to drink wine Himself!

When a Church tries to set higher standards than God's--well, you don't get a good result!

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