[QUOTE="3-Legged_Man"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Ah well you know assumptions are often wrong and in this case they are. I'm not one to get bothered much by other people. I generally ignore them. But it was an observation of what I saw in OT that day and it merely proves that for all the so called advances humans have made...they are still not developed enough to allow for differences.

But I'm not intolerant. ;)

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I'm intolerant to hypocrisy. :)

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Sure you can...but that makes you more an agnostic.LJS9502_basic

No, I think I'm right. . . .but I've been wrong on what I've thought I've been right on many, many times before.

Now, about that wine. . .

As for the wine...I'll probably outlast you here so I'll do the drinking. Tonight I'm having a Rioja. Pleasant full bodied wine...quite robust actually.

That's a possibility. Another possibility is that our actions here mean diddly squat to the afterlife and what determines our cozy-ness there has absolutely nothing to do with what we do here.Theokhoth

Perhaps doing good here makes things worse for us over there; after all, what if "their" idea of good is different from ours, sort of like walking into a completely new culture. Theokhoth

Then don't complain!

You know, this thread is hypocritical anyway, because YOU'RE actually INTOLERANT of intolerance itself. You say that you are not intolerant by nature, but you are. Because if you were truly tolerant, you'd find a way to accept that intolerance is a part of life, and thus wouldn't be bothered enough by it to complain about it.

Tolerant people are at peace with the world around them, and you are CLEARLY not at peace, judging by the fact that you even made this thread.

Then, perhaps tolerance is not as much a virtue as previously thought, if betterment both of self and of the world is impossible under it.

Please. What part of being homeless prevents you from living your life the way that YOU see fit?MrGeezer

Oh I don't know... maybe not having a nice bed to sleep on!!! Among other things. I'm not even going to entertain this any further. How ridiculous!

If you live within 5 miles of any grocery store, you'll have an unlimited supply of free dumpster food (which despite coming from a dumpster, is often quite good.MrGeezer

To quote you, "I'm sorry, but assumptions don't exactly qualify as evidence."

Because I'm sure people just love eating dumpster food...all covered in bacteria. Delicious and nutritious! :roll:

You also have access to libraries (last I checked, most libraries don't require people to provide proof of permanent residence before allowing them to read). Sure you can't check out books, but prisoners also can't check prison books out of prison. MrGeezer

Yeah maybe they can print out that Dr. Pepper coupon while they're in there. Whatever. There are libraries in prison too.

Prisoners have to wear prison uniforms. MrGeezer

Yep. Nice clean uniforms. Better than soiled and soggy clothes that smell like goats, and haven't been washed in a month. :roll:

That dude with the shopping cart can wear whatever the hell he wants to. MrGeezer

If he has the strength. Most homeless people are in terrible health.

He doesn't have a curfew, he can still visit his family or merely chat it up with random people. MrGeezer

Curfew isn't the gamebreaker between prison life and homeless life. :lol: I doubt he cares about being able to sit freely in an alley at 3 AM, when he'd rather have a nice warm bed... and maybe a sandwich.. and maybe some teeth to chew that sandwich.

He can walk down the street as a free man, interact with you and I, and he probably has access to homeless shelters where he can clean himself up a little bit. MrGeezer

If all goes well. But most homeless people don't have it like this. Otherwise they wouldn't smell so bad. Some of them get kicked out of shelters too, for causing trouble, when most of the trouble they cause is rooted in their mental illness, and really isn't their fault. Not to mention, kicking them out doesn't make the situation any better.

He is FREE. He can live the way that HE wants to live. MrGeezer

What are you talking about? Free? Really? He's a prisoner of the street life!

As a homeless man your options might be more limited than someone with a house and a car, but you STILL get the freedom to choose how to live your life. MrGeezer

When you live on the street, your options for bettering your life are slim to none. Here you are talking about choices like it's some wonderland of opportunity.

[QUOTE="3-Legged_Man"] Don't you think that as long as you try to make this life as good as possible, your next life will be good too? Isn't it all connected? (Not that there's an afterlife, but just sayin)Theokhoth

That entirely depends on how they are connected.

Walking to the park and watching the sun set, vs having to let somebody rape you every night just so you don't get murdered.MrGeezer

[QUOTE="Brainkiller05"] I haven't, but I'm willing to bet it's better than living like this: MrGeezer

I'm sorry, but assumptions don't exactly qualify as evidence.