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Pericles
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What is humanity's greatest weakness?

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Kama
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Julie
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The fact the people can't stand to see others with more or better stuff than they themselves have. More money, land, power, whatever.

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TomDavidson
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Why is Pericles humanity's greatest weakness? He didn't seem all that bad.

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Dan_raven
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Humanities greatest weakness, the tendency to sit under swords that are held up only by a thin string.

Life is not fair.

Man's greatest weakness is women.

while

Women's greatest weakness is chocolate.

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Bokonon
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Chocolate. Or the gonads.

Indubitably.

So, uh, what's my prize?

-Bok

EDIT: While I was being more, uh, "literal" with my responses, they line up pretty well with Dan Raven's, eh?

[ November 18, 2003, 03:08 PM: Message edited by: Bokonon ]

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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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quote:
What is humanity's greatest weakness?

Pericles

So you're humanity's greatest weakness? Interesting.

edit: crap. beaten to it.

[ November 18, 2003, 03:08 PM: Message edited by: Rappin' Ronnie Reagan ]

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Dan_raven
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Perfect Simo-Post Bok.

**High Five**

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Pericles
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You guys crack me up...

Cordially Pericles (happy Tom?)

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Bokonon
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Yeah, but I as I re-edited, Dan, I wasn't talking sophisticated bio-chemical reactions. [Smile]

I mean, the gonads hurt when attacked. Seriously.

-Bok

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TomDavidson
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Hm. He's Cordially Pericles. I don't know how I feel about being Happy Tom.

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Pericles
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Humanity's weakness...desire, to want.
Desire to be manipulated to make the person in question do another's wants.
Manipulation to reveal weakness.

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Tresopax
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Unreasonable fear.

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Pericles
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love...?

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ludosti
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Irresponsibility

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dkw
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Cheetoes

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Pericles
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rage, the inabilty to control one's actions due to anger.

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Bokonon
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Hmmm, desire, or want, is a human weakness?

I wonder how long I'd live without the desire, or want of food, clothing, shelter, drink...

Nevermind the lack of a desire or want to go to the bathroom!

*Winces at the thought*

One might say that desiring, wanting, is a human (or even living being) requirement.

-Bok

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Julie
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I always think of want as a longing for something you don't need.

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Bokonon
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Ah, but then Julie, that is akin to saying something that is bad is bad.

Often we don't have a clear picture of what one needs until after the fact, and others sometimes need different things then us.

-Bok

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Jon Boy
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Bad spelling and punctuation. It's irresponsible, and it causes all sorts of confusion. That leads to frustration, which leads to rage. QED.

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blacwolve
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Pride

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NdRa
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unforgiving.

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ae
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Onanism.

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Hobbes
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Wouldn't that make rage humanities greatest weakness then? I mean if your proof ends on rage that means that you have somehow previously proved that humanitie's greatest weakness is rage or it wouldn't be time for a QED until you explained why saying something leads to rage is saying its humanitie's greatest weakness and then it would seem that rage would be the real weakness.

Hobbes [Smile]

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Jon Boy
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Excuse me? I'll be the one making the assumptions here, Hobbes.

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Head Ditch Digger
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Computers; when they work life is good. When they don't.......

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ae
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Because, Hobbes, rage is one result of bad punctuation and spelling, but bad punctuation and spelling have other negative effects beyond those caused by rage. 'S simple. [Razz]

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Jon Boy
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Um . . . yeah, Hobbes. What ae said. If you'd just use logic once in a while, you'd understand what I said.

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Teshi
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Incurable Ignorance

Bad Luck

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Jon Boy
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The lack of appropriate paragraph breaks.

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Hobbes
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Did an English major just tell me to use logic? I think I'm offended.

[Razz]

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Lissande
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One-line sentence-fragment posts. Overuse of hyphens.

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Jon Boy
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No, an English language major told you to use logic. Whether or not I was being sarcastic is another issue.

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Hobbes
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I'm not sure people without degrees in math are allowed to use "QED", someone should look into that.

Hobbes [Smile]

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katharina
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Bosses who use the word "flustrate" two or three times a week.

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Jon Boy
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At least I know what QED means.

I'm not sure that math majors should be allowed to use words. Someone should look into that.

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MattB
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The semicolon.

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prolixshore
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Calvin and Hobbes

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