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Matt's avatar

My cell phone always runs out of battery when I need it most

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Bruce S.'s avatar

Other than the obvious Death and Taxes, I would say that fostering an attitude of gratitude will make you a happier person.

I remember hearing as a child that you're never going to make everyone happy so even in a less decisive world, it's probably unrealistic to think of things we can get 99% of people to agree on.

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Marcia Zimmermann's avatar

We are scared

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Darrell's avatar

Some will agree to that while others will turn it (fear) into anger.

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Karen's avatar

Peace, Fairness and Justice.

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Trish Woglom's avatar

Can we agree to label these mass murders “Madness”? If we can, we should tell our elected officials to “Stop The Madness”.

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________'s avatar

We can tell them whatever we want, but more love needs to be brought into the people. We all need to connect more, connect with god, the universe...ourselves

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jt's avatar

god, whatever you conceive him to be

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________'s avatar

All things! Gods everywhere

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jt's avatar

i agree

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jt's avatar

it's a line from the Desiderata

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Darrell's avatar

Him?

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jt's avatar

correct, whatever you conceive God to be

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Darrell's avatar

I am agnostic. I have a difficult enough time trying not to anthropomorphize my dog. I don’t need to start on the ineffable.

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Trish Woglom's avatar

Can we agree to label these mass murders “Madness”? If we can, we should tell our elected officials to “Stop The Madness”.

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Perfectly Imperfect Lynne's avatar

I'll take a stab at it. The one thing we can agree on is that we were all born.

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Karen's avatar

Peace, Fairness and Justice.

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Al's avatar

Death.

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Brad White's avatar

I agree with you, but there are 250 bodies of people in Arizona who bet upwards of $20,000 each that it is not.

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Maureen Grigs's avatar

Waking up each day is a good thing. Despite its faults and ours, America is still the place where most people want to live that day.

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Don P's avatar

Amen, for me

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Melissa's avatar

Being not an American, I would have to disagree with that statement. The people I know and work with have no desire to live in a country where the right to bear arms is.more important than human life. Sad state for a country to be in

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Katherine Cunningham's avatar

Not so fast. I really, really, really had to leave rural Japan kicking and screaming to come back to the US.

If you don't like the state the country is in, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We let it get this way. It is fixable, but when the shared pain it's going to take to get the job done is mentioned, most people shrink from the task. But bitch the loudest. Strange.

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jt's avatar

i agree with you, this is my country, i love my country, i will continue to work and help my country

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Kevin D.'s avatar

It's nice to be loved, and to love

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Don P's avatar

Great thought. I'd like to think you found something.

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Katherine Cunningham's avatar

That's two things, lol.

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Darrell's avatar

Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air….is a good thing.

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Hannah's avatar

I'd like to learn more about this.

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Karen Chin's avatar

Wow … this is GREAT!!

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Darrell's avatar

It was in the 7 Things section

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Don P's avatar

"That we are a divided nation" "That our system is, at least in part, very broken"

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jt's avatar

we are a divided nation, my understanding is that approx. 50% of the voting population votes, and of those approx 50% are on one side and 50 on the other.....??

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Karen Chin's avatar

The 1 thing everyone can agree on is that change is constant

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Brad White's avatar

Nope. Close, but some will say that it is accelerating.

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Leslie's avatar

the sun comes up every day

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Daniel Caffarel's avatar

Definitely not north of some latitudes! Probably south, too :)

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Rhg's avatar

That….I would be very upset if if happened to MY child, spouse, close friend, etc.

(I wish we would all agree that all children (spouses, close friends) are ours and our responsibility.)

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jt's avatar

i agree,,,,also, we are all someone's child

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