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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Once I got started, I couldn’t stop. It’s ashamed to let these [rose] beds just sit here … it’s good soil, good light.
We believe that suddenly, when she heard and saw what was going on around here, she realized that it’s ashamed to waste her strength and let go of life.
That’s why the world democracies must defeat them, otherwise that germ will spread through the world like the plague and infect all minds. ¶ It’s ashamed to see how short one’s memory is as my parents went to war in the 1940’s to say no to Hitler and his Gestapo brainwashing their young children’s to hate and kill for the motherland.
and so forth.
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One way to take it would be to say that “ashamed†has shifted meaning slightly to mean “causing shame†rather than “experiencing shameâ€.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-03-07 12:07:13)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Basically the same thing:
i think everyone forgot to vote for michael! thinking he would be safe because he is such a talent. what ashamed to see him go
What ashamed that our Post Office is so unreliable.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-03-07 13:06:48)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I suspect the confusion occurs because our culture has little understanding of the concept of shame.
Feeling quite combobulated.
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I tend to accept the premise but do not see how it leads to the conclusion.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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