It's just a figure of speech. Hyperbole.

I think you are making too much of it.

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"That's not who we are" is another one that I despise. It is as bad as some of the spin you see in threads to try to appear to take the high road.

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Originally posted by Sig209:
It's just a figure of speech. Hyperbole.

I think you are making too much of it.

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I don't know. I think 12131 kind of hit the nail on the head in regard to one of imperfect man's greatest conceits. Hubris is not just displayed by elitists or fools. It affects all of us, to some degree.

H&K-Guy

If schadenfreude were the sole reason I would not enter Heaven, then somebody did one heck of a job cleaning up my file.

Jesus wouldn't do that.



ETA: The following is what I believe and hope is fact. Everything else is irrelevant to me.

Holy
Inquisition: "So tell us, Bernadette. Who will not go to Heaven?"

Bernadette
Soubirous: "Those who love evil."

Jane Fonda

Right now I'm wishing all kinds of appalling things on the three, maybe four, POS who set fire to a home in Salford, Greater Manchester killing four kids.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...4a0de4b01bdd76593657

The poor mother, injured and sedated in hospital, does not yet know.

tac

Figure of speech, guy. Simmer.