Stories carry ideas and ideas is what moves humans.

We are not satisfied with what is. As a species, our survival at some point depended on changing the world around us, not just enduring it.

Be it an uplifting story or a cautionary tale, the ideas inside carry meaning and individuals will build a part of their worldview around it.

You mean that Game? Not the other?

That’s hilarious!

Turn the volume to max and play this track and watch how every thing in line of sight shakes and vibrates.

República do Vegetal?

I’m getting NFSU2 flashbacks from that picture.

Does it have neons also? Or is it LEDs nowadays? And the pop-up LCD?

Relax. Relax.

It is just a typo.

Let us laugh together of it.

It’s staying as it is.

That’s bleack

True, I’ll grant you that.

You think the guy will live that long?!

Yikes! That’s a stopper.

Considering the US penal system, I’d risk many are in for ridiculous things.

Technically, unless adoption or donated eggs come to play, 50% of all of us attended the parents wedding, as an ovule inside our mothers ovary.

Then again, some couples never marry. So, there’s another exception.

To answer your question: 50% of me was there at the occasion.

This is evil and yet I can not censor it.

Do it. Have some fun. Tease Darwin.

I’m laic.

What beliefs a person holds to themselves is indiferent to me. And it should not matter to anyone. Relationships are a negotiated endeavour, from both parts, where everyone gives a little to reach a mutual understanding.

Unless a person subscribes views capable of leading to individual, personal and socially harmful and regressive thought and action, it does not matter.

Removing the religious view from your question: would you date a vegan, not being one? Would you date a non vegan, being yourself one?

Zealotry goes both ways. Both the believer and the non believer can entrench themselves in their views so deeply they become fanatics.

A national supermarket chain has its own foundation and sometimes runs fund rallies for it, which they collect through their store front.

What I stated comes from an explanation I was once given by an accountant. It works (or worked, hopefully) like that here, Portugal.

I don’t doubt your word. I paraphrased the explanation an accountant in my country (Portugal) gave me. It may work differently in other places and I sincerely hope so.

That one.

I wasn’t going to comment initially but, thinking again, I will.

According to what I was once explained, the scheme runs like this.

a) organization X starts a fund raising campaign

This alone can be deducted as an expense, as any amount of hours can be attributed to planning, preparing, etc, the entire thing.

As this time as no profitable end, it can be deducted.

b) You donate. But now it’s their money.

Your money is siphoned to a separate bank account or just tallied and earmarked as for charitable purpouses but this does not mean the entity needs to hand it over immediatly.

That money is held within the company’s vaults, figure of expression, and, as such, counts towards the overall financial assets of the company.

It still needs to be handed to the end recipient but until it does it can be used to leverage loans and be invested into short term investment products, like overnight deposits (with hundreds of thousands or even millions it does gain interest overnight).

c) the money gets donated eventually but not by you

Eventually, all that money gets handed over but it is now their money, not yours. And as such, they get the tax deduction. And, again, with hundreds of thousands to millions in donations, the deduction gets very high.

This deduction, on your expense, goes towards clearing more of their profits.

Want to do something good?

Volunteer. Help your neighbour. With your own efforts, actions and work. Don’t hand over money.

Hate eats away your soul.

I would like to use a different expression but I lack one at the moment.

Stupid, despicable, divisive, angry individuals are plentiful. Small minds that feel empowered through anonimity and the sense of security coming from attacking other from their own space.

I don’t need to tolerate them but you also don’t need to allow their vitriole to poison your mind and sap your well being. It is not worth it.

I, you, we and thou.

As in:

“What am I doing?!”

“You’re getting older, not younger.”

“Let’s not do this again.”

“Thou have lost the little bit of reasoning you had left.”

And it scares people.