She wasn’t saying it as a loving friend. She was saying it as “my husband is better than your soon to be husband” with a little “what do you expect when you are getting married at 40” |
What is so unspeakable? Please give some details. |
| Saddam Hussein and his sons were killed like sewer rats! |
I speak it out loud and it comes true. I tell them they will lose their jobs ,etc. And they do! |
Exactly. I don't have a problem when bad people get their just desserts. |
Have you no basic reasoning skills or are you just dense? Basically you reap what you sow. |
| "reap what one sows. (idiomatic) To receive as a reward or harvest in the same measure as one's exertions, in a good or a bad sense. To receive justice. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap." Likewise, if you plant one type of plant (e.g., corn), don't expect another (e.g., beans) when it comes time to harvest. You get what you give. What you send out comes back to you, not something else. You cannot escape the consequences of your actions. If you do bad things bad things will come back to you. You are accountable for your actions, and that you will one day be paid back according to how you have treated others. if you sow wheat then wheat will grow wheat--if you plant corn your get corn and not beans... Geez. |
You read it the way it was intended to be read. Dcum population is too often so pedantic that the lack common sense. |
Totally unethical and cruel, as well. It is frightening that anyone would think this is ok much less more than one person. You all have a breakdown in your moral fiber and are no better than the bully. You have become what you claim to despise. |
It's unethical because the person is a paramedic. Their job is to help people, and yes, administering pain meds when someone is hit by a car. It doesn't matter who that person is or what grudge the paramedic has. It's disgusting. |
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My first job out of law school was at a VERY small boutique law firm in DC practicing a unique type of regulatory law. My bosses were total assholes and I was miserable there. The partners weren’t good at the business of managing the firm, and the work load was very feast or famine in nature. After a few years they told me I had no future at the firm and I should start looking for other jobs. One partner told me I should stop practicing law because I had no business being a lawyer. I eventually got a job at a competitor law firm, and that firm shut down. I heard from an old colleague that the partner who told me I shouldn’t be a lawyer was having mental health issues and had a nervous breakdown. He ended up quitting the firm in a very awkward fashion, and he ended up mostly unemployed for 6 years. He ended up approaching me at my new job about openings with my firm. He’s now in a counsel level position at another firm, and I’m in a very good in-house counsel position, and he regularly reaches out to kiss my butt to try and get business from my company.
It was so hard having someone basically tell me I suck so early in my career; I’m so glad I didn’t listen to him and pushed forward build my own successful career. |
| Not one. The fact that I would enjoy a best revenge story would instantly bring bad Karma to me. When terrible things happen to terrible people I see it more as a cautionary tale and rededicate myself to walking on the straight and narrow. Too often terrible things also happen to good people, so we just need to be thankful for our blessings. |
| I think of it more as poetic justice. I.e. you weasel your ex out of the family home in the divorce, and then it burns down. Or you leave your wife for your mistress but then the mistress has an affair and dumps you. Or some other circumstance that eerily recalls the original situation, but it rebounds on you in a negative way. Yes, bad things happen to ALL people. But when you drive like an ass and then a mile down the road, your "victim" sees you getting a ticket, man oh man, that is poetic justice or what we colloquially refer to as karma. |
Think along the lines of Henry VIII. He kills Anne Boleyn for many reasons, but chief among them is her inability to give him a son. Because it was SO important to leave a male to rule. He cuts off Anne's head, marries his mistress, gets his longed-for boy.... but the mistress dies in child bed and that always-sickly boy dies young and never really gets to rule. Instead one of the greatest monarchs England ever knows is.... Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn's dissapointingly-gendered child. Karma! Henry also goes on to have a series of disappointing marriages, no more additional children, the world-renowned cheater loses his virility, and he dies fairly young, a bloated, fat, impotent mess. If he had stayed with Anne, who knows how his fate might have been different? But on DCUM you can't complain about, say, I dunno, your kids jumping on the bed because someone will come on the thread and say, OH THANKS ALOT MY KIDS DON'T HAVE LEGS and ruin the karmic retribution. |
| I'm hoping a few people get AIDS tonight. Some people are just worthless and a waste of space. |