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Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by moron4hire » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

make3 wrote: post #29

moron4hire wrote: post #12

>> But her excuses, or lack of them, riled me and I told her she represented everything that was wrong with the country. Bold thing to say to a sociopath with a gun.

Thinking only sociopaths can do really terrible things is likely very wrong. Normal people can decide over some time to switch off empathy, or to work against it. This needs to be understood.

I don't think there is any evidence to show that sociopathy is only an innate attribute and that it is not learnable. The only definition of sociopathy I can find is based on behavior. So if you act like a sociopath, it doesn't really matter how many nightmares you had on the way to getting there, you're a sociopath.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by rwoodley » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 4:47 PM UTC

this is such a dull article. how did it get upvoted?

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by mrkrabo » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 5:08 PM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #44

EGreg wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, @dang this is what I've been saying. How do you resubmit the same link though? You tack on &attempt=55 to the end?

One trick is to append a period after the TLD. So for the link above, it'd be http://www.independent.co.uk./news/world/americas/i-fell-in-... Notice the period after ".co.uk" and before the "/" E.g. "Example.com./" Having a period after TLD is a valid URL. But rarely seen.

It's a valid URL because a period after the TLD is a valid domain, but that doesn't mean it's the same domain, so for some web pages you get this http://microsoft.com./

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by cl0wnshoes » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 5:20 PM UTC

LordKano wrote: post #46

One time, I fell in love with a run of the mill sociopath. Fortunately, she wasn't a violent one.

He definitely had some issues as well. For sex he let assassinating informants and others (non-militant?) slide. It seemed like he still tried to keep the sexual relationship going even after she told him she did some side work cutting a body into pieces, though it was harder and eventually led to him moving on. All around no bueno.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by duxup » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 5:33 PM UTC

kstenerud wrote: post #33

"But what happens if your new girlfriend has a much darker and more sinister secret than having slept around a bit?" And what, exactly, is wrong with "having slept around a bit?"

I think his comment is just contrasting the actual secret with more trivial things people worry about. If they should or should not worry about that last bit really isn't what he is getting at.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by duxup » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

tebruno99 wrote: post #50

Everyone is of course titled to their own opinion but for me personally I feel like Love doesn't mean what this person thinks it means.....

He was young too. Perhaps it was love, for him, as he understood it at that time.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by Tomte » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 5:36 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #41

Tomte wrote: post #30

BTW, this is the ninth time I have submitted this story. But I just knew it fits this audience, so I tried again. So, if you feel your submissions never make it to the front page, realize that much of it is pure chance.

Yeah, @dang this is what I've been saying. How do you resubmit the same link though? You tack on &attempt=55 to the end?

You just wait a bit.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by Allower » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 5:36 PM UTC

why listen to an idiot that falls for obvious liars?

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by AlaskaBuilding » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #35

thret wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's our society that is better, not our people.

Societies are not on some kind of monotonically increasing slope, they can regress and they can do so with astonishing speed.

Ours feels like it is doing that right now. Even separate from the political issues, look at how many homeless people are walking my city who mumble, stare at the sky and are clearly suffering some kind of mental deficit, possibly on drugs too. There is no place for them to go for treatment.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by silverbax88 » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 6:11 PM UTC

cl0wnshoes wrote: post #54

LordKano wrote: post #46

One time, I fell in love with a run of the mill sociopath. Fortunately, she wasn't a violent one.

He definitely had some issues as well. For sex he let assassinating informants and others (non-militant?) slide. It seemed like he still tried to keep the sexual relationship going even after she told him she did some side work cutting a body into pieces, though it was harder and eventually led to him moving on. All around no bueno.

Nobody is the villain of their own story.