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RosieG

"This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper". How will YOU?

From "The Hollow Men" by T.S.Eliot. Will you go quietly or fight till the very end? Why?

Posted - November 18, 2016
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  • 79
    Why not update your source?

    "So, this is how Democracy ends. Not with violence, but with thunderous applause." 

    ~ Queen Amidala

    It means the same thing. You're not happy.
      November 18, 2016 6:26 AM MST
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  • 113301
     Are you serious? You expect me to be so insulting,  arrogant and  condescending as to do a riff on the great words of a great poet like T.S. Eliot? Use his coattails as a means of cheap transportation for my own purposes? Desecrate his work? I don't do that.  Thank you for your reply Crow.
      November 19, 2016 6:45 AM MST
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  • 46117
    It's called paraphrasing and you do it all the time.  T.S. Elliot doesn't care what you say. He doesn't even read Answer Mug. 
      November 19, 2016 6:47 AM MST
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  • 46117
    No one is whimpering yet, dear.  I think the world is still fine and dandy as far as the sound goes.  I think the world needs to SHUT UP.  Period.  The world needs to sit down and shut it. 

    That will stop all the fighting, all the lies.  Just shut up people.  Do it.  Give it a try for once.  Pretend our President is a nice, giving creature who means us no harm.  Maybe we can wish this into existence.  Maybe we can meditate and make it happen.  Nothing else has worked so far.

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      November 18, 2016 6:32 AM MST
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  • 19937
    I plan to go out the same way I came in - kicking and screaming.
      November 18, 2016 7:19 AM MST
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  • 46117
    And then what?
      November 18, 2016 7:31 AM MST
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  • 19937
    And then nothing.  Done, finito, The End.
      November 19, 2016 8:26 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Good. You're a fighter too Spunky...not a giver upper or a roller over! Very good! Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday m 'dear! :)
      November 21, 2016 3:54 AM MST
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  • 19937
    Nope - not giving in or giving up.  Happy Monday, Rosie. :)
      November 21, 2016 8:24 AM MST
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